Sure, you have a point, just wanted to remind people that western European countries enacted many genocides to similar scale than Nazi Germany (or greater)

Was he, though? How many millions did he murder in the manmade Bengal famine?

if you spin it hard enough any war is a genocide

Not really. Genocide implies an intent to eliminate a given culture or ethnicity, most wars haven’t had that intention, e.g. most civil wars.

Choosing where to stop providing historical context is a deliberate and political choice. Why stop at 1950 and not at 1948-49 South Korea’s extremely violent repression of South Korean socialists? How about we go five years back to when Korea was colonised by Imperial Japan and liberated by Soviet troops, making locals very prone to being socialist but not being allowed in the south thanks to US support?

Wanna go a bit further back? How about South Korea having grassroots socialist uprisings and murdering tens of thousands of socialists between 1948 and 1950? Look up “Jeju uprising”.

Korea, a predominantly agrarian country with very poor conditions, was ripe for a communist revolution after seeing the success of the People’s Liberation Army in China and the Soviet Union in freeing them from Japanese colonialism.

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