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As someone from a neutral country I guess then you just would have been the (even more?) evil ones in the eyes of history.

Not to defend Stalin or anything, that man wasn't to be trusted, which was part of the reason why many other nations had their problems with them — but can we agree that:

1.) Most nations (or at least their populations) perceive themselves as the good guys

2.) If you take actions for which you would call other nations out, but it is a "necessary evil" when you or your allies do it, you might not be the good guys

3.) Independent from morality we can discuss the geostrategic value of everything, but if your nation is mainly acting based on geostrategic interest it has no grounds of claiming the moral high ground

I’ll never understand this sentiment. You’re actually for killing all the Russians? Everything the Nazis did pales in comparison, how can anyone be this evil? I don’t understand it about von Neumann and I don’t understand it about comments like these.

Not all Russians, no. I think the suffering during the Cold War, and the current war in Europe (which has so far only reached Georgia. Moldova, and Ukraine, with a satellite conflict simmering in Bosnia) is due to only one of the evils being defeated in WWII, and the other left to grow and pretend to be an esteemed citizen of the world.)

I would not want to live in a world where nobody opposes the US

You're OK with tens of millions murdered civilians? Shame on you.

I’m not okay with the German and Japanese civilian casualties during WWII either, but I think the world is better off with Hitler defeated. Similarly, I think we would be in a better place if Stalin was defeated, and Russia rebuilt in a western image like Germany and Japan were.

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