No (misreading is very convenient sometimes), I said earlier that 1,4 million deaths is "mass" murder in my book. I don't care if he killed 20 million (closer to my truth, at least), 5 million, 1,4 million or "only" 200,000, he's still a mass murderer to me.Originally Posted by bad manners
I say Stalin was a mass murderer. Period. There are also people denying the Holocaust and they have all the "proof" they need, i.e. only what they want to see.
Stalin knew nothing of all this? That's a joke. He executed Ezhov, claiming he had been doing things behind Stalin's back. After this came Beria, who was an even bigger butcher. Sure, and Stalin knew nothing about all this. Having the power to stop the killings without using it makes you 100% responsible, even if he didn't sign every death sentence himself. Like Ezhov, Beria could only go as far as Stalin let him. In the end, it was Stalin who made the madness stop, but he was also the one who started it.