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Quotes from Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder since 1917 — Rudolph Rummel

d. 2014

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The citizens of democracies are the least likely to be murdered by their own government; the citizens of totalitarian, especially Marxist systems, the most likely.

Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder since 1917 (1990)

Possibly 20,000,000 were killed in the war against the Nazis and from Nazi occupation, but many more millions were killed in Stalin’s simultaneous war on his own people.

Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder since 1917 (1990)

The theory is that democratic systems provide a path to peace, and universalizing them would eliminate war and minimize global, political violence

Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder since 1917 (1990)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rudolph Rummel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.