Black Ribbon Day

Black Ribbon

Today  (August 23rd) is Black Ribbon Day. It is the day the European Union, Georgia, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States remembers the men, women and children murdered by both the Nazis and the Communists. The date was chosen because it was when the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between the German Nazis and the Soviet Communists was signed in 1939. 

Communist Dictatorship Murders Around The World: Present-Day:

 China (1949-Present):  73,237,000 people killed

Cuba (1961-Present): 73,000 people killed

North Vietnam (1945-1976), Vietnam (1976-Present): 1,670,000 people killed

 Laos (1975-Present): 56,000 people killed

 North Korea (1948-Present): 3,163,000 people killed

 

Communist Dictatorship Murders Around The World: 1917-1992:

Soviet Union (1922-1991):  58,627,000 people killed

Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (1919-1922): 3,284,000 people killed

Cambodia (1975-1987): 2,627,000 people killed

Afghanistan (1978-1992): 1,750,000 people killed

Ethiopia (1974-1991): 1,343,610 people killed

Yugoslavia (1945-1992): 1,072,000 people killed

Chinese Soviet Republic (1931-1934): 700,000 people killed

 Mozambique  (1975-1990): 700,000 people killed

Romania (1947-1989):  435,000 people killed

Bulgaria (1946-1990):  222,000 people killed

Angola (1975-1992):  125,000 people killed

Mongolia (1924-1992): 100,000 people killed

Albania (1946-1991): 100,000 people killed

East Germany (1949-1990): 70,000 people killed

Czechoslovakia (1948-1990): 65,000 people killed

Hungary (1949-1989): 27,000 people killed

Poland (1948-1989): 22,000 people killed

Yemen (1969-1990): 1,000 people killed

 

Targeted Groups Murdered By Nazi Germany:     1933-1945

Jews:   6 million people

Soviet Prisoners of War: 3.3 million Soldiers (including 50,000 Jewish Soldiers)

Non-Jewish Polish Civilians: 3 million people

Serb Civilians (on the territory of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina): 600,000 people

People with Disabilities: 270,000 people  (doesn’t include the 375,000 Disabled who were forcibly sterilized)

Roma and Sinti (Gypsies): 500,000 people

Jehovah's Witnesses:  5,000 people

Homosexuals:  9,000 people in Concentration Camps (Doesn’t include the 50,000 people held in regular prisons)

 

Total Civilian Deaths by Nazi Germany and Collaborators in Europe 1938-1945 (Includes those in Targeted Groups and those not in Targeted Groups.)

 Albania: 28,000 people

Armenia (USSR): 30,000 people

Azerbaijan (USSR): 90,000 people

Belgium: 76.000 people

Belorussia (USSR): 1,670,000 people

British Channel Islands:  2,029 people

Czechoslovakia: 320,000 people

Denmark: 6,000 people

Estonia (USSR): 50,000 people

France (and North African Colonies): 390,000 people

Georgia (USSR): 110,000 people

Greece: 471,800 people

Hungary (1944-1945): 264,000 people

Kazakhstan (USSR): 350,000 people

Kyrgyzstan (USSR): 50,000 people

Latvia (USSR): 230,000 people

Lithuania (USSR): 350,000 people

Luxembourg: 5,000 people

Malta (British Colony): 1,500 people

Moldova (USSR): 120,000 people

The Netherlands: 203,300 people

Norway: 8,200 people

Poland: 5,820,000 people

Russia (USSR): 7,200,000 people

Soviet Union (total from all the Soviet Republics): 15,770,000 people

Tajikistan (USSR): 70,000 people

Turkmenistan (USSR): 30,000 people

Uzbekistan (USSR): 220,000 people

Ukraine (USSR): 5,200,000 people

The United Kingdom: 60,595 people

Yugoslavia:  1,400,000 people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties