9.18.2008
9.15.2008
8.17.2008
Cuba Libre?
As always, Armando Valladares, heroic former political prisoner of the Castro regime, has key insights.
Labels: Communism
8.14.2008
8.07.2008
8.04.2008
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, RIP
It was said of Whittaker Chambers that he didn't return from Hell empty-handed. Solzhenitsyn came back with armfuls of the most powerful writing concerning the nature of evil imaginable.
I will never forget his description of a party meeting in "The Gulag Archipelago" where an apparatchik called out a toast to Stalin, whereupon everyone rose and began the mandatory standing ovation, which went on and on and on, every man afraid of being seen to be the first to stop applauding, hearts pumping furiously, palms stinging, foreheads sweating, until one brave military man granted them a reprieve by stopping. He wound up in the camps, of course.
This is to my mind the finest vignette ever related regarding the nature of totalitarian regimes. It was honed by a man who had firsthand experience of such things, who had given most of his life to the task of exposing such truths, and who has now died at 89, having long-outlived the regime he despised and most of its enablers.
May God have mercy upon him, and welcome him to the Eternal Presence.
I will never forget his description of a party meeting in "The Gulag Archipelago" where an apparatchik called out a toast to Stalin, whereupon everyone rose and began the mandatory standing ovation, which went on and on and on, every man afraid of being seen to be the first to stop applauding, hearts pumping furiously, palms stinging, foreheads sweating, until one brave military man granted them a reprieve by stopping. He wound up in the camps, of course.
This is to my mind the finest vignette ever related regarding the nature of totalitarian regimes. It was honed by a man who had firsthand experience of such things, who had given most of his life to the task of exposing such truths, and who has now died at 89, having long-outlived the regime he despised and most of its enablers.
May God have mercy upon him, and welcome him to the Eternal Presence.
Labels: Communism
4.05.2008
4.04.2008
At Last, San Francisco's Discovered Some American War Heroes They Can Rally Behind
6.18.2007
Released from Slavery into the World's Largest Gulag
China finally discovers a form of slavery which violates Beijing's monopoly.
Make no bones about it---these poor wretches are not free; they have been moved to slightly more comfortable cells.
Make no bones about it---these poor wretches are not free; they have been moved to slightly more comfortable cells.
Labels: Communism
6.12.2007
Hate the Nazis, Love the Commies
The American Left's love affair with communism continues unabated.
Whenever I see a Che Guevara shirt, I reflect at how appalled people would be if mass murderer Adolf Hitler were its subject instead of mass murderer Che.
One would think Hitler, who didn't smoke, drink, or eat meat, would be more appealing to today's Left than Che, but one must account for the "romance" of communism.
Whenever I see a Che Guevara shirt, I reflect at how appalled people would be if mass murderer Adolf Hitler were its subject instead of mass murderer Che.
One would think Hitler, who didn't smoke, drink, or eat meat, would be more appealing to today's Left than Che, but one must account for the "romance" of communism.
6.09.2007
Never Forget
Although the Che Chic elites in the West would have us do so, we owe it to the 100 million victims of Communism to never forget its totalitarian evil. Even the Nazis refrained from slaughter of this magnitude.
Labels: Communism

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