Thank you for making this. I was the original creator of the graph this post is about. I was 16 during the 2016 election and saw a constant bombardment of attacks against Bernie Sanders decrying how if he won the primary then millions would die under the communism he would adopt. It got me interested in actually researching the mass killings which occurred in Russia and China and from seeing lists on Wikipedia of famines and mass killings throughout the 19th century it seemed to me that both countries had violent histories where an authoritarian government oppressed and killed their citizens en mass and the deaths which occurred after these countries adopted communism was just an extension of previous systems of oppression under their previous governments rather than the creation of an oppressive system in an otherwise free society. I'm not and never was a Tankie. The research I did and the graph I made was supposed to be an extension of that point but I now see I had misunderstood the charts I read having been a 16 year old who was just reading through the citation sources for Wikipedia pages without much historical knowledge and regret having had spread misinformation.
Thank you for making this. I was the original creator of the graph this post is about. I was 16 during the 2016 election and saw a constant bombardment of attacks against Bernie Sanders decrying how if he won the primary then millions would die under the communism he would adopt. It got me interested in actually researching the mass killings which occurred in Russia and China and from seeing lists on Wikipedia of famines and mass killings throughout the 19th century it seemed to me that both countries had violent histories where an authoritarian government oppressed and killed their citizens en mass and the deaths which occurred after these countries adopted communism was just an extension of previous systems of oppression under their previous governments rather than the creation of an oppressive system in an otherwise free society. I'm not and never was a Tankie. The research I did and the graph I made was supposed to be an extension of that point but I now see I had misunderstood the charts I read having been a 16 year old who was just reading through the citation sources for Wikipedia pages without much historical knowledge and regret having had spread misinformation.