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To: spanalot; DoughtyOne
The USSR killed 20 million of it’s citizens.

The Russians killed 100 million in the last century

Thanks, spanalot, I was looking for the source myself. I hear 100 million might be a 'light' number at that - we will probably never know. I prefer the term Soviets, to Russians, being in part of Russian descent (it's why my relatives came here) and seeing the terror brought to the people of the USSR by Soviet communist leaders themselves of a variety of ethnicities, who lashed out at any who dared get in the way. 10 million Ukrainians here, millions in the gulags there, Poles, Russians, Kazakhs, Yakuts, Priests and nuns, the disabled, and so many more, communism did not discriminate in it's genocidal aims. I will remember the Ukrainian victims this weekend.

51 posted on 11/06/2007 7:45:48 PM PST by fortunecookie (Communism/socialism has failed millions, it wasn't right for them - and it isn't right for US.)
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To: fortunecookie

“being in part of Russian descent “

Are you sure you are not Carpatho Russian? Most people in the US who claim “russian” ancestory are actually from the Carpathians in an area that was once Austro Hungary and now Ukraine - thousands of miles away from Moscow.


57 posted on 11/07/2007 5:38:25 AM PST by spanalot
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