Posted on 03/10/2019 9:16:54 PM PDT by Candor7
.............The broad outlines of Bernie’s long-running infatuation with all things Soviet Russian are available to diligent researchers.
We know Bernie went to Moscow for his honeymoon. This is sort of passed over and laughed off by his supporters, but it should not be. It that era it was considered a signature event in the life of a dedicated American communist. Something many American communists looked forward to as a culmination of their connections with the movement. This was frequently accompanies by other highly symbolic gestures, like getting married in a Red Dress, or having the wedding ceremony itself in the Kremlin. Have we seen pictures of the Sanders wedding?
The honeymoon is explained away by apologists, like the writers at the Israeli newspaper Haaretz as:
“It’s true that in 1988 Bernie and Jane Sanders spent time in the Soviet Union immediately after their wedding, but Sanders was the mayor of Burlington at the time, and the trip, to Burlington’s Soviet sister city, Yaroslavl, was a part of his official duties.”
This is a disingenuous coverup. Burlington’s Russian sister-city was not part of some common and long-standing arrangement. It was not the case that every small town in New England had an assigned Soviet sister-city, rather the sister-city was a direct result of Bernie’s tenure as mayor. As Politico puts it in their article The foreign minister of Burlington, Vt. “In addition to filling potholes, Bernie Sanders focused on the Soviet Union, Cuba and the Sandinistas” in his time as mayor.
He was chummy with all of Soviet client regimes in our hemisphere, in the midst of the Cold War. He never met a Communist dictator he didn’t appreciate: he liked Castro, he liked the Ortega Bros. in Nicaragua, years later he liked Chavez too, initially. These were all Soviet or Russia aligned Communist states. ...............
Bernie is a Commie. He’s always spouted and promoted their filth. They didn’t need to pay him.
Most unlikely - the Russkies don’t hire buffoons with advanced Tourette’s Syndrome.
Where is Robert Mueller? Where is Adam Shitt?
Yaroslavl as well as Moscow had a revolt against the Bolsheviks in July 1918 while the red but anti Bolshevik SR KOMUCH and units of the Czech Legion were pushing against the Bolshevik forces along the upper Volga. The revolts were savagely put down by the Red Latvian Rifles and the Cheka was turned loose against all non Bolsheviks, red and white, and green and black.
Probably not. The Russians would expect some work out of him, I would think.
In the back room together.
It is well known that the Soviets like to use useful idiots.
Who could fit the definition better than Bernie?
I honestly didn’t think this was a question.
Was?
Did he pass away?
One of my favorite political videos on Russian Colluder Bongo Bernie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzmVSGFW5HY
The lefties of the boomer generation drank the soviet subversion koolaid by the gallon. They then steeped the next 2 generations in the same poison.
Demoncrats are defacto soviets. The russian bogeymen they’re accusing PDJT of colluding with...our own homegrown marxists, commies, pinkos and anti-Americans
‘’ ‘’ It is well known that the Soviets like to use useful idiots.
Who could fit the definition better than Bernie?’’ ‘’
‘Useful’ is a key word. Not useless.
The Soviets could have used that information about 40 years ago. :)
I wouldn’t be surprised.
Now that there is funny, I don’t care who you are! :)
was ?
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