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Originally Posted by August
However, don't you think that if the Soviet gulags or the Katyn forrest had been uncovered in the same manner as the nazi concentration camps and murders were brought to the worlds attention, that world feeling against the Soviets would match that of the nazis as Damo has asked?
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No. You know why?
Most of the USSR's citizens were prisoners of their own ideology. The beneficiairies of the Communist system were the 2 legged pigs at the top of the government, military, and industry. The rest of the country were reduced to mostly equivalently unhappy and rights-suppressed underlings.
Not so Nazi Germany! This was a regime democractically elelected and overall lauded by the German people for its racial doctine, laws and policies. A country laughed at the sufferings of others.
Both Hitler and Stalin were beasts. But only one of them truly won the hearts and minds of his countrymen.