Posted on 11/08/2018 2:58:39 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump marked a national observance on Wednesday for the millions victims who died as a result of international communism.
"On the National Day for the Victims of Communism, we honor the memory of the more than 100 million people who have been killed and persecuted by communist totalitarian regimes," the president said in a White House statement. "We also reaffirm our steadfast support for those who strive for peace, prosperity, and freedom around the world."
Communism, or Marxism-Leninism, is a political ideology whose adherents first seized power during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Often referred to by the euphemism "scientific socialism," communism sought to reshape societies through collectivist systems that seek to change human nature through labor.
A main feature of communism is an implacable hostility to capitalism, the economic system that has produced the most advanced and freest civilization in human history.
Since then, "we have witnessed the effects of the tyrannical communist ideology—anguish, repression, and death," Trump said of the Bolshevik takeover.
"Communism subordinates inherent human rights to the purported well-being of all, resulting in the extermination of religious freedom, private property, free speech, and, far too often, life," he said.
States that adopt communist political systems are marked by violations of basic human rights. Resulting policies under communism have produced severe repression against any group or person perceived by ruling regimes to be an "enemy of the state."
China’s system has been noted as the deadliest communist state, producing a death toll estimated to be 65 million people through executions, forced labor, and other means, according to the authoritative Black Book of Communism, published in 1999.
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Look for editorials against this
Damn. Finally.
Obama would have called it a celebration.
Modern Russia refuses.
Better get people down to Florida, Mr President
While the Reps just sit on their asses
Greatest President evah! Well...at least since Reagan.
You watch: Pelosi and Schumer will demand a memorial to the “Victims of Capitalism.”
Expect Democrats to protest it.
Good.
One of the things that Trump needs to do as POTUS is to keep the nation reminded of the costs of communism and socialism.
Yet some of you folks cheered as Stalin and Lenin signs and red flags were waved as Crimea was annexed and think Putin has disavowed the USSR legacy when he clearly not.
China is awful too. Cuba also.
Great if they do editorials against it. It will just help get the message across.
Great if they do editorials against it. It will just help get the message across.
Oooooh, we are catching up, 60 million of the most innocent slaughtered. But hell, there’s good money in them kiddie parts.
“Often referred to by the euphemism “scientific socialism,” communism sought to reshape societies through collectivist systems that seek to change human nature through labor. “
That’s it exactly. The left are at war with human nature and natural law. They think man can be perfected through an all powerful state. Those they don’t want to go along with the left’s utopian ideas are put to death.
And let us not forget the Nazis. A kissing socialist cousin to communism.
Lefties try to pretend everything they believe is based on science when it’s really based on “science.”
A great resource is the huge Democide website of late late professor R.J. Rummel (1932-2014), democide being the killing of persons by their own government. He puts the numbers at 76 million killed by the Chinese Communists, 62 million by the Russian Communists. So much to explore at this site. My link goes to one page, and from there one can access the whole site.
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
100 million plus... and counting!
Stalin and Lenin signs and red flags were waved as Crimea was annexed
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