Were the Allies bad as the Nazis/Axis?

[Illuminati Blood Drinker]

Obviously f[inks]ing not.

[Deus Naturae]

Which Allies vs which Axis members? The Soviet Union was arguably as bad as (or worse than) Nazi Germany while Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan were easily better.

[politicus]

Obviously f[inks]ing not.

What motivated you to ask this?

[Bigby]

No, save for the Soviets and the rest of the Comintern. Basically, the Soviets were as evil as the Axis, but the Allies were slightly better.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

No.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Which Allies vs which Axis members? The Soviet Union was arguably as bad as (or worse than) Nazi Germany while Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan were easily better.

No.

[TNF]

Which Allies vs which Axis members? The Soviet Union was arguably as bad as (or worse than) Nazi Germany while Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan were easily better.

Only if you think that the people who started the Holocaust are the same as the people that ended it.

[Sol]

Yeah, Stalin was an evil mass murderer. But Hitler was clearly worse, managing to kill roughly half as many people* as Stalin in only six years.

Imperial Japan was also a genocidal evil regime as well, which people forget.

[Vosem]

For once I'm in agreement with Snowstalker.

[NewYorkExpress]

Yeah, Stalin was an evil mass murderer. But Hitler was clearly worse, managing to kill roughly half as many people* as Stalin in only six years.

Imperial Japan was also a genocidal evil regime as well, which people forget.

That's the only correct answer. If Hitler had as much time in power as Stalin had, who knows how many could have been slaughtered?

[MurrayBannerman]

Yeah, Stalin was an evil mass murderer. But Hitler was clearly worse, managing to kill roughly half as many people* as Stalin in only six years.

Imperial Japan was also a genocidal evil regime as well, which people forget.

They did horrible, horrible things.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

The Soviet Union was worse than Finland.
But in general, no.

[morgieb]

I voted for the comedy third option, because the question is f**king stupid. Of course they aren't.

[Cassius]

The Japanese and the Soviets were clearly worse than the Germans or the Italians, at least in terms of the way in which they waged war.

[Gustaf]

There is not much moral superiority in the USSR compared to the Nazis (not sure comparing time-adjusted death rates is all THAT relevant).

But obviously the good guys were better than the bad guys at the end of the day. Dresden bombings and whatnot notwithstanding.

[H. Ross Peron]

No (normal)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The Japanese and the Soviets were clearly worse than the Germans or the Italians, at least in terms of the way in which they waged war.

You're taking your act too far again.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

The Japanese and the Soviets were clearly worse than the Germans or the Italians, at least in terms of the way in which they waged war.

[Inks] off, Cassius.

[SPC]

Even the Soviets and Red Chinese look pretty good compared to their respective adversaries. That should not be taken as a defense of despicable actions taken by the Allied side though.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Don't be ridiculous.  Many would argue the Soviets were worse, but as a whole, the Allies didn't even come close.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I don't really even consider the Soviets part of the "Allies." At least not officially.

[SWE]

Even the Soviets and Red Chinese look pretty good compared to their respective adversaries. That should not be taken as a defense of despicable actions taken by the Allied side though.

[Sol]

I don't really even consider the Soviets part of the "Allies." At least not officially.

Why not? They got stuff from Lend-lease, participated at Yalta, and fought the bloodiest front of the war.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I don't really even consider the Soviets part of the "Allies." At least not officially.

Um... what the hell?

[Redalgo]

The USSR during Stalin's reign was totalitarian, participated in genocide, promoted the interests of ethnic Russians over minorities, and planned to conquer most of Europe once a decent opportunity became available, did it not? The Soviets were vicious in their treatment of Germans during their rollback - taking the eye for an eye philosophy to heart - and quite terrible to their own conscripts in ways that make me wonder whether the Nazi officers were less cruel in at least some respects.

The UK, US, and France meanwhile were racist empires with overseas territorial holdings, mixed positions on matters of human rights, at times disturbingly corporatist policies of their own - though not nearly so complete as in the Axis powers, and the will to slaughter however many hundreds of thousands of civilians it would take to achieve their military objectives. Both sides clearly have a lot of blood and general awfulness on their hands to consider.

To more succinctly answer the OP however most of the Allies were - in more ways than not - still less immoral than the Axis.