Remembering the biggest mass murder in world history

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That would be the one perpetrated by the Communist dictator of China, Mao Zedong:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/vol ... r-his-due/

"Remembering the biggest mass murder in the history of the world"

"Who was the biggest mass murderer in the history of the world? Most people probably assume that the answer is Adolf Hitler, architect of the Holocaust. Others might guess Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who may indeed have managed to kill even more innocent people than Hitler did, many of them as part of a terror famine that likely took more lives than the Holocaust. But both Hitler and Stalin were outdone by Mao Zedong. From 1958 to 1962, his Great Leap Forward policy led to the deaths of up to 45 million people – easily making it the biggest episode of mass murder ever recorded...."

"While the horrors of the Great Leap Forward are well known to experts on communism and Chinese history, they are rarely remembered by ordinary people outside China, and has had only a modest cultural impact.... What accounts for this neglect? One possible answer is that the most of the victims were Chinese peasants – people who are culturally and socially distant from the Western intellectuals and media figures who have the greatest influence over our historical consciousness and popular culture. As a general rule, it is easier to empathize with victims who seem similar to ourselves."

"But an even bigger factor in our relative neglect of the Great Leap Forward is that it is part of the general tendency to downplay crimes committed by communist regimes, as opposed to right-wing authoritarians. Unlike in the days of Mao, today very few western intellectuals actually sympathize with communism. But many are reluctant to fully accept what a great evil it was, fearful – perhaps – that other left-wing causes might be tainted by association."

You know, it's a shame that all of the films that purport to show the Great Leap Forward are nothing more than propagandist shite. 45M people is a lot of people! And it's weird how the Chinese castigate Japan for marching into Manchuria and raping Nanking. They killed more of their own than the Japanese did. Communism - ya gotta love it. Just ask Pol Pot.

In the military, and we often jogged/marched to the cadence:

Mao Zadong is a son of a b*tch,
He's got the blue ball scratch
and the seven year itch.

According to wiki, he had 4 wives, 10 kids
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong

You know, I've always said, "It's not the leader. It's the ding dongs who follow him that are dangerous."

Well, the article in the OP does seem to be kicking in an open door...

Both Frank Dikötter (mentioned in the article in the OP) and Yang Jisheng have fairly recently written comprehensive accounts of the scope of the Great Famine, both arriving at a total death toll of > 36 million individuals.

https://www.amazon.com/Maos-Great-Famin ... 0802779239
https://www.amazon.com/Tombstone-Great- ... 0374533997

Mao Zedong is the living reason why consequentialism is utter garbage in any sense of the word.

*it can't happen here*

ofcourse it can't happen here,
remember 100 years of the flintstones's
taxfree experimental pillaging of the conscience
when operating; history, china ànd the dalai lama and your mind

TT, or foundation is taxfree operating on your past and on your future??
source in french, http://www.legrandsoir.info/rockefeller ... lique.html

don't trust(ahum!) your windows and gates and sugarmountains with anything at all