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January 1, 2006
Cuba Archive
The next time you hear a moonbat repeating the surreal claims of entertainment industry chuckleheads (e.g., Danny Glover, Chevy Chase, Linda Ronstadt) that the hellhole Castro has made out of Cuba is some kind of paradise on earth, please direct them to the Cuba Archive project. The Wall Street Journal recently did a writeup on this noble undertaking, which attempts to document the loss of life caused by lefty icon Fidel Castro's regime.
Meticulously insisting on confirming each official murder from two independent sources, Cuba Archive researchers have still come up with a body count of 9,240 victims — and the project's president Maria Werlau suspects that the actual number could be 10 times higher. Armando Lago, a Harvard-trained economist and vice president of the project, estimates that close to 78,000 people have died attempting to escape.
Executions of women and children are documented. For example, 8-months-pregnant Lydia Perez Lopez died (along with her baby) after a prison guard kicked her in the stomach and she was denied medical attention; 15-year-old Owen Delgado Temprana was beaten to death when his family attempted to take refuge at the Ecuador embassy.
The sheer enormity of the crimes of socialism has prevented people from truly grasping their horror. As Stalin noted, "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." Although it is an absolute must-read book, Stephane Courtois's "Black Book of Communism" almost bludgeons the reader into insensitivity with numbers that you just can't get your mind around. If people actually grasped that this ideology was responsible for 100 million deaths in the course of the Twentieth Century, they would react to academics and other liberal elite fools who call themselves communists the same way they would react to someone advocating raping children or deliberately spreading AIDS — because communism is no less evil, as its known history attests.
Cuba is a helpful country to study because since it is relatively small, the scale of the atrocities it has been subjected to is less overwhelming. Also helpful is the way Cuba Archive doesn't just offer estimated body counts, but actually provides the names of victims, and details of their tragic deaths.
It makes for chilling reading, but Cuba Archive is highly recommended.
Hat tip: Byron
Posted by Van Helsing at January 1, 2006 6:57 PM
Comments
My ex is a great Castrophile...
If I wasn't so disgusted by her moving to Mexico to help the Zapatistas, I would try and ram a little of this knowledge down her throat.
Posted by: LC Triplenecksteel at January 2, 2006 5:22 AM
