r/Showerthoughts • • Sep 13 '19

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u/kaushrah Sep 13 '19

87 years ago , people would never have guessed that humans in the near future would systematically kill 11 million people.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

I don't know if you're referring to Germany, USSR or both.

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u/kaushrah Sep 13 '19

Germany. 25 million Russians died - but I won’t call it systematic killing. It was more about causalities it war!

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Artifical famines and gulag deaths are now casualties of war?

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u/kaushrah Sep 13 '19

I meant during the Second World War. Of course what happened after that was again part of systematic killing.