[DanZ]

Always entertaining to watch Hitler minimized. The difference between Stalin and Hitler is nil. Same with nazism communism.

You are 90% correct. There is that small piece about the New York Times, Duranty and the Pulitzer that has always bothered me.

The fact that Hitler and Uncle Joe killed a lot of people get short shrift - Hitler Bad everyone agrees, Uncle Joe - gets a trip to Yolta and all of Easter Europe.

[NorthMountain]

FWIW, the late RJ Rummell credited the PRC(Mao Tse Tung et al.) with 76.7 million murders, USSR (Lenin, Stalin, et al.) with 61.9 million murders, and the Third Reich (Hitler) with 20.9 million murders.

His exhaustive study of genocide and democide is well worth reading and understanding. Most of what is considered 'knowledge' on the topic in popular culture is inadequate, inaccurate, and incomplete.