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COUNTRIES THAT HAVE TRIED SOCIALISM AND FAILED

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2-26-19

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We all know socialism doesn't work; however, the tendency of history to threaten to repeat itself means it can never be relegated to the dustbin of history – as much as we'd like.

Perhaps Ronald Reagan – an optimist and a realist – said it best:

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free.

Here are some countries that learned socialism doesn’t work the hard way.

Share this list with like-minded friends and neighbors. I guarantee you the far-Left isn’t complacent. Are you?

1.) China

2019-02-26
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by: AAN Staff

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The suffering under Mao Zedong and his “Great Leap Forward” is unimaginable to you and me. Between 40 and 70 million Chinese died during his 27-year reign. So many people and in so many different places that the real number will never be known.

By adopting aspects of the free enterprise system, the People's Republic of China survives to this day. However, political and individual freedoms remain non-existence.

2.) Cambodia

2019-02-26
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by: AAN Staff

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A Domino Effect of sorts took place after the U.S. withdrew from Vietnam. The Communist Party in Cambodia installed their regime in 1975, known as the Khmer Rouge. Ultimately, 25 percent of the population was systematically murdered by Pol Pot and his Marxist–Leninist ilk.

3.) Cuba

2019-02-26
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Fidel Castro had a horrid legacy of tyranny and oppression during his lifetime (we hate to break it to you, Michael Moore). Castro opened work camps for homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and all those he arbitrarily considered “undesirables.” Castro’s legacy is still seen today as the tropical paradise he ruled for five decades seems hopelessly stuck in the 1950s.

SEE VIDEO http://americanactionnews.com/articles/3-cuba#tzg3gs5mlWEiIWsR.99

4.) North Korea

2019-02-26
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The 22 million citizens of North Korean suffer, not only from an utter lack of individual, economic, and political freedom – but also an abysmal public health record. Between 1994 and 1998 alone, as many as 3,500,000 North Koreans perished from starvation or hunger-related illnesses. On our population basis, that equals 50 million dead Americans.

President Trump is trying his best to limit the suffering of the people inside the Hermit Kingdom through his ongoing dialogue with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

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5.) Poland

2019-02-26
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by: AAN Staff

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Poland was occupied by the USSR for nearly half a century and used as a buffer state in case of western aggression.

The USSR first annexed Eastern Poland under an agreement with Adolf Hitler before occupying the entire country in the last year of World War II – the ultimate insult after the Poles lost as many as six million people under Nazi rule.

The Kremlin installed a puppet regime that completely oppressed the Polish people. Finally, a popular uprising led by anti-communist Lech Wałęsa rode a revolutionary wave sweeping Eastern Europe in 1989 that ended more than four decades of tyranny.

6.) Romania

2019-02-26
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The Romanian people were one of the USSR’s hardest hit victims.

The Soviets occupied the country while pushing towards Berlin in the summer of 1944. During most of the Second World War, Romania belonged to the Axis Powers but switched sides once it became evident Nazi Germany couldn't win. The country negotiated an armistice with the Soviets when King Michael circumvented the fascist government to cut a deal.

Soviet historiography called the episode the “Liberation of Romania by the glorious Soviet Army” but Romanians quickly came to loath the Soviet occupation.

A 2006 government commission validated their outrage, estimating the number of direct victims from Communist rule at two million.

SEE VIDEO http://americanactionnews.com/articles/6-romania#eL1ErKTJW41XeWkD.99

7.) U.S.S.R.

2019-02-26
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by: AAN Staff

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Under the Tsars the poor of Russia were indescribably poor. Somehow, life got worse under communism. Ultimately, the USSR modernized Russia but at the cost of tens of millions of dead and the near collapse of the entire nation during the darkest days of World War II.

Through he's regarded more favorably than his successor, Vladimir Lenin is responsible for more deaths than Genghis Khan.

And even Ivan the Terrible couldn't imagine wreaking havoc of the scale of Joseph Stalin who sent millions of his own people to Gulags where they faced certain death. The seminal book The Gulag Archipelago tells you everything you need to know about the deplorable conditions.

In one year alone (1932-1933) the Ukraine endured a man-made famine courtesy of Stalin's breakneck industrialization that may have killed seven-and-a-half million people. Other atrocities include the Great Purge and “population transfers.”

8.) Venezuela

02/26/2019
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Venezuela has become a major point of contention in American politics as the country descends into chaos under the Maduro regime. The average Venezuelan citizen has lost 24 pounds due to a starvation diet. Ninety percent of the population live below the poverty line. Millions are trying to flee – after resorting to looting and even ransacking garbage trucks to find something edible.

SEE VIDEO http://americanactionnews.com/articles/8-venezuela#5E4XYTppCi8pJZ2j.99

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