Stalin genocide vs Hitler genocide?

Question

OK Hitler killed six million Jews and was a bad man Stalin killed 20 plus million Christians and nothing is said about it

Answer 1

I consider them both pretty evil. Consider this, Stalin's mass killings were mostly before WW II (100,000 a year), and mostly from his purges and 'collectivization in early 30's with the latest estimate of around 20-30 million dead. His genocide wasn't a full time occupation to his death, unlike Hitler, but that's where the comparison stops. When comparing the two, both were evil, both put people in concentration camps, both committed genocide, both were dictators, both...well you get the picture. The one factor Hitler had over Stalin tho, Hitler was insane. Stalin was just angry and distrustful.

Other things to consider,Stalin killed more people, Hitler started WW II, Hitler killed the Jews and some people in his nation, but he started the war that resulted in many troops dying on both sides. Hitler may be considered the greater of both evils; tho Stalin killed more people it is said, Hitler's action ensured that those loses were as high as possible.
It is my conclusion that Hitler may be the 'evil-er" of them all, but comparing the them is ludicrous, now that i think about it, so just forget about it!

But since Joe was our ally, we don't hold him in the same light as Adolf...even tho he was the greatest butcher of the 20th Century....so your point is?

Answer 2

The data wasn't around until relatively recently. Not to mention that your 20 million figure is only the cost of land reform and his late 1930's purges. It doesn't include the hundreds of thousands of POW's he let die during WW2. Nor does it include the 20 million killed by artificially induced famines; some due to excesive grain export others because Stalin wanted to break spirits (ie the Cossacks).

Hitler also killed 5 million other people,a nd given that a Jew in the eyes of the Nazi party could've been a Christian by 1/2 their ancestory means that the 6 million mark may include non-Jews as well as actual Jews. Despite this I do take the 6 million mark as correct, because I tend to trust in the work of actual historians.

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Answer 3

Stalin and Hitler were both TIME MAGAZINE'S "Man of the Year".

Stalin and Hitler both equally started WWII.

Stalin betrayed Hitler and switched sides and supported the Allies.

Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchil were the "Big Three" at Yalta dividing up the world after the war.

Hitler lost, and the sleezy commie mass murderer Stalin ended up on the winning side.

The winners write history. Stalin was made out to be a good guy. More Hollywood's Version Of History.

Answer 4

Stalin killed his own people for what he considered political enemies of the state where as Hitler not only killed 6 million Jews for religious reasons, but he killed people who still wanted the kaiser to rule and any other political rival or enemy of the state he deemed dangerous to the German Third Reich! It was horrible what both men did but Hitler is far worse then Stalin

Answer 5

The answer to your question actually lies in human psychology. Everyone loves a winner and dislikes a loser. In any war, the loser is always a dog.

In the case of World War II, Stalin, even though he was more cruel and loathsome than Hitler in some respects, was still on the winning side of that war along with the Western Allies (France, Great Britain, United States) .

Consequently, Communists like Fidel Castro and Che Guevara can send thousands to the firing squads in Cuba; Pol Pot of Cambodia can have 2 million people bludgeoned to death with rifle butts and shovels (allegedly "to save ammunition.") and almost nobody says anything about it.

In other words, since the Russians (and even the Chinese and Vietnamese Communists to some extent ) were our allies against Germany and Japan in World War II, it's just not kosher with most people to talk about them in the same way as the Nazis nor to make comparisons between their atrocities and Nazi and Japanese atrocities.

Of course, not everybody thinks this way but the sad and silly reality is that a large part of humanity does.

Answer 6

Stalin was not attempting genocide. He was killing anyone he felt was a political threat. But he never set out to completely exterminate any one group of people. At least I don't remember ever hearing anything like that. He killed millions, yes. And he was a monster, but what he was doing was not genocide.

Also, a lot of the reason for the lack of response to Stalin's campaigns of killing is that the western world was largely unaware of it until after his death. And since we didn't fight a massive war against the USSR to stop him, we didn't have the same emotional investment into it.

Answer 7

Stalin Holocaust

Answer 8

Well, Hitler was also responsible for the deaths of about five million Christians in his death camps, including not only those who opposed him, but also gays, gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, as well as those who were mentally ill or retarded and people with severe physical disabilities.

As a historian it always amazed me that there were so many people willing to forgive Stalin for his massacres because they believed in the basic tenets of Communism and accepted that "the end justifies the means."

Some historians now estimate Stalin's total victims at about 40 million individuals.

Answer 9

I would say Stalin was the worse of the two, as far as i can tell Stalin targeted jews as well as Hitler. I think it would be embarrasing for us to call attention too this seeing as Stalin was our ally during WW2.

Answer 10

At first thought, probably because there are so many grotesque reminders of the holocaust. Movies, pictures, visiting the camps. I've never visited a GuLag, where stalin kept the "prisoners", though.
After reading the link below, the two main reasons was 1. he put his country on the world map and 2. he treated prisoners with more "respect", if that can be said. I"d suggest reading the link below.