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Old 04-18-2012, 04:45 PM   #30
Saya
 
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Originally Posted by AshleyO View Post
Alan has a great point.

It always irked me in Western Civ when we were talking about the communist revolution in Russia and it would say that it killed millions of people and yet didn't establish a context or a motive or a reason for all the killings.

Maybe I'm an extremist, but in a Communist country, it would make sense that you would execute your political adversaries that you couldn't reconcile any differences with.
Yeah, I know this is old, but the millions we're talking about weren't political adversaries but citizens worked and starved to death, isn't it? I find when discussing this people critique Stalinism more than Lenin killing dissenters, which from what I understand was in the thousands, not millions, and few people seem to know the particulars.

What I find odd about the Chinese revolution is that in high school history, they didn't say jack shit about the terror of the Japanese occupation and the corruption and heinous crimes of the KMT.
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