Were the Allies bad as the Nazis/Axis?

[Redalgo]

The USSR during Stalin's reign was totalitarian, participated in genocide, promoted the interests of ethnic Russians over minorities, and planned to conquer most of Europe once a decent opportunity became available, did it not? The Soviets were vicious in their treatment of Germans during their rollback - taking the eye for an eye philosophy to heart - and quite terrible to their own conscripts in ways that make me wonder whether the Nazi officers were less cruel in at least some respects.

The UK, US, and France meanwhile were racist empires with overseas territorial holdings, mixed positions on matters of human rights, at times disturbingly corporatist policies of their own - though not nearly so complete as in the Axis powers, and the will to slaughter however many hundreds of thousands of civilians it would take to achieve their military objectives. Both sides clearly have a lot of blood and general awfulness on their hands to consider.

To more succinctly answer the OP however most of the Allies were - in more ways than not - still less immoral than the Axis.

[Redalgo]

This is true, Cory, though it also raises the question of how they would have compared if the Soviets had hypothetically ascended to superpower status much sooner and invaded Germany before the Nazis had a chance to begin their blitzkrieg offensives, sweeping across the continent and leading to a protracted war between the Allies and Comintern instead - in which event there might be irony in finding fascist Italy and Spain on the same side as France, Britain, the U.S., etc. Also, what about the chances of Germany getting a Nazi successor to Hitler who was more of a segregationist than genocidaire? History is full of "what-ifs," though I agree that the contents of Nazism were significantly more horrible than those of Leninism.

[Redalgo]

don't forget that there is actually no ambiguity at all as to whether churchill deliberately starved bengalis. as well as his own support for franco and the like.

Yeah, Winston makes my skin crawl.