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The Holocaust is the largest genocide of the 20th century. Only the Chinese Great Leap Forward could be comparable in overall deaths, many of which resulted fro
by mlthoughts2018 8y ago
The Holocaust is the largest genocide of the 20th century. Only the Chinese Great Leap Forward could be comparable in overall deaths, many of which resulted from famine and policy in a way that makes it very hard to compare with genocidal murder. Overall, I’d say it’s quite reasonable if most people register the Holocaust as the largest event of “mass murder.”
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- turc1656 8y agoYes, but my phrasing was specifically mass murder. In terms of genocide, I agree. But that list explicitly excludes non-genocide mass murders. In terms of the Chinese Great Leap Forward, if you exclude the policy/famine based deaths that still leaves you with at least 13 million murders, and that's just the property owners that were slaughtered for their land by the impoverished peasants. That doesn't even include anyone else.