[Destro]

Stalin was the most prolific mass murderer in history and he did all his killing for the promotion of communist ideology.

Actually, Stalin comes in second to Hitler.

From: Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls

The Black Book of Communism seems to vote for Hitler as the answer to the question of who's worse, Hitler (25M) or Stalin (20M).

[spinestein]

[Stalin was the most prolific mass murderer in history...]

[Actually, Stalin comes in second to Hitler.]



Thanks for the post and the link to backing info (very informative).

It is kind of hard to make a choice, though. Hitler was primarily concerned with purging the human race of everyone who wasn't genetically like him, while Stalin was trying to eliminate all of his ideological opposition. Which one was MORE evil?

Perhaps the millions of Soviets who starved to death are not directly attributable to Stalin, but realistically speaking, once the number of deaths gets up into the multiple millions, it just becomes piling on to criticize. /grim humor (not laughing)