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Everybody eventually dies under all these systems. How many people were executed by organs of the state, including prematurely dying in forced labor camps, is
by hga 11y ago
Everybody eventually dies under all these systems.
How many people were executed by organs of the state, including prematurely dying in forced labor camps, is a much more relevant metric.
- TomGullen 11y ago> including prematurely dying in forced labor camps, is a much more relevant metric No, it's a metric that perfectly reinforces the argument if that's the only metric you cherry pick and insist people use.
- jevgeni 11y agoCan you name one example of a communist system, where that metric is so small, it's negligible?
- TomGullen 11y agoI'm not well versed in this part of history, but a quick Google search yielded Tito's Yugoslavia.
- jevgeni 11y agoI'm not knowledgeable about history of the Balkans, so I've actually googled. Tito is traditionally portrayed as a mild and benevolent dictator, because he had a split with Stalin and it was beneficial during the Cold War. However, looking a bit further reveals massacres between 1945 to 1947. The Wikipedia article about his secret police has "A List Of People Assasinated" by them... And since we are talking about cherry-picking, this is a problem I have with people claiming to be "on the left": this selective blindness to obvious horrendous crimes by the regime and abuse of power that these things lead to.