I would change the subject to Stalin body count, but, heck,
it seems that "The Evils of Communism" is still a good one :-)
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>
>> AFAIK, this body count is the number of Russians that died
>> during WW2.
>>
>> Stalin's body count is a different number.
>
>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 depends on the _size_ of the population; a body count of 10 million
for the Communism in China [1 billion people, 50 years] is a
similar atrocity to, for example, the 30 thousand people
in the most recent dictatorship in Argentina [20 - 50 million people,
10 years] - of the order of 0.1% chance of being murdered in
each 10 years.
How many people did Stalin kill before WW2, when he took things
away from the farmers to build up his military industry?
Alberto Monteiro
