Left-Wing Bloodbaths Radical leftists would like you to believe that they stand for democracy, progress, human rights and social justice. But wherever they seize power, they impose slavery, terror, famine, concentration camps and mass murder. As the Marxists used to say, this is no accident. General John Kekes, Why Robespierre Chose Terror           The human costs of radical left-wing ideology during the French Revolution: “A remarkable feature of the           ideological frame of mind is that those in its grip actually believe these justifications for disemboweling,           lynching, mutilating, burying alive, drowning, and hacking to pieces their unfortunate victims.” Paul Bogdanor, The Communists As They Really Are           Quotations you didn’t learn in history class. Paul Hollander, The Distinctive Features of Repression in Communist States [PDF]           Comprehensive analysis of communist tyranny and mass murder all over the world. David Marcus, Famine Crimes in International Law [PDF]           Superb paper on the role of the state in creating famines, with detailed case studies of communist famines           in the Soviet Union, Ethiopia and North Korea. Steven Bela Vardy and Agnes Huszar Vardy, Cannibalism in Stalin’s Russia and Mao’s China [PDF]           Cannibalism was one of the countless horrors awaiting the victims of communist famines and purges. Soviet Union - Pre-Stalin Sergei Melgunov, The Record of the Red Terror [PDF, 1.3 MB]           Lenin mercilessly tortured and massacred hundreds of thousands after 1917. Peter Boettke, The Political Economy of Utopia: Communism in Soviet Russia, 1918-1921 [PDF, 4.7 MB] Peter Boettke, Soviet Admissions: Communism Doesn’t Work [PDF]           Lenin, Trotsky, Bukharin and other Soviet planners admitted that their totalitarian policies had brought           catastrophe to tens of millions by 1921. Nicolas Walter, The Legacy of Bolshevism [PDF]           A British anarchist on the Bolshevik concentration camps. - Genocides Inquiry Reveals Lenin Unleashed Systematic Murder of 200,000 Clergy Communist Reign of Terror Killed 200,000 Clergymen           Victims were “crucified on royal gates and shot in the basements of the Cheka, scalped, strangled,           drowned and submitted to other bestial tortures.” Soviet Order to Exterminate Cossacks is Unearthed           Bolshevik genocide against the Don Cossacks. Samuel D. Sinner, The Open Wound: The Genocide of German Ethnic Minorities in Russia and the Soviet Union Samuel D. Sinner, The German-Russian Genocide: Remembrance in the 21st Century [PDF]           Atrocities included “mass rape of the elderly, women and children, mass drownings, prolonged torture           sessions, mutilations, hacking up of bodies, mass shootings of hundreds, even thousands in a single           action, the holocaust of entire villages - including the burning of all inhabitants and building structures.” Edige Kirimal, Complete Destruction of National Groups as Groups: The Crimean Turks           Massacres, famines and ethnic cleansing wiped out hundreds of thousands of Crimean Muslims. Aleksandr M. Nekrich, The Punished Peoples [PDF, 4.9 MB] For Victims of Stalin’s Deportations, War Lives On           Genocidal deportations of national minorities created an apartheid system that lasted for decades. - Famines Roman Serbyn, Famine in Ukraine           Summary of the 1921 and 1933 famines. Kazuo Nakai, Soviet Agricultural Policies in the Ukraine and the 1921-1922 Famine [PDF, 1.3 MB] Roman Serbyn, The First Man-Made Famine in Soviet Ukraine, 1921-1923           Forgotten Bolshevik famine, in which millions died. Simon Ertz, The Kazakh Catastrophe and Stalin’s Order of Priorities 1929-1933 [PDF]           Soviet grain confiscations killed a third of the population of Kazakhstan. James Mace, The Man-Made Famine of 1933 in Soviet Ukraine: What Happened and Why James Mace, The Famine: Stalin Imposes a Final Solution Yaroslav Bilinsky, Was the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 Genocide? Michael Ellman, The Role of Leadership Perceptions and of Intent in the Soviet Famine of 1931-1934 [PDF] Michael Ellman, Stalin and the Soviet Famine of 1932-33 Revisited [PDF] Stanislav Kulchytsky, Why Did Stalin Exterminate the Ukrainians? Roman Serbyn, The Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 as Genocide in the Light of the UN Convention of 1948 Sergei Maksudov, Genocide Remembered           This Soviet famine was the worst peacetime mass murder in the history of Europe. Michael Ellman, The 1947 Soviet Famine and the Entitlement Approach to Famines [PDF]           