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Bing Crosby show and communism
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Posted on 04/28/2025 5:03:40 PM PDT by rey

This is interesting. This is a 1954 radio show. At the 17:30 mark they discuss socialism, communism, collectivism, fascism, free enterprise, and government enterprise. It’s a very different conversation than would be had today.

It’s also interesting to consider why they would do this on such a show. In 1954, the McCarthy hearings took place, Vietnam split into communist north and republican south, and the Soviets began launching large ICBMs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeSIgMDlxL4


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1 posted on 04/28/2025 5:03:40 PM PDT by rey
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BKMK


2 posted on 04/28/2025 5:37:40 PM PDT by lizma2 (Re-assignation on MLK Jr.)
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That is some wholesome grown-up stuff there, it was America when it was filled with the American people and pre-feminism.


3 posted on 04/28/2025 5:38:11 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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The Russians launched the world’s first ICBM in 1957.


4 posted on 04/28/2025 5:46:30 PM PDT by odawg
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Interestingly for me at least, 1954 was the year that my Dad hired on with General Electric in the computer room at the Medium Transformer Division in Rome, GA.


5 posted on 04/28/2025 6:39:50 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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Sorry, they had successful static tests in 1954


6 posted on 04/28/2025 6:44:01 PM PDT by rey
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...and yet the so-called “Greatest Generation” gave us the Hippies, who have literally DESTROYED this country, in many, many, ways. I guess the “Greatest Generation” was simply too busy ‘making money’ to notice what was being done to their kids by the Marxists.


7 posted on 04/28/2025 7:22:36 PM PDT by BobL
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It was a purposeful application by the CIA of sex drugs and rock and roll. I don’t care if anyone believes this or not. It is simply true that the CIA and British Intelligence pushed the music and the sex drugs and rock and roll that formed the hippies.


8 posted on 04/28/2025 9:58:59 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts
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bump


9 posted on 04/29/2025 8:15:56 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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Saving bump.


10 posted on 04/29/2025 10:57:33 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE fSPEECH! )
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