Source: Activist PostPaul Adams, J.D.
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. -- Joseph Stalin
In
earlier times it was easier to control a million people than physically
to kill a million people. Today it is infinitely easier to kill a
million people then to control a million people. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Many
people believe that governments are too bureaucratic, incompetent and
lazy to accomplish anything substantial. However, history has
demonstrated that powerful elites have used governments to do one thing
extremely efficiently: Democide.
According to Professor R.J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii, Democide is the murder
of any person or people by a government, including genocide,
politicide, and mass murder. Democide does not include soldiers killed
in battle. During the 20th Century (1900s) alone, Rummel calculates
that government power was used to murder approximately 262,000,000 people.
Soviet Union
Approximately 61,911,000 people, 54,769,000 of them citizens, were murdered by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1987. Rummel writes:
Most people are unaware that all that
death resulting from the Bolshevik Revolution would not have been
possible absent the support of wealthy financiers
in London and New York. Lenin and Trotsky were on the closest of terms
with these moneyed interests both before and after the Revolution.
Additionally, it was President Woodrow Wilson that provided Trotsky with
a passport to return to Russia to "carry forward" the revolution.
Approximately 61,911,000 people, 54,769,000 of them citizens, were murdered by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1987. Rummel writes:
Part of this mass killing was genocide, as in the wholesale murder of hundreds of thousands of Don Cossacks in 1919, the intentional starving of about 5,000,000 Ukrainian peasants to death in 1932-33,2 or the deportation to mass death of 50,000 to 60,000 Estonians in 1949.3 Part was mass murder, as of the wholesale extermination of perhaps 6,500,000 "kulaks" (in effect, the better off peasants and those resisting collectivization) from 1930 to 1937, the execution of perhaps a million Party members in the Great Terror of 1937-38, and the massacre of all Trotskyites in the forced labor camps.
