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viska
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10 May 2008, 10:54 pm

Some song I'm listening to has this lyric:



Had a competition with the USSR
How many million people can we kill inside our

Very own countries. And you know what, China won
30 million people, so much fun.



What event does this refer to?



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10 May 2008, 11:01 pm

After searching on the innanetz I think it's the "Great Leap Forward". Is this right?



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10 May 2008, 11:48 pm

viska wrote:
After searching on the innanetz I think it's the "Great Leap Forward". Is this right?

A lot of people dies in the Great Leap Forward, but I wouldn't know enough about it to specify an exact number. Pretty tough to top the USSR in terms of body count, though.


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11 May 2008, 12:53 am

100 million Christians killed by USSR, China, and a few others according to one youtube video I saw. I don't know the veracity, but this would help with a ballpark to be distributed anyway.



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11 May 2008, 2:17 am

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
100 million Christians killed by USSR, China, and a few others according to one youtube video I saw. I don't know the veracity, but this would help with a ballpark to be distributed anyway.



But but but,...religion kills people!



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11 May 2008, 2:37 am

the lesson here is simple ...living in a nondemocratic country can result in your starvation.