03-18-2019, 02:51 PM
(03-18-2019, 01:12 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Well then it should be easy for people to stop trying to minimalize it since it's not their ideology that committed these atrocities. and yet...they do.
My bet is more that we minimize the atrocities of Stalin because we allied ourselves with him. It's an uncomfortable topic for us in the United States because we helped him gain a stronger hold on power after the war and we turned a blind eye to just how bad he was while it was advantageous for us to do so. Plenty of people that have inaccurate views of communism have zero idea how horrible Stalin was, and it's because we don't talk about it much in this country. Information on the USSR taught in the general history books is "they allied with Hitler, Hitler betrayed them, we allied with them, then after the war we entered into the Cold War because they were communist." That's what it boils down to if you don't go out looking for more information on your own.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
