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Is it really worth mentioning that? I don't see how "What about US atrocities?" is relevant here. At best it's a distraction, at worst you're implying that we shouldn't talk about China because the US is bad too.

Lower than all of the deaths caused by Mao? Really?

Also, if intent is the greatest predictor of future deaths (as opposed to just tallying past deaths), a chronically tyrannical regime looks way worse than a democracy's bungled retributive invasion.

The majority of western accounts of great Chinese famine come from the book "Hungry Ghosts" which provides almost zero actual evidence of the event other than sensationalized accounts.

If you actually look for the sources of data and don't just blindly believe the western propaganda pieces repeating the same figures, this will become pretty obvious.

I'm not suggesting that there wasn't trouble, death, and suffering during this period but I'd take the multi million death counts generously extrapolated from incomplete with a bolder of salt.

https://mronline.org/2006/09/21/did-mao-really-kill-millions...

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