I’m pretty sure we would know from the Soviet archives whether or not this happened. This is so ridiculous

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      1996 ass website

      Professor Rummel passed away on March 2, 2014. His “Powerkills” website will be maintained by the University of Hawaii Political Science Department. Please contact dougbond@fas.harvard.edu with any questions or comments.

      lmao owned

      What’s baffling is they thought this shit was so good it needed to be maintained for decades like wtf this would have been one of those rare cases where linkrot would have been perfectly fine.

      No idea why a Harvard guy is responsible for it I think I’m gonna write him an annoying email debate lording him about it because there’s so many blatant falsehoods on here and it feels awesome getting under the skin of Ivy League dipshits

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      his wikipedia page is wild, all the shit the dude who made this website says is insane

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._J._Rummel

      History and Political Science Professor at University of Hawaii, Yale and Indiana, was convinced that global warming was a hoax to install Obama as lifetime dictator

      this is his own summation of his alternate history book he released later in life, emphasis mine, it actually makes me squirm:

      What if there were a solution to war and genocide? What if a secret society sent back to 1906 two lovers, Joy Phim, a gorgeous warrior, and John Banks, a pacifist professor of history, and gave them the incredible wealth and weapons necessary to create a peaceful alternative universe—one that never experienced the horrors of world war, the Holocaust, and the other atrocities of the twentieth century? And what if, at great personal cost, they succeed too well and create a peaceful world of complacent democracies? In Book 2, the clock is turned back to their arrival in 1906. They receive a message from the future of the universe they will create – Islamic fundamentalists have attacked the unarmed democracies with nuclear weapons and enslaved them. It is now up to these lovers to prevent this horrible future.

    • Part was mass murder, as of the wholesale extermination of perhaps 6,500,000 “kulaks” (in effect, the better off peasants and those resisting collectivization) from 1930 to 1937,4

      1. Conquest (1986, p. 306). “It certainly appears that a charge of genocide lies against the Soviet Union for its actions in the Ukraine. Such, at least, was the view of Professor Rafael Lemkin who drafted the [Genocide] Convention.” (p. 272) The “Ukrainian famine was a deliberate act of genocide of roughly the same order of magnitude as the Jewish Holocaust of the Second World War, both in the number of its victims and in the human suffering it produced.”(Mace, 1986, p. 11)

      Perfect.

      They are all “kulaks” now?

      n 2 Is Lemkin, which if BadEmpanda is to be believed said that as an offhand comment and wasn’t, you know, looking into whether it was a genocide. Also, while I hate to be a debate lord “that’s a logic fallacy ergo post shit”, it’s an appeal to authority, whether or not Lemkin made the Convention doesn’t make his opinion the grand truth.

      n3 is double genocide theory.

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      Free people do not suffer from and never have had famines, and by theory, should not. Freedom is therefore a solution to hunger and famine.

      Under capitalism hunger is an individual issue, under socialism hunger is an indictment of the entire system, etc etc…