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This answer may contain sensitive images. Click on an image to unblur it.No, it's probably the largest certified fake news in human history.By communism I allow myself to understand Marxism Leninism.Marxism-Leninism is the practical application of Marxism to the modern world. It’s the adaptation of Marxism by the writings and theories of Vladimir Lenin. It’s a universally applicable ideology and is by far the most widespread and historically significant version of Marxism. It involves:VanguardismOne-party stateCritique of ImperialismDemocratic CentralismAbolition of private propertyDictatorship of the proletariatBut where does this meaningless number come from?From the black book of communism, which attributes these deaths to communism:65 million” in the People's Republic of China“20 million” in the Soviet Union“2 million” in Cambodia“2 million” in North Korea“1.7 million” in Ethiopia“1.5 million” in Afghanistan“1 million” in the Eastern Bloc“1 million” in Vietnam“150,000” in Latin America“10,000 deaths "resulting from actions of the international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power"What's the problem?The problem is that the book, in addition to contradicting itself, also considers deaths in the war.The author had this huge obsession with reaching 100 million, so after shooting completely random numbers, he added 5 million deaths to reach 100 million.Moreover, the Black Book of Communism is considered by many historical propaganda.Whereas chapters of the book, where it describes the events in separate Communist states, were highly praised, some generalizations made by Courtois in the introduction to the book became a subject of criticism both on scholarly and political grounds. Moreover, two of the book's main contributors—Nicolas Werth and Jean-Louis Margolin—as well as Karel Bartosek publicly disassociated themselves from Courtois' statements in the introduction and criticized his editorial conduct. Werth and Margolin felt Courtois was "obsessed" with arriving at a total of 100 million killed which resulted in "sloppy and biased scholarship"and faulted him for exaggerating death tolls in specific countries. They also argued that based on the results of their studies, one can tentatively estimate the total number of the victims at between 65 and 93 million. In particular, Margolin, who authored the Black Book's chapter on Vietnam, clarified "that he has never mentioned a million deaths in Vietnam.” Historians Jean-Jacques Becker and J. Arch Getty have criticized Courtois for failing to draw a distinction between victims of neglect and famine and victims of "intentional murder". Economic historian Michael Ellman has argued that the book's estimate of "at least 500,000" deaths during the Soviet famine of 1946–1947 "is formulated in an extremely conservative way, since the actual number of victims was much larger", with 1,000,000–1,500,000 excess deaths. Regarding these questions, historian Alexander Dallin has argued that moral, legal, or political judgments hardly depend on the number of victims. Many observers have rejected Courtois's numerical and moral comparison of Communism to Nazism in the introduction. According to Werth, there was still a qualitative difference between Nazism and Communism, saying: "Death camps did not exist in the Soviet Union". He further told Le Monde: "The more you compare Communism and Nazism, the more the differences are obvious". In a critical review, historian Amir Weiner wrote: "When Stalin's successors opened the gates of the Gulag, they allowed 3 million inmates to return home. When the Allies liberated the Nazi death camps, they found thousands of human skeletons barely alive awaiting what they knew to be inevitable execution". Historian Ronald Suny remarked that Courtois' comparison of 100 million victims of Communism to 25 million victims of Nazism "[leaves out] out most of the 40-60,000,000 lives lost in the Second World War, for which arguably Hitler and not Stalin was principally responsible". A report by the Wiesel Commission criticized the comparison of Gulag victims with Jewish Holocaust victims as an attempt to trivialize the Holocaust. Historian Peter Kenez criticized the chapter written by Nicolas Werth: "Werth can also be an extremely careless historian. He gives the number of Bolsheviks in October 1917 as 2,000, which is a ridiculous underestimate. He quotes from a letter of Lenin to Alexander Shliapnikov and gives the date as 17 October 1917; the letter could hardly have originated at that time, since in it Lenin talks about the need to defeat the Tsarist government, and turn the war into a civil conflict. He gives credit to the Austro-Hungarian rather than the German army for the conquest of Poland in 1915. He describes the Provisional Government as 'elected'. He incorrectly writes that the peasant rebels during the civil war did more harm to the Reds than to the Whites, and so on". Historian Mark Tauger challenged the authors' thesis that the famine of 1933 was largely artificial and genocidal. According to journalist Gilles Perrault, the books ignores the effect of international factors, including military interventions, on the communist experience. Social critic Noam Chomsky has criticized the book and its reception as one-sided by outlining economist Amartya Sen's research on hunger. While India's democratic institutions prevented famines, its excess of mortality over China—potentially attributable to the latter's more equal distribution of medical and other resources—was nonetheless close to 4 million per year for non-famine years. Chomsky argued that "supposing we now apply the methodology of the Black Book" to India, "the democratic capitalist 'experiment' has caused more deaths than in the entire history of [...] Communism everywhere since 1917: over 100 million deaths by 1979, and tens of millions more since, in India alone". Le Siècle des Communismes, a collective work of twenty academics, was a response to both François Furet's Le passé d'une Illusion and Courtois's The Black Book of Communism. It broke Communism down into series of discrete movements, with mixed positive and negative results. The Black Book of Communism prompted the publication of several other "black books" which argued that similar chronicles of violence and death tolls can be constructed from an examination of colonialism and capitalismDebunking: “Communism killed more people than naziism!”USSRStalin was hit hard by anti-communist propaganda, especially by Robert Conquest, a British "historian" who was paid by the British Information Research Department (IRD) to create false propaganda.Robert Conquest dies – but his lies live on!But how many people really killed Stalin?About 1 million.death toll 2.pdfIt seems like a lot if we don't consider the fact that most of these people weren't innocent.HolodomorThe Holodomor was not caused by Stalin, that is a lie created by Joseph Goebbels, Third Reich propaganda minister.“It is a matter of some significance that Cardinal Innitzer’s allegations of famine-genocide were widely promoted throughout the 1930s, not only by Hitler’s chief propagandist Goebbels, but also by American Fascists as well.It will be recalled that Hearst kicked off his famine campaign with a radio broadcast based mainly on material from Cardinal Innitzer’s “aid committee.” In Organized Anti-Semitism in America, the 1941 book exposing Nazi groups and activities in the pre-war United States, Donald Strong notes that American fascist leader Father Coughlin used Nazi propaganda material extensively. This included Nazi charges of “atrocities by Jew Communists” and verbatim portions of a Goebbels speech referring to Innitzer’s “appeal of July 1934, that millions of people were dying of hunger throughout the Soviet Union.”-Tottle, Douglas -Fraud, Famine, and Fascism. Toronto: Progress Books,1987, p. 49-51Stop Spreading Nazi Propaganda: on HolodomorHolodomor was caused by the Kulakis, the climate, the Golden Blockade (western economic block) and various diseases.“During the 1932 harvest season Soviet agriculture experienced a crisis. Natural disasters, especially plant diseases spread and intensified by wet weather in mid-1932, drastically reduced crop yields. OGPU reports, anecdotal as they are, indicate widespread peasant opposition to the kolkhoz system.These documents contain numerous reports of kolkhozniki, faced with starvation, mismanagement and abuse by kolkhoz officials and others, and desperate conditions: dying horses, idle tractors, infested crops, and incitement by itinerant people. Peasants’ responses varied: some applied to withdraw from their farms, some left for paid work outside, some worked sloppily, intentionally leaving grain on the fields while harvesting to glean later for themselves.”-Tauger, Mark. “Soviet Peasants and Collectivization, 1930-39: Resistance and Adaptation.” In Rural Adaptation in Russia by Stephen Wegren, Routledge, New York, NY, 2005, Chapter 3, p. 81.Stalin needed to industrialize the USSR as fast as possible to be ready for a potential war, but had to import the necessary materials from the west. (WWII) The west imposed a "golden blockade" on the USSR, whereby the Western powers refused to accept gold as payment for industrial equipment they delivered to Russia. They demanded that the Soviet government pay for the equipment in timber, oil and grain. These sanctions were not removed the following years, and was a major reason as to the extremity of the Famine. The leadership of the USSR was forced to play by the wests rules.In April 17, 1933, the British government declared an embargo on up to 80% of USSR’s exports.During this time, the Great Depression began. In the US ,in response to the overproduction of grain, in particular, the government destroyed grain in large quantities, and immediately took grain from the USSR in payment for its machines instead of gold, oil and other much more necessary raw materials. Roosevelt, continued the policy of destroying agricultural products and reducing crop areas in order to raise prices to lower the severity of the depression:“Probably most deaths in 1933 were due to epidemics of typhus, typhoid fever, and dysentery. Waterborne diseases were frequent in Makeyevka; I narrowly survived an attack of typhus fever. “- Blumenfeld, Hans. Life Begins at 65. Montreal, Canada: Harvest House, c1987, p. 153“Their (kulak) opposition took the initial form of slaughtering their cattle and horses in preference to having them collectivized. The result was a grievous blow to Soviet agriculture, for most of the cattle and horses were owned by the kulaks. Between 1928 and 1933 the number of horses in the USSR declined from almost 30,000,000 to less than 15,000,000; of horned cattle from 70,000,000 (including 31,000,0000 cows) to 38,000,000 (including 20,000,000 cows); of sheep and goats from 147,000,000 to 50,000,000; and of hogs from 20,000,000 to 12,000,000.Soviet rural economy had not recovered from this staggering loss by 1941. […] Some [kulaks] murdered officials, set the torch to the property of the collectives, and even burned their own crops and seed grain. More refused to sow or reap, perhaps on the assumption that the authorities would make concessions and would in any case feed them.”