re: #43 Kragar

Eddie: Pol Pot killed one point seven million Cambodians, died under house arrest, well done there. Stalin killed many millions, died in his bed, aged seventy-two, well done indeed. And the reason we let them get away with it is they killed their own people. And we’re sort of fine with that. Hitler killed people next door. Oh, stupid man. After a couple of years we won’t stand for that, will we?

Stalin died in bed because the USSR was too powerful to attack just because of its internal policies. Democratic nations may and should boycott said tyrannies, but they tend not to be willing to pay the price they would have to pay if they attacked and lost.