The communists are/were the most evil species ever to walk teh earth. It still blows my mind how “educated intellectuals” embrace these miscreants and their corrupt and evil ideology as just a different way of living.
I am sorry for the foolish Americans who went to Uncle Joe’s paradise and had the rug pulled out from underneath them - although I’m sure that many of these people were dyed-in-the-wool commies, in which case I say good riddance.
I wonder why the story of these people is not better known here in the US? You would think that the then US Administration would have had something to say about this (except that he was also on Uncle Joe’s team).
Coming Out of the Ice by Victor Herman is a fantastic book. It is a great story from an individual viewpoint. Victor’s father was an enthusiastic communist, but he was not.
From time to time I still meet a person that thinks communism and the old USSR were ideal if we only gave them a chance to succeed. They also claim the gulags were fantasies dreamed up by foreigners. My head nearly explodes when I hear that.
Your last answers your own question. Heck, the NY Slimes STILL refuses to acknowledge that Walter Durante was complicit in the cover-up of the mass starvation and genocide of millions by Stalin against the Ukraine.
The most we will ever hear from the leftist apologists for communism is that there were some bad people in charge, and they might even acknowledge that there were "some deaths." But EVERY communist regime in history has been one of murderous brutality. Think Mao, Stalin, Lenin, Pohl Pot, etc...
Mark
Communism can’t be blamed for the evil committed by evil men in the name of communism any more than the evil committed by evil men in the name of religion can be blamed on religion.
It has been said over and over again that a people deserve the government they have, and if that is true, the Russians deserved Stalin just as they now deserve Putin. If a foolish, ignorant and naïve people can be manipulated by evil men using such words as “Communism,” “Democracy,” “National Socialism,” or “Change We Can Believe In,” then they deserve what they get in a government.
Birds of a feather...