[texas booster]

There had been meetings in March 1940, during which the Soviet NKVD shared its well-practiced terror and extermination technology with the Nazi SS. (The only Nazi "improvement" over Soviet extermination methods was the use of poison gas.)

These sentences jumped out at me, since we have the spector of Nazi name calling fresh on the front page. In reality, there was little difference between the Nazi approach and the Soviet approach to conquered people.

Politics being what it is, history reviles the Nazi movement, but winks at the communist trail of tears. Occasionally you will hear a mention of some forgotten purge from the Soviet Union or Red China.

In reality, Stalin and Mao have both killed more innocent civilians than Hitler. When Saddam was looking for a leader to emulate, he chose Stalin and the NKVD. More brutal, almost as efficient as the Nazis.

"Never Forget" should be applied to the true history of Communism and its offspring. Great job!

[snippy_about_it]

..history reviles the Nazi movement, but winks at the communist trail of tears.

Well said texas booster, we don't hear enough about the evil of communism. The uneducated in our own country need to learn this lesson more than the rest of the world.

[U S Army EOD]

You got to remember Pol Pot from Cambodia, one of Jane Fonda's heros.

[HiJinx]

When Saddam was looking for a leader to emulate, he chose Stalin and the NKVD. More brutal, almost as efficient as the Nazis.

You beat me to making the connection!

[SAMWolf]

There's also Pol Pot and Castro.

The only reason Castro hasn't had mass executions is that he has a smaller polulation to work with and he needs the slave labor. Yet, the leftest Press and Hollywood adore the guy. Go figure.