Another forgotten famine, in which the Soviets withheld food from the victims. - Purges Harvest of Bones: A Geologist Uncovers One of Stalin’s Killing Fields A City Built on Bones Forest Skulls May Tell Where 30,000 Stalin Victims Lie           Examples of the huge mass graves containing victims of the Soviet regime. Poisons Tested on Stalin’s Prisoners           The Soviet regime inflicted medical experiments on live human beings. Top Soviet Denounces Stalin’s Gulags [PDF]           The true scale of the Gulag. - Death Tolls Robert Conquest, Coming to Terms With the Past           Glasnost revelations about the Soviet death toll. Papers on Soviet Repression Statistics           Post-Cold War academic papers on Soviet mass murder. Steven Rosefielde, Documented Homicides and Excess Deaths [PDF, 1 MB]           Demonstrates that the number of killings documented in the Soviet archives was only a fraction of the           total, which reached 10 million during the 1927-38 period alone. - Post-Stalin David Satter, The System of Forced Labor in Russia [PDF] Juliana Geran Pilon, Slave Labor and the Soviet Pipeline [PDF]           Slavery in the post-Stalin Gulag. Alexander Shatravka, Man of Peace Finds None in Soviet Camp [PDF] Who Says No Soviet Concentration Camps? [PDF] The Gulag: Lost Millions           The atrocities included forced starvation, medical neglect, systematic beatings and death by radiation. Soviet Prisoners Exposed to Fatal Radiation in Uranium Mines George Schopflin, Radiating a False Picture: Focus on the Difference Between Soviet PR and Reality           On the Nuclear Gulag, where victims were murdered by radiation poisoning. Eastern Europe Jean C. Bingle, Labor For Bread: The Exploitation of Polish Labor in the Soviet Union [PDF] Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Interrogation Methods of the Communist Secret Police in Poland [PDF]           Hundreds of thousands were killed by deportation, massacre and torture in Poland. Red Army Troops Raped Even Russian Women As They Freed Them From Camps Anthony Beevor, “They Raped Every German Female From Eight to 80” German Rape Victims Find a Voice at Last           The Soviets mercilessly gang-raped millions of women and girls in Eastern Europe. Iron Curtain’s 100,000 Dead Germans Find Mass Graves at an Ex-Soviet Camp           The Soviets used former Nazi concentration camps to wipe out political prisoners in East Germany. Death Camps, Torture, Experiments on Children Germany’s Guilty Secret: Beaten, Drugged, Skewered “More Than 1,000 Died” Trying to Flee East Germany           Systematic torture, medical experiments and mass murder in East Germany. Tamas Stark, Genocide or Genocidal Massacre? The Case of Hungarian Prisoners in Soviet Custody [PDF]           The Soviets deported hundreds of thousands of Hungarians to their deaths. Piles of Bones in Yugoslavia Point to Partisan Massacres Italy Foots the Bill For Tito’s Ethnic Cleansing           Communist mass murder in Yugoslavia, now erased from the historical record. Communist Atrocities to be Aired at Prison Camp Commander Trial           Mass killings in the Romanian Gulag. Bulgaria Ran Brutal Camps For Prisoners [PDF] Edvin Sugarev, On Camps and Memory Kolio Kolev, Testimony on the Slunchev Briag Concentration Camp           The brutality of the Bulgarian Gulag. Justice Delayed For Those Tortured Under Communism           Tens of thousands were tortured and murdered in Czechoslovakia. Afghanistan Afghan Driver Says He Saw Soldiers Blind and Strangle Children [PDF] Afghans Disclose Deaths of 11,000           Communist mass murder in the pre-invasion years. Atrocities and Violations of Human Rights and International Law in Afghanistan [PDF] Eyewitnesses to Afghanistan at War [PDF]           Accounts of terror bombing and other war crimes. Rosanne Klass, Lifting the Curtain on Afghanistan’s Horror [PDF]           Freedom House describes the Nazi-style methods of the Soviet invaders, including massacre, torture,           maiming and rape. Jean-François Revel, The Awful Logic of Genocide Rosanne Klass, The New Holocaust           How the Soviets turned Afghanistan into the world’s worst horror chamber. The Soviets’ Ugly Exit [PDF]           Retreating Soviet forces scattered millions of anti-personnel mines, planted explosive devices disguised as           toys in order to blow off children’s limbs, poisoned food supplies and waged chemical warfare against           the civilian population. M. Hassan Kakar, The Story of Genocide in Afghanistan           Academic study of the Soviet genocide. China - Mao Ouyang Minglang, The