One has to laugh at the absurdity of cope required by reactionaries to handle socialism lifting billions of people out of poverty worldwide

    • NonWonderDog [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      page 564

      Fucking PDF isn't searchable, but

      To the 100,000 who have died in Party purges and the 1.5 million deaths in concentration camps must be added at least 1.3 million deaths stemming from the war, which was organized and instigated by the Communists, a war that continues in small but murderous actions, including commando attacks on the South and acts of terrorism; and the uncertain but growing number of direct and indirect victims of malnutrition. Even if we content ourselves with a figure of 500,000 victims of the primary or even secondary effects of malnutrition (including the usual, unverifiable rumors of cannibalism), we end up with an overall figure of more than 3 million victims in a country of 23 million inhabitants that has lived under Communism for fifty years.

      • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        including the usual, unverifiable rumors of cannibalism

        When you know it's obviously made up, but you want to throw inflammatory misinformation out there anyway.

      • NonWonderDog [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Wait, shit, that's the Korean war. They count both, lol.

        Anyway, page 4:

        U.S.S.R.: 20 million deaths
        China: 65 million deaths
        Vietnam: 1 million deaths
        North Korea: 2 million deaths
        Cambodia: 2 million deaths
        Eastern Europe: 1 million deaths
        Latin America: 150,000 deaths
        Africa: 1.7 million deaths
        Afghanistan: 1.5 million deaths
        The international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power: about 10,000 deaths

        As far as I can tell there is absolutely no attempt whatsoever to justify the Vietnam figures in the chapter on Vietnam, so the implication must be that they're counting all the deaths from the war (unless they're really saying there were 1,000,000 "boat people killed by pirates.")

        Also notice the Korea numbers don't match.

        I'm not reading any more of this bullshit.