Harun Yahya - The Disasters Darwinism Brought to Humanity - Chapter 4
The Disasters Darwinism Brought To Humanity
Chapter 4
Darwinism: The Source of Communist Savagery
The ideology which brought the greatest harm to mankind in the violence
and savagery-filled century we have just left behind, and the most widespread
in the world, was without doubt Communism. Communism, which reached its
historical peak with the two German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels in the 19th century, spilt so much blood in the world that it left
even the Nazis and the imperialists behind. It led to the deaths of innocent
people and spread violence, fear, and hopelessness among mankind. Even
today when someone speaks of The Iron Curtain countries and Russia, images
rise up of communities ruled by darkness, fog, and hopelessness, lifeless
streets, trouble and fear. No matter how much Communism is thought of
as having been torn down in 1991, the debris it left behind it still exists.
No matter how "liberalised" one part of the "unrepentant" Communists and
Marxists may be, materialist philosophy, the dark side of Communism and
Marxism and which turned people away from religion and morality, still
continues to influence these people.
This ideology which spread terror to every corner of the world actually
represented an idea which goes back to ancient times. Dialectics was a
belief that all development in the universe arose as the result of conflict.
Based on this belief Marx and Engels set about analysing the history of
the world. Marx claimed that the history of man was one of conflict, that
the current conflict was one between workers and capitalists, and that
the workers would soon rise up and build a Communist revolution.
The most striking feature of the two founders of Communism was that,
like all materialists, they nurtured a great hatred of religion. Marx
and Engels were both confirmed atheists and saw the doing away with religious
beliefs as essential from the point of view of Communism.
But Marx and Engels lacked one important thing: in order to attract a
wider public they needed to give their ideology a scientific appearance.
And the dangerous alliance which gave rise to the pain, chaos, mass murders,
turning of brother against brother, and separatism of the 20th century
emerged at this point. Darwin proposed his theory of evolution in his
book The Origin of Species. And how interesting it is that the basic claims
he put forward were just the explanations Marx and Engels were looking
for. Darwin claimed that living things emerged as a result of the "struggle
for survival" or "dialectical conflict." Furthermore he denied creation
and rejected religious beliefs. For Marx and Engels this was an opportunity
not to be missed.
Marx and Engels' Admiration of Darwin
Darwinism
was of such great importance to Communism that only months after Darwin's
book was published, Engels wrote to Marx, "Darwin, whom I am just now reading,
is splendid."78
Marx wrote back to Engels on December 19, 1860, saying, "This
is the book which contains the basis in natural history for our view."79
In a letter Marx wrote to Lassalle, another socialist
friend of his, on January 16, 1861, he said: "Darwin's book is very important
and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in
history."80 thus revealing the importance of the theory
of evolution for Communism.
Marx revealed his sympathy for Darwin by dedicating
his most important work, Das Kapital, to him. Darwin's copy of Marx's
first volume was inscribed by Marx, describing himself as a "sincere admirer"
of the English naturalist.81
Engels too admitted his admiration for Darwin elsewhere:
Nature is the test of dialectics, and it must be
said... that in the last resort nature works dialectically and not metaphysically...
In this connection, Darwin must be named before all others.82Engels praised Darwin and Marx as
being the same, "Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic
nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history" he said.83
In another of his works,Engels stressed the importance of Darwin's having developed
a theory opposed to religion:
He (Darwin) dealt the metaphysical conception of
nature the heaviest blow by his proof that the organic world of today
— plants, animals, and consequently man too — is the product of a process
of evolution going on through millions of years.84
As well as this, Engels at once showed how he had accepted Darwin's theory
by writing an article titled "The Part Played by Labour in the Transition
from Ape to Man."
THE COLLAPSE OF THE MARXIST VIEW OF HISTORY
Karl Marx, the founder of Communism, adapted Darwin's ideas, which
deeply influenced him, to the dialectic process of history. According
to Marx, society went through different phases in history, and the
factor which determined these phases was the change in the means
of production and production relations. According to this view,
the economy determined everything else. History went through evolutionary
stages: Primitive society, slave society, feudal society, capitalist
society, and the last stage, Communist society.
Yet history itself showed that Marx's proposed evolutionary period
possessed no validity. At no time in history has any society been
seen which has gone through Marx's proposed evolutionary stages.
On the contrary, it is possible to see systems which Marx identified
as coming before or after each other at the same time in the same
society. While one part of a country is experiencing systems similar
to the feudal system, capitalist rules may apply in another region.
For which reason there is absolutely no proof that the passage from
one system to another follows the evolutionary pattern claimed by
Marx and the theory of evolution.
On the other hand, none of Marx's prophecies regarding the future
came true. It was realised that Marx's theories were not applicable
within 10 years of Marx's death. Marx claimed that one after the
other the most developed capitalist nations would undergo Communist
revolutions, whereas no such period happened. Lenin, one of Marx's
greatest followers, tried to explain why these revolutions had not
taken place, and then put forward other prophecies that Communist
revolutions would be experienced in Third World countries. Yet all
of Lenin's claims were proven untrue by history. In our time the
number of countries run under Communism can be counted on the fingers
of one hand. Furthermore, Marxism used force in the regions where
it came to power, and it came to power not by popular movements,
as it claimed, but by dictatorial pressure.
In short, recent history has completely disproved Marxist philosophy's
predicted period of historical evolution. Theories such as "the
dialectic of history" and "historical evolution" in the many volumes
written by materialist ideologues such as Marx and Engels, are just
products of fantasy.
The American researcher Conway Zirckle explains why
the founders of Communism immediately accepted Darwin's theory" Marx and
Engels accepted evolution almost immediately after Darwin published The
Origin of Species. Evolution, of course, was just what the founders of
communism needed to explain how mankind could have come into being without
the intervention of any supernatural force, and consequently it could
be used to bolster the foundations of their materialistic philosophy.
In addition, Darwin's interpretation of evolution–that evolution had come
about through the operation of natural selection–gave them an alternative
hypothesis to the prevailing teleological explanation of the observed
fact that all forms of life are adapted to their conditions.85
Tom Bethell, of Harper's Magazine, explains the fundamental
link between Marx and Darwin in the following manner:
Marx admired Darwin's book not for economic reasons but for the more
fundamental one that Darwin's universe was purely materialistic, and the
explication of it no longer involved any reference to unobservable, nonmaterial
causes outside or 'beyond' it. In that important respect, Darwin and Marx
were truly comrades.86
Today the link between Darwinism and Marxism is an obvious truth accepted
by everyone. Biographies of Marx always make this plain. For example, a
biography of Karl Marx describes the link in this way:
"Darwinism presented a whole string of truth supporting
Marxism and proving and developing the truth of it. The spread of Darwinist
evolutionary ideas created a fertile ground for Marxist ideas as a whole
to be taken on board by the working class… Marx, Engels, and Lenin attached
great value to the ideas of Darwin and pointed to their scientific importance,
and in this way the spread of these ideas was accelerated."87
As we have seen, Marx and Engels were delighted to believe that Darwin's
concept of evolution formed a scientific support for their own atheist
world view. But this delight proved to be premature. The theory of evolution
saw wide acceptance because it was proposed in a primitive 19th century
scientific environment and was full of errors lacking any sort of scientific
proof. Science, which developed in the second half of the 20th century,
revealed the invalidity of the theory of evolution. This meant the collapse
of Communist and materialist thinking as much as it did of Darwinism.
