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> He was the most genocidal man in history Who did he genocide? > responsible for something like 75 million deaths. "Something like"? > “Long March 8” is li
by disown 6y ago
> He was the most genocidal man in history
Who did he genocide?
> responsible for something like 75 million deaths.
"Something like"?
> “Long March 8” is literally worse than calling it The Holocaust Rocket.
Not only is it not worse, but it's nowhere near it. A better analogy would be like naming our rockets, the Delaware Crossing or the Trenton Surprise.
> Anyone else have a problem with that?
Nope. Your propaganda would work better if it wasn't so obvious.
- Scheherazade 6y agoIt’s almost become an anti signal at this point, whenever someone says Mao was responsible for xx millions of deaths you can safely assume that they are easily fooled. There is no serious historian of Chinese history would actually claim a number like that either. Direct responsibility is probably in the thousands range, he was fighting for decades after all, indirectly through 1 degree of separation probably hundreds of thousands, through 2 degrees of separation probably in the low millions if you include the cultural revolution and the very late stages of the famine when he became fully aware of the devastation. 3+ degrees? Perhaps in the 8 digit range, though at that point attributing malice or intent becomes absurd for anyone who understands how Beijing power politics works.