Throughout history we ask ourselves : "Why should I worry?" "Why should I prepare?' ....."If I worry then am I just Paranoid?".... These people probably asked themselves that.........and found out the answer too late......( The Mad Cossack) As part of Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I, Czechs were reluctantly forced to fight the Russians. Recognizing Czech soldiers as potential allies, the Russians formed a Czech legion from those they had captured and promised them that if Russia won the war, Czechoslovakia would be given its independence. When the Russian Revolution and subsequent Civil War broke out, the League was stranded in Russia. With their easiest route out of Russia blocked, they decided to try to reach freedom by moving east. Along the way they fought the communists and as they moved through inhabited areas they often murdered communist revolutionaries. They did finally reach Vladivostok, then under Japanese control, and got shipping back home. In part because their widely reported struggle across Russia became famous, Czechoslovakia did achieve independence. Here is shown the Czech Legion hanging twelve revolutionaries in Ekaterinburg. The Holocaust. Here is a photograph of a German policeman finishing off Jewish women who remain alive in a ravine south of Rovno in Ukraine. These women had been taken from the Mizocz ghetto on its liquidation, forced to strip, and shot en mass. From 1917 to 1987, The Soviet government, really the Communist Party, murdered about 62,000,000 people, near 55,000,000 of them Soviet citizens. There are virtually no photos of this on the internet. Here is one exception. In the photo the bodies of seven Germans hang in the Smolensk city square after they were convicted in Smolensk district court for perpetrating "crimes against the Soviet people," a very general classification covering any reason for which officials wanted to dispose of a person. Because of the spectacular formality of these hangings, I suspect that the executed were German war "criminals". Documentation: see Lethal Politics. Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The direct URL for this photograph at the museum is no longer working. From 1900 to 1923, under Sultan Abdul Hamid, and the Young Turk and Nationalist governments of Turkey, over 2,000,000 Armenians and about 347,000 Greeks were murdered. This photo shows one widely used method of the Young Turk regime: starvation in the desert. Combat aged Armenian men were simply shot or otherwise murdered rapidly. Then women, their children, and the old were driven in guarded columns toward the desert, raped and harassed as they went. They either died on the way from starvation and thirst, were killed by guards, or died when they reached and were corralled in the desert. One of these Armenian women and her child are shown begging for food in the photo here. They cannot have long to live. Here is shown a student being beaten to death by Chinese soldiers in their Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. On August 8, 1988, doctors, students, teachers, farmers, musicians, artists, monks, and workers took part in peaceful, pro- democracy demonstrations in all major cities of Burma. The Burmese military demanded that the demonstrators disperse, and when they would not, soldiers fired round after round into the crowds. They massacred an incredible 5,000 to 10,000 unarmed people simply trying to express their desire for democracy. Here is a photo of the military firing on the demonstrators. On the Burmese military dictatorship Germans are about to murder this old lady in the Belzec concentration camp. Documentation: Democide: Nazi Genocide and Mass Murder. Source: "The Undeniable Holocaust." From Prof. Leopold Pfefferberg-Page Collection, via the Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes, Warsaw, Poland. I was so depressed by this photo-night after night I kept seeing it-- I saw it--this poor old lady shivering in the snow alone, no friends or love ones around to give her support and courage, waiting to be murdered. The communist Chinese government has never been respectful of human life, murdering as many as 35,000,000 people since the communist seized control over the whole country in 1949. The killing lessened after Mao Tse-tung's death in 1976, but still a citizen's life was conditional on obedience to the Communist Party. In 1989 students and supporters who were carrying out large scale pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, were attacked and massacred by the Army. Over 10,000 were slaughtered, thousands arrested and sent to forced labor camps, and hundreds were executed. Here is shown all that is left of a demonstrator and his bicycle. Here a count is being made of the bodies of as many as 40 men, many mutilated, that were found on a hillside in the village of Racak in January 1999, after Serb forces attacked ethnic Albanian villages. Source: "Photographic Evidence of Kosovo. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu) Genocide and Conflict"