Communism

By Harun Yahya

Communism has stamped its mark on the 20th century--

a mark of aggression and cruelty, bloodshed and

tears. Historians have estimated that its ideology has

caused the death of 120 million people since the

Russian Revolution of 1917. These casualties include

not only soldiers killed on battlefields, but citizens murdered by their

own governments. The whole world has seen the pitiless slaughter carried

out by Communist leaders. One hundred million men and women,

from the elderly to young people and infants, lost their lives to this cold,

hard, savage ideology. Communist regimes have deprived tens of millions

of their most basic rights and freedoms, ejecting people from their

homes and systematically subjecting them to famines, slavery in labor

camps and imprisonment. Millions have been the targets of Communist

guerilla groups and terrorist organizations, and still others have lived in

the fear of becoming targets for their bullets.

What are this ideology's roots? Where was Communism born? How

did such a cruel, bloodthirsty worldview find adherents and supporters

throughout the world? Why did it come to power and flourish, dragging

millions in its wake? How did it come to an end, with the collapse of the

Soviet Union? Or has it really ended, or does it still threaten every country