David,
cute photo. Your comprehension and expression is impressive for one so young.

But both you and the 'The Black Book of Communism' have a major omission. Adolph Hittler was the leader of the National Socialist Party of Germany. He didn't lead the National Conservative or Liberal Party of Germany.

Now add their 20 million odd to the list.

Yes Hitler loved commies.
Tyrants can pretend their either left or right but the reality is it doesn't matter they are still tyrants.

Free open elections are the key, if you don't have that you have tyranny

the number of deaths quoted are horrific until you compare them with the murder of unborn babies. Seems like secularism and marxism have a lot more in common than many admit. Only a morality that value human life protects the most vulnerable. The West once based on Christian values was the safest place to live. Not any longer for the unborn as we have trashed these values.

Marxism is only one kind of socialism. The article only refers to Marxism and is not critical of socialism in general only the Marxist brand. The Nazis were financed in part by German industrialists and were not socialist in spite of that word in their name.

imajulianutter,

Despite the name, the National Socialist party was about as socialist as our Liberal party is actually liberal. The Nazis were completely opposed to communism, and murdered communists as readily as they did Jews. In the death camps, prisoners wore coloured patches to identify what category of 'crime' they had committed - yellow for Jews, brown for Gypsies, pink for homosexuals and so on. The colour worn by political prisoners - those regarded as enemies of the Nazi philosophy and state - was red, symbolising communism (although not all political prisoners were communists).

Dear runner,

When the west was almost completely Christian it was a very unsafe place to live. Charlemagne offered the pagan Gauls the choice of converting or beheading. That was typical of the spread of Christianity by violence after 371. The Dark Ages began when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire in 371. At different times there were massacres of Jews, Albigensians and others by Christians. There were Wars of the Reformation where Christians killed Christians who had a different version of the Christian mumbojumbo. The Dark Ages were a time when life was cheap. Europeans began to free themselves from the oppressive grasp of Christianity with the growth of the secular state. Under Christianity the life of the individual had little worth.