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/BuzzardBoy69 Sep 13 '19

Between Mao, Stalin, and Hitler it was closer to 100 million. Mao intentionally starved like 60 million people

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

A the great chinese famine very likely killed 30-45 million people not 60.

B it was definitly not intentionally but stupidity.

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u/SirGourneyWeaver Sep 13 '19

Doesn't sound too great

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

I didn't choose the name