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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by mrighele on Thursday February 27, 2025 @05:27AM (#43193035)
> but if the choice is between Nazis and Commies, I'll sing the Internationale.

I don't understand why people give a pass to Communism when it caused an order of magnitude more suffering than Nazism.

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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by petre on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:47AM (#43193465)
Because they were living in the West, not subject to the USSR sphere of influence, so they pretty much don't know Communism? Here's a summary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism

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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by boroboro4 on Thursday February 27, 2025 @10:45AM (#43195422)
Doubt this will hold if you adjust by number of years in power/population under control.
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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by sterlind on Thursday February 27, 2025 @10:56PM (#43201534)
I'm not giving Communism a pass, I'm picking the lesser of two evils. Also, because the Nazis would have sent me to the gas chambers.
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