- Russia Since 1917, Four Decades Of Soviet Politics by Frederick L. SchumanHere you can see Russian peasants who find wheat stolen from kulaki.But who were the Kulakis?The Kulaki were a peasant class born in 1906 due to the agrarian reform of Petr Stolypin.A horrendous reform, which did nothing but increase the gap between rich and poor.The Kulaks rebelled against collectivization with violence, the same collectivization that brought Russia out of thisto this.AMERICAN AND SOVIET CITIZENS EAT ABOUT THE SAME AMOUNT OF FOOD EACH DAY BUTFor more information, I recommend reading the books of Mark B Tauger, a historian specializing in famine.https://newcoldwar.org/wp-conten...https://www.newcoldwar.org/wp-co...The Great Famine-Genocide in Soviet Ukraine (Holodomor)I would also recommend Dougles Tottle's book Fraud, Famine, and Fascism which also exposes the origins of the famine-genocide myth that is now propogated by many Nazis.Stalin, due to the Western economic blockade, had to remove Ukraine from large amounts to help the worst affected territories.Agricultural Adjustment Act - WikipediaHowever Stalin helped Ukraine.№ 144. Decree of Politburo of the CC VCP(b) [Central Committee of the All‐Russian Communist Party] concerning foodstuff aid to the Ukrainian S.S.R. of June 16, 1932:a) To release to the Ukraine 2,000 tons of oats for food needs from the unused seed reserves;b) to release to the Ukraine ∼3,600,000 ℔ of corn for food of that released for sowing for the Odessa oblast' but not used for that purpose;c) to release ∼2,520,000 ℔ of grain for collective farms in the sugar‐beet regions of the Ukrainian S.S.R. for food needs;d) to release ∼8,280,000 ℔ of grain for collective farms in the sugar‐beet regions of the Ukrainian S.S.R. for food needs;e) to require comrade Chubar' to personally verify the fulfilling of the released grain for the sugar‐beet Soviet and collective farms, that it be used strictly for this purpose;f) to release ∼900,000 ℔ of grain for the sugar‐beet Soviet farms of the Central Black Earth Region for food needs in connection with the gathering of the harvest, first requiring comrade Vareikis to personally verify that the grain released is used for the assigned purpose;g) by the present decision to consider the question of food aid to sugar‐beet producing Soviet and collective farms closed.-Голод в СССР: 1929-июль 1932Голод в СССР: 1929-июль 1932“The Political Bureau believes that shortage of seed grain in Ukraine is many times worse than what was described in comrade Kosior’s telegram; therefore, the Political Bureau recommends the Central Committee of the Communist party of Ukraine to take all measures within its reach to prevent the threat of failing to sow [field crops] in Ukraine.”-Joseph Stalin - From the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation. Fond 3, Record Series 40, File 80, Page 58.“In view of the importance of grain stocks to understanding the famine, we have searched Russian archives for evidence of Soviet planned and actual grain stocks in the early 1930s. Our main sources were the Politburo protocols, including the (“special files,” the highest secrecy level), and the papers of the agricultural collections committee Komzag, of the committee on commodity funds, and of Sovnarkom. The Sovnarkom records include telegrams and correspondence of Kuibyshev, who was head of Gosplan, head of Komzag and the committee on reserves, and one of the deputy chairs of Komzag at that time.We have not obtained access to the Politburo working papers in the Presidential Archive, to the files of the committee on reserves or to the relevant files in military archives. But we have found enough information to be confident that this very a high figure for grain stocks is wrong and that Stalin did not have under his control huge amounts of grain, which could easily have been used to eliminate the famine.”-Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932-1933 by R. W. Davies, M. B. Tauger, S.G. Wheatcroft.Slavic Review, Volume 54, Issue 3 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 642-657.Soviet archives also show that Holodomor was natural.“Recent evidence has indicated that part of the cause of the famine was an exceptionally low harvest in 1932, much lower than incorrect Soviet methods of calculation had suggested. The documents included here or published elsewhere do not yet support the claim that the famine was deliberately produced by confiscating the harvest, or that it was directed especially against the peasants of the Ukraine.-Koenker and Bachman, Eds. Revelations from the Russian Archives. Washington: Library of Congress, 1997, p. 401Here is a quote from the preface of R. W. Davies and Stephen G. Wheatcroft's collaborative work The Years of Hunger Soviet Agriculture 1931-1933"In our own work we, like V. P. Kozlov, have found no evidence that the Soviet authorities undertook a programme of genocide against Ukraine.It is also certain that the statements by Ukrainian politicians and publicists about the deaths from famine in Ukraine aregreatly exaggerated. A prominent Ukrainian historian, Stanislas Kul’chitskii, estimated deaths from famine in Ukraine at 3–3.5 million and Ukrainian demographers estimate that excess deaths in Ukraine in the whole period 1926–39 (most of them during the famine) amounted to 3 1⁄2million."Thesis also confirmed by the journalist Anna Louise Strong, who worked in Russia and China.Q: “Is it true that during 1932-33 several million people were allowed to starve to death in the Ukraine and North Caucasus because they were politically hostile to the Soviets?”A: “Not true. I visited several places in those regions during that period. There was a serious grain shortage in the 1932 harvest due chiefly to inefficiencies of the organizational period of the new large-scale mechanized farming among peasants unaccustomed to machines. To this was added sabotage by dispossessed kulaks, the leaving of the farms by 11 million workers who went to new industries, the cumulative effect of the world crisis in depressing the value of Soviet farm exports, and a drought in five basic grain regions in 1931.The harvest of 1932 was better than that of 1931 but was not all gathered; on account of overoptimistic promises from rural districts, Moscow discovered the actual situation only in December when a considerable amount of grain was under snow.”-Anna Louise Strong - Searching Out the Soviets. New Republic: August 7, 1935, p. 356Anna about the harvest of 1933.“The conquest of bread was achieved that summer, a victory snatched from a great disaster. The 1933 harvest surpassed that of 1930, which till then had held the record. This time, the new record was made not by a burst of half-organized enthusiasm, but by growing efficiency and permanent organization … This nationwide cooperation beat the 1934 drought, securing a total crop for the USSR equal to the all-time high of 1933.”-Anna Louise Strong- The Stalin Era. New York: Mainstream, 1956, p. 44-45That's why the victims of Holodomor should not be counted.And the Soviets managed to put things right a year later, this to give you an idea of the strength of the USSR.This newspaper was published by Hearst as part of his deal with Goebbels to promote the Nazis. Hearst was also a Nazi supporter. The photos were found to be from other famines, one of them 10 years earlier. The “reporting” was fabrication. Other reporters that actually looked into it report that while there was a famine it was not intentional.“The CIA believed that Ukrainian nationalism could be used as an efficient cold war weapon.While the Ukrainian nationalists provided Washington with valuable information about its Cold War rivals, the CIA in return was placing the nationalist veterans into positions of influence and authority, helping them to create semi-academic institutions or academic positions in existing universities.By using these formal and informal academic networks, the Ukrainian nationalists had been disseminating anti-Russian propaganda, creating myths and re-writing history at the same time whitewashing the wartime crimes of OUN-UPA.“In 1987 the film “Harvest of Despair” was made. It was the beginning of the ‘Holodomor’ movement. The film was entirely funded by Ukrainian nationalists, mainly in Canada. A Canadian scholar, Douglas Tottle, exposed the fact that the film took photographs from the 1921-22 ‘Volga famine’ and used them to illustrate the 1932-33 famine. Tottle later wrote a book, ‘Fraud, Famine, and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard,‘ about the phony ‘Holodomor’ issue,”Professor Furr elaborated. “https://mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/khrushchev-lied.pdf“In the last 15 years or so an enormous amount of new material on Stalin … has become available from Russian archives. I should make clear that as a historian I have a strong orientation to telling the truth about the past, no matter how uncomfortable or unpalatable the conclusions may be. … I don’t think there is a dilemma: you just tell the truth as you see it.(“Stalin’s Wars”, FPM February 12, 2007. At http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/35... )The Soviets managed to put things right a year later, this to give you an idea of the strength of the USSR.Maybe many of you want to attack me by saying that other historians say otherwise, well they are wrong.Apart from the fact that many of those who say that the Holodomor was a famine are not even historians but professors of economics, so I wouldn't trust that much.Many others, however, were bribed, one of them being Robert Conquest, who was paid by the British Informatio Research Department (IRD) to create anti-communist propaganda.Many others, however, are contradictory, like Stephen Koktin, who said that the famine was caused by Stalin but the deaths were not intentional.As anyone can understand this sentence it doesn't make much sense.He then says he has the documents confirming Stalin's involvement in the famine, which is absolutely false as I have already shown.The only thing Stalin did was to remove some wheat from Ukraine, that's true, I don't deny it, there are many people who say they saw the men of the NKVD take away some wheat.Too bad they didn't do it to eliminate 7 million people, but to save Russia from the Golden Blockade.As I have already explained, the USSR suffered a huge economic blockade, and if it had not paid a much greater famine would have erupted.And as I have already shown Stalin ordered to help Ukraine, those are his words, not those of a historian.When there are the archives themselves that confirm the theses there is no more to discuss, period.GulagStalin did not create the Gulag, they also existed during the Russian Empire under the name of Katorga.Katorga - WikipediaThey were created by Tsar Alessio.I'll tell you one thing right away, don't take Gulag Archipelago seriously, that book is simply propaganda.The Gulag Archipelago shouldn’t be taken seriouslyAccording to Solzhenitsyn's wife, the book was simple folklore.