After the Guns Were Removed, the Killing Fields Began

dailysignal ^ | 6/16/2022 | J. William Middendorf

[bitt]

“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The Communist Party must command all the guns; that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.”

The quote was from Mao Zedong, founder of Communist China. Mao’s first act after gaining complete control of China in 1949 was to take away all guns from the population. It was a policy he began in 1935 as he took over each rural province. Anyone found with a gun post-confiscation was executed.

An estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new “socialist” China. Anyone who got in his way was done away with—by execution, imprisonment, or forced famine.

Mao killed more people than either Stalin or Hitler during World War II. And it all began after he took away the guns.

Dictators throughout much of history have disarmed their populations before they began their mass killings. Examples abound beyond Mao: Hitler took guns from the Jews in November of 1938, and Kristallnacht and the Holocaust followed; and then there was Fidel Castro in Cuba and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, to name but a few.

Cuba and Gun Control Everybody ought to have a gun, Castro maintained—until he took over Cuba in 1959. At a rally in Havana before he assumed power, he explained: “This is how democracy works: It gives rifles to farmers, to students, to women, to Negroes, to the poor, and to every citizen who is ready to defend a just cause.”

Weapons ranging from Czech submachine guns to Belgian FN automatic rifles were handed out to 50,000 soldiers, 400,000 militiamen, 100,000 members of the factory-guarding popular defense force, and to many men, women, and children in Cuba’s 1 million-strong “neighborhood vigilance committees.”

Immediately after assuming power in 1959, Castro changed his position, following Mao’s rule that guns should not be in the hands of the people.

For three weeks after the Castro government was formed, Radio Havana warned, “All citizens must turn in their combat weapons. Civilians must take arms to police stations, soldiers to military headquarters.”

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[Jan_Sobieski]

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

[SisterK]

The CIA helped put Castro into power.

that is their function: to overthrow governments

Nov. 3, 2020

[farming pharmer]

rellic, careful your FBI training is showing through.

FR seems to be crawling with these unAmerican statist swine lately.

[GOPJ]

Dictators throughout much of history have disarmed their populations before they began their mass killings. Examples abound beyond Mao: Hitler took guns from the Jews in November of 1938, and Kristallnacht and the Holocaust followed; and then there was Fidel Castro in Cuba and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, to name but a few. Cuba and Gun Control Everybody ought to have a gun, Castro maintained—until he took over Cuba in 1959.

Commie thugs also believe in 'protests' and free speech - up until they take power - then they shut down all free speech.

[PROCON]

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[Carriage Hill]

Only from my cold, dead hands.

[Taxman]

Ping

[Leep]

Brandon is not the original author of evil.
But he is a plagiarist.

[M Kehoe]

The British tried to confiscate guns, but that didn’t work out too well.

5.56mm

[Big Red Badger]

Governments,
The largest Perpetrators
Of Mass Murders/Genocide.

[itsahoot]

Ike was shocked to learn that Castro was a commie after all we trained and supplied his invasion force.

[unread]

“We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/10/getting_the_government_we_deserve.html

[Bob Ireland]

***We didn't love freedom enough ... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward ***

So well put - and too descriptive of a fat prosperous people. 🤔

[SuperLuminal]

Nice find!

What’s interesting is that the american communists who now rule us prefaced their all-out confiscation attempt with the clever strategy of arming the non-law-enforcement bureaucracy throughout the government first...

I do not think that even Mao, Stalin, and Castro did this...
The Kenyan usurper created and implemented the strategy...
Our current communist masters have expanded it further...

[Dick Bachert]

If you’ve have never seen this disturbing and (for us!) prophetic film, it’s here (FREE):
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