Something worse

Submitted by Peter Herz (United States), Oct 11, 2007 at 21:16

The absolutely chilling thing about the stats given is that the casualties racked up by Communism hit their peaks when the Communist regimes supposedly "restored peace" to war-torn states like China, Viet Nam, and Cambodia.

The moral of the story is that ethnic (or class, or ideological) cleansing is workable and advisable when you have a media and intelligentsia subservient to your world view.

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