"Stanley Barthfarkle" wrote in message
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Incarceration rates in Bill Clinton's America and Stalin's USSR

U.S.S.R (1950) 1423 per 100,000

U.S.A (2000) (Clinton as President in 2000) 2298 per 100,000

It should be obvious why Stalin's numbers are lower- (except, of course,
if
you're a moron) Stalin simply had millions of people killed, rather than
pay
to incarcerate them.


Stanley:

You're correct. It's hilarious that a new age rag like UTNE would even make
such a comparison or Bush vs. Stalin.
See http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm
It's a personal web site but has an extensive bibliography.

34 - 50 MILLION deaths (maybe more) attributed to J. Stalin, excluding WW2.
Mao might even be higher. Kind of makes Hitler look like an amateur. It's
also funny in a tragic, unfathomable way that these monsters were the heroes
to many of the previous generation of libs. I used to argue these points in
the 1970's with many a tweedy, whiskered Marxist professor in college.

Regards - Zing