Thursday, May 01, 2008
This Day in the History of Communist Triumphs
On this day in 1948, North Korea, that is, the part of Korea that had been liberated from a lengthy Japanese occupation by the enlightened forces of the Soviet Union, declared itself the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, an Orwellian name, as it is neither democratic nor for the people but rather is one of the loci of intense human suffering on the planet, perhaps the worst. A few years later, in 1961, in another intense locus of human suffering, the brutal dictator, Fidel Castro, declared Cuba a socialistic country and suspended elections. He then instituted measures to completely wreck the formerly vibrant economy and reduce the populace to paupers. However, this is not just another day in the workers' paradises of Communism, May Day (a cross quarter day) was a big Commie holiday and in Moscow, in the good old days, huge military parades with thousands of armored vehicles and mobile missile launchers rumbling across Red Square. I miss those parades.
Labels: Communist History
Monday, October 08, 2007
This Day in the History of Slow but Sure Karma
On this day in 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, prominent face on many a T-shirt today, was captured and the next day shot to death, slowly, in Bolivia. Here's what I'm currently reading, The Black Book of Communism, said about liberal icon Che: by the mid-sixties, 14,000 men and boys had been executed in Cuba. That was the year, December 1964, when Che Guevara … addressed the General Assembly, and he said: “Executions? Certainly we execute. And we will continue executing as long as it is necessary!” So, in other words, he still claimed the system. It was still his system at work.
I personally think that Che was a latent psychopath who discovered by accident that he derived sexual pleasure from shooting people in the head. This puts the people who wear his image on par with those who wear the image of Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy, that is, empty hipster wannabes not to be taken seriously.
(h/t Sister Toldjah)
UPDATE: I jumped the gun on the date of execution, which is 10/9. Sorry. Post fixed now.
Labels: Communist History
Monday, August 20, 2007
This Day in the History of Evil Ends
On this day in 1940, exiled Russian Communist Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City, with a mountain climber's ice pick to the top of the head. Stalin had exiled this former member of the Inner Circle in 1929, but then had him killed (as if Trotsky was planning to return to the Soviet Union and lead a counter-revolution).
Labels: Communist History
