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   From: jdeluise@gmail.com   
      
   acoustic@panix.com (lo yeeOn) writes:   
      
   >   
   > First, jdeluise, you will have to argue with Deutsche Welt.   
      
   No, I don't have to argue with Deutsche Welt, you posted it here and I   
   am commenting one it.   
      
   >   
   > If Stalin were committing a crime or an evil comparable to the crime   
   > or evil of Hitler, why are we only talking about the Holocaust today?   
      
   Because the victors write history and determine who committed war   
   crimes.  Had the Nazis won we wouldn't hear as much about the Holocaust   
   today, no?  Certainly allied war crimes were swept under the rug in the   
   wake of victory.   
      
   >   
   > And finally, if Stalin were committing a crime or an evil comparable   
   > to the crime or evil of Hitler "in the same timeframe", why did the US   
   > not ally itself with Hitler to fight Stalin, but instead Stalin to   
   > fight Hitler?   
      
   What a silly comment that seems to ignore history.  The US didn't join   
   the allied force to liberate prisoners of concentration camps.  Indeed,   
   history indicates that we could have done more in that regard but it was   
   not a high priority.   
      
   >   
   > Thus your exuberant conclusion about Putin may need some serious   
   > factual support to gain any credibility, methinks!   
      
   Well, one shred of evidence from the recent past is that he dedicated   
   the Sochi Olympics to Stalin.  He even compared himself to Stalin in the   
   same breath!   
      
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