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To: Moominoid who wrote (62861)4/27/2005 9:48:01 AM
From: Oblomov  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
M, between the killings directly attributable to the actions of the Red Army (10 million deaths), and the famines brought on by the agricultural "reforms" of the Great Leap Forward (30 million deaths), Mao was responsible for death and chaos on the scale of WW II. This is not to imply that Hitler or his policies were any less reprehensible.

The Soviet empire was just a collection of oppressed, captured states much like the Nazi regime was. And Stalin had his own agricultural reforms pioneered by Comrade Lysenko, with similar results to that of the Great Leap Forward (except in the case of Stalin it was a genocide). He had his own purges in the name of ideological purity and political hygiene.

I don't think it's possible to say that one totalitarian regime is more "noble" or "laudable" than others. The economic policies of Hitler were almost exactly those of Stalin or Mao, Castro or Pol Pot. The totalizing impulse, whether it manifests in the name of Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, or Stalin, is the sickness.

The opposite of totalitarian slavery is liberty. The monsters of the 20th century opposed liberty because it made some suffer. So in the name of ending pain they sought to extinguish the sources of pain, life and liberty.
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