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24 of July, 16:31
Ukraine`s Communists to open museum for U.S. imperialism victims
Ukraine`s Communists announced they would open a museum dedicated to victims of U.S. imperialism in the Crimea next month, as a riposte to a Communism memorial recently put up in Washington.

Communist Party member Leonid Grach said Tuesday the memorial museum on the predominantly Russian-speaking peninsular would be "a marquee with an exhibition presenting the whole period, starting from the massacres of Native Americans, up to racial discrimination in America, which continues to this day."

Grach said the museum would consist of a permanent display in Simferopol, while a mobile exhibition will tour Crimea`s main cities. The exhibition will feature photographs, maps, and copies of documents showing crimes against humanity in the United States.

Communists in the ex-Soviet country announced plans to set up the museum after the Victims of Communism Memorial was opened in Washington on July 12. The dedication ceremony, at which U.S. President George W. Bush compared Communists to terrorists and blamed the ideology for the deaths of 100 million innocent people, also provoked the ire of China.

In his dedication speech, Bush had said: "Like the Communists, the terrorists and radicals who attacked our nation are followers of a murderous ideology that despises freedom, crushes all dissent, has expansionist ambitions and pursues totalitarian aims."

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"India seems to manage to fill its cupboard with more skeletons every eight years than China put there in its years of shame," 1958-1961 (Dreze and Sen). . . .

We therefore conclude that in India the democratic capitalist "experiment" since 1947 has caused more deaths than in the entire history of the "colossal, wholly failed...experiment" of Communism everywhere since 1917: over 100 million deaths by 1979, tens of millions more since, in India alone. The "criminal indictment" of the "democratic capitalist experiment" becomes harsher still if we turn to its effects after the fall of Communism: millions of corpses in Russia, to take one case, as Russia followed the confident prescription of the World Bank that "Countries that liberalise rapidly and extensively turn around more quickly [than those that do not]," returning to something like what it had been before World War I, a picture familiar throughout the "third world." But "you can't make an omelette without broken eggs," as Stalin would have said. The indictment becomes far harsher if we consider these vast areas that remained under Western tutelage, yielding a truly "colossal" record of skeletons and "absolutely futile, pointless and inexplicable suffering" (Ryan).

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