Actually, the Russians should, but I doubt that would happen any time soon.
So I would answer yes to this question.
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If property taxes can be permanently abolished (read: repealed), then an annual budget for maintaining such a memorial would not have to factor in property taxes, just basic maintenance (landscaping, monument maintenance,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.
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.