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In reply to the discussion: Could you be friends with a Nazi?? [View all]HiPointDem
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political enemies (especially communists).
1. Stalin and Mao had no such explicitly exterminationist policies; the closest you come is stalin's purges, which were mostly of fellow-communists.
2. Most of the deaths attributed to 'communism' in the case of China and Russia were civil war, war, and famine deaths.
3. Not even the most extreme accountings attribute "hundreds of millions" of deaths to Stalin or Mao.
4. There is no single estimate of deaths that is generally accepted for either regime, and there is a big chunk of propaganda content in most such accountings.
http://necrometrics.com/20c5m.htm
5. No US president held power as long as either stalin or mao, and deaths attributable to the US as an entity are primarily non-american, but include obviously the genocide of native americans and african slaves, as well as millions of deaths resulting from its policies overseas, including its sponsorship of dictators and corporate endeavors which included the extermination of native peoples.
and which, incidentally, continue into the present day.
oh, and PS: nothing i have written in any way constitutes an apologia for the crimes of stalin or mao, though that is what persons like yourself like to pretend.
unlike yourself, i don't deny the crimes of power.