'A great political veriety' also exists on the far and hard Right, but you don't hear leftists voicing quibbles on whether particular National Front members are ardent Hitlerites or not. Even the BNP, despite its reforms, is still damned as universally Nazi.
And Communist gripes about Poland wanting to ban extremist flags is a laugh, given the nation's virtual destruction and oppression suffered by the Poles under those very agents from 1939-90!
Judging Communism in practice, even since the end of the Cold War, is a far more reliable arbiter than wading through different editions of pulp theory. So let's take a look at a few of Communism's great world statesmen:
STALIN - The granddaddy of them all. Took over the oppressive, murderous and backstabbing Soviet domination over the other so-called Peoples' Parties where Lenin left off. Killed people in all he did, even when trying to build a modern industrial economy. One-time ally of Hitler and imperialist who imposed the Iron Curtain.
Responsible for up to 51 million deaths due to famine, purges, incompetent war leadership and imposition of political opinion. Almost succeeded in instigating a Hitler-style pogrom before ill health brought upon his death. Communist world obliged to mourn his passing.
Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls
12 Feb 2005 ... Source List and Detailed Death Tolls for the Twentieth Century .... MEDIAN: 51 million for the entire Stalin Era; 20M during the 1930s. ...
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KRUSCHEV - Incompetent successor to Stalin who almost crashed the world into nuclear war due to paranoia, smuggling rockets and warheads to bases in Cuba. He also plunged Russia into an embarassing bread famine, built the Berlin Wall to keep citizens from escaping the Socialist Paradise and continued Stalin's starvation of Ukranian peasants by confiscating their grain and selling it to the West.
Shared in Stalin's death toll as his right-hand man during the Purges.
MAO TSE TUNG - Instigator of various 'revolutions', each drenched in the blood of millions. Hated any kind of authority and education outside his personal remit. He even created a rift between China and the USSR due to a control-freak personality usually a boon for a Communist leader.
Killed up to 70,000,000 or more innocents.
Mao: The Unknown Story - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to Number of deaths under Mao: The book opens with the sentence "Mao Tse-tung, ... was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in ...
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POL POT - Deranged gang leader who caused Cambodia to revert to the Dark Ages, forcing city dwellers to live in communes, killing the educated and those wearing spectacles. Spent his last years skulking in a jungle to avoid punishment.
Death toll: 2,000,000.
The History Place - Genocide in the 20th Century: Pol Pot in Cambodia 1975-1979
CEAUCESCU - Romanian despot who impoverished his country, yet built Europe's most grandiose palace as his people starved. His only real successes were to organise constant self-tributary parades, plus to talk Britain's LABOUR government into swapping valuable military hardware and plans for pig iron, rotting fruit and the contents of Romania's scrap yards. (He even made them feel pally enough to have them give him a State visit and honourary scientific doctorate for his wife!) Was finally deposed by the People and shot after a military trial for genocide and the brutal treatment of his people at the hands of the Securitate, a secret police even Ceaucescu referred to as 'terrorists' at his trial.
Deaths on his non-existent conscience: 60,000. (A comparitive moderate!)
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He estimates the death toll for the Communist regime after the war ... 1990 Time: A Romanian court found Ceausescu guilty of genocide, with 60000 victims. ...
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CASTRO - The darling of the West's deluded campus bores, whose clean tap water (!) and efficient school indoctrination system earns him their undying devotion. Even The Beatles approached him for a record deal in 1968, yet his Communist system is at least as oppressive and murderous as another, especially worse than the system of government he replaced. He was a co-conspiritor in teh secret plan to transform Cuba into a nuclear war launch base in the anticipated kick-off of World War 3. Rose to illegal power on the promise to turn each Cuban into his own landowner, yet they starve and are exploited year on year.
The shooting of dissidents and perceived enemies started in 1959 and never truly ceased, bringing the small island's body count to a hefty 97,000 in total.
Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls
1999 Houston Chronicle (editorial by Agustin Blazquez): 97000 deaths caused by Castro. This number seems to have originally come from an unpublished study ...
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(Is that why 23 Labour MPs recently signed an early Day Motion in Parliament PRAISING Castro
for his 'achievements', as well as Harriet Harman herself calling him a 'hero of the Left'!?)
...And so on.
From General Jeruzelski who installed a brutal Martial Law to quash the needs of the Polish workers, to Honicke who imprisoned the East German people in his own rotting Stasi-based slave state to Kim Il Sung who pestered Stalin into letting him start the Korean War, there is NOT A SINGLE COMMUNIST LEADER who provided the egalitarianism, freedom and Democracy which the Far Left always breaks its promises on!
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COMMUNISM'S DESTABALISING EFFECT ON THE WORLD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wccIqjrGGMk