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Subject: No Danger on the Right
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Date: Sat, 25-Jan-86 11:33:00 EST
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[ tim sevener whuxn!orb]
> >>Anticommunist dictators have slaughtered as many of their
> >>own people as communist dictators.       ^^^^^^^          
  
[John Woolsey (so quoted - Woolley perhaps ?)]
> >This is just silliness.  Stalin and Mao between them murdered maybe
> >100 million of their own people.  Hitler is the only "anticommunist
> >dictator" that even weighs in the balance, at about 15 million.  Just
> >where do you make up that difference?  (Hell, I bet all the other
> >"anticommunists" this century haven't killed as many as Pol Pot.)

>[Tim Sevener: ]  Everyone knows about the horrible massacre performed
>by Pol Pot.  But how many people know about the massacre of thousands
>which occurred in a refugee camp in Guatemala?  How many people know
>about the many people "missing" in Chile or "disappeared" in Guatemala
>since the refugee camp massacre? 

Summing up Tim Sevener's arithmetic, thousands are "as many" as millions.
                                     ^^^^^^^^^      ^^^^^^^     ^^^^^^^^

J. W.'s remarks need qualification: the numbers of Hitler's  vic-
tims  *per  year*  are  almost as impressive as Stalin's; but his
rule was shorter. Anyway, both regimes were  essentially  identi-
cal.  

Hitler was just as murderous as Lenin and Stalin, but he has  one
great virtue: he is dead. Stalin lives, in his heirs.

			Jan Wasilewsky