“In her 1974 memoir, Sanya: My Life with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn”…, she wrote that she was ”perplexed” that the West had accepted ”The Gulag Archipelago” as ”the solemn, ultimate truth,” saying its significance had been ”overestimated and wrongly appraised.”Pointing out that the book’s subtitle is ”An Experiment in Literary Investigation,” she said that her husband did not regard the work as ”historical research, or scientific research.”She contended that it was, rather, a collection of ”camp folklore,” containing ”raw material” which her husband was planning to use in his future productions.”Natalya Reshetovskaya, 84, Is Dead; Solzhenitsyn's Wife Questioned 'Gulag'The Truth about the Soviet Gulag – Surprisingly Revealed by the CIAAccording to historians J. Arch Getty, Gabor T Rittersporn and Viktor Zemskov the victims of the gulags were around 1,053,829.http://sovietinfo.tripod.com/GTY...number of gulag.pdfHowever, this number also takes into account the sentences not carried out and, according to the historian Austin Murphy, the victims were about 160,000.“Like the myths of millions of executions, the fairy tales that Stalin had tens of millions of people arrested and permanently thrown into prison or labor camps to die in the 1930-1953 interval (Conquest, 1990) appear to be untrue.In particular, the Soviet archives indicate that the number of people in Soviet prisons, gulags, and labor camps in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s averaged about 2 million, of whom 20-40% were released each year, (Getty, Rittersporn, and Zemskov, 1993). This average, which includes desperate World War II years, is similar to the number imprisoned in the USA in the 1990s (Catalinotto, 1998a) and is only slightly higher as a percentage of the population.It should also be noted that the annual death rate for the Soviet interned population was about 4%, which incorporates the effect of prisoner executions. Excluding the desperate World War II years, the death rate in the Soviet prisons, gulags, and labor camps was only 2.5%, which is even below that of the average "free" citizen in capitalist Russia under the czar in peacetime in 1913 (Wheatcroft, 1993).This finding is not very surprising, given that about 1/3 of the confined people were not even required to work (Bacon, 1994), and given that the maximum work week was 84 hours in even the harshest Soviet labor camps during the most desperate wartime years (Rummel, 1990). The latter maximum (and unusual) work week actually compares favorably to the 100-hour work weeks that existed even for "free" 6-year old children during peacetime in the capitalist industrial revolution (Marx and Engels, 1988b), although it may seem high compared to the 7-hour day worked by the typical Soviet citizen under Stalin (Davies, 1997).In addition, it should also be mentioned that most of the arrests under Stalin were motivated by an attempt to stamp out civil crimes such as banditry, theft, misuse of public office for personal gain, smuggling, and swindles, with less than 10% of the arrests during Stalin's rule being for political reasons or secret police matters (Getty, Ritterspom, and Zemskov, 1993). The Soviet archives reveal a great deal more political dissent permitted in Stalin's Soviet Union (including a widespread amount of criticism of individual government policies and local leaders) than is normally perceived in the West (Davies, 1997). Given that the regular police, the political or secret police, prison guards, some national guard troops, and firefighters (who were in the same ministry as the police) comprised scarcely 0.2% of the Soviet population under Stalin (Thurston, 1996), severe repression would have been impossible even if the Soviet Union had wanted to exercise it. In comparison, the USA today has many times more police as a percentage of the population (about 1%, not to mention prison guards, national guard troops, and firefighters included in the numbers used to compute the far smaller 0.2% ratio for the Soviet Union)."-Austin Murphy: ‘The Triumph of Evil. Chapter 1, pg 78–79In the gulags most of the criminals were not political opponents, but very normal criminals.Source: CIA “Forced Labor Camps in the USSR: Transfer of Prisoners between Camps”Here you can read American propaganda about gulags.http://gulaghistory.org/nps/down...Among other things, the Gulag were not extermination camps, but prison camps.The penal system administered by the NKVD (Peoples' Commissariat of Internal Affairs) in the 1930s had several components: prisons, labor camps, and labor colonies, as well as "special settlements" and various types of non-custodial supervision. Generally speaking, the first stop for an arrested person was a prison, where an investigation and interrogation led to conviction or, more rarely, release. After sentencing, most victims were sent to: one of the labor camps or colonies to serve their terms. In December 1940, the jails of the USSR had a theoretical prescribed capacity of 234,000, although they then held twice that number. Considering this-and comparing the levels of prison populations given in the Appendixes for the 1930s and 1940s one can assume that the size of the prison system was probably not much different in the 1930s.Second, we find a system of labor camps. These were the terrible “hard regime” camps populated by dangerous common criminals, those important politicals the regime consigned to severe punishment, and, as a rule, by other people sentenced to more than three years of detention. On March 1, 1940, at the end of the Great Purges, there were 53 corrective labor camps (ispravitel’no-trudovye lageri: ITL) of the GULAG system holding some 1.3 million inmates. Most of the data cited in this article bear on the GULAG camps, some of which had a multitude of subdivisions spreading over vast territories and holding large numbers of people. BAMLAG, the largest camp in the period under review, held more than 260,000 inmates at the beginning of 1939, and SEVVOSTLAG (the notorious Kolyma complex) some 138,000.Third came a network of 425 “corrective labor colonies” of varying types. These colonies were meant to confine prisoners serving short sentences, but this rule varied with time. The majority of these colonies were organized to produce for the economy and housed some 315,000 persons in 1940. They were nevertheless under the control of the NKVD and were managed-like the rest of the colony network-by its regional administrations. Additionally, there were 90 children’s homes under the auspices of the NKVD.Fourth, there was the network of “special resettlements.” In the 1930s, these areas were populated largely by peasant families deported from the central districts as “kulaks” (well-to-do peasants) during the forced collectivization of the early 1930s. Few victims of the Great Purges of 1936-1939 were so exiled or put under other forms of non-custodial supervision: in 1937-1938, only 2.1 percent of all those sentenced on charges investigated by the political police fell into this category. This is why we will not treat exile extensively below.Finally, there was a system of non-custodial “corrective work” (ispravitel’no-trudovye raboty), which included various penalties and fines. These were quite common throughout the 1930s-they constituted 48 percent of all court sentences in 1935-and the numbers of such convictions grew under the several laws on labor discipline passed on the eve of the war. Typically, such offenders were condemned to up to one year at “corrective labor,” the penalty consisting of work at the usual place of one’s employment, with up to 25 percent reduction of wage and loss of credit for this work toward the length of service that gave the right to social benefits (specific allocations, vacation, pension). More than 1.7 million persons received such a sentence in the course of 1940 and almost all of them worked in their usual jobs without deprivation of freedom. As with resettlements, this correctional system largely falls outside the scope of the Great Terror.Taken from this article which everyone should read if they want to know more about the Soviet Penal system.Great PurgesThe purges were not made to eliminate dissidents, but to save Russia from sexists, tsarists, Nazis etc.The workers themselves voted to condemn people, not the government.Stalin was a person with pure ideals, he was in fact against anti-Semitism and racism.“National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism. Anti-semitism is of advantage to the exploiters as a lightning conductor that deflects the blows aimed by the working people at capitalism.Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U.S.S.R. active anti-Semites are punished with death.”-Joseph Stalin“Still others think that war should be organised by a "superior race," say, the German "race," against an "inferior race," primarily against the Slavs; that only such a war can provide a way out of the situation, for it is the mission of the "superior race" to render the "inferior race" fruitful and to rule over it. Let us assume that this queer theory, which is as far removed from science as the sky from the earth, let us assume that this queer theory is put into practice. What may be the result of that? It is well known that ancient Rome looked upon the ancestors of the present-day Germans and French in the same way as the representatives of the "superior race" now look upon the Slav races.It is well known that ancient Rome treated them as an "inferior race," as "barbarians," destined to live in eternal subordination to the "superior race," to "great Rome", and, between ourselves be it said, ancient Rome had some grounds for this, which cannot be said of the representatives of the "superior race" of today. (Thunderous applause.) But what was the upshot of this? The upshot was that the non-Romans, i.e., all the "barbarians," united against the common enemy and brought Rome down with a crash.The question arises: What guarantee is there that the claims of the representatives of the "superior race" of today will not lead to the same lamentable results? What guarantee is there that the fascist literary politicians in Berlin will be more fortunate than the old and experienced conquerors in Rome? Would it not be more correct to assume that the opposite will be the case?”-Joseph StalinStalin was not a dictator, he was simply the secretary general of the CPSU and could be removed from the party.Nicolò Piva's answer to Was Joseph Stalin above the law?ChinaMao did not kill 65 million people.Monthly Review | Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward?Reassessing the Great Leap ForwardApart from the fact that the Great Leap Forward was a natural famine (which did not kill 65 million people but 15 million, as the Chinese government of Deng Xiaoping and historian Leslie Holmes testify).This is nonsense invented by Dikotter which was highly criticized."Dikötter looks at China under Communist rule in a narrow vacuum, thus dispensing with the inconvenient fact that famine in this part of the world has been a recurring phenomenon, which Mao did not invent or even magnify."