Death by Government: The Missing Chapter by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Death by Government: The Missing Chapter by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Death by Government: The Missing Chapter
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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Over the past decade a number of researchers have attempted to document the extent to which various governments during the twentieth century committed acts of mass murder against their own citizens. The millions of deaths catalogued by such researchers as R.J. Rummel, author of Power Kills and Death by Government, and by the authors of The Black Book of Communism, are not deaths caused by foreign armies, but by all those unfortunate souls’ own governments.
The reason for all the killing, whether it is called genocide or “democide,” to use Rummel’s term, was to eliminate all opposition to the ruling regime and its ideology. In Russia, the kulaks “who resisted collectivization [of land] were shot, and the others deported,” according to The Black Book of Communism (p. 9). When the rural population of the Ukraine resisted, Stalin created a famine that killed 6 million in a few months. “Virtually identical crimes” were committed “by the regimes of Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung, and Pol Pot,” according to The Black Book (p. 10).
In Power Kills, R. J. Rummel writes that………………………
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