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D D A R W I N I S M : T H E S O U R C E O F C O M M U N I S T S A V A G E R Y Y 119
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in its end by all methods
at its disposal—if neces-
sary, by an armed rising:
if required, by terro-
rism. 106
Trotsky went even furt-
her in another speech,
Our only choice now is ci-
vil war. Civil war is the
struggle for bread… Long
live civil war! 107
These principles of such Communist the-
oreticians as Lenin and Trotsky were put into
practice in the Bolshevik revolution in Russia.
During the revolutionary period of autumn
1917 there began wide-ranging massacres, lo-
oting, and unbelievable violence. Those peop-
le who were against the revolution, or who
were suspected of being against the revolution,
were rounded up for no reason, arrested, and
shot: houses were looted and wrecked. Terro-
rism, which began with Lenin and Trotsky con-
tinued and grew worse in the Stalin years.
Harrison E. Salisbury of The New York Ti-
mes described the Soviet system's prison camps
as:
…a whole continent of terror… Compared with those
The results of the
who brought about the hundreds of thousands of executi-
1921-1922 famine,
ons and the millions of deaths in the Soviet terror system, brought about by the
the Czars seem almost benign… Our minds boggle at the Communist regime,
thought of a systematized, routine evil, under which were most painful.
The pictures show
three or four or more million men and women were sen-
people who died of
tenced each year to forced labour and eternal exile–and in starvation.
a manner so casual that the prisoners often were not even
told what their sentences were... 108