communist nightmare

[ariel]

To the Victims of Communism...Lest we forget


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In 1993, President Clinton signed Public Law 103-199, authorizing a memorial in Washington to those who died in the "unprecedented imperial Communist holocaust" that began in 1917. It is a memorial long overdue. And it is well-suited to Washington, the capital of the Free World and the headquarters of what President Kennedy called the "long twilight struggle" against the totalitarians of the Left.

When completed, the Victims of Communism Memorial will include a museum documenting the crimes committed by the disciples of Marx and Lenin; original artifacts from the bitter night of Communist brutality (a piece of the Berlin Wall, a cell from the "Hanoi Hilton"); and a database preserving the names of those wiped out in history's greatest slaughter.

Or at least as many of those names as can be identified. It is impossible that we shall ever know them all. Every one of the hundreds of thousands of Cossacks butchered on Lenin's orders in 1919? Every Miskito Indian killed in Nicaragua under the Sandinistas? Every Chinese peasant, all 2 million-plus of them, obliterated during Mao Zedong's land reform in the early 1950s? Impossible!

pure murderous evil, there has never been a force to compare with Communism. The Nazis didn't come close. The Holocaust was uniquely malignant - never before or since did one people construct a vast industry of death for the sole purpose of rounding up and destroying every single member of another people. But the Nazis exterminated 11 million innocents; the Communist death toll surpasses 100 million. Nazi power lasted from 1933 to 1945. The Communist nightmare began in November 1917, and continues to this day.

Savagery has always been a hallmark of Communism. It is an ideology that requires the destruction of human beings. "We have never rejected terror in principle," wrote Lenin in 1901, "nor can we do so."

Half a century later, even as he denounced the extremes to which his predecessors went, Nikita Khrushchev vowed that the terror so esteemed by Lenin would go on. "The questioning of Stalin's terror," he cautioned the Twentieth Party Congress in 1956, "may lead to the questioning of terror in general. But Bolshevism believes in the use of terror." Not long afterward, Khrushchev sent 3,000 Soviet tanks to crush the Hungarian freedom fighters.

Communism equals murder. Everywhere. Always.

In Ukraine, for example, where 7 million people were starved to death on the Kremlin's orders. "If you go now to the Ukraine or the North Caucuses," wrote British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge in 1933, "exceedingly beautiful countries and formerly amongst the most fertile in the world, you will find them like a desert; . . . no livestock or horses; villages deserted; peasants famished, often their bodies swollen, unutterably wretched." Farmers who took grain or vegetables from their own land were shot. Dead bodies littered the streets of Kharkov, the capital. "It was," an eyewitness later recalled, "as if the Black Death had passed through."

Communism equaled murder in Ethiopia, where Mengistu Haile Mariam became dictator in 1977 and embarked on what he called his "Red Terror." Tens of thousands were massacred, including the graduating seniors of almost every high school in Addis Ababa.

Communism equaled murder in North Vietnam as far back as 1945, when Ho Chi Minh resolved to annihilate his Nationalist rivals. "It was appalling," recorded the historian Lucien Bodard. "Thousands, maybe tens of thousands of men had been liquidated...The intention was that horror and dread should extinguish the last trace of respect for them among the masses: Their execution had to be both shameful and terrifying. That was the reason for the mass executions of hundreds at once, the fields of prisoners buried alive, the harrows dragged over men buried up to the neck."

Communism equaled murder in Tibet, where Mao's campaign to extirpate Buddhist culture turned 1.2 million Tibetans into corpses. It equaled murder in gentle Cambodia, where the bloodlust of the Khmer Rouge vaporized one-third of the nation in less than four years. It equaled murder in Cuba, in East Germany, in Afghanistan. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic - murder. In the Gulag and the laogai - murder. At Tienanmen Square - murder. In the Korean War and the Vietnam War, in the forest of Katyn and the dungeons of the Lubyanka - murder.

One hundred million victims of Communism. And those are only the victims who were slain. It doesn't include those who were maimed or driven mad. Those whose lives went dark when a loved one was butchered. Those who spun out their years in potato queues, in vodka stupors, in daily fear. It doesn't include those who wasted 30 years as slaves in Siberia. The boat people who flung themselves into the South China Sea. The stifled poets, the gagged priests, the tormented refuseniks, the exiled democrats.

Rarely do we think of them, or of the hundred million. We forget how pathologically evil Communism has been, or why we poured so much blood and treasure into fighting the Cold War. It is to correct that amnesia that the Victims of Communism Memorial will be built.


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For information, contact:
VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
P.O. Box 1997
Washington, DC 20013
(phone) 202-785-0266
(fax) 202-785-0261



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Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
Dec. 7, 1995

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[Mitteleuropeo]

Mi sembra importante rimarcare che sia Comunismo che Nazismo fecero le loro stragi in nome del Dio Denaro.

[italianuova2]

Originally posted by Mitteleuropeo
Mi sembra importante rimarcare che sia Comunismo che Nazismo fecero le loro stragi in nome del Dio Denaro.

hai capito poco del perchè il nazismo "fece le stragi"

[Mitteleuropeo]

Ho appena finito di leggere "Hitlers Volksstaat" di Götz Aly, l' ultimo bestseller storico sul tema. Risulta chiarissimo che l' NSDAP si era rivolta all' elettore con promesse esorbitanti di benessere per tutti. L' elettore, che in quel momento (6 Mio di disoccupati, come oggi) ne aveva molto bisogno, accetto' quel "Patto con i Tedeschi". Hitler lo mantenne scrupolosamente, ma soprattutto alimentando l' industria pesante e tutte quelle industrie adatte ad una guerra lampo. In seguito, aumento' il debito pubblico e lo finanzio' con una specie di capitalismo di Stato (Stato speculatore in Titoli). Allo scoppio della guerra venne l' occasione per incassare tutto e subito: in realta' il benessere del "Patto" poteva essere possibile solo con la rapina di altri Paesi, Francia in testa.
Quando si vide che il "Blitzkrieg" ormai non era possibile (inizi 1940) e che le spese di guerra erano molto maggiori del previsto, per mantenere il "Patto" si dovette procedere al drenaggio delle risorse interne (della Germania come dei Paesi occupati), non piu' solo con l' emissione di BKK-Scheinen scoperti, ma con l' esproprio di quanto apparteneva ad Ebrei, oppositori, zingari, ecc.
Visto che non era possibile, per ovvie ragioni di ordine pubblico e di allarmismo, procedere a semplici sequestri (la popolazione si sarebbe accorta che le finanze erano in condizioni disperate), si inaspri' la percecuzione degli Ebrei, allo scopo di derubarli di tutto quanto possedevano per pagare le spese di guerra senza far mancare nulla ai Tedeschi ariani.
All' inizio, quando si pensava ancora alla rapina-blitz a prezzi scontati, al massimo si pensava di far emigrare gli Ebrei. Il progetto dello sterminio venne quando l' alternativa era la bancarotta dello Stato.

Quindi il crimine dell' Olocausto fu conseguenza di quello della guerra d' aggressione.