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During Stalin's reign, Adolf Hitler also killed millions of people. Why do you think that Hitler's atrocities are more widely discussed that Stalin's in America today?

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Though Stalin and Hitler both killed millions of people in name of furthering their regimes, Hitlers acts are always more recognized. This could be because of motive. Hitler's motives were anti-semitic and racist, while Stalin's were purely political. Hitler killed based on race and religion, while Stalin killed to eliminate political enemies and people that opposed his style of ruling. Also, Hitler's atrocities are just more well known. After Germany was defeated in the second World War, numerous concentration camps were liberated, most with prisoners still inhabiting them, proof of Hitler's doings. The Soviet Union, however, never needed to be liberated after the war, and it's prison camps, gulags, were mostly unknown to the world. The only way people knew gulags existed was from former prisoners or spies.

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