TIL the founder of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong, was responsible for the deaths of over 65 million people, making him the most prolific killer of the 20th century.

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[–]theFriendlyDoomer 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Two things can be bad. It is okay to point out when one thing is worse than another. But that doesn't make the bad thing all the sudden good.

[–]aThievingStableboy[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

aset

[–]theFriendlyDoomer 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

To some extent, it depends on his reasons. He's stated the defensive war thesis. I've never gotten around to researching the time period enough to evaluate it. I've heard there is a great book called Human Smoke, written by a pacifist (so not a Nazi) on the issue. My library only has it as audio book, so I skipped it.

I don't exactly see how the invasion of France was defensive, but I'll listen to someone.

[–]Chipit 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It was to take care of Germany's backside so that they could destroy the USSR unimpeded. It obviously didn't work, but that was the idea.

Hitler wanted to ally with Britain, something forgotten today. That's why he let the British Army go at Dunkirk. Without their army, Britain's colonies would all revolt and the British empire would be finished. A great tragedy to be avoided! Hitler made a generous peace offer after France was defeated, only to have it rejected with the vigorous opposition of Churchill the warmonger (and he was a warmonger who never wasted a chance to waste the lives of British soldiers). This was the "Cabinet Crisis" of 1940.

A peace offer was what Rudolf Hess parachuted into Britain with. It's why he was kept incommunicado his whole life, long after ex-Nazis had been rehabilitated and released into West Germany to assist the postwar rebuilding (they were short on elites and badly needed them). This was the cause for much agitation by Communists in the 60s and 70s, and resulted in the famous poll where something like a third of West Germans said they would give shelter to a blood-soaked terrorist fleeing the police.

[–]theFriendlyDoomer 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hitler wanted to ally with Britain, something forgotten today.

I have heard that recently from studying Mencius Moldbug.

Churchill the warmonger (and he was a warmonger who never wasted a chance to waste the lives of British soldiers)

Another series of dots people don't connect is that Churchill not only completely opposed Ghandi, but when he took to giving speeches he used the same language denigrating "appeasement" that he would later use against the Third Reich.

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Chipit my dude, we've had disagreements, but I am glad to see you are as interested in actual truth as I am, apparently. Excellent and truthful post.