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From: tedrick@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (Tom Tedrick)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: No Danger on the Right
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Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 02:39:43 EST
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>J. W.'s remarks need qualification: the numbers of Hitler's  vic-
>tims  *per  year*  are  almost as impressive as Stalin's; but his
>rule was shorter. Anyway, both regimes were  essentially  identi-
>cal.  
>
>Hitler was just as murderous as Lenin and Stalin, but he has  one
>great virtue: he is dead. Stalin lives, in his heirs.

I don't quite agree that the regimes were essentially identical. In some
ways Stalin's methods were more clever in being more devious and
indirect. For example rather than death camps, taking away food
and means of production, and leaving the rest to famine. 

Stalin seems to me to have had more shrewdness. Despite having caused
suffering on roughly the same scale as Hitler, his regime survives
and to some extent he is being "rehabilitated", while Hitler looks
more like a foolish megalomaniac who destroyed the nation and people
he claimed to be saving.