>Yesterday in Berlin there was a big demonstration in memory of Rosa Luxemburg and >Karl Liebknecht, two of the very few members of the German Reichstag who voted >against the First World War (simplified, I know), founded the KPD after the war >and werde murdered 90 years ago, on 15/1/19 (or 1/15/19 for Americans) bei >Freikorps Officers. > >All in all the Freikorps' aim wasn't to save democracy at all, no matter what they >may or may not have saved whoever from. Without condoning the assassinations of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg it is timely to remember that Liebknecht made himself the target of animosity by secretly dealing with the Soviets. What would have been the result of Communist rule in Germany? The slaughter of hundreds of thousands ,ost probably. With the present figure of victims of communism around the world standing at around 100 million (see _Schwarzbuch des Kommunismus_ (1998) I think these assassinations should be put in perspective, however undefendable they were. Best wishes Bertil Haggman
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