Today Is Victims of Communism Memorial Day
(Parts of the following article are from a longer piece published on PJ Media.)
Today is Victims of Communism Memorial Day, a day to remember the hundreds of millions of people killed and the billions of people oppressed by Communism, both in our day and in the past.
“Each year on November 7, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation [VOC] marks National Day for the Victims of Communism to remember those who have suffered and died at the hands of communist regimes in the past, and to stand for those who are fighting for freedom today.”
Estimates of Soviet Russian dictator Josef Stalin’s victims are at least 9 million, but possibly between 20 million and 60 million. Cambodian Communist Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge massacred between 1.25 million and 3 million Cambodians, or between a sixth and a quarter of the country’s population. The Communist Castro regime in Cuba had killed around 11,000 people as of 2016. Vietnam’s terroristic Communist Viet Cong slaughtered tens or even hundreds of thousands (it is difficult to get an accurate estimate). Chinese Communist Party (CCP) dictator Mao Zedong is the single worst mass murderer of all time (65 million victims), and he and his successors in the CCP have an estimated staggering death toll of 500 million.
Today we not only remember the countless victims of Communism, but we must also commit ourselves to fighting the growing threat of Communism within America. It is, quite literally, a choice between liberty—or death.