am reading "lenin stalin and hitler the age of social catastrophe" by gallately. things i already knew about but presented in much detail and sold documentation,in so far as that is available. he demolishes the liberal thinking that stalin perverted lenin's program. he just continued in the same vein and amped it up. hard to come up with real numbers but it appears from this work that lenin was a bigger butcher than hitler. just no way to truely know. however,some of the quotes from all three sound very similar to the lenguaged used by members of our current regime. be nervous if you already aren't. i have no doubt that there are servants of the gov and their bosses who would willingly participate in similar "purges". book done by a hist prof at FSU. amazing to find an academic willing to write and publish such findings,even in '07.