Bradford DeLong wrote:
>
>But what about the 3.9 million Russian prisoners of war captured in
>the first eight months of the war in the east? IIRC, all but a
>million of them were *dead* by February 1942. To have been behind the
>Nazi lines on the eastern front--whether in Bohemia, Moravia, Poland,
>Belorussia, Ukraine, or Russia proper--and ruled by the Nazis seems
>to me to have been under the thumb of a regime an order of magnitude
>more "totalitarian" than even Stalin's during the years of the High
>Terror.
>
I think you are missing the point. They were talking about the *definition*
of totalitarian. Totalitarian does not equate Horror. These are two *correlated*
but *distinct* terms.
Nazism was probably [Pol Pot might have been worse] the worst regime of
human history.Totalitarianism is horrible. But a regime might be more
totalitarian than nazism, and still be more palatable.
Alberto Monteiro
