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Stalin, Mao and Hitler were all mass murderers, but there is an important distinction.  Stalin and Mao both won and Hitler lost.  Germany was utterly destroyed at the end of WW2 with 8 million dead and another 1.5 to 2 million to die in the immediate post war era.  Upon his death Stalin left the Soviet Union as the second largest economic and military power in the world.   Mao took a nation that had been totally shattered by decades of civil war and Japanese invasion/occupation and turned it into a productive, nuclear armed power.  Essentially he laid the groundwork for China's explosive economic growth in the 80s and after.  History "likes" winners.  Was Julius Caesar any less of a mass murderer than these guys?

Since Stalin and Mao did in about 80 million, most would say Caesar isn’t quite in their league.
Nor is it a matter of what economic path or ideology you adhere to .
Stalin was a communist, Hitler the most anti-communist person in history.
It’s the fact you are a Dictator , being able to play God brings out the devil in anyone .

From a theological view, killing one child brings you into the same league .
Hiroshima .

History "likes" winners.

@onhwy61 , that is because "History" is written by the winners.

Had the British won the Revolutionary war, the South won the Civil war, or Germany won WWII, our history books would be very different, yet the "good guys" would have still won.

Of course, the "good guys" always win in the history books, because the books are written by the winners. ;^)

Very interesting link between Nelson Pass and Joseph Stalin......

As an historian I can tell you that the history wrote by the winners is usually
only read by people in the "winners" countries .