They already are.
Posted on 06/26/2009 8:19:21 AM PDT by bs9021
Truly Heroic Victims
by: Alana Goodman, June 25, 2009
The atmosphere was somber at the Victims of Communism Memorial on June 16th, as speakers urged attendees to remember those who perished under past communist regimes as well as those who suffer under them still.
Lee Edwards, chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, noted that it was the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, but that democratic nations still have a long way to go before we can rid the world of “an ideology that took the lives of an estimated 100 million [people].” Some of the most notable and horrific communist massacres over the last century were the extermination of hundreds of thousands of Cossacks by Vladimir Lenin in 1920, the starvation of the Ukrainians by the Kremlin and the murder of tens of millions of Chinese peasants by Mao Tse-tung.
Pointing to the bronze Goddess of Democracy statue before him—a replica of the original statue built by the anti-Communist protesters massacred in Tiananmen Square in 1989—Edwards said that this symbol “express[es] our feeling that one day…the people of China, North Korea, and Laos will experience the blessing of liberty.”
Dr. Aldona Wos, a former ambassador of Estonia who was raised in Communist Poland, called the communist ideology a “totalitarian system which is responsible for the destruction of individuals, their ideas and their dreams.”
Wos warned attendees to be vigilant of the manifestations of communism throughout the world, noting that “post-Soviet communists have…transformed themselves into various left wing parties.” An example she cited was the Social Democratic (SPD) party in Europe, a political party which Wos says “challenge[s] the moral values of Western Civilization.”....
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I didn’t even know there was such a memorial ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Communism_Memorial ).
Where will they move it when Americans start to become victims of communism?
They already are.
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