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Nothing is about "justification", it's a matter of appropriateness. Instead of Hitler, let's talk
about Joe Stalin.
If Stalin had been assassinated in 1946, there might have been a different set of Soviet leaders and
events in the post-war Soviet Bloc would have been much different, perhaps better or worse (re:
The East German uprising in 1953, the Hungarian uprising in 1956, the Prague Spring in 1968, the
backing of Vietnam in the 1970s, etc.)
On the other hand, if Stalin had been assassinated before the battle of Stalingrad in July 1942,
would someone else have made the same decisions? Had the Germans won at Stalingrad and Russia were
overrun, Hitler might have been able to withdraw most of his troops and win the battle on the
western front against the British, French, Canadians and Americans. Nazi Germany might have ruled
much of the world for decades if Stalin had died in 1942.
Can anyone really say that the Cubans were better off under Batista's murderous fascist regime than
under Castro's communist one? At least Castro didn't have death squads killing Cuban civilians
(something that did exist in all US-backed fascist regimes across Latin America), plus
Cuba has good medical care and the highest literacy rate in the world (99.8%, higher than Canada
or the US) as well as an excellent education system. And the Sandanistas in Nicaragua won two
free and fair elections in the 1980s and 1990s (so said countries like Canada, the UK, France,
Australia and others...but what do they know about democracy?) after the Sandanistas agreed to
turn the country into a democracy.
There are rare cases where dictatorship can serve as a better form of government than the
alternative - not the best form, but the best isn't always available. In many Latin American
countries, the US often supported fascist governments that murdered democratic opposition movements,
forcing the opposition to turn to communism and Soviet support as the only alternative.
The Cambodians were grateful when the Vietnamese communists came in and killed off the Khmer Rouge
regime. Since the late 1970s, both Cambodia and Vietnam have rebounded and flourished both socially
and economically after the mass murders of their populations.
Edit:
No, I read books. I know it's not a popular pastime these days (since around 1980), but I
still do it.
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As long as it isn't me. |
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