Mr. kamski, Stalin and Mao are very suitable for comparison with Hitler. Also, Hitler was far more associated, by design, with the concept of Germany (at the time) then slavery was with any individua… (View Post)

As an aside, I can recommend Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore. I was going to link to my review, but can't find it. How peculiar. Hmm. It's a grim read. But worth… (View Post)

Mr. Phil, ages ago, Geldof did a BBC programme about slavery, and asserted it was 60% of the African economy before the British showed up. Even allowing for exaggeration, and while accepting that mor… (View Post)

Mr. B, correcting for past bias is fine, imposing new ones is not. (View Post)

Mr. Z, the prism of ideology naturally distorts and colours any view of the past. I saw a video recently from a Youtube channel I previously liked describing the medieval peasant working habits (diff… (View Post)