Did you know the 1st genocide of 20th century was conducted in the Congo by King Leopold II of Belgium, who orchestrated the killing of up to 15,000,000 Congolese in order to exploit the region’s natural resources for his personal profit?
Did you know that, 32 years after his reign ended, his grand-nephew, King Leopold III, was captured and imprisoned in Nazi-occupied Belgium while London hosted Belgium’s “government-in-exile”?
Did you know the first concentration camps of the 20th century were established in South Africa by the British Empire during the Second Boer War when the British went to war with the Boers — Dutch settlers — to expropriate their land?
Did you know the 1st war of aggression of the 20th century was waged by the USA against the Philippines, a territory seized by Spanish occupiers in the 1500s and sold to the U.S. by Spain in 1898, after the inhabitants of that territory demanded freedom & began a struggle for...
... independence, which was viciously squashed by American troops, resulting in the deaths of up to 1.4 million Filipino civilians?
Did you know native Filipinos term the deaths a “genocide”? Did you know the U.S. rounded up Filipino villagers, forcing them to relocate to guarded camps from which they were not free to leave & in which the death rates were reportedly as high as 20 percent — meaning...
... the U.S. created concentration camps? Did you know, since the Filipino-American War ended in 1902, the U.S. can arguably steal from both Belgium & British Empire the ignominious credit as the architect of both the 1st concentration camps & 1st genocide in the 20th century?
Did you know that before Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, killed approximately 6 mil Jews from 1933 to 1945, in what we call “The Holocaust,” there was “The Holodomor,” in which Soviet Union, under Joseph Stalin, killed up to 7.5 mil (even 12 mil) Ukrainians from 1932 to 1933?
Did you know that Nazi Germany, before it initiated hostilities with the Soviet Union, sent observers to the communist country to study its concentration camps and other forms of totalitarian controls before the fascist regime implemented them?
Did you know that communism and fascism are popularly portrayed as polar opposites?
Did you know that Hitler, in power from 1933 to 1945, is said to have orchestrated the killing of approximately 11 mil non-combatants?
Did you know that Stalin, in power from 1922 to 1952, is said to have orchestrated the killing of up to 60 mil non-combatants?
Did you know that Stalin, in power from 1922 to 1952, is said to have orchestrated the killing of up to 60 mil non-combatants?
Did you know the lowest estimate of killings under Stalin is 20,000,000 (historian Robert Conquest)? Did you know most of these murders occurred largely outside the parameters of a recognized state of war?
Did you know when the “Allies” launched the D-Day invasion of the coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944 — 75 years ago this year — the United States had been allied with the Soviet Union since 1941?
Did you know that the popular narrative insists the Allies were defending the “free world”?
Did you know the Allies included the British Empire, Belgium, the U.S., and the Soviet Union — every one of whom had as much or the same kind of blood on their hands as Nazi Germany?
Did you know the Allies included the British Empire, Belgium, the U.S., and the Soviet Union — every one of whom had as much or the same kind of blood on their hands as Nazi Germany?
Did you know that 20th-century genocides were committed by imperial governments including the United States, the British, the Nazis, the Soviets — the Axis and the Allies?
Did you know that, when one evil person hates another evil person, it’s not necessary for one of them to be a good guy and, indeed, it’s entirely possible for both of them to be bad guys?
Did you know it’s ok to call all evil as “evil,” even when the historians documenting the deeds of evil people prejudicially tell you only about the misdeeds of one side and never the other?
Did you know you don’t have to pick a “lesser evil”?
Did you know you don’t have to pick a “lesser evil”?
Did you know both sides can be equally at fault & the evil empire was not only Soviet Union, but also Nazi Germany, & also Kingdom of Belgium, & also and especially British Empire — &, finally, every nation that pursues totalitarian control over its native or foreign populations?
