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| 2006-01-27 |
| European communists have reacted with fury to the news that the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe has voted to formally condemn "the crimes of totalitarian communist regimes." The PACE issued a statement expressing "sympathy, understanding and recognition for the victims of these crimes" which it described as "massive human rights violations... including individual and collective assassinations and executions, death in concentration camps, starvation, deportations, torture, slave labour and other forms of mass physical terror." It called on communist parties in European states "to reassess the history of communism and their own past […] and condemn them without any ambiguity”. Fat chance. Russian newspapers reacted predictably, with former Soviet mouthpiece Pravda describing it as a "ridiculous attempt to condemn communism." It also expressed unease over the prospect of Russian officers being categorised as no different from members of the Nazi SS. Russian MPs on the assembly warned that Moscow was opposed to a condemnation. Russian opposition to the statement is only to be expected: After all, this is a nation where around 50 percent of the population profess an admiration for Stalin and close to that number admit that having a similarly tough guy around might do their country some good. However, the antics of western socialists and communists are more shameful. The vote, which passed by 99 to 42 (with 12 abstaining), was ferociously opposed by western leftists. Spain's supposedly moderate socialists opposed the resolution, while the absurd Belgian Communist Party described it as ""a violent attack on history, present and future of communism." Various Greek factions condemned the resolution as "neo McCarthyism" and, laughably, "persecution." French Communists attempted to throw the Holocaust into the debate, arguing that to compare the horrors of Hitler's Nazis to what they must imagine to be the benign and gentle acts of their heroes "banalises the Holocaust." They added that the resolution ignored the role of Communists in fighting fascism. Other Communists in France complained that the vote was a capitalist ploy, consigning Communism to the graveyard of history of closing off any alternative to liberalism. The vote was a belated attempt to recognise the 100 million who have died at the hands of Communist regimes, including over 20 million in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Its sponsor, Sweden's Goran Lindblad, also proposed a memorial day to remember those who were killed by Communist regimes, though this resolution failed to reach the required two-thirds majority. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #7 the poor bastards got their first slap of reality that history will not treat them kindly. Truth is a witch. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-01-27 21:48 |
| #6 It also expressed unease over the prospect of Russian officers being categorised as no different from members of the Nazi SS. Tough sh!t. You better get used to it. Stalin made Hitler look like a schoolboy. Same goes with the Islamists. You want Holocaust? You'll get one all your own. All of these genocidal, mass murdering maggots need to be greeted with the same intransigent hostility. Nothing less will save us from another round in the barrel with Nazism 2.0. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-01-27 21:22 |
| #5 Heh... I'm looking at this phenomenon and just boggled. RatherGate - Fake but accurate. Oprah - Feelings count more than facts. BDS - Truth D.O.A. CogDis - Just take meds, don't adapt to reality. Hundreds of contemporary examples. My first real contact with this was when I was going through my divorce. The Psychologist who was our "councilor" told me that it didn't matter that what she perceived, the goofy shit that upset her, was not true -- what mattered was how she felt. I told him he was insane and full of shit as she was. That was 25+ yrs ago. I didn't realize back then that he was onto something big. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-01-27 20:56 |
| #4 It's the vodka in the baby bottle. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-01-27 20:51 |
| #3 As posted before around the Net, true Rightists are by definition Moralists, hence don't gener give a damn about others have to say about thier actions or decisions - why, becuz they believe are doing the right thing. Leftists and Commies, on the hand, ascribe to anarchism, alternatism. and super-laissez faire where not even the Left is for the Left, thus ascribe to being Super-PC in all things - reality and truth is tertiary or subordinate to populist propaganda. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-01-27 20:50 |
| #2 My theory: it's gotta be something genetic. Or something in the water... |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2006-01-27 20:42 |
| #1 The condition that permits anyone to believe that communism, socialism, maoism, yadda³ isn't both a farce and a proven failure is incurable. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-01-27 20:29 |