What Firefox skin do you use?

[Broni]

Very good point, soybean. I even didn't notice.
I'm sorry, but it's a shame. I spent half of my life under those SOBs rules, not to mention my parents, whose whole life was destroyed by them.

[Broni]

Recently, I finished reading extremely interesting book:
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
Just to give you some sense of it:

The book was authored by several European academics and specialists and edited by Stéphane Courtois.

The introduction, by editor Stéphane Courtois, states that that "...Communist regimes...turned mass crime into a full-blown system of government". Using unofficial estimates he cites a death toll which totals 94 million, not counting the "excess deaths" (decrease of the population due to lower than the expected birth rate). The breakdown of the number of deaths given by Courtois is as follows:

    * 20 million in the Soviet Union
    * 65 million in the People's Republic of China
    * 1 million in Vietnam
    * 2 million in North Korea
    * 2 million in Cambodia
    * 1 million in the Communist states of Eastern Europe
    * 150,000 in Latin America
    * 1.7 million in Africa
    * 1.5 million in Afghanistan
    * 10,000 deaths "resulting from actions of the international communist movement and communist parties not in power."(p. 4)

It explicitly claims that Communist regimes are responsible for a greater number of deaths than any other political ideal or movement, including Nazism. The statistics of victims includes executions, intentional destruction of population by starvation, and deaths resulting from deportations, physical confinement, or through forced labor. It does not include "excess deaths" due to higher mortality or lower birth rates than expected of the population.

A more detailed partial listing of some of the repressions committed in the Soviet Union under the regimes of Lenin and Stalin described in the book include:

    * the executions of tens of thousands of hostages and prisoners, and the murder of hundreds of thousands of rebellious workers and peasants from 1918 to 1922 (See also: Red Terror)
    * the Russian famine of 1921, which caused the death of 5 million people
    * the extermination and deportation of the Don Cossacks in 1920
    * the murder of tens of thousands in concentration camps in the period between 1918 and 1930
    * the Great Purge which put out of existence almost 690,000 people
    * the deportation of 2 million so-called "kulaks" from 1930 to 1932
    * the deaths of 4 million Ukrainians (Holodomor) and 2 million others during the famine of 1932 and 1933
    * the deportations of Poles, Ukrainians, Balts, Moldavians and Bessarabians from 1939 to 1941 and from 1944 to 1945
    * the deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941
    * the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1943
    * the deportation of the Chechens in 1944
    * the deportation of the Ingush in 1944.(p. 9-10) (See also: Population transfer in the Soviet Union)

The book, among other sources, used material from the (then) recently opened KGB files and other Soviet archives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism

Nazism looks like almost an innocent baby, compare to the above....

[dairyman]

I use Vista-aero on Firefox 2.0.0.11.

Hopefully upload works, because ImageShack kept giving me 500 - Internal Server Error.

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[Calum]

I use the default 2.0 theme but I shrunk it into one toolbar:

I have even fewer buttons than you

[Soviet_Genius]

No, I don't actually live in Russia, I moved to Canada about 8 years ago (because of parents). I was born there and I do speak Russian. And I'm a communist because the main thing causing poverty and holding back society in general is money. That and I just hate the American government.

[Broni]

And I'm a communist because the main thing causing poverty and holding back society in general is money.

I'm sorry, young man (I assume), but you know nothing about communism.

[Zylstra]

I use the default theme, with a bunch of stuff... I recently removed a bunch of unused quicklinks, thank goodness.

[patio]

And I'm a communist because the main thing causing poverty and holding back society in general is money.

I'm sorry, young man (I assume), but you know nothing about communism.

Or the U.S.
Name a Communist Government that did/does better.
We have our faults but personally i'll take it.
Besides i believe U.S. bashing is a prerequisite for Canadian citizenship...no ?

[Soviet_Genius]

Besides i believe U.S. bashing is a prerequisite for Canadian citizenship...no ?

I bash the US much less than Canada. Canada depends on the US for everything. And if you people hate it so much, I'll take the bar off.

[Broni]

That was a nice move. It looks much better

[patio]

I had no problem with it...i was just asking for clarification.
And i wasn't bashing Canada at all. Merely observing how conviently they pick on the U.S.
I work in a Russian community where i live about 5 months of every year and meet many interesting hard working people with common views...but very few Communists. That's what led to my questions.

My intention was not meant to offend and I apologise if it did.

[Broni]

I had no problem with it

I did. I lived there.
Don't misread me. I know number of Russians, and I like them. Same roots....Slavic people

[patio]

That was part of my point.
A land of People should not be confused with Politilical or ideological doctrine...
I think that's starting to be realised