What are capitalists talking about? - when referring to 100

[kidicarus20]

What are the capitalists talking about when they talk about the idea of communism led to 100 million deaths?

Obviously it has to do with the deaths in russia and then some other countries all combined to = 100 mill. is that number accurate though?

[STALINSOLDIERS]

the capitalist are saying that so they can make communism look like some evil idea....its propaganda mostly....but there was few deaths that the communist did made and the total was unknown...some say that mao killed 60 million maybe its a lie....stalin killed 20 million maybe its a lie ....who knows

[Zippy]

Poverty and hunger have killed more than any political regime.

Zippy.

[Fatos Locos]

That's right zippy, there dying people in 3th world countries every second.

[guerrillaradio]

There's a lot of dispute over how many deaths were "caused" by Communism and the truth is, we actually don't know for sure. However, the figures I hear the most (ones that outraged the so-called "true commies" like Kamo) are something like:

USSR 1927-53: 12 milllion*
CHINA 1949-?? (end of Mao's reign, forgot date): 20 million

*including deaths through starvation but not including killed in action 1939-45

[kidicarus20]

Stalin had to go to war with hitler, 20 million people died. capitalists probably include that. but here is something interesting, i typed it in google and this came up

"Where Nazism's crimes affected 25 million, Communist regimes have committed crimes affecting 100 million. Described as the first global balance sheet on Communism, here is how The Black Book of Communism breaks down that figure: China: 72 million, Soviet Union 20 million, Cambodia 2.3 million, North Korea 2 million, Africa 1.7 million, Afghanistan 1.5 million, Vietnam 1 million, Eastern Europe 1 million, Latin America 150,000. "

Then it goes into this jibber-jabber "they were mothers, they were fathers" blah blah... no explaination of why political theory leads to death instead of currupt dicators was given.
http://www.newaus.com.au/news45.html

(Edited by kidicarus20 at 10:33 pm on May 6, 2002)