(For further details see The Evolution Deceit by Harun Yahya). But because
scientists with materialist views knew that the collapse of Darwinism
also meant the collapse of their own ideologies they tried all possible
methods to conceal Darwinism's collapse from people.
The Admiration of the Followers of Marx and Engels
for Darwin
Marx and Engels' followers, who brought about the deaths of millions of
people and were the reason for hundreds of millions of others living in
pain, fear, and violence, accepted the theory of evolution with great joy
and interest.
John N. Moore speaks of the links between evolution and the Soviet leaders
who implemented Marx and Engels' ideas in Russia:
The thinking of the leaders of the USSR is rooted
deeply in an evolutionary outlook.88It
was Lenin who made Marx's project of Communist revolution come true. Lenin,
the leader of the Communist Bolshevik movement in Russia, aimed to bring
down the Tsarist regime in Russia by force of arms. The chaos after World
War I gave the Bolsheviks the opportunity they had been seeking. With Lenin
at their head, the Communists seized power by the use of arms in October
1917. After the revolution Russia was the scene of a bloody three-year civil
war between Communists and supporters of the tsar.
Like the other Communist leaders, Lenin often stressed that Darwin's theory
was the fundamental basis of dialectical materialist philosophy.
One of his statements reveals his view of Darwinism:
Darwin put an end to the belief that the animal and
vegetable species bear no relation to one another, except by chance, and
that they were created by God, and hence immutable.89Trotsky,
counted the most important architect of the Bolshevik revolution after Lenin,
again attached great importance to Darwinism. He declared his admiration
for Darwin in the following way, Darwin's discovery is the highest triumph
of the dialectic in the whole field of organic matter.90
Following Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin, widely regarded as the bloodiest dictator
in the history of the world, passed to the leadership of the Communist
Party. Throughout his 30 years in power, Stalin would try to prove just
what a ruthless system Communism was.
Stalin's first important move was to take over the fields of the peasants
who made up 80 percent of the population of Russia in the name of the
state. In the name of this policy of collectivisation which was intended
to do away with private property, all the Russian villagers' crops were
collected by armed officials. As a result these was a terrible famine,
millions of women, children, and the elderly who could find nothing to
eat ended their lives writhing in hunger. The death toll in the Caucasus
alone was 1 million.
Stalin sent hundreds of thousands of people who tried to resist this
policy to Siberia's dreadful labour camps. These camps, where the prisoners
were worked to death, became the grave of most of these people. On the
other hand tens of thousands of people were executed by Stalin's secret
police. Millions of people were forced to migrate to the furthest corners
of Russia, including the Crimean and Turkestan Turks.
By these bloody policies Stalin killed some 20 million people. Historians
have revealed that this savagery gave him enormous personal pleasure.
It gave him great pleasure to sit at his desk in the Kremlin and examine
the lists of those who had died in the concentration camps or who had
been executed.
Apart
from his personal psychological state, the main influence which lead him
to become such a ruthless killer was the materialist philosophy he believed
in. In Stalin's own words, the fundamental basis of this philosophy was
Darwin's theory of evolution. He explained the importance he attached
to Darwin's ideas:
There are three things that we do to disabuse the
minds of our seminary students. We had to teach them the age of the earth,
the geologic origin, and Darwin's teachings.91
While Stalin was still alive a close childhood friend of his recounted how
Stalin had become an atheist in the book Landmarks in the Life of Stalin:
At a very early age, while still a pupil in the ecclesiastical
school, Comrade Stalin developed a critical mind and revolutionary sentiments.
He began to read Darwin and became an atheist.92In the same book, G. Glurdjidze,
a boyhood friend of Stalin's relates how Stalin had stopped believing in
God and had told him that the reason for this was Darwin's book, pressurising
him into reading it too.93
One important indication of Stalin's blind faith in the theory of evolution
was the Soviet education system's rejection of Mendel's genetic laws in
the period when he came to power. These laws, which had been accepted
by the whole world of science since the start of the 20th century, denied
Lamarck's claim that "acquired traits can be passed on to later generations."
The Russian scientist Lysenko saw this as a heavy blow to the theory of
evolution and at the same time a great danger, and told Stalin his ideas.
Stalin was impressed by Lysenko's ideas and made him head of the official
scientific associations. Thus genetic science, which had dealt a heavy
blow to evolution, was not accepted in any Soviet Union scientific association
or school until Stalin's death.
In Stalin's period the Soviet Union had turned into an environment of
chaos where for millions of people life was permanently under threat,
and where they could be taken away, though innocent of any crime, at any
moment, to suffer unimagined torments. Not just Communism, but the history
of Fascism, too, is full of such attitudes.
Some commentators on history fall into the error, when evaluating these
events, of trying to show that the basic cause of all this savagery and
mercilessness was that as people, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and Mussolini
had unbalanced and psychopathic natures. What kind of coincidence is it,
that the whole world should have fallen into the hands of psychologically
unbalanced people at the same time?
It is an obvious and definite truth that these people and ideologies
all drank from the same well and that they were all portrayed as justified
and the only way by the same source. In short there was another guilty
party behind these people. The cause of these inhuman and unbalanced leaders
dragging millions along behind them, and which allowed them to commit
crimes, was the apparent scientific force and support given to them by
materialist philosophy and Darwinism.
Mao Tse Tung: Darwin and Marx's Ambassador to
China
While Stalin was running his totalitarian regime, another Communist regime
which saw Darwinism as its scientific support was founded in China. The
Communists under the leadership of Mao Tse Tung came to power in 1949 after
a long civil war. Mao set up an oppressive and bloody regime, just like
his ally Stalin, who gave him great support. China became the scene of numberless
political executions. In the years ahead, Mao's young militants, known as
"Red Guards," would drag the country into an atmosphere of utter terror.
