Posted on 01/21/2016 5:24:14 PM PST by MtnClimber
Considering communist North Korea’s “unduly harsh†life sentence last month to Canadian pastor Hyeon Soo Lim for his Christian missionary activities, and the recent provocative claim of a successful hydrogen bomb detonation, described by Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion as a “grave threat to international peace and security,†it’s about time the Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Ottawa be built, and for its critics to stop playing political football with its location, size and design.
As a Polish-Canadian immigrant I am well aware of communism’s fiercely atheistic and bigoted ideology, along with its brutal consequences. In view of our increasingly dangerous world, there is an urgent need now for a physical reminder of the reality of living (in the past or present) under such a totalitarian ideology as communism, founded by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and further disseminated like a deadly epidemic by Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary – a “hero†to some people.
This ideological plague is estimated to have killed about 100 million people worldwide, ranging from the Great Famine under Mao to Holodomor in Ukraine to the killing fields in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge to Joseph Stalin’s purges.
Sadly many of those who perished under communism have no graves to call their own. As a personal example, in the early 1940s, my country of birth Poland had two million innocent victims fall prey to Russian communist suppression, when by the order of dictator Stalin, they were forcefully dragged from their homes and transported in cattle cars to Siberian labour camps. The majority of them later died of starvation or disease.
Stalin also stabbed Poland in the back when he imprisoned 21,857 of the country’s most educated, patriotic and influential citizens in 1939 — mostly Polish officers
Feel the Bern.
Besides that, he KNEW that people often hid their treasures and young women so he would RETURN to the pillaged village or town after three days to, er, "finish the job."
Genghis Khan is the "winner," Satan's own.
How did John Kerry pronounce it?
He served in Vietnam,you know .
The Mongols were atrocious but one thing that is better than Communist dictators is if you paid them, they left you alone. All they cared about was tribute.
Communists care about everything you do.
The 100 million genocide death toll ended in Viet Nam - we stopped the communists there.
From his history:
He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia. After founding the Mongol Empire and being proclaimed "Genghis Khan," he started the Mongol invasions that resulted in the conquest of most of Eurasia.
These included raids or invasions of the Qara Khitai, Caucasus, Khwarezmid Empire, Western Xia and Jin dynasties. These campaigns were often accompanied by wholesale massacres of the civilian populations , especially in the Khwarezmian and Xia controlled lands. By the end of his life, the Mongol Empire occupied a substantial portion of Central Asia and China.
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How does a population give "tribute" if they have ceased to exist because of Khan's wholesale slaughter of them? People have to be allowed to live so they are able to give "tribute."
True. At least they let people live albeit under rigid control. They don't do the wholesale slaughter that made Genghis Khan the worst murderer of all history.
If you ever have a chance to visit Berlin there is much information, photos, stories, etc., about the East Berliners (and other Eastern Communist Bloc people) escaped "over the wall." It's very interesting.
As for the Chinese and Southeast Asian countries brand of communism, I dunno. It ain't pretty, that's for sure.
Ronald Reagan: commie buster.
On further reflection, tribute was more Ilkhanate and Golden Horde behavior. Several generations after Genghis.
I’m getting a bit rusty.
Lol. There aren't too many folks with whom I can discuss Genghis, the Khanate and Golde Horde behavior, so RUST AWAY and keep on rustin'! :o)
Signed: fellow rusting FReeper
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