Saturday, May 12, 2007

Blessed are the ignorant?



Forlagsdirektør Pål Steigan og Pol Pot. Sammen med Professor i journalistikk ved Universitetet i Oslo, Sigurd Allern, var Steigan en av forgrunnsfigurene i AKP(ml-) som idag har sterke bånd til de fascistiske selvhaterne i SOS Rasisme

"Less than fifteen years after the last Soviet troops pulled out of the Baltic States, a new survey has shown that young Swedes are still in the dark about the fate of its neighbours behind the Iron Curtain.

A poll carried out by Demoskop on behalf of the Organization for Information on Communism (Föreningen för upplysning om kommunismen - UOK) found that 90 percent of Swedes between the ages of 15 and 20 had never heard of the Gulag. This can be contrasted with the 95 percent who knew of Auschwitz.

Of the 1004 young Swedes involved in the nationwide poll, 43 percent believed that communist regimes had claimed less than one million lives. A fifth of those surveyed put the death toll at under ten thousand. The actual figure is estimated at around 100 million.

The poll also found that 40 percent of young Swedes believed that communism contributed to increased prosperity in the world; 22 percent considered communism a democratic form of government; 82 percent did not regard Belarus as a dictatorship."

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