The 20th Century - The Economist

[Alexandre Fenelon]

At 13:02 14/09/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Tony Evans wrote:
>
>>Nosing around the Economist online I see their survey of the 20th
>>Century includes a "league of evil" (governments). The Soviet Union
>>heads the table (surprise) with 62 million civilians killed between
>>1917-91. Next comes Red China with 35 millions killed.
>
>I was just nosing around some of the social stats for Russia & its 
>neighbors. Extrapolating from WHO estimates, Nicholas Eberstadt, 
>writing in the Heritage Foundation's Policy Review (of all places) 
><http://www.policyreview.com/jun99/eberstadt.html> estimates there 
>have been 5 million "excess deaths" - deaths that wouldn't have 
>occurred had old demographic patterns continued to prevail - in 
>Russia in the 1990s. The UNDP estimates that in the ten years since 
>"transition" began, there have been almost 10 million excess deaths 
>in the Former Soviet Union & Eastern Europe (FSU/EE in development 
>jargon) <http://www.undp.org/rbec/pubs/hdr99/pr.htm>.
>
>Doug
>
Well, then we have 1,000,000 deaths/year due to capitalism.
Deaths caused by Soviet system were 800,000 an year (if we consider
Rummel's estimatives or 200,000/year if we consider Werth's estima-
tives)

                                Alexandre