[Originally released Oct 2019]

Alekx and Ethan from Proles of the Round Table podcast join Breht on this All Hallows Eve to deconstruct the myth and logic of the oft-stated claim that Communism is responsible for the deaths of 100 million human beings.

On this Halloween, we urge our listeners to reject the anti-communist propaganda of our enemies, while also realizing that the real blood-drenched monsters, ghouls, goblins, and vampires of this world are not to be found within the pages of fairy tales, but rather at the highest echelons of capitalist class society: the very people who want nothing more than for you to fall, hook, line, and sinker, for their anti-communist lies in order to maintain their murderous grip on the ill-gotten seats atop our world's bloody and unjust hierarchies of wealth and power.

Here are just some of the sources used for this episode:

https://medium.com/@discomfiting/debunking-communism-killed-more-people-than-naziism-7a9880696f67

https://mronline.org/2011/06/26/revisiting-alleged-30-million-famine-deaths-during-chinas-great-leap/

https://monthlyreview.org/commentary/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/

https://mronline.org/2017/10/18/mao-reconsidered/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4331212/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/03/the-holodomor-and-the-film-bitter-harvest-are-fascist-lies/

https://www.newcoldwar.org/archive-of-writings-of-professor-mark-tauger-on-the-famine-scourges-of-the-early-years-of-the-soviet-union/

https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/furr_yezhov_jls17.pdf

Outro Music: 'Bury a Friend' by Billie Eilish

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Environment in Ottoman Turkey: MEMO in conversation with Chris Gratien