Tag Archives: R. J. Rummel

LinkSwarm for January 19, 2015

Enjoy a Monday LinkSwarm to get your week started: Police conduct anti-terrorism raids in Germany, Belgium and France. Could this be the start of a real effort to halt Islamic extremism in Europe? I rather doubt it. Too many leftist … Continue reading →

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Current Death Estimate for the Great Leap Forward: 45 Million

According to historian Frank Dikotter, who examined hundreds of documents across China from 2005-2009. Dikotter is author of Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962, which I haven’t read yet. But some of the descriptions of … Continue reading →

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How Many People Did Communism Kill?

When I posted about making May 1st Victims of Communism Day, I was not at all surprised that some on the left would get their knickers into a knot over the very idea. However, I was surprised that one left … Continue reading →

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