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11/10/2007: "Why no apology for Russian Communist crimes?"
The greatest crime in modern history, and bloodiest genocide, seems to have almost vanished from our collective memory. Last week marked the 70th anniversary of the Great Terror in the Soviet Union in which tens of millions were murdered or imprisoned.
The Soviet terror began in the 1920s when Lenin ordered the extermination of Cossacks and opponents of the Bolsheviks. Next came Catholics of White Russia, and resisters to communism in the Baltic
states and Moldova. Stalin then ordered liquidation of two million small farmers, known as "Kulaks."
Six to seven million Ukrainians were shot or purposely starved to death. The man who directed this genocide, Lazar Kaganovich was made Hero of the Soviet Union and died in Moscow in 1991.
From 1934-1941 alone, some seven million victims were sent to the system of concentration camps known as the "gulag," including one million Poles, hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians, Latvians and
Estonians, and half the entire Chechen and Ingush people. Volga Germans, Crimean Tatars, Bashkirs, Kalmyks followed. Stalin's gulag did not need gas chambers: Cold, disease and overwork killed 30% of
inmates yearly.
Stalin committed his worst crimes well before Hitler's major atrocities got under way.
[ Left-wing terror has always been the greatest threat to the West. Hitler's war was a response to Communist aggression, as Margolis notes. ]
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Margolis_Eric/2007/11/04/4629561-sun.php