The Horror of Chinese Communism

Don't tell me that we've learned anything from history. We don't even know enough about history to learn from it.

If you read nothing else today, you simply must read this recounting of what it was like in China during the years under the dictatorship of Mao Zedong.  Few know.

How bad did it get? [In] 1968 an 18-year-old member of the Red Guard, Wei Jingsheng, took refuge with a family in a village of Anhui, and here he lived to write about what he saw:

"We walked along beside the village… Before my eyes, among the weeds, rose up one of the scenes I had been told about, one of the banquets at which the families had swapped children in order to eat them. I could see the worried faces of the families as they chewed the flesh of other people's children. The children who were chasing butterflies in a nearby field seemed to be the reincarnation of the children devoured by their parents. I felt sorry for the children but not as sorry as I felt for their parents. What had made them swallow that human flesh, amidst the tears and grief of others — flesh that they would never have imagined tasting, even in their worst nightmares?"

What light does this shed on China's situation today?  Click the link above to read more.