Mass murder

On the thirtieth anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and on the 128^th anniversary of the birth of Mao Zedong, an important reminder—some things that should not be forgotten.

In the 20^th century the selected governments below, within their own countries, quite apart from war, killed their own subjects in massive numbers:

USSR between 1917 and 1987 — 61,911,000

People’s Republic of China between 1949 and 1987 — 35,326,000

Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945 — 20,946,000

Nationalist China between 1928 and 1949 — 10,075,000

169 million in total were killed by the government ruling them in the last century. 37.4 million more were killed in wars — some started by these same regimes. The statistics come from R.J. Rummel's Death by Government published in 1994 (revised in 1997). There has been a lot of killing of people by their own governments since then.

China's leadership, today, honors Mao, and is genocidal.

R.J. Rummel, Death by Government