Citing The Wrong Mass Murder

Just a thought - whenever people talk about mass exterminations, they usually cite the Jewish Holocaust of World War II. If memory serves, 8 million people were murdered during the Holocaust.

Why doesn't anyone cite "Uncle Joe" Stalin's extermination of his own people, Mau Tse-Tung's extermination of his own people, or Paul Pot's extermination of his own people? In each case, the number of dead exceeded the number of people killed in the Holocaust of WWII.

Maybe it's some how politically incorrect to cite Communist mass murderers? Who knows.

My guess is that the WWII generation had the Holocaust on their mind when they wrote the history books.