For the 80 years between 1920 and 2000, 100 million deaths are the equivalent of more than 3,400 persons a day. And billions more suffered. Except for communist party bosses, unfortunate residents had lives crushed by the regime. They were not able to act according to their desires. Their opportunities were stunted...Practically all victims of communism are anonymous. What does it mean to much of the world's population whose lives were demeaned, embittered, and shortened by their own governments to list the names of the victims on a memorial? To even contemplate inscribing the names of the victims on a wall or a pillar is incomprehensible. How much room should be left on such a monument for the future generations of victims in Cuba, North Korea, and China, where communism still exists, or in Russia, where it has not completely been eradicated?...Many Americans view our country's wars with some ambivalence, but one war in which there can be no doubt that we were on the right side, and which we unambiguously won, was the Cold War against communism. Ronald Reagan's epithet to describe the Soviet Union, "the evil empire," seems mild next to the numbers of lives communism destroyed....The Evil We Overcame, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, The New York Sun, 6/8/2007
Why do we need reminding of this? Furchtgott-Roth's litany depicts a system as ghastly as the one wiped out in Germany. How could we forget? It's clear that MSM and their friends on Capitol Hill would like us to, not to mention a host of university professors. We need to remember, not so much for the lost then, but for potential losses to come.
For, the heirs to communism's aggressive and totalizing violence are radical Islamists. Do we still have the will? Will Furchtgott-Roth's daughter write a similar paean to a future victory?
Luther
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