Mao openly announced the philosophical foundation of the
system he established by saying, "Chinese socialism is founded upon Darwin
and the theory of evolution."94
Being
a Marxist and an atheist and a firm believer in evolutionism himself,
Mao mandated that the reading material used in this early day "Great Leap
Forward" in literacy would be the writings of Charles Darwin and other
materials supportive of the evolution paradigm.95
When the Chinese Communists came to power in 1950 they took the theory
of evolution as the basis of their ideology. Actually, Chinese intellectuals
had accepted the theory of evolution long before:
During the 19th century, the West regarded China
as a sleeping giant, isolated and mired in ancient traditions. Few Europeans
realized how avidly Chinese intellectuals seized on Darwinian evolutionary
ideas and saw in them a hopeful impetus for progress and change. According
to the Chinese writer Hu Shih (Living Philosophies, 1931), when Thomas
Huxley's book Evolution and Ethics was published in 1898, it was immediately
acclaimed and accepted by Chinese intellectuals. Rich men sponsored cheap
Chinese editions so they could be widely distributed to the masses.96
So, the people who turned to Communism and lead the Communist revolution
were these intellectuals who had been "eagerly influenced" by Darwinist
ideas.
It was not hard for China, even with its many deep pantheistic beliefs and
history, to enter the pincers of Darwinism and Communism. In an article
in the New Scientist magazine the Canadian Darwinist philosopher Michael
Ruse says, concerning early-twentieth-century China:
These ideas took root at once, for China did not
have the innate intellectual and religious barriers to evolution that
often existed in the West. Indeed, in some respects, Darwin seemed almost
Chinese! … Taoist and Neo-Confucian thought had always stressed the "thingness"
of humans. Our being at one with the animals was no great shock… Today,
the official philosophy is Marxist-Leninism (of a kind). But without the
secular materialist approach of Darwinism (meaning now the broad social
philosophy), the ground would not have been tilled for Mao and his revolutionaries
to sow their seed and reap their crop.97
As Michael Ruse stated above, with the firm settling of Darwinist ideas,
China easily took up Communism. The Chinese people, deluded by Darwinist
ideas, stood by and watched all the massacres of Mao Tse Tung, one of the
most unrestrained killers in history.
Yet Communism was the cause of guerrilla conflicts, bloody acts of terrorism,
and civil war in very many countries, not just in China. Turkey was one
of these. In the 1960s and 1970s, groups which took up arms against the
state dragged Turkey into a dark atmosphere of terrorism with the dream
of making a Communist revolution in the country. After 1980, Communist
terrorism joined with the current of separatism and was the cause of the
deaths of tens of thousands of Turks and of police and soldiers in the
course of their duties.
Communist ideology, which brought bloodshed to the world in this way
for 150 years was always side by side with Darwinism. Even today, Communists
are the foremost supporters of Darwinism. Whenever one looks at those
circles which stubbornly support the theory of evolution, in just about
every country, one sees the Marxists in the front ranks. Because as Karl
Marx said, the theory of evolution forms the basis of Communist ideology
from the natural science aspect and gives Communist lack of religion its
most important false scientific backing.
The Basis of the Alliance Between Darwinism and
Communism: Hatred of Religion
As
explained earlier, the most important reason for the materialists' and Communists'
clinging to Darwinism is the apparent support Darwinism gives to atheism.
Materialist philosophy had existed throughout history, but until the 19th
century most philosophers had been restricted to books of theory. The most
important reason for this was that until that time most men of science believed
in God and were people who believed in the reality of creation. But in the
19th century materialist philosophy and Darwin's theory began to be implemented
in the natural sciences. Darwinism was the greatest basis for the irreligious
materialist culture which stamped its mark on the 19th century and which
most revealed its effects in the 20th century.
The ideologies born of this materialist culture, as we have been examining,
lit the fires of two great world wars, countless civil wars and acts of
terrorism, genocide, extermination, and savagery. On account of these
catastrophes tens of millions of people lost their lives, and hundreds
of millions were shamefully oppressed and had to suffer the worst treatment.
Terrorists influenced by the Darwinist-materialist view, like the animals
they claimed to be descended from, went off to the mountains and lived
in caves in appalling conditions. They could kill men without a second
thought and murder babies, the elderly, and the innocent. Seeing neither
themselves nor other people as living things created by God with soul,
mind, conscience, and understanding, they did to each other what animals
do to animals. Stalin's demolition of dozens of churches and mosques is
just one indication of Communism's hatred of religion.
In his book The Long War Against God, Henry Morris describes the link
in this way:
In spite of its scientific deficiencies, evolution's
alleged scientific character has been used to justify all kinds of ungodly
systems and practices. The most successful of these, thus far, seems to
be communism, and its adherents all over the world have been deluded into
thinking that communism must be true because it is based on the science
of evolution. 98
The enmity Communism and materialism had for religion
showed itself in all its violence during the Bolshevik uprising. Churches
and mosques were razed, and among the categories of those pushed outside
the "new socialist society," men of religion had an important place. Despite
the fact that most of society was religious people, they were obstructed
from carrying out their religious duties. In order to take Sundays, when
Christians went to church, out of the equation, the concept of a common
day of rest was removed. Everyone would work five days, but the day of
rest could be any day. This measure was deliberately introduced by the
communists "to facilitate the struggle to eliminate religion".99
Following that, in 1928 and 1930 the taxes paid by men of religion were
raised by 10 times, their food coupons were taken from them, and they
could no longer use the health services, which meant they no longer enjoyed
any civil rights, they were often arrested, moved from their posts and
sent into exile. By 1936 some 65 percent of mosques and 70 percent of
churches had been destroyed.
Some of the most violent measures against religion were taken in Albania.
The Communist leader of Albania, known for having no religion, was Enver
Hodja, who in 1967 proclaimed Albania the first "religionless" country.
Men of religion would be taken into custody for no reason, and some of
them were killed while in custody. In 1948 two bishops and 5,000 men of
religion were shot. Muslims were killed in the same way. The literary
monthly Nendori announced that 2,169 mosques and churches had been closed
down, of which 327 were Catholic places of worship.
The reason for all these practices was, without the shadow of a doubt,
Communism's aim of forming societies which would blindly deny the existence
of God, had nothing to do with religion, and which only believed in and
valued material things. Actually, that was one of Communism's main targets,
because the Communist leaders knew that they could only govern as they
wished people who had become like machines, and insensitive, unfeeling,
and most important of all, non-god-fearing societies, and that they could
make them carry out as many killings and as much oppression as they wanted.
The claims of Darwinism, which gave support to atheism and which justified
all kinds of oppression, cruelty, conflict, and killing, forbidden in
religion, encouraged in this way all the ideologies which spilt blood
and counted human life as valueless in the 20th century. That is why the
last century was full of ceaseless wars, massacres, rebellions, acts of
violence, fighting, and enmity.
