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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Fields http://en.wikip

by fleitz 16y ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Fields http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Fields http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-il http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-il Thats why we were so scared of socialism when it was right at our doorstep.

muhfuhkuh 16y ago
Oh, please. We've had extinction-level policies before, right here in our own country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears Some put native American genocide as on-par with the Holocaust in terms of lives taken. So, perhaps it wasn't the political policies we were afraid of, or in fact any policies in general. It was likely the Cold War.