Today is Victims of Communism Day

The fine folks over at The Volokh Conspiracy have come up with the brilliant idea of making May 1st Victim’s of Communism Day. If the victims of a brutal ideology that killed over 100 million people doesn’t deserve a memorial day, then who does?

Here’s an Amazon carousel widget featuring a small selection of books on victims of communist oppression.

More on estimating just how many people communism killed on R. J. Rummel’s Democide page.

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3 Responses to “Today is Victims of Communism Day”

  1. David G Anderson says:
    May 2, 2010 at 3:32 PM

    Communism is morally equivalent to Naziism: one being the genocide of classes and the other being the genocide of races. One of your titles, The Black Book of Communism, is correctly described as a handbook of evil.

    Yes. Let May 1 be a memorial day to the victims of communism.

    DGA

  2. How Many People Did Communism Kill? « Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog says:
    May 7, 2010 at 12:23 PM

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