Re: Victims of Communism

["Umberto Rossi" <urossi@programatic.it>]

> Don't know if the _Black Book of Communism_
> has been published in Italian but me thinks
> you should read up on this. It does not hurt
> to get the facts. Also I think we are in for much
> more material when the Communist Chinese
> regime collapses, as it eventually will.

Yes it has, but the matter of figures is not undisputed.  I read that the 60 millions 
figure came up by unscrupulously adding figures relating to different groups of 
victims, one of them being the Russian victims of W.W.II.  Some historians (and 
me) found this rather questionable.

As for the collapse of the Chinese regime, which resembles more and more the 
State mafia Communism had turned into after Khrushev, yes, it's probably time it 
collapses--but until Western powers will keep making business with China as if 
everyting was normal there, I think Collapse-day will be delayed.  But you know, 
embargoes are only for small countries with no H-bombs.

Umberto Rossi

"...io vedea la virtute esser spenta, e i vizi sollevati"
                                      Gerolamo Savonarola