Present Situation and Future Prospects of Human Rights in Mainland China [PDF] Uncounted Millions: Mass Death in Mao’s China Scholars Continue to Reveal Mao’s Monstrosities           The communists slaughtered many tens of millions in China through massacre, slavery and famine. Basil Ashton et al., Famine in China, 1958-61 [PDF] Vaclav Smil, China’s Great Famine: 40 Years Later [PDF]           How the communists caused the greatest man-made catastrophe in the history of the world. Miriam and Ivan D. London, The Other China: The Three Red Flags of Death [PDF] Miriam and Ivan D. London, The Other China: The Case of the Missing Beggars [PDF] Miriam and Ivan D. London, Hunger in China: The “Norm of Truth” [PDF] Miriam and Ivan D. London, Hunger in China: The Failure of a System? [PDF]           Forced starvation under communism. Yongyi Song, The Cultural Revolution and the War Against Fascism [PDF] Youqin Wang, Student Attacks Against Teachers: The Revolution of 1966 Youqin Wang, The Second Wave of Violent Persecution of Teachers: The Revolution of 1968           Mass murder during the Cultural Revolution. Ex-Inmate Recalls Life in China’s Gulag [PDF] “We Felt We Had Been Buried Alive”           “Class enemies” endured slavery and mass death in concentration camps. - Post-Mao Stephen W. Mosher, China’s One-Child Policy: Twenty-Five Years Later [PDF]           Population control ideology and the resulting atrocities against tens of millions of women. Defector Reveals the Horror of China’s One-Child Law Chinese Region “Must Conduct 20,000 Abortions”           Forced abortions and infanticide under the totalitarian one-child policy. China Reviews “Apartheid” For 900m Peasants           The cruel system of class discrimination imposed on hundreds of millions of peasants. Tibet Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, Kuxing: Torture in Tibet [PDF]           Communist savagery against the population of Tibet. Mongolia Mass Buddhist Grave Reported in Mongolia           The communist slaughter in Mongolia. North Korea - General Jack Rendler, The Last Worst Place on Earth: Human Rights in North Korea [PDF]           From Henry D. Sokolski, ed., Planning For a Peaceful Korea [PDF]. An excellent overview of this           totalitarian slave state, where millions have been starved to death or murdered in concentration camps. Jack Rendler, Horrific Conditions and Suffering Make It the Last Worst Place on Earth           A shorter and more recent account. - Famine Norbert Vollertsen, A Prison Country Norbert Vollertsen, Prisoner Nation           A German doctor recounts the horrors of forced starvation in North Korea. Fiona Terry, The Deadly Secrets of North Korea           Médecins Sans Frontières accuses the communists of starving millions, primarily the elderly, the young           and the sick. - Gulag Death, Terror in N. Korea Gulag North Korean Prison Guard Remembers Atrocities 7 Years of Torture in N. Korean Prison Camp North Korean Imprisoned at Age 10 For Grandparents’ Dissent Gulag Nation                    Extensive evidence of torture and mass murder in the North Korean Gulag. David Hawk, The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea’s Prison Camps Claudia Rosett, North Korea’s Gulags           Horrifying study from the US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. Regime That Kills Babies of Foreign Blood “I Saw an Entire Family Being Killed” Young Howard, The Hidden Gulag N. Korean Defector Says Disabled Newborns Are Killed           Torture, medical experiments and mass murder of disabled or mixed-race infants in North Korea. Vietnam - Pre-1975 Lam Thanh Liem, Ho Chi Minh’s Land Reform: Mistake or Crime? [Excerpt] 50 Years On, Vietnamese Remember Land Reform Terror           The bloodbath inflicted during the North Vietnamese land reform was effectively whitewashed by leftist           pseudo-scholars in the West, but the victims were not so quick to forget. The Blood-Red Hands of Ho Chi Minh           Stomach-churning accounts of communist mass murder during the Vietnam War. The Massacre of Hue           In this communist massacre, thousands of men, women and children were mercilessly slaughtered. The Human Cost of Communism in Vietnam: pp1-31 pp32-65 pp66-99 pp101-23 [PDF]           Extensive compilation of scholarly research and newspaper reports on communist terror in Vietnam. - Post-1975 M. Stanton Evans, Westerners Ignore Vietnam Gulag [PDF] Ginetta Sagan, Vietnam’s Postwar Hell [PDF]           Concentration camps and mass murder in post-1975 Vietnam. Declaration of Disinherited Vietnamese on Human Rights [PDF] Testament