Mao is Dead -- Be Like Him!

Chris Doss itschris13 at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 20 11:58:16 PDT 2002



>>---
>>I've seen high-end estimates that Stalin killed 20 million. Add that to
>>the 27 million that died in WWII, and you get almost 50 million. That's
>>something like a quarter of the population of the USSR at the time. That
>>hardly sounds believable to me, especially since the population grew under
>>Stalin.
>>
>
>I'd blame the 27-50 million who died in WWII on the Nazis, wouldn't you?
>
>jks

You didn't understand my point I guess... I meant that, given a Soviet pop. of about 200 million, say, and then 27 million killed by the Nazis, that an additional 20 million offed by Stalin seems on the absurd side, given that population grew during the Stalin era.

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