NihilCredo comments on Science: Do It Yourself - Less Wrong

53 Post author: alyssavance 13 February 2011 04:47AM

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Comment author: NihilCredo 14 February 2011 05:58:26PM 4 points [-]

It could be because, while the Soviet Union was generally oppressive, it severely toned down the murderin' during the last ~40 years of its eight-decade history, whereas Nazi Germany spent over half of its brief history conquering Europe and conducting genocide, and then collapsed while it was right in the middle of such activities.

Comment author: wedrifid 14 February 2011 06:33:11PM 3 points [-]

The Soviet Union also wasn't in a desperate war for survival with the people with whom those with the most power to declare things offensive closely identify.