Hitler – Stalin: Two monsters on the balance of History

For a moral evaluation of the two biggest criminals of the twentieth century, I’m not sure how much it matters which one wins the contest with regard to the number of murders. And, speaking of murders, I don’t refer to those killed on the battlefields but to civilians, especially the victims of racist, national or ethnic cleansing. Until relatively recently, the dominant opinion was that “Stalin killed many more”. A prominent American historian, however, came to dispute this view...

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