On 11/02/2015 03:12 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 11/2/15, Lodewijk andré de la porte <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2015-11-02 22:05 GMT+01:00 Razer <[email protected]>: >>> It's unlikely that all the warriors Genghis Khan ever mustered had >>> collectively even eyeballed a million people in their lifetimes. >> What do you mean? Seriously! Millions of civilians a year? What??? >> >> WW1 totalled < 260k >> WW2 totalled < 55000k (including famine and disease related) > Huh? Dunno where you figures are coming from. Let's pick the hardest > hit country, for those who just maybe missed it, my current favourite > country, Russia: > "World War II casualties of the Soviet Union from all related causes > were over 20,000,000, both civilians and military, although the > statistics vary to a great extent largely because these figures are > currently disputed." > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Union > > Certainly above 55k. Perhaps I missed what the numbers you posted are > meant to mean. Apologies if that's the case. > >
If "55000k" means 55 thousand thousand it comes a little closer. A single year's deaths in Afghanistan doesn't come close to a legitimate response to my statement, and the Mongols/40M I'm not buying at all. RR
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