Or as dissidents I suppose. Still, the numbers look a little small. There should be at least 25 million Soviet victims of communism.
I’m going largely on the Black Book, which suggests a total of 20 million; HOWEVER, it’s just one of a bunch of sources. You’re likely right, and I’d have a hard time disputing you, which means a communist apologist should have a hard time disputing me. Here’s a passage that I think states the underlying philosophy: “I would have to approximate—after totaling the deaths from all demographics—that peacetime communism killed 85 million people. While this figure is a conservative estimate, the number is high enough that it puts communist apologists in the unenviable position of having to pretzel themselves into embarrassingly bad logic and outright falsehoods over the course of 34 point-by-point calculations, all for the privilege of arguing that it was ONLY 30 or 40 million innocents who were slaughtered by their mentors.”
Of course these apologists are intellectual perverts. When it comes to unity, there’s a definite shortcoming in the site since the site claims to be directed to kids rather than these intellectual perverts.
Good conversation...in a strange way, it almost makes me feel like I’m getting a good chance to unload a feeling of guilt over the conservative estimates.