Communism has left an enormous body count. Lee Edwards writes:
Each June brings the world closer to that day when communism finally will be dumped on the ash heap of history, and freedom will take its place in the five countries that still groan under communist dictatorship—China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba.
How can we be sure that day will come? We remember the words of the East German communist boss Erich Honecker, who boasted in January 1989 that the Berlin Wall would stand for at least another 100 years. Before the year was out, the Berlin Wall had fallen, and Honecker was under house arrest.
Each June, those in attendance at the Victims of Communism Memorial ceremony pledge that never again will they allow so evil a tyranny to enslave peoples and nations.
They hear the voices of the fallen crying out, “Remember us,” and vow they will never forget them.
[Lee Edwards, "We Must Never Forget the 100 Million Victims of Communism” The Daily Signal, June 11]