-Aaron LeonardPeople ignore the fact that China suffered terrible catastrophes at that time, about 100 million acres became unusable and in 1961 many typhoons hit southern China.China has a great history of famines, and it was Mao who ended this bad story.1810181118461849-of which 45 million died.1850–1873 - 20–30 million1876–1879 - 9.5–13 million1907, 1911 - 25 million1920–1921 - 500,001928–1930 - 3 million1936–1937 - 5 million1942–1943 - 2–3 millionMao increased life expectancy and decreased annual deaths.If you want to know more about Mao's reforms, I recommend Comrade Alexander Finnegan's answer.Alexander Finnegan's answer to What were some of Mao's best ideas?Godfree Roberts Archive - The Unz ReviewNicolò Piva's answer to What did the Great Leap Forward accomplish?CambodiaPol Pot, he was not a communist, he was just a madman.Pol Pot, unlike other leaders like Mao Zedong, was not a patriot, but a nationalist, and nationalism is incumbent on communism.Nicolò Piva's answer to What does nationalism mean?Patriotism is the love of one's homeland, nationalism is the holding of one's superior homeland.And since communism wants a society without a state, the two values are incompatible.Marx in his writings speaks of what is called proto-communism, that is, the period in which countries and money did not exist, in practice the Paleolithic period.What did that Pol Pot genius do?He attempted to deindustrialize the nation, so as to return to proto-communism lol.As to be able to see clearly this was not good.By the way the Khmer Rouge was founded by the USA.FRONTLINE/WORLD . Cambodia - Pol Pot's Shadow . Chronicle of Survival . 1980-1991: Back to square oneNorth KoreaThe deaths attributed to North Korea come from the Korean War, so the concept itself is wrong.Then it is wrong to say that those deaths were caused by North Korea as it was the US that gave Syngman Rhee a leading role.EthiopiaIt was practically a fascist dictatorship.VietnamSame speech as in North Korea.Those are the deaths from the war, caused inter alia by the USA.I will not speak of Latin America because I admit that I am totally ignorant of the matter.ConclusionCommunism did not kill 100 million people, but around 8/9 million.

Question: Will the Canadians look down upon immigrants from developing countries?Answer: Yes indeed,Answer Explanation: In the private talk, there is a lot of bottled-up anger, some people are fully aware some of the human junk is coming to this country. And this a start of going to shi@ hole of the beautiful and advanced western countries including Canada on the top.Please read on:Shut Down Canada’s Chandigarh Consulate And All of Its FraudPunjab is a hot bed of fraud and so, in their infinite political wisdom, the Liberal Party of Canada opened a foreign mission right in the belly of the beast. Opened in 2004 to reward Sikh voting blocs for their loyal support, Canada has the only foreign mission in Punjab’s state capital. With an annual operating budget of around $25 million a year the mission serves no purpose other than to waste Canadian tax dollars by funneling scam artists, the pathetic, the mediocre, the greedy, the aged, all into Canada. But they eventually vote and isn’t that what really matters in the end?As time progresses some Canadians who are close to the ground see these things coming.Possible End of immediate health care as time progresses.Please mark it: The very ailing Health care system will be a thing of the past.Why?????Most of the people coming from the less blessed countries are bringing a lot of dependents, including older people.By the time a family of may ten is overhauled here, these resources are getting less and less.The above remarks are said by a person who has worked in the health care industry for 45 years.There are huge cracks in the system: And there are a considerable number of fake refugees coming through the borders.Some of them or most of them have no intention of working. And mooch the system, it is happening right now.Thanks to a liberal child allowance, a family with six kids and a loving mother do not need to apply for an executive job, as the paycheque and benefits are coming straight to the bank account.Later on, bringing extended families once they know all the loopholes:Of course, some of them will recover druggies to clear the medical before coming here. And then business as usual.This happened in the past in some communities, but it was hidden due to the lower number of these communities.Some communities have a history of vast numbers of family violence.Some communities have a large number of the gang and drug trade activities.Rest assured, these numbers will multiply in huge numbers.Bogus and fictitious business class or investor category:I know one case the guy and his family came under this class, he smirks and tells me: I was supposed to create a job. So ironic he did not work a day in his Canadian life, the family is still here and mooching as usual.Has Canadian Govt done any audit on the following:How many supposedly refugees are working now, and how many mooching the system?When a vigorous Canadian kid born brought educated here is struggling here for his/her livelihood, what are the chances a refugee with a large family(mostly kids) will get a job here????How many are coming with a fake student visa?How many are coming with fake degrees and fantastic experience and all the B.S.?How many are real students and have intentions to finish education or are, in fact, in school/college?How many families are left here to mooch the system when the head honcho disappeared to greener pastures in Asia?This country is standing on the sand and sinking in red ink in national debt by the minute.Immigration is must, but cracks/abuse/this refugee business/fake and bogus students/bogus investors and family reunions and its abuses per sure are sinking the country.Gone are the days when only singles/or small families migrated from Europe or highly educated high achievers came here as students. The Italians built this country, and Ukrainians made Canada a wheat kingdom, and the list goes on. Star students from China and India kept the university labs humming with some of the most brilliant work.With empty spaces in colleges and tones of universities: A Canadian visa is a printing machine for less developed countries. Most of these kids could not get into their own country’s education system. Mom and Dad found a more natural solution to salvage Johny and Jane here on a student visa. That is why you see only Chinese and Indian students wandering the streets in the university town.One landlord told me: He rented a room to a single student, now there are four and sometimes six in a place.Senior Canadians who here for more than three generations, most of them are very well off; they do not care who comes and goes.Junior Canadians who are here zero to three generations should worry about their retirements/health care/and falling standards of civic sense when you see some filthy neighborhood, with dirty mattresses lying around and random person pissing on the wall.This country has become a laughing stock of the world, when our PM, goes dances on the streets of a foreign land:On social media, you see this statement: Immigration to Canada is straightforward.One guy wrote to me: I have been unemployed in India for four years, should I come to Canada? Wow, I did not know Canada is and was land of jobs. I had to do another M.Sc. to get my foot in my trade, in addition to my one M.Sc., and that was close to fifty years back in time.Canadian is sinking by the minute: Not saying the ground reality, being politically correct to its beat it ground: No one tells the truth. How do they feel????Some of them are bringing old personal animosity,/honor killing of their kids/terrorism/ and all related stuff here:One of the other you see processions of one community or the other about the issues of back home.Some settle their personal scores from back home here.Some are bringing their code of conduct here and kill their whole familyThis country has become a joke: And it is like a prostitute who does not care who takes him/her home so far she/he is paid. Well, of course, Canada wants taxpayers.Some of them may be bringing severe contagious diseases:T.B. and the other such conditions are wiped out here in Canada, a few years back in here in Canada there was a severe outbreak of T.B. my very close health care professional told me, the root of that outbreak and I was not surprised.Canada has lost its total identity:These refugees and new immigrants from the less wealthy countries knew very well the dress Code of Canada when they are rotting in the camps. They never ask for their dresses or dangling a dagger on the hip.As soon as they land and find loosy goosy human rights, which were designed in ancient times for reasonable people, now Canadians have to convert their way of life and codes as per their demands.The other day I was at Walmart: I swear it exactly happens to me. I was in an Isle, and two ladies fully covered in black with full Burka, came from each end. Even though I am originally from India, and I have such attire there. I was scared to my last breaths, and I thought they had surrounded me from both ends. And here come guns from both of them. I said to myself: God have mercy on me, let me go on my knees and say my prayers. Due to narrow space and black dresses, fully covered faces, I thought they are black Ninjas. I guess that is how the mind is wired now or maybe too much T.V.The other day I saw a great size dagger dangling on the hip of a Sikh gentleman in Tim Horton, this was no ceremonial dagger, it could kill a good size tiger.I have spent thirty years in food/dairy/flavor Quality Control/Assurance/ process improvements in Canada with my two master's degrees in these fields. I have not seen such a downfall in the foodservice industry of hygiene standards, quality of service, thanks to mostly new coming immigrants. Some without hairnets/beard nets now you may have some hair offering in your favorite donuts, and some cannot even count the change; some cannot run the cash register, and some have no urgency to do their jobs.Welcome to Canada when a convicted murderer gets nine million, why not, keep paying taxes.Unless Canadians throw this present regime out and close some of the councilor services in very corrupt countries, who are printing fake visas, this country is more or less history.Funny thing: New arrivals in strange dresses/customs/foods just landed and demanding their this right and that right.What about the rights of people who have built this nation and are here for generations: They may not give a shi…to your dress code, what about their dress code. Don't you think the tail is wagging the dog????I individual communities very close: These new arrivals do