Article reasoning that what ended World War II was not the atom bomb

[the2real4mafol]

mai said:

sethnintendo said:

Wow you dug up some old quotes of mine.  I don't have time to rebuke or admit wrongful thinking right now.  However, with the last quote about Stalin vs Hitler who killed more...  I still believe Stalin killed more but both were guilty of mass murder.  It is pretty depressing just reading this article when trying to find out again on my own.  

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/mar/10/hitler-vs-stalin-who-killed-more/?pagination=false

I was going to put a quote from that link but after reading link I believe it deserves an in depth look. 

 

You did bring up some quotes that I will have to further look into.  One can easily fall into the hands of propaganda.  I try to view WW2 without personal bias.  However, being from USA I can't dismiss the possibility of being influenced by false information regarding WW2.  I will look further into all topics you have brought up.

Americans are guilty of mass murder, hence the bombings of Japan and Dresden, which both had questionable military meaning, but I somehow never though of comparing them to Nazis or even Japanese. These are very different matters, in order of magnitude different.

In the article you're quoting I didn't mange to find a single reference, I'm using materials that are quoting NKVD records directly, e.g. Zemskov V.N. one of the few who had access to TsGAOR archive in the 1980s (State's Archive of Russian Federation as of today).

Every country has their bastard moment or notorious leader. Stalin sent thousands to their deaths in the gulags and betrayed his former party members like Trotsky. Hitler nearly wiped out the Jewish, Roma and Slavic communities in Europe. America flattened 2 cities killing over 100,000 people. The Japanese treated Koreans and Chinese like slaves. While, later on Mao was responsible for millions of people starving due to his crazy policies. Us Brits used to abduct people and turn them into slaves 1000's of miles away from home and make huge profits from it. I know i went away from World War 2 abit but we can't act like any country is good anymore. We have all done something bad to either our own people or someone's else people. We all have some guilt