Powerful stuff. But I can imagine some 20-year-old Berkleyite reading it and smiling patronizingly at the author, while patting him on the back and murmuring “That’s okay, Mr. Alesky. We’ve fixed all those bad things. THIS time, we’ll do communism right.”
I just got very brave and posted it to my Facebook page. I really don’t care anymore. I want to be known as one of the ones who warned people ....and then let God sort it out from there.
We visited E. Germany back in the late 80’s when the wall was falling when hubby was a young military officer. We got a glimpse of that life as we drove through the darkened E. Germany “corridor” (their name for a highway which had no lights and which they totally controlled). When we crossed into E. Berlin from W. Berlin, it was like the lights went out. No goods in the store windows, cameras everywhere, “guards” everywhere, waving you on, now allowing us to park where we wanted to. Having to show your “papers” to do anything.
It was exactly as this author describes ...just gray. No color, no variety. No religion (crosses had been removed from the churches, and the churches were broken down and crumbling). Everything the same. Everything broken down and crappy looking. I can’t imagine the lives these people led from day to day.
Most Americans, even the liberal idiots we have would go absolutely nuts having to live in such an environment ...but this is where we’re headed.