Posted on 05/06/2021 10:04:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber
What ultimately ended the nihilist Soviet system?
Was it not that Russians finally tired of the Kremlin’s lies and hypocrisies that permeated every facet of their falsified lives?
Here are 10 symptoms of Sovietism. Ask yourself whether we are headed down this same road to perdition.
1) There was no escape from ideological indoctrination—anywhere.
TV commercials, a job in the bureaucracy, or military assignment all hinged not so much on merit, expertise, or past achievement. What mattered was loud enthusiasm for the Soviet system.
Wokeness is becoming our new Soviet-like state religion. Careerists assert that America was always and still is a systemically racist country, without ever producing proof or a sustained argument.
2) The Soviets fused their press with the government. Pravda or “Truth” was the official megaphone of state-sanctioned lies. Journalists simply regurgitated the talking points of their Party partners.
In 2017, some university and independent media monitoring centers found that 93 percent of American network media coverage of the early Trump Administration was negative. The most inflammatory of the media’s political assertions—Trump-Russia collusion, Hunter Biden’s laptop was a product of “Russian disinformation,” and Capitol Officer Brian Sicknick was murdered by a Trump rioter inside the Capitol—were all false.
3) The Soviet surveillance state enlisted apparatchiks and lackeys to ferret out ideological dissidents. Recently, we learned that the Department of Defense is reviewing its rosters to spot “insurrectionary” sentiments.
The Postal Service recently admitted it uses tracking programs to monitor the social media postings of Americans.
Left-wing CNN recently alleged that the Biden Administration’s Department of Homeland Security is considering partnering with private surveillance firms to get around government prohibitions on scrutinizing Americans’ expression. From 2015 to 2017, the FBI, CIA, and Justice Department engaged in efforts to monitor and injure the Trump campaign and then sabotage a
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The wokeist communists are not even embarrassed that they are trying to control unapproved thought.
I would say the whole world is being Sovietized.
What is really sad is that there will be nowhere left run when it is done.
Americans are getting dumber and dumber. Because they sit around with their faces buried in Socialist Media instead of actually getting out and exploring and learning things. Idiocracy was a funny and entertaining documentary. :)
Only Democrats and liberals think communism is great.
Mindless, ignorant, brainwashed idiots are easily led.
Not Sovietized.
The USSR is dead.
ChiCommed.
Ironically, the biggest, most civilized country that actively resists the new woke globalism is Russia itself. I firmly believe that the main reason that Russia and Putin are on the “s***-list” is that they actively resist woke-ism both culturally and politically.
Pravda nye Izvestia and Izvestia nye Pravda.
The Truth isn’t the News and the News isn’t the Truth
Both the NYT and CNN/FOX/NBC/ABC/CBS in soviet days.
Poland and Hungary, for now.
We are way passed that!
“Are Americans Becoming Sovietized?”
No...much worse.
Idiocracy+Elysium+Hunger Games
Yes.
” The Soviets mastered Trotskyization, or the rewriting and airbrushing away of history to fabricate present reality.
Are Americans any different when they indulge in a frenzy of name-changing, statue-toppling, monument-defacing, book-banning and cancel-culturing?”
>>1) There was no escape from ideological indoctrination—anywhere. TV commercials, a job in the bureaucracy, or military assignment all hinged not so much on merit, expertise, or past achievement.
It was there in the 1990s in America.
The Clintons politicized everything. Post office, museums, education, advocacy ads, on down the list. Political correctness too, “dead white males” in academia, pc version of Aesop’s Grasshopper and the Ants, etc.
The term that correctly describes what we are becoming has yet to be invented.
That’s my take on it as well. I think many have not yet realized what amazing and unprecedented social conditions we have ‘achieved’. Sovietized doesn’t sound right when the poorest are the most likely to be obese and are the most passively entertained and least used to sustained physical effort of any poor in history.
Freegards
If Armageddon is coming, I wish the Lord would hurry up with it. Having to see evil win every day is tiring.
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