Kirkpatrick calls it. between traditional and revolutionary atrocities. She defines traditional atrocities as leaving in place existing allocations of wealth. power. status. and other resources which in most traditional societies favor an affluent few and maintain masses in poverty. But. however. as she saysBecause the miseries of traditional life are familiar. they are bearable to ordinary people * * * such societies creat no refugees. However. revolutionary Communist autocracies are just the oppositeThey create refugees by the million because they claim Jurisdiction over the whole life of the society and make demands for change that so violate internalized values and habits that inhabitants flee by the tens of thousands. I want to call attention to a statistic given by Dr. Kirkpatrick at this point. In the traditional autocracies. the number of refugees from places such as Argentina. Brazil. and Chile is one in 35.000 population. whereas in Cuba. which has a totalitarianism. it is one out of nine who become a refugee. That is the difference. They say they tend to favor Marxism. when the known fact is that the common people of those countries flee at the first opportunity.
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