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Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · Sep 22

The atrocities of both the Soviet communist and Nazi regimes were crimes against humanity. Surprisingly, those who oppose the latter often whitewash the former.

Full text: www.levandehistoria.se/sites/defaul...

For some time it has been entirely conceivable to state publicly that Josef Stalin did run terror campaigns that robbed many Soviet citizens of their lives, yet at the same time created the embryo of the Soviet welfare state and defeated Hitler’s Nazi Germany. However, it has not been conceivable to even suggest that Hitler was not only the perpetrator of genocide, but also built motorways and ensured that the German people had employment. This relationship says something about the conditions under which Nazi and communist history is communicated. It is enough to look up more or less any history textbook to ascertain that the communist and Nazi leader figures and their crimes have been presented and evaluated in extremely different ways by future generations.

The introductory sentences above should not be applicable to either of these cases, even if there is firm historical evidence that both dictators did actually gain significant popularity in the 1930s through promotion of economic and social development for broad swathes of the population, and in a more general sense, largescale terror activities went hand in hand with strong socio-political dynamics in terror societies like those of Nazi Germany and the communist Soviet Union. There is an immediate risk that the juxtaposition of one ‘good’ and one ‘evil’ policy makes this history appear as a zero-sum game, where the negative aspect – a regime’s unprecedented use of violence – can be balanced by or even compensated for by the aspects of that regime’s practice and results that seemed at the time or seem in hindsight to be positive.

So is it not also immoral to compare communism and Nazism, as ideologies, as movements and as regimes that perpetrated crimes against humanity? Is it possible to do this without automatically arousing suspicion that the atrocities perpetrated by Hitler and the Nazi regime are to be covered up or minimised? The idea that there could be suspicions of the opposite is hardly current. One important difference is that a comparison of this nature is not as closed and conditioned as the previous one. Rather, it allows room for many more alternatives and interpretations. The thought process involved in comparing communism and Nazism is not a zero-sum game. It has every chance of leading to the conclusion that two evil things are being compared.

Nonetheless, for many reflective people, the comparison is challenging, since it risks getting ‘locked’ into the fundamental difference between the good intentions and evil intentions established at the beginning of this text, and into the fear of a single-track approach that places the two regimes on a par. At the same time, this comparison is urgent and important, partly because it is carried out in practice, indeed to a greater extent in our time, and partly because it responds to a scientific need and interest in understanding and explaining the most significant phenomena of contemporary history, both individually and in their wider context. A comparison promotes both perspectives and helps us to pose new questions, establish new perspectives, and clarify unspoken assumptions in the academic community. There is an intrinsic comparative challenge in comparing the type of mass brutality ordered by Stalin and Hitler on a European battlefield hit by revolution, civil war, world war and major social upheaval.

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Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 6m

Most polls confirm that. It's not a CIA operation

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 20m

Eventually it always caused significant decrease of standard of living for hundreds of millions when compared to capitalist nations. It was met with resistance and stayed in power thanks to mass terror and unprecedent repressions.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 31m

That account will excuse every single totalitarian dictatorship if only it hates capitalism.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 39m

Not all are evil, just around 90% of them.

Do you approve of the activities of Vladimir Putin as the president (prime minister) of Russia?

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 51m

No, NATO has different purpose. Thanks for your invaluable geopolitical expertize.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 59m

Maybe, but try proving it with a list that is factual. This one has had been doing rounds for so long that it is just embarassing.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks for your regurgiation of the official Kremlin narrative. It's been debunked so many times, yet there's always an idiot who passes it on.

www.analyse-und-kritik.net

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 1h

Damn, you are really fucking dumb.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 1h

You must have missed the part when China replaced the West in Africa and elsewhere, looting and exploiting billion of ppl like never before. 🍾🎆 Hooray!

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 1h

Wait, isn't full blown stalinism in the US right now a wet dream came true, since stalin was so fucking great in the end?

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, a portrait of Stalin, perhaps to commemorate a few decades of rule without terror and bloodshed. Exactly how it is remembered.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2h

So it's just a baseless claim, thanks.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2h

Mortality rate in US prisons was nowhere near the rate in Gulag. And while the legal system is flawed in the US, it's pretty far from how courts worked under Vyshinsky. It's just a dumb hyperbole.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2h

All atrocities commited for political gains are bad, are they not? Yet it's the OP who's posting Stalin's photos left and right like he's been some fucking Gandhi, not a mass murderer.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 3h

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