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Originally Posted by general counsel
Hitler sure didnt kill 6 million jews just over land and stalin wasnt responsible for the death of millions of russians over whose land he already had complete control just to get their property.
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Hitler was first, last and always obsessed with race, and the Jews in a racial way, not a religious one. He wasn't to big on priests or Christian Poles either. (I know one Ukrainian Catholic woman [now in her 90's] who had the misfortune of having been in both a Nazi AND a Stalin camp.) Hitler himself in his adulthood practiced the occult.
Stalin starved millions of Ukrainians and executed millions of real and imagined political enemies to maintain his control over the territory. When I mentioned land, I was thinking more of the classic tanks into Poland kind of move. When you war against the people within your territory, it is to maintain political control, in Stalin's case, through government organized Terror.