Shawnomatic writes:
Serious question: Stalin killed more people & was more evil than Hitler, so why is having a “Stalin” mustache okay but a “Hitler” one is bad?
Stalin didn’t kill more people than Hitler.
For the Stalin years, the following figures are recorded for peacetime deaths:
Executions: 900,000 Deaths in the gulag: 1.2 million Anti-kulak campaign: 390,000 Total: 2.49 million
Half of the gulag deaths occurred during World War 2 when there was also a high death rate in the general population due to food and medicine shortages.
Now those figures do not count the figures for those killed during World War 2, some of whom were civilians. They also do not include the deaths during the population transfers of entire nationalities during World War 2. But those numbers cannot possibly be very large.
Stalin killed those people over a period of 28 years, so that is 2.3 million over 28 years, or ~88,4561/year.
Hitler killed many more than that.
Hitler directly killed 15 million people during his death camp and other extermination policies. Only 6 million of those were Jews. Others were other nationalities. 3 million people, or 10% of the population of Poland, were killed. 1/3 of the population of Belarus was killed. 1/4 of the population of Ukraine was killed. 10% of the German population itself was killed due to the wars he started. 27 million Soviets were killed. Among young Soviet man aged 18-24, 95% of them were killed. Furthermore, Hitler did this in a brief period of time – 1940-1945 – 5 years. Hitler killed at least 15 million over a 5 year period, for a figure of 3 million/year.
So it is 3 million/year versus 80,000/year, so Hitler killed 37X more people per year than Stalin did. Even using conservative estimates, Hitler killed 6.52X more people than Stalin and he did it over a much shorter period, in only 20% of the time Stalin took.
