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F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 7:12 pm 0

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." - Josef Stalin.

(o)(o) · Post by **(o)(o)** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 4:46 am 0

F-ZeroOne wrote:"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." - Josef Stalin.

Is that not a propaganda piece? I don't think Stalin said that.

Superb execution in that video. Reminds me of Douglas Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas where he talks about techniques to assimilate hard to grasp numbers. The infographic does raise issues of interpretation.. and historically there are massive discrepancies in death counts.. as with others I noted a lack of some data missing, various discussions on it underneath the video here : http://www.fallen.io/ww2/

This is for the international posters.

Britons arguing at a bus stop.

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 6:18 pm 0

(o)(o) wrote:
F-ZeroOne wrote:"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." - Josef Stalin.
Is that not a propaganda piece? I don't think Stalin said that.

Superb execution in that video. Reminds me of Douglas Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas where he talks about techniques to assimilate hard to grasp numbers.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/21 ... statistic/

I was suspicious about it as well, as it seems rather too neat to be an off-the-cuff comment, but as it seemed the most fitting and Stalin is who its usually attributed to...

The only other thing I've seen like that video that made a similar impression was the U.S.Air Force memorial at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford - its basically a series of glass panels that border the U.S.A.F museum there and most of them are inscribed with images of a B-17 bomber - there are dozens, if not hundreds, and each one represents ten crewmen...