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September 22, 2016
Reminder: The Left is Always Composed of Murderers-In-Waiting
On the hidden horrors of Soviet life.Between 1825 and 1905, the tsars executed 191 people for political reasons—not for mere “suspicion” as under the Soviets but for actual assassinations, including that of Tsar Alexander II. In The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn remarked that between 1905 and 1908 the regime executed as many as 2,200 people—forty-five a month!—“calling forth tears from Tolstoy and indignation from Korolenko and many, many others.” By comparison, conservative estimates of executions under Lenin and Stalin—say, twenty million from 1917 to 1953—yield an average of over ten thousand per week. That’s a tsarist century every few days.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at September 22, 2016 10:01 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.