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To: FreedomPoster

That page only gives Mao's China 35,000,000 dead? I think that's a little low-- I've read his 'Great Leap Forward' was closer to 70,000,000 alone...


17 posted on 12/15/2005 9:40:29 AM PST by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: atomicpossum

If you dig into the details (there a link to an enormous *.gif of a spreadsheet), you'll find he gives a low, best-guess median, and high number for each democide he studied. The high number for China is 102,671,000.

Ah! And even better, I'm glad you brought that to my attention. He should update that table. Here:
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE5.HTM
He has this:

IMPORTANT NOTE: Among all the democide estimates appearing on in this book, some have been revised upward. I have changed that for Mao's famine, 1958-1962, from zero to 38,000,000. And thus I have had to change the overall democide for the PRC (1928-1987) from 38,702,000 to 76,702,000. Details here.
http://freedomspeace.blogspot.com/2005/11/reevaluating-chinas-democide-to-be.html


33 posted on 12/15/2005 9:51:19 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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