Jim Liao, Epoch Times: Communism: The Leading Ideological Cause of Death in the 20th Century
Of all the plagues to ravage humanity, from the Black Death to cancer, one of the deadliest has been a virulent idea that has claimed millions of souls.
Except that the idea, communism, denies the existence of a soul, and its adherents normally punish those that would say otherwise. The brutal brainchild of Karl Marx, the Communist Manifesto, promised utopia on Earth. All one needed to do was overturn society and throw off the ruling class through violent revolution. The road to paradise was red, built on a new social order built by destroying traditional beliefs, social structures, property ownership, and governance.
Adolf Hitler’s Holocaust is a familiar horror, but the grim death counts from communist revolutions in Russia and China both far exceed his genocidal efforts. While Hitler targeted the Jews, the communists targeted all religions, and entire classes of society.
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WNU Editor: This year is the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. In Russia itself .... it is telling that instead of celebrations this anniversary is being replaced with remembrances and a push to recognise the victims. As to how will I remember it .... I will always remember what my father .... a Soviet Communist Party member .... told me years ago when he immigrated to Canada. Son .... there are more devoted and dedicated Communists in Canada and the U.S. than in the Soviet Union itself.
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