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Arcadiasix

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1. Sad day. Communism only cost 100 million lives.

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 06:37 AM

Feb 2015

That's the estimate of all the people killed in communist countries. Celebrating this is like celebrating Hitlers birthday. Read Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

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Feb 21, 1848 – The Communist Manifesto is 167 years old today [View all] Ichingcarpenter Feb 2015 OP

Sad day. Communism only cost 100 million lives. Arcadiasix Feb 2015 #1

These capitalists.............. Lincoln and Marx Ichingcarpenter Feb 2015 #3

Also Communism is a failure Arcadiasix Feb 2015 #4

OK, you are in a protected forum and need to read this - TBF Feb 2015 #6

Salute, comrades! mwrguy Feb 2015 #2

I think we need to separate "what worked" from "what did not work" in Marx's message... BlueEye Feb 2015 #5

As relevent today as it was then. TBF Feb 2015 #7

Thank you Ichingcarpenter Starry Messenger Feb 2015 #8