[doug from upland]

Well, perhaps it goes back to this ---- From each according to his ability; to each according to his need. That philosophy resulted in probably 50 million deaths in the 20th Century.

[breakem]

Oh so no commies in the military. Really. I don't think that was a policy even during Viet Nam. I thought we were fighting terrorism, not China. My bad.

[Lion in Winter]

50 million murdered is a low ball estimate.

I think it was Marmema who wrote to me and said the soviets killed over 60 million Orthodox Christians in their country alone, just because of their religion. About a million of them were clergy.