Stalin ordered the murder of 6 million Ukranians in a couple of years. According to R. J. Rummel, author of the book, Death by Government, governments murdered over 100 million of their own citizens during the twentieth century. These are not battlefield deaths, but "democide," or death by government.
Yet, in his April 12 NRO (Neocon Review Online) column, William F. Buckley, Jr. writes, "Anarchy is never, ever preferred over government, however hideous." "Never, ever" means he prefers Stalin to the situation where the Russian people would have simply been able to plan their own affairs, community by community.
In his previous (April 6) column he made the Churchill-like comment regarding Iraq that "we could use [poison] gas . . ."
