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INTRODUCTION
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 on earth?
This book answers these questions, and draws our attention to a most
important one: Does this serious threat still exist in the world? Regrettably,
yes. Communism is waiting in ambush!
This well of bloodshed, which has cost the lives of 120 million, still
exists. Communism has covered the top of the well to conceal its insidious
activities and camouflaged its surroundings, setting it as a trap for
the unwary. Its outward appearance may have changed, its adherents' names
may be different, but it still awaits an opportunity to wreak pain on
humanity once again, as it has in the past. This book's vitally important
purpose is to rip the mask off this insidious and growing threat and reveal
the true face of the Communist ideology that has caused so much pain and
trouble.
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