The harm communism has inflicted on humanity is unprecedented and unmatched. World War I killed ten to twenty million people; World War II killed seventy to eighty million. Hitler's rule resulted in roughly 16 million deaths (6 million Jews and 10 million others, most of them Christians). Communist parties, by contrast, caused 160 million unnatural deaths — ten times the toll of fascism. During the Soviet Union's 73 years of existence, 60 million people died unnatural deaths; in China, since 1949, unnatural deaths are estimated at nearly 100 million — China's death toll alone exceeds the combined total of both world wars. Yet the communist parties "refuse to admit any wrong to the death," attributing these monstrous crimes to the personal character flaws of Stalin and Mao. In truth, there is only one answer: the Communist Party and its system are the root of all evil. When the Communist Party first emerged in Europe in the 19th century, Western European nations' systems of party rotation in power had only just taken shape. Western European parties operated mainly within their own countries; their ideas were pluralistic even as their policies were broadly aligned; their organizations were loose, essentially electoral clubs that competed for state office through legal, peaceful means. The communist party, by contrast, was from its very inception an international organization — it sought to rule over all of humanity and to abolish every nation on earth, and to that end, it naturally had to use violence to overthrow every existing regime, system, and cultural tradition, sparing no cost and stopping at nothing to achieve this goal. For this reason, the communist party is the true progenitor of both fascism and terrorism. Lenin took the beast-like Party nature of communism to a height of utter inhumanity: a layer of ruthless "professional revolutionaries" formed an elite leadership class, enforcing an iron discipline — "the part submits to the whole, the minority submits to the majority, the lower submits to the higher" — while building an armed force to carry out violent terror, seizing power by any means necessary. In essence, this was nothing but a mafia organization at national scale, in which the Party's interest overrode everything else. The Russian Communist Party's sudden victory after the February Revolution was, in fact, made possible by the German Kaiser's gift of 50 million gold marks (roughly equivalent to over 9 tons of gold) to Lenin, which allowed Pravda to whip up momentum and suddenly gave the Red Guard a powerful arsenal. After seizing power, Lenin gunned down the Constituent Assembly and slaughtered millions of innocents indiscriminately; Party rule was established in a sea of crimson blood. Over the 80 years from 1826 to 1905, the Tsarist government executed a total of 894 political prisoners; yet in the Bolsheviks' very first month in power, several hundred thousand people died for political reasons. Between 1917 and 1918, in just 14 months of Soviet rule, Lenin had a million people executed. The suffering the Tsarist autocracy inflicted on the Russian people pales into utter insignificance next to the catastrophe wrought by communist totalitarianism. Over the Soviet Communist Party's 74 years of rule, three man-made famines occurred, with a combined death toll of at least 30 million — something never before seen in Russian history. Just before the end of World War II, Stalin told Churchill: "The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of ten million is a statistic." This is a full exposure of the barbaric nature of Party rule at its core. Wen Jiabao once said: "The purpose and principle of socialism is to eliminate all class oppression and all class exploitation, and to build a fair and just society." This is a lie through and through. The CCP claimed the Nationalist Party (KMT) was oppressing the Chinese people, and on that basis incited peasants to overthrow the Nationalist government. In its early years, the CCP launched labor union movements, strikes, and boycotts; Mao Zedong launched the Hunan peasant movement, marked by indiscriminate plunder and killing. On December 1, 1926, Wu Yuzhang, Yang Anggong, Zhu De, Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, and others led a large-scale armed uprising in the Luzhou and Shunqing (present-day Nanchong) areas of Sichuan to seize Nationalist military authority, which eventually led to the Nationalists' April 12 purge; Mao then led his forces up to Jinggangshan, where he indiscriminately slaughtered millions of innocent people in the Soviet base areas. After 1949, the CCP became China's privileged ruling class, while every other Chinese person was reduced to a rightless underclass. Marxism advocates the dictatorship of the proletariat, dividing members of society into a leading class, allied classes, and "classes that deserve to be eliminated," carrying out total physical, material, and ideological annihilation against those defined as "class enemies," using "labor reform camps" as sites of collective 're-education' and slaughter — mercilessly wiping out even those docile subjects who submitted to it. Slaves under a slave society were, in fact, far luckier than "class enemies" under communism. In no slave-holding society in all of history was there ever a slave owner foolish enough to attempt the total extermination of his own slaves. Mao Zedong constantly divided people into left, center, and right — that is, "advanced," "middling," and "backward" (or "reactionary") — and carried out mass purges under a 5-percent elimination quota. In the 1950s, more than 20 million landlords, alleged spies, and "historical counterrevolutionaries" were killed; between 1958 and 1962, more than 50 million "backward" peasants starved to death, turning China into a world of cannibalism. The Cultural Revolution went on to persecute more than 20 million more people to death. And today, forced demolitions continue to drive countless people to their deaths. Pol Pot was Mao Zedong's favorite and truest disciple; he murdered a third of his own country's innocent population — more than 2 million people. In 1976, Afghanistan had a population of 17 million; during the years of communist rule there (1978-1988), 1.5 million died, producing the largest disabled population in human history, at up to 7 million people, along with 6 million refugees who fled to other countries. The brutality and savagery of Soviet forces in Afghanistan far exceeded even the crimes committed by Nazi Germany under Hitler and by Japanese militarism in China. This fully demonstrates that wherever the communist party takes hold, the people there are doomed to suffer! The song "The East Is Red" calls the Communist Party a great savior — in truth, it is a great calamity. The history of the communist party is a history of disaster inflicted upon humanity. From the moment it arrived in this world, every pore of its body, from head to toe, has dripped with blood and filth. The communist party observes no law of heaven above, no basic humanity within, and no moral bottom line below; it combines within itself the worst traits of the traitor, the hooligan, and the bandit — it is the worst criminal gang the human world has ever known. The communist party's crimes — class struggle, violent revolution, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the abolition of private property, and the destruction of every tradition, moral code, religion, custom, habit, and culture — all flow directly from fundamentalist Marxist doctrine. Communist parties around the world have all committed the crimes of murder, mass genocide, robbery (the plunder of both public and private property), fraud, corruption and bribery, torture, the extermination of belief, religious persecution, and the destruction of the natural environment and resources. The CCP has committed ten great crimes against the Chinese people: (1) splitting China apart and subverting the state; (2) colluding with the Japanese invaders, acting as a traitor who armed the enemy; (3) colluding with Soviet Russia to sell out Chinese territory (the CCP is a traitorous party nurtured by the Soviet Union to subvert the Republic of China, the most thoroughgoing nation-selling clique in Chinese history — for the sake of power, it not only ceded vast tracts of territory to foreign powers, but also used international treaties to formally recognize the legality of Russia's historical seizures of huge swaths of Chinese land); (4) manufacturing famine and brutally killing its own citizens; (5) importing the Marxist-Leninist cult and destroying Chinese culture; (6) defying heaven and betraying morality, destroying the natural environment; (7) abolishing private property and destroying the moral fabric of the people; (8) plundering the citizenry to cultivate a class of corrupt officials; (9) exporting revolution and bringing disaster upon the peoples of other nations; and (10) persecuting democracy through hegemonic authoritarian rule.