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Originally posted by Spanky
Are you kidding?
I am looking at actions. Stalin murdered millions of Russians to benefit Russia as a whole. Almost every action he took showed that he believed that anything was justifiable as long as it benefit the many (the state).
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On the same theory that you use with Hitler, how can you say that Stalin truly believed that the needs of the many outweighed the needs of the few?
He murdered millions upon millions, as you note, deported and enslaved millions more, all in the service of consolidating and preserving the power which flowed to: (A) himself; and (B) a relatively tiny elite within the Communist Party (which itself was a minority in the Soviet Union).
Those are not the actions of a man who believes that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Those are the actions of a man who believes that individuals, their lives, self-determination, etc. have no value -- which may be what you were getting at -- but it is not the same thing.
"The State" does not equal "the many" -- especially in the old Soviet Union -- as I'd think a small government conservative should appreciate.
S_A_M
