100 Years. 100 Million Lives. Think Twice.

[Fife]

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/284917/

As Roger Kimball tweets, “For some reason, this perspective was missing from The Red Century, The NY Times’s series celebrating Soviet Communism.”

Curiously though, Nicholas Kristof of the Times retweeted the link on Saturday, perhaps to atone for being used as a propaganda tool of the North Koreans. Here’s a flashback to a September Washington Examiner article headlined, “Nicholas Kristof in North Korea shares photos of ‘fun’ and pizza.”

From the Harvard Crimson, and worth your time:

100 Years. 100 Million Lives. Think Twice.

In 1988, my twenty-six-year-old father jumped off a train in the middle of Hungary with nothing but the clothes on his back. For the next two years, he fled an oppressive Romanian Communist regime that would kill him if they ever laid hands on him again.

My father ran from a government that beat, tortured, and brainwashed its citizens. His childhood friend disappeared after scrawling an insult about the dictator on the school bathroom wall. His neighbors starved to death from food rations designed to combat “obesity.” As the population dwindled, women were sent to the hospital every month to make sure they were getting pregnant.

[TheReal_ND]

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[C-Mag]

The Red Century

I LIKE IT !

I'll read, thanks Fife.

[Speaker to Animals]

[C-Mag]

That is great stuff.

We had a neighbor on a farm a few miles away that got over the wire before the wall was built in Berlin. Though I heard some of the stories as a young child I never understood it well. Later through exposure to communists in the military, first some Germans, then Czechs, then Cubans. Their stories were similar brutality, depravation, and destruction of human the spirit.

I liked this paragraph

Many in my generation have blurred the reality of communism with the illusion of utopia. I never had that luxury. Growing up, my understanding of communism was personalized; I could see its lasting impact in the faces of my family members telling stories of their past. My perspective toward the ideology is radically different because I know the people who survived it; my relatives continue to wonder about their friends who did not.

[TheReal_ND]

Interestingly in Russia, there is a kind of fond remembrance of its golden years during the fifties and sixties, back when we literally propped their failing agriculture plan up.

[tue4t]

Interestingly in Russia, there is a kind of fond remembrance of its golden years during the fifties and sixties, back when we literally propped their failing agriculture plan up.

[The Conservative]

My great grandmother from my mother's side was from Chezslovokia, she was born before Communism was in place, she escaped before it truly took hold, but the stories she told as it was happening was rather disheartening... the Tzars men left them alone mostly as long as they didn't cause a ruckus.

This is the problem with today's education system, you are told how to think, instead of being allowed to think for yourself. Hopefully, that will change soon, for it seems the needle that has swung left for so long is finally starting it's swing back to the center... and people are finally waking up. I just hope it hadn't come at a cost of a generation of useful idiots that need to be re-introduced into reality before it hits them hard and fast.

[brewster]

Nothing complicated here, Stalinism sucked, and still sucks. Stalinism is not, and was not ever, actual socialism. Just another form of kleptocracy and feudalism. All you need to know is whether a country is preventing it's citizens from voting with their feet. My grandfather escaped Ukraine in the 1920's by paying tobacco smugglers. Say what you will about the USA, but everyone clamoring to get here, not to leave.

[C-Mag]

Nothing complicated here, Stalinism sucked, and still sucks. Stalinism is not, and was not ever, actual socialism. Just another form of kleptocracy and feudalism. All you need to know is whether a country is preventing it's citizens from voting with their feet. My grandfather escaped Ukraine in the 1920's by paying tobacco smugglers. Say what you will about the USA, but everyone clamoring to get here, not to leave.

We are specifically talking about Communism, Stalin was a Communist leader.

Communism needs to be given the Holocaust Treatment.