The Price of Communism

Here are some tidbits on the Soviet Union I recently come across at this website:

In 1917, soon after the communists took control, the leaders began mass executions to impose communism on the people. It is mistakenly believed that Stalin was the only Russian who instituted mass killings, but Lenin and Trotsky were responsible for 4 million deaths.

Most of these deaths were the result of a state-sponsored famine. "The Bolsheviks started a massive program of confiscating the food of the countryside, and starved them into submission. The monsters Lenin and Trotsky deliberately started a famine as a political weapon. They caused the massive famine of 1921-2, deliberately killing 2.5 million men, women and little children, according to [Rudolph J. Rummel], or 5 million, according to [The Black Book of Communism]."

By 1920, the Russian currency (the ruble) lost 96% of its value. [The Russian leaders all knew their communism was destroying the economy ... their New Economic Policy deliberately allowed some forms of capitalism to continue because they knew it was far more successful than communal methods of redistribution.

Between 1932 and 1933, the Soviet Union deliberately starved to death 7 million Ukrainians. "Their food was stolen by the government, and every measure was taken to prevent them obtaining any food." (See the article on Holodomor on wikipedia).

The number one killer of Soviet citizens during world war II was the Soviet Union. "Even in wartime, Stalin's regime was killing more of its own people than even an invading barbaric army [Germany] could."

Estimates of Stalin's "Great Terror" range between four and eleven million people. By comparison six million people died in the Holocaust ... yet there are many laws against displaying Nazis symbols in the European Union and no laws against displaying Soviet symbology.

The mass killings by Joseph Stalin alone rank the third highest among the top three blood baths in history according to Twentieth Century Alias. The only two higher were Mao Zedong's regime and WWII (which included many of Stalin's victims).

Also check out this wikipedia link regarding "population transfer" (i.e. genocide) in the Soviet Union.

Also check out this link regarding human rights in the Soviet Union (which were considered expendable for the good of the whole). Soviet citizens had no right to vote, no right to practice religion, heavily suppressed access to literature, no property rights with regard to real estate, and no freedom to relocate or visit other locations within the USSR.

Another one worth reading is the Wikipedia article on the suppression of research in the Soviet Union, which notes how the Soviet Union suspended censored actual scientific research and funded their own pseudo-sciences.