not give two shits to their custom/dress/all the B.S. in their own country, they come here. They love to stir the shi@ here. That is how they make their livelihood in their communities.The difference of opinion:Very affluent Canadian do not give a shi@; it does not affect them one way or the other so far there are slaves on the treadmill.Lowest on the totem pole do not care, so far they get their welfare/dental/medical on time, and enough ditch diggers are digging the ditches and paying taxes.Very High Upper Middle Class, most of them have hands in the cookie jar, may tenure track positions, cushy jobs, great franchises, you cannot touch them. It does not matter to them. Working or Retired from lavish pension and looking in the windows to find out what to do today???The middle class and lower-middle and the lowest middle classes are affected and going to be crushed as time progresses.Edit: One viewer has requested, “Could you post a couple of links to factual information that you have based your assertions on as I find many of the unwarranted.”Here are a few links:Fraudsters use bogus University of Waterloo acceptance letters to enter CanadaWATERLOO — Sarbjeet Singh landed in Canada on August 2012, telling the airport border agent he would be studying for his master's degree in engineering at the University of Waterloo the following month.Investigators say there’s a cottage industry producing fraudulent university documents in some foreign countries.To back up his story, he had a government-issued student visa, and an acceptance letter into one of Canada's most sought after engineering graduate programs.The border agent stamped his paperwork, and waved him through.On the surface, there's nothing remarkable about a young man from India being one of the more than 5,800 international students who come from abroad to study at Waterloo every semester.There was only one problem. The University of Waterloo had never heard of him.Instead, the Canada Border Services Agency allege Singh was part of a sophisticated immigration fraud used to gain illegal entry into Canada.Investigators say Singh had no intention of attending the university, and his behaviour once he arrived was not that of someone planning to study here, according to court records.His Waterloo acceptance letter, used to gain a student visa and eventually a work visa, was fake.Singh was one of 15 people caught in a recent probe by the Canada Border Services Agency, all using fake acceptance letters from the University of Waterloo's engineering program.He was convicted in April under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, and is awaiting sentencing. As a foreign national, he could face deportation.Singh, who told the court he was born in 1991 and has a high school education, managed to fool Canadian officials for years — until he was caught during an investigation into a larger network of Indian men who gained entry using fake University of Waterloo acceptance letters, according to court documents.He arrived in Canada through Edmonton International Airport on August 4, 2012. By that November, he'd applied to change his study permit into a work permit, claiming he had a job offer from a company called Cheema Janitorial Services Ltd. in Edmonton. It was granted.In January 2014, Singh applied for an extension of his work permit, and received it. Since arriving, he's worked in Alberta. There's no evidence he's ever been to Waterloo Region.It wasn't until the CBSA caught another man, Harinder Singh, when he tried to enter the country with a fake Indian passport in January 2016 that they were led to Sarbjeet Singh.Like Singh, Harinder had also obtained a student visa using a fraudulent University of Waterloo acceptance letter, claiming he'd been admitted into the same master's program in engineering.RELATEDB.C. college faculty lead charge against reliance on foreign-student feesDouglas Todd: The hidden costs of foreign student policyForeign students at UBC squeezing out domestic applicants, prof’s paper arguesInternational students in fake marriage schemes to CanadaDouglas ToddInternational students in fake marriage schemes to CanadaUpdated: July 3, 2017The newspaper ads in India are the visible tip of a booming underground industry in fake marriages involving would-be international students.The prize for the “spouse” whose family buys an instant marriage with a foreign student is back-door access to a full-time job in Canada and a fast-track to citizenship.The matrimonial ads normally promise that the foreign students’ sham marriage, plus all travel and study expenses, will be paid for by the Indian families who are determined to have their son or daughter emigrate.The type of Indian student the ads seek is usually a teenage girl, who must have passed an English-language test and therefore be in line to be accepted as an international student.Media outlets in India, such as the Hindustan Times, report there is a “booming matrimony market for ‘brides’ who can earn the ‘groom’” coveted status as a migrant to a Western country.Canada is among the most sought-after destinations for Indian foreign students, say migration specialists, because it is the most generous toward foreign students and their spouses. Australia has also been popular, but recently tightened its rules.Here is a typical recent ad from one Punjabi-language newspaper in India, Ajit:“Jatt Sikh, boy, 24 years old, 5 feet 10 inches, needs girl with IELTS band 7. Marriage real or fake. Boy’s side will pay all expenses.”The ad is listed by a high-caste “Jatt” Sikh male, or more likely his parents. It seeks a contractual marriage with a young woman who has scored well (“band 7”) on an international exam called “IELTS,” the International English Language Testing System. Almost three million IELTS exams are conducted each year.Here is another ad, from the newspaper Jagbani:“Barbar Sikh, 24, 5 feet 8 inches. Finished Grade 12. Looking for BSc or IELTS pass girl. Boy’s side will pay all expenses to go to Canada.”In this ad the family of a lower-caste “Barbar Sikh” is seeking to have their son marry an Indian female with a bachelors of science degree, or a passing mark on the IELTS test, so their son can be allowed into Canada as her spouse.As these kinds of ads illustrate, the parents of the male “spouse” typically offer to cover all expenses for the international student, who often end up attending one of the scores of private colleges in Canada with low to non-existent standards.Shut Down Canada’s Chandigarh Consulate And All of Its FraudShut Down Canada’s Chandigarh Consulate And All of Its FraudShut Down Canada’s Chandigarh Consulate And All of Its FraudCanada’s Sikh Defence Minister, Harjit Saijan, has recently admitted that he lied when he claimed to be the architect of a key NATO mission in Afhghanistan. Saijan is one of four Sikhs whom Trudeau has appointed to his Cabinet. About 1% of Canadians are Sikhs, yet they represent 14% of Trudeau’s Cabinet. Post National Trudeau has never justified this outrageous situation and in this latest Sikh scandal, has refused to fire Saijan.This article describes the rampant corruption at the Canadian Consulate in Chandigarh, the corrupt political environment in India’s Punjab from which Saijan and many of Canada’s Sikhs emerged and the continued Sikh corruption in Canada. This article was written for The Canadian Immigration Reform Blogspot in 2010, but is just as relevant, if not more relevant, today. For the Blogspot’s more recent views on “DIVERSITY”, see the following : Canadian Immigration Reform Blog+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Shut Down ChandigarhI started Canadian Immigration Reform Blogspot with a few goals in mind. Getting Canada’s diplomatic mission in Chandigarh, Punjab, India shut down has been added to the list. Two more stories published in the Toronto Star add fuel to the fire and illustrate why Canada’s diplomatic mission in Chandigarh, Punjab, India does not serve Canada’s interest as it is a complete waste of money.The first one takes a look at the unscrupulous, unethical, lecherous face of immigration consultancy in the Indian state.Sandeep Ohri is a dashing 42-year-old who revels in zipping through the traffic chaos in his gleaming Mercedes, passing billboards touting him as the leading immigration consultant in Punjab state.But Canadian officials see someone else: an extraordinarily brazen and successful scam artist in an industry rife with deceptive swindlers willing to provide applicants with a litany of sham documents — everything from fake airline tickets and doctored bank statements to forged letters from Canadian-based funeral homes.Of the nearly 500 visa applications formally rejected this year, 228 come from Ohri and his firm, OGIC Immigration Consultants.The six visa-section staff who work at Canada’s mission in Chandigarh, Punjab’s capital, review 40,000 visa applications a year from students, family members and prospective immigrants. While official statistics aren’t available, one senior Canadian diplomat estimated at least a quarter of those applications are refused because of fraud.“More would be if the processing was completed, but sometimes you know it’s fraud and just refuse the request and close the file,” the diplomat said.India is Canada’s top source for immigrants simply because of the volume of applications the country produces due to the size of its population. Of those who immigrate, approximately half of them come from the state of Punjab. Punjab is home to the majority of India’s Sikhs. Thus there are more Sikhs in Canada than Hindus. Hindus comprise the majority of India’s population at 80%; Sikhs are only 2% (there are more Christians in India than Sikhs). In Canada, Sikhs constitute roughly 50% of the Indo-Canadian community whereas Hindus are just over 30%.In Punjab, “the average per-capita annual income of $484 is still the highest in the country” which means in relation to rest of their compatriots, Punjabis are not necessarily hurting. They have money.