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Soviet Union: 7-20 million deliberately starved to death. [1] 1.5 million people executed during The Great Purge. [2] "Did pretty well".

Cuba: thousands executed for the ideas they held; forced labor camps; and more than 1.2m fled 1959-1993 (about 10% of the current population). "Doing pretty well". Cuba was one of the wealthiest countries in the Americas, before Marxists took over.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge



USA: Extermination of natives, slavery, company towns and child labor, Jim crow etc.

England: English colonialism from Drogheda to Amristar, plus the domestic Peterloo, child labor etc. Also, how many millions did England deliberately starve to death in the 1840s?

Germany: I can list off what the Krupp/Voegler/Thyssen financed Nazi party did for a while, then go back to before that


Please stop, both of you. HN is not a site for frothing ideological rants.




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