\n\nIn the world\u00e2\u0080\u0099s collective consciousness, the word \u00e2\u0080\u009cNazi\u00e2\u0080\u009d is synonymous with evil. It is widely understood that the Nazis\u00e2\u0080\u0099 ideology--nationalism, anti-Semitism, the autarkic ethnic state, the F\u00c3\u00bchrer principle--led directly to the furnaces of Auschwitz. It is not nearly as well understood that Communism led just as inexorably, everywhere on the globe where it was applied, to starvation, torture, and slave-labor camps. Nor is it widely acknowledged that Communism was responsible for the deaths of some 150 million human beings during the twentieth century. The world remains inexplicably indifferent and uncurious about the deadliest ideology in history.
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A Hidden History of Evil by Claire Berlinski, City Journal Spring 2010.
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