I just finished reading The Gulag Archipelago and I’ve been curious as to exactly how many people have been killed by communism.
When the commies took control of everything, naturally things went to hell in all kinds of industry. They found all kinds of scapegoats that they called “wreckers” who were imprisoned or executed for “wrecking”.
I found the passage that I posted by googling wreckers and communism.
It must have been quite a job for the author of that stunning passage to compile all of that information.
Well loads of cops, firemen, UAW workers, govt employees are union goons who would murder you to keep their benefits and early retirement.
The Gulag Archipelago was one of the most influential books of my life. I was pretty left leaning when the book was first published and curiosity motivated me back then to purchase it. It destroyed any illusion I had about any moral equivalence between the Soviet Union and this country, and likewise our political systems. On the heels of reading the Gulag (the first of the three volumes), I watched the horrific events in Cambodia and the Cultural Revolution in China. I realized then that American leftists were flirting with an evil ideology. With the egalitarian ‘makeup’ washed off its face, one can see communism (and I pretty much regard socialists as closet communists) for the vicious, totalitarian monster it really is, and then it’s utopian siren song no longer sounds so sweet.
My kids are adopted from Russia and Eastern Europe and we also support some missionaries in Ukraine. I have heard first hand stories of the atrocities and having seen those countries and walked those streets, it boggles my mind how any sane American could desire to bring that hellish philosophy here.
Almost every family lost family members to the Gulag, entire countries in Eastern Europe had half their population sent to Siberia and Russians were moved in. The communist leaders desired to disrupt the social fabric for both the Russians and the satellite countries. Fear and desperation were just a constant way of life. It is just so, so evil.
I sometimes can’t believe we brought our kids 10 years ago and the now “shadow of Mordor” seems to be spreading here in the US.