In third century B.C. China, Emperor Chi'in Shi Huang Ti "buried in the Great Wall, up to their necks, numerous scholars, writers, and artists who wrote poems, history books, and painted pictures, and sliced off their heads."  This barbaric act "deprived China of intellectual motion-of continuing education and left her millions to wallow in unchanging ignorance and misery for centuries to come."[1] Torquemada in the 15th century during the Spanish Inquisition burned people alive if they dared disagree with the Church. Thus, "the Iberian light of learning and tolerance went out in 1492" [and] "Spain struggled in isolation for four hundred and fifty years."[2] Lenin and Stalin of the 20th century purged the landscape of the poets and the "lucky ones froze in Siberia" while the others were shot.  The Soviet Union lasted less than 75 years."[3] Anatoli Kutznetsov in his book Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel wrote, that "books are always being burnt.  The library...(Read Full Post)