This past weekend I decided to finally look through all of the articles I had saved over the past couple years on my chosen iPad reading application, Pocket. One particularly interesting find was a January 2011 essay in The New York Review of Books, in which Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale University, compares the murderous regimes of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. Here are the first three paragraphs: As we recall the Red Army’s liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, sixty-six years ago today, we might ask: who was worse, Hitler or Stalin? In the second half of the twentieth century, Americans were taught to see both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union as the greatest of evils. Hitler was worse, because his regime propagated…