Left-Wing Bloodbaths

Radical leftists would have us believe that they stand for democracy, progress, human rights and social justice. But when they seize power, they introduce slavery, terror, famine, concentration camps and mass murder. As the Marxists used to say, this is no accident.John Kekes, Why Robespierre Chose Terror

The human costs of far-left ideology during the Jacobin Terror in France: "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."

Elizabeth Anderson, Babeuf's Revolutionary Communism

An early example of radical left-wing totalitarianism.

Paul Bogdanor, The Communists As They Really Are

Quotations not taught in the average history class.

George Reisman, The Tyranny of Socialism [PDF]Thomas G. West, Marx and Lenin Leszek Kolakowski, Marxist Roots of Stalinism [PDF]Stephane Courtois, The Crimes of Communism Stephane Courtois, Why?

Why radical left-wing ideology ends in horrifying dictatorships.

Karl Zinsmeister, All the Hungry People David Marcus, Famine Crimes in International Law [PDF]

The role of communist dictatorships in creating the most terrible famines in world history.

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.

Michael Johns, Seventy Years of Evil

Soviet crimes against humanity from the Bolshevik coup to the slaughter in Afghanistan.

Vladimir Medem, On Terror [PDF]Sergei Melgunov, The Red Terror in Russia [PDF]Sergei Melgunov, The Record of the Red Terror [PDF]Nicolas Walter, The Legacy of Bolshevism [PDF]Richard Pipes, Lenin's Gulag [PDF]

Lenin and Trotsky tortured and massacred hundreds of thousands after 1917.

Peter Boettke, The Soviet Experiment With Pure Communism [PDF]Peter Boettke, The Political Economy of Utopia: Communism in Soviet Russia, 1918-1921 [PDF]Peter Boettke, Soviet Admissions: Communism Doesn't Work

Lenin, Trotsky, Bukharin and other Soviet planners admitted to inflicting catastrophe on tens of millions.

Leszek Kolakowski, Trotsky on Dictatorship [PDF]Ralph Raico, Trotsky: The Ignorance and the Evil John Eric Marot, Trotsky, the Left Opposition and the Rise of Stalinism: Theory and Practice

The bloodthirsty Trotskyist "alternative" to Stalinism.

Victims were "crucified on royal gates and shot in the basements of the Cheka, scalped, strangled, drowned and submitted to other bestial tortures."

Peter Holquist, "Conduct Merciless Mass Terror": Decossackization on the Don, 1919

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

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 Aurelie Campana, Surgun: The Crimean Tatars' Deportation and Exile

Massacres, famines and ethnic cleansing wiped out hundreds of thousands of Crimean Muslims.

Aleksandr M. Nekrich, The Punished Peoples [PDF]Aurelie Campana, The Massive Deportation of the Chechen People Elza-Bair Guchinova, Deportation of the Kalmyks (1943-1956) [PDF]

Genocidal deportations of national minorities created an apartheid system that lasted for decades.

Kazuo Nakai, Soviet Agricultural Policies in the Ukraine and the 1921-1922 Famine [PDF]

Forgotten communist famine, in which millions died.

Isabelle Ohayon, The Kazakh Famine Yedige Magauin, A Tragedy Kazakhstan Must Never Forget

Forced starvation killed a third of the population of Kazakhstan.

Raphael Lemkin, Soviet Genocide in Ukraine [PDF]Nicolas Werth, The Great Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33 Stanislav Kulchytsky, The Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933: A Case of Genocide [PDF]Yevhen Zakharov, Legal Classification of Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine and in Kuban

Forced starvation decimated the Ukrainian population.

D'Ann Penner, The Agrarian "Strike" of 1932-33 [PDF]D'Ann Penner, Stalin and the Ital'ianka of 1932-1933 in the Don Region 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]Sergei Maksudov, Genocide Remembered Timothy Snyder, Stalin's World is Still With Us

This man-made 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 communists withheld food from the victims.

Nicolas Werth, Dekulakisation as Mass Violence

The murder of half a million men, women and children for belonging to the wrong economic class.

Example of the mass graves containing victims of the Soviet regime.

The Soviets, like the Nazis, performed medical experiments on conscious victims.

The true scale of the Gulag.

Post-Cold War academic research on Soviet mass murder.

Steven Rosefielde, Documented Homicides and Excess Deaths [PDF]

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.

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.

