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Why do Americans despise Communism?

It always or almost always leads to dictatorship
19
22%
Capitalism is too ingrained in American Society
8
9%
Cold War Era Mentality
23
26%
Fear of reduced progress
4
5%
They benefit from Capitalism
9
10%
Misconceptions
15
17%
Other
9
10%
#14821675
QatzelOk wrote:Secondly, many of the "innocent" civilians that communists were forced to kill weren't innocent at all.


It is a historical fact that National Socialism was a reaction to Communism, and Commies killed before WWII millions of innocent civilians.

But there are a lot of Commies who openly whitewash and even justify the crimes of Communism, no problem with that, this is just "freedom of speech".

But if some historian or scientist expresses his non-violent opinion about some events of WWII that contradict the official version, then this is not "freedom of speech", this is called "hate speech", and the people are sent behind bars in countries, that claim to be free countries.

Why do we have this double standard?
Are the victims of National Socialism more "equal" than the victims of Communism?
#14821684
@ArtAllm The reasons why these effects are ignored is for several reasons. Lets take the USSR -- I will post a short list of sources (Don't have time to construct an argument right now, but I can later if you wish for one)

http://writetorebel.com/2016/11/13/socialism-and-democracy-in-the-ussr/
https://www.quora.com/Did-Stalin-really-kill-60-million-people
https://anti-imperialism.org/2016/02/16/how-many-people-did-joseph-stalin-really-kill/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV2lTkCRrfI
#14822127
MememyselfandIJK wrote:@ArtAllm The reasons why these effects are ignored is for several reasons. Lets take the USSR -- I will post a short list of sources (Don't have time to construct an argument right now, but I can later if you wish for one)

http://writetorebel.com/2016/11/13/socialism-and-democracy-in-the-ussr/
https://www.quora.com/Did-Stalin-really-kill-60-million-people
https://anti-imperialism.org/2016/02/16/how-many-people-did-joseph-stalin-really-kill/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV2lTkCRrfI


Thanks for making my point, you can freely diminish and whitewash the crimes of Bolsheviks and spit in the face of the descendants of the victims and survivors of genocides, perpetrated by Commie-Bolsheviks!

No problem with that denial, this is protected by the "freedom of speech".

You can quote hate sites that whitewash the crimes of these bloody Commie-Bolsheviks, like Trotzki and Co, and get away with it.

But if a scientist expresses his personal non-violent opinion about some events of WWII, that is different from the accepted version, then his career will be ruined, he will be persecuted and put into prison in most EU-countries that claim to be free countries.

It seems that some victims and perpetrators are more "equal" than the others, the double standard is right in your face.
#14822205
@ArtAllm Please actually take a look at it. They are well cited or come from a credible source.

ArtAllm wrote:Thanks for making my point, you can freely diminish and whitewash the crimes of Bolsheviks and spit in the face of the descendants of the victims and survivors of genocides, perpetrated by Commie-Bolsheviks!

This use of sensational argument, along with a touch of straw man only supports my point. You seem to be unwilling to listen to factual arguments, and that will not help move a debate along.

ArtAllm wrote:quote hate sites

YouTube and Quora are both hate sites? Really?? Both have very stringent guidelines about hate content. All the sites that I source are factual in basis. Hell, all of them (except the YouTube one, but I'm sure you could find them somewhere) have citations from common sources.

ArtAllm wrote:Trotzki and Co

I'm assuming you mean Trotsky. Trotsky was someone who harshly fought Stalin's rule, reconciling forces worldwide to do so (In what is the fourth international). He's the last person you would acuse of communist crimes. He even advocated for a semi-democratic system and a harsh response to interwar Fascism!

ArtAllm wrote:But if a scientist expresses his personal non-violent opinion about some events of WWII, that is different from the accepted version

What do you think I am doing right now? The soviets were the main contributors to the WWII Allied war effort. Over 4/5 of all German and allied causalities were on the eastern front and they helped liberate China.

ArtAllm wrote:It seems that some victims and perpetrators are more "equal" than the others, the double standard is right in your face.
Are we going to bring up death tolls then? Russian records show that gulags worked more like modern prisons then death camps (source 1). Furthermore, less than 1/2 a million people died in gulags under Stalin. Of those ~430,000 more than half died due to malnutrition and starvation during 1941-3, when the Nazis were invading the USSR, draining their resources. It doesn't take that big of a leap to claim that Nazis killed more in soviet gulags than the soviets themselves!

