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Communist
Liberation - Myth & Reality
OPPRESSORS
Communists uphold themselves as "liberators" and
champions of "justice," yet between 1917 and 1976:
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60
Million people in the Soviet Union were killed. |
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40%
of these were executed directly by Communist officials. |
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A
further 66 million were incarcerated in Soviet prisons
and concentration camps. |
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At
least half of both these totals were Christians. |
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Even
as late as 1982, there were an estimated 10 million
people in 1000 Soviet concentration camps and prisons
in the USSR alone. (Christian World Encyclopedia, OUP,
1982). |
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According
to the International Red Cross, at least one million
people were in Soviet prisons for "religious"
offences alone. |
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There
were over 500 000 political and religious prisoners
in 160 concentration camps in Communist Vietnam. (Que
Me, 1985). |
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Over
1 million Afghans were killed by the Red Army in Afghanistan
from 1979 to 1985 alone. (Helsinki Watch Committee,
1985). |
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Over
3 million Cambodians (40% of the population) were killed
by the Marxist Khmer Rouge during Pol Pot's reign of
terror. (Christian Anti-Communist Crusade, 1983). |
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1
800 Churches were closed by the Marxists in Ethiopia
during early 1985. |
AGGRESSORS
Although Communists claim to be devoted to "world
peace", they have engaged in numerous acts of armed
aggression. For example:-
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The
unsuccessful 1920 invasion of Poland by the Red Army. |
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The
successful 1921 invasion of Georgia in the Caucasian
Mountains |
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The
1939 invasion of Finland. |
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The 1940 invasion of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. |
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The
Hitler-Stalin pact which led to World War II. In 1940,
The Red Army invaded and conquered the Eastern half
of Poland while the Nazi Army conquered the Western
half. |
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The
invasion of Korea by Red China in 1950. |
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The
invasion of Hungary in 1956. |
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The
invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. |
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The
1979 invasion of Afghanistan and the Soviet forces decade
of war against the Afghan people. |
COLONIALISTS:
Although avowed "anti-colonialists", the Soviet
Union was the last major colonial power on earth. Russians
made up only half of the Soviet Union's population. There
were 63 major national groups and over 127 languages in
the vast Soviet Empire, which included such nations as Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Kirgizia and Turkmenistan.
Large sections of Poland, East Prussia, Finland and Romania
were also annexed to the Soviet Union.
IMPERIALISTS:
Although claiming to be "anti-imperialists",
the Soviet Union had the most extensive empire in the world,
with "satellite states" like Mongolia, Romania,
Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Afghanistan
all firmly under Soviet military occupation and control. Vietnam,
Kampuchea, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Angola and Nicaragua also
were treated as vassal states by Soviet troops and "advisors."
MILITARISTS:
From 1975, billions of dollars of Communist arms flowed
into Angola from the Soviet bloc. The Soviet Union sold
billions of Dollars of military equipment to Third World
countries which could barely even feed their own people
In
the 1980's, there were 4000 Soviet troops, 2000 East Germans
and 15 000 Cuban soldiers in Ethiopia. There were 2000 Soviets,
1500 East Germans, 2100 Cubans in Mozambique. There were
2000 Soviet military advisors, 5000 East Germans, 2500 North
Koreans, 30 000 Cuban troops and 6000 Cuban civilians in
Angola. Moreover, Soviet warships operated from the ports
of Luanda and Mocademas in Angola, and Nacala and Maputo
in Mozambique. (MSM Sentinel, April 1985).
Cuban
troops were also stationed in 14 other African states, including
Libya (2000 Cuban troops), Congo Brazzaville (3000), Uganda
(250), Zambia (200), Tanzania (100), Säo Tombé
(600), Malagasy (150), Guinea (750), Benin (50), Lesotho
(7), Nigeria (150), Algeria (35), the Cape Verde Islands
(15) and Sierra Leone (400). (Paratas, February 1985).
North
Korean military advisors were also based in 11 African countries,
including Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Seychelles, Libya,
Congo, Tanzania, Benin, Uganda, Zambia and Malagasy.
PERSECUTORS:
For over 70 years the Communist Party attempted to eradicate
Christianity from Russia. Brainwashing, propaganda, infiltration
of the Church, imprisonment, torture, concentration camps
and executions failed to destroy people's faith in God and
hunger for the Bible. Yet Communism continued to export
not only its ideology of Atheism, Materialism and Economic
Determinism, but its violent revolutionary methods, and
its hatred of God, the Bible and the Christian Church. In
the 1980's, 224 million Christians lived under severe state
persecution, with another 70 million "Crypto-Christians",
who secretly worshipped God in "underground" churches.
(World Christian Encyclopedia, OUP, 1982).
In
Marxist Ethiopia, where hundreds of thousands of people
died of hunger in a man-made famine, severe persecution
raged. In the first few months of 1985, 1800 churches of
the "Kale Heywet" (Word of Life) evangelical denomination
were forcibly closed by the Communists. Full Gospel, Baptist
and Mennonite Churches experienced similar persecution,
forcing great numbers of Christians to worship in secret.
The "Mekane Jesus" (Lutheran) Church had over
200 of its pastors in jail, and one third of all their churches
were closed by the Communist government. (Open Doors, 1985).
In
Angola, many eye-witness accounts were recorded of Communist
troops massacring evangelical congregations and threatening
people to renounce their faith. On 12 September 1977, Cuban
troops shot 150 Christians in the Chilesso Evangelical Church
while they were worshipping God. They then desecrated the
church, put the heads of oxen on the pulpit and wrote a sign
- "These are now your gods. Worship them.!"
Cuban
troops also attacked Cavungo Mission on 24 October 1976,
where they killed the pastor and 53 Christians, including
26 lepers, who were locked into two huts and burned to death.
In February 1976, Cubans attacked the Evangelical Mission
of Dondi, butchering many of the believers there and turning
the church into an ammunition depot. When the Cubans entered
Chiumbo in 1978, they told the people - "From now on
there is no longer a God; from now on God is a gun",
and they sought out all who continued to worship God and
killed them.
In
Mozambique, the Marxist dictator, Samora Machel, declared
war on the Church in 1977, calling on all Mozambiquans to
unite in destroying the Church. Four thousand seven hundred
Churches were confiscated, closed or destroyed. The Bible
was banned. All missionaries were expelled. Evangelism was
prohibited and thousands of pastors and Christians were
imprisoned or sent to "re-education camps". Churches
in Zambezia had an average of only one Bible for every thousand
believers, and cases of Christians disappearing or being
shot were commonplace.
Wherever
Communism has gone, the Church was persecuted, the economy
collapsed, brutal oppression, hunger and famine followed,
thousands were imprisoned in concentration camps and hundreds
more were executed, while thousands of refugees fled the
country. The actions of the Communists speak clearly: -
Communism kills, oppresses, exploits and persecutes. We
should not want any of it here.
Marxist
ideology offers no God, no soul, no private life, no free
choice, no eternal life, no hope. We must choose Christianity.
In the Bible we find the Word of God - the Truth that sets
us free from atheistic deception. In Christ we find forgiveness,
freedom, strength, purpose and direction. In God we find
peace, love, justice and eternal life.
"See,
I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction.
For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk
in His ways, and to keep His commands, decrees and laws;
then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will
bless you in the land … But if your heart turns away
and you are not obedient, … I declare to you this day
that you will certainly be destroyed … This day I call
Heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set
before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose
life, so that you and your children may live and that you
may love the Lord your God, listen to His voice, and hold
fast to Him." Deuteronomy 30:15 - 20
Peter
Hammond
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