Posted on 10/22/2009 11:28:13 AM PDT by opentalk
USSR, 1959: I am a "young pioneer" in school. History classes remind us that there is a higher authority than their parents and teachers: the leaders of the Communist Party.
The story of young pioneer Pavlik Morozov is required reading. Pavlik reported his father to the secret police for disobeying government regulations. His life exemplified the duty of all good Soviet citizens to serve their government.
From the first year in school, all of us are made aware of our ethnicity (ethnic Russian, Jewish, Asian, etc.) and class (proletariat, intelligentsia), around which society is structured. This inherent divisiveness makes it easy for the government to stir ethnic and class tension and in this way distract from economic failure.
Newspapers and TV transmit government-approved news. Any critical voice is immediately suppressed and publicly denounced.
My parents, as all citizens of the USSR, work for state-run companies. All workers are unionized — another way the state controls the citizens. There is no private enterprise in USSR.
Whatever small private farms or shops that existed before 1930 have been taken over by the state. All medical care and schools are state entities. The government regulates what kind of technology, service and compensation are allowed.
From school age through adulthood, citizens are called to public service four to five times a year. Activities such as farming, cleaning places of work, and paper/metal scrap collections are mandatory.
Religious symbols are forbidden in schools or on state property. Most old religious buildings are transformed for secular use.
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First, destroy the privately-created, Christian based Boy Scouts of America. By lawsuits, by harassing activities, by direct attacks on its national staff.
Then, when the name-calling and character assassinations have had their effect, introduce a supposed substitute similar to something like “Young Pioneers”, making it a subsidiary of an organization like SEIU or even ACORN, all for promotion of the values encouraged by the current regime (and prospective controlling legal authority for generations to come), creating the “New Soviet Man”, Version 2.0.
Chilling isn’t it?
yes very chilling
Hell, there has been no legal challenges against this admin over anything.
Look up “Pavlik Morozov” on Wikipedia.
Boy-hero Pavlik rats out his father to the NKVD; Dad is arrested and excecuted, but Pavlik’s grandfather offs the little no-good, who then becomes an example to all Soviet youth.
“Did you hear your father or mother say bad things about President Obama? The authorities need to know about these things, children!”
Have you reported anyone yet for being an enemy of the state?
They should be breaking down your door any minute now.
Is it just me or have a whole bunch of .gov websites popped up this year? I’m sure they aren’t cheap. And many of them are designed to encourage consumption of government services and handouts.
Sounds like a scene from “The Inner Circle” aka “The Projectionist”. The movie is a look into Stalins inner circle. through the eyes of his personal projectionist played by Tom Hulce. As Stalin and company are leaving his theater the projectionist is standing at attention. Lavrentia Beria, head of the NKVD, stops and asks the projectionist “Comrade how is it that you have never denounced anyone?” The effect is chilling because in the next few seconds what ever the projectionist says or how he says it will determine if he lives or dies.
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