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++With that said we come to the second article. This one reveals the financial extent to which Punjabis go to send a son over-seas to secure “a better life” for the family. This can be realized in the form of remittances or the eventual importation of the entire family into western countries through family reunification schemes.Now, though the story is presented as a tragic tale of a Punjabi family who only tried to make a better life for themselves, I cannot say I share that sentiment. I believe they got what they deserved. You see, in India western citizenship is a status symbol and the article makes this clear.In the small village of Kapure, it is not about keeping up with the Joneses. It’s about keeping up with the Gills and Dhaliwals.On a narrow, dusty street, one house after the other boasts visible signs of prosperity — a fresh coat of paint, air conditioners, brick driveways and new cars. The children, playing hide and seek, wear Reebok and Nike.The neighbours share not only affluence but also a common source of it — almost every family has a son, son-in-law or nephew living abroad and sending money home.Every family, that is, except the Bhangus.In many villages, almost every house has at least one person in North America, England or Europe.Those that don’t, like the Bhangus, are considered pariahs, says Krishan Chand, who’s been studying the effects of immigration on villages with the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development. They are excluded from events and, in some cases, parents are not able to find husbands for their daughters.Thus starts the chase where these left-out families will do anything in the hope of sending a family member — usually a son — abroad.This leaves them vulnerable to the smooth talk of unscrupulous immigration consultants. But the prospective immigrant is not a babe in the woods free of blame. They oftentimes participate in the fraud.Typically, agents provide prospective university and college students, and others, with fake bank statements and other doctored documents to support their visa requests, which are usually rejected without proof of one’s ability to pay school fees and living expenses.Others provide their clients with fake passports and visas. Most are rejected.A visa officer at the Chandigarh mission’s consular section told the Star’s Rick Westhead last year that the staff is deluged with applications sent with phony documents. “Over the past year, 85 per cent of employment letters related to work visa applications have been forgeries,” he said.The Bhangus find it hard to believe they are living this nightmare.Prabhjot (Bhangu) says he resisted for some years but then started exploring various avenues, but found he couldn’t immigrate to Canada under the points system, or as a student or on a work permit.The family knew there was a better chance of finding a well-to-do husband for Hardeep (their daughter) who had turned 20, if Prabhjot was abroad.That’s when Prabhjot says a friend from the village who now lives in Toronto introduced him to an immigration agent. The agent promised to take Prabhjot to Toronto for $48,000.Things go downhill from there but at least he escapes with his life. Not so for Amandeep Kaur Dhillion. Remember her? The status seeking impulses of her Sikh family back in India sacrificed her happiness and sold her into a loveless marriage so that they can (could) use her to immigrate to Canada. She was stabbed to death on January 1, 2009, her father-in-law was charged with first degree murder.Punjab is a hot bed of fraud and so, in their infinite political wisdom, the Liberal Party of Canada opened a foreign mission right in the belly of the beast. Opened in 2004 to reward Sikh voting blocs for their loyal support, Canada has the only foreign mission in Punjab’s state capital. With an annual operating budget of around $25 million a year the mission serves no purpose other than to waste Canadian tax dollars by funneling scam artists, the pathetic, the mediocre, the greedy, the aged, all into Canada. But they eventually vote and isn’t that what really matters in the end?Jason Kenney, Canada’s minister responsible for immigration, was in India recently to specifically address the immigration abuses Canada is subjected to by Indian applicants, particularly those in Punjab. Well, good luck with that. Why should India care? Why would India want to curb the steady outflow of non-resident Indians into foreign countries who can then influence domestic politics and the economy to satisfy India’s interests?(So) Forget India. Canada needs to protect itself and the way to do that is to shut down the damn, useless mission in Chandigarh. For one thing it plays into the hands of the immigration consultants in the state by making the execution of their scams all the easier. In this regard, Canada is an accomplice to the crimes.Also, what quality of immigrant is the mission helping to import into the nation when many of the applications are clearly fraudulent? If these people are willing to go so far as to defraud the Canadian government and the people it represents, then they don’t deserve to come to Canada at all. And what kind of Canadians will they be, if you can call them that, if Canadian citizenship is nothing more to them than a status symbol on par with an expensive car and fancy golf clubs?Canada needs to shut down the mission as well as curtail immigration from India altogether. We simply accept far too many immigrants from that country to be of any worth. And of that country, a considerable sum come from one particular region. Indeed, this is characteristic of the immigration system as a whole. Almost 60% of immigrants come from Asia and of that 60%, most come from a few source countries chiefly India, China, and the Philippines. This doesn’t say much about diversity in the immigration system now, does it?++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++For more recent Canadian Immigration Reform Blogspot views on “DIVERSITY”, see the following : Canadian Immigration Reform BlogCanadian Immigration Reform BlogThird-world immigrants need to stay home and fix their s**t and Canada would be wise to deny them residency until they do so. They’ve proven themselves unfit for immigration because if they couldn’t do anything for themselves in their native countries, and for their native countries, then they’re not going to do anything for us. They didn’t come to Canada to solve our problems, they came to Canada to have Canada solve theirs. The third-world is the third-world because of the people of the third-world and by bringing them here you’re inviting what makes the third-world with them. There is no benefit to be had, not real ones anyway, by Canada in allowing mass sustained third-world immigration and if there are any benefits they’re mostly novel, superficial, or fleeting mostly being eaten up by the immigrants themselves. Third-worlders need to stay where they are and fix their countries, not come here and colonize mine. Had they collectively invested the effort and resources they expend immigrating to the West into their native lands instead then perhaps they could affect positive change there and direct their countries to a brighter more prosperous future so that future generations wouldn’t feel compelled to move abroad at all.

The story about why Serbia attacked Croatia and Slovenia in 1991 is a bit complex so I will try to get the most important facts which contributed to the events of attacking Croatia and Slovenia in 1991, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, Kosovo in 1998 and the current tensions with Montenegro.The most important reasons (but not the only ones) were:MoneyEconomyPolitical power and political viewsSerbian National Socialism rise and the Greater Serbia PlanInitial strong support of Russia, Yugoslav Army and the United StatesMilitary conquest of land to get as much as possible from other statesTo get a better idea of the circumstances, one should know that before the 1990s wars Yugoslavia was a European micro-union of states. Six republics were joined in a federation like some sort of small European-Union with a common currency called the Yugoslav Dinar. The richest states were the Republic of Slovenia and the Republic of Croatia, since people in these states had the longest tradition of free trade, small and medium interprenurship and farming buisnesses. To compensate the disbalance between the republics, the federal Yugoslav Government would take money from Slovenia and Croatia to form large farming industries in Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo in the name of solidarity and socialism. Thus the economy was socialist (not communist like in the Eastern Block) and relied on fresh capital to create economic development.The Yugoslavian Federation of six republics and two autonomous provinces:The problem was that money to help Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo taken from Slovenia and Croatia - prevented Slovenia and Croatia from developing their full potential, which finally started after the end of the Croatian War of Independence - Wikipedia in 1995, in both Slovenia and Croatia. Serbian economy depended largely on money coming from Slovenia and Croatia. Since the Serbian Communist Party often outnumbered others, the Serbs in Yugoslavia got used to the idea that someone else should pay their own debts. The Serbian National Socialist leader Slobodan Mikosevic proudly announced in the early 1980s just after the death of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito - Wikipedia that “A Serb is incompetent to work, a Serb is competent for War!” (in Serbian: “Srbin ne ume da radi, Srbin ume da ratuje!”). This will be one of his popular phrases along with ‘One people, one Serb nation, one state’. The rise of Serbian National Socialism happened relatively easy because the litteracy was quite low in Serbia and some parts of Bosnia. Many Serbs lacked school hours to understand Hitler was doing the same thing half a century ago and manipulated masses of people to get to power. The Serbian National Socialist idea was formed in a paper called SANU Memorandum - Wikipedia in 1985, twisting the facts just as Hitler’s propaganda machinery did. For example, the Serbs started blaming the Slovenians and Croatians just like Hitler blamed Roma and Jews before WW2, claiming that they are to be held resposible for the bad economy and lack of money in Serbia. It took Slobodan Milosevic a year to convince the poorly educated Serbians that Croatians and Slovenians are guilty, that they are in the way of Serbian liberty to have one Greater Serbia - Wikipedia state in which Serbs should dominate. The idea was to claim all orthodox people from Yugoslavia to be Serbs, Croats were not allowed to be called Croats but they should be considered catholic Serbs, and Bosniaks should be muslim Serbs. In case Croats and Bosniaks would not comply to this, the plan was simple - exterminate all those who would oppose such a system in mixed population areas by blaming Croats, Slovenes and Bosniaks for all economic problems. Somewhere around 1987–1989, the political indoctrination by Slobodan Milosevic and the Greater Serbia idea became so dominant among some Serbs that their children stopped being friends with Croat children saying that ‘there will be blood’ very soon. Some would even joke with a popular Chetniks - Wikipedia song “There will be meat, there will be meat, we will slaughter Croats!” by singing the first two lines and instead of finishing the third one about slaughter and ethnic hate they would simply laugh and say: “Well, you know how the rest goes!” To save Yugoslavia from an economic crisis created by the Serb National Socialist movement in Serbia led by Slobodan Milosevic, the majority of other Republics voted the Croat economist from Bosnia Ante Marković - Wikipedia as Prime Minister in year 1989. Ante Markovic was competent enough to stop hyperinflation created by Serb nationalists who took millions of US dollars out of the common Yugoslav budget, to use as they please. Ante Marković