Crossposted from https://thebrainbin.org/m/germany@feddit.org/t/1945027
A small town in eastern Germany banned the installation of new Holocaust memorial plaques that mark the last known residence or workplace of Jews and other victims of the genocide.
The motion was proposed by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU)…
Lmao this guy trusts wikipedia as an unbiased source on political questions.
It states “as high as 148 million” and then uses This online article as a source - An article that is incredibly flawed, but also an article that is discussing death by starvation and counts those as “state killings”. The academic work in the article is questionable, to say the least, and it is odd to use a source discussion famine to support claims of “killings” - Especially without adressing it. Following the same methodology the modern western governments are responsible for billions of deaths.
We could go through every source and the general methodology and find issues all the way throughout (Like quoting Zbigniew Brzezinski lmao wtf, so much for “unbiased” or “neutral”), but I won’t waste my time, because I know to people like you the idea of dismissing wikipedia is akin to heresy to a spaniard in the 1700’s.
edit: I should also mention the “as low as 10-20 million” is equally fraught and disingenuous. If we are going to count something ridiculous like some random dumbass on the internets claims, then we ought to do the same for the low estimate - Which would be about 0 then.
edit: Forgot to mention that youre talking specifically about soviets, while referring to an article that’s just generally about “communist mass killings.” Seems like you don’t know what you’re talking about and you just search for any article to back you up when pressured, without actually understanding the content of the article. Typical, but still sad.
One has to wonder on the methodology of the article, what constitutes a “communist” mass killing? It makes allusions to both the USSR and PRC, neither of which claimed or claims to be communist, but rather socialist. If the authors of the article can’t even get such a basic thing right, then I have little faith in the quality of the rest of it.
I didn’t want to waste my time reading the drivel closely, but I could see the other source of the 148 million claim included the Khmer Rouge - a regime installed and backed by the US. How does that fall under “communist”?