Victims of Victims of Communism Part 3: Operation Mapleclip
It's the third instalment in our series looking at Tribute (ahem) to Liberty's slapstick attempt to build a monument to anticommunism. In this episode, we look specifically at some of the dedications in depth, from "ideas" like freedom and SUV's, to some *controversial figures from mid century Europe.*
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There have certainly been "excess deaths" in various Communist countries historically, much like there have been "excess deaths" in non-Communist countries (compare, for example, the Irish Famine to the Soviet Famine), but anti-Communists never seem to want to pick the low-hanging fruit (like Stalin's antisemitism) and instead always seem to prefer valorizing literal Nazis...
Granted, the "excess deaths" have been very unevenly distributed. Mortality (WWII aside) was much higher under Stalin than it was under Brezhnev, and countries like Cuba and Vietnam have not experienced anything of the sort under Communism.