EU cut funds for education about Communism. Many top EU bureaucrats started as Communists, e.g current EU "foreign minister". It shows in the way EU is run.

If you want to see the effect of a communist system on a society, a non-dictatorial communist system, look to the the first colonial settlements. And if you can't be bothered to, the TLDR is that they starved, until private property rights were implemented and respected.

Matthew reminds me of the Go Compare man.

Is it possible to robe the police¿

He's well wrong about Hungarian history. Kadar came after `56 and rebuilt a lot of stuff that the communist destroyed. In the last 10 years of the USSR, the member states worked the same way as the EU members do nowadays but the government of the USSR was unelected. State capitalism works and will be introduced in the EU after Brexit. China has it and they are quite well with a booming population.

"The most murderous ideology ever devised by human by human intelligence" First, Good thing you limited yourself to humans, otherwise we'd HAVE TO include anything devised by (a) God. Second, Does this account for inflation? More seriously, how can one even pretend to make this claim? Are we just going for sheer numbers? Because if so, yeah probably, but that doesn't account for nearly enough variables and ignores entire swaths of reason of how it happened - including ideology, the primary factor. Because if not, then "for a god" far ought weighs communism. It was the number one cause of murder/human death/suffering/etc. in human history for MOST of human history. It stretches back prior to human history. And then again factoring in the _gods angle_ again; well gods are supposedly the cause of the whole of reality - including communism - and the rules by which humans operate. Not to mention the wars fought in their names. Not to mention the direct (supposed) interventions, like this one jackass god I heard about who flooded and killed the entire planet (at least if you believe that sort of thing). Just saying, really misses the mark when you talk about "atheism" in this way, surely we can do the same with theism then right?

The answer he gives starting at 2:25 in this video is so intellectually dishonest it's beyond pathetic.

Not just that Mr Hannan seems to not understand what Communism is, it seems he doesn't understand that most socialist and communist despise Stalinism and what it stands for (State Capitalism, enforced by a Militaristic Dictatorship). Just the fact that you keep insisting that it always ends with gulags and autocracy, its clear that you are doing the same as you accuse other people of doing with Ostalgie, you have nothing against communism, you barely understand what it stands for, of course you can't really be for or against something you don't understand. You're against your misconception of Communism, your perception of the Soviet System that you experienced as a teenager and young adult, a sort of Anit-Ostalgie, if you will. Socialism requires democracy to work, what do you think size the means of production meant? Everything is the same, except the CEO is now a inner member of the only Party in the one-party system? No, it means that the workers democratically elect their representatives out of all the workers they share a workplace with to run the "company". Socialism and communism doesn't mean less democracy, quite the opposite, it means why should democracy end at the workplace. Also, while we're at it, it could be easily argued that, even if you count Stalinism as even close to any socialist ideology, capitalism continuous to kill way more people due to it's systemic neglect.