Soviets supported Christian crusader Nazis in World War II | Mail Online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2003413/Soviets-supported-Christian-crusader-Nazis-World-War-II.html

is this surprising? The Soviet citizens were living under a totalitarian dictatorship. One of the consequences of which would have been very little public awareness of what was going on outside their realm. It would not have been at all difficult for them to adopt the initial position that “anything must be better than this shit”. Eventually, of course, they learned better.

Hitler was more brutal. Stalin was more relentless and, in total, killed far more Russians than Hitler managed. Even more than Hitler’s massacre of the Jews and other imperfect specimens in the holocaust. Who knows, perhaps Hitler would have been better for Russia and the Russians – or at least less lethal – than Stalin turned out to be…