Stalinism declared that the USSR was the freest and happiest country on earth, the land where “true” democracy flourished and beautiful justice was finally realized… millions of men died believing its lies… martyrs of a system and a tyrant who had devoted himself to one of the most prodigious “inversions of ideals” in history. Nazism, another monster, presented itself naked. It affirmed its cruelty, its hatred and its uncompromising and murderous racism. It proclaimed its lust for genocide… it shouted out its will to enslave. Two terrifying faces. One masked, the other naked.40
