; Whereas, during the Korean War, the WPK caused the deaths of 36,914 Americans; Whereas the WPK caused the deaths of an estimated 1,700,000 people including through execution, forced labor, starvation, and Gulags; Whereas the WPK continues to restrict all civil and political liberties of its citizens; Whereas the WPK prohibits political opposition, independent media, civil society, and trade unions; Whereas the WPK currently incarcerates an estimated 200,000 political prisoners; Whereas the WPK uses forced labor, physical abuse, and execution as tactics of fear to maintain obedience and control; Whereas the WPK fails to provide stable support for the rights of minority groups, including women, children, people with disabilities, and prisoners; Whereas the USSR financed the establishment of the Chinese Soviet Republic in 1931, an independent government within the Jiangxi province of China, where Mao Zedong began his protracted revolution against the Kuomintang; Whereas Mao Zedong and the Chinese Red Army conquered the Kuomintang and established the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949; Whereas Mao Zedong orchestrated the deaths of more than 78,000,000 men, women, and children over the course of 3 decades from starvation, forced labor, torture, public execution, and warfare; Whereas Mao Zedong directed the cultural genocide of the Tibetans, brutally executing approximately 92,000 people, who largely consisted of educated people and leaders of the Tibetan population; Whereas Mao Zedong justified bloodshed as a necessity for communist revolution, saying: A revolution is not a dinner party, nor a literary composition, nor painting nor embroidering. It cannot be done so delicately, so leisurely, so gentlemanly and gently, kindly, politely and modestly. Revolution is insurrection, the violent action of one class overthrowing the power of another.