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The industrialization of China and Russia killed like 100 million people. And China didn't really take off until the liberalization of the economy under Deng. I
by selectodude 10y ago
The industrialization of China and Russia killed like 100 million people. And China didn't really take off until the liberalization of the economy under Deng. I wouldn't call that a ringing endorsement of socialism.
- realusername 10y agoYou seem to forget the second world war somewhere... That's not socialism which killed all those Russians, just the Stalingrad battle alone killed 1.2 million soviets.
- selectodude 10y agoThe famines that resulted from the Soviet five-year plans killed many many millions of people. I wasn't thinking about either world war.
- realusername 10y agoThe famines obviously did not kill 100 million people then, it's more than the total number of deaths of the second world war...
- selectodude 10y agoThe great Chinese famine killed more people than the Nazis.