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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
He'd done a majority of his murdering by then.
Seems that the Cold War was a preferable course -- and succeeded in the long run.
S_A_M
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I think he did a lot of murdeing between 1945 and his death. Not only executing all the German sympathizers, but moving all those people around. After 45 there may not have been as many deaths from the purges, but the general population and the nonrussians really got it.
In addition, if we had taken out the communist regime in Russia, I think we could have prevented China falling to the communists. That would have saved at least 100 million deaths. We could also have stopped North Korea, Vietnam and Pol Pot. I don't believe communists ever took over with popular support. Sometimes they had some but never a majority. They always had to take over with force of arms. In China many of the peasants may have supported them at first, but they never had support in the cities.
If we took out Stalin, we could have nipped communism in the bud and prevented hundreds of millions of deaths.
In hindsigh we should have treated communsim like Nazism. Competely unacceptible. We should have stamped it out before it got really bad.
