Quote Originally Posted by SwordsMaster View Post
So many of my potential relatives were butchered by Gengis Khan. We should stop discussing Gengis Khan outside of the Backroom?
3 important points (one of which is already in my first post):
1st of all, there are still people surviving today who were victims of the regimes of Hitler and Stalin, and the attrocities commited by both are still very near and dear to most people.
2nd, there are still people today who would like to return to such terrors (neo Nazis, neocommunists, etc), which makes it a real danger to humanity in the present day. I doubt that we need worry about a mongol invasion wiping the world out.
3rd, related to the first two, because it is so near to people, and because there still are followers of both systems, it is politics as well as history, and politics are a backroom thing.

Also I would like to point out that the poster who offended me most admitted that Stalin did those things, and STILL liked him for his accomplishments. There is a difference between someone who believes that Stalin was villified in history *rolls eyes* and does not believe that he really did that, and someone who worships him for what he admits he did. Even so, it is politics and does not belong outside of the backroom. I personally think that Milosevic was framed and was not guilty of warcrimes, but I do not a) worship him b) talk about him outside the backroom.

Stalin's and Hitler's regimes were a rape on human kind and not something that people should praise outside the backroom (or at all in my opinion, but I believe in free speech). Surely you can see how that would offend people?