I'm pretty sure we would know from the Soviet archives whether or not this happened. This is so ridiculous

  • yoink [she/her]
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    7 days ago

    his wikipedia page is wild, all the shit the dude who made this website says is insane

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._J._Rummel

    History and Political Science Professor at University of Hawaii, Yale and Indiana, was convinced that global warming was a hoax to install Obama as lifetime dictator

    this is his own summation of his alternate history book he released later in life, emphasis mine, it actually makes me squirm:

    What if there were a solution to war and genocide? What if a secret society sent back to 1906 two lovers, Joy Phim, a gorgeous warrior, and John Banks, a pacifist professor of history, and gave them the incredible wealth and weapons necessary to create a peaceful alternative universe—one that never experienced the horrors of world war, the Holocaust, and the other atrocities of the twentieth century? And what if, at great personal cost, they succeed too well and create a peaceful world of complacent democracies? In Book 2, the clock is turned back to their arrival in 1906. They receive a message from the future of the universe they will create – Islamic fundamentalists have attacked the unarmed democracies with nuclear weapons and enslaved them. It is now up to these lovers to prevent this horrible future.

    • yoink [she/her]
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      7 days ago

      what if we were too busy saving the world from communists that we forgot about the islamists?? the horror

      • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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        7 days ago

        What's funny is the USA supports Islamists as a bulwark against leftism in Muslim majority countries. These people are either willfully unaware or intentionally lying.

        • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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          6 days ago

          I bet if someone actually could stomach reading the book, they would be able to tell exactly the point while he was writing it that they started fearmongering about muslims instead of communists and he had to crtl+F and replace all the "evil communists" with "evil muslims"

    • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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      7 days ago

      Just like Orson Scott Card's Pastwatch subtitled "The Redemption of Christopher Columbus" where the consequences of preventing the horrible European genocide of the Western Hemisphere is that cannibal savages build a massive militarized society and destroy Europe

    • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]
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      6 days ago

      Rummel estimated that a total of 212 million people were killed by all governments during the 20th century,[3] of which 148 million were killed by Communist governments from 1917 to 1987.