[Joe Brower]

[Steely Tom]

Unfortunately, they're victims of the wrong ideology.

If they could get away with it, the Times would have them all hauled off for "re-education."

[Milhous]

bttt

[RayChuang88]

The forced famine in the Ukraine was only the beginning of Stalin's horrors. A few years after this infamous famine, the Yezhovchina Great Purge sent many millions of innocent Soviet citizens to labor camps or had many of them killed for being enemies of the state, a purge that may have killed well over 10,000,000 people. And who knows the percentage of the 20 million killed during the Great Patriotic War were done for political reasons on the battlefield.

[Question_Assumptions]

Today in our culture the Soviet genocide is not demonized in the way the Nazi genocide is demonized because racial hatred is seen as a bad thing - which it is obviously - but class hatred is still legitimized and venerated, especially in our intellectual leftist circles.

Which is why leftists should never be trusted with power. No number of murders is to high in their quest for a socialist utopia.

[headsonpikes]

The New York Times is certainly maintaining it's corporate image - soulless liars, conniving against America and American values.

There's something to be said for consistency, I suppose.

[dbehsman]

From the article:
"I believe that if the world had reacted appropriately to Stalin's genocidal policies, Hitler would not have been emboldened to carry out his "final solution". Stalin and his henchmen starved, murdered, raped, tortured with impunity. No wonder Saddam Hussein admired him and modeled his own regime after his idol - Stalin."

Interesting point, I never thought of it in that way.

The twentieth century was the bloodiest century in recorded human history. NOTHING can even come close to compare.

The butcheries committed by communist governments has been very well covered up by our own government, our own culture, and by our own historians. The democrats in the media, who were obviously communist sympathizers, did an excellent job in keeping things quiet. I have to give credit to the democrats, they are still doing a very good job in covering up the greatest mass murder known to man. It amazes me to what lengths they will go to excuse, hide, and obfuscate all to cover up for a failed ideology.

I remember in high school in 1988, taking a class about communism. At that time, the thinking was that the Soviet Union and/or China could very well be mortal enemies to the U.S., so it would be a good idea for American students to at least know something about the potential enemy. The class was only one semester long. Throughout the entire class, not one mention was ever made about the numbers of deaths involved in the human catastrophe called communism. Not one mention. It bothers me greatly that no one even has an idea that Stalin killed more human beings than Hitler. Nobody these days out in the mainstream seems to know or care. Every time I see some collage aged twit wearing a "Che" shirt, I view it as offensive as someone wearing a shirt with a swastika. These kids don't know what it is that they're supporting. It's just simply disgraceful.