> Behalf Of Alberto Monteiro
> Gautam Mukunda wrote:
> >
> >How is it "protecting yourself" to
> >conquer 6 countries and keep your soldiers there - against
> the wishes
> >of the people in those countries? How is that _any_ different from
> >Nazi Germany in Poland in 1939, or France in 1940? By
> your standard,
> >Nazi Germany was only protecting itself.
> >
> It's different because Nazi Germany would kill everybody to get
> lebensraum for the "Aryans", and Stalinist CCCP would only kill
> those that opposed their occupation.
>
> Both are Evil, but there's a huge difference.
>
> Alberto Monteiro
Well, them, plus homosexuals, priests, labor organizers, dissidents,
and anyone who wasn't any of those but just had the bad luck to get
caught up in the paranoid apparatus of the KGB and related
organizations. But okay, I'll concede that after Stalin the
Communists didn't kill many people for the amusement value. I don't
think this helps their case all that much, though...
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