Id pin Hitler at nearly 40 million depending on who you ask. Is hitler responsible for every death in ww2 or just the holocaust. Id say all of ww2 with the exceptions of stalin and japan.
FYI, I read. I read more than your bloody ass can afford. It is not necessary that the books I read are the same books which contain information on some stupid ass genius who wiped out a chunk of the population and created history.
Communist leader from China, known that disarm the general population and then enforce his rules resulting in the deaths mentioned..
His followers are Maoists..
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He was a Chinese leader of Communist Party and he is the founder of the Republic of China. He made a lot of policies that were focused on productivity, self-sufficiency and a lot more communist policies, but a lot of them backfired. Eventually, it lead to him starting concentration camps where poor farmers and labourers would work with minimal food and no security measures. A lot of people died. It was ruthless. Yet, he is worshiped by a lot of Chinese, as the Father of Republic China.
And while we’re on the subject of books, read Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang if you want to learn more. It’s about a young girl growing up in Maoist China. I read it as a kid and thought it was very well done. It shows not only the suffering endured by the people of China, but their attitude toward him as well. The funny thing is, the protagonist never blamed him for the bad things that happened to her until she got older. Everyone would blame the police who beat and humiliated them, or dragged away family members, but not Mao.
@engineer I second that! I adore history; war history especially. If you're interested in German history, I would also recommend
"Ravensbrück" by Sarah Helm
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"Night" by Elie Wiesel
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"Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account" by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli
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Prepare for gut-wrenching sobs and a changed outlook on life.
Most of my knowledge of history comes from excessive reading of school and college history books and Wikipedia. @unklethan can recommend you some pretty nice books.
I usually love dark humor but try to remember that each and every number in these statistics represents a human being who died horribly, most likely cold, starving, and terrified. It's really not funny to turn these into memes when so many amazing lives were senselessly ripped away. Put yourself in the victim's shoes. Try to have some fucking EMPATHY. Try to imagine what it was like to spend your last days in a Gulag in the Siberian tundra, dressed in rags crawling with insects. Try to imagine being in a concentration camp, watching innocent men and women being hanged in front of you, beaten, raped, send to the gas chambers with relief in their eyes, expecting nothing more than a nice warm shower and clean clothes. Imagine the pure, gut-wrenching terror when no water came out of the showers, just choking, burning gas. Imagine watching your family members being taken away by the Red Guard one by one for attempted treason and never seeing them again, only hearing decades later that they
were tortured to death and cried out for mercy. It's so much less funny when you try to imagine what it must have been like. The hopelessness when the cattle carts arrived at the gates of Auschwitz in the snowy night, guards ripping babies away from their mothers. The helplessness knowing that you and your family was going to starve to death, and Stalin, the man you had so trusted, cared not for any or you. That he lied, and your trust was going to cost you your life. The utter disbelief when you saw the German Army approaching your home, watching your mother and sisters and aunts being violently raped in front of you while your father and brothers and uncles tried desperately to escape the soldier's clutches. Try to imagine what it must have been like :)
Those numbers are up to discussion, the nazis definitely killed more than 11 millions, many of Stalins and Maos victims weren't killed on purpose but by negligence, ignorance and incompetence. All of that was horrible, and I find it hard to believe anyone is really ranking the three. What's literally outstanding though is the way nazi germany organized the Holocaust (>6 mio) and the Operation Barbarossa (>25 mio) , the logistics, the determination, the efficiency. Vorsprung durch Technik, to the sound of the Ritt der Walküre. We are the champions.
That's the thing. The Nazi's did it on purpose and targeted entire races. With Mao and Stalin it was about political control and the fact that both their countries had been decimated over time by war and they were trying to retain political power. What the Nazi's did is of a particular... well... difference; in a way it was exactly like a genocidal blitzkrieg.
Where is proofs? When you post this kind of info you must to give proofs. 56 millions? Really? Population of ussr growed up on 60 millions (1920-1941) from 140 to 200. After war (till Stalin's death): from 170 to 195. But he killed 56 millions. How?
His followers are Maoists..
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Yea. I'm sure you read quality literature.
"Ravensbrück" by Sarah Helm
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"Night" by Elie Wiesel
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"Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account" by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli
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Prepare for gut-wrenching sobs and a changed outlook on life.