Posted on 10/25/2004 1:15:11 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
In The Red Terror in Russia, published in Berlin in 1924, the Russian historian and socialist Sergei Melgunov cited Martin Latsis, one of the first leaders of the Cheka (the Soviet political police), as giving the following order on 1 November 1918 to his henchmen: "We don't make war against any people in particular. We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class. In your investigations don't look for documents and pieces of evidence about what the defendant has done, whether in deed or in speaking or acting against Soviet authority. The first question you should ask him is what class he comes from, what are his roots, his education, his training, and his occupation."
Lenin and his comrades initially found themselves embroiled in a merciless "class war," in which political and ideological adversaries, as well as the more recalcitrant members of the general public, were branded as enemies and marked for destruction. The Bolsheviks had decided to eliminate, by legal and physical means, any challenge or resistance, even if passive, to their absolute power. This strategy applied not only to groups with opposing political views, but also to such social groups as the nobility, the middle class, the intelligentsia, and the clergy, as well as professional groups such as military officers and the police. Sometimes the Bolsheviks subjected these people to genocide. The policy of "de-Cossackization" begun in 1920 corresponds largely to our definition of genocide: a population group firmly established in a particular territory, the Cossacks as such were exterminated, the men shot, the women, children, and the elderly deported, and the villages razed or handed over to new, non-Cossack occupants. Lenin compared the Cossacks to the Vendee during the French Revolution and gladly subjected them to a program of what Gracchus Babeuf, the "inventor" of modern Communism, characterized in 1795 as "populicide."
The "dekulakization" of 1930-1932 repeated the policy of "de-Cossackization" but on a much grander scale. Its primary objective, in accordance with the official order issued for this operation (and the regime's propaganda), was "to exterminate the kulaks as a class." The kulaks who resisted collectivization were shot, and the others were deported with their wives, children, and elderly family members. Although not all kulaks were exterminated directly, sentences of forced labor in wilderness areas of Siberia or the far north left them with scant chance of survival. Several tens of thousands perished there; the exact number of victims remains unknown. As for the great famine in Ukraine in 1932-33, which resulted from the rural population's resistance to forced collectivization, 6 million died in a period of several months.
Here, the genocide of a "class" may well be tantamount to the genocide of a "race"--the deliberate starvation of a child of a Ukrainian kulak as a result of the famine caused by Stalin's regime "is equal to" the starvation of a Jewish child in the Warsaw ghetto as a result of the famine caused by the Nazi regime. Such arguments in no way detract from the unique nature of Auschwitz--the mobilization of leading-edge technological resources and their use in an "industrial process" involving the construction of an "extermination factory," the use of gas, and cremation. However, this argument highlights one particular feature of many Communist regimes--their systematic use of famine as a weapon. The regime aimed to control the total available food supply and, with immense ingenuity, to distribute food purely on the basis of "merits" and "demerits" earned by individuals. This policy was a recipe for creating famine on a massive scale. Remember that in the period after 1918, only Communist countries experienced such famines, which led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands, and in some cases millions, of people. And again in the 1980s, two African countries that claimed to be Marxist-Leninist, Ethiopia and Mozambique, were the only such countries to suffer these deadly famines.
A preliminary global accounting of the crimes committed by Communist regimes shows the following: The execution of tens of thousands of hostages and prisoners without trial, and the murder of hundreds of thousands or rebellious workers and peasants from 1918 to 1922; The famine of 1922, which caused the deaths of 5 million people; The extermination and deportation of the Don Cossacks in 1920; The murder of tens of thousands in concentration camps from 1918 to 1930; The liquidation of almost 690,000 people in the Great Purge of 1937-38; The deportation of 2 million kulaks (and so-called kulaks) in 1930-1932; The destruction of 4 million Ukrainians and 2 million others by means of an artificial and systematically perpetuated famine in 1932-33; The deportation of hundreds of thousands of Poles, Ukrainians, Balts, Moldovans, and Bessarabians from 1939 to 1941, and again in 1944-45; The deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941; The wholesale deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1943; The wholesale deportation of the Chechens in 1944; The wholesale deportation of the Ingush in 1944; The deportation and extermination of the urban population in Cambodia from 1975 to 1978; The slow destruction of the Tibetans by the Chinese since 1950.
No list of the crimes committed in the name of Leninism and Stalinism would be complete without mentioning the virtually identical crimes committed by the regimes of Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung, and Pol Pot.
The communist manifesto broke people down into two categories of people. Proletariat (Working Class/Middle Class)and Bourgeoisie (Elite / Upper Class) pronounced Booshua.
