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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
WWI wasn't close UNLESS you're looking at Russia, where the devastation was vast and the war triggered the Revolution, in which just as many more died, or consider the Spanish Flu pandemic, since that flu took almost as many lives as all of WWII and many think it started on the battlefield and in the camps. Of course, there's also the Armenian genocide and the relocations and displacements in the Balkans and Greece.
But there were lots of wars that took as large a percentage of the population as WWII took of Germany, and, indeed, Russia, the Balkans, Yugoslavia, and some of the Asian countries where fighting was very fierce likely saw higher death tolls than Germany. And many cities have been wiped off the face of the earth by war. Not that uncommon through history. Dresden is still there. WWII was horrific. But to be shocked by the carnage after what happened in all the prior wars is kind of like being shocked when Mitt Romney lies under oath.
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Without doing lots of research now, I'm pretty certain you are wrong about this. Russia lost more than 20 million people in WWII, which I believe is many times the number dead in WWI. And, again, it's not just the deaths but the complete destruction of cities that set WWII apart. Beyond that, I'd have a lot of trouble tying the Armenian genocide and other Soviet atrocities to WWI.
But, I'm ready to move on. Because I now know that all tragedies of this sort are What God Intended. Right?
