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Russian Embassy in USA @benjaminwittes

The body count that system amassed over that time period is simply staggering. It's so vast, in fact, that we tend to break it up into its component national pieces and time periods. So we speak of Stalinism. We speak of Maoism. We seldom talk about the global body-count... — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 23, 2022

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Russian Embassy in USA @benjaminwittes

This thread is exactly correct. Another factor here is that Nazism, though unparalleled in its genocidal fervor, was rather short-lived. The Thousand Year Reich was mercifully destroyed 988 years early. Soviet brutalities, by contrast, went on for seven decades. — PolitiTweet.org

Whenever I talk about the awful, awful crimes of the Soviet Union, I inevitably get a few stray tankies rambling ab… https://t.co/iDD4HfSwZE

Posted Sept. 23, 2022

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... that is the historic legacy of the Soviet revolution of 1917. When you actually think about it this way, there is nothing like it in the history of the world. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 23, 2022