[...]"What happened in the October 1917 revolution in Russia was an ideological bank robbery. Its leaders were nothing if not daring.
Lenin and his party took over a state and then declared that no other kind of socialism was worthy of the name. They instituted a red terror.
They seized hold of an entire economy, persecuted all religious faith, imposed a one-ideology media and treated society as a resource to be mobilised on their whim.
These are historical facts that no communist in the 1920s sought to deny.
Quite the opposite: the facts were advertised by the Communist International as the only way to do away with "bourgeois rule" and induce the birth of true socialism.
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Communism destroyed millions of lives, but its critics are now branded "neocons"... "
Communism destroyed millions of lives, but its critics are now branded "neocons"... "
In urma asprelor critici de presa cu care a fost primita cartea "Comrades: A World History of Communism" , autorul Robert Service, incearca sa raspunda la intrebarea: "Why has the left's poisoned love affair with it endured ? "
Un raspuns ar fi ca represiile si persecutiile in acele tari, erau lucruri "normale" si inaintea instaurarii comunismului ...
Zice autorul:
"The point is that repression was not some aberrant phenomenon under communist rule around the world. It was ideologically condoned in advance; it proved also to be a practical necessity for the consolidation of communist states..." [more >>]
"The point is that repression was not some aberrant phenomenon under communist rule around the world. It was ideologically condoned in advance; it proved also to be a practical necessity for the consolidation of communist states..." [more >>]
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37-Orizontal:
Mao Zedong once said: "Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the -----."
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