{"id":1253,"date":"2005-11-29T09:27:41","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T13:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2005-11-29T09:27:41","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T13:27:41","slug":"mao-more-lethal-than-hitler-stalin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/mao-more-lethal-than-hitler-stalin\/","title":{"rendered":"Mao more lethal than Hitler, Stalin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnd.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47616\">WorldNetDaily.com<\/a> Jon Dougherty November 29, 2005 <\/p>\n<p><em>Expert says Chinese leader&#8217;s policies led to death of 77 million countrymen<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A noted expert in calculating the number of deaths caused by authoritarian regimes says the late Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-tung&#8217;s policies and actions led to the deaths of nearly 77 million of his countrymen, surpassing those killed by Nazi Party founder Adolf Hitler and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin.<\/p>\n<p>R. J. Rummel, professor emeritus of political science and a Nobel Peace Prize finalist who has published dozens of books chronicling so-called &#8220;democide,&#8221; or death by government, said the new Chinese figure \u2013 nearly double his previous estimate of about 38 million \u2013 was based on what he believes was Mao&#8217;s duplicity in China&#8217;s great famine of 1958 to 1961. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnd.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47616\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WorldNetDaily.com Jon Dougherty November 29, 2005 Expert says Chinese leader&#8217;s policies led to death of 77 million countrymen A noted expert in calculating the number of deaths caused by authoritarian regimes says the late Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-tung&#8217;s policies and actions led to the deaths of nearly 77 million of his countrymen, surpassing those &#8230; <a title=\"Mao more lethal than Hitler, Stalin\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/mao-more-lethal-than-hitler-stalin\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mao more lethal than Hitler, Stalin\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}