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Thread #164868 Message #3950678
Posted By: Jim Carroll
15-Sep-18 - 10:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: Kaiser's Holocaust
Subject: RE: BS: Kaiser's Holocaust
"he true death toll both from King Leopold "
Leopold's death toll is not disputed - the ten Million was established by Mark Twain and has only varied upwards
Hochshild more or less established that the ten million was correct - it's all accessible as history
One of the facts of history that suggests the figure to be an underestimate is that, on the fall of Leopold's Company his employees spent three days feeding the records into furnaces, so the estimatesd are based on reports, coming largely from missionaries
As far as Mao is concerned - the figure claimed included natural disasters, mismanagement by a brand-new political force and a state of permanent warfare in seizing the country by the people
Leopold's victims were slaves - Mao's followers were willing supporters of a popular revolution
Jim Carroll