Opinion of Joseph Stalin

[Velasco]

Better than Mao, worse than Hitler.

Genocide of the Ukranians, persecution of Christianity, and he persecuted his own people harshly as well.

...because Hitler treated Ukrainians very nicely, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Ukraine

You must be logged in to read this quote.

[Velasco]

Which is really the key question. Who's worse, the person advocating ruthless genocide as a means of enacting a perverted ideology or a person using similar tactics in order to secure political power and achieve (absurd) political goals.

What is a 'key question' and which one is the 'perverted ideology'? Discussing who is worse, Hitler and Stalin, is something pointless to me. In any case the etimology of "genocide" is easily traceable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide

You must be logged in to read this quote.

[Velasco]

Both are HP, Stalin just lasted longer.

Maybe Stalin lasted longer because he was smarter than Hitler. No doubt that Stalin was a criminal, but his motivations were very different. On the other hand, I agree: Hitler's evil was arguably worse due to that genocidal madness. Stalin was evil, but very 'rational' and 'sane'. Racial hatred meant nothing to him.