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The Bones Demand Justice
Accuracy in Academia ^ | August 3, 2010 | Malcolm A. Kline

Posted on 08/03/2010 7:26:26 AM PDT by AccuracyAcademia

Although independent scholars generally agree that the death toll from communism in the Twentieth Century runs a staggering 100 million, that sad historical milestone has yet to gain widespread acknowledgement in America’s public schools let alone in her universities.

The McDougal Littell Classzone claims that “an estimated 8-20 million people were killed in Stalinist Russia.” Most scholars put the number closer to 40 million.

Classzone goes on to assert that from 1924 to 1939, “historians estimate that during this time he was responsible for 8 million to 13 million deaths.” Classzone does not include Mao Tse Tung in its rogue’s gallery of dictators even though 60 million perished under his rule of Communist China.

At least they acknowledge Stalin’s carnage. The web site of a teacher from Dutch Fork High School in South Carolina features a back and forth on the question of who was the most effective leader—Lenin or Stalin.

“Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko—consulting with those historians who had studied the problem for Khrushchev, who kept the numbers secret—claimed at least 50 million dead, excluding the victims of civil war and World War II,” University of Pennsylvania historian Alan Charles Kors pointed out in 2009. “Gorbachev’s right-hand man, Alexander Yakovlev, in a century of Soviet violence, entered the Archives for the last Soviet leader and wrote that 60 million were slain in the Soviet Union alone.”

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TOPICS: Education; Government; History; Reference
KEYWORDS: communism; education; twentiethcentury

1 posted on 08/03/2010 7:26:26 AM PDT by AccuracyAcademia
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To: y'all
What is the over and under on this guy's score?

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2 posted on 08/03/2010 7:42:07 AM PDT by Cyber Ninja (Live and let live; is not working...)
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To: OnTheDress
Haughty looking bitch.


3 posted on 08/03/2010 7:47:41 AM PDT by badgerlandjim (Hillary Clinton is to politics as Helen Thomas is to beauty.)
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To: OnTheDress

Correct me if I’m wrong, but he’s not striking that pose quite as often these days, is he? He told the fat cat donors he wasn’t worried about his low poll numbers. Given Obama’s relationship with the truth, that means he’s scared witless.


4 posted on 08/03/2010 8:00:23 AM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: badgerlandjim

Who does he think he is, Mussolini?


5 posted on 08/03/2010 8:56:59 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: TexasRepublic

Good one!


6 posted on 08/03/2010 9:01:36 AM PDT by badgerlandjim (Hillary Clinton is to politics as Helen Thomas is to beauty.)
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