Posted on 12/29/2017 7:46:48 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
200 dead? Easily believable. 2,700 dead? OK might buy that. But 10,000 dead would very hard to cover up for 30 years. Find that one hard to go with.
And yet numbers like that have been talked about for thirty years, so why is a public admission of what has been generally known hard to swallow?
Because these types of incidents tend to get overinflated. Were you in Viet Nam? I can assure you with 100% certainty that the reported body counts were inflated - dramatically.
I also have an issue with the fact that an operation like this involved thousands of soldiers. Many of whom are old men. Old soldiers often get regrets and I have yet to see one story that confirms the OP from a soldier on his death bed.
The 10,000 dead figure agrees with the number in US intelligence assessments made public a few years ago.
It wasn’t just Tiananmen in Beijing, where 300,000 troops were used. The totals are from numerous places around China.
Chinese Communists openly idolize Stalin.
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