managed to save the economy for one year in 1990 only, he even made the Yugoslav currency dinar convertible and stable. Yet Slobodan Milosevic obstructed economic stability in December 1990 by secretly withdrawing an illegal ‘loan’ of $1.7 billion from Serbia’s main bank (which then drew the funds from the federal Yugoslav budget at the end of the year). In other words, Slobodan Milosevic stole money from the federal budget to break up Yugoslavia economically, so he could be reelected to lead an ‘easy war’ against Slovenia and Croatia.In the light if these circumastances, one might ask what was the problem and why did Slobodan Milosevic’s plan fail so horribly.First, the total money taken within the fiscal year of 1990 (a couple of billions US$) and the money accumulated from various Yugoslav funds after the death of President Tito in 1980 till the break up of Yugoslavia in 1991 (also a couple of billion US$) - were sufficient only for a short war. The plan was simple, accuse Slovenians and Croatians to be the enemies of the system, attack Slovenia and Croatia simultaneously with a massive force, destroy all opposion quickly and install supporters or Serbs from the military in key positions who would obey without any questions asked. To be able to do that, the Yugoslav Army had to be filled with mobilized units. Yet the mobilization took forever, and the Serb National Socialists soon realized Serbs and all other ethnicities in Yugoslavia were unwilling to go to war against Slovenia and Croatia so that Slobodan Milosevic and his close associates from the League of Communists would fill their own pockets with money. As the war started in 1991 and the first bodybags started coming back to Serbia filled with Serbian youth, many intellectuals in Serbia saw through the trick. Serbs stopped being so eager to go to other Republics and die there for a few dollars while Milosevic would take billions to create his private Serbian empire and play dumb about the money. Instead of mobilizing 140 thousand units in 1991, the Yugoslav Army managed to get 9 thousand Serbian reserve units along with 40 thousand of regular army, and about 5 thousand Chetnik or Serb Volunteer units (according to Serbian sources). Thus the Yugoslav Army relied on professional special forces units to lead the war and boost morale, because only professionals could enter a Croatian village to pillage and loot unarmed (but rich) civilians. The war in Slovenia was short because the Slovenias were organized well and supported by Croatians, civilians who would not allow the tanks to go into Slovenia and destroy other civilian targets. The mobilized Yugoslav Army units mostly filled with Serbs, Serbians or Serb volunteers were not enough to lead a war where civilains and armed locals resisted any miliatry advancement. A Serb special units commander confessed that his platoon of 120 elite men was unable to advance further after the first clash in an Eastern Croatia village with 117 HOS (Croatian Defense Forces) soldiers. They have done the job and killed all Croats in the village but woth the cost of 47 wounded, 31 dead and the rest of 42 soldiers unwilling to continue to the next village. The Croatian lines of defense were not particularly well equipped with military armament, or well organized, but they were determined to fight till the last one standing. This created a money problem because the loot from villages was not enough, Serbian special forces started to ask money to continue fighting. Serb national pride was one thing, but dying for peanuts was a different thing which they did not expect. Since the Serb volunteers were made mostly from criminals like Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan, they were readily organized for massive money taking operations like pillaging the local economy and taking the important revenue assests like oil fields, factories, local industry, etc. The Yugoslav Army was left to die for peanuts for the idea of a Greater Serbia or join the paraforces and get a better share of the loot. Some Serb commanders like Ratko Mladić started openly supporting the Greater Serbia idea to cut Croatia at three spots, the famous Virovitica-Karlovac-Karlobag line.However, the Serbian National Socialist aggression had one terrible flaw. Slobodan Milosevic did not count Montenegrins will refuse to attack Croatian civilian targets. Montenegrins were clearly opposing the Serbian aggression in Croatia. The Montenegrin commander Vladimir Barović opposed the direct Yugoslav Army order to first bomb Istria in Summer of 1991 and then later Dubrovnik and Dalmatia when the offensive from Serbia spread in Fall 1991. This Montenegrin general rather commited suicide by shooting himself in the head in 1991 than destroy completely Dubrovnik and some other parts of Dalmatia. Montenegrins have a pride which was mostly intact during the Croatian War of Independence. It would be wise to distinguish Montenegrins from Montenegro Serbs or Croatians from Croatian Serbs, because in those lands that is a matter of national pride. Montenegro Serbs and Serb extremists from Montenegro did indeed attack Croatian cities, but that is a different nationality than Montenegrins. Even today there are tensions between Montenegro Serbs who oppose the idea of Montenegro and Monenegrins joining NATO and the EU. Even today many extreme Serbs openly call for a Serbian aggression onto Montenegro to provide a Serbian/Russian right/access to the Adriatic Sea. The last time there were mentions about Montenegro joining NATO in 2015, riots and protests happened in Montenegro streets, organized by Serb nationalists who live in Montenegro. Had Vladimir Barović obeyed the Serbian National Socialist idea of a full attack and bombing of Istria, Dalmatia and Dubrovnik, the largest cities in those regions would face the same fate as Vukovar. There would have been many futile civilian casualties with no long term effect on the political outcome because locals would still fight and not allow to be conquered by Serb national socialist units. The Serb national socialist idea was to abuse Montenegrins to fight for a Greater Serbia idea against Croatians, but Montenegrins did not fall for that no matter how strong the Serb national socialist propaganda was during the 1990s. The following link shows the medal awarded to Borovic for his refusal to destroy Dubrovnik and allow Serbs to ethnically cleanse Dubrovnik and Dalmatia. Crnogorci posthumno odlikovali generala JNA koji je odbio bombardirati hrvatske gradove There were many other Montenegrins who supported Croatia and Croatian civilians, who opposed against the Serb national socialist aggression: Krsto Đurović - Wikipedija or Nikola J. Samardžić - Wikipedija. This allowed Croatia to concentrate on defense of Eastern Croatia where tanks from Serbia were coming from. The line of tanks from Belgrade to Croatia was about 40 kilometers long, and many of these young Serbians would return in bodybags concealed in Vojvodina so that the Serbian public would not know about the human losses in Vukovar. As time passed by from October to Decemeber 1991, Serbians from Belgrade would soon learn about losses, ethnic cleansing performed by Serbians in Croatia and mass killing, looting and pillaging by Chetnik units. Some Serbian intellectuals opposed the war and Serbian aggression, and called to young Serbians to flee from being drafted so they would not return in bodybags. This made another blow to the Serbian National Socialist expansion economy, because Slobodan Milosevic had to rely on paid volunteers instead of young freshly mobilized conscript Serbians. Both the resistance from Croatians and the unwillingness of young Serbians to go to Croatia and come back in bodybags slowed the advancement, and economy started to influence the war.Hitler’s economy was largely dependent on the conquered new territories and their economies, and the same problem struck Slobodan Milosevic that without conquering at least Croatia there was no chance of the Greater Serbia state. However, Croatia proved to be a tough cake so in March 1992 he changed his tactics and attacked Bosnia- Herzegovina. He reasoned that a smaller Greater Serbia might also work if chopping off parts of neighboring Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Seeing that Eastern Croatia was such a tough case, he opted for the Moljevic Serbia version of a Greater Serbia state.So in 1992 the Serbs declared puppet Serb Autonomous Provinces, closely connected to the Serbian economy. All Serb soldiers was receiving money from the Yugoslav funds and weapons from Serbian/Yugoslav stocks, so the infrastructure depended on Serbian economy. However, South Croatia was beyond any reach with the Montenegrins refusing to pillage Croatia from Dubrovnik to Metkovic.The economy in Croatia and Slovenia was different than that of Serbia and some parts of Bosnia. Free trade existed for centuries, free market economy was parallel to the socialist economy. On the other hand, Serbian economy and huge parts of Bosnian economy largely depended on money coming from Slovenia and Croatia. Once the money stopped coming, people started to realize that they have to take care of themselves. Slovenia resolved the war with the Serbian commanders in the Yugoslav Army by blocking all Yugoslav military facilities in Slovenia, and threatened them to lay down their arms and surrender. In Croatia, there were two ideas how to counter the attacks. One part of Croatian politicians wanted to do the same as in Slovenia, to counterattack the Yugoslav Army miliatry bases and use the weapons from the teritorial defense against the invading armies from Serbia and Serbs from Bosnia-Herzegovina. The other wanted to try to stabilize the economy first and prepare for war with an organized and well trained army. The second was chosen in late 1991 and military supplies to the Croatian city of Vukovar ceased as the international community insisted. Some from the international community at the time were still ‘convinced’ that Croatia is not allowing the Yugoslav Army to ‘restore order and peace’, and insisted Croatia should stop resisting the Yugoslav Army in Vukovar. The moment that the Croatian Army in Vukovar surrendered, the slaughter of wounded soldiers and tortures of civilians followed by looting and pillaging started. Mass graves, torture, mutilation of living people, that is what the advancement of the Yugoslav Army brought to Vukovar in November and December 1991, that was the Serb idea of restoring peace. After seeing that there is no doubt Serbia is sending its Yugoslav Army troops to attack Croatia, the international community started to recognize Croatia in 1992 as a sovereign state. Politically, this made a problem to Slobodan Milosevic because he understood that in the long run the chunks of Croatia he put under his control will eventually be returned to Croatia. The whole world saw beyond any reasonable doubt that Serbia was attacking Croatia with a massive military force and almost everyone called Slobodan Milosevic to stop this aggression. Time was