Ottawa monument to commemorate ‘victims of communism’

The Canadian Memorial to the Victims of Communism is one step closer to completion, with the federal government this week soliciting design ideas for the monument to be built near Parliament perhaps as soon as late 2014.

Memorials for the victims of communist regimes exist elsewhere in the world, such as the ones in Prague and Washington, D.C., and since 2008 the non-profit group Tribute to Liberty has been gathering support for a similar project in Ottawa. The group says its board of directors represents “key ethno-cultural comunities in Canada affected by communism” and now has backing from the leaders of all three major federal parties, as well as the Greens.

It’s estimated that up to 100 million people died in the last century at the hands of ruthless communist regimes, either through mass killings, man-made famines or displacements of whole populations. From Joseph Stalin to Mao Zedong to Pol Pot, communist leaders were among the biggest butchers of the 20th century — but were those deaths a result of communism as a political philosophy or because murderous dictators exercised their totalitarian powers over helpless populations?

Were those deaths a result of communism as a political philosophy or because murderous dictators exercised their totalitarian powers over helpless populations?

Would this question even be asked about National Socialism?

What was not murderous about Communism as a political ideology?

Were those deaths a result of communism as a political philosophy or because murderous dictators exercised their totalitarian powers over helpless populations?
Would this question even be asked about National Socialism?

What was not murderous about Communism as a political ideology?

Its the "meaning of the word is is" argument. If the left can redefine homosexuality as adult only same-sex atraction (to exclude pedophilia), then they can surely excise the never-ending dictatorship of the proletariat from Marx's own writings.

How long before the monument to victims of communism is surrounded by angry picketing leftists?

“They were evil capitalist pigs! They DESERVED to die!!!”

Watch for it. I’ve been to Ottawa. Far more European than north American.

Oh History, that pesky story teller.... Where through German Propaganda the rise of Communism was facilitated to win the WW1 on the Eastern Front ------------------ Excerpt from link - http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Sealed_Train "The Sealed train is the name given to the train used to take Lenin✡ and other communist subversives from Zurich back to Russia in 1917. Lenin, while crossing German territory, had with him on board of his train some ten million dollars in gold, thanks to German chief banker Max Warburg, whose brother Paul strangely enough, in 1913, was the chief architect of the Federal Reserve System, the central bank of the United States. A good sum now and an enormous sum then knowing that he would undermine the Russian government and stop the Russians fighting on the Eastern Front. The pay off would be the transfer of forces to the Western Front where they were bogged down. Lenin. A Sealed Train. And $10 million says:- • The funny part about the "Russian" revolution, when it came, is that Lenin✡ was the last to know. A neighbour in Switzerland stopped by with the news. Actually, not such good news at first. Lenin couldn’t scrape together the bus fare back to Russia at the time....... Eventually, Lenin and his entourage were transported back to St Petersburg via Scandinavia in a sealed carriage. For company, Lenin had 10 million dollars from Germany to bring down the Russian Government and to surrender the Russian army in the process.

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