this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2025
63 points (100.0% liked)
TankieJerk
219 readers
137 users here now
Dunking on Tankies from a leftist, anti-capitalist perspective.
Rules:
- No bigotry of any kind.
- No tankies or right-wingers. Liberals are allowed so long as they are aware of this
- No genocide or atrocity denial
We allow posts about tankie behavior, shitposts, and rational, leftist discussion. Please redirect any Fediverse tankie-posts to !MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works to avoid bringing drama to Piefed.social
Curious about non-tankie leftism? If you've got a little patience for 19th century academic style, let a little Marx and Kropotkin be your primer!
Marx's Communist Manifesto, short and accessible! Highly recommended if you haven't read it
founded 5 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Arguably he was worse. His total kill count is probably higher
Luckily, this isn't a competition and it's okay to hate all genocidal tyrants equally
Yeah, I mean, the numbers are just an indication of how much opportunity they had to massacre people.
It's not like there's a big ethical gap between someone who will kill 5 million and someone who'll kill 10 million. At that point, you'll just keep going until someone stops you.
Seems like there was a competition at the time though with how bad they all were!
Stalin also had more time to do it and a larger country to do it with.
Hitler managed ~10 million by execution in ~5 years, and less directly caused another ~20 million in that same time period, with plans to continue it indefinitely if he won the war. Stalin would've had to murder the entire population of the USSR to match Hitler's rate of killing - not coincidentally, that was Hitler's long-term goal if he won.
Stalin was bad. Stalin was one of the worst human beings to ever disgrace this planet, and deserved a noose.
But Hitler was worse.
Ultimately, Mao takes the cake anyway, as he managed to starve 15-55mln in just two years
His great leap backwards!
The great somersault!