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O'REILLY: "Impact" segment tonight, on Monday, Jesse Watters will
have a report on how younger voters are seeing the presidential
election. Tonight, a similar theme. A group called victims of
communism memorial foundation has released a report on American
attitudes towards socialism and communism. Study found that 32
percent of Millennials, a third of them, believe more people were
killed under George W. Bush than the Russian tyrant Joseph Stalin.
Is that amazing?

Also, only 42 percent of the Millennials, Americans born in the
1980s have a favorable view of capitalism. Forty six percent, they
would vote for a socialist like Bernie Sanders.

Joining us from Washington, Marion Smith from the foundation. Were
you surprised by the findings here, Mr. Smith?

MARION SMITH, EXEC. DIR., VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: Unfortunately we weren't really surprised. Over two years we have
been educating Americans and especially younger Americans about the
now almost 100 years of history since the first communist regime
burst forth on the world stage in 1917 with the Bolshevik
Revolution. Since that time 100 million people killed in nearly 40
some communist regimes around the world. And we found that most
people found that these numbers were shocking and many didn't even
believe them. So, we suspected it was a problem.


O'REILLY: Well, let's get into George W. Bush and Stalin. If you
don't know who Joseph Stalin is, he was a dictator in Russia Soviet
Union during World War II. He killed millions of people, so many
people that they can't count them because there was no reporting on
it. And it was just mass slaughters that Stalin undertook. To
compare him to Bush the younger, is so absurd it's painful, so that
tells me that the U.S. educational system, the public school system
just doesn't -- they are not teaching anything.

SMITH: Well, we have a sort of withering critique of the American
free enterprise system and of our own U.S. history. And at the same
time Millennials and, I don't want to be too hard on them, I am one,
are finding sort of a difficult job environment as they graduate
from college and enter the workforce. Our poll also found that there
were more people my age, the millennial generation who thought our
economic system worked against them rather than for them.

O'REILLY: Right.

SMITH: And some 46 percent would vote for a socialist. One
generation younger than us, those who are in high school now, half
of them would vote for a socialist. And one in five would vote for a
communist.

O'REILLY: But they don't even know what socialism is, most of them.
I want to get back to my question about not knowing who Stalin is.
Stalin was as bad as Hitler. All right, the same thing. He just
killed different groups of people. And it didn't get reported
because there was no allied invasion into Russia to expose these
gulags. And you walk down and people your age, they don't know
Stalin. They don't know World War II. They don't know anything. So,
how can they make responsible decisions about any economic system
now? How is it possible?

SMITH: Well, you are right. I mean, what you see is a willingness to
almost blow up our own system rather than try to perfect it and
refine it in favor of something that we don't understand which is
socialist systems. The ideas of Marxism. And it is a dangerous
thing, especially because there is a sort of white washing of the
term socialism which really historically and intellectually is
intertwined with communism.

O'REILLY: Sure. It's the same kind of government runs the show.
Communism is more, they confiscate more like the Castro brothers as
opposed to some socialist nations that don't confiscate property but
they confiscate income. Mr. Smith, a fascinating study. Thank you.

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