What do you know about the crimes of communism in eastern Europe?
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Communism is almost non-existant in developed countries. Although during the Soviet reign, they have split Germany in half, which I guess- you could call a crime. Look into Ronald Reagan and the Brandenburg Gate, he had an address there, against the Soviets, very powerful.
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Ilsa Koch- Since her husband was also a SS worker at the camp, she would sometimes bring her dogs and have them attack the women prisoners. She was said to ride around on a horse and chose specific prisoners to be gassed, especially those which had elaborate tattoos . \n\nAfter the prisoners were killed, Koch would take their skins and tan and leather them. She collected the human skins, turning them into gloves, lampshades, book covers, furniture in her home and other household and clothing items. \n\nShe was convicted once and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1947, but the sentence was reduced and Koch was released. She was re-arrested in 1949 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1951. She committed suicide in 1967.  \n\n\nCountess Elizabeth Bathory-Also known as the Blood Countess, this extremely wealthy Hungarian woman tortured servants and apparently bathed in their blood. She thought blood was the key to eternal youth. She killed more than 600 women, both peasants and nobility. Although she was eventually locked up in her castle and her accomplices executed, she couldn't be harmed because of her status.\n\n\nIrma Grese - Irma Grese apparently gave orders to other soldiers asking them to remove the breasts of Jewish and gypsy women in the camps  or to ask that specific women be gased or killed for her so that she could collect their skins. Irma made lampshades, bookcovers, and other household items from the human skins of the prisoners at Auschwitz.\n\nSS Frau Grese was tried during the Belsen trials and sentenced to death by her own testimony.
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Your description of Communism shows a lack of understanding of what Communism is and how it works. I suggest that before you start painting Jesus as a communist you first gain an accurate understanding of what Communism is.
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The Czech Republic is in Eastern Europe, due east of Germany.  South of Poland.
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Pretty much a bad one.  Extreme official corruption--still plagues the people of that region today.  They polluted the land terribly--many heavy metals are buried throughout the region--not to mention the tragedy of Chernobyl.  The leaders of the Soviet Union also were responsible for mass murder--e.g. the forced starvation of Ukraine by Joseph Stalin in the 1930's still has repercussions today.  On a more positive side, they did have a pretty good educational system--the people are very well educated, especially in math & sciences--and the Arts did not die under their suppression.
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I can spot a flaw in your question. You ask for answers from Communist countries. You should know that in communist countries the Internet and all media is state controlled by the party and you aren't allowed to say anything negative about Communism, Communists, the Party or the country or anything that isn't pro-communist. Internet is heavily controlled and what you post on the net will be read by someone of authority in the country and then they could be jailed. So how could you get any good answers from currently communist countries (that's if they even manage to use this website since its pretty much freedom of speech on here) that say anything except how wonderful communism is?\n\nI'll give you my opinion on communism though - it is an utterly disgusting, failed policy and will never ever be a good thing!
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To the answer above, communism is an economic system. The totalitarian regime in the Soviet Union gives it a negative connotation.
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The Black Book of Communism. Its over 800-pages (but there are small chapters and summaries about people such as Castro.)\n\nThis book has world-wide claim, it was written by people who've come from communist countries and have studied it for a living. It's quite brilliant. I've read most of it. It's not pro-communist so if you are a commie, you'll get offended by the truth.\n\n\n\n-\n\nWhy the hell did I get 2 thumbs-down? Does everyone love communism here?
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I'm not sure because communism is inherently evil. It relies on depriving the people of the truth. It relies on the hard work of the few supporting the many.\n\nThere has never been a communist regime that has worked. Just look at the USSR and all of the eastern bloc countries. Their people were enslaved and tried to escape whenever possible. You NEVER saw large groups of people defect en masse to a communist country. Hell, even Lee Harvey Oswald gave up on communism and came back to the States.\n\nLook at the few remaining communist countries today. China is barely recognizable as a communist country - it more closely resembles Wall Street today. Cuba is barlely holding on to survival. North Korea is watching hundreds of thousands of its people starve to support its military. And Vietnam is just, well, there.\n\nCommunism does not inspire people to be great because the reward for hard work is not there. In order for people to do truly great things, there must be some kind of reward for their hard work. Where is the reward if your hard work will just be spread out amongst those who had nothing to do with your success?\n\nYet, many are trying to implement aspects of communism into our society claiming it is the answer. Just remember to look at history, folks ...
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Yes I knew that.\n\nIf you do any research on this by chance, you will find that true communism is the only real form of a pure democracy.
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No.!!!\nNobody has ever practised Communism the way that Karl Marx visualised, as they say my donkey stays my donkey.!!!\nWhat is yours is mine. what is mine stays mine.\nHypocrites is what they all where, thieves and liars while the people suffered.!!!
