The author is confirmed as one of the most lucid historians of the twentieth century. This therefore Churchill admirer debunks including the idea that Nazism and Stalinism (which he denigrated and another one at any risk in his native Hungary) are coupled or symmetrical pain. Quote: "I must now proceed with demolition. That of the widespread idea, and false, that the twentieth century (a short century 75 years, historically speaking, since from 1914 to 1989) was marked by the struggle between democracy and communism (or between "freedom" and "totalitarianism"). (...) To compare, in quantitative terms, victims of Stalin or Mao with those of Hitler led to inaccurate and useless arithmetic. Germany was at the heart and center of civilization, culture and European and Western traditions, she was an integral part. Russia (and also, of course, China), no. Stalin had a predecessor, Ivan the Terrible. Hitler did not. "(P. 8-9).
PS.- (3 January 2011)
I put the finishing touches to the French translation, published in late March in the FX Guibert editions.
