Ya era hora!

History calls communists to account:

FIFTEEN years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Council of Europe last night became the first international body to condemn crimes against humanity committed by the communist regimes of the Soviet Union and other states.

(Vía Free Thoughts)

REGIMES OF DEATH

# Conservative estimate of deaths attributed to Soviet and other Communist regimes in the European Council document presented yesterday (1917-present day): 94.5 million

# Soviet Union (1917-89): 20 million victims (includes party purges, mass murder, deportations, starvation policy in 1930s Ukraine, wartime reprisals)

# China: 65 million (under Mao Zedong and successors)

# Vietnam: 1 million

# North Korea: 2 million

# Cambodia: 2 million

# Eastern Europe: 1 million

# Latin America: 150,000

# Africa: 1.7 million

# Afghanistan: 1.5 million

# Victims of Nazi Germany and its allies; the military and civilian death toll from the mid-1930s to 1945: 56 million, including 6 million Jews.