Anne Applebaum’s, “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956,” is a fantastic, riveting, brilliant analysis of the cruelty inflicted on the East European nations after World War 2 by Stalin and his puppets in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovak, East Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania. As if the Nazis’ inhumanity, torture, and murder wasn’t enough, The Red Army picked up right where the Germans left off.
A list of the top three most brutal dictators of the 20th century:
1.) Mao- up to 70 million deaths.
2.) Stalin – up to 40 million deaths.
3.) Hitler – up to 17 million deaths.
All Totalitarian, paranoid, dictators promising a better, alternative world for the people they ruled over.
In the 21 century:
President Donald Trump – responsible for at least 300,000 deaths…refusing to release information about the covid 19 virus because he thought it would hurt his re-election chances, and then spreading disinformation about the virus which proved nearly as deadly as his refusal to come clean about the virus at the very beginning.
Currently, The 2024 Republican Presidential nominee.
A Curious View 