Star Member The Velveteen Ocelot (70,546 posts)
6. In my humble opinion, by:
(1) dropping the term "socialist" from our vocabulary altogether. This is not a socialist country. Neither are the Scandinavian countries some like to hold up as examples - 1 they are capitalist democracies with strong social safety nets which have been approved by their people and for which their people are willing to be taxed. 2 The word "socialism" is too infected with grossly incorrect notions of collective farms and gulags and other detritus of the Soviet Union, which far too many people believe. Drop it and call the Democratic economic vision something else.
1 - True
2 - Incredible!!! "Grossly
incorrect notions of collective farms and gulags..."
Lenin and
Stalin - well before Hitler got going - had already killed millions of people (one historian has calculated that 10-12 million Ukrainians were murdered in the early 1930's alone) and
Stalin kept killing millions throughout his terror-filled reign.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn documented the GULAG's terrors and murders in
The GULAG Archipelago (he was a victim of the GULAG and knew it from the inside.)
Written by a team of European historians,
The Black Book of Communism details the murderous crimes committed by Socialist/Communist regimes in the 20th century, and estimate a body count of over 100 million victims,
"Grossly incorrect" ? Blind and stupid!