• TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee
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      The difference is that Hitler was after one specific group of people and wanted to eradicate them. Nobody says that Stalin was as bad as Hitler, bit his death count was just as high. He killed millions of political enemies or people in the regions he conquered.

      • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        9 months ago

        Hey, whoever told you those numbers is lying to you. The nazis killed 11 million people in the holocaust and 26-27 million soviet citizens. High estimates for people killed by the USSR outside of defeating nazism, failures, and sabotage is in the 100,000s, which is noticeably lower than capitalist oligarchies like the US and Britain. Also killing people based on them wanting to bring back old caste systems through violence is morally distinct from racism based mass killings.

        The difference is that Hitler was after one specific group of people and wanted to eradicate them.

        Also this isnt true, Jewish people, Roma, nuerodivergent people, disabled people, trade unionists socialists, communists, gay people, trans people, the list goes on.

        Also you’re still equating the two after being told doing so is holocaust denial. You’re saying “well they killed equivalent amounts of people!”

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          How is saying Stalin wasn’t a great guy either denying the holocaust?

          Also this isnt true, Jewish people, Roma, nuerodivergent people, disabled people, trade unionists socialists, communists, gay people, trans people, the list goes on.

          Yes ofc, but a big percentage of the deportated people were Jewish. They killed two thirds of the European Jewish population.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

          High estimates for people killed by the USSR outside of defeating nazism, failures, and sabotage is in the 100,000s

          No: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin

          • dialectical_analysis_of_gock [she/her]@hexbear.net
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            Stalin for example was a mass murderer just like Hitler. So why would anybody like him?

            Here is a mainstream Jewish holocaust survivor saying equating the communists and fascists is holocaust trivialization.

            You have compared communists and fascists, thus trivializing the Holocaust.

            Are you referring to famines caused by the Kulaks destroying grain exacerbating a natural famine cycle, something that was somewhat common before the modern era. If you are, would you also say that every death caused by starvation due to poverty in capitalist countries should count towards the leader’s “death count”?