Commentary
Communism is an ideology supposedly meant to achieve equality and peace. Still, in reality, its promotion of dictatorship and violent takeover of the means of production have invariably led to some of the world’s worst authoritarian regimes.
As a result, tens of millions were killed in wars, famines, and genocides, including against Koreans, Afghans, Chechens, Ukrainians, Vietnamese, Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Falun Gong adherents.
Less commonly understood is how communist revolutions, including the original one in Russia in 1917, and its epigones throughout Europe and Asia, provoked the fascist overreaction that led to social and racist violence in interwar Italy and Germany, and appeasement by Britain and Eastern European countries that paved the way for war and genocide by the Nazis….