Posted on 11/08/2018 2:58:39 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump marked a national observance on Wednesday for the millions victims who died as a result of international communism.
"On the National Day for the Victims of Communism, we honor the memory of the more than 100 million people who have been killed and persecuted by communist totalitarian regimes," the president said in a White House statement. "We also reaffirm our steadfast support for those who strive for peace, prosperity, and freedom around the world."
Communism, or Marxism-Leninism, is a political ideology whose adherents first seized power during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Often referred to by the euphemism "scientific socialism," communism sought to reshape societies through collectivist systems that seek to change human nature through labor.
A main feature of communism is an implacable hostility to capitalism, the economic system that has produced the most advanced and freest civilization in human history.
Since then, "we have witnessed the effects of the tyrannical communist ideology—anguish, repression, and death," Trump said of the Bolshevik takeover.
"Communism subordinates inherent human rights to the purported well-being of all, resulting in the extermination of religious freedom, private property, free speech, and, far too often, life," he said.
States that adopt communist political systems are marked by violations of basic human rights. Resulting policies under communism have produced severe repression against any group or person perceived by ruling regimes to be an "enemy of the state."
China’s system has been noted as the deadliest communist state, producing a death toll estimated to be 65 million people through executions, forced labor, and other means, according to the authoritative Black Book of Communism, published in 1999.
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Thank you, President Trump!!!!!!
Would never have known this except for this report found here on FR.
God bless President Trump for being on the RIGHT side of every issue!
That’s what they’re hoping for here.
Yeah but that is no doubt a conservative estimate. I don’t think the Khmer Rouge actually kept accurate records. Could be wrong, but I think those records would have surfaced by now. Doesn’t really matter. Simple enough to say it was and is a highly toxic ideology. Kind of like the other major non-freedom ideology vying for dominance.
My point is that the rodeo ain’t over.
Agree. They’ve poisoned many things American. Interesting times.
If Democrats get control this kind of slaughter will come to America!
Stalin 69M
Mao 76M
Ho chi min 2M
Pol Pot 2M
Not counting East German Stazi or other Soviet Era countries.
150M and counting
I have no doubt that Hillary’s “Fun Camps” would have added to that total.
He looks good for his age.
Nanzi Plousy should look so good.
Hillary!? They don’t make a casket big enough to fit her.
Soon to come to the US if the demonrats have their way.
But first we will have “indoctrination” centers.
President Donald Trump. Good news -- sourpuss Pelosi and the rest of the lawless wastes of protoplasm from the Demagogic Party have to grump their way through another State of the Union Address in a few months.
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