Monday May 27, 2024 is Memorial Day, when we remember the soldiers that gave their lives in America’s wars. But it is well to remember that, despite the skepticism of Wikipedia, Memorial Day began as Decoration Day, organized by the women of the South to decorate the graves of the soldiers killed in the failed war of secession.

Yes. Whatabout the men and women who gave their lives for nothing? I read recently that the Bolsheviks started killing people, just because, in 1918. Then, to implement the collectivization of agriculture, they sent the kulaks into the interior of Russia where they died -- from execution, from concentration camps, or just starving without the means to grow their own food. Then there was the Holodomor in 1932-33, the specific deaths in Ukraine of millions from famine caused by the collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union. We should remember all those who died in the Soviet Union, for nothing.

Then there were the million or so killed in the Soviet Great Purge of 1936-38. People were starting to criticize the failures of Stalin’s five-year plans and forced collectivization. So millions were arrested and dispatched by the NKVD. We should remember those who died, for nothing.

We remember the six million........

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