Re-touching history?

[alaric99x]

I think I understood you clearly enough and, in case there's any doubt, I agree with you completely.

I just got back to the US after spending 11 years in Germany. I can verify that display of the swastika is against the law there, and in Austria. Any Nazi symbology, like the SS runes is also forbidden. It's a crime there to buy, sell or own a copy of "Mein Kampf" and certain web sites are blocked, such as those selling German WWII memorabilia. In 2007 the German government proposed that these bans should be extended throughout the EU, but that suggestion didn't fly.

I'm aware that the Soviets (most especially Stalin) killed millions more innocent people than the Nazis. As it happens, I'm now reading "Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar" by Simon S. Montefiore. I learned from that that in 1937, during the purges, the politburo even dispensed with lists of names. They simply sent allocations to the various regions for numbers of alleged wreckers and spies to be shot and deported.