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On November 7, President Donald Trump commemorated the more than 100 million lives killed by Communist regimes in the 20th century and pledged to stop the spread of ideology around the world.
In a presidential message on the occasion of National Day for the Victims of Communism, Trump condemned communism as “an oppressive ideology that, without fail, leaves behind misery, destruction and death.”
“While Marxism promises equality, peace and happiness, in practice it only translates into inequality, violence and despair,” the statement states.
Communism is responsible for 100 million deaths in the 20th century, according to The Black Book of Communism, with regimes in China, the Soviet Union, Cambodia and North Korea among the main killers.
“In the last century, the communist regimes, from the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia to the Derg of Ethiopia, confirmed the devastating oppression inherent in Karl Marx’s philosophy,” said the presidential message.
“As proud Americans who love the blessings of freedom and democracy, we promise to support more than one billion people currently imprisoned within communist regimes and to deny their inalienable rights to life and freedom.”
Marion Smith, executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, has drawn attention to those living under communist and socialist regimes today.
“Communist parties and socialist regimes still use Marxist logic to justify tyranny, controlling the fates and destroying the dreams of more than a billion people alive today,” Smith wrote in a November 7 tweet.
The Communist Party of China is the largest Communist regime in the world, ruling over 1.4 billion people and responsible for extensive human rights violations against people of faith, ethnic minorities, dissidents and human rights lawyers.
In 2017, the Trump administration declared November 7 a National Day for the Victims of Communism on the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution.
The presidential message noted that 2020 marked the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw. On August 15, 1920, the Polish army defeated Vladimir Lenin’s Red Army, halting the Soviet Union’s advance into Europe for decades.
“Unfortunately, the Soviet Union erected an iron curtain around Poland and spread communism in neighboring countries and around the world,” the statement said. “Since then, the United States and the free world have witnessed the horrors of communism, including the Chinese prison camps and the Soviet gulags.”
Trump promised that “the United States will never be a socialist nation”.
“We commemorate all those who lost their lives to communism and we pledge once again to promote freedom so that future generations can prosper.”
From The Epoch Times
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