Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List'
by zeth___ on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:17AM
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Given that the alternative the USSR had to Stalin was Hitler it was a pretty good deal all things considered.
Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List'
by phyller on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:29AM
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You might want to do some research on that one. Hitler might be considered an amateur compared to Stalin.
Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List'
by hutzlibu on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:21PM
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In terms of total power? Maybe.. Hitler was not the ultimate Dictator like he seem to many today, but in terms of genocide?
Not really. Even if the famine in the Ukraine, you are probably referring to, was a planned event and not just missmanagement and ignorance, it still would be no organized genocide to wipe out a whole race.
Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List'
by hutzlibu on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:14PM
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You might want to study a bit of history again: the UdSSR existed long before Hitler came to power
Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List'
by amdavidson on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:08PM
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Why do you abbreviate USSR that way? The first I assumed was a typo, the second makes it look intentional.
I do not see how that tracks from either the English translation, the original Russian name for the country: "Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик", or the transliteration: "Soyúz Sovétskikh Sotsialistícheskikh Respúblik".
But I go along with Einstein. The more technogy is avaiable to the masses, the more powerful a single persons becomes. There might come a time soon, when anyone could just tinker a atomic bomb together in his garage ... we seriously need to change our way of thinking, till that happens.