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thehistoryofviolence:
“Stalin/Hitler was waaaaaaaay worse than Hitler/Stalin! I mean, how can any serious historian compare the Holodomor/Holocaust to the Holocaust/Holodomor? What are you, a Nazi/Stalinist!?”
This comparison pops up virtually everywhere on the internet, and in real life, where people talk about history. And it’s useless.
Mass murders cannot be ranked in severity. The crimes of Hitler and Stalin will resonate through all time as a stark reminder of the ability of human beings to dehumanize one another. And whenever you turn the memory of these colossal tragedies into some kind of contest, you dehumanize the victims even further.
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thehistoryofviolence:
“Stalin/Hitler was waaaaaaaay worse than Hitler/Stalin! I mean, how can any serious historian compare the Holodomor/Holocaust to the Holocaust/Holodomor? What are you, a Nazi/Stalinist!?”
This comparison pops up virtually everywhere on the internet, and in real life, where people talk about history. And it’s useless.
Mass murders cannot be ranked in severity. The crimes of Hitler and Stalin will resonate through all time as a stark reminder of the ability of human beings to dehumanize one another. And whenever you turn the memory of these colossal tragedies into some kind of contest, you dehumanize the victims even further.
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