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Don’t take my word for it, but you might want to consider some of these notable organizations that have identified it as a genocide: Amnesty International Human Rights Watch International Association of Genocide Scholars UN Human Rights Office And even some Israeli organizations, such as: B’Tselem Physicians for Human Rights Israel
Appeal to authority. Nullius in verba.
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Parent: "Or leftist politicians, where they can do it on an industrial scale by the millions in death camps, in the name of progress." You: "I would point out that when it comes to these, right, far right and fascists win the numbers." >> I am curious how you conclude that Hitler is "way below" the others. Looking at various estimates by people who were researching this topic. The numbers are usually in ranges and va…
That wasn’t me. From a quick search, the lowest estimates for Stalin are about 6 million, and Mao about 15 million. Are you saying Hitler killed less than 6 million? Even 15 million would be way too low.
The numbers I remember from when I was more into History:
* Hitler is responsible at least for 10 million to 15 million deaths.
* Stalin from 15 million to 20 million.
* Mao from 40 million to 70 million.
* Pol Pot from 2 million to 3 million.
* Kim Il Sung for over a million.
There are of course others, but I don't remember numbers for them.
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My understanding is that the border security between those states is rather lax.
On the off-chance that someone believes that there is border security between US states but that these states are an exception. The US doesn't have border security between states. The closest thing to an exception is the "don't bring agricultural products into California" stations. However, there's a bypass lane for folks who stayed within 10 miles of the border, and no one checks whether someone is using that lane i…
To those who say that being Jewish would NOT have been a motivation for some in the world: stop evading reality. Especially so soon after the Bondi beach massacre.
Is it true that Brookline had very few murders in the past 5 years? Increases the chance of it being targeted instead of random.
I also live nearby.
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That wasn’t me. From a quick search, the lowest estimates for Stalin are about 6 million, and Mao about 15 million. Are you saying Hitler killed less than 6 million? Even 15 million would be way too low.
I'm sorry, you are right I mixed you up with another user. You didn't make those claims. The numbers I remember from when I was more into History: * Hitler is responsible at least for 10 million to 15 million deaths. * Stalin from 15 million to 20 million. * Mao from 40 million to 70 million. * Pol Pot from 2 million to 3 million. * Kim Il Sung for over a million. There are of course others, but I don't remember numb…
I'd put Hitler much higher, though. That figure must be excluding a lot of war deaths. For non-war deaths, there are 6 million Jews, maybe 3 million non-Jewish Soviet citizens, 3 million non-Jewish Poles, plus a bunch of other groups with smaller numbers. Taking just those big ones, that gets us to 12 million non-war deaths.
But surely we should count at least some of the war dead. Deciding what to attribute to who is very subjective. Starting with the strongest case, 3 million Soviet POWs were killed in captivity, hard to blame anyone else for that. That's up to 15+ million. There's a good case for including Allied military deaths in the European theater, since they were killed by Axis forces. The vast majority of those are the Soviets, which accounts for another 5-8 million (not double-counting the POWs killed). I'd also include Axis military deaths under the general principle that you get credit for what happens when you start a war. That's another 5-6 million. That puts us at 25-37 million.
Then you can get really fuzzy. There's many millions of Soviet citizens who starved due to wartime disruptions, do they count? There's around a million German civilians killed during the war, or died in the immediate aftermath due to the Allies, do they count?
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the did not, no. That's why I did not address that part of the comment, only the part claiming that no miscreant would want to carry a heavy TV.
The spirit of my comment is that they wouldn't take public transit to come steal TVs because nobody would intentionally schlep a giant stolen tv via public transit, they most likely would use cars.
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>Ya’ll read too many conspiracy theories. What makes you think other countries were interested in recruiting him, specifically? I want to see the logic behind this assumption. You don't understand why a country without nuclear weapons would try to get a scientist to help them make them?
Oh I understand. I’m asking why him, specifically? Countries that have nuclear ambitions but lack the capability have more than enough scientists of their own that could do it given the permission. It’s pretty available science which is why we put sanctions on it and prevent people from enriching uranium like that. So again, why him?
Source?