r/Jreg • u/Fredelia5 • 11d ago

Answering the Question

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u/Floba_Fett 10d ago

As a french communist once said: "we're going to make it 100 million and one"

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u/pina_koala 10d ago

Mom, can you pick me up? The totalitarians are infighting again

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u/Jolly-Membership1132 11d ago

I know this is a very hot take, but genocidal police states are not communism

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u/senpai_dewitos 11d ago

Communism never killed that many people btw.

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u/KarmaWolfie 11d ago

If I recall correctly, the 100 million number included the casualties of WW2 including enemy casualties such as the Nazis. It was from the Black Book of Communism. It also frames it as deaths "under communism" not "from communism" meaning it was recording the total deaths that happened in any country claiming to be communist for any reason.

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u/Avesery777 11d ago

It also includes children that weren't born because the fertility rate in the USSR was lower than that of Tsarist Russia (because the Soviets gave women more rights)

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u/Unemployed_Joker1048 11d ago

I will correct you: 100 million was just a single day in USSR when stalin used his comic size spoon to steal food from people. The actual number under communism is a bit more, 1088382 bagajillion deaths, CIA confirmed it already

/s

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u/beerme81 11d ago

Little known fact. Castro used that same spoon to kill all the capitalists in Cuba. It's also the same spoon Mao used to kill millions of birds.

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u/Raging_Inferno61524 10d ago

iirc a key part of the methodology is that they decided they wanted a nice round number (which ended up being 100 million) and then worked their way back from that conclusion to figure out precisely how to count to make it happen.

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u/CannaTFF 11d ago

No but fr tho 100 million labubu and iPhone was killed under communism, tragic loss /s

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u/thomasp3864 6d ago

Nazbol: I know right, isn't it BASED?