Posted on 01/25/2012 10:46:29 PM PST by stevelackner
All Totalitarians are evil bastards.
Communists, Marxists, Socialist, Progressives, Fascists, Nazis (yes, they were the National Socialists) All Are Staist and Leftist.
Create nothing, only lie, steal, subject, destroy and murder.
They all resort to murder when it is necessary to stay in power.
And they all result in a bloodbath and body count of unspeakable and unheard-of proportions.
The difference, the Nazis filmed their atrocities, and Communists didn’t.
None of these apples have fallen far from the tree...Marxism
Statist power is as statist power does...(To rephrase a famous observation.)
“The difference, the Nazis filmed their atrocities, and Communists didn’t.”
In some cases the Soviets did. Try to get a copy of “Inside the Aquarium”, the autobiography of a defector. In it, a ‘training film’ is shown to each new MGU recruit. It is the film of a previous MGU member who tried to defect. He is being fed into a crematorium.
Alive.
After the film, the new recruit is asked if there are any questions.
Of course to the libs, just Nazis are evil,but Communists get a pass. What’s the difference if your executioner wears a swastika or a Red star? You’re just as dead either way.
What I don't understand is why Communist atrocities are whitewashed, while the Nazi's are forever demonized in our history books?
Are we talking about body count, rate of liquidations, attitude towards your victim, criteria for selecting them? Once that issue is settled, there are other moral and logistical questions to address such as system longevity, technology used, etc.
Overall, I give the nod to Communism but suspect each person will see it differently.
Once you reach a certain level, whatever that might be.... quantitive, methodology, inhumanity..... differences become moot. I’d score them both as a reasonable definition of ‘evil’.
It’s a distinction without a difference. They were both socialism with a view toward world domination. Throw in maoism and you’ve got the hat trick.
Communism, hands down. Tragically, too many people—influential people—are still rooting for Communism to “work.” Therefore, it gets a pass.
The world has had plenty of opportunity to film Communism’s evils in the nearly 70 years since Nazism unraveled. Both were horrific; one lasted less than 20 years, the other is nearing it’s 100th birthday alive & well (and still killing).
Nazis were “national socialists”, with an eye towards a “Greater Germany” dominating Europe (they built no aircraft carriers, few heavy bombers); the Bolsheviks were determined to spread “world socialism” around the globe (and nearly succeeded). At no point in WWII was Germany a threat to the United States; even the threat from Japan was weak - within six months of Pearl Harbor they were losing the war (after Midway).
Research the term “World Island” within the Nazi context. It’s true they fought for a larger Germany but the long term goal was world domination
bfl
Germany had the largest Communist Party outside of the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. Had Germans chosen Communism rather than Nazism the world would be entirely different today. Germans had to choose one or the other. There was no third alternative. By 1930 the Soviets had already killed millions. Nazi crimes were in the future. For many Nazism was a reaction to Communism. The anti-Semetic component of National Socialism can be explained by the large Jewish contribution to the Soviet cause. Compare the number of films dealing with Nazi crimes with the films produced about Communist crimes. Every major western city has a Holocaust museum. Where are the museums devoted to the Holodomor? “We must never forget.” But what if we don’t know what happened? How can we forget it? Who cares about the tens of millions of Chinese casualties of “Hope and Change”?
Both are virulent forms of socialism,
so this is a comparison of very like things.
Both should have been stangled in the crib,
as Churchill said of communism.
These are spiritual fights manifested in the material world.
Jesus Christ is coming back and going to make it right.
Correct.
In the past 100 years the death toll is staggering and little talked about in public schools. The typical history teacher in public schools never seems to make the connection between Totalitarianism in any fashion and the deaths associated.
“It’s true they fought for a larger Germany but the long term goal was world domination”
They may have thought Britain & the US would see the wisdom of the Nazi way, but militarily it could never happen. As it was they were very dependent on their conquered territories and allies for much of their war machine.
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