Posted on 06/12/2017 3:35:22 AM PDT by SJackson
Do not listen to what the Communists promise, just watch their actions Search the truth by talking to victims of Communism, recently warned Truc Brown, a refugee from Vietnamese Communism. Available for public appearances in the Anticommunism Action Teams (ACAT) Speakers Bureau, she and other individuals now provide powerful testimony of their personal experiences with Communisms horrors from around the world.
Brown addressed the April 30 Washington, DC-area conference Down the Memory Hole of Socialism, cosponsored by the Alexandria Tea Party and the Botev Academy. She joined other ACAT speakers such as Boyko Antonov and Lilia Slavova from Bulgaria, Anna Urman (Belarus/Lithuania), and Klara Sever. Sever, who is Jewish, hid from Nazi genocide in her occupied Czechoslovakian homeland during World War II thanks to heroic neighbors, but then had to endure Czechoslovakias postwar Communist tyranny. Like Brown, Sever warned that Communism is a very poor copy of utopia, which has nothing to do with real life, but it is a very good tool because utopia is based on promises, and promises, as we well know, are very cheap.
In a personal essay, Server recalls how she spent half of my adult life standing in line for all manner of basic necessities and consumer goods while living in her native Bratislava. Accordingly, she always carried a shopping bag for use whenever she chanced upon scarce commodities in any store, such as when she stopped to buy onions and potatoes while rushing to a theater performance with her husband. We made it to the theater in the nick of time, she recalled, the lady behind the counter, without batting an eye, hanged the bag next to my nice coat.
Severs essay elaborates upon her online biographys description of being blacklisted in the 1950s due to her enemy of the state husband. Given that her father was an initial supporter of Communism, she had encountered no difficulty in studying at a university, but there her marriage to a man from a bourgeois background changed everything. Authorities answered her application for further study with a proviso that I need to go to work as a manual worker for 5 years. I did and was moved into a working class cadre. Your position depended on your family background, she recalled; if you came from a working class, the doors were opened to you to all positions without qualifications.
As at the 2013 Survivors of Communism Summit of the Alexandria, Virginia, Tea Party, Sever has often discussed life under totalitarian surveillance. One could never be too cautious. You trusted only very few friends, that meant your little circle was small and sometimes getting smaller and smaller, depending upon who was disappearing. People meeting in the street would often first ask about a recent soccer game in order to be able to pretend to any inquisitive police who might appear that the street conservation had nothing to do with sensitive topics like politics.
Drawing upon his extensive writings, Jaroslaw Martyniuk has joined Sever at both conferences in 2013 and 2017 to analyze Communism on the basis of his experience as the son of a family that fled Ukraine in World War IIs aftermath. He often focuses on the Holodomor, the Soviet Unions genocidal forced famine of the Ukraine in the 1930s, and thereby emphasizes the importance of a citizenrys right to bear arms that is often disputed in the United States. While World War I and Russias subsequent Civil War had littered Ukraine with weapons, Soviet authorities confiscated them in 1925. As a result 25,000 Soviet authorities could later subdue 25 million Ukrainians even as 25,000 died a day at the Holodomors height in 1933, a magic 25/25/25 formula.
Martyniuk remembers his familys sufferings under Communism, including a grandmother who perished in the Soviet gulag, a contrast to younger generations. Their ignorance of past Communist tools of repression like the gulag is absolutely startling, if not shocking. Yet he is not surprised given the academic environment permeated with post-modernist cultural relativism where teaching of history has been marginalized and replaced by social theorizing that denies the existence of truth.
Agustin Blazquez, a refugee from Cuba who arrived in the United States in 1967 and presented his film on Communism in his native Cuba at the 2017 conference, similarly criticizes pro-Communist biases among the chattering classes. In elite circles opposition to Communism is a mortal sin that limits his ability to work in the media. I do not exist, nor does my work.
Responding to this writers emailed questions, Blazquez recalls his firsthand experience with pro-Communist, anti-American biases. While attending community college English classes outside of Washington, DC, in 1970, a teacher mocked his patriotic USA T-shirt. Yet numerous pro-Castro flyers distributed in the school promoted the Venceremos Brigades that bring American college students to Cuba for propagandistic work-cultural exchange programs that have involved terrorism support.
