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

    • cum_drinker69 [any]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah the publisher basically told them to get to 100 million deaths no matter how absurd. That's why this is in there, along with roughly 5 million literal nazis killed on the battlefield.

        • LaughingLion [any, any]
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          4 years ago

          Basically all the co-authors pointed out the manipulation. They were more or less consulted and their research was used for the book and they contributed but apparently the main author really did some leg work to twist it all into contributing it to be "victims" in many cases where the co-authors who did the research did not think that was appropriate at all (which is fair). So after the book was released they all distanced themselves from it. It's a clusterfuck.