Emphasizing the part in that wiki page where they mention two of the co-authors disavowed the book as the main author was apparently ‘desperate’ to increase the number of counted victims in the ridiculous ways RiverRock mentioned.
It gets dumber: they also counted soviets killed by nazis in ww2 and the hypothetical children that dead eastern front nazis never had as victims of communism
wasn’t there an org that counted nazi soldiers killed by the red army, as well as aborted babies in socialist countries, as “victims of communism”?
Yup, and they’re used as the foundational source for Soviet death toll. Wikipedia uses them, even.
That would be the Black Book of Communism.
Yep, was expecting to see the BBoC mentioned.
Emphasizing the part in that wiki page where they mention two of the co-authors disavowed the book as the main author was apparently ‘desperate’ to increase the number of counted victims in the ridiculous ways RiverRock mentioned.
Also worth emphasising that Wikipedia still uses the Black Book as a source in its anti-communist articles
It gets dumber: they also counted soviets killed by nazis in ww2 and the hypothetical children that dead eastern front nazis never had as victims of communism