Remembering Communism

Acton Institute ^ | November 17, 2004 | Samuel Gregg

[traviskicks]

I've read that book and it is a must read! It should be read in our public high schools - or better yet - READ IN OUR PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOLS!

Liberals never like to talk about the evils of communism.

[DaveTesla]

So right you are.
Now the communists just call themselves progressives.

[DaveTesla]

The prize goes to Stalin.
After the Bolshevik revolution he murdered 20 million of
his own. Over the course of 70 years the Soviets were responsible
for the death of 120 Million.

[Ptarmigan]

I heard Stalin murdered between 60 to 70 million.

[Tailgunner Joe]

There once was a marxist named Lenin,
Who did almost ten million men in.
But for every one he did in,
That grand marxist Stalin did ten in.

[Ptarmigan]

Anti-Communist Regimes (eg. Indonesia, South Korea, Chile, Argentina, etc.) killed something like 4 million.

[DaveTesla]

You are correct but this has yet to be fully documented.
Some day we may get KGB files to document this.
We may have (unreleased Verona Papers) them already.

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

I'm not all that nostalgic.

If one needs to "remember" the nasty tyranny of Communism, one needs only to look over at modern-day China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, Belarus, Venuzuela, Zimbabwe, the FARC in Colombia, the rejuvinated Shining Path in Peru, Aristide, Kofi Annan, the Congressional Black Caucas, Michael Moore, etc., etc., et-f***ing-cetera.

Communism is an ugly,violent wart that never stopped spreading, not even with the collapse of the Soviet Bloc.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

No more true words could have been spoken Bloody Sam !

Thank God for the defeat of the tyrant's

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

I forgot to mention North Korea, an entire nation of millions turned into a squalid graveyard by the repression of it's fanatical communist leaders Kim Ill-Sung and Jong-Ill. Just think: Arafat might be chatting it up with Ill-Sung and Stalin in Hell as we speak...

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Thank God for the defeat of the tyrant's

Sic semper tyrannus!