Why is Hitler reviled more than Stalin and Mao?
Who killed far more people, mostly their own people and outside of wartime, and who many in their own countries still regard as heroic figures?
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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M
Because history is not a simple collection of heroes and villains.
Mao was also responsible for the greatest increase in life expectancy in human history, and yes that record still holds today. Most of the things that went wrong under him were not intentional but any nation that modernizes a couple centuries in 2 decades is going to be messy. Ditto with the USSR. The USSR went from a medieval open air museum to a superpower in a generation. Same with China.
Churchill is a hero in most western nations he oversaw a famine in India and was a racist and even admired Hitler early on.
Hilter set out to murder anyone who did not fit his master race.
My own country of Canada has been trying to minimize the fallout from it's own genocide but nobody is looking to indict Justine Trudeau at the Hague.
Mao was also responsible for the greatest increase in life expectancy in human history, and yes that record still holds today. Most of the things that went wrong under him were not intentional but any nation that modernizes a couple centuries in 2 decades is going to be messy. Ditto with the USSR. The USSR went from a medieval open air museum to a superpower in a generation. Same with China.
Churchill is a hero in most western nations he oversaw a famine in India and was a racist and even admired Hitler early on.
Hilter set out to murder anyone who did not fit his master race.
My own country of Canada has been trying to minimize the fallout from it's own genocide but nobody is looking to indict Justine Trudeau at the Hague.