Moreover, as for the full toll, the alleged number has been rising for nearly 75 years. Today right-wing groups claim that Stalin killed 140 million (Source 2). Keep in mind that the 1930 soviet population was less than that. If Stalin had truly killed 140 million, or even 60-80 million the USSR would have suffered severe demographic collapse and would have broken up much earlier.

Please read the sources and actually construct an argument
#14822300
MememyselfandIJK wrote:This use of sensational argument...


I use factual arguments, statistics and witness accounts. You try to whitewash the crimes of the Commie-Bolsheviks, diminish their crimes and even rationalize them. You spit in the face of the descendants of victims and survivors, and you can get away with it, because there is no law that prohibits this denial of history.

MememyselfandIJK wrote:I'm assuming you mean Trotsky.


I mean Лев Дави́дович Тро́цкий, born Lev Davidovich Bronstein, and his colleagues, who were sent to Russia and financed by the Wall-street banksters.

At these times, there were numerous reports that Cheka interrogators utilized torture methods which were, according to Orlando Figes, "matched only by the Spanish Inquisition."[27] At Odessa the Cheka tied White officers to planks and slowly fed them into furnaces or tanks of boiling water; in Kharkiv, scalpings and hand-flayings were commonplace: the skin was peeled off victims' hands to produce "gloves"; the Voronezh Cheka rolled naked people around in barrels studded internally with nails; victims were crucified or stoned to death at Dnipropetrovsk; the Cheka at Kremenchuk impaled members of the clergy and buried alive rebelling peasants; in Orel, water was poured on naked prisoners bound in the winter streets until they became living ice statues; in Kiev, Chinese Cheka detachments placed rats in iron tubes sealed at one end with wire netting and the other placed against the body of a prisoner, with the tubes being heated until the rats gnawed through the victim's body in an effort to escape.[28]

Executions took place in prison cellars or courtyards, or occasionally on the outskirts of town, during the Red Terror and Russian Civil War. After the condemned were stripped of their clothing and other belongings, which were shared among the Cheka executioners, they were either machine-gunned in batches or dispatched individually with a revolver. Those killed in prison were usually shot in the back of the neck as they entered the execution cellar, which became littered with corpses and soaked with blood. Victims killed outside the town were moved by truck, bound and gagged, to their place of execution, where they sometimes were made to dig their own graves.[29]

According to Edvard Radzinsky, "it became a common practice to take a husband hostage and wait for his wife to come and purchase his life with her body".[3] During Decossackization, there were massacres, according to historian Robert Gellately, "on an unheard of scale". The Pyatigorsk Cheka organized a "day of Red Terror" to execute 300 people in one day, and took quotas from each part of town. According to the Chekist Karl Lander, the Cheka in Kislovodsk, "for lack of a better idea," killed all the patients in the hospital. In October 1920 alone more than 6,000 people were executed. Gellately adds that Communist leaders "sought to justify their ethnic-based massacres by incorporating them into the rubric of the 'class struggle'".[30]

Members of the clergy were subjected to particularly brutal abuse. According to documents cited by the late Alexander Yakovlev, then head of the Presidential Committee for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression, priests, monks and nuns were crucified, thrown into cauldrons of boiling tar, scalped, strangled, given Communion with melted lead and drowned in holes in the ice.[31] An estimated 3,000 were put to death in 1918 alone.[31]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror

There are a number of reports about the involvement of Chinese detachments in the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War. Chinese served as bodyguards of Bolshevik functionaries,[1][2] served in the Cheka,[3] and even formed complete regiments of the Red Army.[4]

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In 1918, Dmitri Gavronsky, a member of the Russian Constituent Assembly, asserted that the Bolsheviks based their power chiefly on foreign support. He asserted that, "in Moscow, they have at their disposal 16,000 well-armed Lettish soldiers, some detachments of Finnish Red Guards and a large battalion of Chinese troops." Gavronsky added that "The latter are always used for executions."[21]

In his book Between Red and White, Leon Trotsky makes sarcastic reference to the charge that the Soviets held Petrograd and Moscow "by the aid of 'Lettish, Chinese, German and Bashkir regiments'".[22]
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The Red Army commander Iona Yakir headed a Chinese detachment guarding Lenin and Trotsky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_i ... _Civil_War



As we see, Lenin and Trotsky were guarded by Chinese, and these people had to be payed.
Where did the Bolsheviks get the money to pay for foreign sadists, like Chinese?
Well, this money came from Wall Street banksters.

MememyselfandIJK wrote: Trotsky was someone who harshly fought Stalin's rule, reconciling forces worldwide to do so (In what is the fourth international).


