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The real culprit behind all fascist movements (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Neither Stalin nor Mao were genocidal. Famines had been a common occurrence in Russia and China throughout recorded history. Soon after their socialist revolutions, Russia and China experienced one more famine, and have not experienced one since. They ended famines.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Well, Russia experienced two more, but one of them was very directly due to WWII