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> 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 onl
by 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.