At 11:08 AM 5/26/01 -0400, Gautam "Ulysses" Mukunda wrote:
> > Behalf Of Alberto Monteiro
> > Patrick Sweeney wrote:
> > >
> > > On another tangent, don't these deaths have more to do
> > with totalitarianism than economic systems? Was it
> > communism or the fact that he was a dictator that let
> > Stalin kill so many? Could he have been a capitalist
> > dictator and killed 20 million?
> > >
> > AFAIK, this body count is the number of Russians that died
> > during WW2.
> >
> > Stalin's body count is a different number.
> >
> > Alberto Monteiro
>
>Nope. Most modern sources I've seen put Stalin's death count at
>somewhere between 20 and 40 million. I lean towards the low end of
>that scale, which is why I used 20. Hitler's death count for the # of
>Russians that died in the Second World War is probably somewhere over
>_40_ million, actually. I believe I've seen the number 37 million
>civilians killed, but that's just a vague memory. The smallest
>estimte I've seen in the last 10 years for Stalin's death count is 10
>million. I tend to think that once you're talking about a body count
>that runs into 8 _digits_, it doesn't really matter all that much.
It does if you are included in the 8 digit number.
-- Ronn! :)
