Just a reminder that Democracies are NOT killers, R.J.Rummel compiles the hideous death toll reaped by Leftist governments and their handmaidens.
-128,168,000 VICTIMS: THE DEKA-MEGAMURDERERS
61,911,000 Murdered: The Soviet Gulag State
35,236,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese Ant Hill
20,946,000 Murdered: The Nazi Genocide State
10,214,000 Murdered: The Depraved Nationalist Regime
-19,178,000 VICTIMS: THE LESSER MEGA-MURDERERS
5,964,000 Murdered: Japan’s Savage Military
2,035,000 Murdered: The Khmer Rouge Hell State
1,883,000 Murdered: Turkey’s Genocidal Purges
1,670,000 Murdered: The Vietnamese War State
1,585,000 Murdered: Poland’s Ethnic Cleansing
1,503,000 Murdered: The Pakistani Cutthroat State
1,072,000 Murdered: Tito’s Slaughterhouse
-4,145,000 VICTIMS: SUSPECTED MEGAMURDERERS
1,663,000 Murdered? Orwellian North Korea
1,417,000 Murdered? Barbarous Mexico
1,066,000 Murdered? Feudal Russia
I’m really pleased to see you posting Rummel’s list, as these genocides are something every human being alive should know about, but Hollywood won’t touch most of them. However, I must object to your categorizing all of these murderous governments as “leftist”–while they were all collectivist/statist, some were in opposition to communism. The left-right dichotomy is a false one. By the way, I will never cede socialists the label “liberal”, but let them have the absurd “progressive”.
You may find useful my Death by Government list at Amazon.com based on the chapters of Rummel’s book:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/1DR37D5NREJUG/
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