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    "title": "How Stalin and Hitler enabled each other\u2019s crimes",
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    "created": "2010-10-17 14:12:06 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Comparing the Soviet Union to the Nazis only makes the Nazis look better if you don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t understand the truth about the Soviet Union. Communists are as bad as Nazis, and communist sympathizers and apologists are as bad as Nazi sympathizers and apologists.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/108072/\">Instapundit \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb HOW STALIN AND HITLER enabled each other\u00e2\u0080\u0099s crimes. A review of Timothy Snyder\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Bloodlands: Europe \u00e2\u0080\u00a6</a></em>.</p>\n<p>And from the review itself:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Soviet Union\u00e2\u0080\u0099s ethnic murders predated Nazi Germany\u00e2\u0080\u0099s. Stalin was not directly responsible for the Holocaust, but his pact with the Nazis paved the way for Hitler\u00e2\u0080\u0099s killing of Jews in the east.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://www.economist.com/node/17249038\">Mass murder: History and its woes | The Economist</a></em>.</p>\n"
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