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To: epicure who wrote (222729)	3/6/2007 2:05:51 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"fairly horrible" were the words you used, not quite "equally evil". However, there is no doubt that Stalin also planned, and also had ideological motives (forced collectivization) it seems to be the method involved - deportations on railroad cars, concentration camps, crematoria that you think makes the difference. I agree in part, this was what I meant when I spoke of "industrialized death." But I think the chief reason was that before WWII, everybody in Europe and America would have agreed that there were some depths to which a civilized society could not plunge. After the revelations of Nazi war crimes, this confidence was shattered. Japanese war crimes had less of an effect because they were not regarded as civilized. During WWII, they were scarcely regarded as human. This wasn't true for the Germans.