Posted on 08/19/2024 9:37:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
You sound like a used car salesman!...............
Yes.
I do remember the scene where Julie Christie walked past all the homeless to shoot Rod Steiger. That was under the Tsars and her power hungry boyfriend wanted to put a stop to it along with Alec Guiness. “Dr. Zhivago.
Remember, those who killed the entire family are no different than true believers. Those are socialists, communists DEMOCRATS. They will kill President Trump and his entire family, if given half of a chance.
No, the Tsar was long dead, and the communists were in firm control by the time “Laura” killed Steiger.
The girls were very beautiful for their time. Utter horror at how they were treated.
My father told me an interesting story once involving the Romanovs and the future of this country. But first, a little bit of background. My grandfather escaped from Russia (technically, from what is now Ukraine, though he always called it Russia because that is how he was raised.) in mid-1923 as a very young adult. He had one brother here in the US, but the rest of his family was in Russia. Our family is Jewish, and as a result, my grandfather had no good feelings whatsoever toward the very anti-Semitic Romanov Dynasty. Fast forward about 30 years to the early 1950s. My father was an older teen, and on this particular occasion, all of the “alta kockers” (old men) from the old country were having their normal weekend get together, this time at my grandfather’s house, to play cards, eat, smoke, drink (mainly vodka, of course, they were Russians after all) and commiserate about the state of the world.
Here’s where the story gets interesting. At one point during the afternoon, the topic turned to world affairs. These were men who still had family trapped behind the Iron Curtain, whom they couldn’t contact due to Stalin’s terror, which was still enforced, if just a bit more subtly than in the 1930s. They had a healthy fear of the brutality and effectiveness of the Bolshevik regime, even being 5,000 miles away. Someone commented that if we weren’t careful, we would lose to the relentless power of the Soviet Union and end up Communist just like Russia did. My father (who was undoubtedly there to grab some food and drink) heard this and started laughing. My grandfather turned to him and asked him why he was laughing (and not a little of that had to do with the fact that he was from the younger generation, and it was expected that he would be seen and not heard, let alone be disrespectful to guests, even at his age). My father said, “don’t you guys know, the United States is the richest and most powerful nation that the world has ever seen. Nobody can touch us, why are you guys worried about the Communists coming here?“
Well, my grandfather wasn’t amused, and said, “Sit down, sonny boy. Let me tell you something. When I was 11 years old, there was a celebration all across Russia for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty. Imagine, across 11 time zones from the border of Germany, all the way to the border with the United States on the other end of the world, nearly 200 million people. The Romanovs were forever - my grandfather’s grandfather’s grandfather couldn’t have remembered a time without the Romanovs ruling Russia, that’s how permanent they were. But five years later, the Czar was deposed and the year after that he and his entire family were murdered in cold blood. It turns out that the Czar wasn’t forever. And that is your lesson for this country: you can appear to be invincible on one day, and on the next day you are a shadow of your former self or you are dead. Nothing and no one is forever - never forget that!“
Let’s just say that as much as I miss both my father and grandfather, I am glad that neither of them has had to witness or experience what this country is going through right now. It might have taken a bit longer than those old men in that room in the early 1950s thought it would, but we have let down our guard, we are no longer the richest and most powerful nation on the planet, and we have been thoroughly infiltrated by the virus of Communism in every part of our society. I seriously wonder if I will live to see here what my grandfather ran away from 100 years ago in Russia, though of course I hope and pray that is not the case, that the people of this country wake up and restore our Republic. Nonetheless, we are not headed in the right direction at all , and I fear very greatly for the future of my children and the entire country.
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Great post. Unfortunately, I feel a civil war is imminent. I pray that our side wins.
For the most part, yes. They certainly murdered fewer Russians than the Bolsheviks.
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