Stalin stopped the USSR from going the way of Cambodia. Churchill destroyed his own country rather than accept peace. Mao was a murderous lunatic but his worst crimes were when he had to unleash uncontrollable forces to survive. Reasonable case for Churchill or Mao.
Stalin takes nominal power in a situation where everyone is in a deadly competition to outflank everyone else to the left. He asserts control and (murderously) changes the state to a stable bureaucratic one where everyone left with power is a pure cynic. Cambodia was worse.
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By body count Stalin wins hands down. I can sort of see the argument that's being made, that assuming you ignore total deaths, the moral framework of society was more destroyed in Cambodia than the Soviet Union. I still think Stalin was worse. Becuse of the body count
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Granting the dubious argument that a ruthless dictatorship was the only way forward, who other than Stalin forced Stalin to implement the collectivisation of agriculture?
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"Churchill destroyed his own country rather than accept peace." When did this happen, exactly? "Mao was a murderous lunatic but his worst crimes were when he had to unleash uncontrollable forces to survive." How is placing personal survival above millions of lives not a crime?
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