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• Carl@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You’re right. The Bolsheviks and Haitians didn’t own slaves!

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  • btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You mean the French and Russians didn’t own slaves. But the Bolsheviks did kill millions.

    [Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1917]

    www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE4.HTM

    And in the French revolution, just one single man killed thousands of people.

    www.worldhistory.org/Reign_of_Terror/

    [This led to the enactment of the Law of Suspects, which allowed for the arrests of between 300,000 and half a million citizens nationwide. 16,594 of these ‘suspects’ were formally executed after a trial, while around 10,000 died in prison, and thousands more were killed in various massacres staged across France. It is estimated that the total death toll during the ten-month Reign of Terror rests anywhere between 30-50,000.]

    Did you really think I couldn’t back up my statement with facts? How is the Reign of Terror in France and the mass genocide in the USSR in any way “equivalent” to the American and Haitian revolutions?

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    • Carl@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That first link is pure cold warrior nonsense on par with the black book of communism. As for the second, I defer to the words of Mark Twain:

      “THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”

      Truthfully I support all of those revolutions as historical processes which have brought about necessary change, but the Haitians and the Russians fighting for their freedom from Slavery and Capitalism respectively are much more commendable than the Americans doing so because they didn’t want to slow down their westward expansion.

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      • btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That first link is pure cold warrior nonsense

        Lenin and Stalin did more harm to socialism than any other people in the entire history of mankind. You are a 20th century fossil. Soviet genocide are well documented facts. Here you go…

        en.wikipedia.org/…/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet…

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago

        www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0967067X97000111

        chinafile.com/…/who-killed-more-hitler-stalin-or-…

        news.stanford.edu/…/naimark-stalin-genocide-09231…

        reddit.com/…/how_many_people_did_stalin_actually_…

        allthatsinteresting.com/how-many-people-did-stali…

        britannica.com/…/The-U-S-S-R-from-the-death-of-Le…

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