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> 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.



Doubt this will hold if you adjust by number of years in power/population under control.


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


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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