How come Hitler gets all the notoriety, while Stalin and Mao both killed many millions more than Hitler? From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
It is interesting that they are always making new movies about the Nuremberg trails – at which the military and civilian leadership of the defeated German Reich were tried – but there has yet to be a movie (certainly not recently) about the Soviet Show Trials, presided over by the same judge (Andrei Vyshinsky) who was one of the judges at Nuremberg. He sentenced men to death – at Stalin’s trails – whose “crime” was being a bur in Stalin’s saddle.
Stalin was himself by any objective metric – such as bodies piled up – a far worse criminal than any of the National Socialist leaders who were convicted at Nuremberg. He starved and deported – not necessarily in that order – millions of Russians. He ordered/approved the murder of more millions than the Fuhrer of the German Reich was even accused of having murdered, taking those accusations as numerically accurate. Stalin’s minions executed more than 20,000 actually counted Polish soldiers, officers and members of the Polish “intelligentsia” – the Katyn Forest massacre – yet probably not one out of 100 American children who passed through the government education gulag in America has ever heard of this.
Likewise, they will generally look baffled when you tell them that it wasn’t just Germany that attacked Poland – the much-told reason schoolchildren are told started World War II; i.e., that the Germans were the bad guys. Well, the fact is that so were the Russians – more finely, the Communists who ran Russia at the time – if the criteria for that is attacking Poland, which Stalin and his armies did shortly after the Germans and by agreement with the Germans.
The one good feature of commies is the high attrition rate from the comrades.