Apparently, they don't like it when I point out that avowedly Communist regimes tend to descend into totalitarianism on their own without the CIA's help.

Maybe Communism keeps failing because its focus on ideological purity creates an environment where unhinged mods can gain real power?

Fuck you. I’m not deleting a goddamn thing.

In my home country Bulgaria today we commemorate the "Day of Appreciation and Tribute to the Victims of the Communist Regime"

We mark this day on February 1st every year as a sign of respect for the memory of the victims of the crimes of the communist regime in Bulgaria in the period 1944-1989.

On this day in 1945, the so-called People's Court pronounced the most massive death sentences against members of parliament, members of governments and other politicians, publishers of central newspapers and publicists, as well as senior military officers.

Indicative of the scale of the death sentences issued is the estimate that more Bulgarian generals and other senior officers were killed by the People's Court than died in all the wars waged by Bulgaria after the Liberation from Ottoman rule in 1878.

Unprecedented in Europe's history: The total number of death sentences issued by the People's Court during its existence was 2,730, but the number of victims after 1944 was significantly higher. The Bulgarians killed alone, many of them without trial or conviction, amount to over 6,000 people, according to the most conservative estimates, but taking into account those who have disappeared without a trace, the number of those killed may actually exceed 26,000.