Excerpt from Tom Woods (complete with book recommendations):
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(Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had a bit to say about the nature of the Soviet regime, I might add, but something tells me this person would consider Solzhenitsyn, rather than his captors, to be the evil one.)
They just wanted to improve conditions for the working class, you see. Sure, they went about it the wrong way, but their motives were pure.
Do you detect a slight — slight, I say — naivete there?
The Bolshevik Revolution gave rise almost instantly to a one-party state with suppression of dissent, summary executions, concentration camps (with some 70,000 inmates by the time of Lenin’s death in early 1924), a concerted state campaign against religion, terror against the countryside — and on and on.
Not to mention a secret police sixteen times as large as anything the tsar had ever built.
And that’s not to mention the far worse atrocities that came later.
Hey, Ukrainians, we’re carrying out collectivization in a way that’s bound to starve millions of you to death, but honey, don’t you dare forget that our hearts are in the right place. Smooch!
Read Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest, and see what was done to those people.
Not to mention all the other communist “experiments” in other places, including Pol Pot.