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Bush Blames 100 Million Deaths on Communists
The Victims of Communism Memorial was inaugurated in Washington Tuesday. President George Bush, who attended the opening ceremony, blamed the deaths of tens of million people on communist states and called on the West to get rid of the moral blind spot in relation to such regimes.
When dedicating the memorial to communist victims, U.S. President George Bush compared the Cold War to the current battle against radical Islamists and specified that the latter are destined to collapse as well.
As many as 20,000,000 were killed in communist regime of the Soviet Union, China lost 60,000,000, Vietnam – 850,000, according to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation that the U.S. Congress set up in 1993 and where George Bush Senior is an honorable chairman. The gravest crimes of the Soviet power are that Vladimir Lenin murdered hundreds of thousands of Cossacks and his successor, Josef Stalin starved to death six million Ukrainians, according to the web-site of the Foundation.
The Victims of Communism Memorial emerged within view of the Capital. It resembles a papier-mache statue brought to the Tiananmen Square in China in 1989 during a series of demonstrations led by students, intellectuals, and labour activists of that country.
The monument’s inauguration in Washington that gathered roughly a thousand was timed to the 20th anniversary of Ronal Reagan’s speech at the Berlin Wall, in which he called on Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” between Eastern and Western Germany.
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