this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2024
432 points (92.4% liked)
Political Memes
5387 readers
2914 users here now
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I was kind of surprised to find out Stalin killed more slavic people than Hitler, since Hitler killed at least 20 million soviets. I looked it up: Apparently Stalin deliberately killed 6 million, which goes up to 9 if you take policies with foreseeable deaths into account. That's less than 20. Yeah, Stalin was a bad guy, but please don't do holocaust erasure.
It's hard to argue that Stalin killed 6 million when scholars disagree on degree of his culpability and intentionality when it comes to the post Russia Civil War restructuring of the empire. But there's little question about Hitler's culpability and intentionality when he invaded Slavic lands for comquest, sent death squads to shower villagers with bullets and collect them for drath camps, all while touting racial supremacy of the German over the Slav. People like to count these things like they're the same, which dictator has a "high score" in killing people.