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Originally Posted by tesla69
yeah the Spaniards came to the americas and killed tens of millions.
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no, the spaniards coming to the americas resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people from foreign diseases. Further you are referring to a process that took at least a hundred years. That is a shitload different the the systematic execution of ELEVEN MILLION PEOPLE in THREE YEARS TIME! The tragedy of situations like the Cambodian genocide, the Nazi Holocaust, or the Rwandan genocide, is the scale and speed of these things. It is simply unprecedented, and is a terrifying testimony of the power of the 20th century, the future will surely judge us barbaric monsters as we think of the old conquering empires like the Babylonians or the Vikings...