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June 12, 2007

100,000,000 Victims

The Victims of Communism Memorial was dedicated today in the Federal City. Privately-financed but publicly authorized, it is a 10-foot bronze statue of the Goddess of Democracy, the figure erected by the Tiananmen Square protesters in 1989 before they were massacred by the People's Liberation Army.

The Memorial is a sober reminder that the most destructive ideology of the bloody 20th Century far outstripped its shorter-lived rival, fascism. It is even more sobering to realize, as the Victims of Communism Foundation notes, that the destruction continues.

Posted by Zach Wendling at June 12, 2007 11:58 PM

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An interesting thing to note may be that depending on how one actually decides to count the casualties from the 2nd world war and how reliable the estimates are, the casualties may not be that far off. The Wikipedia entry, for example, counts somewhere in the range of 72 million dead from that calamity.

Posted by: Balta at June 13, 2007 12:57 PM | permalink

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