The great mafia wedding. (Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939 )

National Review | September 1, 1989| | Copyright

In the 48 years since Hitler broke up the Hitler-Stalin pact

the world has mostly forgotten how much those two ideological gangsters had in common.

But now, as glasnost permits open discussion of the Thirties purges for the first time, Stalin takes his rightful place ahead of Hiller on the list of twentieth-century mass murderers.

FIFTY YEARS AGO, on August 23, 1939, the two top ideological gangsters of this century agreed on a satisfactory division of Eastern European loot and triggered the outbreak of World War II. This was not unpredictable: the ousted Soviet ...

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