re: #159 Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)

Someone who has killed x millions did less damage than someone who killed x + y millions. Supporting the USSR was better than supporting the Nazis against the USSR. If the Nazis had successfully invaded the USSR, more people would have died than under Stalin. Unless you get into gay black hitler territory and start thinking about the outflow from Stalin being in charge, then yeah, supporting Stalin was better.

To put it another way, dying by being shot is better than dying of pancreatic cancer. That doesn’t imply, at all, that there’s anything the least bit good about dying by being shot.

You have written about everything (supporting, damage, etc. - the things I acknowledged right from the start) but my thesis that Stalin wasn’t better than Hitler.