of Patriotic Prisoners in Vietnam [PDF]           Victims of state terror beg the outside world for help. Nguyen Cong Hoan, Human Rights in Vietnam I [PDF, 2.8 MB] II [PDF, 2.7 MB] Nguyen Cong Hoan, Why I Escaped From Vietnam           Defector’s account of totalitarian slavery in post-1975 Vietnam. Doan Van Toai, In Vietnam’s Gulag, the Captives Die a Slow Death [PDF]           Survivor’s account of the hidden mass killings of political prisoners in the Vietnamese Gulag. Theodore Jacqueney, They Are Us, We Were Vietnamese [PDF] Ginetta Sagan and Stephen Denney, Re-education in Unliberated Vietnam: Loneliness, Suffering and Death Stephen J. Morris, Glasnost and the Gulag: The Numbers Game [PDF] Anh Do and Hieu Tran Phan, Camp Z30-D: The Survivors           Starvation, torture and murder in the Vietnamese Gulag. Hanoi Regime Reported Resolved to Oust Nearly All Ethnic Chinese [PDF] Vietnam Refugees Fleeced of Possessions, Expelled [PDF] Escape From Vietnam: Nightmare at Sea Haunts Refugee Who Survived [PDF] Vietnam Goes on Trial in Geneva Over Its Refugees [PDF]           Communist ethnic cleansing literally drove the Chinese population into the sea, where hundreds of           thousands of boat people suffered and drowned. Stephen Denney, Human Rights and Daily Life in Vietnam           Ongoing political persecution and class discrimination. Laos 40,000 Reported Held in Harsh Laos Camps [PDF] Thorns Appear in Lotus Land           Tens of thousands of political prisoners were sent to die in concentration camps. The End of the Hmong Lao Human Rights Council, White Paper on Genocide in Laos           The Vietnamese and Laotian communists waged a genocidal war against Hmong tribespeople. Cambodia - Civil War The Agony of Phnom Penh [PDF] Khmer Rouge’s Bloody War on Trapped Villagers [PDF] “I Watched Them Saw Him 3 Days” [PDF] Priest Won’t Leave Refugees Despite Khmer Rouge Threat [PDF]           The savagery of the Khmer Rouge was easily discoverable before 1975. President Ford, News Conference on Cambodia [PDF]           President Ford warns of “an unbelievable horror story” if the communists capture Cambodia. Fear of Cambodian Bloodbath Seen Key to Senate Vote on Aid [PDF]           More bloodbath predictions; anti-war leftists in Congress successfully cut off the aid shortly afterwards. - Killing Fields The Khmer Rouge: Rampant Terror Yin Savannary, Diary From Darkness [PDF]           Early reports from survivors. Leo Cherne, The Terror in Cambodia [PDF]           The chairman of the International Rescue Committee describes the genocide. Craig Etcheson, The Number: Quantifying Crimes Against Humanity in Cambodia Bruce Sharp, Counting Hell           Studies demonstrating that the death toll was in the millions. Henri Locard, State Violence in Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979) and Retribution (1979-2004) [PDF]           This is the best summary of the Khmer Rouge bloodbath. Cambodia Steps Slowly Toward a Genocide Trial           Feeble attempts to prosecute the butchers. Ethiopia Ethiopian Ex-Rulers Go on Trial           The communist record of mass terror and forced famine in Ethiopia Jason W. Clay, Famine in Ethiopia Jason W. Clay and Bonnie K. Holcomb, The Politics of Famine in Ethiopia           Cultural Survival accuses the communists of causing mass deaths from starvation. Peter Niggli, Ethiopian Resettlement: Vomit and Death [PDF]           How the communists tormented famine victims. Dawit Wolde Giorgis, Power and Famine in Ethiopia [PDF]           Ethiopia’s relief commissioner blames the communists for a million deaths. Angola National Society for Human Rights, Ending the Angolan Conflict [PDF] National Society for Human Rights, Criminal Liability in Angola [PDF]           These two studies by an African NGO are the best analyses of the Angolan conflict. Responsibility for the           bloodbath is placed squarely where it belongs, with the communist MPLA dictatorship and its international           apologists. NB: On account of reformatting, pagination will not match the originals. Global Witness, A Crude Awakening [PDF]           How and why the communist MPLA and its foreign collaborators perpetuated the brutal civil war. As Guerrilla War Ends, Corruption Now Bleeds Angola to Death           The MPLA dictatorship’s ongoing responsibility for mass starvation and disease in Angola. Mozambique Terror of Maputo Jail           Torture, rape, slavery and starvation in Mozambique’s Gulag. Zimbabwe John Sweeney, Inside the Terror-Camp           The massacre of tens of thousands in the Matabeleland. Claudia Rosett, Dearth of a Nation