[sofixa]

And people used to die of polio and measles, why do anything about it?

And genocides happened, why prevent another one?

As they say, "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths merely a statistic". Don't fall into this trap.

[bitcurious]

Famously attributed to a man who did his best to protect the populace from misinformation, leading to millions of… statistics.

[sofixa]

Nice try at twisting things, but no.

Stalin didn't try to protect the populace from misinformation. He tried to stay in power whatever the cost, industrialise the country and make it more powerful ( economically and militarily) and united ( aka destroy ethnic groups). People died due to those things, his stubbornness and refusal to accept reality ( industrialisation impact, Germany), his paranoia ( Great Purges, among other things), and his genocidal tendencies (poles and others) , not because they were murdered for spreading misinformation about the NEP or whatever.