[SauronOfMordor]

and speaking of joe stalin, who knows but what it took a joe stalin to save mother Russia from the likes of Adolph. If I remember most of his murderous policies came after WWII. He became murdereously paranoid when the enemy was perceived to be in country.

The terror famine in the Ukraine, which killed somewhere around 10 million, was engineered in 1932-33, long before Hitler was an issue. Stalin did it as a "Final Solution" to rebellious Ukrainians who were resisting forced collectivization. There was an earlier deliberate famine in 1921-22 which killed almost 2 million.

Stalin did not need Hitler to provide an excuse for mass killings. He did just fine long before Adolf came on the scene.

The killings after WW2 were relatively minor, and concerned purges of the Communist Party itself. Some Communists were more upset about these latter purges because they happened to affect their own, rather than unimportant peasants

[wita]

If ever there was an example of why it is important to stay away from history by memory I guess I am it. My time line for the engineered famine was way off. Thanks for the link.