Yes that's what I said but that doesn't matter to me,: in the end under the guise of that ideology many many were killed. And don't forget Mao, he was the champion of them all. For me it doesn't matter if it was done based on ideology or not, as you say the outcome is the same. And I agree it's a difficult debate indeed. In the end it all comes down to the same thing which repeats itself over and over. Wether it's in the name of religion, ideology or power. It's clearly that we humans don't really learn from history at all.Careful, that is a very difficult debate … For one, “in the name of” is already misleading: yes, Stalin had a lot of people killed in the name of communism, but in reality it was because he felt they were a threat to his position and it was nothing inherently to do with communism — whereas German national socialism actively pursued the murder of entire population groups, based purely on ideology. This is quite an important difference if you want to get into why certain symbols are more or less laden than others (though, of course, it won’t make overly much difference to the victims in the end).
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