The Victims of Communism Memorial will be dedicated tomorrow in Washington, D.C. This is a great chance to set the record straight, and remember the greatest totalitarian disaster of human history.
I wish they had worthier headline speakers than a pair of statists like President Bush and Representative Lantos. I’d rather listen to Richard Pipes and Thomas Szasz. Still, it’s no small consolation that this monument to Communist oppression was funded entirely by private donations.
READER COMMENTS
Jefferson Otwell
Jun 11 2007 at 5:09pm
That a monument dedicated to the victims of communist oppression is voluntarily funded with private money is perhaps the most beautiful monument of all.
Fergus O'Rourke
Jun 12 2007 at 12:52pm
First a war on one abstraction, now a monument to victims of another one. (I presume that it will take the form of a hologram ?) What next ? “Drink Intoxication !” “Eat nutrition !”Looking for a date ? Try feminism !” (I don’t recommend that one – especially not to females, but they might try androgyny)Sheesh !
dearieme
Jun 12 2007 at 1:31pm
The quotation it ought to bear is Robert Conquest’s “I Told You So, You Fucking Fools”.
David J. Balan
Jun 12 2007 at 3:38pm
Why would it be a bad thing if the memorial had been funded by the government?
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