When I was a kid in the early ’40s, we had Horrors of War gum-wrapper cards. We boys went for the gore, as in the Japanese “rape of Nanking” and German bombing of cities. Arms and legs flying, you know.
Today’s kids could get their kicks out of cards depicting Chinese treatment of upwards of tens of thousands of internees, Muslims, who are put through Edgar Allen Poe-like interrogations and terrorizing.
Makes a body ask (again), what hath Marx and Engels wrought?
Read about it at this riveting, horrifying account by Associated Press.
Blithe Spirit 