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Originally Posted by Slava
^ No, he is technically wrong. The systematic extermination of 6 million people is not overshadowed by human rights violations in China today...end of story.
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The systematic exterminations were of course not happening in 1936. Dachau opened in 1933, but it was only for political prisoners (and you'll find more than a few of those in China). They were not "death camps" until Germany was at war and beginning to lose, in 1942.
As well, I said raw numbers, not scope or execution of deaths. Systematic extermination in a total war situation is clearly worse, but that doesn't mean the comparision is unfair. Six million is nothing compared to what the Communist Party has been up to since they snatched power.