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[81] [3] British historian Michael Ellman argues that mass deaths from famines should be placed in a different category than the repression victims, mentioning that throughout Russian history famines and droughts have been a common occurrence, including the Russian famine of 1921–1922, triggered by Stalin's predecessor Vladimir Lenin's war ...
The reason is simple: as a rule, people who discuss these figures are trying to convey a very specific point, namely, that Stalinism killed more people than Nazism. However, a comparison of excess mortality during Stalin's rule with mass killings perpetrated by Nazi is a comparison of apples with oranges.
Jokes about Stalin usually refer to his paranoia and contempt for human life. Stalin's words are typically pronounced with a heavy Georgian accent. Stalin attends the premiere of a Soviet comedy movie. He laughs and grins throughout the film, but after it ends he says, "Well, I liked the comedy. But that clown had a moustache just like mine ...
Historian David Reynolds on what Winston Churchill really thought about Hitler, Stalin and other enemies.
Professor of political science Atsushi Tago and professor of international relations Frank W. Wayman used mass killing from Valentino and concluded that even with a lower threshold (10,000 killed per year, 1,000 killed per year, or even 1 killed per year) "autocratic regimes, especially communist, are prone to mass killing generically, but not ...
Hannah Arendt in 1933. Hannah Arendt was one of the first scholars to publish a comparative study of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union.In her 1951 work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt puts forward the idea of totalitarianism as a distinct type of political movement and form of government, which "differs essentially from other forms of political oppression ...
Snyder is not a God. Most historians recognize that Stalin killed more people than Hitler— Preceding unsigned comment added by Erni120 (talk • contribs) 13:07, 31 October 2017 (UTC) Well, I think this whole section is too big. Here is the point: no one knows exact numbers, and a lot of people operate with numbers that represent different ...
It just isn't true. It certainly is possible that more Soviets died at the hands of Hitler than of Stalin from 1941-5, or that Hitler killed people at a faster rate (through WW2) than Stalin (who ruled for decades) did. That said, I will not respond again.TheTimesAreAChanging 18:22, 3 July 2012 (UTC)