The atrocities included forced starvation, medical neglect, systematic beatings and death by radiation.

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.

Sergei Grigoryants, Soviet Psychiatric Prisoners [PDF]

On the Psychiatric Gulag, where victims were falsely imprisoned and tortured with mind-altering drugs.

Tamas Stark, Genocide or Genocidal Massacre? The Case of Hungarian Prisoners in Soviet Custody [PDF]Agnes Huszar Vardy, Forgotten Victims of World War II [PDF]

The Soviets deported hundreds of thousands of Hungarians to their deaths.

Michael Portmann, Communist Retaliation and Persecution on Yugoslav Territory [PDF]

Communist mass murder in Yugoslavia, now forgotten.

Anthony Beevor, "They Raped Every German Female From Eight to 80"

The Red Army systematically gang-raped millions of women and girls in Eastern Europe.

The Soviets used former Nazi concentration camps to wipe out political prisoners in East Germany.

Systematic torture, medical experiments and mass murder in East Germany.

Jeffrey Herf, An Age of Murder: Ideology and Terror in Germany [PDF]

The terrorism and antisemitism of the Stasi-sponsored Red Army Faction in West Germany.

Mass killings in the Romanian Gulag.

The brutality of the Bulgarian Gulag.

Torture and murder in Czechoslovakia.

Communist mass murder in the pre-invasion years.

Accounts of terror bombing and other war crimes.

Rosanne Klass, Lifting the Curtain on Afghanistan's Horror [PDF]Claude Malhuret, Report From Afghanistan [PDF]

Freedom House and Doctors Without Borders describe the Nazi-style methods of the Soviet invaders, including massacre, torture, maiming and rape.

W. Michael Reisman and Charles H. Norchi, Genocide and the Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan [PDF]

The Institute for the Study of Genocide on Soviet criminal guilt.

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 history of the Soviet genocide.

The communists slaughtered tens of millions in China through massacre, slavery and famine.

Jasper Becker, Ex-NPC Chief Admits Maoism Killed Millions Vaclav Smil, China's Great Famine: 40 Years Later [PDF]Frank Dikotter, Mao's Great Leap to Famine Frank Dikotter, Mao's Great Famine: The Grey Zone [PDF]

How the communists created 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 Miriam and Ivan D. London, The Other China: The Case of the Missing Beggars Miriam and Ivan D. London, Hunger in China: The "Norm of Truth" Miriam and Ivan D. London, Hunger in China: The Failure of a System?

Forced starvation under communism.

Yongyi Song, The Cultural Revolution and the War Against Fascism [PDF]Yongyi Song, The Dao County Massacre of 1967 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.

"Class enemies" endured slavery and mass death in concentration camps.

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.

Forced abortions and infanticide under the totalitarian one-child policy.

The communist slaughter in Mongolia.

Jack Rendler, The Last Worst Place on Earth: Human Rights in North Korea [PDF]

An excellent overview of this totalitarian slave state, where millions have been starved to death or murdered in concentration camps.

The United Nations documents ongoing crimes against humanity in North Korea.

Fiona Terry, The Deadly Secrets of North Korea

Forced starvation has claimed millions of victims, primarily the elderly, the young and the sick.

David Hawk, The Hidden Gulag [PDF]

Extensive evidence of torture and mass murder in the North Korean Gulag.

Robert Park, The Case For Genocide in North Korea

Torture, medical experiments, infanticide and genocide in North Korea.

Robert Collins, Marked For Life: Songbun, North Korea's Social Classification System [PDF]

The system of class apartheid in North Korea.

The bloodbath inflicted during the North Vietnamese land reform was effectively whitewashed by far-left activists in the West, but the victims were not so quick to forget.

Lam Thanh Liem, Ho Chi Minh's Land Reform: Mistake or Crime?

Stomach-churning accounts of communist mass murder during the Vietnam War.

In this communist massacre, thousands of men, women and children were slaughtered.

Stephen T. Hosmer, Viet Cong Repression and its Implications For the Future [PDF]

Detailed analysis of Viet Cong mass murder campaigns.

Compilation of research and newspaper reports on communist terror in Vietnam.

Le Thi Anh, Let the Vietnamese Speak For Themselves [PDF]M. Stanton Evans, Westerners Ignore Vietnam Gulag [PDF]Ginetta Sagan, Vietnam's Postwar Hell [PDF]

Concentration camps and mass murder in post-1975 Vietnam.

