READ some History from Mark Tapson Courtesy FPM
An Intro by John R. Houk, Blog Editor
Intro © November 9, 2026
I just finished reading Mark Tapson’s FrontPage Magazine post entitled, “Honoring the Victims of Communism: The greatest scourge in human history”. It is essentially of Communist death and destruction beginning with Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution in then Czarist Russia.
As the Dem-Marxists (and their temporary Muslim allies) consolidate power, it will be good to know some history to comprehend expectations of a future Dem-Marxist tyranny in the USA. I for one will not be a doormat for Communists. I pray younger American generations wake up for a dismal American future envelops the Founding Fathers’ Republic.
JRH 11/9/26
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Honoring the Victims of Communism
The greatest scourge in human history
By Mark Tapson
November 9, 2026
Memorial to the Victims of Communism (FPM Photo) Photo credit: Satdeep Gill at Wikimedia Commons.
This past Saturday, November 7th, marked the grim anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Petrograd, the moment Vladimir Lenin and his vanguard of totalitarian zealots seized power and unleashed upon the earth the most destructive political philosophy ever conceived. Now commemorated as Victims of Communism Memorial Day, the mainstream media made little note of it, fixated instead on the transient daily churn of the news cycle. But its significance as both a commemoration of past horrors and an urgent warning for the future cannot be overstated.
On social media, Peter Hitchens called the Russian Revolution “one of the worst disasters to strike human civilisation.” Marco Rubio’s Department of State issued a tweet labeling Communism “the most barbaric, evil ideology the world has ever seen.” When we examine the ledger of 20th-century Communism, the sheer scale of the carnage defies human comprehension. Conservative estimates place the body count of Marxist-Leninist regimes at upwards of 100 million human lives—a catastrophic toll that easily outstrips the combined deaths of all international wars fought in the same century. And Communism was not merely a political failure; it was an engine of systematic mass murder.
The monstrous reality began in Soviet Russia. Under Lenin and Joseph Stalin, the state transformed terror into a cruel science. The Holodomor – a deliberately engineered terror-famine in 1932–1933—starved millions of Ukrainian men, women, and children to break their spirit of independence. The Gulag system turned the frozen wastes of Siberia into a vast network of concentration camps where millions perished through slave labor, exposure, and summary execution. The Great Purge proved that under Marxism, loyalty to the state provides no immunity; the revolution will inevitably devour its own.
In Asia, the ideology achieved even more nightmare-inducing proportions. Mao Zedong’s “Great Leap Forward” stands as the single largest democidal act in human history – an estimated 30 to 45 million Chinese peasants starved to death in the name of collectivization. When that failed, Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, turning an entire generation into radicalized mobs that burned historical heritage, brutalized teachers, and shattered families (sound familiar?). In Cambodia, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge took Marxist-Leninist dogma to its logical, psychotic extreme: murdering nearly a quarter of their own nation’s population in just four years, targeting anyone suspected of “intellectualism,” including citizens who simply wore eyeglasses.
From the torture chambers of the Stasi in East Germany to the execution walls of Castro’s Cuba, from the forced labor camps of North Korea to the impoverished streets of once-prosperous Venezuela, the outcome of Marxist implementation is always and everywhere the same: totalitarian tyranny and economic devastation.
Victims of Communism Memorial Day was established to bear witness to the Everest of corpses stacked high by a philosophy that promises utopian liberation but delivers only dystopian enslavement – and to ensure that the crimes of Marxist regimes face an historical reckoning. The foundation was laid in 1993, when the United States Congress passed unanimous legislation, signed by President Bill Clinton, authorizing the creation of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) [Blog Editor: Those Dems are either long gone or are currently lying to their constituents]. In 2007, President George W. Bush dedicated the official memorial in Washington, D.C.: a bronze replica of the “Goddess of Democracy” statue erected by the courageous Chinese students in Tiananmen Square before they were slaughtered by the People’s Liberation Army in 1989.
The designation of November 7th as the specific National Day for the Victims of Communism gained official federal presidential recognition in 2017, the centenary of the Bolshevik coup. Since then, a growing coalition of state legislatures, civic institutions, and educational bodies have formally recognized the date, mandating that schools teach the unvarnished reality of communist atrocities. The history of the commemoration itself is a testament to the perseverance of dissidents, defectors, and scholars who refused to let the countless millions silenced behind the Iron Curtain, the Bamboo Curtain, and across the globe be consigned to the oblivion of ignorance.
Given its apocalyptic record of ruin, one would expect Marxism to reside alongside National Socialism in the dustbin of history, permanently repudiated by civilized society [Blog Editor: Nazism & Communism are actually two sides of the same coin]. But today, thanks to the tireless, decades-long efforts of left-wing indoctrinators and charismatic demagogues, an historical amnesia has metastasized among the youth of Western civilization, who are embracing an equitable fantasy under the sanitized banner of “democratic socialism.” The specter that the satanic Karl Marx summoned in 1848 did not vanish with the fall of the Berlin Wall; it simply keeps getting rebranded. And the lie keeps getting peddled that the ghastly record of 20th-century Marxism is simply an unfortunate result of true Communism never really been implemented properly. This time we’ll get it right, we promise.
This belief is fundamentally delusional. You cannot socially engineer a perfect world without immediately resorting to coercion of the populace. You cannot centralize control over the means of production, distribution, energy, healthcare, and education without stripping individuals of their freedoms, their God-given rights (including the right to bear arms), and their economic and personal self-determination. When the state becomes the sole provider of food, employment, and shelter, dissent becomes a death sentence. [Blog Editor Bold Text Emphasis]
The current enthusiasm for socialist concepts among the youth is the direct, bitter fruit of an education establishment long ago captured by left-wing radicals like Barack Obama’s mentor, “former” terrorist Bill Ayres and his literal partner-in-crime Bernardine Dohrn. High school and university curricula now routinely condemn Western capitalism as “inequitable” while whitewashing the mass graves of the Soviet Union or Maoist China. As a result, whole generations are easy prey for the seductive, false promises of big-government benevolence.
In the immediate wake of blue midterm victories, the far-Left Democrat Party was gleefully obsessed with waging retribution against their political opponents and spared no thought for yesterday’s memorial. But Americans cannot afford to ignore it. The victims of communism deserve our vigilance going forward, and their suffering demands it. Not only must our children be taught the full cost of Marxist ideology, we must take steps to eradicate it, no matter what form it takes or what alias it tries to disguise itself under. Communism, democratic socialism, progressivism – whatever its label, this ruinous evil must be abolished. [Blog Editor Bold Text Emphasis]
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Mark Tapson is the Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, focusing on popular culture. He is also the host of an original podcast on Frontpage, “The Right Take With Mark Tapson”. Follow him on Substack.
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