Dear Retailers,

Your decision to remove the Confederate flag from your stores is a welcome gesture, but we the concerned citizens of America worry that you are profiting from terrorism and genocide by selling the flags and memorabilia of even more sinister regimes such as the Soviet Union.

The Black Book of Communism estimates communists in power killed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism

65 million in the People's Republic of China

20 million in the Soviet Union

2 million in Cambodia

2 million in North Korea

1.7 million in Ethiopia

1.5 million in Afghanistan

1 million in the Communist states of Eastern Europe

1 million in Vietnam

150,000 in Latin America mainly Cuba

10,000 deaths "resulting from actions of the international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power."

It includes racial violence, anti-semitism, the use of slave labor and religious persecution, and in the Soviet Union alone:

the executions of tens of thousands of hostages and prisoners

the murder of hundreds of thousands of rebellious workers and peasants from 1918 to 1922

the Russian famine of 1921, which caused the death of 5 million people

the extermination and deportation of the Don Cossacks in 1920

the murder of tens of thousands in concentration camps in the period between 1918 and 1930

the Great Purge which killed almost 690,000 people

the deportation of 2 million so-called "kulaks" from 1930 to 1932

the deaths of 4 million Ukrainians (Holodomor) and 2 million others during the famine of 1932 and 1933

the deportations of Poles, Ukrainians, Moldavians and people from the Baltic Republics from 1939 to 1941 and from 1944 to 1945

the deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941

the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1943

the deportation of Chechens in 1944

the deportation of the Ingush in 1944

State sponsored terrorism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_and_the_Soviet_Union

Soviet secret services have been described by GRU defectors Viktor Suvorov and Stanislav Lunev as "the primary instructors of terrorists worldwide"[3][4][5] According to Ion Mihai Pacepa, KGB General Aleksandr Sakharovsky once said: "In today’s world, when nuclear arms have made military force obsolete, terrorism should become our main weapon."[6] He also claimed that "Airplane hijacking is my own invention".

He claims that in 1969 alone, 82 planes were hijacked worldwide by the KGB-financed PLO.[6] Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa described operation "SIG" (“Zionist Governments”) that was devised in 1972, to turn the whole Islamic world against Israel and the United States.

The following terrorist organizations have been established by the KGB: PLO, National Liberation Army of Bolivia (created in 1964 with help from Ernesto Che Guevara); the National Liberation Army of Colombia (created in 1965 with help from Cuba), Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1969, and the Secret Army for Liberation of Armenia in 1975.[7] The leader of the PLO, Yasser Arafat, established close collaboration with the Romanian Securitate service and the Soviet KGB in the beginning of the 1970s.[8]The secret training of PLO guerrillas was provided by the KGB.[9] However, the main KGB activities and arms shipments were channeled through Wadie Haddad of the DFLP organization, who usually stayed in a KGB dacha BARVIKHA-1 during his visits to Russia. Led by Carlos the Jackal, a group of PFLP fighters accomplished a spectacular raid the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries office in Vienna in 1975. Advance notice of this operation "was almost certainly" given to the KGB.

We, the undersigned, demand you pull the flags and memorabilia from all communist governments and organizations, as well those of violent murderers such as Che Guevera.