[zeth___]

Given that the alternative the USSR had to Stalin was Hitler it was a pretty good deal all things considered.

[phyller]

You might want to do some research on that one. Hitler might be considered an amateur compared to Stalin.

[hutzlibu]

In terms of total power? Maybe.. Hitler was not the ultimate Dictator like he seem to many today, but in terms of genocide? Not really. Even if the famine in the Ukraine, you are probably referring to, was a planned event and not just missmanagement and ignorance, it still would be no organized genocide to wipe out a whole race.

[hutzlibu]

You might want to study a bit of history again: the UdSSR existed long before Hitler came to power

[amdavidson]

Why do you abbreviate USSR that way? The first I assumed was a typo, the second makes it look intentional.

I do not see how that tracks from either the English translation, the original Russian name for the country: "Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик", or the transliteration: "Soyúz Sovétskikh Sotsialistícheskikh Respúblik".

[hutzlibu]

Because UdSSR is apparently the german Acronym. I did not think of that before..