Mass-murderer Pol Pot, who was run to ground some time ago in the remote jungle of northern Cambodia, was the leader of the notorious Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot ordered the killing of at least one million ‘class enemies’ in the Cambodian Killing Fields.
Pot was a monster who deserved to be buried alive (the manner in which many of his victims lost their life). This marxist madman reminds us of an amazing, but little-know fact: more people have been killed in the 20th Century by their own governments than by all wars combined.
About 25 million soldiers died in World Wars I and II. Another 12 million were killed in this century’s other wars and revolutions, a total of 37 million dead.
*Under Lenin and Stalin, the Soviet government became the greatest mass-murderer in history. Lenin’s collectivization and purges of 1921-1922 caused 4 million deaths. In 1932, Stalin ordered the Ukraine starved to enforce collectivization and crush Ukrainian nationalism. At least 8 million Ukrainians were murdered. Others resorted to cannibalism.
From 1917 to Stalin’s death in 1953, the Soviet Union, worshipped by leftists around the world as the acme of human political accomplishment, shot, tortured, beat, froze or starved to death at least 40 million of its people. Some Russian historians claim the true figure is even higher. In an ugly spasm of deja-vu, Russian troops slaughtered 80,000 Chechen civilians over the past two years.
*In China, Great Helmsman Mao Zedong had 2 million ‘class enemies’ shot when the communists took control. Another million Tibetans and Turkestani Muslims were ‘liquidated’ from 1950-1975. During Mao’s crazy Great Leap Forward, in which China’s farmers were collectivized en masse, an estimated 30 million or more people starved to death. Another two million are said to have been killed in Mao’s Cultural Revolution.Total: 35 million dead.
*Hitler was responsible for the deaths of 12 million civilians, half of them Jews. The Nazis exterminated people because of race; the communists because of class or nationality. Hitler killed with gas; Stalin with bullets, cold, and hunger.
Compare: 100 million people murdered by governments this century; 75% by communist regimes — to about 38 million killed in all wars and conflicts.
