What categories do you include in those millions murdered by Stalin?
The difference (a very important one) is that Soviets never had a requirement for physical removal of -different- populations and this is because those populations could be converted (in fact that was the original revolutional plan). Sure there was prosecution for political reasons (one of my relatives was executed in 1937 and other went into the camp) and deaths due to mismanagement, but none of those were about systematic extermination of the -different-population and thus were less horrible in that respect.
Last edited by ikalugin; 10-26-14 at 02:54 AM.
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