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For those who enjoy graphs

Year by year death toll of the century's atrocities:

Source: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/atrox.htm



"I envy you. You North Americans are very lucky. You are fighting the most important fight of all- you live in the heart of the beast." 

Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

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wow... I wonder what morbid person sat down and figured that out...



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bigjon said:
wow... I wonder what morbid person sat down and figured that out...

 

Yeah, all that for lazy morbid people like us to see.



So World War II is completely the fault of Hitler?
And dayum, thats a lot of peeps mao purged. Im reading a biography of him right now, apparently the Long March was mainly controlled by the nationalists, and the reds were only being funneled.



 

 

Almost every single one of these can be blamed either directly or indirectly on the Germans. Hitler and Karl Marx, what a team!



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 — Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire

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I don't think the person is morbid at all, numbers usually remove real world understanding but numbers that big have a certain tragic humanity to them.



I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.

Hmm...I though Stalins' frag count should have been more like 50 million.
But then, what do I know?



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Socialists and Communists sure like to kill people. I thought the politcal left was supposed to be warm and fuzzy?



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 — Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire

Because of course extremist fascists don't either. Anyone thats too extreme in any direction, be that politically, theologically or ideologically are more likely to cause such atrocities.



Stalin killed more people than Hitler! You can't blame every WW2 death on Hitler. Was he responsible for the Rape of Nanking, Pearl Harbor, the bombing of Tokyo, and the atomic bombs?

The Holocaust should be separated from WW2, and the Armenian genocide should be separated from WW1. Otherwise this list makes Hitler look worse than Stalin, and it downplays how huge the Armenian genocide was.