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It's a great book.  It's about communism.  Under communism the workers are worse off than they were under capitalism.
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THIS PROBABLY REQUIRES A LENGTHY ESSAY?!\n\nHOW IT HAS CHANGED \n\nFOR THIS YOU MAY WANT TO GO BACK 60 YEARS AT THE END OF WWII.  BASICALLY, EUROPE WAS SPLIT INTO TWO THE WEST (NATO) AND EAST (WARSAW PACT).  MILITARY BUILDUP ON BOTH SIDES GREW CONTINUOUSLY UNTIL THE END OF THE COLD WAR. \n\nTHEN WHEN THE IRON CURTAIN FELL AND COMMUNISM FAILED IN 1989, EUROPE REALLY BECAME A LARGE CONFEDERATION UNDER THE NEW EUROPEAN COMMON MARKET.  DEMOCRACY WAS FLOODED ALL THE WAY PAST WARSAW AND INTO RUSSIA.  IN 1994 I WAS IN PRAGUE THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND THEY ALREADY HAD A K-MART IN THE TOWN SQUARE! IT WAS MUCH DIFFERENT THAN OUR TRADITIONAL K-MART MORE LIKE A SAFEWAY OR A RALEYS SUPERMARKET.  NEW MARKETS  AND TRANSPORTATION OPENED FOR THE EAST.\n\nANYWHO, AS TIME PASSED AND THE EURO DOLLAR HAS BEEN ISSUED, A STRONGER UNION OF THE INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES ARE BINDING CLOSER TOGETHER THAT MAY EVENTUALLY FORM A UNITED EUROPE SOME YEARS TO COME.  \n\nMANY NEW CHALLENGES FACE MODERN EUROPE;\nIMMIGRATION HAS INCREASED, SPECIFICALLY FROM THE MIDDLE EAST, ECONOMIC DIVERSITY HAS BEEN CHALLENGING BETWEEN NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE.  TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT HAS INCREASED,  THERE IS JUST SO MUCH ABOUT THESE EVENTS...TOO MUCH TO LIST.\n\nHOW IT HAS REMAINED THE SAME, THAT I KNOW OF:\n\nEACH REGIONAL AREA HAS MAINTAINED ITS OWN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE.  MOST EDUCATED PEOPLE SPEAK SEVERAL LANGUAGES OR AT LEAST TWO (MOTHER TONGUE AND ENGLISH).
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The hard question would be to name a communist country that did not invade another country and kill its citizenry.\n\nThat is one of the main tenets of communism.  To have a global revolution to establish a World Communist State.  Therefore, communist nations must invade other countries and insight rebellions abroad.\n\nTo give you a few examples, the USSR invaded all of eastern Europe.  China invaded Tibet and South Korea.  North Korea invaded South Korea; and Cuba invaded the Congo and Bolivia.  North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam.  I could go on all night.\n\nThough, I have to say Tofu Jesus is wrong on a couple of points.  China never invaded Taiwan.  At the end of World War II, there was a civil war in China between the Nationalist Chinese and the Communists.  The Communists won, forcing the Nationalist Chinese to flee to Formosa, modern day Taiwan.  And Russia never invaded Germany at least not when it was a communist country.  Russia, or more accurately, the Soviet Union, was invaded by the Nazis, its subsequent invasion of Germany was defensive.  What was the USSR going to do after beating back the Germans?  Stop at their border and do nothing?  Germany had no plans to make peace with the Soviet Union, they would have just re-invaded.\n\nAt the start of World War I, Russia did invade German territory; however, Russia was not communist at that point.  Moreover, Russia only did so to honor its treaty with Serbia.  When the Austro-Hungarian Empire invaded Serbia this brought Russia to war with Austria Hungary, which brought Germany into war with Russia, since Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire also had an alliance.  In fact, World War I is what made Russia communist.
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I've linked several articles below for your review. 1st - Ethnic cleansing, 2nd is an overview on Allied war crimes, 3rd a specific record of the details on the previous posters Katyn massacre. There were significant atrocities committed before (1932-33 era in the Ukraine) and after (Stalin's pogroms) the war and with most focus on the Nuremberg trials a lot of Allied crimes either went un-or-under reported. Best of luck in your research, hope this helps.
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C'mon!!! Surely your comrades in the mighty KGB can tell you that??? You don't need Yahoo Answers to help you. The KGB's supposed to know all this!
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http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A0849133.html\n\nhttp://www.pearlfilms.com/totalitarian.htm\n\n Here are a couple links that should help you out.