Atlas shrugs, Atlas starves. The End. The most fatal flaw in Ayn Rand's book.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

24. Stalin was one of the most brutal dictators in world history.

He intentionally starved to death millions of Ukrainians during the 1930s.

I had family members deported to Siberia because of Stalin. My mother's family would have been deported as well (if not worse) had they not fled in the middle of WWII.

The only reason that Stalin doesn't always get the attention Hitler does in terms of genocidial dictators was because Hitler's genocide was in your face and militarized. Stalin's genocide was passed off to look more natural.

I really don't care what one's opinion on Marxist economic theory is, pro or con. That doesn't bother me. But Sovietism was brutal and demeaning towards human rights and dignity, plaind and simple. And one's opinion on Marxist theory doesn't give them the right to whitewash Stalin's "accomplishments."