MARXISM: The last stop on the polar express.
To build his workers' paradise, Lenin murdered some 6 million people. Lenin's regime nationalized church property in 1918. Stalin, then shipped 7 million people in rail cars to Siberian work camps, culled 148 million heads of livestock and destroyed countless tons of grain, resulting in a manmade famine that killed 10 million people.
Siberia, also known as the "Pole of Cold", is the coldest region in the northern hemisphere, reaching temperatures even colder than the North Pole.
Before Lenin and Stalin, there were 54,000 Orthodox churches in Russia; by 1940, there were 500. According to Baylor University's Philip Jenkins, "Christians suffered horrific persecutions" - forced labor, torture, concentration camps - under Soviet-backed regimes. In Hungary, "Christian clergy and laity were murdered in the thousands." In Poland, religious holidays were abolished and children from churchgoing families were denied acceptance into college.
Stalin also ordered more than a million Jews deported to Siberia in 1953. They were spared only by his death.
SOURCE: Lessons From the Fall - The American Legion Magazine 02/2022
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