May 1st commemoration
Victims of Communism Day
When it comes to piling up corpses, the Communists make the Nazis look like dilettantes. In any case, that distinction is between nationalist socialism (Nazism) and internationalist socialism (Lenin-Stalin-Trotsky), which is splitting hairs. Both expanded their internal and external empires by force of arms, state terror, and systematic slaughter of minorities.
In downtown Budapest there is a grim building that houses the museum called the House of Terror, documenting the murderous 20th century history of Hungary. The first part is Hungary under the Nazis, the rest is Hungary under its Communist "liberators." The one took over seamlessly from the other, precisely as you'd expect.
Byron
When it comes to piling up corpses, the Communists make the Nazis look like dilettantes. In any case, that distinction is between nationalist socialism (Nazism) and internationalist socialism (Lenin-Stalin-Trotsky), which is splitting hairs. Both expanded their internal and external empires by force of arms, state terror, and systematic slaughter of minorities.
In downtown Budapest there is a grim building that houses the museum called the House of Terror, documenting the murderous 20th century history of Hungary. The first part is Hungary under the Nazis, the rest is Hungary under its Communist "liberators." The one took over seamlessly from the other, precisely as you'd expect.
Byron
posted by Byron | Saturday, May 01, 2010
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