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I specified number of victims of Holocaust, not victim count of Shoah, not a victim count of Jewish Holocaust dead.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims
(if there is a better word/term for overall extermination done by Germans around WW II less likely to result in confusion and is not annoyingly long then let me know)
I am considering it as part of Holocaust (and less than half of Holocaust dead were Jewish)
I assure you that you are mistaken in this specific case, I am from Poland. Though in general I agree about blatant racism/politics/propaganda/failed PR in this area.
nope, less than half million Romani were murdered (mostly because Germans run out of people to murder in this group after murdering about 50% - 75% of European population)
Soviet civilians were largest group of people murdered in Holocaust.
Around 5 000 000 Poles were murdered.
(in both groups there is large overlap with murder of Jews - around 1.3M of murdered USSR civilians were Jews, around 3M of murdered Poles were Jews)
That description is part hilarious and part horrifying.
Well no. Great Chinese Famine and Holodomor and similar catastrophes were primarily caused by murderous communist rule.
Backyard furnaces, four pests, pressure to blatantly falsify reports, Lysenkoism including deep plowing etc and so on. Describing it merely as "flaws" is an absurd denial.
Do you have any sources? From what I remember one of problems was exporting food while millions starved to death, so presumably they also imported something. But I may misremember this one.
The Holocaust refers specifically to the murder of Jews by the Axis powers during the Second World War.
I have often heard it used to refer to all the systematic exterminations by the Nazis in World War 2.
That may be, but it's an incorrect usage of the term.
I don't know what you mean by that.
I mean that you may be hearing people misuse the term, which why you have heard it used to refer to all the systemic exterminations of WWII, even though it properly only refers to the extermination of Jews.
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I've seen various attempts to expand the definition of "the Holocaust" to refer to all civilian deaths caused by German aggression; directly and indirectly. I think it's not a very rigorous approach. Academic historians generally use the term solely to refer to the persecution of European Jewry by Germany (and its allies).
There’s a whole Wikipedia article for all the different names.
Probably the most interesting part is that “holocaust” referred at some point to the burnt sacrifices at the Jewish Temple, making its use to refer to the murder of Jews and industrial burning of their bodies an abominable irony.
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No sources from me, but I don’t think you misremember this one. IIRC the PRC was exporting food to Africa during that time and refused any foreign aid (I believe there was a Japanese offer at one point that was rebuffed, amongst other things). As far as I know, the Great Leap Forward was an entirely home-grown disaster, no foreign intervention needed.
Probably trivially checkable, too, now that I think about it.
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