[extropy-chat] Re: Gandhi's antipode

KPJ kpj at sics.se
Wed Oct 6 14:37:23 UTC 2004


It appears as if Trend Ologist <trendologist at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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|I mentioned Hitler & Stalin because their names are invoked so much plus
+ there is so much misinformation spread about them. Their principle
+ importance appears to have been to reduce the population in Europe and
+ spur the development of the atomic bomb. So they (as almost everyone
+ knows) had an extremely negative legacy, one that continues more than 51
+ years after Stalin death.

According to the English-language Wikipedia article "20th century"
<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century>:

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Six overall largest mass killings of the 20th century

(measured in numbers of people killed; also see
 http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/misc/misery.html)

* World War II and regime of Adolf Hitler (1937-1945), over 50 million dead,
  including the Holocaust, killing two-thirds of the Jewish population of
  Europe (6 million). 
* Regime of Mao Zedong and Chinese famine (1949-1976), over 28 million dead. 
* Regime of Joseph Stalin (1924-1953), over 20 million dead. 
* World War I (1914-1918), over 15 million dead. 
* Russian Civil War (1918-1921), over 8.5 million dead. 
* Armenian Genocide of 1915 by the Turks, over 2 million dead. 
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So it seems Joseph Stalin was third of the mass murderers of the 20th century.

Summary: Ideologies are much more dangerous than traditional ethnic violence.



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