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   XPost: can.politics, alt.politics.bush, aus.politics   
   XPost: alt.revisionism   
   From: david@block.net   
      
   >> >> > Quite correct.  There were many other holocausts, that make the   
   >> >> > mainstream one look kind of weak.  However, the mainstream holocaust,   
   >> >> > which is the holocaust that was waged against the Jews, has the media,   
   >> >> > the movie industry, and governments of the western world behind it.  I   
   >> >> > don't hear too much concerning the holocaust of Soviet citizens by   
   >> >> > Stalin.  Why is that?   
      
   The first and foremost reason is because we have no grounds to   
   compliment ourselves in that regard.  Yes, Stalin killed more people   
   than Hitler, but only because he was around longer to do it.  And he   
   was around longer to do it because our nations stopped Hitler and   
   didn't stop Stalin.  Every time a documentary or work of fiction   
   centers around Hitler's villainy in the United States and the former   
   British Empire, it strokes the national pride of the audiences,   
   because he was that bad and we stopped him.  We didn't stop Stalin.   
   Stalin died in bed of old age and his successor was a little less   
   vicious and subsequent successors continued to ease up until things   
   collapsed of their own weight.  Evil wasn't defeated.  It just sort of   
   faded.  So people like the Hitler story in a way they don't the Stalin   
   story, because it has the ending they clamour for in fiction with the   
   bad man brought low by people they can identify with.   
      
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