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[Moonglow]

It is often overlooked or ignored, at least by many liberal historians, that Stalin murdered over 1 million Jews (approximately 1.3 million), in addition to persecuting them (LINK, LINK, LINK. LINK).

Except for a tiny number of far-left Stalin apologists in the West, Stalin's mass murders and other brutality are universally acknowledged by Western scholars. However, Stalin's murder of over 1 million Jews is not highlighted nearly as much as Hitler's murder of 5-6 million Jews.

To put this into better perspective, this means that Stalin was the second-biggest murderer of Jews in European history, second only to Hitler.

We should also remember that following the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Stalin promised the Nazis that he would rid the Soviet Union of "Jewish domination" and ordered the purge of Jewish employees in government ministries, universities, the military, and other major institutions. This was accompanied by increased violence and discrimination against Soviet Jews.

Moreover, shortly before he died, Stalin was on the verge of launching a massive campaign of persecution and oppression against Soviet Jews that would have resulted in mass deportations and/or mass imprisonment in concentration camps, if not worse. This fact has been discussed by many scholars, such as Alexander Rashin's 2003 book Why Didn't Stalin Murder All the Jews and Louis Rapoport's 1990 book Stalin's War Against the Jews, and also in a few documentaries (see also LINK).

Even today, Russia's brutal regime persecutes and smears Jews and even minimizes the Holocaust (LINK, LINK).

How many is , "many liberals" since liberalism and communism are not compatible? Your bigoted fantasies of character assassination ruins the scholarly form you use.

 

[eagle7-31]

Mormon Mike, still acting like a 1950's Bircher.



Um, no, I said that he didn't kill 50 Gazillion people like you guys claim he did. Because the population of the USSR INCREASED. Did he kill a lot of people? Probably. Shit happens in Civil Wars.



Of course, he deserves admiration (and gets it from Millions of Chinese) because he took what was a country that was ravaged by warlords, and within a generation, turned it into a world superpower.

Peanut barely controlled the area around Nanjing, before the Japs took it from him. Even the US realized he was a lost cause at a certain point, and stopped propping him up.

There was no "Free China". Chiang was a fucking fascist. The problem was he was an incompetent fascist, and the other fascist powers (Germany and Italy) didn't want to be bothered with him after a certain point. The Allies found him equally worthless. The Japanese were STILL slapping him around in 1945 while the Axis was being rolled up on every other front of the war.



What, I thought you said it was 50 million. If you take out the famines and only include events like the Cultural Revolution, the number is probably closer to 10 million.



No, I just put it into the context of Chinese History. Mass death usually goes along with any upheaval. The fall of the Ming Dynasty to the Qing cost an estimated 25 million deaths in the 16th Century (when the population of China was 160 million.) Incidently, that's a MEASURABLE drop, as the population dropped from 160 Million in 1600 to 140 million in 1650 when the Qing established control.

Transition from Ming to Qing - Wikipedia

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The Taiping Rebellion, when some nut in China thought he was Jesus' brother, cost China 30 million lives.

Taiping Rebellion - Wikipedia

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So taking out the Famine of 1959-61 (which my wife lived through) you have maybe 10 million people killed in the Civil War and the revolutions afterwards. I just can't get that worked up about it, especially since the Chinese themselves see Mao as a net benefit.



Except Hitler plunged Germany into a world war that left it in ruins. That's his legacy. Mao's legacy is that China went from being a fractured country to a world superpower.



You provided a bunch of Bircher crap.

In 1926, when Stalin Took Power, the USSR had a population of 147 million. by 1939, the population of the USSR had increased to 170 Million. Just not seeing how that is possible if Stalin killed 50 million people like you claimed. By 1959, the population was up to 208 million, despite the USSR suffering 20 million fatalities in WWII.



A bunch of people outside the USSR spewing anti-Communist propaganda is more reliable than census figures obtained by government agencies?

Mao was a mass murdering sociopath, Chaing had his faults as well but at least he was a non communist. Too bad Sun Yat Sen could not have lived another 25 years or s.

 

[JoeB131]

Mao was a mass murdering sociopath, Chaing had his faults as well but at least he was a non communist. Too bad Sun Yat Sen could not have lived another 25 years or s.

Actually, they were both mass-murdering sociopaths.

Did you ever hear of the 1938 Yellow River Flood? Chiang flooded the region intentionally to slow the Japanese advance, killing 500,000 Chinese civilians.

1938 Yellow River flood - Wikipedia

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