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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
ww1 was arguably instigated by a variety of different powers and was a more or less equivalent loss of life yet none of those regimes personify evil in our modern frame of reference in quite the same way.
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i want to correct this after having googled the figures. clearly i was wrong about them being nearly equivalent. i'd say instead that a huge portion of the dead in ww2 were civilians murdered in genocides instead of just soldier deaths. so to be honest i'm not sure the millions of soviet murders of their own civilians for ideological, nationalistic and economic reasons should be blamed on germany for starting the war in europe. nor the millions of dead in the asian theater.