{"id":51321,"date":"2022-05-01T14:44:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T19:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=51321"},"modified":"2022-05-01T14:44:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T19:44:15","slug":"observing-2022-victims-of-communism-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=51321","title":{"rendered":"Observing 2022 Victims of Communism Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is May 1st, which means that once again it&#8217;s time to observe <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2020\/05\/01\/victims-of-communism-day-2020\/\">Victims of Communism Day<\/a>, remembering that a false, brutal ideology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=1191\">killed over 100 million people<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/VictimsofCommunismDay-300x109.png\" alt=\"VictimsofCommunismDay\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-31645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/VictimsofCommunismDay-300x109.png 300w, https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/VictimsofCommunismDay-768x279.png 768w, https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/VictimsofCommunismDay.png 814w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communistcrimes.org\/en\/museums-and-memorials\">a list of memorials to the victims of communism<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>With Ukraine in the news, it&#8217;s a hood time to look back on how horribly Ukraine suffered under Soviet Communism, especially in Stalin&#8217;s 1930-33 terror famine, the Holodomor. Here&#8217;s a video that covers the history of the Ukraine up to and through the Holodomor.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3cN0hQ2eJYA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More information on the Holodomor can be found in Robert Conquest&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0195051807?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lawpershompag-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0195051807\"><b>The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine<\/b><\/a>. Conquest estimated that for the entire Collectivization\/&#8221;De-Kulakization&#8221;\/Holodomor period (including the Soviet suppression of the Kazakhs and the Crimean Tartars, etc.) some 14.5 million died due to the actions of the Soviet government.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Joe Rogan and Michael Malice discussing historical atrocities, including the East German concentration for children were the guards were allowed to rape their child charges as a matter of choice. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t9xrmJ3UX9w\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Note that November 7 is <a href=\"https:\/\/victimsofcommunism.org\/programs\/memory\/voc-day\/\">also observed as a day commemorating the victims of communism<\/a>. There&#8217;s no reason we can&#8217;t observe both&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is May 1st, which means that once again it&#8217;s time to observe Victims of Communism Day, remembering that a false, brutal ideology killed over 100 million people. Here&#8217;s a list of memorials to the victims of communism. With Ukraine in the news, it&#8217;s a hood time to look back on how horribly Ukraine suffered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":17,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,411],"tags":[2873,2539,8566,337,5244,6267,188,339,1126],"class_list":["post-51321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism","category-video","tag-communism","tag-east-germany","tag-famine","tag-holodomor","tag-joe-rogan","tag-michael-malice","tag-soviet-union","tag-ukraine","tag-victims-of-communism-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51340,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51321\/revisions\/51340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}