[quote=KIBU]Well, Hitler is not the only scumbag of history so I see no reason for people just to dwell on the guy.
There were other scumbags like Stalin, Lenin, Mao and a whole lots of WANNABE scumbags in history.
Oh except maybe one thing. The other scumbags didn’t overtly discriminate people based on race to the extreme EXTENT that Hitler did. Maybe that’s the big difference.
Maybe that’s the attraction?[/quote]
KIBU: I don’t know if I’d completely agree with that. Most people don’t realize that Stalin killed far more people in his paranoid repression (The “Great Terror”/”Great Purges” of 1936 – 1939) than Hitler ever did. Those murders may not have been as racially motivated as Hitler’s, but he did target specific ethnic minorities (think his campaigns against the Chechens and the Ingush in 1944, including their forced “deportation”) as well.
I would consider Mao and Stalin to be worse than Hitler, simply in terms of destruction and death and communism has proven far more deadly than fascism ever was (over 100MM dead).
