Was World War II worth it?

the author is a provocateur, sometimes reckless, yet a "big picture" thinker. I don't necessarily agree with all the points he makes here, but some of them I have strongly felt for 25 years........T
"Bush told the awful truth about what really triumphed in World War II east of the Elbe. And it was not freedom. It was Stalin, the most odious tyrant of the century. Where Hitler killed his millions, Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot and Castro murdered their tens of millions.
Leninism was the Black Death of the 20th Century. "