RE: The Evils of Communism (was RE: American Attitudes)

[John D. Giorgis]

At 04:52 PM 5/26/01 +0200 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>Stalin (and many other leaders around the world) killed many people because 
>he was a dictator; communism had nothing to do with that. Hitler killed 
>millions of people because he was a dictator (and he *certainly* wasn't a 
>communist).

I'm not sure that this is true.   How many regimes in the past 100 years
engaged in the systematic killing of millions of its own people?

I can think of the following:
USSR
Nazi Germany
PRC
Khmer Rouge of Cambodia

Isn't the fact that Communists took three of the top four slots somewhat
disturbing?  Its not like there has been a shortage of dictators in the
20th century for comparison.

JDG
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