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| | + | [[Image:Captive-nations-01b----07-19-06.jpg|thumbnail|180px|right|Victims of Communism Memorial|A monument to the Captive Nations stands at the Victims of [[Communism]] Memorial Foundation in Washington, D.C. |
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| | + | In the past 100 years, governments under the banner of atheistic [[communism]] have caused the death of somewhere between 40,472,000 and 259,432,000 human lives.<ref name=blackbook>Multiple references:<br> |
| | + | *{{cite web |title=The Black Book of Communism The Human cost of Communism - 100 Million||url=http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/04/289239.html|accessdate=May 23, 2015|date=April 14, 2004|publisher=IndyMedia}} |
| | + | *[http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/lelivrenoir.htm "''The Black Book of Communism''"]. Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences website: Cold War Studies. Retrieved July 19, 2014. |
| | + | *Rummel, R. J. (November 1993). [http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM "How many did communist regimes murder?"] University of Hawaii website; Freedom, Democracy, Peace; Power, Democide, and War. Retrieved July 19, 2014. |
| | + | *White, Matthew (February 2011). [http://necrometrics.com/20c5m.htm "Source list and detailed death tolls for the primary megadeaths of the twentieth century"]. Necrometrics. Retrieved July 19, 2014. |
| | + | *Higgins, David (June 22, 2007). [https://web.archive.org/web/20071008035420/http://www.sarasotamagazine.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=365 "Memory and ideology: Washington's newest statue is the Victims Of Communism Memorial"]. Sarasota Magazine website. Retrieved from October 8, 2007 archive at Internet Archive on May 22, 2015. |
| | + | *Radosh, Ronald (February 2000). [http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=2526 "''The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression''"]. First Things [journal] website. Retrieved July 19, 2014.</ref> See: [[Atheism and communism]] ]] |
| | == Daniel Philpott, professor of political science and peace studies at Notre Dame == | | == Daniel Philpott, professor of political science and peace studies at Notre Dame == |
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