Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/04
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John,
Secular! Well, that's at least one good point!
Jack Herron
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Tucson, AZ 85710
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From: "John Evensta" <jevensta@plateautel.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 6:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] re: gun balderdash & photos - Stalin and the Long
March, (also Ancient Astronomy)
> > The Long March that epic, 6000 mile, one year
> > journey that Mao led, sometimes compared to Moses
> > leading his chosen people...
>
> Mao and Moses? I agree that the Chinese suffering during WWII was
immense.
> Ten million civilian deaths eclipses that of any other nation or ethnic
> group (the twenty million Russian deaths were predominately combat deaths
at
> critical junctures as the Battle of Stalingrad). But Mao's vision and
> certainly his legacy was and is hardly a benevolent one. It condoned the
> deaths of probably a million Tibetans, the deforestation of their
> countryside, millions more dead during the early 60's (many from
starvation
> due to economic policies), and a state that continues to be repressively
and
> fervently secular.
>
> John Evensta
>
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