On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 07:52 PM, Ken Hiebert wrote: > > > Roger Kulp > We can start with Nazi Germany ,then move on to the Spanish Civil War, > what was done in Argentina and Chile under Operation Condor, Indonesia > under Suharto, the Jeju and Bodo League killings in Korea, with honorable > mention to Caing Kai-Shek, and Thailand in the late 1960s and early 1970s. > > > March 7 > Ken Hiebert > Roger’s comment has prompted me to do some research. For the most part I > have been unable to come up with numbers. But in one case I have, the > case of Indonesia 1965-66. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366 > "The most widely published estimates were that 500,000 to more than one > million people were killed, [3] ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366#cite_note-Robinson2018-3 > ) :3 [4] ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366#cite_note-auto1-4 > ) [5] ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366#cite_note-Blumenthal80-5 > ) [6] ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366#cite_note-indoholo-6 > ) with some more recent estimates going as high as two to three million.” > > Given the number reported for Indonesia, it looks like I cannot defend my > claim that Stalin killed more communists than anyone else. > I have been unable to come up with a figure for the number of Communists > killed by Stalin. The closest I came was the speech by Khrushchev in > 1956. He accused Stalin of “mass terror” directed at members of the CPSA. > He referred to “thousands" of party members killed by Stalin. > > * * * * * * * * * > > https://www.marxists.org/archive/khrushchev/1956/02/24.htm > > > It was determined that of the 139 members and candidates of the Central > Committee who were elected at the 17th Congress, 98 persons, i.e., 70 per > cent, were arrested and shot (mostly in 1937-1938). (Indignation in the > hall.) What was the composition of the delegates to the 17th Congress? It > is known that 80 per cent of the voting participants of the 17th Congress > joined the Party during the years of conspiracy before the Revolution and > during the Civil War, i.e. meaning before 1921. By social origin the basic > mass of the delegates to the Congress were workers (60 per cent of the > voting members). > > > > For this reason, it is inconceivable that a Congress so composed could > have elected a Central Committee in which a majority [of the members] > would prove to be enemies of the Party. The only reasons why 70 per cent > of the Central Committee members and candidates elected at the 17th > Congress were branded as enemies of the Party and of the people were > because honest Communists were slandered, accusations against them were > fabricated, and revolutionary legality was gravely undermined. > > > > The same fate met not only Central Committee members but also the majority > of the delegates to the 17th Party Congress. Of 1,966 delegates with > either voting or advisory rights, 1,108 persons were arrested on charges > of anti-revolutionary crimes, i.e., decidedly more than a majority. This > very fact shows how absurd, wild and contrary to common sense were the > charges of counterrevolutionary crimes made out, as we now see, against a > majority of participants at the 17th Party Congress. > > * * * * * * * >
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