03-18-2019, 11:58 AM
(03-18-2019, 11:46 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Every time I feel the need to defend Stalin I just take a breath and remember that it's OK to criticize him. He is, after all, a super Caucasian. Literally from the area from which the term was derived. I've never heard anyone but neo-Nazis and white supremecists try to explain why Hitler's death toll might be lower, but Stalin? Whoa...some of those people were probably criminals to begin with.
There is an odd tendency for people to actually defend, or minimize, how much of a monster Stalin was. I think it's largely due to two reasons. Some people think elevating Stalin to Hitler level monster somehow diminishes how evil Hitler was. It obviously doesn't, but I do see this mentality at work. The other camp are those attempting to defend communism as an ideology and thus downplaying how many people have been murdered and brutalized due to its tenants.
