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Top panel text: Liberals who talk about the death toll of communism when you bring up 10-20 million dying to poverty cased by capitalism every year. Bottom panel contains a tiktok screenshot of a man wearing a headset looking shocked and amazed, with his eyes almost popping out of his head.

  • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    2 days ago

    The infamous 100 million number they like to espouse comes from “The Black Book of Communism”.

    A book so full of bullshit that a couple of the credited authors publicly came out and said the lead behind it stretched the truth in every way to hit the 100 million figure. Even blaming some millions of deaths from natural disasters on communism.

    • FlyingCircus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      2 days ago

      They include unborn children who would have been born if those natural disasters hadn’t struck. Like, not even fetuses that died, they literally took the birth rate and said that if 1 million people died of famine then 2 million babies that statistically those people would have had at some point weren’t born, so the death toll of the famine was 3 million. Utterly bonkers.