In this, the 21st - and most foul - century of Our Lord:

What I Have Learned From the Twentieth Century...

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Discovered this gem over at Sipsey Street Irregulars.

It is a piece written 10 years ago by Mike Vanderboegh and his words are ringing today even truer than the day they were written.
Meet the Faculty Emeritus of the University of Collectivism. They make the trains run on time, right to the execution camp gate.

Here's a tip: Don't get in the boxcar.
I wrote this ten years ago. By request, here it is again.

- MikeIII

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What I Have Learned From the Twentieth Century

With thanks to Schoolmasters Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Mao Tse-Tung and Pol Pot

From the Liberty Pole - June, 1999

by Mike Vanderboegh

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As an amateur historian of this sad century whose time is almost up, I would like to reflect upon six lessons I have learned in my studies. Folks who wish to live free and prosperous in the next century would do well to understand the failures of the past...

EXCELLENT - MUST READ:

http://transsylvaniaphoenix.blogspot.com/2009/02/what-i-have-learned-from-twentieth.html

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In the backgound: Siegessäule monument (Victory column). Hitler's favorite landmark in Berlin, the column represented a symbol of German superiority over Denmark, Austria and France