Apologists for Hitler have manufactured false numbers to promote the lie that Stalin Killed more than Hitler. Learning a lesson from Hitler himself, the capitalists repeat this big lie everywhere.

So what is the reality?

Stalin was a monster. Hitler was a monster. Bush is a monster. All statements are very true and none is more true than the other.

Yet the social syetem in the Soviet Union was far superior.

As U.S. imperialism today freely commits mass murder in Iraq and around the world, we can clearly see that the demise of the USSR decisively altered the political landscape on this planet in many ways. Despite the Stalinist bureaucratic degeneration, the Soviet Union represented the industrial and military powerhouse protecting every other country that had overthrown capitalist rule and stood up to the United States, from China to Vietnam to Cuba.

Another result of the Soviet Union’s demise is that the nominally independent countries of the Third World can no longer maneuver between the “two superpowers.� They thus face the unrestrained economic exactions and brute military force of the imperialists. Look at the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, where the overturn of the October Revolution has led to the intensification of imperialist bloodsucking, and with it, the increased starvation and bloodshed—ethnic group against ethnic group, country against country, everybody out for some advantage in a battle for survival. This has occurred because the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have demanded repayment of the money they had given previously as a sop to these African countries during the Cold War against the Soviet Union.

U.S. capitalism killed directly in war 3 million Vietnamese and four million Koreans. Capitalist dictatorships put in power by the U.S. kill around the world every day, as does capitalism's hunger, lack of health care, lack of clean water, etc.

The millions killed by U.S. capitalism far outnumber those killed by either Hitler or Stalin.