Friday, December 17, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Frank Dikotter on Mao's Mass Murders - '...Even the previous estimates of 20 to 30 million dead qualify the Great Leap Forward as the biggest single case of mass murder in world history. If Dikötter's revised figure of 45 million withstands scrutiny, Mao will have definitively surpassed Joseph Stalin's overall record as a mass murderer (Stalin's death toll was more evenly spread between several different episodes of mass murder than Mao's)...'