The Oppression and Violence Inflicted On the
World by Darwinist Communists
Anarchy and terror are two of Marxism and Communism's indispensable tools.
Marxism's tendency towards terrorism and violence appeared in the experiment
of the Paris Commune while Marx was still alive. In particular, terrorism
became an indispensable part of Communist ideology with Lenin, while he
was making Marx's theory a practicality. Communists spilt the blood of millions
of people in every part of the world, and made people undergo pain, fear,
and violence by establishing terrorist organisations. As will be seen in
the pages that follow, today all the Communist leaders are remembered for
the oppression and killings they carried out. Yet despite this some circles
still cover their walls with pictures of these pitiless, bloody-handed assassins,
and still accept these sadistic people as their teachers.
No matter how much some Communists claim that violence
and terrorism are not Communist practices and that they only took place
in some individuals' applications of Communism, and no matter how much they
try to whitewash Communism, there is an undeniable truth: The founders of
Communism personally defended violence and terrorism and saw them as essential
to their ideology. The American political scientist Samuel Francis has this
to say on the subject:
Marx and Engels were generally specific in insisting
that revolution will always be violent and that revolutionaries must use
violence against the rulers, and in some instances they did express support
of terrorism.100Karl Marx said "insurrection is an art quite as much
as war" and took these words of Danton, one of the foremost names in "revolutionary
politics" as a principle, "de l'audace, de l'audace, encore de l'audace"
(Attack, attack, and attack again!)101 There are clear
statements by Lenin regarding the necessity of systematically using terrorism.
Here are a few of them:
In reality the state is nothing but a machine for the
suppression of one class by another. Dictatorship is rule based directly
on force and unrestricted by laws... The revolutionary dictatorship of
the proletariat is rule won and maintained through the use of violence
by the proleteriat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted
by any laws.102We are not at all opposed to political
killing… Only in direct, immediate connection with the mass movement can
and must individual terrorist acts be of value.103
To become a power the class-conscious workers must win the
majority to their side. As long as no violence is used against the people
there is no other road to power.104
Speaking
at a workers' meeting, Lenin gave a terrifying statement of how indispensable
terrorism was to them:
If the masses do not rise up spontaneously, none
of this will lead to anything… For as long as we fail to treat speculators
the way they deserve – with a bullet in the head – we will not get anywhere
at all.105
One of the most important leaders of the October Revolution in Russia, Trotsky,
says this to confirm Lenin's words:
But the revolution does require of the revolutionary class
that it should attain its end by all methods at its disposal—if necessary,
by an armed rising: if required, by terrorism.106
Trotsky went even further in another speech,
Our only choice now is civil war. Civil war is the struggle
for bread… Long live civil war!107These
principles of such Communist theoreticians as Lenin and Trotsky were put
into practice in the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. During the revolutionary
period of autumn 1917 there began wide-ranging massacres, looting, and unbelievable
violence. Those people who were against the revolution, or who were suspected
of being against the revolution, were rounded up for no reason, arrested,
and shot: houses were looted and wrecked. Terrorism, which began with Lenin
and Trotsky continued and grew worse in the Stalin years.
Harrison E. Salisbury of The New York Times described the Soviet system's prison
camps as:
…a whole continent of terror… Compared with those
who brought about the hundreds of thousands of executions and the millions
of deaths in the Soviet terror system, the Czars seem almost benign… Our
minds boggle at the thought of a systematized, routine evil, under which
three or four or more million men and women were sentenced each year to
forced labour and eternal exile–and in a manner so casual that the prisoners
often were not even told what their sentences were...108
Non-Russian peoples, and particularly the Crimean Turks, the Central Asian
Turks, and the Kazakhs, were exposed to the terrorism of the Soviet system.
Special courts, troiki, were established to cleanse Russian society of the
Kazakhs. In October 1920 alone these troiki sentenced more than 6,000 people
to death, and these orders were immediately carried out. The families, and
sometimes even the neighbours, of those who opposed the regime and were
not apprehended, were systematically taken hostage and sent to concentration
camps. Martin Latsis, the head of one of these camps in the Ukraine admitted
that these were death camps in one of his reports:
Gathered together in a camp near Maikop, the hostages,
women, children, and old men survive in the most appalling conditions,
in the cold and mud of October… They are dying like flies. The women will
do anything to escape death. The soldiers guarding the camp take advantage
of this and treat them as prostitutes.109Under
the influence of Darwin, the Communist revolutionaries were killing people
in a crazed manner. It appears from documents of the time that the sole
aim was total extermination. It was as if they believed that the more people
they killed, the greater success they would have. That they planned to wipe
out everybody they suspected of being against the revolution is revealed
in one of their decisions:
The Pyatigorsk Cheka (Extraordinary Committee for
War Against the Counter-Revolution) decided straight out to execute 300
people a day. They divided up the town into various boroughs and took
a quota of people from each, and ordered the Party to draw up execution
lists…In Kislovodsk, for lack of a better idea, it was decided to kill
people who were in the hospital.110
As was announced in the lead article of the newspaper Krasnyi Mech (The
Red Sword), which was Communist supporting, the Communists saw everything
as permissible and believed that blood had to be spilt for the colour of
the Red flag to come about.
To us, everything is permitted, for we are the first to
raise the sword not to oppress races and reduce them to slavery, but to
liberate humanity from its shackles… Blood? Let blood flow like water!
Let blood stain forever the black pirate's flag flown by the bourgeoisie,
and let our flag be blood-red forever! For only through the death of the
old world can we liberate ourselves forever from the return of those jackals!111
As
well as all this torture, Stalin set up "requisitioning detachments" to
take the peasants" produce by force. These units were responsible for
all kinds of oppression. On 14 February 1922 one inspector wrote:
Abuses of position by the requisitioning detachments,
frankly speaking, have now reached unbelievable levels. Systematically,
the peasants who are arrested are all locked up in big unheated barns;
they are then whipped and threatened with execution. Those who have not
filled the whole of their quota are bound and forced to run naked all
along the main street of the village and then locked up in another unheated
hangar. A great number of women have been beaten until they are unconscious
and then thrown naked into holes dug in the snow…112
Stalin believed that Spain represented opportunities for the USSR and that
meddling in that country would bear fruit. For that reason he took sides
and supported the Communists in the Spanish Civil War. But with that the
terrorism in the USSR overflowed into Spain. One example of the oppression
and torture there was the concentration camp that 200 anti-Stalinists were
held in at the beginning of 1938. "When the Stalinists decided to open a
cheka," one victim recalled;
There was a small cemetery being cleaned out nearby. The
Chekists had a diabolical idea: they would leave the cemetery's tombs
open, with the skeletons and the decomposing bodies in full view. That's
where they locked up the most difficult cases. They had some particularly
brutal methods of torture. Many prisoners were hung up by their feet,
upside down, for whole days. Others they locked in tiny cupboards with
just a tiny air hole near the face to breathe through… One of the worst
methods was known as "the drawer"; prisoners were forced to squat in tiny
square boxes for several days. Some were kept there unable to move for
eight to ten days.113In
1931 Pope Pius XI had this to say about the violence Communism had inflicted
on the world in the encyclical Quadragesimo Anno:
Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting
class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership. Not secretly
or by hidden methods does it do this, but publicly, openly, and by employing
any means possible, even the most violent. To achieve these objectives
there is nothing it is afraid to do, nothing for which it has respect
or reverence. When comes to power, it is ferocious in its cruelty and
inhumanity. The horrible slaughter and destruction through which it has
laid waste vast regions of Eastern Europe and Asia give evidence of this.114
As the above extract says, Communism's principle aims were a merciless
class war and the complete doing away with private property. In other
words the aim was to apply the theory of evolution, which Darwin had applied
in the biological field, to human societies, and for human beings to be,
like wild animals in nature, in conflict, at war.
