May Day

Here May day is fiesta day but in many countries it is Labor day, since in Europe many of the unions were communist.

Ironically, the US unions, being anti Communist, have a different day they celebrate: Labor day, in early September.

So the Volokh Conspiracy blog reminds us that May 1 is the "Victims of Communism" Day.
more HERE.

No, the 100 million victims of communism don't count, because communists had love in their hearts and were only trying to build a better society. (yes I'm being sarcastic).

An old podcast from Radio Prague discusses the topic of those in charge of the European Union not wanting to recognize what happened.

BBC podcast Useful Idiots discusses how many westerners ignored or even helped cover up what was going on.

Bloodlands discusses how Eastern Europe suffered devestation from Hitler and then from Stalin.

Hungry Ghosts: China's secret famine discusses the 30 million who starved in the "Great Leap Forward", but ignores those killed or died in concentration camps before and after this episode.

and don't forget the 400 thousand who died from the communist takeover of VietNam.
Some were minorities (e.g. the Hmong) and some worked for the government, but many were the wrong race: but since many of the boat people were ethnic Chinese, I guess the westerners don't count ethnic cleansing in the figures.

Most of the ethnic cleansing in Eastern Europe was done under communist direction: The largest one was the 12 million Germans who were thrown out of their homes by the Soviets and communist Poland (estimated 500 thousand died)...and various "population transfers" done by Soviet Russia of 6 million minorities and foreigners probably resulted in many uncounted deaths (1 million?)

And when you hear about the plight of the Palestinians, 300 thousand who fled the new Jewish Israel, don't forget that Israel resettled 300 thousand Jews who were ethnically cleansed from Muslim lands.
The problem of the Palestinians is that the local countries refused to assimilate them.