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Originally Posted by Lokus
Why is it any worse to kill your own people rather than others? Many of those lost in Russia and China was through incompetence rather than malice. Obviously the secret police and riots and such caused a lot of losses but Stalin's 5 year plans were meant to improve the country as a whole as was Mao's Great Leap Forward.
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External conflicts vrs internal oppression. Organized famines killing millions of people who get in the way of the political ruling parties goals vrs a rather haphazard expansion into mostly virgin territory with people deemed primitive savages by the morals and thought of the day.
When the closest comparison to your rule is Hitler and you surpass his number, you got issues. Do you think the Nazi's didn't think they were improving their country as a whole?
And no this thread isn't Goodwin'ed as when you speak of genocide we only have a few real examples of organized genocide in the 20th century. They don't include Western democracies.