Auschwitz and gulag
76th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF GERMAN NAZI CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP AUSCHWITZ 27 JANUARY 2021
http://auschwitz.org/en/home-page-76/
Communists murdered far more people than Nazis, but only Nazi crimes are still remembered and not all
SOVIET CONCENTRATION CAMPS (GULAGS) WERE
ADMINISTERED BY JEWS
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The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine – Published August 27th 2006 by Princeton University Press (first published 2004), Edition Language: English.
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
Double Genocide. Red=Brown. How Holocaust Preeminence Marginalizes the Crimes of Communism and Makes Its Victims Almost Invisible
Though some of the groups targeted by the Soviets were in accordance with their ethnicity, and so qualify as Communist genocide, most of the groups targeted were according to class—hence classicide.
The Communist subjugation of Poles, beginning with those of the Soviet Union and ending with those of post-WWII, Poland, is examined in detail by Andrzej Paczkowski. (pp. 363-393).
This volume is full of information, and I now focus on the near-silence on the crimes of Communism compared with those of Nazis (against Jews, that is).
THE COMMUNISTS MURDERED FAR MORE HUMAN BEINGS THAN THE NAZIS
In the Foreword, the editors put the number of victims of Communism at 85-100 million dead. (p. x).
Stephane Courtois, a director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), supports a total of about 100 million dead at the hands of Communism, and apportions them as follows: USSR (20 million), China (65 million), North Korea (2 million), Cambodia (2 million), etc. (p. 4).
THE CONTRIVED DISTINCTION BETWEEN “EXTERMINATION FOR A POLITICAL OBJECTIVE” AND “EXTERMINATION AS AN END IN ITSELF”
In the Foreword, the editors provide this stinging rebuke, “The plausible distinction, however, can easily be turned on its head. In particular, Eastern European dissidents have argued that mass murder in the name of a noble idea is MORE perverse than it is in the name of a base one. The Nazis, after all, never pretended to be virtuous. The Communists, by contrast, trumpeting their humanism, hoodwinked millions around the globe for decades, and so got away with murder on the ultimate scale. The Nazis, moreover, killed off their victims without ideological ceremony; the Communists, by contrast, usually compelled their prey to confess their ‘guilt’ in signed depositions thereby acknowledging the Party line’s political ‘correctness’.” (p. xv).
THE NAZIS TARGETED PEOPLES NOT FOR WHAT THEY DID BUT FOR WHO THEY WERE. SO DID THE COMMUNISTS
Stephane Courtois writes, “Critics have often tried to make a distinction between Nazism and Communism by arguing that the Nazi project had a particular aim, which was nationalist and racist in the extreme, whereas Lenin’s project was universal. This is entirely wrong. In both theory and practice, Lenin and his successors excluded from humanity all capitalists, bourgeoisie, counterrevolutionaries, and others, turning them into absolute enemies in their sociological and political discourse.” (p. 753).
THE PRIMACY OF THE HOLOCAUST PREVENTS AN OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CRIMES OF COMMUNISM
Stephane Courtois comments, “More recently, a single-minded focus on the Jewish genocide in an attempt to characterize the Holocaust as a unique atrocity has also prevented an assessment of other episodes of comparable magnitude in the Communist world.” (p. 23). Well said!
THE HOLOCAUST EFFECTIVELY MAKES THE VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM INVISIBLE
Courtois points out that, “In contrast to the Jewish Holocaust, which the international Jewish community has actively commemorated, it has been impossible for victims of Communism and their legal advocates to keep the memory of the tragedy alive, and any requests for commemoration or demands for reparation are brushed aside.” (p. 19).
And there are those who would have us believe that over-attention to the Holocaust, and attention to other genocidal crimes, is not a zero sum game. It may not be exactly, but it is close enough.
https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/gulags-as-genocide-polian/
Full text of "The Black Book of Communism"
Recommended literature on this topic:
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/25/russia.books
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No Holocaust Uniqueness
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https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/holocaust-supremacism-strongly-repudiated-neusner/
The Jewish Century, by Yuri Slezkine. 2006
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