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now we KNOW the horrors that the Nazis did -- that's common knowledge in the west. Imagine how horrific the Soviets were if they were considered worse than the Nazis

Consider the Ukrainians. Stalin killed over 7 million of them between 1932-33 in the terror famine, where the communists went up and down the country confiscating all the food. Stalin killed more Ukrainians in 2 years than Hitler did Jews.

55 posted on 03/16/2014 1:49:46 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)

Soviets confiscating food and having people fall dead of starvation in the streets. Nazis lining up all the Jews of Kiev in Babi Yar, stripping them naked and shooting them in the head.

Both are utterly hellish and satanic. In Ukraine, the Germans and Soviets both earned the utter disgust sane people. A thinking person should hate both equally. Its weird weird weird to pretend the Nazis were “liberators” of some sort. And condemning an SS man shouldn’t ever, even slightly, be seen as supporting the USSR.

58 posted on 03/16/2014 4:53:38 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)

True. He also killed Russians, Germans, Georgians etc and was an ethnic Georgian himself but he was an equal opportunity killer

71 posted on 03/17/2014 7:04:28 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)