People even now because it's like the hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution or celebrating Lenin
It's like that's not good
That's like celebrating Hitler
Okay, I'm dead serious about that
It's not good and the fact that people
Can dare to think that that's okay means that there's something wrong with the way that we look at history
Lenin was a monster and if you want to know about that
You can read Solzhenitsyn's writings about Lenin because they communist apologists say well, I wasn't Lenin Lenin was a good guy
He was all motivated by love of the working class
People Who Still Celebrate Lenin
It's like well his henchman was Stalin and if your henchman is Stalin, you're not a good guy
And and Lenin was around during the early
Collectivization and if you read what he wrote you'll find out that
He was perfectly willing to have any number of people die
As long as his ideological system could be brought into being so there's no celebrating Lenin
There's no work cool young Marxist hip revolutionaries and he's our Idol. It's like there's none of that
Not if you know anything not if you're decent
Well, there was death of the cool acts I told you about that there was the Ukrainian famine that's 6 million gone there
There was the rise of the gulag state because it turned out that Russia the Soviet Union couldn't run on the principles that it had
that it had
Laid down as sacrosanct. They just didn't work. So you had enslaved everybody and run your economy
As a slave state essentially
And
Try not to kill the people in the gulags so fast that you can't suck some productive labor out of them
was the death of tens of millions of people we don't even know the estimates range from
15 to 60 million and like
we won't get to Picayune about the numbers because after the first 10 million you kind of made your point and
The fact that we don't know between 15 and 60 is actually an indication of the horror
Of it
because our count is off by tens of millions and
That's only within the century
And then there was the 1956 crackdown on Hungary and the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia
Then there was the whole like thermonuclear
Holocaust thing that was going on at the same time in the fact that in 1962 and in 1984, we were
seconds away from complete annihilation right during the Cuban Missile Crisis the keys were in the
intercontinental ballistic missile release systems and
Castro as he admitted to Jimmy Carter in case any of you or Castro fans, which you shouldn't be
That he was perfectly willing to have Cuba annihilate it if it would have meant the defeat of the United States
And then in 1984
Approximately I may have the date exactly wrong
the Russians received an indication from their early warning systems that the Americans had launched five thermonuclear missiles and
One Russian decided that it was a mistake and refused to launch the retaliation and he just died about two weeks ago
so, you know that was pretty close and
So that was experiment number one, let's say that that wasn't good that experiment let's put it that way
It wasn't good it was exactly the antithesis of good it was precisely the antithesis of good
But that wasn't all I mean
There's the People's Republic of China. That's a different country. Like seriously a different country right different tradition different language
How many people died in China under Mao no one knows
same issue with the Soviet Union although
Mile was a bigger monster than Stalin and that's that's impressive, you know, because there's Hitler
There's Stalin and there's Mao and of the 3-mile was probably the worst. He's still revered in China
Maybe that accounts for their affinity for North Korea which could still destroy us all the remnants of that horrible state
maybe a hundred million people died in China during the great leap for
That's a hell of a leap forward. Well, maybe it wasn't a hundred million, you know, maybe it was only 40 million
but as I said before
when you're counting in the tens of millions your points already made and then there was
Cambodia and the killing fields and Bulgaria and East Germany and Romania and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
That's North Korea and Vietnam and Ethiopia Hungary
Etc, etc, etc
There was never a successful communist state
Cuba I suppose came closest but it was radically the
Soviets poured money into Cuba, so that doesn't really count
So then the first question was well are these Marxists motivated by love or hatred well
Is it love or hatred that produces a hundred million dead people
Is that enough evidence or not and if it's not enough evidence if you think to yourself well that's not enough evidence
it was never really given its proper a
Proper try
It's like well, what would have been a proper try?
See, I always think when I hear someone say that I know what you think
You think in your delusional arrogance that?
You understand the Marxist doctrines better than anyone else ever has and that if you are the one implementing those doctrines
You would have ushered in the utopia. That's what you mean when you say that and
You know they say and there's an idea in the New Testament that there's a sin it's the sin against the holy ghost
If you commit that sin, no one really knows what it is
That you can't be forgiven and I would say well
If you want a candidate for the sin against the Holy Ghost in the 21st century
the statement
Communism real communism was never tried with the underlying idea that if you had been the person implementing it it would have worked
I think that's a pretty good contender for something for which you should never be forgiven