US Media Attention: Hitler vs Stalin
Between 1917 and 1941, 26 million Russians were brutally murdered by their own government. Meanwhile, German voters put a brand new political party into power. These are the number of times the words "Nazi," Bolshevik," "Hitler," and "Stalin" appeared in US newspapers per year during that period.
Media mentions for "Bolshevik" and "Stalin" for the three periods 1917-1932, 1933-1936, 1937,1941 are respectively 71,142, 53,084, 125,645. Mentions of "Hitler" and "Nazi" for the same three periods are 25,826, 432,843, and 1,243,579. Then we went to war against Germany.
