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To: Tailgunner Joe
The reason the deaths due to communism aren't given the same emphasis as the ones due to Nazism are that these were actively denied and covered up by many in the West who continue their activities long after communism's formal fall. This book should be required reading at the university level: The Black Book of Communism.

Communism is attractive - romantic - because of its emphasis on beautiful abstraction, its cynical exploitation of ideals, and its insistent denial of the practical consequences of its policies and deflection of the blame for them to its opponents. It lasted as long as it did because its adherents were very good at this. It still has its attractions to those who prefer pretty myths to tragic reality.

15 posted on 11/23/2004 4:27:03 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Commumism is a disease of the brain. Thank God for anti-Communist regimes. Communists sympathize with the Nazis until 1941. Afer World War II, they sympathized with the Nazis again. Many Nazis became Communists, especially Gestapos, who became East German guards.


16 posted on 11/23/2004 4:33:32 PM PST by Ptarmigan (Proud rabbit hater and killer)
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To: Billthedrill
Communism is attractive - romantic - because of its emphasis on beautiful abstraction, its cynical exploitation of ideals, and its insistent denial of the practical consequences of its policies and deflection of the blame for them to its opponents. It lasted as long as it did because its adherents were very good at this. It still has its attractions to those who prefer pretty myths to tragic reality.

Spot on, and an explanation which applies to every system of belief which has led to totalitarianism

19 posted on 11/23/2004 5:56:59 PM PST by RightWingAtheist (Marxism-the creationism of the left)
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To: Billthedrill

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.


21 posted on 11/23/2004 7:03:39 PM PST by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/summary.htm)
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