not on his side, the war that was supposed to last two to three months evolved and lack of new funds were showing Serb commanders were starting to have doubts about their payment. Hence Slobodan Milosevic had to start the war elsewhere, in Bosnia, to keep Serb commanders happy and have more new loot to trade for. Hitler made a mistake not listening to the generals in 1942 to stop the offensive on the eastern front and negotiate a peace with the Russians and strike down south, Milosevic did not want to make the same mistake. It was time for politics and peace talks at the same time while advancing, just like Hitler did.During Yugoslavia between 1945 and 1990, the Slovenes, Croats and Montenegrins were mostly supportive of the European Economic Community ideas while Serbia and Macedonia were more in favor of close ties with Russia and communist economy. Bosnia was multiethnic at the time so the public opinion varied a lot. After the death of President Tito in 1980, everyone knew the system could not hold for very long. Economy had issues, the Croatian economist Branko Horvat - Wikipedia tried to make a smooth transition from command economy to the system of free trade and economic growth in the early 1980s. He advocated the Market socialism - Wikipedia as the most realistic way to catch up with Western economy, but he was criticized by the Yugoslav politicians as being too progressive. The difference between Croatian economy and Serbian economy at the time was simply too large to make it applicable to all Yugoslav republics. It would make a large disproportional economic difference between the developped West Yugoslavia (Croatia and Slovenia) and East Yugoslavia (Serbia and Macedonia) which were mostly rural areas before the industrialization of Yugoslavia. So the 1980s were a status quo case and not a single unitary model was available to satify all republics. However, the economy was becoming an important burden because after the death of President Tito onwards most Serb politician on power tried to get some benefits or money from the system through ‘loans’ or funds. Some Croatian and Slovenian politicians followed, corruption cases and economic fraud among Communist party members became common by the late 1980s. With such an economic opstructiin from inside, it was really hard to make Yugoslavia stay as a whole country. When the Berlin Wall fell down in 1989 and states like Czechoslovakia spearated into independent states in 1990, it was evident the same thing will happen to Yugoslavia sooner or later. The transition from a federation to six independent states could have easily be done as in the the Czech and Slovak case. However, this would turn a massive Yugoslav command economy to market economy overnight, and it would leave many party members living at the expense of the state without a certain income. The Serbs who held many key positions as managers, directors or leaders in public enterprises in Slovenia and Croatia opposed this idea, because many of them got to their positions through politics instead of competence. This was specific for Croatia, the Serbs were a minority of around 12% of the population yet Serbs were holding more than 70% of the manager, director, head of police or high army rank positions. This national criteria instead of competence criteria made the economy suffer, and it took Croatia 25 years to get rid of this habit that incompetent people might be positioned at top positions. This economic problem was closely related to politics, and internationally Serbs were dominant at representing Yugoslavia, more than 90% of diplomats were Serbs. They would later serve as a tool to show Slobodan Milosevic as the good guy while all other non-Serb republics as the ones to blame for Yugoslavia falling apart. In 1991 the politics were divided, Russia and the USA supported a Yugoslavian regime provided the Serbs could handle the situation. James Baker authorized the Serbs to engage the Yugoslav Army and overtake Slovenia and Croatia if it will be fast and there would not be many casulaties. As time went by, and with the number of bodybags in Serbia and mass graves in Croatia constantly rising, the US started to change the policy towards Croatia. Croatia was recognized by EU in January 1992 and others followed, USA recognized Croatia in April 1992. This made Slobodan Milosevic lose the political leverage in the international community. When asked about how the international community responds to his evident National Socialist leadership, war crimes and gains of other states territory - he would often respond that the international community is impotent and will do nothing. He had great political friends in the international community and some would support him during the entire Croatian War of Independence up to 1995.The Serb National Socialism was a much imroved version of what Hitler had available during WW2. The Serb propaganda machinery was having television as a very effective tool on the local Serb population with low education. The regime would show graves of Croats killed by the Serb volunteers, special forces or chetnik units and try to persuade everone these bodies were innocent Serb civilians killed by Ustashi, even though Ustashi were last seen in 1945. The propaganda machinery was dominating the media, and Serb intellectuals had to listen to English, French or German broadcasts to get true information. The press, the radio, the television, everything except the internet was controlled by the government. They would have controlled the internet too, but they did not have (m)any IT engineers willing to participate in false National Socialist propaganda. Most intelligent Serbs saw through this propaganda and had friends in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Britain, France and Germany and they knew the Serbian regime was lying to Serbians just to stay on power and get more money into their own pockets. By 1993 the CIA had information that Slobodan Milosevic had a couple billion US$ stashed away from various funds and kept getting a percentage from various deals in the occupied territories. He would sell much of it to wealthy Russians, considering this might reinforce the Russian support in the future. However, the economy in Serbia was getting worse and worse, people started realizing the economy can’t rely on loot and pillaging. As the money from looting and withdrawal from various Yugoslav funds started to disappear, Serbs started asking questions. Not only about the money, but also about the state and living conditions. The Serb neighbors soon realized that thier house and lands will not go away to Serbia but that they will have to live agian with Croatians neighbors, the sons and daughters of those who they have commited crime against. For example, those Croatian soldiers or policemen who were outnumbered by the Yugoslav Army would be brought to Serb civilians, tied up, and the Serb civilians had to kill these living Croatians with axes, picks and field tools. This would ensure that collective responsibility is assured, that all Serbs civilians should feel the same against the Croats as - an enemy. Some of those executions were public in villages, and most villagers knew about them. This served as an example about what would happen to those Serbs who would doubt the regime and think that maybe they could live peacefully alongside Croats in Croatia. When the operation Storm started, the families of the 74 thousand Serb terrorist soldiers instructed their families they should all move to Bosnia where Slobodan Milosevic will assure a new land, a new state called Republic of Serbska, that they will get a new house taken away from Croats or Bosniaks, a new job, even money from the new Russian banks. These soldiers left with their families, and today they are asking money from Croatia because they consider they have the right to get a pension just like everyone else in Croatia who was paying taxes and working peacefully the whole time. Basically, they are asking from Croatia to give them the money Slobodan Milosevic already took once from Croatia and Slovenia during the period of 1980–1990. They are abusing the system because lawyers are smarter than most Croatian Government Advisers so they know where they might get an angle. Suffice to say that Slobodan Milosevic aka the Balkan Butcher managed to play innocent even during Den Hague trials, this is how smart his team of associates and lawyers really are. After the Overthrow of Slobodan Milošević - Wikipedia many of them are still at key positions in Serbia and they even managed to assasinate the Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić - Wikipedia in 2003.To conclude it all, it was mostly about the money. People often ask if the war in Yugoslavia could have been avoided somehow in 1990. The answer is NO, because Slobodan Milosevic was only the leader (Vožd in Serbian, Führer in German, Duce in Italian) of a mass of associates who were taking money out of the federal funds and budget for a decade. They are still in power. The war was planned to minor details, like ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and the Yugoslav Army strikes to get to the famous Virovitica-Karlovac-Karlobag line. However, the frontline was large and the Croatian determination to defend their homes prevented a Blitzkrieg which Slobodan Milosevic predicted. The following animation might provide a better idea how Serb National Socialist forces attacked Croatia between 1991 and 1995, and how Croats defended their land.The damages to the Croatian economy and people is hundreds of US billion. All of this tragedy happened so a couple of Serbian politicians could secretly fill their bank accounts with money they have not earned. Croatia has processed most of it’s politicians who were corrupt, and still continues to do so. Yet in Serbia, politicians are rather building their careers on more war announcement. Some even claim Serbia should invade Montenegro so it would not be landlocked, some want to attack the ‘historic Serb land’ Kosovo, and then attack Croatia and Croats in Bosnia again to finally ‘get back’ their Greater Serbia. Yet without at least twenty billion dollars on their account as much as the last war was funded, that would end up the same way it ended in 1995. The only difference is that in such an event the USA would not be able to stop the Croatian Army as it did in 1995 in Bosnia to prevent the Croats from entering Banja Luka. As long as the Serb politicians are still corrupt and have no more money to take from people, the only way they could attack anyone is with harsh language. Which is good news for the Serbians, they can come to the Croatian Adriatic Coast with cars and return back to Serbia with good feelings. It’s much better than to come to Croatia in armed tanks and return in bodybags without any feeling.If anyone cares to check the spelling errors or typos, please do. I spent two hours responding to this question so any input is appreciated. That it, if anyone cares to read it, there are not many who would find this topic interesting.