Sam,
As a point of reference I am probably older then you. I have been studied both post WWI Germany and post-Czarist Russia for sometime. My father liberated Dachau, my family came from Auschwitz.My family also fled Kiev after witnessing Cossacks slaughter people and my great-grandfather bailed out of the Czar’s Army. So I have some rooted background regarding the subject matter.
More to the point. If I had to pick one or the other, it’s Russia. Yes, Stalin and his henchmen murdered millions, sent more to the zones and the gulags.He turned on EVERYONE who was loyal to him including his first wife (who he murdered in the Kemlin), his son (who was captured by the Nazis), Molotov, Beria and his top general Zhukov. There was Doctor’s plot and more that kept the NKVD, The KBG, the GRU and the Lubyanka busy. And the Cold War was a nasty piece of work.
But a victorious Hitler would have been far worse. I have walked the streets of Moscow, Berlin and Munich and cannot even imagine what the world would have been like had hitler won.
As much as you detest communism, I detest National Socialism much, much more.
