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Have You Lived and Worked In a Totalitarian or Authoritarian Regime-Run Country for At Least One Thousand Days?
Baptist Committee of Correspondence | November 14, 2025 | John Leland 1789

Posted on 11/15/2025 3:00:21 PM PST by John Leland 1789

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To: Mi-kha-el

In Texas by the grace of God!👍


21 posted on 11/15/2025 4:46:09 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Vigilanteman

“ Rushing elevators, crowding in line and making general arses of themselves.”

Yes, you understand. It’s overwhelming. And in Japan…. That’s quite a stark difference indeed. You can only imagine how they handled security, They obviously have been thru a security line before, so I didn’t understand why it was so hard for them to understand that they needed to remove their shoes. Or how to put their suitcases into the X-ray. Everyone in front of them were doing it. They were shown what to do by employees displaying the action. Yet they would stand there blank faced. SMH


22 posted on 11/15/2025 5:30:17 PM PST by HollyB
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To: John Leland 1789

I only hit about 220 days in China. It was an eye-opener to this then-25 year old. Got there two weeks after Mao had died.


23 posted on 11/15/2025 5:33:22 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: HollyB

Ps I meant the Spanish civil war. I don’t know why I said revolution. I’ve never called it that before. I’m getting old lol


24 posted on 11/15/2025 5:33:41 PM PST by HollyB
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To: Savage Beast

I just checked the episodes are available with English subtitles on YouTube. They have a lot of great Russian TV series there.


25 posted on 11/15/2025 5:38:36 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: John Leland 1789

I’ve lived in California all my life.


26 posted on 11/15/2025 6:34:31 PM PST by Thud (quot)
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To: John Leland 1789

Yes. I lived through the most Totalitarian administration the U.S. has ever seen. The Biden Administration. That was hell.


27 posted on 11/15/2025 7:44:35 PM PST by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: HollyB

I lived a thousand days under Franco, but I was an American sailor—not allowed to wear the uniform, given a Spanish/Madrid license plate for my old BMW 1800, and lived life as a Spaniard.

It wasn’t bad, but smugglars of cigarettes got machine-gunned offshore. The “Guardia-Civil” national police were prominant, and every mountain had an armed soldier atop it—in sight of one another.

Prisoners could sell their homemade wares, but food—above bread and water—had to be brought in by family.

Cool and controlled at the same time.


28 posted on 11/16/2025 12:44:10 AM PST by Does so (☞GOP should fund a new party. Call it the "Muslim Party", to track it.....Dem☭¢rat ∅ ™ ½¼)
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To: Does so

Were you stationed at Rota?


29 posted on 11/16/2025 4:30:10 AM PST by HollyB
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To: Texas Eagle

Amen


30 posted on 11/16/2025 6:56:56 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: HollyB

Rota?

Correct...


31 posted on 11/16/2025 10:12:45 AM PST by Does so (☞GOP should fund a new party. Call it the "Muslim Party", to track it.....Dem☭¢rat ∅ ™ ½¼)
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To: John Leland 1789

Yes. The pedojoe years of the scamdemic.


32 posted on 11/16/2025 10:16:19 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.d)
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To: John Leland 1789

Does Zero or the Biden era vount?


33 posted on 11/16/2025 10:18:07 AM PST by CodeToad
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