nobody@huge.cajones.com (Huge Cajones Remailer) writes:
I. Background Over 133,147,000 Murdered: Pre-Twentieth-Century Democide, 45 II. 128,168,000 Victims: The DekaMegaMurderers III. 19,178,000 Victims: The Lesser MegaMurderers IV 4,145,000 Victims: The Suspected MegaMurderers ... I read a passage of a book long ago in which a historian recounted a number of different fallen dictators known for bloody purges who reminesced that if they had controlled their moments of "softness" (translate~~killed more of the right people) that they would still be in power.
This reminds me how I used to be consulting for a publisher, and came across an MS (which never got published) written by some Mongol about the history of Mongol conquests. It had a passage to the effect that, "X-khan should have put down this rebellion and killed a million people, like his predecessors would have. But he was soft, and this caused the empire to collapse." --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps