In the introduction, editor St�phane Courtois states that "Communist regimes... turned mass crime into a full-blown
system of government."[4]:2 According to Courtois, the death toll amounts to 94 million.[4]:4 The breakdown of the number
of deaths given by Courtois is as follows:
65 million in the People's Republic of China
20 million in the Soviet Union
2 million in Cambodia
2 million in North Korea
1.7 million in Ethiopia
1.5 million in Afghanistan
1 million in the Eastern Bloc
1 million in Vietnam
150,000 in Latin America
10,000 deaths "resulting from actions of the international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power."[4]:4
Courtois writes that Communist regimes are responsible for a greater number of deaths than any other political ideal or movement,
including Nazism. The statistics of victims include deaths through executions, man-made hunger, deportations, and forced labor.
Standing on the Skulls (corpses) of His Opposition
Soviet repressions
Repressions and famines occurring in the Soviet Union under the regimes of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin described in the book include:
the execution of tens of thousands of hostages and prisoners
the murder of hundreds of thousands of rebellious workers and peasants from 1918 to 1922
the Russian famine of 1921, which caused the death of 5 million people
the Decossackization, a policy of systematic repression against the Don Cossacks between 1917 and 1933
the murder of tens of thousands in concentration camps in the period between 1918 and 1930
the Great Purge which killed almost 690,000 people
the deportation of 2 million so-called "kulaks" from 1930 to 1932
the death of 4 million Ukrainians (Holodomor) and 2 million others during the famine of 1932 and 1933
the deportations of Poles, Ukrainians, Moldovans and people from the Baltic states from 1939 to 1941 and from 1944 to 1945
the deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941
the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1943
Operation Lentil in 1944
the deportation of the Ingush in 1944.[4]:9-10[note 2]
[Editor's Note: After reading the above quote from The Black Book of Communism, is it possible to hypothesize about what might
happen to America after the Constitution is destroyed including the Bill of Rights followed by the nationalization of all private companies? Taxation would be
100%, you would work for a company owned by the government and receive a small monthly stipend, and the Socialist regime would regulate every facet of
your once free life. There would be meager consumer goods and everything would cost much more because government owned companies would no longer have a
profit motive or desire to make plenty of products. Company employees all make the same subsistence wage.
If you disagree with them, you go to prison or execution after a 'show trial'. North Korea, China, and Russia are past examples of brutal countries, and Venezuela is a
relatively recent example. All of South America comprises one form or another of Socialism/Dictatorship except possibly Chile which the U.S. helped to become
more capitalist. Must you experience this oppression first-hand or can you vicariously experience/understand the pain of your predecessors without destroying your freedom?
Do you think it is just possible or highly probable that the future of America is a dictatorship? You've already seen what the Media — the 'Pravda' of the Democrat
(Socialist) Party — is doing. You see 1st Amendment violations of Social Media companies squelching conservative viewpoints. You see Antifa, like 'Sturmabteilung'
(SA) that enabled Hitler to gain power. The SA roamed the German city streets of Berlin, München, and Köln beating people who disagreed with Nazism in the
early 1930s. Antifa is doing the same. You've seen what Deep State operatives of the federal government did to Pres. Trump. You saw the public slander of Judge Kavanaugh
now Justice by Democrat Senators. Do you need more evidence? This is the beginning of America's great loss of freedom or 'WE' can stop it. Do we want this to happen?
Are you so bored with your life that you don't care about your freedom?
]
Power Corrupts; Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. See 