There were 86 Democrats who joined all Republicans to vote in favor of the resolution.
WASHINGTON—The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution on Nov. 21 denouncing the “horrors of socialism.”
The tally was 285–98 with two voting “present.” There were 86 Democrats who joined all Republicans to vote in favor of the resolution, which was introduced by Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), a daughter of Cuban immigrants who fled the communist regime of Fidel Castro. There were 63 cosponsors.
The resolution states that “socialist ideology necessitates a concentration of power that has, time and time again, collapsed into communist regimes, totalitarian rule, and brutal dictatorships” and “has repeatedly led to famine and mass murders, and the killing of over 100,000,000 people worldwide.”
The measure calls out Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, Daniel Ortega, Hugo Chavez, and Nicolás Maduro as men who committed the greatest crimes in history as part of their socialist ideology.
Additionally, it notes that “tens of millions died in the Bolshevik Revolution, at least 10,000,000 people were sent to the gulags in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and millions more starved in the Terror-Famine” in Ukraine.
The resolution states that the Great Leap Forward in China under Mao Zedong killed between 15 million and 55 million people due to starvation caused by famine and devastation.
Moreover, it recalls that socialism in Cambodia “led to the killing fields in which over a million people were gruesomely murdered.”
The measure notes that as many as 3.5 million people are starving in North Korea, a communist regime.
It teaches that “the Castro regime in Cuba expropriated the land of Cuban farmers and the businesses of Cuban entrepreneurs, stealing their possessions and their livelihoods, and exiling millions with nothing but the clothes on their backs.”The resolution also notes “the implementation of socialism in Venezuela has turned a once-prosperous country into a failed State with the highest rate of inflation in the world.”
The resolution also notes “the implementation of socialism in Venezuela has turned a once-prosperous country into a failed State with the highest rate of inflation in the world.”
