Hi @endless.drugs Excellent your post.
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.
Albert Einstein gave us the formula when he wisely said: "Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual"
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You quote Einstein but he was a democratic socialist who would have strongly disapproved of your praise of an arch-warmonger such as Reagan. Reagan gave huge tax cuts to the rich while massively boosting military expenditure and withdrew legislative shackles upon Wall Street that have created so much suffering and chaos across the world.
In 1949 Einstein wrote an article, 'Why Socialism' you would do well to read it. He hated capitalism and wanted a democratic socialist world:
"I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow-men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society."
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Hi @endless.drugs it is true what you say. Communism is horrific for many reasons.
Communism is possibly one of the worst political systems ever devised. Communism in the USSR, China, North Korea, Southeast Asia, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and other parts of the world has led to more deaths than both world wars and every war the United States has ever fought combined.
It is estimated that under Stalin, roughly 50-60 million people (so many people that mass graves are still being located in Eastern Ukraine and Siberia today) were killed by the Communist regime. Thousands more were locked up in gulags and concentration camps (for the practice of forced labor and starvation, the Communists are just as guilty as the Nazis). Thousands of Cubans and Vietnamese fled their nations in fear of the rise of Communism during the Cold War and many Cubans continue to flee Cuba still to this day. Mao Zedong, the Communist dictator of China from 1949- approx. 1975 is believed to have murdered upwards of 70-80 million people. Communism uses the guise of equality to hide its aspects of oppression and tyranny.
Communism has failed everywhere it was implemented, along with socialism.
In Venezuela, for example big government is the enemy of the people. More than 4 million people migrants are fleeing from famine, war, torture, persecution and genocide, as economic and social inequalities and consequential. Look at Venezuela before communism, and now.
Communism is terribad. It's so bad that bad doesn't cut it.
Blessed be the memory of the heroes, martyrs and victims!
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Hi @endless.drugs And Winston Churchill said: "The vice inherent in capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth; the virtue inherent in socialism is the equitable distribution of misery"
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