[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Indoctrination in American schools and colleges is worse than what I've seen in the Soviet Union, where getting a real education was actually important. And finally, just as it was in the USSR, more and more people begin to resent the "progressive" establishment and mock the lying media.

The way I see it, the proliferation of socialist ideas is largely a consequence of the decades-long Soviet meddling in American affairs, aimed at demoralizing the public and promoting the "correct" people and opinions in places where it mattered most. According to KGB defectors, only about 15% of Soviet intelligence activities here focused on actual espionage; the rest were influence operations. Their seeds have now blossomed, long after the "gardeners" have left this earth. Today's left-wing radicals in the Democratic Party owe Russia a large debt of gratitude for their unearned power. Seeing Russia turn against them in the last election must have felt excruciatingly scary and painful; they still seem to be in shock.

[Darteaus94025]

Yuri lays it all out in this short version:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IHgYPDvQFU8

Complete version:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnpCqsXE8g

[RedWulf]

Socialism is as American as Apple pie. The pilgrims tried it for years and they ended up starving. Socialism has always been with the left in this country but it’s a different strain than the one that infected and murdered so many in Russia and China. The origin of America Socialism goes back to the Anglo/Puritans and protestant Christianity and eastern Socialism is from Marx and Judaism. Both strains will destroy a nation but the Anglo/Puritan version is much slower moving or incremental in nature.

When we finally consigned Marx to the ash heap of history we stopped fighting our own home grown version of it. Big mistake. Anglo/Purtin Socialism has mutated into a system that seeks the genocide and replacement of the people who practice it, sort of a modern day shakers movement on a huge scale.

[x1stcav]

>Very few people feared or believed the Communists any longer, ridiculing their institutions and their lying media.<

Looks like the USA in 2016.

Substitute Democrat or Federal Government and the same sentence applies here.

[yldstrk]

Fascinating article

[gattaca]

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[Old_Grouch]

Very good article. Thank you for posting!

[Robert DeLong]

Extremely good read, and highly recommended for all Freepers to read this and share with your liberal friends. While they will absolutely reject it, it may just plant a seed.

The last 2 paragraphs:

The way I see it, the proliferation of socialist ideas is largely a consequence of the decades-long Soviet meddling in American affairs, aimed at demoralizing the public and promoting the "correct" people and opinions in places where it mattered most. According to KGB defectors, only about 15% of Soviet intelligence activities here focused on actual espionage; the rest were influence operations. Their seeds have now blossomed, long after the "gardeners" have left this earth. Today's left-wing radicals in the Democratic Party owe Russia a large debt of gratitude for their unearned power. Seeing Russia turn against them in the last election must have felt excruciatingly scary and painful; they still seem to be in shock.

History is still being written. In this country, where a citizen's voice still means something, we are a part of this writing process. Trump's victory and the movement it started makes me feel "historically optimistic" again. This winter it is America's turn to be a blank page. It is up to us what will be written on it.

[VRW Conspirator]

This should be required reading.

[RinaseaofDs]

Bookmarked

[smartymarty]

ping

[silverleaf]

Bookmark

[binreadin]

I was in the USSR for 10 days in 1973. There were four things that impressed me absolutely, starting with the fact that the government and news agencies delivered misinformation, and were either merely tolerated or laughed at. When the newspaper in Leningrad denied there was a cholera outbreak, for example, everyone believed this meant there was cholera in the city. The second thing was the fear—the fear of saying or doing the wrong thing in front of anyone who could report you. And there were always people around who could report you—following you, observing you go in and out of your hotel room, and calling your room to see where you were if you deviated from the group plan. Our luggage was searched, and in each hotel room I looked to find the camera lens to cover so I could have some privacy. (I suspect they made some easy to find, so we wouldn't look for the rest.) Even leaving the country was an ordeal, as we had a four-page exit visa, and had to pass through phalanxes of armed guards and officials who would tear off one page at a time. Only then were we able to board the plane heading West. The third thing was the shortage of consumer goods for the Soviet citizens. As visitors, we had access to special stores and luxury items the Soviets couldn't buy, as the USSR needed the hard currency we brought. The citizens didn't even have plugs for their bathtubs and had to wait in line for hours at different stores for basics like sausage and vegetables. Yet in spite of all this, the actual people I was able to meet outside of our planned activities were wonderful, gracious, friendly and very proud of their endurance.

Now, here we are in the US in 2016. When I'm at the airport, I have to pass through batteries of surveillance and examination, and I'm under observation all the time, in traffic, in the mall, on the street. My license plate is scanned automatically by the police to make sure I'm not “wanted” for some infraction. Our media, and president, spout outrageous lies and expect that if we hear them long enough we will believe them. Sadly, many do. People are being prosecuted, run out of their jobs or even attacked on the street if they express language that favored groups like BLM or find unacceptable. Our shortages are just beginning. More and more we are shopping in Walmarts and Dollar stores for cheap goods made in China, as many of the stores we relied on years ago to sell us quality goods are gone, and we are left with inferior, shoddy merchandise and fewer choices.

It's becoming clear to me that there has been a purposeful plan to steer us towards a socialist nightmare, and that has never been so evident as now, when we are being ruled by people with known Communist leanings, starting at the top, with our own president. The bible states repeatedly that you can tell the tree by its fruits—and the shape of that tree has never been more evident.

[jmacusa]

As a former liberal socialist I understand this all too well. I've said this repeatedly to conservatives. The Left isn't playing by the Marquis of Queensbury Rules. They can't afford to. It wouldn't make their case as easy as does taking over the education system and the popular culture and it's medium, the media. The ‘’Long March Through the Institutions’’. And the Left has marched well. Socialism has even spread to the court system by activist judges and courts who instead of ruling on and carrying out the law make the law. And it's most pernicious feature, the entitlement culture. Selling dependency, ‘’free stuff’’ for the votes it garners. Perhaps at last the curtain of the American left has been pulled back far enough for all to see it's failure. I pray we've reached a watershed moment in the alarming decline of our great nation in electing Donald Trump. One man alone can't do it all. But if he's inspired enough of us I'm more than hopeful. “After all, said Ronald Reagan in his first inaugural speech, 'we're Americans!''.

[gloryblaze]

ping

[gaijin]

Gripping..!

BRAVO..!!!

[bassmaner]

I still contend that Vlad Putin and his minions were raising their vodkas in celebration at their Black Sea dachas on Nov. 4th 2008, toasting the demise of the glavni vrag.

He's probably kicking himself for the failure to get the designated successor elected this time around.

[Jack Hammer]

It felt like the obama presidency.

[txhurl]

Today’s left-wing radicals in the Democratic Party owe Russia a large debt of gratitude for their unearned power. Seeing Russia turn against them in the last election must have felt excruciatingly scary and painful; they still seem to be in shock.

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This snippet just knocked me sideways:

What IF: Reagan made a deal with the descendents of the old Tsars and said: I’ll take out what ails you (Communists) if you help me take out our Marxists when the time and opportunity is right.

Talk about the LOOOOOOOOOONNNNG game.

[Darth Gill]

Excellent article - well worth the time to read...

[Albion Wilde]

...the USSR was a union of fifteen ethnic republics that had little in common except for the common misfortune of being absorbed into a messianic empire and subjected to absurd social experiments. Though they were all touted as "equal," everyone knew that Russia was "more equal" than others.

Officially, the Soviet Union was a model of international solidarity and brotherly love. Unofficially, it was a prison of nations. Any non-Russian nationalist sentiment was viewed as treason and as an attempt to escape.