Bernie Sanders’s Soviet Honeymoon [Back in the USSR]

National Review ^ | 06/24/2015 | John Fund

[Jan_Sobieski]

What is it about worn-out socialist "worker paradises" like the old Soviet Union and Cuba that bring out the romantic in American radical politicians? After Vermont senator Bernie Sanders announced his run for president, Britain’s Guardian newspaper pawed through old archives in his home town of Burlington, Vermont where he served as mayor in the 1980s. They discovered that Sanders really did practice the socialist solidarity he preached about rhetorically. During Bernie's mayoral tenure, Burlington formed an alliance with the Soviet city of Yaroslavl, 160 miles northeast of Moscow. When in 1988 he married his wife, Jane, the mayor decided it would be a perfect place for his honeymoon. In a tape of his interview with Yaroslavl's mayor, Alexander Riabkov, Sanders acknowledges that housing and health care appear to be "significantly better" in the U.S. than in the socialist paradise. "However," he added, "the cost of both services is much, much, higher in the United States." Sanders made further globe-trotting expeditions to socialist countries. He visited Cuba, scoring a meeting with Havana's mayor. In 1985 he attended the celebrations marking the sixth anniversary of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. "In a letter addressed to the people of Nicaragua, penned in conjunction with that trip, Sanders denounced the activities of the Reagan administration, which he said was under the influence of large corporations," the Guardian notes. "In the long run, I am certain that you will win," Sanders wrote, "and that your heroic revolution against the Somoza dictatorship will be maintained and strengthened." (The Sandinistas were ousted by Nicaragua's voters in 1990)...

[Jan_Sobieski]

Bernie Sanders was a raving fan of Soviet Socialism with visits to Moscow and Cuba. This song, written by his 60s idols John Lennon and Paul McCartney, seems as though it was penned for Bernie...

Flew in from Miami Beach, BOAC
Didn't get to bed last night
On the way the paper bag was on my knee
Man, I had a dreadful flight

I'm back in the USSR
You don't know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the USSR

Been away so long I hardly knew the place
Gee, it's good to be back home
Leave it till tomorrow to unpack my case
Honey, disconnect the phone

I'm back in the USSR
You don't know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the US, back in the US
Back in the USSR

Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the West behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Georgia's always on m-m-my mind
Oh, come on

I'm back in the USSR
You don't know how lucky you are, boys
Back in the USSR

Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the West behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Georgia's always on m-m-my mind

Oh, show me round the snow-peaked mountains way down south
Take me to you daddy's farm
Let me hear you balalaikas ringing out
Come and keep your comrade warm

I'm back in the USSR
Hey, you don't know how lucky you are, boys
Back in the USSR
Oh, let me tell you honey...

[cripplecreek]

Jackson Browne “Lawyers in Love”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEULVyg1O_8

[McGruff]

[stocksthatgoup]

Communism, Socialism two peas in a pod.

[BenLurkin]

The college age Bill Clinton traveled to Moscow during the height of cold war — and to this day has refused to say who he met with or what he did there.

[jtal]

Let me hear you balalaikas ringing out

Haha as a child I always heard this as "let me year you bellow life is ringing out!"

[MNnice]

The only difference between a socialist and a communist is that a communist has bothered to read the manifesto.

[Robert DeLong]

Perhaps Bernie can get the Leningrad Cowboys to do a fund raising concert for him.

[Jan_Sobieski]

McCarthy was right about these people...

"Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down — they are truly down." - Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia (9 February 1950)

[Jan_Sobieski]

See post #9

[RginTN]

so sanders’s is ok with Marxist carrying guns then? I’m sure the lamemedia will grill him for two weeks on his support of violent marxists like they did Trump on his comments on 9/11

[StarfireIV]

That bookends with another quote I heard in the 90s.
"The only difference between a Liberal and a Communist is the Communist knows what he's doing."

[StoneWall Brigade]

If you get a chance check out the book black listed by history.