The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil

by Michael Malice

“The fact is that the Communists are the forerunners of fascism,” she wrote in 1933. “Neither Mussolini nor Hitler have made a single original step. All they had to do is follow and copy faithfully the steps taken by Lenin and Stalin.”

Though the term Gulag came about under Stalin, by 1921 Lenin was already running eighty-four various camps for potential enemies and those deemed to be unreliable elements. That number became an archipelago of over 30,000 camps under Stalin, and it was under his reign that the camps began to be used for slave labor—especially in areas universally understood to be inhospitable to human life.

Born the daughter of a grocer, she had by dint of her own abilities and application won through, securing scholarships to good schools, making a success of her chosen career, and marrying advantageously. It is not surprising then that she espouses the middle class values of thrift, hard work, and law and order, that she believes in individual choice, maximum freedom for market forces, and minimal power for the state. Hers is the genuine voice of a beleaguered bourgeoise, anxious about its eroding economic power and determined to arrest society’s seemingly inexorable trend towards collectivism.

Communism in practice often resulted in the elevation of the mediocre to the highest levels of power, and there are few better examples of this than Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu.