{"id":1926745,"date":"2023-05-08T15:41:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T19:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-v-e-day-remember-all-of-communisms-casualties\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T15:43:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T19:43:18","slug":"this-v-e-day-remember-all-of-communisms-casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-v-e-day-remember-all-of-communisms-casualties\/","title":{"rendered":"On V-E Day, honor all victims of communism."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthis-v-e-day-remember-all-of-communisms-casualties%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1926745&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Remembering the Realities of V-E Day<\/h2>\n<h3>Victory in Europe Day<\/h3>\n<p>On May 8th, we celebrate V-E Day, Victory in Europe Day, marking the Third Reich\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-officials-share-video-of-nuke-launch-against-japan\/\" title=\"Chinese Officials Share Video of Nuke Launch Against Japan\">unconditional surrender<\/a> to Allied forces. It&#8217;s a day that commemorates a triumph over one of the evilest regimes in history. However, we must remember that the end of Hitler\u2019s Germany didn\u2019t bring the end of their sorrows. The West was freed from Nazi tyranny, but the East faced another half-century of communist slavery under the Soviet boot.<\/p>\n<h3>The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact<\/h3>\n<p>Soviet leader Joseph Stalin started the war as Adolf Hitler\u2019s willing partner in war crime. Less than two weeks before the first shots of WWII were fired, Hitler and Stalin signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop non<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-mothers-have-a-duty-to-nourish-any-children-inside-their-wombs\/\" title=\"Why Mothers Have A Duty To Nourish Any Children Inside Their Wombs\">-aggression pact<\/a>, agreeing not to declare war on each other and to carve up Poland together. By this pact, the Soviet communists greenlit the most destructive conflict in history, not just by joining Hitler\u2019s invasion of Poland, but by enabling his aggression to the West.<\/p>\n<h3>The Reality of Life Under Soviet Control<\/h3>\n<p>During and after the war, the Soviets looted priceless works of art from Poland as the Nazis did, squeezed hundreds of millions of dollars from several Eastern European countries, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-v-e-day-remember-all-of-communisms-casualties\/\" title=\"On V-E Day, honor all victims of communism.\">started massive campaigns<\/a> of ethnic cleansing in conquered territories. Soviet \u201cliberating\u201d troops engaged in wide-scale rape and looting of populations who had suffered for years of Nazi war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>To further cement Soviet control over what would become known as the Iron Curtain, Stalin imposed on Eastern Europe communist dictators whose brutality makes Attila the Hun look like Mother Theresa. Such tyrants ruled Eastern Europe until the fall of communism in the \u201880s and \u201890s, subjecting their victim populations to terror and poverty.<\/p>\n<h3>Honoring Their Memories<\/h3>\n<p>This V-E Day, we must honor the memories of those who suffered under Soviet-imposed communism for decades. We owe it to the people of Eastern Europe to remember their suffering and the realities of life behind the Iron Curtain. Let us never forget the darkness of prison camps and the fear of being shot or imprisoned for complaining about your horrible life. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Let us remember their stories and honor their memories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elad Vaida is a staff writer for Common Sense Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This May 8, we celebrate V-E Day, Victory in Europe Day, marking the Third Reich\u2019s unconditional surrender to Allied forces. Though this day commemorates a triumph over one of the evilest regimes in history, we owe it to the people of Eastern Europe to remember that the end of Hitler\u2019s Germany didn\u2019t bring the end<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1740,"featured_media":1926746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[5607,7660,4722,26179,4931],"class_list":["post-1926745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-communism","tag-day","tag-honor","tag-v-e","tag-victims"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}