From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 03:56:44 MDT
On 7 Aug 2002 at 3:38, kharin wrote:
>
> "I can say that the Soviet purges were horrible. I can also say that
> they did not approach the level of barbarity that made death into an
> organized internal industry, where millions were systematically gassed
> because they were considered subhuman. "
>
> As I understand it, Stalin slaughtered well over 20 million people.
> Under that circumstance I would be very reluctant to try to create a
> hierarchy of barbarity.
>
I wouldn't wanna flip a coin that decided which one of them lived, but I
wouldn't wanna flip a four-sided coin if Mao Zedong and Pol Pot were
the other alternatives. Any one of them, in the others' positions, could
have done just as 'well' (barf).
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