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* The deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941 | * The deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941 | ||
* The deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1943 | * The deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1943 | ||
* Operation Lentil and deportation of the Ingush in 1944<ref>[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism Black Book of Communism]</ref> | * Operation Lentil and deportation of the Ingush in 1944<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism Black Book of Communism]</ref> | ||
==Comparison of Communism and Nazism== | ==Comparison of Communism and Nazism== | ||
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* After 1945 the Jewish genocide became a byword for modern barbarism, the epitome of twentieth-century mass terror. [...] [M]ore recently, a single-minded focus on the Jewish genocide in an attempt to characterize the Holocaust as a unique atrocity has also prevented the assessment of other episodes of comparable magnitude in the Communist world. After all, it seems scarcely plausible that the victors who had helped bring about the destruction of a genocidal apparatus might themselves have put the very same methods into practice. When faced with this paradox, people generally preferred to bury their heads in sand. [...] Communist regimes have victimized approximately 100 million people in contrast to the approximately 25 million of the Nazis.ref>[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism Black Book of Communism]</ref> | * After 1945 the Jewish genocide became a byword for modern barbarism, the epitome of twentieth-century mass terror. [...] [M]ore recently, a single-minded focus on the Jewish genocide in an attempt to characterize the Holocaust as a unique atrocity has also prevented the assessment of other episodes of comparable magnitude in the Communist world. After all, it seems scarcely plausible that the victors who had helped bring about the destruction of a genocidal apparatus might themselves have put the very same methods into practice. When faced with this paradox, people generally preferred to bury their heads in sand. [...] Communist regimes have victimized approximately 100 million people in contrast to the approximately 25 million of the Nazis.<ref>[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism Black Book of Communism]</ref> | ||
==Main Goals of Power Elite== | ==Main Goals of Power Elite== | ||