Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall was breached and Soviet communism, at long last, entered its death spiral.
After claiming approximately 100 million victims in the 20th century, communism ...
Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall was breached and Soviet communism, at long last, entered its death spiral.
After claiming approximately 100 million victims in the 20th century, communism was dismissed to the ash heap of history. But those who suffered under its boot heel have largely been confined to the history books when not forgotten altogether.
Author and historian Lee Edwards set out to correct this oversight with the creation of the Victims of Communism memorial and online museum, dedicated to those who perished because of Communist regimes between 1917 and 1989.
Reason.tv spoke to Edwards about the importance of historical memory, plans for a forthcoming bricks-and-mortar museum in Washington, DC, and the paintings of Ukrainian gulag survivor Nikolai Gettman, currently on display at the Heritage Foundation, where Edwards is a "Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought."
Produced by Meredith Bragg and Michael C. Moynihan.
Interview by Moynihan. Shot and edited by Bragg. Approximately 4 minutes.
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Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall was breached and Soviet communism, at long last, entered its death spiral.
After claiming approximately 100 million victims in the 20th century, communism was dismissed to the ash heap of history. But those who suffered under its boot heel have largely been confined to the history books when not forgotten altogether.
He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means "I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve". It's easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help. ~ Isaac Asimov
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Seriously, do you actually read up on scholarship before you believe the numbers you hear in political polemics? These 'murders' come mainly by not only attributing natural famines to 'evil commies', but by using unscientific methods such as population growth estimates to arrive at unrealistically bloated numbers. To compare ~two million actual murders, perpetrated not from top down orders, to the systematic extermination of 6 million jews and 6 million others is sick to say the least.
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Wow and all that GDP growth and yet in the 30s the real wages of your average worker were a tenth..A TENTH what they were in the 20s.
Until you realize that simple GDP numbers mean jack to every day people you should just sit down.
I own a company and my employees are free as hell to leave and start their own from scratch as I did..no one is stopping them.
After claiming approximately 100 million victims in the 20th century, communism was dismissed to the ash heap of history. But those who suffered under its boot heel have largely been confined to the history books when not forgotten altogether.
Are they proud of you? NO?
Not even them?
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson
You quote SciFi writers? What's up with that?
I thought you were a serious commie.
Stalin is spinning in his grave.