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HEY, BEARDED MARXISTS, THIS IS HOW COMMUNISM WORKS OUT: ?State retribution for tiny thefts, such ?

By Glenn Reynolds

HEY, BEARDED MARXISTS, THIS IS HOW COMMUNISM WORKS OUT:

“State retribution for tiny thefts, such as stealing a potato, even by a child, would include being tied up and thrown into a pond…”

“… parents were forced to bury their children alive or were doused in excrement and urine, others were set alight, or had a nose or ear cut off. One record shows how a man was branded with hot metal. People were forced to work naked in the middle of winter; 80 per cent of all the villagers in one region of a quarter of a million Chinese were banned from the official canteen because they were too old or ill to be effective workers, so were deliberately starved to death.”

Just another day on one of those big, friendly socialist plantations, where everyone gets free health care.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 17, 2010 (boomark / email).