(Ooooooooh, yet another nazi reference!)We read with some interest the little bit of history from long-time favorite insanowriter Dana Kelley in the DemGaz on Friday.
While we don't disagree with his assessment of the scope of destruction and the human cost of the Stalin regime, we're curious why he decided now was the time to right the wrong of crediting Adolf Hitler with many of the same crimes...
Kelley writes...
It’s time to apply the Hitler / fascism repulsive stigma—and then
some—to Stalin / socialism.
Reads an awful lot like a note from a Hitler / fascist apologist. Socialism? Interesting here, and maybe Kelley knows this already, seeing as he's a professor of some sort (he still is, right?)...socialism is quite a varied political structure. Fascism is pretty straight down the line, and much easier to define. Sounds like he enjoys fascism, and doesn't mind the tag when applied to him, and we're sure it is on a fairly frequent basis.
If you wanted to apply the Hitler / fascism stigma to something, how about to Stalin / dictatorship, or how about Stalin / Communism, or Stalin / totalitarianism. That's the link between them because it wasn't about "socialism" in the Soviet Union so much as it was about totalitarian control...much like in Germany of the 30s and 40s.
You have to give the guy credit though, it takes some big old balls to write something like this, and not tie it to anything else. Just got done watching the old "Judgement at Nuremberg" flick with Spencer Tracy and Colonel Klink (Werner Klemperer) and this editorial sounds a lot like the Nazi Defense lawyers summation at the end...a summation he lost in the eyes of the movie's tribunal and Judge Spence.
What do they give Mr. Kelley to smoke out there? And why would the DemGaz publish this thing?
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