Terror Survivors and Freedom Fighters

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND

The 20th Century has been filled with great violence and lethal terror, on an unprecedented scale, according to many records and statistics. Maybe we can make our 21st Century better by learning from the past. Much has been written about World War I, World War II, Fascism and Nazism. However, until recently relatively little was known about the empirical facts and secret history of Communism. Some archives in Russia and Eastern Europe have been opened only recently and much information is still being kept secret.

After adding up the total number of victims of worldwide Communism, it now has been proven that the Communists killed at least four people for everyone who perished under both Fascism and Nazism combined. Incredibly, it seems that the crimes of Communism have not so far received a fair judicial analysis and no official body count has been made in the U.S. Congress or in the Western World. Furthermore, the crimes of Communism have apparently not been subjected to any moral or ethical scrutiny despite many confessions of crimes and admissions of guilt by participants and perpetrators after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

On 12 June 2007, the long-awaited and reportedly only memorial to the over 100 million lethal victims of worldwide Communism was dedicated in Washington DC, two blocks from Union Station at the intersection of Massachusetts and New Jersey avenues. The 10-foot bronze statue is similar to the Statue of Liberty but a much-scaled down version of what was originally envisioned since apparently it is a reminder of the Cold War which is not welcome in political left society. The 12-year effort of memorial construction was a painful lesson to the victims of Communism about politics and special interests in America. It was coordinated by a memorial foundation at the cost of $950,000 which was received mostly from donations from still living victims, the families of those killed and those with sympathy for the many millions of men, women and children, who were repressed and murdered. Little or no help for the memorial came from the political left which has been mostly opposed to victory in the Cold War.

On 19 May 1915, the concept of a crime against humanity reportedly first appeared in a joint British, French and Russian statement of condemnation of the Ottoman Empire for the 1915 massacre of about one million Armenians. In October 2007, the US Congress deliberated the passing of a resolution to also condemn the Ottoman Empire for the 1915 massacre of Armenians. The US Congress was also considering the condemnation of Japan for the World War II enslavement of some Korean women as servants and concubines for Japanese soldiers. However, incredibly the large number of war crimes committed by the Soviet Union have apparently received little or no condemnation from the US Congress or Western governments so far.