The usual argument is at unlike fascism, communism has never been tried. (I grew up in Eastern Germany, and there it was understood that communism was a hypothetical utopian society that nobody knew how to construct yet.)
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That said, we also grew up thinking that Hitler had been worse than Stalin (even though we didn't think of Stalin as a good guy). It took reading Montefiore's Stalin biography to correct that. (Thanks to Dietrich Dörner for taking care of my historical education!)
3:05 PM - 16 Jul 2018
from Berlin, Germany
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