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Phil Allison
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"Phil Allison"
What I was trying to say was that we were never taught any of this in
school History.
** Course not -when you and I were at school, history lessons stopped prior
to WW1.
In any case Stalin's purges were not generally known about in the West until
the late 1950s or even 60s.
I have been to Russia several times discussed this there and been told
by people there and shown references there of well in excess of 27
million under Stalin's reign, 20 million in war and 7 million from
Stalin himself.
** Oh, come on.
The Germans killed some 20 million Russians in WW2 - so that is Herr
Hitler again.
There was also the mass starvations of Ukrainians,
** A serious food shortage lasting a couple of years hardly qualifies as a "
murder rampage ".
...... Phil
"Phil Allison"
I can never remember being taught about Stalin's murder rampage which
far exceeds anything Hitler did.
** Really?
A quick check of the relevant Wikis gives the following numbers.
Stalin:
Executed: about 680 thousand Soviet citizens considered to be opponents.
Died of disease, starvation in camps: about 300 to 400 thousand more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge#Number_of_people_executed
The Nazis:
Executed, starved etc: about 6 million (out of 9 million) Jews living in
Europe.
Add in Russian POWs, the disabled, gays, JWs and political opponents and
the
figure rises to possibly 17 million.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
.... Phil
What I was trying to say was that we were never taught any of this in
school History.
** Course not -when you and I were at school, history lessons stopped prior
to WW1.
In any case Stalin's purges were not generally known about in the West until
the late 1950s or even 60s.
I have been to Russia several times discussed this there and been told
by people there and shown references there of well in excess of 27
million under Stalin's reign, 20 million in war and 7 million from
Stalin himself.
** Oh, come on.
The Germans killed some 20 million Russians in WW2 - so that is Herr
Hitler again.
There was also the mass starvations of Ukrainians,
** A serious food shortage lasting a couple of years hardly qualifies as a "
murder rampage ".
...... Phil