One of the History Channel's relatively rare pieces about Communism* detailed the tyranny of the Ceaucescus, Nicolae and Elena, who together ruined Rumania in a proetarian folie a deux. When the programs details what they did, foul deed by fould deed, then you see the evil of Marxism clearly. Tyrants are more alike than different, regardless of ideology, but Communism creates monomaniacal tyrants with great regularity. It is not anomalous but natural for it. And like Mao's wife, Nicolae's was perhaps even more vile than he was. When the couple were shot, the soldiers enthusiastically pumped her with far more bullets than her husband.
*Their focus on Nazism has given rise to a nickname, The Hitler Channel.
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