[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 1, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H616]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     SOCIALISM IS A FAILED IDEOLOGY

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, socialism has failed everywhere it has been 
tried and has caused millions of deaths over the last century.
  In 1932 and 1933, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin engineered a man-made 
famine in Ukraine that killed more than 3 million people. In 1938, 1 
million people were executed by the Soviet Union's secret police in a 
campaign of organized terror.
  From 1960 to 1962, over 50 million people died in Communist China 
during Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward. Again, from 1966 until 1976, 
over 3 million people were killed by Chairman Mao's Cultural 
Revolution.
  In Cambodia, communist dictator Pol Pot killed 2 million people, 25 
percent of his country's population.
  Almost 2 million North Koreans have been killed by that country's 
communist government.
  These are just a few of the examples of socialism leading to mass 
death and suffering for innocent people. These deaths are a feature, 
not a bug and not an anomaly.
  Socialism never works, as its critics must be silenced by force. It 
might sound attractive going in, but people who have voted it in 
usually have to fight their way out of it.
  Let's be on the side of victims of socialism, the tens of millions of 
them, and speak out and condemn it in all its forms.

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