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| Topic | "Hitler wanted to end poverty"... how do you even respond to that? |
| Firewerx 05/28/20 3:44:50 PM #45: | Unbridled9 posted... TBH, Hitler was bad, but compared to Stalin or Mao or even lesser despots he... well... Things could have been worse.This is veering dangerously close to the "We should have supported Hitler against Stalin as the lesser of two evils during WWII" school of thinking -- which totally ignores the fact that Stalin's death machine had finished the worst of its work by 1941, yet Hitler's was only just starting to shift into high gear. We know that the NKVD did not liquidate millions of people after the Soviet victory in 1945, while we also know that the Nazis planned to do that very thing if they had won in 1942. That's why Hitler was not the lesser of two evils in WWII. But you're absolutely right that there have been dozens of lesser despots with the same mentality and amorality of a Hitler, yet who've rarely grabbed the headlines or had their own chapters in the history books -- simply because their regimes have been quantitatively less efficient mass killers. --- Watching the shadows burn ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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