Re: An Open Letter to Roger Ebert

Vladimir Makarenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Nice try, very nice. You just somehow do not mention that none of hell
>of terror which broke up through the whole country, nor usurpation of
>power were never authorized. Thus it was was it was: fascist coup
>d'etat. And you like it.


"Hell of terror" is an abitrary which you elect not to define. 
"Usurpation of power" was why *Allende* was impeached by the Chamber of 
Deputies. "Fascist", in your usage, is another arbitrary (simply 
meaning, in your case, any non-elected regime which isn't pro-Soviet, 
regardless of other characteristics).

None of this has anything to do with whether or not Roger Ebert passed 
along (or manufactured) lies in the film column.


ladimir Makarenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> ....the commies killed 55 million of
>> their OWN people, China and Russia.  Who do you think
>> supported the worst regimes if we consider human life
>> the most important thing?
>
>Why not 100 mln.? Where did you get this number? How did you count up
>it?


Among many sources, consult "The Black Book of Communism".


>And did you try to count how many perished on the other side in Cold War?


There were no "other side" war casualties in 20th century communism 
reign of murder, because nearly all of those killed by communism died as 
a result of deliberately engineered famines, consignment to gulags, and 
other "internal" methods -- not war.

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