Never forget. Never forgive:
Posted on 11/07/2017 10:42:38 AM PST by PROCON
“...A historic reminder of the incomprehensible brutality of a godless, Communist “Utopia”. ...”
And one giant reminder of why Americans - REAL Americans - will NEVER give up our firearms without a very heavy price paid by those trying to take them.
Read “Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution”.
It’s enlightening. You can download the pdf of it for your library.
Infuriating when you see who was helping them, right here in our own country.
Robert Conquest’s “The Great Terror” and his small summary study “The Human Cost of Communism in Russia”, 1970 or 70, Senate Judiciary Committee, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. (I created the third one (after Richard Walker’s “The Human Cost of Communism in China”, SISS, 1971. Mine was entitled “The Human Cost of Communism in Vietnam”, 1972 (with a testimony and counter-testimony after that, one by a Hanoi propagandist named Gary Porter and the HCCV II, by Romanian refugee, Vietnam scholar Daniel Teodoru).
“The Black Book of Communism”. By a French scholar, about 1992.
Testimonies of Avram Shifrin, SISS, 1972 or 73, “Slave Labor in the USSR” (3 volumes). An other testimony of his before the House Committee on Banking and Currency, about 1974.
The book by the Rev. Wurmbrand about his captivity in Romania.
There is a book by Rummels with “human cost” figures. I don’t have the name right now.
Douglas Pike - The Viet Cong Strategy of Terror” about SVN, including the Hue Massacre.
Don Orbendorfer’s “TET”.
Ed Hunter’s “Brainwashing in Red China” and “The Story of Mary Liu”, among others by this old China hand journalist, then OSS and CIA operative, and the media-father of the term “Brainwashing” though that’s not what he called it. The media did.
Cardinal Mindzety’s book.
And a relatively newcomer but devastating look at Stalin and his policies, “Stalinist Genocide and Mass Murder” Course for High Schools and Colleges”, Prof. Alexander Rashin (a friend),Memento Clio, 2013, MEMENTO.CLIO.ordes@gmail.com, also at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.
Another source is LULU, http:/www.lulu.com/spotlight/FrancTireurUSA
Lots of other books on the Katyn Forest Massacre (total killed is now estimated, based on body recoveries and known missing, to be over 12,000-15,000, or even 20,000. There are several old books written by a couple of survivors - I only have one that is a paperbook version, about 1950’s or 60’s.
A writer named “Guillaume”, “Blue Ants”, about slave labor in Red China, approx. 1950’s.
Hoan Van Chi - “Vietnam: From Colonialism to Communism”, an insiders view (excerpt is in “The Human Cost of Communism in Vietnam”, 1972 compendium study.
Cuba: Humberto Fontova’s books.
“Black Man in Red Cuba”.
many others, maybe one by Paul Bethell, a former US diplomat.
Guatemala - Daniel James “Guatemala? Prelude to Communism”, about 1956, based on captured Communist Party of Guatemala documents.
Massive studies on communism by the old Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1934-1944); House Committee on Un-American Activities; House Internal Security Committee; Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (90 volumes in one series, 40 in another). Some are available on-line; others through subscription services including Hein Online and ProQuest or Hathi Library/Collection.
I am not so sure that the wound is not fatal.
Western Civilization may not be dead yet but it is hanging by a thread.
Atheism and materialism are ascendant. Socialism is near universal in the West and the ubiquity of the national bureaucracy is reaching the extent and breadth of that of the Soviet state.
A free market in the West is a distant memory at best. Tax law drives the economy and crony capitalism leads the stock market.
What Lenin and Stalin could not accomplish in their life times their followers at Harvard, Yale and the other Ivy League schools have finished.
It may not be the strict planned economy that they envisioned but it is an economy dictated by government none the less.
I’m not sure the Democrat sheep recognize that their party is all about communism. They think it is about equality and love and fairness. That is what they are told anyway.
It is sad, we have so many examples of why Socialism/fascism/communism don’t work. And yet this country keeps trudging in that direction.
It’s sad communism murdered more people then any other ideology in history, they were just as bad if not worse than their socalist brothers the Nazis. Yet schools are permitting communist to teach our kids nonthing but prase of the evil system.
Never forget. Never forgive:
Staggering. It’s the grandaddy of all statistics.
To mark the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, here are 30 quotes — eleven with video — from the MRC’s archives showing the liberal media’s blindness to the true nature of communism:
■ “If suddenly a true, two-party or multi-party system were to be formed in the Soviet Union, the Communist Party would still win in a real free election. Except for certain small pockets of resistance to the communist regime, the people have been truly converted in the last 68 years.”
— CNN Moscow bureau chief Stuart Loory in a letter to the Wall Street Journal, February 3, 1986.
■ “Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.”
— Anchor Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News, June 17, 1987.
■ “The Soviet Union, draped in history, born in a bloody revolution, bound together by a dream that is still being dreamt. The dream of a socialist nation marching toward the world’s first communist state....Once the Kremlin was the home of czars. Today it belongs to the people....Atheist though the state may be, freedom to worship as you believe is enshrined in the Soviet Constitution....Modernization on a grand scale. A great success.”
— From the first night of Ted Turner’s seven-hour TBS cable series Portrait of the Soviet Union, March 20, 1988.
■ “Castro has delivered the most to those who had the least....Education was once available to the rich and the well-connected. It is now free to all....Medical care was once for the privileged few. Today it is available to every Cuban and it is free....Health and education are the revolution’s great success stories.”
— Peter Jennings reporting from Havana on ABC’s World News Tonight, April 3, 1989.
■ “Communism got to be a terrible word here in the United States, but our attitude toward it may have been unfair. Communism got in with a bad crowd when it was young and never had a fair chance....The communist ideas of creating a society in which everyone does his best for the good of everyone is appealing and fundamentally a more uplifting idea than capitalism. Communism’s only real weakness seems to be that it doesn’t work.”
— 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney in the New York Times, June 26, 1989.
■ “Instead of reveling in the collapse of communism, we could head off economic and social havoc by admitting that for most of us, capitalism doesn’t work, either...Homeless, jobless, illiterate people, besieged by guns and drugs, are as bereft of a democratic lifestyle as anybody behind the old Berlin Wall...If we look within ourselves, we will see that a capitalistic order that is dependent upon cheap labor and an underclass to exploit is too dangerous a concept to continue.”
— USA Today “Inquiry” Editor Barbara Reynolds, December 8, 1989.
■ “Yes, somehow, Soviet citizens are freer these days — freer to kill one another, freer to hate Jews....Doing away with totalitarianism and adding a dash of democracy seems an unlikely cure for all that ails the Soviet system.”
— Co-host Harry Smith on CBS This Morning, February 9, 1990.
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It is obvious that the leftist does not understand the story of communism as normal people do.
I noticed this recently with some good examples and it became real clear.
The way in which normal people understand stories, and the way in which the leftist understand the same story, is quite different.
Two examples:
1. Bernie Sanders completely misunderstands the Robin Hood story as pointed out in a recent debate with Ted Cruz.
2. hillary Clinton completely misunderstands 1984 as is clear when she references it in her book
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
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100 million is without a doubt on the light side, I think you’re looking at least 10x that number.
The number killed by Marxist thinking, if not Marxist governments needs to be considered. Abortion, the NHS and the Swiss death clinics all feature in this number.
When Islam takes over Europe, 200 million dead from Communism is going to look like the good old days.
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