Communist Propaganda Poster: Comrades, Turn In Your Weapons!
The poster shows Russian citizens turning in their
rifles, handguns and even swords as a communist soldier looms over them
with the words, “Comrades, turn in your weapons” appearing in front of a
hammer and sickle inside a red star.
The text bears a chilling resemblance to Senator Dianne Feinstein’s infamous “turn em all in” quote from 1995.
Following Alex Jones’ explosive appearance on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight last
month, gun control advocates reacted to Jones’ fiery historical defense
of the right to bear arms by attempting to dismiss the fact that
tyrannical regimes always disarmed their target populations as a myth or
a hoax.
Numerous left-wing blogs successfully gamed Google’s search engine results so
that when people searched for terms such as ‘Nazi gun control’, they
were met with a plethora of articles claiming the historical basis for
this connection was a fabrication.
In reality, the Nazis did take existing gun control laws
and make them more draconian in order to target their political
adversaries. That is a manifestly provable historical fact.
The Nazi Weapons Law of November 11, 1938 prohibited
Jews from “acquiring, possessing, and carrying firearms and ammunition,
as well as truncheons or stabbing weapons,” and ordered them to turn in
all guns and ammunition to local police. As historian William Sheridan
Allen noted, the Nazis also began house to house gun confiscations
targeting “subversives” shortly after they came to power.
In addition, historians like Israel Guttman have
outlined how the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis was hampered
by the fact that imprisoned Jews did not have access to adequate
arsenals of firearms, although their resistance did lead Goebbels to
note in his diary: “This just shows what you can expect from Jews if
they lay hands on weapons.”
Similarly, as J.E. Simkin and Aaron Zelman document in their book “Gun Control”: Gateway to Tyranny,
in October 1918, the Council of People’s Commissars (the Communist
government) ordered citizens to surrender all firearms, ammunition, and
sabres, having first mandated registration of all weapons six months
earlier. Just like the Nazis, Communist Party members were exempt from
the ban.
A 1920 decree then imposed a minimum six month prison
sentence for any non-Communist possessing a weapon. After the civil war,
possession became punishable with three months hard labor plus fines.
After Stalin came to power, he made possession of unlawful firearms a
crime punishable by death.
With Russians almost universally disarmed, Stalin was
given free reign to carry out one of history’s most brutal prolonged
genocide, with tens of millions of people executed or starved to death
in the three decades that followed, a model subsequently mimicked in
China and Cambodia.
This poster should remind us that brutal dictatorships
have almost always been preceded by widespread gun confiscation, and to
allow leftists to claim otherwise in the pursuit of their contemporary
political agenda is an insult to the historical record.
H/T - This web page has an excellent and fully sourced list of all the countries where gun control was a precursor to mass genocide.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
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