“I agree with that, but there's really little comparison with the scale and scope of Stalin's tyranny. Looking at your list for the US, we weren't doing it all at the same time.” It is because you compare a democracy with a dictatorship…
Re: Discussion of Stalinism
“I agree with that, but there's really little comparison with the scale and scope of Stalin's tyranny. Looking at your list for the US, we weren't doing it all at the same time.” It is because you compare a democracy with a dictatorship…
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire.
"I've been in few famous last stands, lad, and they're butcher shops. That's what Blouse's leading you into, mark my words. What'll you lot do then? We've had a few scuffles, but that's not war. Think you'll be man enough to stand, when the metal meets the meat?"
"You did, sarge", said Polly." You said you were in few last stands."
"Yeah, lad. But I was holding the metal"
Sergeant Major Jackrum 10th Light Foot Infantery Regiment "Inns-and-Out"
Re: Discussion of Stalinism
Right, that's the point - Stalinism is grounded in totalitarianism. A democratic republic is going to beat the pants off it in freedoms, human and civil rights, and economic prosperity. Stalinism isn't communism - or at least not a friendly idealistic version.
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