Do you have similar excuses for Nazi Germany for its contribution to rocketry and nuclear power?
I do get why (especially in the West) people think better of Stalin than of Hitler, but its good to point out that the first had even more civilian victims.
I am not saying that one should make a ranking of genociders, but one should refrain from whitening anyone who have willingly caused millions of civilian deaths.
The real numbers are: during 1921-1954 years there were 642980 death sentences on political cases. It is far far less, than amount of Hitler's victims. Just only Holocaust victims outnumber that.
And I'm not whitening anybody and I have no excuses for Stalin.
But we are just not thinking here about Stalin as the one of the worst things happened to our country. I think that being nuked by USA was quite a worse perspective for our people.
I do get why (especially in the West) people think better of Stalin than of Hitler, but its good to point out that the first had even more civilian victims.
I am not saying that one should make a ranking of genociders, but one should refrain from whitening anyone who have willingly caused millions of civilian deaths.