Of course!
Trotsky was an instrument of globalist banksters, his task was a "world revolution", that would be a pre- condition for a world government. And any government, even the world government, needs money. Do not forget, that these bloody Bolsheviks did not abolish the financial system, they got the money from the American banksters.

Stalin was not a globalist, he did not like the idea of World Government under the guidance of international banksters.

But did this make Stalin worse than Trotzsy? Trotsky was at least as sadistic, as Stalin.

MememyselfandIJK wrote:Are we going to bring up death tolls then? Russian records show that gulags worked more like modern prisons then death camps (source 1).


Another prove that you whitewash and diminish the crimes of Communism, and you can get away with your denial of history. You spit in the face of the victims, you shit on their graves, but this is not hate speech, they call this "freedom of speech". But if some scientists argues that he does not agree with the officially accepted history of WWII, he will be put behind bars in countries, that call themselves "free countries".

Within a short period of time, Cheka became the largest and cruelest state security organization. Its organizational structure was changed every few years, as were its names: From Cheka to GPU, later to NKVD, and later to KGB.

We cannot know with certainty the number of deaths Cheka was responsible for in its various manifestations, but the number is surely at least 20 million, including victims of the forced collectivization, the hunger, large purges, expulsions, banishments, executions, and mass death at Gulags.

Whole population strata were eliminated: Independent farmers, ethnic minorities, members of the bourgeoisie, senior officers, intellectuals, artists, labor movement activists, "opposition members" who were defined completely randomly, and countless members of the Communist party itself.
In his new, highly praised book "The War of the World, "Historian Niall Ferguson writes that no revolution in the history of mankind devoured its children with the same unrestrained appetite as did the Soviet revolution. In his book on the Stalinist purges, Tel Aviv University's Dr. Igal Halfin writes that Stalinist violence was unique in that it was directed internally.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 99,00.html


MememyselfandIJK wrote:Please read the sources and actually construct an argument


You have the nerve to ask me to read your hate sources?

Do you speak Russian? I do not need an interpretor, I can read the needed documents in their original version.

If somebody would paste in this forum links to sources that question the accepted version of some events of WWII, he would be persecuted and put into prison, and all these sources would be called "hate sources", even if they were presented by Youtube.
Amazon was recently forced to remove all books that question the accepted version of some events of WWII.

But if somebody tries to whitewash or even glorifies the crimes of Commie-Bolsheviks, he can get away with it.

The double standard is right in your face, is it not obvious that some victims and some perpetrators are more "equal" than others?
#14822302
A century of brainwashing to solidify the capitalist establishment against labour unrest is my interpretation. Of course 20th century Americans were also the heirs of the American Revolution which was specifically a revolution by conspiratorial free masons against British taxation. So it's pretty much in their cultural heritage that non-libertarian ideologies are akin to satan.
#14822363
AFAIK wrote:@SolarCross
The Poles elected a communist gov't after independence.
Plenty of people from the former USSR have fond memories of communist rule.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -life.html

To answer the OP I'd say it's a result of propaganda and decades upon decades of the narrative being controlled and later dominated by capitalists.


Result of propaganda ? Id say its the results of the estimated 90 plus million deaths in the 20th century dues to communism.
#14822421
Finfinder wrote:Result of propaganda ? Id say its the results of the estimated 90 plus million deaths in the 20th century dues to communism.


If you believe that number, then you have almost certainly succumbed to propaganda.
#14822440
Finfinder wrote:Result of propaganda ? Id say its the results of the estimated 90 plus million deaths in the 20th century dues to communism.

If you used the same methods that are used to tally up the death toll of communism and try to apply them somewhere else, you would find that 7 million people starved to death during the US Great Depression. In fact a Russian historian tried to publish a paper on this but got censored.

ArtAllm wrote:I use factual arguments, statistics and witness accounts.
Really? I didn't see a single fact or statistic in your other statement.

ArtAllm wrote:financed by the Wall-street banksters

Here I have a problem with the source right there. Of course Wall-street bankers are going to make it more sensational. Its called bias. Furthermore, the Whites committed far more atrocities than the Reds

ArtAllm wrote:As we see, Lenin and Trotsky were guarded by Chinese, and these people had to be payed. Where did the Bolsheviks get the money to pay for foreign sadists, like Chinese?


The Chinese were under a Right-wing dictatorship during the Russian Civil war. They would not have gotten involved. Even in China, communism helped vastly improve the quality of life. Literacy rates and life expectancy shot up, the basis for Chinese industry was formed, and food security was improved, to name a few things. Even if the Great Leap Forwards was as bad as western main-stream thought claims, Famines in procommunist China would make the Great Leap Forward look like an all-you-can-eat buffet.


