My name is Daniel. I was an English teacher in Seoul, South Korea, and now I am a writer who has published three books including South Korea: Our Story by Daniel Nardini.

                                    In the final analysis, our world and all that we know and accept runs on truth and evidence. Eventually we will know the truth, although it may be long after the fact of when something took place. In this case, I am talking about the number of people who were murdered under Communist regimes during certain periods in history. Two of these Communist regimes, the former Soviet Union and the current People's Republic of China, account for most of the unnatural deaths that occurred under Communism. China under its former leader Mao Zedong murdered an estimated 65 million people---more than anyone else in history. The Soviet Union comes next when its former leader Joseph Stalin murdered between 25-30 million people. Then there are the smaller countries like 3 million murdered under Kim Il-sung, 2-3 million murdered in Cambodia under Pol Pot, and a total of 1 million people murdered in Eastern Europe by the various Communist regimes that existed from 1945 to 1989. How do we know all this? Among the best known books on the subject of all those murdered, The Black Book of Communism, published in the West, contains facts and information from the archives of all those Communist nations that have since fallen of the horrific things they did. While the book only contains a little of the archives of China, the sheer crimes and atrocities that were committed in China under Mao are terrifying enough. The evidence of their crimes were kept hidden from their people and the whole world for decades until relatively recently. But it shows that Communism and socialism are monstrosities that are guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt that have murdered 100 million people within less than 100 years.