Quote Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars View Post
I disagree with this. I'd say that Stalinism wasn't the ideal of communism in the same way that Nazism wasn't the ideal of fascism. Both were completely horrific.

Fascism and communism themselves do not have clean records when it comes to the mass extermination of innocents, but if I have read your post correctly - which I hope I have misinterpreted - it seems as though you are trying to defend communism.

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For the record, I am an anti-communist and an anti-fascist.
Communism as an ideal is all nice and fine. The problem is that it is impossible to apply.