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Happy May Day

Happy May Day, everyone!

Just for fun, let's take a brief stroll down memory lane to remind us of the contributions of communism to the twentieth century:

Mao Zedong, China

Death toll - 40 million

Kim Jong Il, North Korea

Death toll: 2 to 3 million from 1994 - 1998 alone

Wait a second - you thought we were done? Don't forget Castro. I leave you with a charming tidbit about the workers' paradise in Cuba:

On May 27, [1966,] 166 Cubans -- civilians and members of the military -- were
executed and submitted to medical procedures of blood extraction of an average
of seven pints per person. This blood is sold to Communist Vietnam at a rate of
$50 per pint with the dual purpose of obtaining hard currency and contributing
to the Vietcong Communist aggression.

"A pint of blood is
equivalent to half a liter. Extracting this amount of blood from a person
sentenced to death produces cerebral anemia and a state of unconsciousness and
paralysis. Once the blood is extracted, the person is taken by two militiamen on
a stretcher to the location where the execution takes place."

--
InterAmerican Human Rights Commission, April 7, 1967

posted by JM @ 5:07 PM