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If Reds continue to smear conservatives, especially to defend Communism, you have to conclude that it is because they love Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Kruschev, Castro, et al.

Stalin alone killed more people than Hitler (20 million compared with 10 million).

Yet the Left does not find Stalin to be as evil as Hitler. Go figure.

Funny you should mention Hitler. One of the most successful propaganda victories that the left has ever achieved is convincing almost everyone that the Nazis were 'right wing'. This despite the fact that the Nazis referred to themselves as National SOCIALISTS and subverted the rights of the individual to the rights of the state, in addition to the fact that they rejected or perverted traditional German christian values to suit a radical and collectivist agenda. Many so-called 'former' socialists came out in favour of fascism and and Nazism (Mussolini was himself a former socialist journalist, and Oswald Mosely was a former Labour MP). The ideological gap between fascism and socialism is not the yawning chasm that the liberal left would have you believe. And the idea that traditional western right wing conservatism lay somewhere between Fascism and Communism would be laughable if it wasn't believed so widely. In actual fact, both Nazism and Communism were way over to the left of the Political spectrum and traditional conservatism has never been between them in any sense.

Nazism was just socialism with more overt racism. However, at least the Nazis were more honest about their intentions than the Communists ever were or ever have been. Perhaps that was why the Nazis met their downfall sooner and are now almost universally despised as history's bad guys. Because their greater honesty and the sheer brazenness of their wicked deeds made it impossible for the left to apologise for them and be taken seriously. I have no doubt in my mind that the left would damn Stalin as a right-wing extremist if they could. But those on the left who are not Stalin apologists generally tend to see him as a cynical imposter who was pretending to be a communist or socialist so he could satiate his lust for power. However, even the most agile of leftist mental gymnasts would struggle to credibly portray Stalin as a right-winger, despite their roaring success in applying the label to Hitler and the Nazis and transferring the taint of the latter on to the right wing ideological spectrum they so despise....