Communism’s Forgotten Victims

Communism’s Forgotten Victims

by Rebecca Hagelin

October 06, 2009

http://townhall.com/columnists/RebeccaHagelin/2009/10/06/communisms_forgotten_victims?page=full

Three summers ago I witnessed the dancing eyes and exuberant smiles of fellow humans who were tasting freedom for the very first time. I was on a Florida barrier island when some three dozen very lucky Cubans escaped their captors, beat the odds in dangerous seas, and finally stepped into freedom on America’s shore.

It seemed that they came from another time – almost like characters from an old black-and-white movie about war and oppression. As I processed what I was witnessing, I began to realize that they were flesh-and-blood representatives of millions like them who have suffered in the clutches of communist regimes. From the Soviet Gulags, to China’s Tiananmen Square, to North Korea, to the tiny island of Cuba and other places in-between, 100 million men, women and children around the world have been victimized by communist thugs. Just 90 miles from our own border a third generation of Cuban people remains captive to the same brutal regime that terrorized their grandparents.

Americans are oblivious to the tragic reality that people in our own backyard and around the world still suffer and die under brutal communist oppression. The news media is all but silent about the bloody history while propagandists like Michael Moore get rich from extolling a radical socialist agenda and portraying the oppressive communist systems as benevolent.

You can read the full article here: http://townhall.com/columnists/RebeccaHagelin/2009/10/06/communisms_forgotten_victims?page=full

Gill Rapoza

Veritas Vos Liberabit

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