Apologies if this is a derail, but just because I feel compelled to answer:
I have very little doubt the Third Reich would have exceeded the USSR’s body count given time. What with the Final Solution, General Plan Ost, and so forth, they’d have butchered tens of millions; European Jewry, the Roma, and Slavdom itself would not have survived. It was the insanity of Marxism through a racial lens which if anything may have made it even more destructive.
Also, I don’t know of any communist government that implemented Action T4: the liquidation of the mentally disabled. They literally tricked families into handing their special needs children over so they could quietly murder them.
There’s just something so uniquely evil about Nazi Germany. And it is astonishing how God damn stupid Kanaye has been by batting for a regime that would have liquidated his people with glee.
Mostly agreed, though I’d still add a few caveats here.
For one, while I agree that the Reich’s
plans were more reprehensible in principle, the whole “Exterminate and enslave all non-Aryans everywhere!” thing tends to turn off most people — Aryans and non-Aryans alike — and unite them against you in the long run. As such, I’m pretty sure the Nazis would’ve made more enemies than friends over the ensuing decades, assuming their regime soldiered on long enough.
Communists, on the other hand, don’t have this problem, seeing as promises of workers’ solidarity and international brotherhood win over a much larger base than Nazism ever could. The downside is, this also means you get way more people willing to try it out, too — and the fact that communist regimes everywhere are on the same team making them harder to isolate and stamp out, unless they’re Juche or Khmer Rouge levels of batshit crazy. The result: more economic ruin, more oppression, and more mass-killings — much of it by accident or callous negligence instead of systematic extermination campaigns. In fact, I’d actually say a commie regime that kills millions of people without necessarily meaning to is almost scarier than a Third Reich that works tooth and nail to do the same, because at least the latter weren’t quite as cack-handed in governing “their own” as the former and had to try
very hard to kill as many people as they did.
In short, I’d say that while Nazism is more
evil, Communism is more
dangerous, due both the Red Multiplier Effect and their tendency to stack up mountains of corpses both deliberately
and through sheer incompetence, whereas the Reich’s body count was just about 100 percent them trying their hardest, rather than simply being negligent or stupid. But I digress too much.