On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 09:56:35PM -0400, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> I'm reading Sen's book about famines now. A million or so
> died in the Bengal famine of 1942, and not because there was
> a shortage of food. It seems like this sort of thing gets
> lost in the Hitler/Stalin comparisons.
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> From: "Chris Doss" <itschris13 at hotmail.com>
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> I just read that during the worst years of Stalin only 2.5% of the Soviet
> population was in prison. This CAN'T be true, can it?
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> Your stay in the GULAG could be short for one of two reasons, remember.
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> What's the current guess of deaths during the collectivization of
> agriculture? 5 million? What proportion of the 5 million "displaced persons"
> returned to the Soviet Union after World War II ever made it home? Half?
> Perhaps 1 million shot by the NKVD during the Great Terror itself who never
> made it to the GULAG.
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> I do remember being struck that *both* of Gorbachev's grandparents were
> arrested during the 1930s (although both survived): his paternal grandfather
> for failing to meet production targets, and his maternal grandfather for
> being a right-wing Trotskyist. Stalin was much harder on Communists than on
> peasants and workers, and the closer you got to Stalin, the lower your
> chances of surviving became...
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> Brad DeLong
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