By Dale Yeager (provided by author) -- Russian citizens are up in arms over the newly released film, 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' which stars Harrison Ford.

Their anger stems from the film’s depiction of Soviet era Communists.

'What galls is how together with America we defeated Hitler, and how we sympathized when Bin Laden hit them. But they go ahead and scare kids with Communists. These people have no shame,' said Viktor Perov, a Communist Party member in Russia's second city of St. Petersburg. [Reuters, Fri May 23, 2008]

It seems the Russian people have a collective amnesia when it comes to their bloody history. In the early years of the Bolshevik revolution, world leaders - including progressives within the United States - knew about the mass executions of Russian dissidents by the emerging Communists party. By the 1930s as Hitler’s Socialist party began to seize power in Germany the murder of Russian citizens was in full swing under Joseph Stalin.

In fact the best researchers in the world now agree that Stalin was responsible for at least 20 million murders. Professor R.J. Rummel has calculated that the Soviet regime from 1917-1987, murdered 62,000,000 people, of which 55,000,000 were citizens.

Shame on the Russian people! If Germans complained about the portrayal of Nazi’s in Hollywood movies the world would condemn them loudly and aggressively.

But there are many in the United States and Europe who secretly pine for the glory days of Soviet Socialism. They ignore the atrocities committed by criminals in the Soviet Union, Cuba, Eastern Europe and Asia.

Finally I would like to remind the Russian people of one irrefutable fact, in the 20^th and 21^st centuries more people were murdered by Socialist, Communists and Marxists regimes than any other form of government.

Shame on you for your criticism, reform your current government and seek true democracy.