Why is this on /siberia/
>>737958>On StalinVery sketchy. For starters, not all government decisons were made or agreed upon by Stalin, sometimes he had to follow the party's directive even if he was in the minority. The death count of the gulags also makes me suspicious: if a person dies in prison, is that the fault of the president/prime minister? Sometimes people get sick and die, the country was poor, medicine at the time was lacking, and criminals simply were not a priority when sharing limites resources (be it food when scarce, or even medical personel). What about the deaths of persons deported? What's going on? Weird that it doesn't mention any of the war efforts either.
>On MaoEven more dubious. Did those people magically have a heart attack? Were they executed? What really happened. Executing ~15 million people is not reasonable and would without a doubt profoundly impact a country's demographic data.