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September 13, 2016
In The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn remarked
“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.Western public opinion has never come to terms with the crimes of Communism.
Every school child knows about the Holocaust, Apartheid, and American slavery, as they should. But Pol Pot’s murder of a quarter of Cambodia’s population has not dimmed academic enthusiasm for the Marxism his henchmen studied in Paris. Neither the Chinese Cultural Revolution nor the Great Purges seem to have cast a shadow on the leftists who apologized for them. Quite the contrary, university classes typically blame the Cold War on American “paranoia” about communism and still picture Bolsheviks as idealists in too great a hurry. Being leftwing means never having to say you’re sorry. On the hidden horrors of Soviet life.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at September 13, 2016 6:37 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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And the children will only learn of those atrocities from their parents and other relatives at home, since the powers that "never came to terms" with them (actually favored and cheered the commies and other marxists on) run the schools, Hollywood and much of the other media, and the rest of the education industry, and much of the Federal government bureaucracies. Geez. Alger Hiss is still a hero to many of our academics, bureaucrats, and entertainers.
Posted by: OldFert at September 13, 2016 8:35 PM
Look up "The Chekist" on YouTube. It's a film from Russia just after the fall of the Soviet Union that seeks to convey the true nature of the communist machine. After the initial shock of the brutal executions, most films would move on to other aspects of the story, the background, the characters, etc. This one doesn't. The executions just keep coming; as in reality itself. It's hard to take, but I think it achieves its objective.
Posted by: Brett_McS at September 14, 2016 5:06 AM
@Brett_McS > Yes "The Chekist" should be mandatory viewing in all schools. A look at past and present Socialism/Communism indeed.
Posted by: Terry at September 14, 2016 7:33 AM
By the time children are in the schools, Terry, it is already too late.
The learning must start from birth.
See my other reply to Sensing in another post, here:
http://www.americandigest.org/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=34551
Children lack the skills to look as far ahead as tomorrow.
Like wild assed animals, they live in the here and now.
In the absence of such skills, as grown adults, there is no cure for this malady except immediate and direct extreme violence.
Prolonged exposure to overwhelming personal violence will scare just about anyone back into reality, even the most hard core communist.
At that point it will be impossible to deny seeing in bold technicolor their very short future, and the expanded ability to see even further than the end of their arrogant, smug snoots.
Posted by: ghostsniper at September 14, 2016 8:01 AM