"Evil Communists"?
Communist has nothing to do with it. It's the forcing people to do things "my way" that is the problem. And the Soviet Empire was built on forcing people to do things "their way".
You don't think Solzhenitsyn wrote history? Oh, wait.. the Gulag did not exist... lies, lies, all capitalist lies, right?
Katyn? The Nazi version? How about the SOVIET GOVERNMENT version? YOUR GOVERNMENT, including Gorbachev AND Yeltsin both admitted to the deed. The NKVD did it. There's plenty of indepednent documentation too. You say you're waiting for proof and I have to laugh. It's been well documented for at least 30 years and YOUR GOVERNMENT ADMITS IT!
The only proof you'll ever accept is if someone invents a time machine and takes you back to Katyn so you can watch the NKVD shooting Polish prisoners in the back of the head.
And, yes, you DO ignore the "choice" the Soviet army gave to Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. The Hungarian revolution...... Prague Spring......
The choice was accept Soviet rule or be invaded and slaughtered. But, in your mind, that's not "aggressive" right? That's like saying "hey, you want to go to the movies and get a beer later?"
But ask all the questions you want.. because once again here's the difference. If the US did it, I'll admit it.
For example, US troops killed innocent civilians at My Lai in Vietnam. That happened. Those responsible were brought up on charges.
Now compare that to your defense of Katyn, where NKVD killed innocent Polish civilians and prisoners for no other reason really than that they were highly educated and thus a threat to the state. You can't admit it and no one was ever brought up on charges for it. But it happened as surely as the sun rose this morning.
THAT'S the difference.
The US didn't bring peace and freedom to South Vietnam.. but we tried.
Soviet soldiers did rape nearly everything that walked in Berlin at the end of WW2.
During Berlins death throes earlier that year, according to the British historian Anthony Beevor, at least two million women were raped by Soviet forces. Some 200,000 of these women committed suicide afterward. The German capital was a city of starving orphans and widows.
Yeah, the Germans raped Soviet women too... both deserve the harshest condemnation. The problem is that again, you can't admit the Soviets ever did anything like this.
And you'll find if you reflect that I agreed with you that the NATO strikes on Bosnia were a violation of the NATO charter.
Your English is very good. Far to good to hide behind the fact that you were defending Soviet aggression at the beginning of this thread and have now admitted that it was AGGRESSION. But it took a while to get you to admit it and it took the Finnish input for that.
Stalin was an oppressive aggressive butcher of his own people and of his neighbors. ...who saved the world from nazism, saved endless millions from beind destroyed as "useless" and the rest turned into speechless slaves.
I think
unbiased research will show that Stalin slaughtered at least as many innoncents as Hitler did if not a great number more. But then, you deny he engineered the Ukranian famine, don't you?
Stalin saved the world from Hitler? Horsepuckey.
Stalin saved Russia from nuclear devastation by democratic powers? More horsepuckey.
You have only to look at the results in Western vs Eastern Europe to see who was enslaved and who was "saved".
