Conducted over the years and across different Western countries-such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, New Zealand and other nations that share the two pillars of Western civilization-have showed that those below the age of 35 support socialism, with a startling number of young people living in the UK believing in 2018 that "Communism could have worked if it had been better executed".
As Avani Sihra from the Atomic Heritage Foundation, a Washington DC institution that is "Dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the Manhattan Project and the Atomic Age and its legacy", wrote: "German crimes such as human medical testing committed in concentration camps tend to receive more attention than Japan's crimes against humanity [] However, the Japanese too played a part in human medical testing in a secret project called Unit 731.".
The similarity of the gravity behind what the actions that the Nazis committed and how Imperial Japan behaved is probably best illustrated by the Nüremberg and Tokyo Trials, during which high ranking officials from the two regimes were tried under Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal for crimes against humanity.
Also important to note is that there have never been similar trials for the crimes of communist regimes.
It is not because "Communism" or "Stalin" are obscure terms for Western audiences that the crimes of communist regimes are not seen with the same severity as those of the Nazis.
"The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, but communism didn't. One hundred years after the Bolshevik Revolution, one-fifth of the world's population still lives under single-party communist regimes in China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam."
The reasons why too many young Westerners don't seem to be appalled by Soviet totalitarianism is a mix of Left-leaning intellectuals in the teaching institutions and in the entertainment industry, two of the most powerful forces that shape the mind of today's youth.
https://mises.org/wire/how-left-defends-communist-totalitarianism
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