Communist Terror

The Museum of Communism in Prague. A quick tour:

One of the reasons why many history books used in the UK are biased is that many of the academics who wrote them have been apologists for communist atrocities and terror.

"In our seminars, the curriculum is heavily weighted toward Marxist critiques and collectivist theories." Student at University College London, Samiksha Bhattacharjee, in the Telegraph today.

After the fall of communism, Sir Roger Scruton received awards from Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary. Here he is with Vaclav Havel. Also in the photo is Barbara Day who did a lot of the organising. Photo from the Brno exhibition

Sir Roger Scruton took part in covert operations in Eastern Europe and received honours from Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia as a result. Exhibition now in Czech Republic. @Scruton_Legacy @Roger_Scruton @Scruton_Quotes

Many people know of Roger Scruton as a conservative philosopher. But in the 1980s he was involved in an enterprise that is not well known.

There were shortages of many things under the the communist regimes of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. (From the Museum of Communism in Prague.)

The Museum of Communism has the witty postcards and coasters about communism - like this one:

The amazing Witold Pilecki - worthy of a statue in London.

The Soviets didn’t liberate Poland—they enslaved it. Today, we commemorate the National Day of Remembrance of the Cursed Soldiers (Narodowy Dzień Żołnierzy Wyklętych). These anti-communist resistance fighters opposed the Soviet-backed regime that took over Poland after WWII. Refusing to lay down their arms, they fought for a free Poland for nearly 20 years after the war—the last, “Lalek,” was killed in 1963. One of the most well-known figures was Witold Pilecki, the only man who volunteered to infiltrate the German concentration camp in Auschwitz. He gathered intelligence about the German atrocities committed at the camp and organised the underground resistance movement.

The modern rehabilitation of Stalin in Russia. One argument is "at least he beat Hitler". Surely not. Millions of Russians died to beat Hitler. Stalin made this more difficult. He purged many top generals just before the war and was caught completely off guard when Hitler broke their pact.

Sir Roger Scruton was a trustee of the Museum of Communist Terror.

Dalia was deported from Lithuania as a young girl. She and some members of her family were taken in cattle cars with many stops on the way. Criminals were put on the same journey. The brutality of Stalin's deportations. Full story here: youtu.be/XuhkTbRmpA4

This is the beginning of our new video about two young girls who were suddenly arrested and deported in cattle cars. Their stories give a small window into one of the biggest but least well-known events of the 20th century: Stalin's deportation of 3 million people from Eastern Europe and the Baltic States. The full video is here: youtu.be/XuhkTbRmpA4

Three million forgotten people - mass deportations from all over Eastern Europe and the Baltic States,. They were sent to remote places where they struggled to survive. The unremembered Stalinist purge. Our new video with exclusive interviews and photos, youtu.be/XuhkTbRmpA4

We have a number of photos of the Moscow's Gulag Museum before it was changed by Putin. Here is one: a description of the lists of people chosen to be shot.

A sad development. Putin originally endorsed the museum. Among other exhibits, it reproduced copies of Stalin's death lists - people whose murder he authorised during the Great Terror.

He eventually escaped from mainland China to Hong Kong and from there got to the United States.

The China-born father of gold medal winner Alysa Liu helped organize demonstrations and hunger strikes after the Tiananmen Massacre. “How could the People’s Liberation Army use its force against its own students and residents of Beijing?” via @forbes forbes.com/sites/conormur…