RE: Why didn't the Cold War get bloody?
February 12, 2018 at 1:43 pm
(This post was last modified: February 12, 2018 at 1:49 pm by Anomalocaris.)
The Cold War is driven strongly by an ideological contest. So the total casualty of the Cold War should include fatalities resulting from civil wars or strifes inspired by the confrontational ideological conflict regardless of the magnitude of direct participation by the superpowers, or diseasterous mismanagement ultimately traceable to ideological conflict and unmitigated because of ideological conflict.
In this case, we should add the death toll from Cambodia’s pol pot regime, the famine resulting from civil war in Ethiopia, and Mao’s Great Leap Forward.
Viewed this way, then the toll of the Cold War over 45 years is probably balloon to 30-40 million at least.
In this case, we should add the death toll from Cambodia’s pol pot regime, the famine resulting from civil war in Ethiopia, and Mao’s Great Leap Forward.
Viewed this way, then the toll of the Cold War over 45 years is probably balloon to 30-40 million at least.
