Re: And the beat goes on...


"J. Anderson" <andersons6@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Eugene Holman" <holman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> You, in turn, blame everything simplistically on "the Russkies", showing
>> no understanding of the nature of Marxism-Leninism and dialectal
>> materialism, nor any sympathy for the Russian people, more than
>> 50,000,000
>> of which were killed by the Soviet government during communist rule.
>
> I regret to inform you that the number 50 million, which is repeatedly
> being quoted, is total nonsense.
>
> Towards its end, Czarist Russia had 175,000,000 inhabitants, including
> Poles, Balts and Finns. In 1939, the Soviet Union had 170,470,000
> inhabitants, *excluding* Poles, Balts and Finns. In 1955, the Soviet Union
> had 216,000,000 inhabitants.
>
> There absolutely no room for a loss of 50,000,000 people in these
> statistics.


Peasant Problem In 1861, Russia's serfs had been emancipated by Tsar
Alexander II (1855-81). This gave personal freedom to about 40 million
Russian serfs by 1866, about 2/3 of the Russian population. But personal
freedom was not accompanied by economic freedom. The amount of land
peasants received was not enough by 1900 to support a rapidly growing
population (up from 50 to 79 million between 1860-1897). Land shortage was
exacerbated by continued use of primitive agricultural methods and the
government's neglect of the agricultural problem. The lot of the peasant
continued to worsen after 1900, and many peasant farmers believed the only
solution was total expropriation of all aristocratic lands.


Note that population also grows exponentially so the more
you have, the more rapid the growth.

Making your numbers a bit weak, Johnno.:-)


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