Documenting the history and (often underreported) misdeeds of Marxists, Leninists, Socialists, Communists, Ba'athists, and other collectivists past and present.
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On October 7th, 2012, activists reported between 90 and 120 people, overwhelmingly civilians, killed in attacks by the socialist Ba'athist regime in Syria, with over half killed in in the Damascus suburbs.
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On October 7th, 1980, the socialist Basque separatist group ETA attacked Carlos García Fernández in his tobacconist shop in Eibar, Spain. He was shot twice, killing him.
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On October 7th, 1982, snipers from the socialist Irish National Liberation Army shot UDR soldier Fred Williamson in Kilmore, Ireland while he was driving his car. He crashed into a car belonging to Elizabeth Chambers, a prison officer. Both were killed in the crash.
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On October 7th, 1977, the USSR adopted a new constitution, promising free speech, press, assembly and religion as well as healthcare, eldercare, housing and education. They were bad at the first four and couldn't afford the second four when communism bankrupted them.
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On October 7th, 2012, Syrian scholar and political writer Mohammad Nemr al-Madani was killed under torture while being held by the Ba'athist socialist regime's security service in Damascus.
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On October 7th, 1991, communist terrorists from the 17 November organization assassinated Turkish Press attaché Çetin Görgü outside of his home in Athens, Greece.
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On October 7th, 1952, a U.S. Air Force RB-29 aircraft was conducting a photo-mapping mission in international waters near Japan and the Kurile Islands. Soviet fighters ambushed it without warning and shot it down. There were no survivors among the eight-man crew.
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On October 7th, 2011, security forces of the Syrian Ba'athist socialist regime cracked down on anti-government protests all over Syria. Nearly two dozen protestors were killed.
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Socialism concentrates power, and concentrated power concentrates wealth. Hugo Chavez spent two decades screaming about imperialist oligarchs while his own daughters accumulated the kind of fortune that would embarrass a Rockefeller.
Maria Gabriela Chavez holds assets estimated at $4.2 billion, making her Venezuela's wealthiest individual by a comfortable margin. Her father nationalized over 1,200 private companies between 2002 and 2012.
The mechanism is straightforward: When the state controls production, distribution, currency, and courts, political proximity becomes the only productive investment. You don't build a business; you cultivate a minister. Chavez's inner circle stole through socialism, using currency controls, preferential exchange rates, and state contracts as the instruments.
Meanwhile, the Venezuelan poverty rate crossed 80 percent in 2024. Infant mortality climbed. The bolivar collapsed so completely that Venezuelans began pricing transactions in dollars just to preserve basic calculation.
Ludwig von Mises proved mathematically in 1920 that socialist planners cannot rationally allocate resources without prices generated by voluntary exchange. No prices, no signal. No signal, no coordination. Shortages follow as surely as math follows addition.
This while Venezuela sits atop the world's largest proven oil reserves. Poverty there is entirely manufactured. Chavez's family lives in Caracas and Miami on wealth extracted from people who cannot buy protein. The ideology that promised to eat the rich ended with the people eating the zoo animals.
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On October 7th, 1985, terrorists from the socialist Palestine Liberation Front hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. The passengers and crew were held hostage, and Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old, wheelchair-bound Jewish-American businessman, was murdered.
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On October 7th, 1989, massive protests broke out in East Germany on the country's 40th anniversary. The communists decided that the appropriate response to this was...to have Stasi and police beat and arrest thousands, subjecting many of the latter to brutal interrogation techniques.
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On October 7th, 1964, Petko Kovachev, leader of "Service 7", referred to it as “our small subdivision” of Bulgarian State Security. It had four people at the time but grew into the infamous "Murder Bureau" that killed, kidnapped, and harassed Bulgarian dissidents all over Europe.
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On October 7th, 1950, the totally not imperialist People's Liberation Army invaded the Chamdo region of Tibet with 40,000 troops. By late October, over three thousand Tibetan troops were killed or captured, and Tibet was annexed by the PRC.
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On October 7th, 2012, activists reported between 90 and 120 people, overwhelmingly civilians, killed in attacks by the socialist Ba'athist regime in Syria, with over half killed in in the Damascus suburbs.
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On October 7th, 1980, the socialist Basque separatist group ETA attacked Carlos García Fernández in his tobacconist shop in Eibar, Spain. He was shot twice, killing him.
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On October 7th, 1982, snipers from the socialist Irish National Liberation Army shot UDR soldier Fred Williamson in Kilmore, Ireland while he was driving his car. He crashed into a car belonging to Elizabeth Chambers, a prison officer. Both were killed in the crash.
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On October 7th, 1977, the USSR adopted a new constitution, promising free speech, press, assembly and religion as well as healthcare, eldercare, housing and education. They were bad at the first four and couldn't afford the second four when communism bankrupted them.
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On October 7th, 2012, Syrian scholar and political writer Mohammad Nemr al-Madani was killed under torture while being held by the Ba'athist socialist regime's security service in Damascus.
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On October 7th, 1991, communist terrorists from the 17 November organization assassinated Turkish Press attaché Çetin Görgü outside of his home in Athens, Greece.
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