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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

0 days since I've had to trot out this article from a mainstream Jewish holocaust scholar on why equating communists and fascists is holocaust trivialization.

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"Everything I don't like is holocaust denial: a dishonest child's guide to political slander"

Stalin also committed genocide, and he killed even more of his own people than Hitler did. He was also Hitler's ally until he was betrayed by that ally. Tankies and fascists are two rotten peas in the same pod.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you calling a mainstream Jewish holocaust scholar a dishonest child doing political slander?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If he's saying that criticism of the USSR is holocaust denial, that is the camp he's placing himself into.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He isn't saying that though, he is saying equating communists and fascists holocaust trivialization.

Equating and criticizing aren't the same thing. You're equating.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So he's minimizing the Holodomor, and all the other forced relocations and summary executions of undesirables under Stalin and other Soviet despots.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're literally doing the nazi propaganda he is talking about.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"refusal to minimize genocide is Nazi propaganda"

Stalin murdered even more people than Hitler. History equates them. I just recognize that reality. If you seriously think that's holocaust denial then you're a fucking joke.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Stalin murdered even more people than Hitler.

That's certainly a new one, where'd you get that statistic from, stormfront?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stalin's regime is estimated to have killed ca 20 million civilians during his time in power. Hitler, it's around 12 million or so.

You can argue the figures because if you go by official government records it only comes to about eight million, but even if you believe the USSR about their own atrocities and not contemporary estimates, they're still in the same ballpark as Hitler's regime.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Where did you get those numbers from? Because over 26 million people died from the nazi invasion so the 12 million number is immediately false.