r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/DelayedSpace • 29d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/know_your_place_28 29d ago edited 29d ago

They worked for Stalin, he killed more people.

Edit: commies seething below

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u/Signal-Barnacle6579 25d ago

They didn’t though.

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u/VivaEllipsis 29d ago

It’s not a competition Sophie

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u/Afraid-Divide-3501 29d ago

It is for them

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u/Uneeddan 23d ago

But if it were, Mao would probably win.

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u/GlitterPrins1 29d ago

Dumb take. Shows you don't really know shit.

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u/SirAquila 29d ago

He did not.

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u/Evening-Mark-1235 29d ago

Oh yes he did

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u/SirAquila 29d ago

Not really, basically all modern historiography places the amount of people directly killed by stalin at ~10 million. Hitler killed, at the minimum 17 million.

Now if we add to that excess mortality from policy decisions and such, Stalin reaches perhaps around 20 million. Of course by the same measure Hitler jumps far above 20 million, though it is a bit less clear how many more there are.

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u/Normal-Advisor5269 29d ago

Stalin's regime lasted decades longer than Hitler's. Through sheer length of time, he beat Hitler's death count.

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u/SirAquila 29d ago

He did not. The only way you manage to attribute more deaths to Stalin then to Hitler is if you count excess mortality for Stalin, and only direct deaths for Hitler.

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u/Gullible-Food-2398 28d ago

Actually, i gotta agree. Stalin is responsible for maybe as many as 20 million people between the wars, gulags, famines, and mass murders.

However, the calculations of deaths under Hilters direct action can easily add up to approximately 40 million deaths.