From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 23:49:38 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: The Inducement of Rapid Oxidation of Certain Materials....
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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."

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