December 16, 2004 03:55AM
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Alex S Wrote:
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> After a lot of thought...
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> World War II (1939-1945); because it was the most
> widespread and catastrophic war in human history.
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> Alex S
That is somewhat debateable. Roughly 60 million people were killed in WWII (according to [
www.faqfarm.com] but I've heard similar figures elsewhere), with the fighting primarily in Europe, Asia, the Pacific, and North Africa.
By contrast, IF YOU COUNT THE SPANISH FLU EPIDEMIC, which is logical (since WWII diseases were counted in the 60 mil figure &) since the first case of the Spanish Flu turned up in a U.S. military training camp, and that it played an integral role in ending WWI before going on to spread (in no small part due to being carried home by infected soldiers) throughout Europe, North Africa, & North America.... and thence throughout the rest of the world........ then it becomes obvious that WWI killed virtually as many people (albeit a far larger proportion of them civilian) as WWII. (See [
www.faqfarm.com] and then see [
www.nsgreatlakes.navy.mil] for more accurate figures on pandemic losses. Historians are constantly revising Spanish Flu mortality figures upwards, as we better document it's impact in the 3rd world).
And.... note that this "WWI" mortality consisted of a significantly larger percentage of the overall world population than did WWII. Worse yet, WWI allowed the creation of the world's first communist state (Russia), which forcibly imported communism to other regions (most notably China), and which expanded explosively after WWII & CAUSED the Cold War.... in this context note that communism killed better than 100 million people (primarily in Russia & China, but with large numbers also in SE Asia).
So..... WWI led to the deaths of almost as many people (maybe AS many, we still don't have full data from "backwards" areas), of a higher pecentage of the world population, AND caused the spread of communism which in it's turn caused even GREATER mortality and overall destruction.... and which is thought to have indirectly (via the Soviet hand in the Cuban revolution, Soviet economic subsidies to Cuba which were partly repaid via Cuban "freedom fighters" in Angola, who brought back a certain disease & spread it to the Dominican Republic, from which it traveled to the island's other half.... "Haiti", from whence it spread via mostly gay tourists to North America, from which....) caused the expansion of AIDS onto the world stage.
Hmmm, to HECK with WWI..... lets call the world's worst catastrophe the invention of communism! Anybody got a time machine and a pair of bullets for Marx & Engels?
Kenuchelover.
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