In the interest of a historical discussion, I thought I would ask you guys who you thought was worse; The Soviet regime under Stalin, or the Nazi regime under Hitler.
I personally say the Soviets were worse. The great purge of the military leaving over 3 milion dead, the scorched Earth policy causing the death of millions of civilians due to starvation etc., the direct violation of the rules of war in using women and children in front of attacks to keep the Germans from opening fire, or the acceptance of so many losses at gun point just so a mad man would stay in power. I hear numbers ranging from 22 million - 71 million Russian dead from the Russo-Finnish war - the great purge - to the end of "the Great Partiotic war".
On the German side you had roughly equal repression of the citizens, about 10 million dead, plus another 11 million in the concentration camps.
In no way do I deny what the Nazis did, but as I look into history, the German invasion was meant to destroy Communism (amoung other things), the goal was [i]arguably[/i] just. The means however set off a series of events that went out of control on both sides. The outcome, to me was that the Soviets were the bigger evil.
Which of the the two great evils do you think was worse, and why?