"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...
"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'
http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html
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"'The Black Book of Communism,'; a scholarly accounting of communisms crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."
Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmY0MjI1MDgyYjg1M2UwNDMzMTk2Mjk5YTk0ZTdlMWE=
I came across 2 articles recently which I believe the timing is not by coincidence
The first one is propaganda asserting that communism loves the poor and is compassionate.
Article-Chavez to seize homes and hotels for the poor on idyllic Los Roques
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chavez-to-seize-homes-and-hotels-for-the-poor-on-idyllic-los-roques-2367385.html
The second is just brazen support of Communism by mainstream media ABC News on line titled “Only Communism can save liberal democracy”
http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2011/10/03/3331164.htm
Things are being ramped around the world that has been well organized and planned