>>>>Proletariat (Working Class/Middle Class)and Bourgeoisie (Elite / Upper Class)
Is there a difference between socialism and communism?
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What we call communism is just one variety of revolutionary socialism and what we call socialism is non-revolutionary socialism.
In practicality, I guess, socialism is the gradual seizure of all property from private hands by legal means through an elected government, while communism is the forcible seizure of property by an unelected government of "worker's councils".
"The deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941"
My dad's whole family was part of that - the commies took everything they owned - they immigrated to the Volga area during Catherine the Great's rein in 1764 - and shipped over 300,000 of them to Siberia.
The men were sent to the mines; the women became servants to the Russians and many of the kids were "turned loose in the streets" only to starve and freeze to death. Stalin killed over 32 million people in the USSR and yet no Stephen Spielberg movie out there, in fact no movies about the commie killings. Don't you wonder why not?
In a post WW2 Eastern Europe enslaved by the Soviet Union, every small farmer owning more than 2ha (5 acres) of land was labeled a "kulak" and forced to give up his land to collective state run enterprise.
The libs and rats in US define "rich" as "anybody who has more than I".
Sounds familiar?
In practicality, I guess, socialism is the gradual seizure of all property from private hands by legal means through an elected government, while communism is the forcible seizure of property by an unelected government of "worker's councils".
>>>>Don't you wonder why not?
Anne Coulter's book said Hollywood was infiltrated first. I guess for propaganda.
You probably aren't surprised to learn that the left wingers adore Stalin and Communism. The 32 million lives were "necessary to expend in order to achieve our goals of equality."
While I dread the terrorists, at least they are honest by telling us what they plan to do; the incidious left wingers are more like slime mold that infect every facet of our government while telling us they are for "equality."
John Kerry is a member of the left wing socialistic/communistic agenda - make no mistake about that! He is the genuine article and if you want proof, go to Hanoi and take a gander at his picture prominently displayed.
Communism will be a final glorification of the doctrine, thanks to revolution of "working" class and when achieved there will be no private property, no money in circulation, Everybody will receive "according to his needs", and everybody will be required to contribute "according to his means".
Worldwide commies never reached this Utopian nirvana neither they claim they achieved it but they did not give it up either.
However they changed and camouflaged the terms and tactics, now socialism will be universally achieved by imposing Globalization and Global Government, and communist nirvana will be a Global Village.
Sounds familiar?
I know why - back in the 1930's my father told me that Roosevelt was a communist. Even at that very young age I was stunned. Now I know - Ann Coulter made that very plain in her book quoting the Verona (?) tapes.
Roosevelt adored Stalin and had in mind a socialistic government in America following WWII. There were at least 130 identified Communists in our government during WWII and after - Alger Hiss, one of the identified commies, was the leading State Department advisor to Roosevelt.
IMHO the State Department is still riddled with Commie leaning people - I can only hope that someone finally takes charge of that department and fixes it.
>>>You probably aren't surprised to learn that the left wingers adore Stalin and Communism.
I brought kids to the Rutgers Art Museum, www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu , this past Spring on a school trip.
The had an exhibit of Soviet Russia. WITHIN this exhibit that had a tribute to 'great leaders'. Promply displayed were Stalin and Lenin.
I couldn't believe it.
I think that speaks volumes!
>>>>John Kerry is a member of the left wing socialistic/communistic agenda - make no mistake about that! He is the genuine article and if you want proof, go to Hanoi and take a gander at his picture prominently displayed.
Leonard Magruder
http://www.v-v-a-r.org
He has a ton of research on that. I've actually entered into 're education' from reading his work.
Thanks for the thread.
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports... And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” --George Washington
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That's the precise tactic being used on both us and the Europeans. The EU consists of an unelected non-representative "government" in Brussels that hands down edicts that tell Brits how much beer they can produce, what kinds of beans the Dutch can export, etc. -- all for "the common good." Oh yes, they say they need a European Army too.
Meanwhile, the United Nations (designed by American Communist Alger Hiss to suit the goals of Stalin) now presumes to establish global rule. Its aim is to make sovereign nations like us subservient to a World Court, Agenda 21, global taxes and treaties like Kyoto that have the effect of inflicting severe economic damage. The intent is to forcibly redistribute the world's wealth from the first to the third world. And who has designs on becoming head of the U.N.? Maybe to establish a World Government like he learned about at Oxford as a Fulbright scholar? With a Democrat President it'll be a cinch even it if's not his wife.
Bush has his flaws, but with Justice Rehnquist ill and Supreme Court appointments coming up there's absolutely no other choice.
"Bolshevik" means "majority," and it started, under Lenin, as the "Social Democrat" party.
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