Let us defy them and take stock, if only briefly, of why communism is the worst disaster ever to befall the human race since the Black Death:

• 65 million murdered in the People’s Republic of China
  20 million murdered in the Soviet Union
  2 million murdered in Cambodia
  2 million murdered in North Korea
  7 million murdered in Ethiopia
  5 million murdered in Afghanistan
  1 million murdered in the Eastern Bloc
  1 million murdered in Vietnam
  150,000 murdered in Latin America
  10,000 deaths resulting from “actions of the international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power.” (See The Black Book of Communism)

And consider this grab bag of Communist infamy (in no particular order):

• The Russian famine of 1921, which caused the death of 5 million people.
  The Decossackization, a policy of systematic repression against the Don Cossacks from 1917 to 1933
  The murder of tens of thousands in concentration camps from 1918-1930.
  The execution of tens of thousands of hostages and prisoners.
  The suppression of religion and persecution of believers and clergy: thousands of clergymen killed in the Soviet Union alone.
  The devout Grand Duchess Elizabeth and other Orthodox Christians buried alive by the Soviets (Elizabeth was later made a saint by the Orthodox Church).
  The murder of the Tsar, his wife, and all his children (all of whom were later canonized by the Orthodox Church).
  Thousands in the Soviet Union and elsewhere committed to mental institutions and “treated” for the “mental illness” of questioning Marxism-Leninism.
  Pol Pot of Cambodia murdering thousands simply because they wore glasses, because they were suspected of being intellectuals.
  The murder of hundreds of thousands of rebellious workers and peasants from 1918 to 1922
  The Great Purge which killed almost 690,000 people.
  Some 50,000 or more professors and other intellectuals murdered in Mao’s “Cultural Revolution.”
  The Katyn Forest Massacre of 1940, in which the Soviets murdered around 20,000 Poles, then pinned the deed on the Germans.
  The deportation of 2 million “kulaks” from 1930 to 1932.
  The death of 4 million Ukrainians (Holodomor) and 2 million others during the famine of 1932–1933.
  The deportations of Poles, Ukrainians, Moldovans and people from the Baltic states from 1939 to 1941 and from 1944 to 1945.
  The deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941.
  The rape of as many as 2 million German women by Soviet soldiers in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Did I miss anything? Yes, indeed. There’s a whole lot more that could be mentioned.