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  • WalkingDead posted an update 6 years, 11 months ago

    Facts About Democide

    1. 49% of the democide deaths in Soviet Russia between 1917-1987 were caused due to the conditions of camps people were forced into. Just 5% of people were killed because of deportation.
    2. Between 1900-1987, 46.6% of the deaths that have occurred in China can be attributed to democide. In comparison, 42.6% of the deaths in the time period are attributed to famine.
    3. Ten different government regimes between 1900-1987 murdered 1,000,000 people or more, but less than 10 million people.
    4. Rwanda joined the 1 million murder democide club in just 4 months of being in power.
    5. The total number of people killed by democide since 1900: 242 million.
    6. If all these bodies were laid head to toe, with the average height being 5′, then they would circle the Earth 10 times.
    7. Communist China is believed to be responsible for over 76 million deaths between 1949-1987, which is 15 million more than the USSR era in Russia.
    8. Between 1948-1987, North Korea is believed to have murdered 1.66 million people.
    9. The Allied Powers are also on the democide list. The United Kingdom is believed to be responsible for 816,000 democide deaths since 1900.
    10. 5 different regimes are believed to have killed more than 10 million people. Two of those regimes are based in China.
    11. China also has a place in the top megamurderer lists and the centi-kilomurder lists as well, which when all totaled together means China has been responsible for about 1 in 3 democide deaths in the last century.
    12. A vast majority of the incidents of democide from non-Communist governments occurred duing the years before and during World War II.
    13. Between 1900-1920, Mexico was responsible for 1.4 million democide deaths.
    14. In 4 years, Cambodia became the #8 ranked democidal government, killing 2.035 million citizens.
    15. Turkey, Russia, and China all make the list of top governments responsible for democide on at least 2 occasions.
    16. The Top 5 government entities that have killed people through demoide are responsible for over 219 million deaths.
    17. During the years before and during World War II, Japan was responsible for 5.9 million deaths.
    18. Vietnam has been responsible for 1.67 million deaths by democide from 1945-1987.
    19. In the broad category of colonialism, it is estimated that 50 million people were killed in total by their governments or an opposing government regime.

    Our government means to confiscate our weapons. If you believe this can’t happen here, then give them yours. I’m keeping mine…

    • For those squeamish about guns, I recommend this excellent article on the topic on the importance of the right of regular people to own small arms (especially if you don’t like them–and the article does not even ask that you embrace them if you don’t like them). (And as a general observation, I have always been struck by the almost axiomatic certainty that regular folk with small arms will never, and never possibly could, “destroy the world ” or “society” or whatever. Government/corporate actors with their technologies of oppression and high explosives and worse, on the other hand…)

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