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Posted on 04/27/2024 10:19:01 AM PDT by Lockbox
American historian William D. Rubinstein concluded that, even under most conservative estimates, Stalin was responsible for the deaths of at least 7 million people, or about 4.2% of USSRs total population.
Mao Zedong from 1958 to 1962, his Great Leap Forward policy led to the deaths of up to 45 million people – easily making it the biggest episode of mass murder ever recorded.
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That think they will survive thing show most of them to be incredibly ignorant.
Out of power, Communism is gangsters, dreamers, and psychopaths shouting slogans and making utopian promises. When communists get into power in a country, they ruthlessly kill off factional rivals and potential sources of recruits for a counter-revolution. Then they rob and exploit the wealth of the country.
I think this time is different—not better, mind you, probaby much worse, but different.
If America goes fullbore Maoist or Stalinist, one of two things will happen.
The first is that the lid that has kept nuclear war from occurring will be blown off, and the government won’t have to kill off massive portions of the population, because our enemies will do it for us, and we’ll do it for them.
The second is that it will be the catalyst for a unified world government proclaiming peace through massive government control everywhere. That of course will be the opening to the Tribulation—and since the end of the world as we know it is the reign of Christ, I feel fine.
It also may be that the first will take place and then the second.
Stalin likely did not realize that collective farms would fail and cause millions to starve. It is still his fault but it was not as overt as Auschwitz. Similarly the “Great Leap Forward” caused mass starvation but it is a stretch to think that Mao intended this. Remember that Biden blamed Trump for Covid deaths.
Deaths in the Gulags and at the hands of Pol Pot were more likely to have been intended. And you can argue that Stalin hated the “Kulaks” because they supported themselves and so didn’t fit into the Proletariat/Bourgeoisie struggle narrative.
Estimates vary, but a genuine eye opener is various totalitarian governments mentioned in the 20th century murdered or responsible for somewhere around 100 to 200 Million people.
Get this though. That isn’t counting any of the wars! All that pie in the sky shit just leads to a pile of skulls. Everytime. It’s always the same in every country, the same playbook, the same routine. Demonize a specific segment of the population. Can be based on religious, ethnic, or tribal affiliations.
Gin up hatred in media, academia, and government.
Sound familiar? It should.
If only Stalin knew!
One of the things that (used to) confuse and astound people in the West, true believers insist reality is collective.
So in the case of the French Revolution, one of the things they did was set about price controls on Bread.
So bakeries were forced by law to sell every loaf of bread for less than the cost of the ingredients used to make it. You’ll never guess what happens next!
This same kind of mentality persists in collectivist soviet or marxist theory. “Our plan would have worked, if it weren’t for those meddling kids!”. They really believe, if everyone “believes”, then everything will be Utopia.
It is only because of “wreckers and hoarders” and people who don’t sufficiently Believe, that these nonsense crackpot schemes don’t work. YOU need to get your mind right, Comrade!
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My D. I. constantly said, “kill a commie for mommie.”
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One thing I never get is how bad it was for those millions of people who died. Jesus did not come to save them. What makes you think this will be different? Because maybe hundreds of millions if not billions of people will be slaughtered? How many years of suffering will we have to endure before Jesus returns? Just curious.
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The 45 million estimate for Mao is dwarfed by the Islamic invasion of India which reduced their population from 600 to 200 million over eight centuries, and is considered the greatest genocide in history.
Well, Revelation says 1/3 of the people must die, so as horrible as what the Nazis, Soviets, Japanese, Maoists, and other mass-murdering governments have done, it doesn’t rise to the level of the multibillion carnage—that can only come from worldwide atomic warfare, or some later unimaginable technology.
We are experiencing America’s Cultural Revolution (ala Mao).
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Muslims slaughtered maybe hundreds of millions of Skkhs and Hindus.
Anyone who thinks they won’t do the same to the Americas is mentally deficient.
Not to mention what the Turks did to the Armenians. That’s what actually gave Hitler the inspiration for “The Final Solution”.
Yes he did, over two thousand years ago he died to save them not in this life (which is short and temporary) but in the hereafter which is eternal.
The implementation of communism is done by people who want to live in the palace and ride in the government limousines.
The preachers of communism are lazy professors who want the coeds to think they are mysterious.
Christ didn’t come to save people from their troubles 2000 year ago He came to save all of us from Sin. When He comes again it won’t be to save people from their troubles, their pain or sufferings but from the Anti-Christ.
Augusto Pinochet had the right approach to dealing with Marxists.
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