Ideology in Education
61st Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 20th February 2024. Held in the Henry Carmichael Theatre, Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt St, Sydney NSW.
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Communism, Chapter 6: The Gulag Archipelago
Solzhenitsyn’s estimate of death toll across the Soviet Union due to all the atrocities of Lenin and Stalin was of 60 million killed (other estimates put it at at least 20 m).
“Ideology—that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.”
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Calvary in Kabul
That half of the Afghan population who are women might have a particular reason to dread a renewed Taliban regime in their country as it would deprive them of every single advantage gained since 2001. Civilisation, as we see it, means the freedom to seek and achieve one’s potential. The Taliban are enemies of that civilisation.
They proved this beyond all doubt when in 2001 they dynamited the “Buddhas of Bamiyan.” They were 2000 years old and belonged to the world!
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