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So, about 10 years of capitalism, but who is counting.
Correct. Also, the 100m number is literally fake. IIRC, it can be traced back to that shitty piece of CIA propaganda "the black book of communism".
That number factors in deaths that have nothing to do with Socialism, such as:
Nazis killed in WW2;
People that died of famines that weren't even caused by Socialism (multiplied by a certain number because they could've had children) and old age (comrade grim reaper, Joseph Stalin's 2nd in command!!!!!!!!!);
Soviet Union: Everyone that died due to the famine after the Russian Civil War + those who died during the Siege of Leningrad and during WW2.
Execution of Nazi collaborators and chaos instigators;
Blatantly making up a few million deaths just to get to the 100 million mark (iirc it was between 5m-15m);
China: The few famines that happened throughout the history of the PRC (China used to have famines once every few years for millennia until the Communists took over);
I'm sure other comrades can give a much more detailed answer, but the 100 million claim is insane (and I'm pretty even historians, Marxist or not, disregard it).
iirc they put basically every death that happened under socialists countries, even natural causes such as old age that you mentioned, and diseases, and boy oh boy, 100 years of colonization, rural and illiterate china did have a lot of diseases, a lot of people was dying from easily preventable or diseases that were eradicate in capitalist center.
and as you mentioned, people that never existed in the first place, used a wacky population growth chart for china, that didn't come to reality, so they counted this as victims too.
Yeah, if you executed a nazi not only were they counted as a casualty but also the 4 children, and the 16 grandchildren they would have were counted as well.
New stat dropped
it is worse than i through, now i have to read this shit to be aware of this fucking thing