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

    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.