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THE HISTORY OF BOLSHEVIK SAVAGERY

he 20th century was the bloodiest period in human his-
tory, with world wars, genocide, concentration camps,
the development of chemical and nuclear weapons,
bombings, guerilla wars, and terrorist activities unheard
T before. As a result of this savagery, the number of dead

is estimated in the hundreds of millions.
Why was the last century so bloody? First, advancing technology
led to the development of weapons much more lethal than earlier ones.
But the second and most important reason was that ideologies caused
these weapons to be employed with terrible cruelty. The 20th century
saw the violent harvest of the various "isms" that were founded in the
19th.
Communism, the bloodiest of these "isms," is by far the cruelest and
also the most widespread. The number murdered by Communist
regimes or organizations in the past hundred years stands at roughly
120 million. Just for the sake of this ideology, these people were re-
moved from their homes, worked to death in concentration camps, ex-
iled to perish on the Siberian steppes, subjected to the horrible tortures
in the most horrible prisons, executed by brainwashed Communist mili-
tants, strangled, had their throats cut, or starved to death in deliberately-
created famines.
The savagery of this red terror began first in Russia during the
Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. It spread throughout the newly formed