Should America Build A Holocaust Memorial for the 100 Million Victims of Communism?

May 13, 2005 | ComtedeMaistre

[Wurlitzer]

"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. "

Well phrased that way sure. However blonde girls from the upper Mid-West ARE more special than criminals of any sort or location.

[Cowboy Bob]

Should America Build A Holocaust Memorial for the 100 Million Victims of Communism?

Why? It didn't happen here.

Should we build a monument to the "Rape of Nan-king," "The Killing Fields of Cambodia," and the Armenian Genocide too? I don't think we should have built a Holocaust Memorial here because none of the killings occurred here, and the Us was not involved with the killing.

[Minus_The_Bear]

Why is it that the British get this but we can't seem to. You didn't see Blair over there and Churchill NEVER trusted Stalin like FDR did.

[OldFriend]

Why not go back and actually read the first sentence of the article.

[Mike Bates]

Communism's victims deserve to be remembered

[Treader]

Apparently, you have fluxed the present political machinations with some misguided idea of what WWII was really about...

[Irontank]

Or read Walter Duranty's coverage in the NY Times during the 1930's of the Soviet Union...for which the NY Times received a Pulitizer Prize

Oh no wait a minute, my bad...Mr. Duranty never mentioned the mass murder of the Ukranians...sorry

[Echo Talon]

Yea and we we could have won WWII conventionally without the Russians /sarcasm

[Treader]

Swing and a miss. What the hell was your prior cynical post directed towards?

[Echo Talon]

here maybe they shouldnt be honored

[CAPTAINSUPERMARVELMAN]

If it will make all of the putrid commie scumbag supporters and advocates angry then I say heck yeah!

[ozzymandus]

They should build it in front of the State Department, to remind the appeasers every day.

[Bald Eagle777]

True enough. If you owned a business (or more than one), farms), land, estate, etc in the USSR, God have mercy on you. If you refused to work on the Collective or tried to hold onto your lands and property, you would have been in deep trouble.

Private property is one of the underpinnings of any truly free society. Genocide against a Class of people is not.

Damn Kulaks! (sarc.)

[Treader]

Russia was allied, no doubt. An honorable ally? Spit out the hook.

[Treader]

Outstanding idea!

[Echo Talon]

Russia was allied, no doubt. An honorable ally? Spit out the hook.

Did they kill enemy that we didn't have to? Did they take bullets they our men didn't have to? yes and yes. Were the the best friends we could have ever had... no. Should we honor their sacrifices in that War? hell ya.

[P.O.E.]

It should include live webcams of such totalitarian repression as going on in Sudan, Zimbabwe, etc.

[veronica]

Currently, the exclusion of victims of Stalinism and Maoism from the DC Museum, reduces the Museum to a monument to political correctness.

It's merely "political correctness" to memorialize the deaths of 6 million innocent people, an enitre people/religion which was marked for extinction by the Nazis?