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To: Elsewhere who wrote (36711)	8/9/2002 4:21:19 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Stalin was a monster, too, but not on AH's level Boy, is that a tough question to debate. Which was worse, Stalin or Hitler? If you go by numbers killed, I think Stalin killed more people. But Germany was a much better place before Hitler got hold of it. He destroyed so much of beauty, such a rich culture. Not to mention almost annihilating the Jews in Eastern Europe. Stalin, for the most part, killed people who stood in his way. Hitler went after people because of their ancestry. I don't think the Ukrainian famine really compares in ruthlessness to the Final Solution, so I'd have to agree with you, that Hitler was a greater monster. Stalin was in power longer, so he had more opportunity to do harm.

To: Elsewhere who wrote (36711)	8/9/2002 4:54:30 PM
From: Spytrdr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

that is false. unless you count the devastation and destruction inflicted by the Allies to fight Germany as his direct fault. it's like saying that the murderous destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was caused by the japanese emperor. A.H. was a kindergarten bully-boy compared to Stalin. and yet his name is anathema today, but the other's is not. why? simple, because Stalin was an ally, while A.H./Germany was becoming too powerful for the british liking (divide et impera). <<Everyone knows what the Holocaust was, but, Amis points out, there is no name for and comparatively little public awareness of the killing that took place in the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1933, when 20 million died under a Bolshevik regime that ruled as if waging war against its own people. Why?>> amazon.com amazon.com amazon.com amazon.com ___ <<causing much more external destruction than Stalin>>