New York Times Romanticizes Ideology That Murdered 100 Million Innocent People

The sign over the west entrance of the New York Times building at 620 Eighth Ave. in New York on April 28, 2016. DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images

It has been nearly 100 years since the February Revolution in Russia, which was used by Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks to launch a coup in 1917, beginning a century of communist rule around the world marked by social decay, famine, and genocide.

The New York Times is commemorating this coming anniversary with a new series of articles on communism, the first of which on Feb. 24 omits any mention of the crimes against humanity committed under communist rule. Instead, it writes glowingly about the ideals of communism and asks whether we will see the “phoenix rise from the ash heap of history.”