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

May 13, 2005 | ComtedeMaistre

[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.

[Pyro7480]

Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation

[ozzymandus]

The USSR was "the best friend we could ever have had"?????
I let your other inane comments pass, but what kind of Kool-Aid are you drinking?? Stalin and Hitler were allies until 1941, and Stalin repeatedly tried to cut a deal with Hitler until the end of the war.

[ozzymandus]

Yes.

[azhenfud]

Let THEM build it over THERE for THEIR dead.

[Treader]

I will check on this opportunity. Thank you!

[Treader]

Of course I agree with you. That is what my simple minded posts on this thread are about...

[veronica]

Fortunately most people have the good sense to disagree with you.

[ozzymandus]

Sorry, but it's all about PC. Where's the memorial for the Ukranians? The Poles? The Chinese?

[Echo Talon]

The USSR was "the best friend we could ever have had"?????

Well maybe you forgot to read the next word... NO.
Were they* the best friends we could have ever had... no.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

We should raise a statue to Stalin, he killed more commies than anyone else.

Can it be that you are either grossly ignorant or a Communist yourself? The many millions Stalin killed were powerless subjects of the totalitarian Soviets, not willing Party members.

[ozzymandus]

Uh, oops! My bad. I apologize.

[veronica]

Why is it "PC"? Please explain. :)

[Echo Talon]

it's ok, I have misread posts before. :D

[Treader]

I somehow missed your excellent post. Your stated facts are well placed in this discussion.

[Treader]

I re-read my response to you, and don't see what you saw. Please know that no insult was given, nor implied. My bolder statements are obvious and intended to provoke- being nuanced is not a skill within my range, gate2wire. I like what you said!

[Paul C. Jesup]

[ 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.

Wrong thread, this thread is not about the IRS.

[Xiaoding]

What's so inane? Eastern Europe was nothin but a bunch of Jew killers back then, you want to build a memorial to that?

Or Perhaps a memorial to the noble allies of the Nazis, the RUSSIANS? Some folks seem to have forgoten that little detail.