Posted on 02/10/2014 2:31:40 PM PST by xzins
Last week Samantha Power, who once discussed invading Israel and now serves as Obama's Ambassador to the United Nations, decided to use the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army to link it to the Syrian Civil War: "In 1945, Russian soldiers liberated Auschwitz. Sixty-nine year later, if the United Nations is to live up to the noble purposes for which it was founded, the world again needs Russia to use its influence."
The theme of being liberated by communist forces is apparently also haunting The New York Times writers: "The Congressional Budget Office estimated on Tuesday that the Affordable Care Act will reduce the number of full-time workers by 2.5 million over the next decade. That is mostly a good thing, a liberating result of the law."
Rejoice, comrades! The Red Army has finally come to liberate you from the shackles of capitalist employment! The ACA, erroneously known as Obamacare, but recognized by the Party as the Affordable Communism Act, is only a tool - a weapon, if you will - a fiery sword in the mighty hands of the Red Army warrior.
But, as we all know, the Red Army doesn't liberate one thing like your employment and then just goes away! There's a lot more to liberate here, comrades - your wealth, schools, religion, sexuality, firearms, and even your sanity!
Need we say “satire”?
The People’s Cube is my favorite political humor site. Having gotten a degree in Russian history during the bad old days of the Soviet Union, I have no problem understanding the jokes.
Satire only works when it nears the truth.
And Barack Obama even claimed his grandpa helped to liberate Auscwitz!!!! Ater All who WOULDNT believe that he had relatives in the Red Army!!!
My favorite discovery on Peoples’ Cube is the Bolshevik poster urging citizens to turn in all their weapons, not just rifles & pistols but swords & bayonets as well. The Red Army soldier holds out his hand and demands surrender of all types of arms. For the common good, citizen.
I was deployed to Uzbekistan & learned from the older people the stark difference between being called `comrade’ and `citizen’; the latter was a kind of death sentence in the USSR.
That’s revolutionary thought for you; someone who is just a “citizen” might as well be an “unperson.” Note that during the French Revolution, the radicals called King Louis XVI “Citizen Capet” during the five months between the coup that deposed him and his execution. Capet was a reference to Louis’ ancestor Hugh Capet, the first all-French king.
When I first read “A Tale of Two Cities” with the absurd conversation between a man and a woman who carefully ended each sentence with “citizen” and “citizeness” (`citoyen’ et `citoyenne’), I thought to myself,
“It looks like communist rule began long before 1917.”
In that sense, you’re right. There’s a reason why the Bolsheviks modeled their revolution after the French Revolution, and not the American one.
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