Originally posted by Double-J:
[quote]Russia offered many, many more lives than any other country in order to wipe out the fascism and end the war. I'm not deminishing the American input, that started in Normandy, but Russian and American military actions are at least even.
So Stalin gets a free pass, even though he was as brutal, if not more brutal, than Hitler? [/quote]The US lost some 450,000 lives in WWII.
The Russians lost 20,000,000 lives. They sacrificed an enormous amount of people. Without the Russians, Hitler would've won (arguable).
Everyone is always saying, the USA liberated Europe, but that's only partly true.
The USA helped very, very good (and we are very grateful for that!!), but we should thank the Russians even more.
That's all, I said nothing about a free pass for Stalin.
BTW, the reason why I choose to be under Stalin, than to be under Hitler is:
Stalin killed people because they were against his system. Hitler did it because of his morals, because of the dirtiest form of racism ever seen. To me, the Holocaust is the ultimate form of all the bestialities the human being can do.
Btw, I prefer to be a German in Hitler's Germany, than a Russian in Stalin's Russia. But then I would be a nazi, part of that dirty system.
And another btw, I prefer to be a Russian in Stalin's Russia, than a communist/gibsy/jew/black/mentally ill, ... in nazi-Germany.
But to take away any doubt, Stalin was a despicable dictator who killed a huge amount of people.
Hitler, Stalin, and the Belgian king Leopold II were the most gruesome killing dictators of the 20th century.
