From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!geo
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.politics
Title: Re: How many Jews slaughtered?
Article-I.D.: watarts.1768
Posted: Fri Apr  1 11:16:19 1983
Received: Fri Apr  1 23:36:25 1983
Reply-To: geo@watarts.uucp (Geo Swan)
References: uvacs.555 tesla.30

In (tesla.30) Jeff expresses disdain that the question, "How many etc"
was asked, because "everybody knows that 20,000,000 Russians died, and
the ratio of Russian to Jewish dead was 10:3".  Well Jeff, it is hard
to know how serious to take you.

I recently read in a book entitled "Stalin's Secret War", that it wasn't
until 1965 that the Soviet Union claimed 20,000,000 war dead.  Apparently,
prior to that, they only claimed seven million war dead.  (The author,
a descendant of Tolstoy, suggests the second figure might reflect the
number of military casualties, and the first figure includes inhabitants
of the Gulag who were worked to death during the war, or used as decoys
or human mine-detectors.)

	Cordially, Geo Swan, Integrated Studies, University of Waterloo
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