Spreading socialist doctrine, the Soviet Union killed at least 50 million of it’s citizens. Its Chinese brethren, also pursuing the socialist dream, eliminated about 40 million of their own. It was socialism that erected barriers of concrete, barbed wire, and land mines to keep workers from escaping “paradise.” It intentionally starved millions of people. In China, it now forcibly aborts female fetuses as a means of population control. It viciously persecuted all religions, unwilling to allow any Deity to compete with the all powerful state.