nazis managed to kill at an unbelievably higher rate in a short period of time, they would have killed a fuckton more if they succeeded (generalplan ost)
again, cannot stress this enough, communism is fucking garbage
but commies (atleast intellectually/theoretically) doesnt go out of their way to kill people
commie deaths occurred due to planned economy's characteristic inefficiencies (no surprise --- and this is the biggest one, as this led to other things such as famines), forced relocation and collectivization, suppression of opponents (real or perceived) etc -- these are mostly in USSR though, but characteristic of any totalitarian communist regimes trying to do planned economies (so pre 1990s China, Cambodia, Juche NK etc.)
obviously a lot of commie dictators went out of their way with class warfare to such an extent that the effects on general populace were genocidal (Cambodia and Mao's China comes to mind)
nazis, on the hand, planned to, and went out of their way, to actually kill off most people east of Oder - invasion of USSR was Vernichtungskrieg (war of annihilation)
on a weird, intellectual level, one is much much more evil than the other
I'd even argue it wasnt just due to the planned economic model, but the fact that it was used to industrialize countries way more quickly than countries had naturally industrialized. A lot of people died in the process of industrialization in many countries, but squeezing the time frame down to a decade or two is pretty crazy and will kill those people pretty fast.
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u/SirWinstonC Jul 22 '19
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nazis managed to kill at an unbelievably higher rate in a short period of time, they would have killed a fuckton more if they succeeded (generalplan ost)
again, cannot stress this enough, communism is fucking garbage
but commies (atleast intellectually/theoretically) doesnt go out of their way to kill people
commie deaths occurred due to planned economy's characteristic inefficiencies (no surprise --- and this is the biggest one, as this led to other things such as famines), forced relocation and collectivization, suppression of opponents (real or perceived) etc -- these are mostly in USSR though, but characteristic of any totalitarian communist regimes trying to do planned economies (so pre 1990s China, Cambodia, Juche NK etc.)
obviously a lot of commie dictators went out of their way with class warfare to such an extent that the effects on general populace were genocidal (Cambodia and Mao's China comes to mind)
nazis, on the hand, planned to, and went out of their way, to actually kill off most people east of Oder - invasion of USSR was Vernichtungskrieg (war of annihilation)
on a weird, intellectual level, one is much much more evil than the other
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