02:50 AM

Regarding that post: the people of Argentina--at least according to most of what's on the www about her--adored her. It just ain't so. When one controls the press (recall the philosophy about Stalin: It doesn't matter who votes. It matters who counts the votes.) one controls people's views.

"Juan Peron's regime was repressive"

Indeed it was, and it led to the tens of thousands who were 'disappeared', thus at once adding a new verb to English and a new way to call a spade a shovel. The regime turned out to be murdering scum who used terror to control the population, another word that means people with families, children, hopes, dreams and aspirations.

I agree that Hitler and Stalin were tyrants--they are good arguments for abortion. (Some apologists will no doubt be along to say, "Well, they did many good things, too." However, if it had been your (the universal, not personal your) family killed by them, I doubt you'd feel the same way.)

I don't know what the difference is between 1000 and 8,000,000 deaths is. When Stalin starved the people in the Ukraine, was that in essence different from what the Perons did? Or Mao-tse Tung (Zedong) with the Chinese, or Pol Pot with 'his' people? Tough question, and I am not intelligent enough to have a definitive answer.

Again, best wishes regarding your studies.