The
Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
Edited by Stéphane Courtois
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PURPOSE
To fully and professionally quantify the damage done by allowing Russia
to spread its errors throughout the world. Specially when it could have
been prevented so easily.
INTRODUCTION
What you read below unexpectedly reached our hands on January 24th,
2014. Being that the information is made available on a free-to-all
basis, and its dovetails so well with our position regarding the
consequences the world endured by the inaction of the Roman Catholic
Church Administration regarding the Fatima events (1), we have chosen to
publish as a guest document.
The forwarded communication was signed by "Rafael" - whom we do not
know but to whom we are deeply grateful for making this available to
all.
DETAILS
"The Black Book of Communism: Crimes,
Terror, Repression" (2)
is a book written by several European academics and edited by
Stéphane Courtois, which documents a history of repression, both
political and civilian, by Communist states, including genocide, extra
judicial executions, deportations, and artificial famines.
The book was originally published in 1997 in France under the title "Le Livre noir du communisme: Crimes,
terreur, répression" by Éditions Robert Laffont.
In the United States it is published by Harvard University Press. The
German edition, published by Piper Verlag, includes a chapter written
by Joachim Gauck, who later went on to be President of Germany.
Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs
recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the
actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world:
terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. Astonishing
in the sheer detail it amasses, the book is the first comprehensive
attempt to catalogue and analyze the crimes of Communism over seventy
years.
"Revolutions, like trees, must be
judged by their fruit", Ignazio Silone wrote, and this is the
standard the authors apply to the Communist experience in the China of
"the Great Helmsman", Kim Il Sung's Korea, Vietnam under "Uncle Ho" and
Cuba under Castro, Ethiopia under Mengistu, Angola under Neto, and
Afghanistan under Najibullah.
The authors, all distinguished scholars based in Europe, document
Communist crimes against humanity, but also crimes against national and
universal culture, from Stalin's destruction of hundreds of churches in
Moscow to Ceausescu's leveling of the historic heart of Bucharest to
the wide scale devastation visited on Chinese culture by Mao's Red
Guards.
Estimated number of victims
In the introduction, editor Stéphane Courtois states that "...Communist regimes... turned mass crime
into a full-blown system of government". He claims that a death
toll totals 94 million.
The breakdown of the number of deaths given by Courtois is as follows:
* 65 million in the People's Republic
of China
* 20 million in the Soviet Union
* 2 million in Cambodia
* 2 million in North Korea
* 1.7 million in Africa
* 1.5 million in Afghanistan
* 1 million in the Communist states of Eastern Europe
* 1 million in Vietnam
* 150,000 in Latin America (mainly Cuba)
* 10,000 deaths "resulting from
actions of the international Communist movement and Communist parties
not in power". Courtois claims that Communist regimes are responsible
for a greater number of deaths than any other political ideal or
movement, including Nazism. The statistics of victims includes
executions, famine, deaths resulting from deportations, physical
confinement, or through forced labor.
As the death toll mounts, the authors systematically show how and why,
wherever the millenarian ideology of Communism was established, it
quickly led to crime, terror, and repression. An extraordinary
accounting, this book amply documents the unparalleled position and
significance of Communism in the hierarchy of violence that is the
history of the twentieth century, continuing, unfortunately, into the
twenty-first century.
CONCLUSIONS
If there is a single group of individuals that is fully responsible for
the bloodiest century humanity has known - the 20th century is composed
by the controlling members of the Administration (3) of the Roman Catholic
Church.
May God judge them as He sees it fit.
EPILOGUE
Perhaps, after reading the above synopsis of the book, it may be easier
to understand why the people of Ukraine are determined not to fall back
again into the Soviet/Russian sphere of influence.
NOTES
(1) The
Inaction - The
Betrayal of Trust
(2) "The Black Book of Communism: Crimes,
Terror, Repression" - at Harvard University Press
(3) About
the
Roman Catholic Church
Administration
Published on January 25, 2014 -
Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul
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