Just for knowing, the left can not, will not, is incapable of learning. And those who ignore history are destined to ........well you get the idea.
WND: A noted expert in calculating the number of deaths caused by authoritarian regimes says the late Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-tung's policies and actions led to the deaths of nearly 77 million of his countrymen, surpassing those killed by Nazi Party founder Adolf Hitler and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin.
R. J. Rummel, professor emeritus of political science and a Nobel Peace Prize finalist who has published dozens of books chronicling so-called "democide," or death by government, said the new Chinese figure – nearly double his previous estimate of about 38 million – was based on what he believes was Mao's duplicity in China's great famine of 1958 to 1961.
From the time I wrote my book 'China's Bloody Century,' I have held to these democide totals for Mao: Civil War-Sino-Japanese War 1923-1949 = 3,466,000 murdered; and Rule over China (People's Republic of China) 1949-1987 = 35,236,000 murdered," Rummel wrote in an e-mail to WND.
Professor Rummel also has a blogsite.
The numbers are staggering. Even for the "runner ups". Stalin said "One Death is a tragedy, One million a Statistic". Check out Dan over at NoSpeedbumps for more
This exceeds the 61,911,000 murdered by the Soviet Union 1917-1987, with Hitler far behind at 20,946,000 wiped out 1933-1945.
For perspective on Mao’s most bloody rule, all wars 1900-1987 cost in combat dead 34,021,000—including WWI and II, Vietnam, Korea, and the Mexican and Russian Revolutions. Mao alone murdered over twice as many as were killed in combat in all these wars.
Mao, whose picture still hangs in Tiananmen Square, was the greatest mass murderer in history. It is simply immoral to celebrate a mass murderer, as the Chinese government apparently wants its citizens to do. China is an odd place today – it has gone straight from communism to fascism.
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