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usaphp ◴[] No.10564013[source]
I don't understand how can you talk about ISIS, Nazis and Communists in the same sentence? Communism has nothing to do with violence compared to ISIS and Nazis...

Edit: Why downvotes? Idea of communism does not propose violence, Nazis and ISIS on the other hand do.

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Svip ◴[] No.10564028[source]
I think he might be talking about Stalinism. Or at the very least, just Stalin.
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usaphp ◴[] No.10564051[source]
So you think Stalin was as bad as ISIS and Nazis?

edit: Why downvotes? I've asked a question, I wonder how western people see Stalin in history. I as Russian see him as the one who was involved in defeating Nazis

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PhasmaFelis ◴[] No.10564215[source]
> So you think Stalin was as bad as ISIS and Nazis?

The general consensus is that Germany under Hitler killed around 11 million noncombatants. The USSR under Stalin killed at least 20 million, with some estimates ranging much higher.

Many people in the west still say that Hitler was worse because he tried to exterminate entire ethnic groups, where Stalin mostly killed anyone that he thought might get in his way. I think they were both monsters, and there's no profit in trying to measure which one was worse.

Stalin did help defeat the Nazis. Don't make the mistake of thinking that makes him the good guy. In stories, the villain's enemy is always a hero, but in real life, villains fight other villains all the time.

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1. testrun ◴[] No.10565398[source]
As far as Stalin and ethnic cleansing goes, he did not do to badly himself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Sov...).