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 Americas 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 rogues gallery of dictators even though 60 million perished under his rule of Communist China.
At least they acknowledge Stalins 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 leaderLenin or Stalin.
Anton Antonov-Ovseyenkoconsulting with those historians who had studied the problem for Khrushchev, who kept the numbers secretclaimed 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. Gorbachevs 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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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.
Who does he think he is, Mussolini?
Good one!
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