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#248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power

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What Is Genocide?

The December 1948 UN Convention on the Pramp prevention and punishment of genocide is considered a major document. It emphasizes, you know, the intentional destruction of an ethnic, national, racial or religious group. What that means basically is destroying the group as a group. And we have the same problem with the Cambodian genocide, but most of the people killed in it were other peoples because they give it to name.

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