The disasters brought about by Communism did not stop in Russia. One
of the countries worst affected among those to which it spread was China.
The Darwinist Mao Tse-Tung and His Massacres
China's
Communist leader Mao had two important guides: one of these, as we touched
on earlier, was Darwin, and the other was Stalin. These two lethal names,
which met together in Mao's personality, led to great tragedies and left
their mark on a long, dark period in Chinese history. Between 6 to 10 million
people were directly killed under Mao Tse-Tung's directives, tens of millions
of counter-revolutionaries spent great parts of their lives in prison, where
20 million of them died. Between 20 and 40 million people died of starvation
in the years 1959-1961, in the period called "The Great Leap Forward," as
the dreadful result of Mao's extremist policies. The June 1989 Tienanmen
Square massacre (about 1,000 dead) is one example of what China has gone
through in its recent history. The killings and genocide directed against
the Muslim Turks in Eastern Turkestan are still going on.
Great savagery and unbelievable things took place when the Communist
revolution happened in China. The people, who were under the effects of
a kind of mass hypnotism, supported all kinds of savagery and showed that
support by shouting as they watched the killings. The book Le Livre Noir
du Communisme ("The Black Book of Communism"), prepared by a group of
historians and teachers, described Communism's savage practices in this
way:
The whole people were invited to public trials of
"counterrevolutionaries," who almost invariably were condemned to death.
Everyone participated in the executions, shouting out "kill, kill" to
the Red Guards whose task it was to cut victims into pieces. Sometimes
the pieces were cooked and eaten, or force-fed to members of the victim's
family who were still alive and looking on. Everyone was then invited
to a banquet, where the liver and heart of the former landowner were shared
out, and to meetings where the speaker would address rows of severed heads
freshly skewered on stakes. This fascination for vengeful cannibalism,
which later became common under the Pol Pot regime, echoes a very ancient
East Asian archetype that appears often at cataclysmic moments of Chinese
history.115
POL POT AND THE KHMER ROUGE "KILLING FIELDS"
Between
1975 and 1979, during the rule of Pol Pot, two million of Cambodia's
population of seven million were killed. When one looks at the killings
by Pol Pot, who dreamed of establishing a perfect Communist state,
as a percentage of the population, then his killings were much greater
than those by Hitler and Stalin. Pol Pot's fundamental target were
the sections of society such as doctors, engineers, scientists,
in short the country's intellectuals, whom he had killed. The order
was even given that "everyone wearing glasses" should be killed.
As a result of these inhuman murders, the "killing fields," which
lasted for years, emerged.
The logic employed by the Khmer Rouge officers to justify their
massacres was summed up in these words: "Keeping you is no gain.
Losing you is no loss" They killed everyone whom they considered
to be, or even suspected of being, useless or harmful. At least
one member of every family lost his life in these massacres.
Pol Pot, who counted human life as nothing, believed that the family
stood in the way of his radical vision of socialism. He tried to
do away with the idea of the family by splitting families up and
obliging human beings to live in communal places. The same policy
had been implemented by Stalin in Russia. First the peasants' lands
were taken from them, then small parcels of land given back, in
areas deliberately scattered and far removed from one another.
The result of this was that in order for a family to work their
fields which consisted of tiny parcels of land they would have to
live separate from one another.
Robert Templer, Pol Pot's Legacy of Horror,
The Age, April 18, 1998, http://dithpran.org/PolPotegacy.htm
The Bitter Toll of Communist Savagery
Similar examples of savagery were experienced in every country Communism
took over, Cambodia, North Korea, Laos, Vietnam and Eastern European and
African countries. This bloody toll is set out in The Black Book of Communism
as follows:
These crimes tend to fit a recognizable pattern even if the practices vary
to some extent by regime. The pattern includes execution by various means,
such as firing squads, hanging, drowning, battering, and, in certain cases,
gassing, poisoning, or "car accidents"; destruction of the population
by starvation, through man-made famine, the withholding of food, or both;
deportation, through which death can occur in transit (either through
physical exhaustion or through confinement in an enclosed space), at one's
place of residence, or through forced labour (exhaustion, illness, hunger,
cold). Periods described as times of "civil war" are more complex – it
is not always easy to distinguish between events caused by fighting between
rulers and rebels and events that can properly be described only as a
massacre of the civilian population.
Noneless, we have to start somewhere. The following rough approximation,
based on unofficial estimates, gives some sense of the scale and gravity
of these crimes:
U.S.S.R.: 20 million deaths
China: 65 million deaths
Vietnam: 1 million deaths
North Korea: 2 million deaths
Cambodia: 2 million deaths
Eastern Europe: 1 million deaths
Latin America: 150,000 deaths
Africa: 1.7 million deaths
Afghanistan: 1.5 million deaths
The international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power:
about 10,000 deaths
The total approaches 100 million people killed.116
All these different Communist regimes and organisations shared one common
psychology: all human feelings such as pity, justice, and compassion had
been completely lost. All of a sudden human societies had become fields
of war and massacre wild animals tried to live and find food. In the same
way as a wild animal fights with other members of its own species over food
and territory, so these people behaved like "animals" in the same way. Because
the birth of Darwin had taught them that they were basically animals, and
as animals fight for survival, so they would have to behave in the same
way.
