Stalin's murders and the West

[kevin at limits.org]

One or two people have recently brought up the way the West (as in
countries west of the old "Iron Curtain") tends to ignore the fact that
Stalin killed 20 million Soviet citizens, at least it just doesn't get
talked about as much as Hitler's comparable atrocities.  Stalin built
gulags; Hitler built concentration camps, so what's the difference that
makes the West build a museum in Washington, DC about one and not the
other?

The reasons are, of course, complicated, but I think the British comedian
Eddie Izzard really cuts to the chase:  his explanation is that, in the
perception of the West, Stalin killed his own people, whereas Hitler
killed his neighbors.


Kevin Troy