February 8, 2006

More than 60 million dead

The bloody legacy of communism left 20 million dead in Stalin's USSR, not including the 4 million killed during the Second World War or the 10 million military killed during the same war. In China under Mao, some 40 million were killed. Source.

Only recently have memorials to those victims been planned in Washington, Berlin and Budapest writes John Fund in the Wall St Journal.

None though in Russia or China.

Some legacies are great because they are so horrific and reverberate down the ages.

Posted by Jill Fallon at February 8, 2006 1:36 PM | Permalink