We have all heard about the horrors of Nazi Germany, and rightfully so. They did many unspeakable and evil things and ever since WW2 ended, people have been taught about the horrible things they did, so that it may never happen again.
As I’ve said before, we must know about history to be able to learn from it. If we don’t know about the bad and wrong things people before us have done, how are we supposed to learn from that?
Countless of books and articles have been written about the Nazis. But for some reason, people seem very uneducated about the horrors that the Communists did in the Soviet Union. For example, have you heard about the Holodomor, where Stalin murdered millions of Ukrainians in a genocide?
Right now there is a lot of talk about Ukraine from journalists and celebrities. They care so much about Ukraine, but for some reason they have never mentioned anything about how Stalin murdered millions of Ukrainians during Communism. Huh. That might be something that should be mentioned when caring for Ukraine…
In fact, the Communists did so many horrible things to dissidents that it’s hard to know where to start. Yet these things are never taught to children in school, and most people today are oblivious to the horrors of Communism.
It is time that we start treating Communism the same as Nazism.
Over the last 100 years, Communism has killed over 100 million people. That is absolutely evil. Yet today we have many people who talk about Communism like it’s just any other political ideology. It is not.
Did you know that in the Soviet Union, dissidents were labeled as ”mentally ill”, diagnosed by ”experts” with schizophrenia and locked up in psychiatric hospitals? This was actually common under Communism.
Huh. The ”expert” psychiatric doctors in the Soviet Union labeled people falsely with a condition in order to have people locked up for the crime of opposing the regime. Why do people not know about this?
In my research, I have managed to find some previously unreported stories from Sweden about how Christians were rounded up by the Communist Bolsheviks and martyred for their faith. It is truly shocking stuff.
It’s time to do a deep dive into Communist persecution of dissidents…
Who was worse, Stalin or Hitler?
Both were people that were evil beyond comprehension. Then we have Mao. Pol Pot. Kim-Jong Un. The fact of the matter is, both of these ideologies are far-left extremist in nature. Many people aren’t even aware that the Nazi party was a SOCIALIST party, it’s literally in their name.
Let’s have a closer look at some of the methods that the Communists used to go after people who dared to disagree with the Soviet regime.
People that perhaps owned banned books, or people who attempted to escape the Soviet Union could be taken to a psychiatrist. This ”expert” psychiatrist would then diagnose these dissidents with having something called ”sluggish schizophrenia” which they then used as an excuse to lock them up in mental hospitals.
What a convenient excuse for the evil Soviet regime. Label those who opposed them as ”mentally ill” and then lock them up. They would also use psychiatric hospitals as a place to lock up people deemed ”socially dangerous” and to prevent them from protesting in public.
Because according to their twisted worldview, Communism was a perfect and flawless ideology, and anyone who disagreed with that had to, according to their view, be mentally challenged. Because who could disagree with the best political ideology in the history of humanity, according to the Communists.
Here’s a thought. Maybe those so called ”experts” in the Soviet Union were just a tool of the state…
But, it gets even worse.
Because, you see, in Communism they don’t believe in God. Atheism is the state religion. The Bible is banned. In their twisted ideology, they believe that the Communist state is their god, that it is the ultimate power over humanity. They want to have full control over the people, so naturally they cannot let people believe in a higher power. They themselves want to be the highest power.
Freedom of religion is non-existent in Communism. Christians are being persecuted to this very day in Communist countries like North Korea, yet we hear nothing about this in the media. One reason for this, is that many people who work in Western media today are Communists themselves.
Have you ever wondered why there is so much propaganda in the media today? The job of a journalist is to report the news to the people. But many journalists today are merely just pushing their own political agenda and propaganda. I remember in Sweden a few years ago, a well known radio news anchor was caught having a portrait of Mao on her desk. That says a lot.
According to Open Doors USA, 360 million Christians are being persecuted for their faith worldwide right now. And much of this happens either in Communist countries, or in the middle East according to their research.
I have managed to find an account of Christian persecution by the Communist Bolsheviks that to my knowledge hasn’t been reported on earlier. I found this from an old Swedish magazine published by the Filadelfia church that talks about how Christians were martyred for their faith by the Soviets. I have done my best here to translate it from the original Swedish into English.
”During a meeting at the Filadelfia church in Stockholm, the in Sweden well known missionary E. W. Olson, told some stories from Russia, about how they now act towards the Christians and towards them that want to give the Russian people the gospel of God’s salvation. The Russian people in general are talked about as a very religious people that really want to hear and easily receive God’s salvation truths.
During the talk, brother Olson talked about an event, that in the most uncomfortable and horrible way shone a light at the Bolsheviks horrible advance and fight against the Christian mission and its work. One of the Churches that during his work was started and operated in the area of Vladivostok, at one point got a visit from a bunch of soldiers from the red army.
The congregation was chased out and hunted with the bayonets to an old barn, where they were forced inside. After that the doors were closed and guarded, large piles of fire tinder and flammable items were thrown up and against the walls. When all preparations were done, they lit it all on fire.
When the flames started licking the walls and before the smoke had begun to choke the poor victims, one could hear these martyrs from the 20th century sing ”Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee” etc.
We want to unite ourselves in that prayer that these martyrs prayed in their song ”Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee” etc.
A truly wonderful hiding place! When the good man of God, Toplady, walked into the cleft of a rock to seek shelter from a surprising storm and this event gave him the reason and inspiration to write this now well known song, he could have no idea that this song would give an echo and be sung the world over, give comfort, hope and insight to hundreds of thousands and become a wonderful addition to the multitude of martyrs triumphant songs over darkness and the horrible storms of evil.”
The above quote was taken from Sångens Härold issue number 4 in the year of 1932 with the editor Einar Ekberg. He was responsible for the music in the Filadelfia church in Stockholm during the time that Levi Pethrus was pastor there.
This is shocking stuff. Absolutely evil. Absolutely horrible. Here is an account of how Christians were brutally murdered for their faith by the Communists in the Soviet Union. Is this being talked about anywhere? Why not? This story is hidden away in an old Christian magazine from 1932 and to my knowledge is not reported anywhere else. Why is that?
In fact, the Soviets had an anti-religious campaign where they worked to try and eliminate Christianity from the country and replace it with atheism and it was a fundamental ideological goal of the state. The Communists persecuted believers in horrible ways.
Christians could be arrested for claiming that miracles had taken place, as this kind of information had to be suppressed by the state as it would contradict the state ideology of atheism.
This is Communism. The state is total. The state is everything. No-one can do or say anything that goes against the state or risk severe persecution.
Why are we not treating Communism the same as Nazism? To this day we still have many people who either support or make excuses for Communism. It is time to treat Communism the way we treat Nazism. There is no place for this kind of evil.
We must say no to evil.