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> Millions of Soviet deaths; millions of Chinese deaths; deaths from the Khmer Rouge....these are not "violent capitalist repression".

How come every citation of comparative body counts in the Capitalism v Communism Olympics always seem to evade mention of:

- 3 million Indians starved under Churchill's Britain (+ countless more before that)

- 5 million dead in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos

- 1 million dead in the war of Algerian independence vs France

- 600,000 dead in the Iraq war

- the 50 million + killed under the staunchly anti-communist Third Reich

- a million dead in "anti-communist" purges in Indonesia's Sukarno

Were these not carried out directly, or directly armed and abetted by capitalist regimes?



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