Posted on 09/25/2006 11:16:45 AM PDT by JZelle
The construction of a memorial to honor millions of people killed by communist regimes will begin this week, after years of fundraising difficulties and downsized plans. A groundbreaking ceremony will be held Wednesday morning at the memorial's site near the U.S. Capitol, said officials for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, which led the memorial campaign.
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What's this area like? Anyone?
Dems ain't gonna like this one.
Maybe we should have a memorial to those who are opposed to socialism and communism?
Too close for comfort.
About time is right! This should really piss off the usual suspects...
socialism is by force also - it's just hidden a bit.
Think the IRS and force - they don't come for you with guns, but it's the same thing in effect. Would you pay taxes if it wasn't forced ?
it would be great if they could melt one of the scrapped Stalin statues and make it out of that.
Is this location some kind of joke? The two states who have embraced communism and centralized control more than any other?
I can't believe anyone in DC has such a great sense of humor.
Exactly. Socialism/Communism both involve using force to transfer wealth from the rich to the poor.
The Communists correctly evaluated that simply transferring wealth from rich to poor would only result in the rich getting the money back over time. And thus, the only way to avoid that was to simply kill off the rich. Socialism/Communism would never work without the use of terror to achieve it's means, no matter how idealistic they may have been in the beginning.
Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
The goal of socialism is communism.
Vladimir Lenin.
It's getting better, but still a bit dicey late at night. New condos are opening up in the area as D.C.'s economic revival pushes east from the traditional downtown area in Northwest.
"fundraising difficulties and downsized plans."
It's a little like opposing the Clintons. The spirit of worldwide Communism exerts tremendous power. It didn't die with the Soviet Union.
"Socialism/Communism would never work without the use of terror to achieve it's means"
Sure. Like Islam, it's so repulsive you have to force it on people.
In fact, they will come after you with guns, if you don't pay them. They know we know this, so they seldom have to use actual force. The threat is sufficient.
Putin is not going to like this...
The democrat party, being the current incarnation of communism, will oppose this.
The Memorial will feature a 10-foot-high bronze replica of the Goddess of Democracy statue erected by Chinese students in Tiananmen Square in the spring of 1989 and then destroyed by Chinese Communist tanks. The statue was based on our own Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.
On the front pedestal of the Memorial statue will be the words: “To the more than one hundred million victims of Communism and to those who love liberty.”
On the back pedestal will be the words: “To the freedom and independence of all captive nations and peoples.”
These words will serve to remind visitors that one-fifth of the world’s population still lives, and not by their choice, under Communism.
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