A good way to grasp the breadth of communism’s evils is to understand the depth of the suffering in the lives of its individual victims.
On February 9, 1940, seven-year-old Witold Rybicki and his family awoke in the middle of the night to banging on the door of their home in Lida, Poland (modern Belarus). Outside was an officer of the Soviet secret police, then called the NKVD, who gave his father orders: “Do not run away. Your house is surrounded by soldiers. You have an hour to pack your personal belongings. Do not worry about bringing much. Everything you need will be at your destination.
This all seems long ago and far away–until you think about the anti-White hatred so apparent on the left today. Like the Soviets, I very much doubt that they would have a problem with eliminating Whites who oppose the creation of the New American people.https://t.co/Ioly9hh7N9
— Kevin MacDonald (@TOOEdit) November 9, 2017
The Rybickis were never informed of charges against them, evidence of wrongdoing, a sentence, or their destination. Witold, his parents, and four of his siblings were taken from their home to a train station, where they were loaded into a cattle car about 15 meters long by five meters wide along with about 40 other people. The car was completely bare otherwise, with just a hole in the middle of the floor for a toilet.
For nearly a month, the train traversed Eastern Europe and Russia toward Siberia, not allowing anyone outside of the cramped, filthy cars…