Trump Honors Victims of Communism
More than 100 million killed under communist regimes
resident Trump marked a national observance on Wednesday for the millions victims who died as a result of international communism.
"On the National Day for the Victims of Communism, we honor the memory of the more than 100 million people who have been killed and persecuted by communist totalitarian regimes," the president said in a White House statement. "We also reaffirm our steadfast support for those who strive for peace, prosperity, and freedom around the world."
Communism, or Marxism-Leninism, is a political ideology whose adherents first seized power during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Often referred to by the euphemism "scientific socialism," communism sought to reshape societies through collectivist systems that seek to change human nature through labor.
A main feature of communism is an implacable hostility to capitalism, the economic system that has produced the most advanced and freest civilization in human history.
Since then, "we have witnessed the effects of the tyrannical communist ideology—anguish, repression, and death," Trump said of the Bolshevik takeover.
"Communism subordinates inherent human rights to the purported well-being of all, resulting in the extermination of religious freedom, private property, free speech, and, far too often, life," he said.
States that adopt communist political systems are marked by violations of basic human rights. Resulting policies under communism have produced severe repression against any group or person perceived by ruling regimes to be an "enemy of the state."
China’s system has been noted as the deadliest communist state, producing a death toll estimated to be 65 million people through executions, forced labor, and other means, according to the authoritative Black Book of Communism, published in 1999.
China sought to reform its hardline communist system under Mao Zedong beginning in the 1980s by adopting quasi-capitalist features to its economy. Its political system, however, remains a repressive Leninist dictatorship.
According to the Black Book, more than 94 million people were killed or died as the result of communist regimes around the world, ranging from Russia to China to Cuba.
The victims included those who died in mass repression under communist systems through executions, government-produced famines, war, deportation, and forced labor.
Among the communist-inspired mass deaths have been the Soviet government-caused famine in Ukraine known as "Holodomor" that killed as many as 12 million people.
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