Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "Katyn - WWII's Forgotten Massacre" video.
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Eh, when you're at the level of body counts in the millions, there's really no point in debating who was "worse". Overall, Stalin killed more people than Hitler did, but he also had like 30 years to do so instead of Hitler's 12. Hitler had the death camps, the industrial murder which has never been seen before or since, but Stalin was even more arbitrary in who he murdered than Hitler was (in Nazi Germany, if you followed the rules, you'd be relatively safe, whereas in Stalin's USSR, anyone could end up with a bullet tp the back of the head).
Basically, both of them were at the absolute worst level of humanity, as both oversaw the deliberate murder of millions of people for no good reason. Which of them was worse than the other is an entirely pointless conversation, it's the same as arguing whether terminal lung cancer is "worse" than terminal liver cancer.
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@JeepWrangler1957 I think the big difference is how their respective regimes ended. Nazi Germany was invaded and dismantled, and their atrocities were put on display for all the world to see. We've all seen footage taken by liberators of concentration camps, we all know about the Nuremburg trials, etc.
Stalin, on the other hand, died peacefully (more or less) in his bed, and his regime outlived him by close to 40 years. By 1991 when the USSR fell, most of the perpetrators of the worst Stalinist atrocities were dead, the GULags were long closed, and everything could be quietly swept under the rug.
In the end, we remember Hitler as the embodiment of evil but not Stalin because we got a better look at what he did.
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