User blog comment:Weedle McHairybug/Peace doesn't really sound very good to me... (various MG references and real life references ahead)./@comment-77.27.160.189-20121101215138/@comment-1672596-20121101230027

I don't know about North Korea, but I can tell you that the Soviet Union and China were definitely not treating Communism as their religion. Heck, they explicitly stated that they preach Atheism. I have an uncle who went to the Soviet Union as part of the Carter Administration, and he witnessed first hand several people trying to hide from the KGB in the shadows of a church that he unwittingly led them to (he fortunately saved them at the last possible moment). Also, a priest I highly respect, Father Adam, was Polish. He and his brother escaped Poland while it was under Soviet control, with their parents risking their lives to keep the secret of their escape from the Communist regime at the time. Pretty much anyone who DARES try to practice religion (Christianity, Judaism, or otherwise) in the public square in a Communist country would end up either killed by the Communists immediately, or otherwise sent to the Gulags, all because they ended up caught by those atheistic monsters. Heck, the only belief system that had ANY power in the Soviet Union, and in fact was the closest thing to an actual state-sponsored religion even when it wasn't a religion at all, was Atheism.

And another thing, it's one thing to have some negative emotions towards Jewish people or be irritated at their differences. It's quite another to attempt an organized method of extermination on them, something that not even the Spanish Inquisition ever attempted. In fact, it's because of the Nazi's attempts at extermination of Jewish people that the word "Genocide" even exists.

And again, it's not just the name that's similar. Read my previous posts on the subject, as I cited a pamphlet from the Nazi party, and where I found it (an internet forum) it mentioned that the choice of words alone were the same as the Communists. Also, if they were so different, why would the Soviets attempt to ban the word "nazi" from their language? It shouldn't matter if they were truly different.

And there really aren't Communist organizations that are pacifistic. Was the Weathermen Underground pacifistic? Was the Viet Cong pacifistic? They claimed to be fighting for peace, but that was demonstrated to be a downright lie. Also, the article mentioned that one of the criticisms of eurocommunism was that it in practice was still too similar to Communism, so I don't buy the comment about them being pacifistic. Besides, I've read up on how several "pacifists" during the anti-Vietnam protests often sang songs that rooted for the Communists (eg, "Ho-Ho-Ho-Chi-Minh! NLF's Gonna Win!"), so I really have doubts about them being pacifistic anyway.