Danielle “The outrage from the British people, especially from services, was much greater than every heard from Jews. In fact, I can't really recall any Jew raising an opinion.: My Jewish friend certainly did! I just said it was a fancy dress party so what if he goes as someone from the Africa corps! Should we all get angry if someone goes to a fancy dress party dressed as a Viking because of what the Viking did to the English and many others?

In conclusions the ENTIRE story of the holocaust should be told not just the side the Jews want people to hear!

On the topic of the entire story being told we should also tell the entire story of ww2 if you believe the history that is taught at Australian schools you would think the English and American did all the fighting and the Eastern front was merely a sideshow to the main event in the west. When I was at school we did not study the Eastern front at all. It was the Russians who did most of the fighting not the Americans and English

I thought that concept might be too much for our Jack, poor fellow.

Mind you, what else would we expect from someone who refers to the "Holohoax"? Fortunately, it's quite typical of the intellectual calibre of Holocaust deniers.

I still maintain that a decent education would help, however.

March 5th 2008 marked the 55th anniversary of the death of one of the greatest mass-murderers of all time, the Soviet dictator,
Joseph Stalin.

More people perished during World War II during his reign of terror than at the hands of the Nazis. Yet many today still fail to grasp the magnitude of his crimes against humanity.

Those who turned a blind eye to the reality of Soviet communism were not misguided idealists, but were as morally culpable as Nazi sympathisers who whitewashed Hitler.

In this anniversary year of Stalin's death, it is wrong to forget a major and tragic chapter of European history. And it is perhaps a fitting time to set the record straight and recapitulate the human cost of Stalin's terror. Certainly his millions of innocent victims deserve no less.

Robert Conquest wrote the highly-acclaimed "The Great Terror,"
as well as, "The Harvest of Sorrow." It records possibly the worst
human disaster in living memory. It is also a deeply moving testament to those who died, and will register in the public consciousness of the West a sense of the darker side of the history of this century.

The number dying as a result of Stalin's actions was higher than the total number of deaths for all countries in World War I.

It is a history that needs to be taught - when teaching the history of
the victims and villains of World War II.

Easy Times

"When I was at school we did not study the Eastern front at all"

It is up to the Russians how much we know about the Eastern front.

When the Russians are prepared to release their archival material to the west, then perhaps historians will have sufficent evidence on which to base an accurate history from their side.

Foxy,

You are right about Stalin.

Unfortunately, millions of Western intellectuals, academics, socialists, trade unionists, journalists and many others rejected reports of the mass atrocities in the USSR. Indeed almost saw his as a demigod - and his policies a new faith

Stalin referred to these, his useful idiots, as his "maggots."

We still do not know the extent of his atrocities; sensitive communist archives remain sealed.

However, British Historian, Cartherine Merridale’s book 'Night of Stone: Death & Memory in Russia' (Granta) presents a horrifying picture of Soviet-era crimes; and scientists are dedicated to uncovering the truth, including Stalin’s legacy.

Merridale cannot put a precise figure of Russians deaths under the regime between 1914 and Stalin's death in 1953, but suggests an excess of 50 million.

When I went to school, we learnt something about mass deaths under Stalin, including during WW2. Of course the idiocy and excesses of Soviet communism should also be taught in high school history courses - which as I have said should be compulsory.

This, of course, by no means implies that the Holocaust was any less significant.