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Soviet Union and from there, to eastern Europe, China, Korea, Vietnam,
Cambodia, some Latin American countries, Cuba and Africa.
The distribution by countries of a portion of the 120 million people
slaughtered by communism is as follows:
The USSR: 20 million dead
China: 65 million dead
Vietnam: 1 million dead
North Korea: 2 million dead
Cambodia: 2 million dead
Eastern Europe: 1 million dead
Latin America: 150 thousand dead
Africa: 1.7 million dead
Afghanistan: 1.5 million dead

Lenin's Bloody Revolution
Karl Marx never led any political party. He was only a theoretician
who tried to cram all of human history into the context of the rules of di-
alectical materialism. From his point of view, he interpreted the past and
made predictions about the future, of which the greatest prediction was
global revolution. He promised that the workers would destroy the capi-
talist system, after which a classless society would result.
In decades that passed since Marx's death in 1883, the revolution
he'd announced so confidently never took place. In the capitalist coun-
tries of Europe, workers' living and working conditions improved, how-
ever slightly, abating the tension between the workers and the
bourgeoisie. The revolution wasn't happening, and it wasn't going to
happen.
In the early 1900s, another important name appeared in Russia:
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Lenin was gradually rising to prominence in Russia's Social
Democratic Party, which Marxists had founded. Lenin gave Marxism a
whole new interpretation. In his view, the revolution couldn't happen
spontaneously, because the European working class had been sedated by
what the bourgeoisie had offered them and in any other countries was no