Communists boiled babies: Berlusconi

Herald Sun ^ | 27 March 2006

[Aussie Dasher]

ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, fighting for re-election against a centre-left coalition which includes the hard left, said today communists have a history of boiling babies.

"I have been accused many times of saying communists eat babies," he told a rally of his Forza Italia (Go Italy!) party.

"Go and read the black book on communism and you'll find that under Mao's China they didn't eat babies but they boiled them to fertilise the fields.

"They say we look to the past too much, but they forget that in the opposition there are three parties who proudly call themselves communists."

Mr Berlusconi has often been accused of being obsessed with the "communist threat" in Italy, a country where during the Cold War the communist party was bigger than anywhere else in western Europe.

In the run-up to winning the 2001 election, Berlusconi said: "I can organise a conference in which I will prove communists have really eaten babies and done even worse things."

With the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, most of the Italian Communist Party transformed itself into the Democrats of the Left, now Italy's main opposition party.

But smaller breakaway communist parties still exist.

The biggest, Communist Refoundation, is likely to poll 6-7 per cent of the vote at the April 9-10 election, opinion polls indicate. Another party, Italian Communists, may get up to three per cent.

Polls put the centre-left bloc, led by former European Commission President Romano Prodi, 4-5 percentage points ahead of Mr Berlusconi's centre-right.

[Ironclad]

HOS is the book about which I'm talking. Ruin your whole day.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Yep, but must never be forgotten.

[HitmanLV]

Word I hear is that Burlusconi is walzing into a bloodletting at the upcoming elections. Any insights?

[Ironclad]

I thought Conquest was unsure about the stats, since a lot of the population decline in the Ukraine could have been war related. The Bolshies obviously didn't keep very good records on their own genocide. 20 million was the total between 1930 and 1950, but dividing it between the war and the famine was problematical. It's been a long time since I read the book, but that's what I recall.

[Aussie Dasher]

From what I hear, it's not looking good for him.

[ItsForTheChildren]

My apologies. I didn't get the implied /sarcasm tag. :-) Sometimes just don't know for sure.

[VOA]

I can't remember if cannabalism was specifically mentioned in "Mao, The Untold Story"...
but the mention of starvation and caloric depravation (to pay for
export of aid/weapons to other countries) was so high under Mao...
that I wouldn't be shocked if some poor peasants didn't have to resort
to the practice just to survive.

[Lancey Howard]

Italy's not already communist like France?

[Aussie Dasher]

Hard to tell. Depends on who you talk to.

[Thombo2]

I can't access the site.Is it me?

[MaDeuce]

"I can't access the site.Is it me?"

It must be ... try this link:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/cannibal/fetus.htm

[Fintan]

So, there are varying degrees of communists: Maoists, Leninists, Marxists, Trotskyites, Stalinists, Clintons, Socialists, Democrats, and DUmmies.

I need more information because I can't tell the difference.

[Aussie Dasher]

Communists are bloody communists. End of story!

[Thombo2]

Yepp,that works.Looks interesting.Thanx

[Fintan]

So I was right all along...they all murder their children.

[traviskicks]

FYI:
http://www.neoperspectives.com/communist_musings.htm

[Aussie Dasher]

They're STILL at it! Strange crew...

[Galveston Grl]

It is about time we say it over and over again - Hitler only dreamed of killing as many enemies as the enemies commies killed. Everything the left touches shrivels up and dies.

[TAdams8591]

Marking!