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11/29/2019

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I have mixed feelings about memorial days commemorating the victims of past atrocities. On the one hand, I am inclined toward these commemorations because they offer an opportunity to honor and dignify victims. They also have the potential to serve as warnings against the development similar atrocities in the future. On the other hand, memorial days also serve to exacerbate the already overinflated zeitgeist of victimhood saturating our world. We live in an age where almost anyone can claim to a victim of someone or something (with a few very clear, distinct, and notable exceptions, of course). The System likes memorial days and likes to promulgate the victim narrative, which it actively promotes, primarily for political purposes, in various guises around the world.

For example, the United Nations has initiated and observes many such memorials, which it terms International Days. UN has designated International Days of Commemoration for the following: International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade; International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims; International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust; International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime; and so forth. There are also international days to commemorate the victims of the Second World War, chemical warfare, road traffic victims, enforced disappearances, terrorism, torture, and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

The UN is apparently very compassionate when it comes to victims of atrocities, so you would think it would have designated an International Day commemorating the victims of the most effective political killing machine ever devised – communism, which is estimated to have killed anywhere from 80 to 120 million people (maybe more). 

Well, it hasn’t.

Three decades after the collapse of communism in Europe, the glaring omission is finally being brought to UN’s attention by Hungary, which is currently pressing the UN to designate an International Day for the Commemoration of the Victims of Communism.

Before I go any further, let me just say I don’t have anything positive to say about the UN, and I generally don’t give a rat’s ass about its officially sanctioned International Days, regardless of the victims these days commemorate (that is I feel compassion for the victims of these atrocities, but not within the framework of an official UN designated day commemorating them). In addition, I don’t care much for Hungary’s initiative, and I don’t think an official international day commemorating the victims of communism is a good idea at this point. In fact, I think it would be better if the UN refused Hungary’s initiative because at least then the water would not be muddied with conflicting messages.

The UN’s refusal to designate a memorial day for the victims of communism is not an oversight, or an omission, or even willful neglect – it is purposive evil. The UN does not regard victims of communism as victims. To the UN, the people communism murdered were more like eggs – eggs the communists simply had to break in order to create a much revered utopian omelet.

The UN is favorably disposed to utopian omelets; in fact, it is heavily involved trying to create one right now through its continual promotion of a one-world totalitarian government. This push to enslave the world appears to be growing increasingly desperate with each passing day (as Dr. Charlton points out in this recent post). I am sure the UN hasn’t the slightest interest in designating a day of commemoration for the victims of communism: Partly because this would betray its own motivations; and partly because it is far too busy with other things at the moment.

So forget about an international day for victims of communism and keep your eyes focused on what is happening in the world right now because omelets require eggs. 
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bruce charlton
11/30/2019 10:47:05

I agree with your analysis. Such 'days' should be shunned, mocked, attacked - and if the UN did institute a Communists' genocide day; it would be distorted so as to favour communism. Anything seriously pushed by the mass media or the global bureaucracies is either false and evil; or if in its nature it is good, then it is being pushed in a partial or distorted manner to lead to false conclusions. What we *never* see is honesty and truth pushed with good intent. Indeed, we don't even get hypocrisy - because that is to pretend to a goodness that They would not want emulated.

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Francis Berger
11/30/2019 15:51:54

Bruce - Though I support or at the very least am favorably inclined to many of the initiatives the Hungarian government has taken against the Global Establishment, I have come to the realization that much of it is little more than feeble attempts to square a circle. I agree with what you have said above, and in this particular case the Hungarians should back off any sort of initiative to designate a memorial day because the last thing such a designation would do is dignify the victims.

It would be far more fitting to leave things as they are - the victims of communism are only dignified if the UN ignores them (as paradoxical as that sounds): True honor does not require the support of the Establishment or its media appendages - quite the contrary.

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