Wikipedia Tries to Erase The Brutal History of Communist Regimes

It is a well-known saying that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. This appears to be a looming problem for the world today as the abuses and atrocities of communist dictators are erased from the history books. Fox News reported that Wikipedia’s two main pages for “Socialism” and “Communism” contain no discussion of the genocides committed by socialist and communist regimes, in which tens of millions of people were murdered.

The Wikipedia page praises the Soviet Union for “some of the most significant technological achievements in the 20^th century.” It noticeably leaves out Stalin’s man-made famine that killed millions and his “Great Purge” to eliminate dissenting members of the communist party and rivals resulting in at least 750,000 executions.

Additionally, Wikipedia’s socialism page fails to cover Mao Zedong’s reign of terror that killed tens of millions in China. It also fails to mention Mao’s Cultural Revolution that closed schools, destroyed religious and cultural relics, and killed intellectuals and party elites.

Lily Tang Williams, a Chinese-American immigrant who witnessed firsthand Mao Zednog’s abuses and is a member of VOC’s speaker bureau is greatly concerned by this move to erase the brutal history of communist regimes. She said, “Wikipedia should not whitewash these atrocities committed against humanity under communism.”

“How could Wikipedia fail to mention on their main page that an estimated 36 million Chinese starved to death during the Great Famine, and 20 million died during Mao’s Cultural Revolution?” she asked.

She stated, “I witnessed the chaos and class struggle campaigns that tore families apart. My teenage neighbor came home literally crazy after a couple of years in the Down to the Countryside Movement. God knows what happened to her.”

President Reagan warned that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. Now, the 13th most popular website in the world has scrubbed significant parts of the brutal history of communist and socialist regimes that have killed more than one hundred million people and inflicted abuses on a billion more across the globe. It is critical that we teach accurate history lessons to America’s youth.