Please do take a peek at the sources. We can't have a debate if you won't listen to my arguments.
#14822611
My favorite example of "communism killing people" is from the Great Leap Forward in China's Modern history because it hasn't been milked to death by Western capitalism's parasitic media.

During this period, China was forced to kill millions of Chinese capitalists who were selling Chinese agricultural production for currency while millions of their fellow citizens were starving.

When capitalists start endangering the health of the entire society or the entire planet and refuse to change their ways because their sense of superiority and entitlement are stronger than their normal human compassion... it's time for them to be removed from the face of the earth. Or re-educated.

It's a shame to do this, but the toxicity of the rich sometimes makes this the only option for improving the conditions of everyone else - the 99%.
#14822621
QatzelOk wrote:My favorite example of "communism killing people" is from the Great Leap Forward in China's Modern history because it hasn't been milked to death by Western capitalism's parasitic media.

During this period, China was forced to kill millions of Chinese capitalists who were selling Chinese agricultural production for currency while millions of their fellow citizens were starving.

When capitalists start endangering the health of the entire society or the entire planet and refuse to change their ways because their sense of superiority and entitlement are stronger than their normal human compassion... it's time for them to be removed from the face of the earth. Or re-educated.

It's a shame to do this, but the toxicity of the rich sometimes makes this the only option for improving the conditions of everyone else - the 99%.

Nice post. When comparing death counts we forget that some societies believe the community is more important than the individual. Those who believe the individual is more important sometimes have trouble understanding this. Personally, if killing 6 billion individuals would save the earth for future generations, then I would support it. Our current lives should not be so important that we deny a future to others.
#14822623
Some scary people in this thread. Holocaust support. Support for the atrocities of communists. Capitalists have done some fucked up shit but at least we're not so idealistic to think that our system is amazing, only that it works without having to kill billions in the name of some future that might not even be there for us if we allow madmen to rule the planet.
#14822635
MememyselfandIJK wrote:If you used the same methods that are used to tally up the death toll of communism and try to apply them somewhere else, you would find that 7 million people starved to death during the US Great Depression. In fact a Russian historian tried to publish a paper on this but got censored.



I didn't realize in communism they also controlled the weather , fascinating apology.
#14822675
Finfinder wrote:I didn't realize in communism they also controlled the weather , fascinating analogy.

I guess you're unable to extrapolate from a wide variety of news sources regarding the Great Depression and the coincidentally simultaneous dust bowl.

Maybe just maybe the American capitalist class are just as parasitic and callous as the Chinese capitalist elite were during their Great Leap Forward. Maybe after the Depression took away Americans' ability to buy food, the Capitalist Parasite class decided to sell their produce to foreign countries and invented a "dust bowl" to explain why they had nothing for their "fellow Americans" to eat.

If they had done this, the media would have gladly lied for them. And this is probably what actually happened.

Your 1% don't give a crap about the rest of you. This is why communism is popular among well-read (and well-socialized) working classes.
#14822769
@Finfinder nice quadruple post and random comments

Found the article that "claims" that the Great Depression killed 7 million Americans. Upon evaluating the absurd claim, the paper states
It is worthy of note that modern-day Russian patriotic historians reject methods of research based on the general estimation of demographic losses. They believe that demographic processes are not linear and depend on a number of factors. Such historians think that victims of communism estimations made on the base of demographic research works by Stephan Kurt and Richard Pipes, which George Bush and Helen Bonner announced at the opening of Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington, are false.
#14822846
QatzelOk wrote:I guess you're unable to extrapolate from a wide variety of news sources regarding the Great Depression and the coincidentally simultaneous dust bowl.

Maybe just maybe the American capitalist class are just as parasitic and callous as the Chinese capitalist elite were during their Great Leap Forward. Maybe after the Depression took away Americans' ability to buy food, the Capitalist Parasite class decided to sell their produce to foreign countries and invented a "dust bowl" to explain why they had nothing for their "fellow Americans" to eat.

If they had done this, the media would have gladly lied for them. And this is probably what actually happened.

Your 1% don't give a crap about the rest of you. This is why communism is popular among well-read (and well-socialized) working classes.


Just maybe you should understand the fundamental difference between an agricultural commodity and produce before you expose your ridiculous tinfoil hat theories.
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Pants-of-dog wrote:If you think the number is true, please provide evidence for your claim. Thank you.



You are tedious person to discuss with. NO !
You provide the number, you are the expert on this matter as clearly your posts say you know more. Stop the games and the goal post moving and post them up. GOOGLE is your friend.
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