Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!WOOSTER!VAM9360 From: VAM9360@WOOSTER.BITNET (Milos van Leeuwen) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.politics Subject: RE: RE: RE: The Holocaust Message-ID: <90038.0240.VAM9360@WOOSTER> Date: 7 Feb 90 02:40:00 GMT Sender: Forum for the Discussion of Politics Reply-To: Forum for the Discussion of Politics Lines: 30 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM Gateway >>No offense taken. Just thought it might be interesting to see if some stuff >>was exagerated in the Holocaust story...I do want to point out that, while >>Hitlers crimes are horrible, it is interesting to note how easily people >>forget what stalin did (killed 10 times as many of his own countrymen). >>Alas, Holocausts are still occuring... >>DTM > >Stalin killed 110 million of his own country men? >you did say he killed 10 times the number of his own country men.... > >Drew No he didn't! It says that Stalin killed ten times as many people (Soviets, to be specific) as Hitler did. 8-) Anyway, I agree with DTM that you can ask the question if governments twist or falsify what we know to be true history, even when you take a subject as sensitive as the Holocaust as an example. Milos +----------------v----------------------------------------------------------+ | M I L O S V A N L E E U W E N -- VAM9360@WOOSTER (Bitnet) | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| | College of Wooster, box C-2936, Wooster, Ohio, 44691, USA, # 216-287-3212 | | OR: Copernicusstraat 64, 1098 JJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 020-944272 | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ (\/)ilos says: Shift to the left! Shift to the right! Pop up, push down, byte, byte, byte. :-)