Greatest Man-made Tragedy in History -- Nominations

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The British Raj

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World War I. Without World War I (15 million), no World War II (55 million). And no communism & the related civil wars (70+ million total in Russia & China alone). So you are talking 140 million without even including things like Korea, the Khmer Rouge, and all the side-effects of World Wars I & II. The European nations would have gradually transferred peacefully over to constitutional democracy, with the exception of Russia. But even Russia would have been much better off.

Why couldn't Russia transfer to Constitutional democracy?

The Bolsheviks only took power because the Provisional Government and Soviets adopted Revolutionary Defensism rather than pacifism.

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World War I. Without World War I (15 million), no World War II (55 million). And no communism & the related civil wars (70+ million total in Russia & China alone). So you are talking 140 million without even including things like Korea, the Khmer Rouge, and all the side-effects of World Wars I & II. The European nations would have gradually transferred peacefully over to constitutional democracy, with the exception of Russia. But even Russia would have been much better off.

Why couldn't Russia transfer to Constitutional democracy?

The Bolsheviks only took power because the Provisional Government and Soviets adopted Revolutionary Defensism rather than pacifism.

He stated that Russia coudn't transfer to Constitutional Democracy even without WWI.

The regime could have handled only a certain number of 1905s before falling.

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The famine in Bengal during the war was pretty tragic.

I actually don't remember such a famine. Bengal's suffered worse.

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The famine in Bengal during the war was pretty tragic.

I actually don't remember such a famine. Bengal's suffered worse.

1943 - c. 4 million deaths. It is one of the famines that Amartya Sen used as an example of famine being caused by entitlement problems rather than absolute food shortages.

Ah, right. Churchill was as much a mass murderer as any of the other major figures in WWII. I'm more familiar with 1974, though.