A Witness to the Horrors of a Marxist Hellhole

The International Herald Tribune tells the story of a young North Korean man who spent his entire childhood and youth in the gulag:

On Nov. 29, 1996, 14-year-old Shin Dong Hyok and his father were made to sit in the front row of a crowd assembled to watch executions. The two had already spent seven months in a North Korean prison camp's torture compound, and Shin assumed they were among those to be put to death.
Instead, the guards brought out his mother and his 22-year-old brother. The mother was hanged, the brother was shot by a firing squad.
"Before she was executed, my mother looked at me," Shin said in a recent interview. "I don't know if she wanted to say something, because she was bound and gagged. But I avoided her eyes.
"My father was weeping, but I didn't cry," he said. "I had no love for her. Even today I hate her for what I had to go through because of her."

The idiots on the left, who think they are so smart, advocate the very same policies that would lead to such a nightmare. They want everything under the control of the government. And how many times have I heard them say that communism/socialism is good for people?

The mind boggles.