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Life under Communism
American Thinker ^ | 9-12-2010 | Charlotte Cushman

Posted on 09/12/2010 9:53:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber

I am worried because too many people, especially our youth, don't even have a clue as to what living under a totalitarian regime is like. Here is my story, how I learned about the evils of government domination and became the patriotic freedom-fighter that I am today.

I am a descendant of immigrants from Yugoslavia. They immigrated to the United States around 1900........

He told me that leaving his country, his home, was very difficult. I later learned that he had had a girlfriend in Yugoslavia, and when he left with my mother, she fell on the ground, sobbing, "I know I'll never see you again."

But here is the scariest thing he told me. "It is coming here, Char," he said. "It is coming here." Needless to say, that terrified me.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: communism; democrats
Should be required reading in school, but it would be censored by the communists that are taking over here.
1 posted on 09/12/2010 9:53:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Join the counter revolution.


2 posted on 09/12/2010 10:04:10 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (counter revolutionary)
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To: MtnClimber

Funny she mentioned Ayn Rand. That’s who made the light click on in my head too.


3 posted on 09/12/2010 10:05:59 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (Instead of building a grand mosque at Ground Zero, let's build a Ground Zero at their Grand Mosque.)
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To: MtnClimber

Eastern European people who recently escaped the Soviet Union understand the realities.

Our silly academics and Hollywood celebrities infect the youth of America who are often unable to think for themselves.

Even Castro just said that Communism does not work.


4 posted on 09/12/2010 10:06:44 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: MtnClimber

Every conservative talking head on TV, radio and the blogosphere needs to highlight the horrors of communism and socialism through 1st person narratives as often as possible.


5 posted on 09/12/2010 10:09:15 AM PDT by TruthHound ("He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." --Leonardo da Vinci)
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To: MtnClimber

I am the resistance.


6 posted on 09/12/2010 10:15:39 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: george76

I have seen how the chinese communists treat the Tibetans with my own eyes. It is the rule of thugs.


7 posted on 09/12/2010 10:19:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber (Osama and Obama both hate freedom and have friends that bombed the Pentagon)
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To: MtnClimber

My niece is a nun and one of the sweetest human beings you’ve ever met. This summer at our family reunion (which is infiltrated with progressives from Boston, Maine and Vermont) she gave a first hand look into socialism and communism as she saw it in her travels. Vladovostak, Venezuela and China are just a few of the places her order have gone.

The little idiot drones insisted that the kenyan isn’t trying to to accomplish anything of the sort. They literally said, “he knows how to achieve it better”. Very frustrating and my LAST family reunion (on my wife’s side). Too infuriating. I’d have a better vacation alone on my porch with my TV for a week.


8 posted on 09/12/2010 10:26:59 AM PDT by albie
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To: MtnClimber

And sadly, there are still too many Americans who think it can’t happen here.


9 posted on 09/12/2010 10:28:34 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: anniegetyourgun

There are too many that want it here.


10 posted on 09/12/2010 10:40:57 AM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: MtnClimber

I don’t remember the freeper’s name. Seems to me we had this conversation a couple of years ago. Anyway, said freeper had come here from a Communist country.

The comment that stuck most in my mind was his observation that history showed that the lesson of the horrors of Communism had to be relearned every 40 years or so.

The upcoming generation was always removed from the horrors, or failed experiments of the past, and very susceptible to the siren song of Utopia.


11 posted on 09/12/2010 10:40:57 AM PDT by fightinJAG (Step away from the toilet. Let the housing market flush.)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Interestingly, the movie ATLA SHRUGGED is due out in 2011.
It is reportedly going to be a three-part movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/

http://www.atlassociety.org/filming-atlas-shrugged-wraps1


12 posted on 09/12/2010 12:35:39 PM PDT by Sons of Union Vets (No taxation without representation!)
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To: MtnClimber; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

Read the whole thing. It’s definitely worth your time.

PING!


13 posted on 09/14/2010 7:55:03 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Muslims are not the problem, the rest of the world is! /s)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thanks for the ping! My accountant and her husband know a person from Yugoslavia. The communists determined their house was more than they needed and they were kicked out on the street and a communit official got the house. They made it to the USA, but lost everything to the communists. Wake up Aamerica, the same thing is happening here.


14 posted on 09/14/2010 8:09:09 PM PDT by MtnClimber (Osama and Obama both hate freedom and have friends that bombed the Pentagon)
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