These inhuman movements thought that they had won respectability by wearing
a false scientific mask. The only reason the Bolshevik leaders were able
to talk so boldly and openly of aggression, terrorism, and massacre was
the approval they got from Darwin's theory of evolution. In his book Evolution
for Naturalists, P. J. Darlington admits, as an evolutionist, that savagery
is a natural result of the theory of evolution and that this behaviour
is even justified:
The first point is that selfishness and violent
are inherent in us, inherited from our remotest animal ancestors... Violence
is, then, natural to man, a product of evolution.117
As is clear from this evolutionist's admission, it was perfectly natural
for Communist ideology, which accepted Darwin's theory of evolution as
its guide, to perceive other human beings as animals, treat them in a
manner befitting animals, and oppress them. Because he who accepts Communist-Darwinist
ideology forgets that he has a Creator, the reason for his being in the
world, and that he will have to give an account of what he has done to
Him on the Day of Judgement. And as a result of this, like every human
being who has no fear of Allah, he comes to be a selfish thing who thinks
only of his own interests, a pitiless tyrant, even a wild-eyed killer.
Allah reveals these peoples' situation and what will happen to them in
this way:
There are only grounds against those who wrong
people and act as tyrants in the earth without any right to do so. Such
people will have a painful punishment. (Surat ash-Shura: 42)
THE OPPRESSION IN EASTERN TURKESTAN
No
matter how much it is accepted that the dissolution of the Soviet
Union spelt the end of Communism as a political regime, Communist
ideology and practice still continue. The practices of Russia, where
the Red Army mentality still dominates, in Chechnya, and of China
in Eastern Turkestan, are the most important indications of this.
The Muslim Turks who live today in Eastern Turkestan, are going
through a repetition of the experiences of Mao's Red China. Young
people are arrested for no reason, sentenced to death on the grounds
they are opponents of the regime, and shot, Muslims are prevented
from carrying out their group religious duties, their earnings are
taken from them by means of ruthless taxes, the people live on the
edge of death through the threat of starvation, and the nuclear
tests carried out right next to them cause them to catch fatal diseases.
The Muslim Turks of Eastern Turkestan have been living under Chinese
hegemony for 250 years. The Chinese gave the name "Sinkiang" or
"conquered lands" to Eastern Turkestan, a Muslim land, and defined
it as their own territory. After the Communists led by Mao took
it over in 1949, the pressure on Eastern Turkestan increased to
even higher levels than before. The policy of the Communist regime
aimed at the physical destruction of the Muslims, who rejected assimilation.
The number of Muslims killed reached terrifying proportions. Between
1949 and 1952, 2,800,000; between 1952 and 1957, 3,509,000; between
1958 and 1960, 6,700,000; between 1961 and 1965, 13,300,000 people
were either killed by the Chinese Army or died as a result of the
shortages brought about by the regime. Together with the massacres
after 1965, the number of Eastern Turkestan people killed reached
the unbelievable figure of 35 million.
As well as wiping out the Muslims since 1949, the regime also systematically
moved Chinese settlers in. The effects of this campaign, which the
Chinese government began in 1953, are most thought-provoking. While
in 1953, 75% of the population was Muslim and 6% Chinese, by 1982
the figures were 43% Muslim and 40% Chinese. The 1990 census, which
revealed that the population figures were now 40% Muslim and 53%
Chinese, is most important from the point of view of revealing the
scale of the ethnic cleansing.
Those
to whom people said,
"The people have gathered against
you, so fear them." But that merely increased their faith and they
said, "Allah is enough for us. He is the Best of Guardians." (Surah
Al 'Imran: 173)
Meanwhile, the Chinese administration used the Eastern Turkestan
Muslims as experimental animals in their nuclear tests. As a result
of the nuclear tests, which first started in the region in 1964,
local people have been infected by deadly diseases, and 20,000 handicapped
children have been born. It is known that the number of Muslims
who have died because of the tests is 210,000. Thousands of people
have been crippled, and thousands have fallen prey to such diseases
as jaundice and cancer.
Between 1964 and the present, China has exploded some 50 atomic
and hydrogen bombs. Swedish experts established that an underground
nuclear test in 1984 of a bomb with a force of 150 tons had resulted
in earth tremors of a magnitude of 8.8 on the Richter scale.
China's oppression of the Uighur Turks does not stop there. The
experiences of February, 1997, during a time when incidents were
increasingly flaring up, will serve to sum up the Chinese oppression.
According to news reported to the public, on Sept. 4, which happened
to be a feast day, Chinese militia forces beat more than 30 women,
who had gathered in a mosque and were reading out from the Qur'an,
with iron bars and dragged them to security headquarters. The local
residents went to the headquarters and asked for the women to be
released. At that point the bodies of three women who had been tortured
to death were thrown in front of them. Then clashes began between
the people, who rose to the provocation, and the Chinese. Between
Sept. 4 and 7, 200 Eastern Turkestan people lost their lives and
more than 3,500 Uighur Turks were locked up in camps. On the morning
of Sept. 8, people were prevented by the security forces from offering
holiday prayers in the mosques where they had gathered. Following
this the clashes flared up again, and as a result the number of
detained, which had been 58,000 between April and December 1996,
went past 70,000. As many as 100 young people were shot in public
squares, and 5,000 Uighur Turks were stripped naked and publicly
exhibited in groups of 50.
The example of Eastern Turkestan is just one of the sufferings
in the 20th century. In every corner of the world in the 20th century
people of different religions, races, or ideologies killed and exterminated
each other. It is no coincidence that behind all the ideologies
which did these killings Darwin's world view should emerge. Because
with his theory Darwin made it easy for people to kill each other
and justify their actions.
THE NEVER-ENDING OPPRESSION IN CHECHNYA
The
Russian occupation of Chechnya in 1991, despite being thrown back
by the late Dzhokar Dudayev, turned into a genuine war on Dec. 11,
1994, following serious trouble in November that same year. While
more than 100,000 Chechens lost their lives in that war, tens of
thousands were forced to migrate. Chechnya lost hundreds of historical
and economic resources in the war. When Russia announced that Chechnya
was an "internal matter," no protest came from the outside world.
Tons of bombs fell on every square metre in Chechnya. A genocide
was carried out, the like of which has never been seen in the history
of the world, with chemical weapons, the use of which was forbidden
ant it still continues today. But despite all the difficulties,
in August 1996 the Russians had to admit defeat at the hands of
the Chechens, who were completely undaunted and fought for their
own land with all the means at their disposal.
Russia,
which had to accept Chechnya as a separate state in agreements signed
at the highest levels in August 1996 and May 1997, seemed to have
accepted this situation. Whereas in October 1997 the Russians entered
Chechen territory and began to kill, not sparing women, children,
and the elderly. Civilian targets came under non-stop bombardment
for months. In order to break the popular resistance, hospitals,
maternity wards, markets, and refugee convoys were especially chosen
as targets. At the last it was established that the Russians used
chemical bombs and scud and napalm missiles against the Chechens.
