The left has done such an effective job of demonizing former President George W. Bush and sweeping Cold War atrocities under the rug that an annual report just released found that one-third of millennials think Bush is responsible for more killings than Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

According to the UK Express, the body count of Stalin’s victims before and after World War II is estimated by scholars to be anywhere between 20 million to 60 million people, and yet about 33 percent of young Americans still seem to think Bush’s reign in the White House was deadlier.

The report by the nonprofit organization Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation surveyed 2,300 people and has a margin of error of 2.8 percent. Among the other troubling opinions held by millennials:

• 21 percent said they would vote for a communist.
• 25 percent viewed Vladimir Lenin favorably.
• 33 percent were unfamiliar with Lenin.
• 42 percent were unfamiliar with Mao Zedong.
• 42 percent of millennials viewed capitalism favorably.

Lee Edwards, a distinguished fellow at the Heritage Foundation and co-founder of the Foundation, said that such “widespread ignorance” of communism’s history was the reason for the organization’s existence in the first place. “Ronald Reagan said that ‘freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction,’ ” said Edwards. “It is the solemn obligation of this generation to educate the rising generation about the manifold victims and crimes of the deadliest ism of the last 100 years — communism.”

“The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation was established by unanimous act of Congress on December 17, 1993, and signed by President Bill Clinton,” the group's website says. “The act authorized VOC to construct, maintain, and operate in the District of Columbia an appropriate international memorial to honor the victims of communism. Today VOC carries on the original mission of ensuring that those victims are remembered and that the history of communist tyranny is known to future generations.”

Sounds like the VOC has an uphill battle.