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During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a model-- all this at a time when literally millions of people were starving to death in the Soviet Union, from a famine in a country with some of the richest farmland in Europe and historically a large exporter of food.

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More than half a century later, when the archives of the Soviet Union were finally opened up under Mikhail Gorbachev, it turned out that about six million people had died in that famine-- about the same number as the people killed in Hitler's Holocaust.

— Thomas Sowell; Dismantling America view

The only reason they appeared to embrace it [communism] for so many years was that they had no choice. As long as the Soviets held control of the weapons and the means of communication, the people had to accept their fate.

But at the tip of the pyramid of state power, it is a different story. The top Communist leaders have never been as hostile to their counterparts in the West as the rhetoric suggests. They are quite friendly to the world's leading financiers and have worked closely with them when it suits their purposes.

— G. Edward Griffin; The Creature From Jekyll Island view

Because it is an almost total waste of the energies and talents of its captive people, the Soviet Union can exist only by massive infusions of capital from the Western democracies. Few Americans realize how much of the money extorted from their wages by the Internal Revenue Service is transferred directly to the Federal Reserve Banks, and from there to Switzerland, where it is transferred to five Soviet banks.

— Eustace Mullins; The Curse of Canaan view

Just remember that the Soviet Union was put before us in our media and our television and our radio and our newspapers as being an evil empire, a frightening, powerful, evil militaristic empire. And now today we find out it's like The Wizard of Oz; he comes out from behind the curtain and we find out they've been starving all their life, they can't even grow enough potatoes to make vodka - they have to import the potatoes, they haven't even got a railroad track across their country, they're starving, they have always been starving, they're broke and the only military materials they had is the stuff that we sent to them that we are not using anymore - shells of rockets, shells of planes and it's just an evil empire on paper, they're starving.

— Jordan Maxwell; Lucifer 2000 view

The Soviet Government, administrator of the world's most humanist state, has murdered some sixty-six million of its own citizens since the Bolshevik Revolution, according to its leading writer, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn. All of this has been done in the name of "socialist realism," or humanism.

— Eustace Mullins; The Curse of Canaan view

Before his [Michael Sindona] death, he explained to an interviewer the complexities of the great grain swindle, when the Soviet Union bought wheat from the United States in July, 1972. The Soviet Union was allowed to pay for its purchases in the following manner: the central bank of Hungary, acting for the Soviet Union, placed an order to sell the dollar short for $20 billion; Secretary of the Treasury John Connally then devalued the dollar by 10%; the Soviet Union made $4 billion on its short selling operation, and paid for the grain; they had $2 billion profit from the short selling operation and $2 billion from the 10% devaluation of the dollar. Sindona observed, "In its fathomless naivete, the United States has provided the Soviets with $4 billion, money that has since doubtless been invested in the destruction of its benefactors; I began to see then that America was the consort of her own ruin. I tell you, in all of history, no power has so blindly armed and succored its enemies as she."

— Eustace Mullins; The Curse of Canaan view