Alongside this, the Russians put poison into the River Argun, used
by many Chechen villages. While the great majority of the women
and children who drank the poisoned water died, hundreds waited
for death at the doors of the hospitals. Because the river water
had been poisoned the civilian population who were unable to find
water for drinking and other purposes went through very difficult
times.
The situation of the refugees was also worrying. Studies carried
out in refugee areas showed that human rights infringements reached
enormous proportions. Some 250,000 Chechen refugees who fled from
the war are under protection in Ingushetya, the rest in neighbouring
regions. It has been announced that Russia spent 385 million dollars
on the operation. The Chechens revealed that between September 1999
and July 25, 2000, 1,460 Chechen soldiers and 45,000 civilians had
died. Russia's plan was to wipe out all the Chechen soldiers who
had been fighting them by November 2000.
THE SPELL OF COMMUNIST DARWINIST IDEOLOGY
IS DISPERSED
Communism is an ideology which was brought into being by people
who lived in the 1800s, and who can be described as "ignorant" from
the scientific point of view. One of the most important reasons
for the rapid winning of influence over wide sections of the peoples
of many country's by this ideology, whose analysis and claims have
been proven false many times and which furthermore has clearly brought
harm to mankind and not good, is the ignorance of those human beings
who accepted this ideology.
After the Industrial Revolution, one part of society's being in
terrible poverty, and alongside this, another part's rising to an
incomparable level of well being, brought out a tension open to
agitation in social groups in most countries. This tension developed
in countries such as Russia, still living on the level of an agricultural
society, and China. Social groups looking for right and justice
followed along behind. But the end result worked against them. They
lived under far worse economic conditions than before, on the one
hand struggling to avoid dying of hunger, on the other living with
the fear and terror of being killed at any moment, torture, exile,
and robbery.
It was evident that that an ideology based on lack of religion,
which believed that the sole basis for development was conflict,
fighting, and war, that human beings are basically animals, based
on the deviation that moral values such as family, faithfulness,
and closeness are unnecessary and irrelevant, would not bring people
peace, security, happiness, and justice. But these social groups
lacked the vision and understanding to evaluate and analyse these.
They looked at photographs of Marx and Engels and thought them to
be most "deep," "incomprehensible," and "knowledgeable" thinkers.
They looked at the illusory scientific and deep exterior and the
syrupy manners of those who supported them and fell under the spell
of Communism and materialism. Whereas today, had they been alive,
they would have understood that every Communist leader had a very
coarse and primitive understanding and were ignorant people.
None of the people they accepted as leaders behaved in a forward-looking
manner, they were only able to bind social groups to them by insults
and fear: they were people who adopted violence, savagery, ruthlessness,
and murder as methods, and thought in a coarse and primitive way.
Today many an "old time" Communist has realised what a great mistake
he made in the past and regretted it. Each one has understood that
he had blindly followed an unproductive ideal, or rather an empty,
loud noise. Others try to show that they have still not given their
ideology up in order not to accept the defeat and the truth that
the years were wasted and say, "We shall overcome."
A period has begun when science and free knowledge can reach anywhere
at any time, when any human being can realise truths and realities
much easier than before, and to a greater degree. In such an environment
the methods of suggestion, reminiscent of a magic spell, of the
Communists, materialists, and Darwinists, their talismanic words
and calls to war have now lost their power. Hollow ideologies such
as Communism, materialism, and Darwinism, whose spellbinding power
can be lifted with a little science and a little thought, are rapidly
losing their influence on human beings. As a result of this, lighter,
more peaceful and comfortable days await mankind. Most important,
the realisation of the deception of Darwinism, with full proof,
will bring about the end of these ideologies.
Conclusion: Communism is a Terror Brought About
by Lack of Religion
Anyone who considers the massacres, murders, and the suffering deliberately
inflicted on human beings by the Communists, Nazis, or colonialists, will
wonder how the supporters of these ideas could have distanced themselves
so far from common humanity. The sole reason for the savagery and oppression
inflicted by these leaders is lack of religion and the fact these people
had no fear of God. A human being who fears God and who has firm faith in
the hereafter, will definitely be incapable of carrying out any of the oppression,
wrongs, injustice, and murders that we have described. Furthermore, no matter
how much he may be encouraged, someone who believes in God and the hereafter
will never be pulled into following such a deviant ideology.
But people who have no religion and no fear of God know no limits. With a bit
of encouragement a person who believes that he and other living creatures
evolved by coincidence out of non-living matter, who believes that his
ancestors were animals, and who accepts that nothing exists apart from
the material, can easily carry out any kind of cruelty. At first sight
perhaps these people might seem as if they do not hurt anybody: but given
the right circumstances they can turn into a killer who carries out massacres,
assassins who beat people or starve them just because they do not accept
their ideas, people filled with hatred, loathing, and violence. Because
the world view and values they believe in necessitate this.
In 1983, Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel-prize for
literature, gave an address in London in which he attempted to explain
why so much evil had befallen his people:
Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing
a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters
that had befallen Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this
has happened."Since then I have spend well-nigh
50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have
read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and
have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing
away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate
as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed
up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than
to repeat: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened."118
This identification of Solzhenitsyn's was utterly accurate. Really, the only
thing that could drag a society into that much terror, to turn a blind
eye to all kinds of oppression, to watch from the sidelines, is the forgetting
of God. Whereas God never forgets and is never mistaken. The ruthless
Communist leaders thought that they had set up their own system to rule
societies on earth and thought that they possessed a great power and strength.
They even held secret meetings, where they whispered to each other of
the further oppression they would inflict on people to increase their
power and strength. But while they were doing all this, God knew of it,
and He will answer what they have done. He announces it in the Qur'an:
On the Day Allah raises up all of them together,
He will inform them of what they did. Allah has recorded it while they
have forgotten it. Allah is a Witness of all things. Do you not see that
Allah knows what is in the heavens and on the earth? Three men cannot
confer together secretly without Him being the fourth of them, or five
without Him being the sixth of them, or fewer than that or more without
Him being with them wherever they are. Then He will inform them on the
Day of Rising of what they did. Allah has knowledge of all things. (Surat
al-Mujadila: 6-7)
Then there are the groups who followed these ruthless leaders, who crawled
along behind them. Their situation has been revealed in the Qur'an. It
was announced in the verse "Allah does not wrong
people in any way;rather it is people who wrong themselves." (Surah Yunus:
44) In other words these people oppressed themselves by forgetting
the religion of Allah and following Darwinist leaders. Another holy verse
announces that people bring about the evil that happens in the world themselves:
Corruption has appeared in both land and sea because
of what people's own hands have brought about so that they may taste something
of what they have done so that hopefully they will turn back. (Surat ar-Rum:
41)
The only way to prevent these disasters from bringing
harm to mankind again is for people to live with faith in Allah and the
hereafter and without forgetting that they will have to account for everything
they do. And, in the light of the Qur'an, which Allah sent down for all
people, for them to possess the good moral features, such as love, compassion,
mercy, and devotion, which are commanded in it.