Roger Bate, The Killing Fields of Zimbabwe           Zimbabwe’s socialist regime deliberately imposed starvation on millions of people. Jeff Jacoby, Starving Time in Zimbabwe           The dictatorship used mass rape as a weapon of terror. Cuba - Murder Mary Anastasia O’Grady, Counting Castro’s Victims Cuba’s Lost Population           Mass killings under communism in Cuba. Deaths in Prison [PDF] Victims of Che Guevara [PDF] Executions by Raul Castro [PDF]           Shooting dissidents, murdering pregnant women, drowning children, etc. The Cuban Rafter Phenomenon Mary Anastasia O’Grady, The Lives of Cubans           The communists also murder boat people as they try to escape. - Tyranny Alfred G. Cuzan, Castro’s “Revolutionary” Despotism [PDF]           The enslavement of the Cuban people. Armando Valladares, Torture in Castro’s Cuba Armando Valladares, A Firsthand Account of Child Abuse, Castro Style Armando Valladares, Castro’s Gulag           One of the world’s longest-serving political prisoners on atrocities in Cuba’s concentration camps. From the Prisons of Cuba: A Cry For Help [PDF] Chronicle of an Unforgettable Agony: Cuba’s Political Prisons Cuba’s Abuses of Psychiatry           Political imprisonment and psychiatric torture in Cuba. Nicaragua - Witnesses Nicaragua Executions Put at 500-1,000 [PDF]           Mass executions started within weeks of the Sandinista takeover. Jose Esteban Gonzalez, Remember Nicaragua [PDF]           Nicaragua’s leading human rights activist on Sandinista persecution and terror. New Regime, Old Methods           A defector’s account of Sandinista massacres and torture. Inside Communist Nicaragua: The Miguel Bolanos Transcripts [PDF]           A secret police defector describes the Sandinista campaign to establish communism in Nicaragua and           impose Soviet control over Central America. Inside the Sandinista Regime: A Special Investigator’s Perspective [PDF, 2.4 MB] Defector Describes “Bloody,” “Corrupt” Regime [PDF]           A high-ranking defector accuses the Sandinistas of murdering thousands. - Observers Alfred G. Cuzan, Sandinista Goals Were Evident Long Ago [PDF] Alfred G. Cuzan, The Nicaraguan Revolution: From Autocracy to Totalitarian Dictatorship? [PDF]           The totalitarian fanaticism of the Sandinista National Liberation Front. John Norton Moore, The Secret War in Central America and the Future of World Order [PDF, 5 MB]           Massive indictment of the Sandinista role in provoking violence and war throughout Central America. J. Michael Waller, Will Sandinistas Face Justice?           The Sandinistas tortured, raped, mutilated and murdered thousands of innocent people. J. Michael Waller, Tropical Chekists: The Sandinista Secret Police Legacy in Nicaragua           How the Sandinistas tried to build a police state in Nicaragua. Peru Peru Indians Take Up Arms Against Rebel Terror           Mass murder and enslavement of the poor by the Shining Path terrorists in Peru. Other - Campaigns For Eugenics Jonathan Freedland, Master Race of the Left           “Nearly every one of the left’s most cherished, iconic figures espoused views which today’s progressives           would find repulsive... Indeed, contempt for ordinary people and outright racism were two of the defining           creeds of British socialism.” - Collaboration With Fascists Oliver Kamm, The Far Left Meets the Far Right: A Historical Note           Japanese communist support for genocidal racist expansionism. Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-1941           Soviet-Nazi collaboration was the immediate cause of World War II. E. Germany Ran Antisemitic Campaign in West in ’60s Stasi Supported West German Neo-Nazi Groups           East Germany essentially created the neo-Nazi movement in West Germany. - Collaboration With Jihadists Paul Bogdanor, Leftists For a Second Holocaust Eugene Goodheart, The London Review of Hezbollah           How the radical left embraced jihadist mass murderers who plan to annihilate the Jewish people. Steven Stalinsky, Islamist-Left Alliance A Growing Force John Perazzo, Platforms of the Enemy           The radical left’s open collaboration with the most virulent hatemongers in the Middle East. - The Post-9/11 Left Brink Lindsey, Terrorism’s Fellow Travelers [PDF] Paul Hollander, The Resilience of the Adversary Culture           Radical leftists blamed the victims and excused the perpetrators of the 9/11 massacres. Edward Alexander, Suicide Bombers and Professors Edward Alexander, Ward Churchill and the Politics of Campus Extremism           The murderous fanaticism of the American campus left.