Is she being serious? I’ve never met anyone from a formerly communist Eastern Bloc country who felt a scintilla of nostalgia.
They felt profoundly grateful to be in America and became model citizens. Our lovely First Lady is a good example.
Nostalgia for communism? Does that need a sarc tag?
“I never could believe that Providence
had sent a few men into the world,
ready booted and spurred to ride, and
millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden..”
- Richard Rumbold, British Colonel, 1685
Jefferson also quoted it as well. Sums it up perfectly.
For many people, it’s easier to be led, fed, and bred than to think for yourself and live FOR yourself.
Until they experience REAL oppression, as you pointed out the Eastern bloc people who lived through it.
Were I them, I’d make sure to have firearms - acuire them by ANY means necessary - to ensure that it would NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. Or come here to be an American Citizen, so that you have that ability...
That’s the kind of legal immigrant we need.
“...They felt profoundly grateful to be in America ...”
That is my state of mind every single day of my life, and has been since I can remember.
I was Born an American.
I live an American.
And I will die an American.
- Daniel Webster