Anyone who acts rightly, male or female, being
a believer, We will give them a good life and We will recompense them
according to the best of what they did. (Surat an-Nahl: 97)
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Darwinism
was of such great importance to Communism that only months after Darwin's
book was published, Engels wrote to Marx, "Darwin, whom I am just now reading,
is splendid."
It
was Lenin who made Marx's project of Communist revolution come true. Lenin,
the leader of the Communist Bolshevik movement in Russia, aimed to bring
down the Tsarist regime in Russia by force of arms. The chaos after World
War I gave the Bolsheviks the opportunity they had been seeking. With Lenin
at their head, the Communists seized power by the use of arms in October
1917. After the revolution Russia was the scene of a bloody three-year civil
war between Communists and supporters of the tsar.
Apart
from his personal psychological state, the main influence which lead him
to become such a ruthless killer was the materialist philosophy he believed
in. In Stalin's own words, the fundamental basis of this philosophy was
Darwin's theory of evolution. He explained the importance he attached
to Darwin's ideas:
As
explained earlier, the most important reason for the materialists' and Communists'
clinging to Darwinism is the apparent support Darwinism gives to atheism.
Materialist philosophy had existed throughout history, but until the 19th
century most philosophers had been restricted to books of theory. The most
important reason for this was that until that time most men of science believed
in God and were people who believed in the reality of creation. But in the
19th century materialist philosophy and Darwin's theory began to be implemented
in the natural sciences. Darwinism was the greatest basis for the irreligious
materialist culture which stamped its mark on the 19th century and which
most revealed its effects in the 20th century.
Speaking
at a workers' meeting, Lenin gave a terrifying statement of how indispensable
terrorism was to them:
These
principles of such Communist theoreticians as Lenin and Trotsky were put
into practice in the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. During the revolutionary
period of autumn 1917 there began wide-ranging massacres, looting, and unbelievable
violence. Those people who were against the revolution, or who were suspected
of being against the revolution, were rounded up for no reason, arrested,
and shot: houses were looted and wrecked. Terrorism, which began with Lenin
and Trotsky continued and grew worse in the Stalin years.
Under
the influence of Darwin, the Communist revolutionaries were killing people
in a crazed manner. It appears from documents of the time that the sole
aim was total extermination. It was as if they believed that the more people
they killed, the greater success they would have. That they planned to wipe
out everybody they suspected of being against the revolution is revealed
in one of their decisions:
As
well as all this torture, Stalin set up "requisitioning detachments" to
take the peasants" produce by force. These units were responsible for
all kinds of oppression. On 14 February 1922 one inspector wrote:
In
1931 Pope Pius XI had this to say about the violence Communism had inflicted
on the world in the encyclical Quadragesimo Anno:
China's
Communist leader Mao had two important guides: one of these, as we touched
on earlier, was Darwin, and the other was Stalin. These two lethal names,
which met together in Mao's personality, led to great tragedies and left
their mark on a long, dark period in Chinese history. Between 6 to 10 million
people were directly killed under Mao Tse-Tung's directives, tens of millions
of counter-revolutionaries spent great parts of their lives in prison, where
20 million of them died. Between 20 and 40 million people died of starvation
in the years 1959-1961, in the period called "The Great Leap Forward," as
the dreadful result of Mao's extremist policies. The June 1989 Tienanmen
Square massacre (about 1,000 dead) is one example of what China has gone
through in its recent history. The killings and genocide directed against
the Muslim Turks in Eastern Turkestan are still going on.
Between
1975 and 1979, during the rule of Pol Pot, two million of Cambodia's
population of seven million were killed. When one looks at the killings
by Pol Pot, who dreamed of establishing a perfect Communist state,
as a percentage of the population, then his killings were much greater
than those by Hitler and Stalin. Pol Pot's fundamental target were
the sections of society such as doctors, engineers, scientists,
in short the country's intellectuals, whom he had killed. The order
was even given that "everyone wearing glasses" should be killed.
As a result of these inhuman murders, the "killing fields," which
lasted for years, emerged.
No
matter how much it is accepted that the dissolution of the Soviet
Union spelt the end of Communism as a political regime, Communist
ideology and practice still continue. The practices of Russia, where
the Red Army mentality still dominates, in Chechnya, and of China
in Eastern Turkestan, are the most important indications of this.
The Muslim Turks who live today in Eastern Turkestan, are going
through a repetition of the experiences of Mao's Red China. Young
people are arrested for no reason, sentenced to death on the grounds
they are opponents of the regime, and shot, Muslims are prevented
from carrying out their group religious duties, their earnings are
taken from them by means of ruthless taxes, the people live on the
edge of death through the threat of starvation, and the nuclear
tests carried out right next to them cause them to catch fatal diseases.
Those
to whom people said, 
The
Russian occupation of Chechnya in 1991, despite being thrown back
by the late Dzhokar Dudayev, turned into a genuine war on Dec. 11,
1994, following serious trouble in November that same year. While
more than 100,000 Chechens lost their lives in that war, tens of
thousands were forced to migrate. Chechnya lost hundreds of historical
and economic resources in the war. When Russia announced that Chechnya
was an "internal matter," no protest came from the outside world.
Tons of bombs fell on every square metre in Chechnya. A genocide
was carried out, the like of which has never been seen in the history
of the world, with chemical weapons, the use of which was forbidden
ant it still continues today. But despite all the difficulties,
in August 1996 the Russians had to admit defeat at the hands of
the Chechens, who were completely undaunted and fought for their
own land with all the means at their disposal.
Russia,
which had to accept Chechnya as a separate state in agreements signed
at the highest levels in August 1996 and May 1997, seemed to have
accepted this situation. Whereas in October 1997 the Russians entered
Chechen territory and began to kill, not sparing women, children,
and the elderly. Civilian targets came under non-stop bombardment
for months. In order to break the popular resistance, hospitals,
maternity wards, markets, and refugee convoys were especially chosen
as targets. At the last it was established that the Russians used
chemical bombs and scud and napalm missiles against the Chechens.
Alongside this, the Russians put poison into the River Argun, used
by many Chechen villages. While the great majority of the women
and children who drank the poisoned water died, hundreds waited
for death at the doors of the hospitals. Because the river water
had been poisoned the civilian population who were unable to find
water for drinking and other purposes went through very difficult
times.
