COMMUNISM'S BLOODY DEMONIC CENTURY!

COMMUNISM'S BLOODY DEMONIC CENTURY

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - SAT. FEB. 16/19

Mr. Stephen Kotkin is a professor of history and international affairs at Princeton and a senior fellow at Stanford' s Hoover Institution. His latest book-  "Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-l941." was published last month by Penguin Press. The following appeared in the Nov. 4, 2017, print edition as 'the communist century by Stephen Kotkin'    

"In the years since years since Lenin's coup in Russia, the ideology devoted to abolishing markets and private property has left a long, murderous trail of destruction...

"But a century of communism in power - with holdouts even now in Cuba, North Korean and China - has made clear the human cost of a political program bent on overthrowing capitalism. [Free Enterprise] Again and again, the effort to eliminate markets and private property has brought about the deaths of an outstanding number of people. Since 1917 - in the Soviet Union, China, Mongolia , Eastern Europe, Indo-China, Afghanistan and parts of Latin America - communism has claimed at least 65 million lives, according to the painstaking research of demographers.

"Communism's tools of destruction have included mass deportation, forced labor camps and police-state terror - a model established by Lenin and especially by his successor Joseph Stalin. It has been widely imitated. Though communism has killed huge numbers of people intentionally, even more of its victims have died from starvation as a result of its cruel projects of social engineering....

"But one thing was clear to them: Socialism could not resemble capitalism. The regime would replace private property with collective property, markets with planning, and "bourgeois" parliaments within "people's power." In practice, however, scientific planning was unattainable, as even some communists conceded at the time. As for collectivizing property, it empowered not the people but the state.

"The process set in motion by the communists entailed the vast expansion of a secret-police apparatus to handle the arrest, internal deportation and execution of "class enemies." The dispossession of capitalists also enriched a  new class of state functionaries, who gained control over the country's wealth. All parties and points of view outside the official doctrine were repressed, eliminating politics as a corrective mechanism....

"And he (Stalin) never backtracked, even when, as a result of his policies, the country descended into yet another famine from 1931 to 1933. Forced collectivization during those few years would claim 5 to 7 million miles. The Soviet Union's awful precedent did nothing to deter other communist revolutionaries. Mao Zedong, a hard man like Stalin, had risen to the top of the Chinese movement and, in 1949, he and his comrades emerged as the victors in the Chinese  civil war. Mao saw the colossal loss of life in the Soviet experiment as intrinsic to its success.

"His Great Leap Forward, a violent campaign from 1958 to 1962, was an attempt to collectivize some 700 million Chinese peasants and to spread industry throughout the countryside.... Falsified reports of triumphal harvests and joyful peasants inundated the communist ruling elite's well-provisioned compound in Beijing. In reality, Mao's program resulted in one of history's deadliest famines, claiming between 16 and 32 million victims. After the catastrophe, referred to by survivors as the "the communist wind," Mao blocked calls for a retreat from collectivization. As he declared, "the peasants want freedom," but we want socialism."...

"The Kmer Rouge abolished money, banned commercial fishing and persecuted Buddhists, Muslims and ethnic Vietnamese and Chinese minorities...All told as many as 2 million Cambodians, a quarter of the population, perished as result of starvation, disease and mass executions... skulls in every pond....

Marxist class analysis denied legitimacy to any opposition..."

George H. Kubeck,

Allowing the existence of the  Cuban atheistic Communist cancer in the Western Hemisphere is  incomprehensible. It's a public policy health issue, and equivalent to an established diabolical Nazi racist regime in Cuba.