Service.gov And Its Soviet Similarities

IBD Editorials ^ | October 21, 2009 | SVETLANA KUNIN

[Kaslin]

USSR, 1959: I am a "young pioneer" in school. History classes remind us that there is a higher authority than their parents and teachers: the leaders of the Communist Party.

The story of young pioneer Pavlik Morozov is required reading. Pavlik reported his father to the secret police for disobeying government regulations. His life exemplified the duty of all good Soviet citizens to serve their government.

From the first year in school, all of us are made aware of our ethnicity (ethnic Russian, Jewish, Asian, etc.) and class (proletariat, intelligentsia), around which society is structured. This inherent divisiveness makes it easy for the government to stir ethnic and class tension and in this way distract from economic failure.

Newspapers and TV transmit government-approved news. Any critical voice is immediately suppressed and publicly denounced.

My parents, as all citizens of the USSR, work for state-run companies. All workers are unionized — another way the state controls the citizens. There is no private enterprise in USSR.

Whatever small private farms or shops that existed before 1930 have been taken over by the state. All medical care and schools are state entities. The government regulates what kind of technology, service and compensation are allowed.

[Kaslin]

[GeronL]

Sounds like America right now

[Borax Queen]

Oh my.... sounding all too familiar... especially down here in the borderlands where La Raza courses are taught to the illegal aliens.

[maine-iac7]

From school age through adulthood, citizens are called to public service four to five times a year. Activities such as farming, cleaning places of work, and paper/metal scrap collections are mandatory.

I wonder how the young people who were gaga over the anointed one will feel when his 'mandatory community service' kicks in, starting at middle school age...and as part payment for going to college - and having to go to the gov't to get a college loan - CANNOT get a loan anywhere else...Where is THAT in the Constitution?

Welcome to the U.S.S.A

[4Liberty]

[SuperLuminal]

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