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Mao also purged his opponents (or completely innocent people) in huge numbers, e.g. the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries and Cultural Revolution were
by tpm 9y ago
Mao also purged his opponents (or completely innocent people) in huge numbers, e.g. the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries and Cultural Revolution were not about feeding people.
- mcv 9y agoOf course. I'm not presenting his famine as an innocent accident. All of these dictators (and many others besides) tend to kill political opponents and don't mind a bit of collateral damage. But I think the industrial scale of the holocaust and indeed the large scale slaughter Khmer Rouge, are of a different order of evil.