"The enormous human cost of communism has scarcely registered in Western consciousness, including in Australia."

Comrade Burchett was a party hack - theaustralian.news.com.au
Peter Kelly - January 07, 2006 - Following the collapse 16 years ago of the Soviet Union and of the communist world it led, Western communist parties eventually disbanded and former party members and supporters were left high and dry.
The estimated victims in each country are mind-boggling: USSR, 20 million deaths; China, 65 million; Vietnam, one million; North Korea, two million; Cambodia, two million; Eastern Europe, one million; Latin America, 150,000; Africa, 1.7 million; Afghanistan, 1.5 million. The international communist movement and parties not in power: about 10,000.