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.

• 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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  • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Even if there are genocides worse than the holocaust. The entire point of the Nazis were to kill everyone eventually in order to create their dumb idea of an ubermench.

    Most genocides are about keeping power. But the holocaust was about creating a whole new humanity by killing anyone that wasn’t blue eyed, blond haired super people. It would affect the entire world eventually.

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• Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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