It’s because you are referring to uninformed laymen who can’t even read a book. I would personally just ignore them. You can’t fix stupid.
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Here's a thread on it with more post and discussion:
Sino-Vietnamese War (1979): What was the end results of it ?
Following Terran's thread regarding the Korean War that can be viewed from this link (Korean War 70 years later Win Lose and A draw) . I feel that it is interesting to look back at another conflict and judge it in roughly a similar way. The topic would be the Sino-Vietnamese war of 1979, aka...
www.sinodefenceforum.com
When people attribute deaths to famine during Mao's rule to his government they typically ignore the rest of the region had famine roughly at the same time. So the idea the famine and deaths to famine were just due to politics is BS.
The population boomed substantially after the end of WW2 and there was a period of increasingly failed harvests. This is why China decided to stop the program of technology transfer with the Soviet Union which was being paid with foodstuffs. And later went into the Great Leap Forward supposedly as a home grown alternative to continue economic growth without using imported technology. So the Great Leap Forward era is a consequence of the failed harvests but you typically read the opposite in Western media.
The population boomed substantially after the end of WW2 and there was a period of increasingly failed harvests. This is why China decided to stop the program of technology transfer with the Soviet Union which was being paid with foodstuffs. And later went into the Great Leap Forward supposedly as a home grown alternative to continue economic growth without using imported technology. So the Great Leap Forward era is a consequence of the failed harvests but you typically read the opposite in Western media.
The author of 墓碑 included "unborn" babies into the totals
PiSigma
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1.5 billion he personally killed. I'm not sure what's the difference between killed or massacred, is the the method? Democided, what does that mean?
He was a busy man.
From Wikipedia:
Democide refers to "the intentional killing of an unarmed or disarmed person by government agents acting in their authoritative capacity and pursuant to government policy or high command."
massacre = killing by the hundreds or thousands or millions.
PiSigma
"the engineer"
Then 2.5 billion is the correct answer.
Anyone know how a 051 DDG was transported to Yinchuan to be a museum ship? Was it towed all the way up the yellow river?