The Washington Times had a story yesterday on
The Victims of Che Guevara poster being offered by the Young America's Foundation. The poster uses photos of people killed by Che to make his image.
Che Guevara has become something of an icon among Hispanic youth, the vast majority of whom know nothing about him. It's a pity so few children know or understand the bloody path of Cuba, or of communists in general. But then, they aren't being taught that, are they?
"Che is one of the heroes that the left idolizes," said Patrick X. Coyle, vice president of YAF. "But a lot of kids don't know anything about him. We thought this would be a great way to highlight his atrocities."
The occasion for the poster is Freedom Week, YAF's annual commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, which has since become the most famous event symbolizing the collapse of Soviet communism.
Conservative students on more than 100 college and university campuses will participate in Freedom Week events, and YAF has printed 10,000 copies of the Guevara poster to dramatize the fact that communism "affected real individuals," Mr. Coyle said.
"In fact, collectivist regimes, according to 'The Black Book of Communism,' murdered more than 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century," he said.
The Left loves to talk about people killed by Christians but fails to point out that far more people were killed by communism than by Christians at any point in history. For all its failings, Christianity has done far more good in the world than evil.
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