More information and sources can be found within this book. However, here are a couple other links to reputable sources. Apologies for formatting, it’s a bit weird.

• Man-made famine of Ukraine and political executions

• And some more info

• and even more

• You could also look into the 1 million people he killed as “enemies of the state”

• while not exactly a genocide, he ordered his men to kill fellow soldiers. There are a ton of articles on this if your want to search for more.

I haven’t addressed my comments on Mao, but simply put, it’s the same regime that committed the Tieneman square massacre and covered it up. For more current options, you could look into how they literally bolted doors on apartments to keep them in during COVID-19, put barbed wire in staircases, lied about infectivity rates, and cut off research discussion to the world. For non COVID-19 topics, they are currently running a genocide on Uyghur Muslims (plenty of links online), plenty of human rights violations, and more here.

Total media control keeps everyone in line when they can only see the good that happens in their country. They don’t know about any of the above, it’s all hidden from them.

Lmao, glad I wasted I wasted my time on you. Kinda hard to lie about proven genocides. You do not get to determine what is fact. The science fact is literally “millions and millions of people died.”

Do not let confirmation bias and nationalism control your view. I could say “America hasn’t done anything bad, it’s all Russian propaganda, I currently live here and I’m doing just fine.” We both know that people suffer everywhere.

The general statement I made was not about what you experienced, it was about the attroticities that were committed by the government and leading parties. You could even consider Stalin alone and outweigh everything good it ever did. His lowball kill count through deliberate pillaging of his own populace (farmers), selective starvation to kill off groups he did not favor, and planned genocides (yes, plural) against the USSR’s own populace beats Hitler himself. And it’s not even close.

But let’s look at more recent occurrences, those you likely heard about yourself. Let’s also ignore the cold war, a national dick measuring contest and dumb all around. Between multiple proxy wars in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and Vietnam, they put all their eggs in one basket as they literally always have: war. The USSR entirely sacrificed their domestic production, research, and innovation for their people to put it towards killing others. Their entire economy stagnated and collapsed because they couldn’t support their population. And, as always, the people rebelled and won.

And, just on time, look what we are back to.

Congrats, you’ve got a small list of good things. Have you looked at the list of horrendous things?

Be careful of confirmation bias and the availability heuristic. One irresponsible person does not define the masses.

It absolutely is something they would normally run into. I work on maintaining a massive application; think 60+ teams of 6, each extremely specialized and minimal overlap. Almost 75% of my job is predicting issues and avoiding them. Peer testing draws on this a ton as well. They just continue to plainly show that they don’t care. Time and time again, year after year, they continue to have the exact same issues and do fuck all about it.