It's hard to say that Communism was a "greater" evil than Nazism - they were both genocidal slaughterers of indescribable mercilessness. The only real difference is that Nazism had a shorter life. Stalin murdered 20-25 million people and Mao Tse Tung murdered at least 50 million.
But guess which of the above Facebook posts was deleted by FB and which account holder was suspended? Really, just guess.
As Sarah Hoyt observed,
The two photos are actual shots of published by Stalin's propaganda machine in the 1930s. In the first, Nikolai Yezhov, chief of the Soviet secret police is to Stalin's left. Yezhov was in charge of the infamous Moscow show-trials, where "class enemies" were summarily pronounced guilty and then executed.
Alas, poor Yezhov became a burden to Uncle Joe and he, too, was executed. So the communists republished the photo with Yezhov removed, which took a lot of additional darkroom work and re-imaging done mostly by hand.
But today FB can just hit a "delete" button. Much simpler.
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