I am becoming increasingly angry with communism.

The more I study it, and the more I read about the history and development of the nations that suffered so terribly under the its heavy hand, the more I passionately start disliking it. I read today about Bulgaria and Ukraine, two countries with a wonderful, fascinating history. I feel like I would very much like to see those nations some day, to stroll down the streets of Odessa or Sofia, walk along the shore of the Black Sea and see a part of the world I have never seen before.

But then, sometime between 1917 and 1922, this mighty, terrible, destructive force engulfed it. Driven on my those cold-hearted, blood-soaked madmen Lenin and Stalin, this region of the world was to suffer enormously. People starved under Stalin’s forced economical development, those who opposed ended up in labor camps to face untold agony.

What if, I ask myself, what if these nations had enjoyed a stable, democratic, capitalistic growth like West Europe? With the tragic exception of World War II and another lunatic madman named Hitler, it might have enjoyed an enormous peace, industrialization and development. Ukraine could have fed half the earth with its gigantic crop fields. Sofia might have been the Paris of the east; Odessa might have been a tourist spot as grand as Venice or Vienna. Just take the European freeway from Berlin over to Warsaw and then downwards through winding passageways between towering mountains and across great, sunny fields. And stop at a McDonalds or Burger King here and there along the way.

But someone cast an iron curtain over Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and a great wall was constructed, not to block people out but to shut them in. And someone repressed that whole region, shamelessly and mercilessly, for decades. Someone exploited it, terrorized it and subdued it under the heavy heels of military boots and armored tanks, with NKVD spies peering gloomily from every corner. And ninety years later, it’s once again starting to open up, walking upon a frail and shaky path, this time towards freedom and capitalism.

I hate communism. I hate the very essence of it, the theory behind it, the practical implementation of it. I loathe and detest the spirit behind it; and every person that willfully and knowingly helped enforce that murderous, tyrannical rule should be dragged through the streets, flogged by the millions of innocent victims they produced, and dragged towards the gallows where justice shall be meted out upon them.

There are many problems that come with freedom and capitalism, but it also opens the door to blessings, because there are few things so important to mankind, than to be able to stand up and breathe free under open skies. And any ideology that even touches upon that essential freedom, is in grave danger of overstepping its rightful boundaries.

The 20th Century produced three ideologies worse than anything we’ve seen before: Nazism, Fascism and Communism. All three of them violated the basic rule of independence and liberty of the individual. And all three of them turned out to be global killers. Go figure.