Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• VinegarChunks@lemmus.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I had probably 10 times as many educational hours dedicated to Hitler and the Holocaust as I did learning about Stalin.

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  • 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Israel weaponized the Holocaust and drilled two falsehoods into everyone’s head:

    1. Jews were the only victims.
    2. The Holocaust is a special genocide that hasn’t happened before or since, is the worst crime in recorded history, and no one should dare question that.

    This allows them to genocide Palestinians while calling everyone who questions their ethno supremacist expansionist colonial project a Nazi.

    6 million Jews were murdered, out of 17 million victims.

    Genocide of Indigenous Americans (1492–1832): it is estimated that 90% of the indigenous population, amounting to over 55 million people, died due to violence, forced labor, and disease after European colonization.

    Mao Zedong (China, 1958–1961/1966–1969): Historians estimate that between 30-70 million people died due to famine, persecution, and forced labor during the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.

    Mongol Conquests (13th Century): Under Genghis Khan, it is estimated that 30-60 million people were killed, representing about 10% of the world’s population at the time.

    To name a few… Hitler was a monster, but he was hardly the worst monster.

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  • Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Definitely this. This is what they chose the curriculum to cover more.

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• yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I live in Canada, the general vibe we get through our culture and education is that Hitler was #1 worst guy in history, everyone else was a close second.

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