There you go again Double Jay. Show me one person on this thread who has given Stalin a "free pass?"
Okay.
Hitler started a war, so indirectly he caused many more deads.
And BTW, Double J the solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis was JFK's brilliant insistence that some alternative to war was worked out. Although there was no direct linkage, part of the deal was that we agreed to remove some nuke missiles on the USSR border in Turkey, which, unbeknownst to the Russians, were scheduled to be removed anyway.
Yes, I knew that, but thanks for the attempted history lesson.
Thank God the likes of George W. Bush was not in office back then.
Yes, since he's been starting nuclear wars everywhere since coming into office. :rolleyes:
The US was already planning on assasinating him, so it was the US who turned their backs on Castro just because he was a socialist. I would've done the same damn thing if I was Castro and you would've too, and you know it!
The policy of "containment," originated by President Truman, was an effort to prevent the spread of communism across the globe. The fear was that if Cuba was allowed to turn communist, and Pro-Soviet, it could lead to the entire Latin American continent becoming littered with anti-American nations friendly to the Soviets, and supplying them with resources in exchange for arms.
The US wasn't just against Castro, they were trying to prevent Communist governments from arising across the globe (Turkey, Greece, for example, and later, South Korea and southern Vietnam). In all of these instances there was US intervention of some sort.
We didn't "turn our backs" on Castro - we never had his back in the first place. Having an anti-American dictator that close to the United States wasn't a prospect that Kennedy was going to take lightly.
Yeh, because the Soviets wouldn't have cared. The Soviets would've beat the hell out of Cuba if Castro took those missles down.
What makes you think so? If Cuba had decided to ally or at least remain amicable with the US, it is doubtful the Soviets would have started nuclear holocaust over Cuba.
I'm also going to go with Stalin.
Then you, imho, are a naive fool, choosing to ignore the facts that Stalin and even his counterpart Mao Zedong in China were just as brutal and oppresive as Hitler, and murdered in similar or greater numbers in Stalin's case.
Yes, it is. Hitler started a World War. If you ask me, he was responsible for every life lost because there would've been no loss of life had the Germans not started invading countries and killing everyone. Hitler, alone, is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews. His army (which took orders from him) are responsible for the millions of other deaths.
So what about the millions upon millions of Pols killed by Stalin? How about the Ukrainian famines? Even the internal purges and grain massacres inside of the USSR? Those weren't of Hitler's doing, and they were occurring at the same time of Hitler and into the post-war era.
Without the Russians, Hitler would've won (arguable).
Mmm, this is true, the Russians provided needed manpower as the French and British forces both weren't able to maintain effectiveness alongside the Americans.
but we should thank the Russians even more
How so? Granted, numbers wise, the Russians lost more men, but does that mean that their sacrifice is more important, or the US's is less important?
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.
Stalin hated the Pols, and as I've said, everyone is ignoring the Ukrainian and Polish holocausts that occurred under Stalin. And Stalin didn't just kill people because they were against him, he befriended the Pols and drove out the Germans only to slaughter them after they took power.