Victims of state terror beg the outside world for help.

Nguyen Cong Hoan, Human Rights in Vietnam I [PDF] II [PDF]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, Were We 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.

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.

Tens of thousands of political prisoners were sent to die in concentration camps.

Lao Human Rights Council, White Paper on Genocide in Laos

The Vietnamese and Laotian communists waged a genocidal war against Hmong tribespeople.

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.

More bloodbath predictions; anti-war leftists in Congress successfully cut off the aid shortly afterwards.

John D. Lofton, On Genocide in Cambodia

The refusal of the aid opponents to take responsibility for the expected consequences of their actions.

Yin Savannary, Diary From Darkness [PDF] Asian Blood Bath [PDF] Cambodia - An Outlaw Nation [PDF]

Early reports from survivors and journalists.

Leo Cherne, The Terror in Cambodia [PDF]Leo Cherne, Cambodia - Auschwitz of Asia [PDF]

The chairman of the International Rescue Committee describes the mass murders.

Craig Etcheson, The Number: Quantifying Crimes Against Humanity in Cambodia Bruce Sharp, Counting Hell

Studies demonstrating that the death toll was in the millions.

Lek Hor Tan, The Khmer Rouge: Beyond 1984? [PDF]Henri Locard, State Violence in Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979) and Retribution (1979-2004) [PDF]

Some excellent summaries of the Khmer Rouge bloodbath.

Hurst Hannum, International Law and Cambodian Genocide: The Sounds of Silence Solomon Bashi, Prosecuting Starvation at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia [PDF]

Criminal responsibility for mass murder and forced starvation under the Khmer Rouge.

Mass rape and other crimes against humanity under the Khmer Rouge.

Extensive documentation of communist atrocities against women.

Peter Niggli, Ethiopian Resettlement: Vomit and Death [PDF]Dawit Wolde Giorgis, Power and Famine in Ethiopia [PDF]Michael Johns, Gorbachev's Holocaust

The communists caused a million deaths through terror and forced starvation in Ethiopia.

Mass murder by Cuban military forces in Angola.

John Matthew, Doubts on Angola Vote-Counting National Society for Human Rights, Ending the Angolan Conflict [PDF]National Society for Human Rights, Criminal Liability in Angola [PDF]Global Witness, A Crude Awakening [PDF]

The MPLA regime's responsibility for civil war and mass starvation in Angola.

Torture, rape, slavery and starvation in Mozambique's Gulag.

The Frelimo regime's contribution to mass starvation in Mozambique.

John Sweeney, Inside the Terror-Camp

The genocidal massacre of tens of thousands in Zimbabwe.

Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Counting Castro's Victims [PDF]Maria C. Werlau, Bloody Tally of a Fifty-Year Long Dictatorship Maria C. Werlau, Most Deaths Largely Ignored [PDF]

Mass killings under communism in Cuba.

Shooting dissidents , murdering pregnant women , drowning children , etc.

The communists also murder boat people as they try to escape.

Elena Mederos, Human Rights and Cuban Law [PDF]Alfred G. Cuzan, Castro's "Revolutionary" Despotism [PDF]

The enslavement of the Cuban people.

The realities of political imprisonment and torture in Cuba.

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.

A former high-ranking official explains how the Sandinistas murdered thousands.

Comprehensive record of the Sandinista role in provoking violence and war throughout the region.

Alfred G. Cuzan, Sandinista Goals Were Evident Long Ago [PDF]Alfred G. Cuzan, The Nicaraguan Revolution: From Autocracy to Totalitarian Dictatorship? [PDF]John Norton Moore, The Secret War in Central America and the Future of World Order [PDF]

How the Sandinistas tried to build a police state through torture and murder.

Mass murder and enslavement of the poor by the Shining Path terrorists in Peru.

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."

Soviet collaboration with the Nazis.

East German sponsorship of the neo-Nazi movement in West Germany.

Paul Bogdanor, Leftists For a Second Holocaust

How the far left embraced fanatics who advocate the mass murder of Jews.

Steven Stalinsky, Islamist-Left Alliance A Growing Force

The extreme left's open collaboration with the most virulent hatemongers in the Middle East.

Brink Lindsey, Terrorism's Fellow Travelers [PDF]

How extreme leftists blamed the victims and excused the perpetrators of the 9/11 massacres.