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Why Isn't Communism as Hated as Nazism?

5-Minute Videos | PragerU

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Self-improvement, History, Non-profit, Business, Education

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🗓️ 10 January 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

When people think of humanity's greatest evils, why is "communism" rarely mentioned? After all, it has caused more suffering than any other ideology, including Nazism. Watch Dennis Prager's account of communism's horrific legacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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When people describe particularly evil individuals or regimes, why is it that they use the

0:06.0

terms Nazi or fascist, but almost never communist?

0:10.8

Given the unparalleled amount of human suffering, communists have caused, why is communist so much

0:16.1

less a term of revulsion than Nazi?

0:20.4

Communists killed 70 million people in China, more than 20 million people in the Soviet

0:24.3

Union not including about 5 million Ukrainians, and almost one out of every three Cambodians,

0:31.7

and communist enslaved entire nations in Russia, Vietnam, China, Eastern Europe, North Korea,

0:38.1

Cuba, and much of Central Asia.

0:41.1

They ruin the lives of well over a billion people.

0:44.5

So why doesn't communism have the same terrible reputation as Nazism?

0:50.4

In number one, there is simply put widespread ignorance of the communist record.

0:56.5

Whereas both right and left loath Nazism and teach its evil history, the left, and I'm

1:02.0

talking about the left, not traditional liberals, like Harry Truman or John F. Kennedy, has never

1:08.8

loathed communism.

1:10.8

And since the left dominates academia, almost no one teaches communism's evil history.

1:17.8

In number two, the Nazis carried out the Holocaust.

1:22.2

Nothing matches the Holocaust for pure evil.

1:24.8

The rounding up of virtually every Jewish man, woman, child, and baby on the European continent

1:30.6

and sending them to die is unprecedented and unparalleled.

1:36.0

The communists killed far more people than the Nazis, but never match the Holocaust in

1:41.3

the systemization of genocide.

1:44.4

The uniqueness of the Holocaust and the enormous attention rightly paid to it have helped

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