Blazquez has in the past condemned the stupidity and immorality of individuals wearing t-shirts celebrating the sadistic, mass-murdering, and racist Cuban Communist leader Che Guevara as a cult icon. In his email, Blazquez notes that sometimes when seeing such shirts he has
asked the wearer if they knew who was depicted on their shirt. Most did not know who it was. Those who did repeated the false history developed by Castro after Ches death that he was a hero of the common man.
Guevaras radical chic reflects Blazquezs concurrence in his email with Martyniuks concern about historical ignorance among younger generations. The horrors of communism seem to last only for the generation who experienced it. World-wide, the next generations seem unconcerned about it. Yet like Sever, Blazquez, jailed twice in Cuba, cannot forget his former life under Communisms Big Brother; I lived in fear 24 hours a day, tried very hard to be unnoticed, practiced self-imposed withdrawal, stayed home, didnt go out.
Given Blazquezs lived reality, he has previously criticized the Lefts use of very non-threatening words like liberal or progressive. His email explains that this soft terminology has been a tool of the Communists since the beginning. Communism is so bad that it needs to employ every trick possible in order to thrive.
Soft leftist rhetoric contrasts for Blazquez with the Lefts increasingly harsh tyranny of Political Correctness (PC) in Western societies, a concern previously addressed by Martyniuk. As he stated in 2013, PC thought control is among disturbing parallels to the system that existed in the Soviet Union and trends emerging in the U.S. today. Blazquez himself emails that I am shocked about how easily supposedly freedom-loving Americans are willing to give in to PC and adjust their speech and lives accordingly.
Martyniuk has cited former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovskys description of PC as an intellectual gulag, and Blazquezs correspondingly focuses on Leftist domination of Western cultures commanding heights. Unless the infiltration of academia and the media can be stopped, there is little hope, Blazquez emailed. Brown likewise warned at the 2017 conference about the influences of schools and others upon children. American parents should start talking to them about Communism, the danger of being indoctrinated the wrong way as the Communists use the same tactics everywhere.
Personal witnesses to Communisms God that Failed like Brown have a vital voice to offer in the Soviet revolutions 2017 centenary, as countries like her Vietnamese and Blazquezs Cuban homelands still languish under Marxisms legacy. Many elites got mesmerized by communist books, similar to being drugged up, she emailed. Yet Communism entails leading Humanity back to the Dark Ages, the Devil in Human form, with officials controlling all aspects of peoples life and peoples mind.
All who cherish their freedom should take to heart Blazquezs personal essay on leaving Cuba in 1965 for a state-approved foreign study program that would be his escape from tyranny. Taking off from Havana, he reflected upon the home left behind though his airplane window. [D]own below there is a country full of people, trapped in a prison without walls, slaves of new kind of oppressive order, who are not living, but existing their country was no longer theirs.
Powerful testimony of personal experiences with communisms horrors.
I read someone mention that they thought the USSR invaded Afghanistan to HELP pull them into the present.
They were really benevolent that way :) /s
We MUSTN’T forget the HORRORS of communism. Never.
The new monster on the block is Akbar (and he is a horrific monster), but that doesn’t mean the old one isn’t still alive and well in some places.
I can remember when the former Harper government up here began the building of the Victims of Communism memorial. The reaction of the talking class here was pathetic, with remarks like “how about a memorial for victims of British imperialism and wars?”.
“Those who did repeated the false history developed by Castro after Ches death that he was a hero of the common man.”
THAT’S a good one... since Fidel was fed up with Che and sent him down there to murder him, away from Cuba or else to let Che get himself killed in his BS ‘revolution peddling’.
I like that.
murderers, thieves, may communists, Stalin, Lenin, Castro, Che burn in hell
I remember reading “Against All Hope” as a young man, and I remember how gratified I was when Ronald Reagan appointed its author, Armando Valladares, to some prominent human rights commission. The book was like a Cuban version of a Solzhenitsyn experience - if I had the authority to do so, I’d make it required reading for any of those college naifs who requested a visa to travel to Cuba to work in the fields.
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression is displayed on my bookshelf and is an early attempt to catalogue the crimes of Communism.
Thanks for posting.
Huge gangs roam the planet and the republic. Secular TOTALITARIANS (marxists) and religious TOTALITARIANS (mohammedans) ALERT! Civilization in the cross-fire. Witness history and current events. Be prepared. The world has been a slaughterhouse throughout history. We are fortunate to be on an island of relative sanity in the interim. Individual/family/state/republic of The United States of America BUMP!
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