On 5 Oct, 23:53, David Johnston  wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:24:48 -0700 (PDT), john....@gmail.com wrote:
> >> >example, would no doubt consider it a most desirable end that the
> >> >world should be six million or so Jews the less, however deplorable
> >> >the means to achieving that goal.
>
> >> Yes.  But in fact that was a wicked end, achieved by wicked means.  
>
> >> > By this standard Stalin was worse than Hitler.
>
> >> Well duh.  Although mostly because Stalin lasted much, much longer
> >> than Hitler.  Otherwise they'd be equals in infamy.  
>
> >Unless you were Jewish, you could probably have lived more coMfortably
> >in Hitler's Germany Than Stalin's Russia.
>
> No I couldn't have.  I'm politically liberal.  As a person who had
> read the wrong books and said the wrong things, I'd end up in a
> concentration camp.  

I'm pretty liberal too. I don;t think you appreciate just how much
more repressive of any sort of free thought Stalin's regime was. Again
that is historical fact.