"...there is much more jails and prisoners in USA than it ever were in USSR"? That doesn't make prisons in the US worse than gulags.
"Preparation for war" regime? What about after the war? Hitler also implanted a "preparation for war" regime, because Germany was in shatters after the Treaty of Versailles. Does that make Hitler's regime more valid?
Are you also implying that I should keep studying until I finally realize that Stalin was a good man? Maybe Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong-il, Idi Amin Dada were all good men, after all reports of their viciousness were probably lies repeated 1000 times. Well, maybe that story that 6.000.000 Jews were killed was also a lie, because it was also repeated thousands of times.
So I've read the wrong books. That's exactly what leftist people say when somebody argues that socialism is wrong. "You think socialism is bad because you've read propaganda". Very nice argument indeed. "I am right because I can distinguish good information from propaganda and you obviously don't" You think I've read the wrong books and you think you've read the right books. I think the opposite. Who is right? You cannot just tell my books were wrong. That is not a valid argument.
Well, you may be right and most people may be wrong, but I think that is not very likely. Just don't repeat more than 999 times that Stalin was a good man. Let people realize that by themselves.
Dude, rather than get through my statements you are just making new ones. I'll try to speak even more popular on my position. I don't want to touch the details, I just try to appeal to your logic.
Hitler was attacking and Stalin was defending, try to understand the difference. If I break your skull, just because I think you're inferior genetic scum, would you still question me am I good or bad? Germans were prepared much better (here goes the question who gave them all the money) and just in few years Russians had to catch up to industrial progress that Germany made in dozen years. Think about it, that's not the easiest task to solve. Yes, Stalin fought to rule, as all political leaders do, but obviously he wasn't killing millions of his own people just for fun, Nazis were killing them. After the war you say? Check the number of war casualties in WWII for USSR. Sure they was tough years in soviet history, when most of people began life from scratch. If you consider that, Russian people done wonders with industry, agriculture, science and at some point became a superpower. Do you think it was because of Stalin was killing them or supporting them?
Gulag is wrong book to learn history, yes. Numbers called in this book are absolute horseshit, as everything else.
About repeating the lies - well, sorry to disappoint you, but that's how it works. Don't know if you follow conflict in Ukraine, they are in civil war now, but not long ago all of them were soviet people, who fought Hitler among the other soviet nations. There was no such country as Ukraine, it was just a one of soviet regions, but after the collapse of Soviet Union it became sovereign territory, a country, and an US protectorate. Now after 25 years of dumbing down and reeducation they don't know basic things about their own history and claim one of Nazi bastards (Bandera his name, if I'm not mistaken) to be one their national heroes. It's even sound ridiculous, they fought against Nazis and now they praise them. History can be easily rewritten, because most of people gain knowledge from newspapers, TV (all world major media are US and UK) and hollywood movies. If you go all out on media for years, yes, people will forget anything.
