George Bush, Jr, criticized Donald Trump. So now my family likes him. They even like his "art" now. I keep reminding them of the millions of people he killed.
You'll be happy to know that they've downgraded Joseph Stalin's death toll. According to a Yale university prof, he killed six million, but even that figure is inflated since they include people who died in the famine in the '30s. The famine was caused by weather conditions and by the medieval level of agriculture in the USSR at the time. There were famines in 1922, 1921, 1917, 1905. There were famines every decade. Stalin put an end to them by collectivizing farming, making farms large enough that they could become mechanized.
"I don't know how we were so far off," the professor said.
The claim that Stalin killed thirty million people was insane. The Soviet population was less than 130 million in the 1926 census and there were over thirty million killed in World War Two. This would mean that nearly half the country's population was killed and nobody noticed until sixty years later, and then they only found out through demographic analysis, giving everything the worst possible interpretation.
So. Stalin, over a period of 25 years, killed "only" two million people. George Bush managed more than that in just eight years.
I don't think there's been any U.S. president in the last sixty years who's killed fewer than a million people, except maybe Gerald Ford if you don't include him in the crimes of the Nixon regime.
So I was heartened to see the backlash against Ellen DeGeneres for tweeting her declaration of friendship with George Bush. Of course, some of it was because he was against same sex marriage and not because he killed millions.
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