Posted on 04/01/2002 8:55:49 AM PST by JoeGOP
It is impossible for the ordinary human mind to fully grasp the evil of Joseph Stalin. He purposefully engineered the starving to death of over ten million people in Ukraine. In terms of mass murder, Stalin’s Ukrainian Holocaust was an even greater crime than Hitler’s Jewish Holocaust.
Millions more were hauled off to be enslaved and die in the Gulag, or tortured and shot for the slightest suspicion of anything Stalin was suspicious of. Many of his closest deputies were ordered to put their parents, wives, or children to death to prove their loyalty.
Yet this tyranny, this monstrous evil, is not a mystery. Evil exists, deeply embedded in certain human souls. That isn’t mysterious; it is a basic fact of human society. The true mystery is why and how such is evil is tolerated. Stalin tyrannized the Soviet Union for thirty years. In all those years, there is not one single known attempt on his life. Not one.
Which then, is the greater depravity: Stalin killing people, or no one killing him? The former, of course. Evil itself is the greater evil – but toleration of it is the greater mystery.
It has been blindingly obvious for years now that Robert Mugabe is a pathologically evil man. He has systematically been destroying the rights, freedom, and livelihood of people in Zimbabwe. He will commit any crime he considers necessary to maintain his power. Anyone who had the slightest hope that he would allow an election with the barest semblance of fairness and honesty exhibits naïveté of Olympian magnitude. MORE
This is not accurate. Soviet regime starved millions ALL OVER the enslaved lands. People were dying in Southern, Central Russia as well as in Ukraine. This was not an anti-Ukraine conspiracy as some Ukrainian nationalists like us to believe. It was a total failure of the foolish experiment with collectivisation. Also the numbers were smaller then "over ten million" in Ukraine, thanks God.
At any rate, its beside the point. The point raised is whether it is acceptable for good men to stand around and do nothing while evil works right on front of them - especially regarding Mugabe.
No, it is not true. The nationalists and separatists were in the Western Ukraine which during the starvation was under POLISH rule (1920-1939)!
Stalin's regime was dealing with them AFTER WWII when the Western Ukraine was anexed by Soviet Union. A large part of Ukrainian nationalists was evacuated with Germans and many came to United States in Canada. They are forming the opinions in Western media and academy and recruited such dishonest historians like Robert Conquest.
Look, the Stalin lovers went after anybody and everybody, including Conquest, who attacked Stalin, so do forgive me if I disagree with you.
Look, the Stalin lovers went after anybody and everybody, including Conquest, who attacked Stalin, so do forgive me if I disagree with you.
I am not lover of Stalin, I love the truth. Western Ukraine (which was the real center of Ukrainian nationalism) was under Polish rule during the starvation caused by the collectivisation. If Ukrainian nationalists start to claim that Stalin was eating Ukrainian babies because as an ethnic Russian he hated Ukes, will you believe it too?
Collectivisation caused the starvation all over the Soviet Union and possibly the worst was in Southern Russia (north of Caucasus).
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