tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32294008.post2512343645209644285..comments2023-04-18T09:58:42.054-04:00Comments on J to the Power of 7: The Forgotten Genocide: Stalin's PurgesMatt Janovichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02700158612127533221noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32294008.post-84797506207671837632008-10-19T15:39:00.000-04:002008-10-19T15:39:00.000-04:00Yes, that's almost correct, but you have to be car...Yes, that's almost correct, but you have to be careful how far you take that logic regarding the Shoah (Holocaust).<BR/><BR/>Roughly, both the Nazis and the Stalin regime murdered somewhere around 20+ million apiece. Take your pick, they were essentially equal in the numbers they slaughtered. Mountains of bodies come when a narrow group is attempting to seize total power and recast a nation in their own image, National Socialist or Communist. To make a fine point, there wasn't much difference between Bolshevism and Nazism in most respects, which was expressed during the 1930s by many noteworthy historians and political observers in Europe. <BR/><BR/>Were it not for WWI, it's unlikely that either group would have ever rose to the significance that they did. Only a context of widespread chaos and devastation can bring about the level of slaughter that we saw in the 20th century. This is the real cost of war.<BR/><BR/>As for Catholics in Russia, they would have been a very tiny minority, and probably already knew discrimination under an Eastern Orthodox Tsarist order. As you stated, they didn't do any better under Stalin, in fact worse. We should mourn all of the victims of these kinds of depredations and oppose war as much as humanly possible. It tends to only benefit the powerful.Matt Janovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02700158612127533221noreply@blogger.com