Posted on 05/13/2005 9:03:57 AM PDT by ComtedeMaistre
Some conservatives were angered by President Bush's decision to attend the military parade in Russia, where the Red Army was honored for its role in World War Two sixty years ago. The Red Army has a record of bloodshed that exceeds even that of the Nazi SS units.
The leaders of Lithuania and Estonia acted on principle, and decided to boycott the military parade in Russia honoring the Red Army, with communist hammer and sickle flags in full display. While we remember the victims of Nazism, we should not forget the tyranny that the Baltics and the rest of Eastern Europe was subjected to for over 40 years.
Communism killed 100 million people in the 20th Century, double the number who died in World War Two. America should build a memorial to victims of the Communist genocides in Ukraine, China, Cambodia, Russia, Vietnam,etc.
The democrat party is Communist so we did not win.
So, those sacrifices were willingly made- by the sacrificed? Are you misguided, or just...
OTOH, a memorial/museum for the >hundred million victims of international communism should be built, and it should include everthying from the decamegamurders of Stalin and Mao down to the nasty little Marxist kakistocracies of southeast Asia, Africa, and South America. And it should include the complicity of the American political "left" with the crimes of the overseas communist regimes. IMO.
Mighty Christian of you.
Why would some conservatives be mad that the President honored the death of 26.6 million people? The Parade wasn't about the years after WWII.
I suggest we first get the New York Times to recognize the slaughter in the Ukraine.
Some are Jan, then again some look at things with an unbiased eye. Dead is dead, and no human dying at the hands of another aquires special status by virtue of their DNA.
Dead Iraqis or Kurds aren't any more important than dead people in the Sudan or Rowanda. Missing or dead blonde girls from the upper Midwest aren't any more special than a dead black teen on the streets of LA. Millions of murdered somewhere in some geograpical/political/religious demographic are any better than those murdered in another.
This is not only logical, it is in keeping with the idea that we are all children of God.
As long as taxpayers don’t pay for it. We have to get rid of government spending across the board and put the Fat Lard Lady (our budget) on a severe diet.
[ I would like to see an eventual abolition of the property tax and income tax (and IRS code). The only way to do that is to roll back government spending to 1900 levels, pay OFF the National Debt and kill of all vestiges of socialism in the budget. Unplug all useless programs, bureaucracies, etc and roll the country back] I am sure that the private sector can set up a fund to adequately pay for such a memorial.
If property taxes can be permanently abolished (read: repealed), then an annual budget for maintaining such a memorial would not have to factor in property taxes, just basic maintenance (landscaping, monument maintenance, etc)
BTW, I am fairly certain that the number would be higher than 100M if you include ALL Communist-inspired events, movements, insurgencies and Governments from 1917 forward. Pol Pot, the Chinese Communist "Cultural Revolution", all the Asian and Central and South American insurgent groups; all of the Eastern Bloc government's, Stalin and the rest.
The real number is way off the charts and no one has the balls to really deal with this directly, yet. Some scholars like Richard Pipes are making inroads, but there is too much material to consider. On the other hand, the Left in America and Europe has either 1) denied Communist and Marxist-inspired killings or 2) grossly understated the numbers, when admitted.
When the smoke finally clears from the twentieth Century, scholars in maybe the next 200 or so years will be able to look back at this period of history with more objectivity.
A privately-funded memorial, with a caveat that the true, larger numbers have yet to be revealed, would be a nice start.
Yes, but the Russians, Chinese, residual-in-retirement-unprosecuted Pol Pot followers, Vietnamese, Castro, Chavez, etc. should be made to pay for it.
Again this parade was FOR ACTIONS TAKEN IN THE WAR, NOT WHAT CAME AFTER THE WAR.
Brilliant. If Putin did this it would help his country more than almost anything I can think of... Russians haven't washed the boot marks off their necks yet. This would be a great start.
Brilliant. If Putin did this it would help his country more than almost anything I can think of... Russians haven't washed the boot marks off their necks yet. Great start -- and it would help clean the slate with Western democracies. Really, brilliant.
A cheap way to build the Communist Holocaust Memorial: Kick the United Nations out of American and make that building the Memorial. Saving American taxpayers MILLIONS.
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
For the reason that the large majority of those counted as killed, were KIA as a result of Stalin's push of ethnics & miserables to the front lines. Not only into combat, but to resist by body count until real troops could logistically advance. You have swallowed a hook- spit it out.
Yes, I think it's an excellent idea. But it's not the first time it has been brought up. Democrats will never allow the building of such a memorial because that would be an admission that their political philosophy is rooted in blood, and in fact is an order of magnitude bloodier than Nazism.
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