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Old 01-23-2015, 08:03 PM
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Worse than Soviet Russia?

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Yes it would have been just the same or worse with if they had modern weapons, methods and population density.
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Absolutely, we systematically murdered almost the entire population and enslaved the rest. I can't think of anything worse than that.
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From what I've read the same or greater number of slaves died in the Atlantic crossing than in Hitlers camps. It's a very nice thing that they are both history.

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As John Gaddis, now of Yale University, used to tell his students back at Ohio University when I was there, and this is probably the only really important thing that I remember from graduate school, history happens to real people.
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