Posted on 11/04/2013 1:31:37 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Bill de Blasio toured parts of the communist Soviet Union as the Cold War raged, The Post has learned.
The Democratic mayoral candidate — who is enjoying a huge lead over Republican Joe Lhota coming into Tuesday’s election — was “back in the USSR” in 1983 while a student at NYU.
It was the same year that President Ronald Reagan referred to the country’s regime as “The Evil Empire.”
De Blasio’s trip also occurred five years before he went to Nicaragua in support of the Marxist Sandinista regime there to distribute food and medicine during its civil war. At the time, the US government opposed the Sandinistas, which had received weapons from the Soviets and supplies from Cuba.
The trips show de Blasio’s fascination as a young man with the workings of leftist and communist countries. He also honeymooned in Cuba.
While de Blasio has discussed and defended his work in Nicaragua, he has said nary a word about going behind the Iron Curtain.
De Blasio listed the trip on a résumé from the 1990s. Under “travel,” he said he visited “West Africa, Europe, Israel, Puerto Rico, USSR.”
A de Blasio campaign spokeswoman confirmed that her boss went to the United Soviet Socialist Republic as a student in 1983.
“When he was a presidential scholar at NYU, Bill attended an annual trip that took him to Lithuania and Russia. In other years, he traveled — along with other presidential scholars — to Spain, Israel and Senegal,” said de Blasio spokeswoman Lis Smith.
“He went in 1983, when they were still a part of the USSR.”
The de Blasio campaign declined to comment further when asked why he went on the trip or what he learned from it.
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At some point soon, it will be time to short NYC bonds and real estate.
I plan on making one trip to NYC when the WTC museum is open and visit the Intrepid/Shuttle museum.
They don’t call it Moscow on the Hudson for nothing.
(Heaven on earth; State of bliss/S)
BJ and Hill, Chelsea Clinton-Mezvinsky, Lloyd Blankfein, Jay-Z and Nascar racer Jeff Gordon.
King Barry’s parents MET in a Russian language class. I’d like to know more on that story, but we’ll probably never know. A plot was hatched, and recruitment of Soviet agents occurred.
CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. is not NYC.
Everybody on that list has a “residence” in Manhattan.
Not sure how often they are around, LOL.
Has anybody read about DeBlasio’s lazy sleep patterns?! He doesn’t like to get up in the morning! This is the new mayor of the city that never sleeps.
My beloved city going into Dinkins 2.
Yeah, at the last possible moment when the race is already decided...
Yes, NYers met Rudy Giuliani who turned our city around. He wasn’t perfect but he loved our city and cared for its citizens. Ed Koch was a democrat with sanity and set the stage for Guiliani’s revival of this great burg.
It’s a great, exciting city. If you have a lot of money, it’s splendid. For the middle-class, not so much. You have to like culture and food primarily to enjoy this city. If your interests are rural or suburban, it’s not so good. Great for young careerists, too, and tourists.
The mere fact that the headline writer had to tell his audience that the USSR was Communist shows what a severe low-info problem we have in this country.
Bingo....Clinton went to the USSR....who PAID for THAT trip when he had NO money as a college student???? Obama went to Pakistan when there was travel advisory.
explored it as a youth....
(enjoyed "Camelot", "Hair", "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"),
Eschewed my pari's Central Park South apt. (including having my Grandpa's former (lame Maverick) car stolen off the streets of Manhattan).
Manhatten is no longer really part of America as known by the Founders.
You'd have provide me Big Buck$ to drag me back there ( for even a few hours). There's no there there.
I’m with you Miss M. It is a great city with more to offer than most.
Sounds like DiBlasio is on a mission to make a real mess of things. Sad.
Even David Dinkins is going to look good after this guy is done.
The voters will get what they deserve. Sad that New York is destined to relive the 70s, but it is what it is.
New York City’s Marxist Power Couple
“You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you’ll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you’ll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.” Nikita Khrushchev.
NEW YORK CITY’S MARXIST POWER COUPLE
10/14/2013
by Cliff Kincaid
“De Blasio opens up to Baldwin” is how MSNBC described Alec Baldwin’s show with New York City’s Obama-backed Democratic “progressive” mayoral candidate, Bill De Blasio. “I was an early supporter of de Blasio’s,” Baldwin acknowledged.
Having been a virtual arm of the Obama White House for years, MSNBC is now turning into an arm of the de Blasio campaign. De Blasio, a former aide to socialist New York City Mayor David Dinkins, faces law-and-order Republican candidate Joe Lhota on November 5.
De Blasio’s support for communist regimes in Cuba and Nicaragua, and his embrace of Islam as an emerging political force, were highlighted in a recent New York Times article. The paper also noted his illegal “honeymoon” to Communist Cuba. However, the mysterious trip occurred in either 1991or 1994, depending on which paper you read, and much about the nature of the travel remains unknown.
Our review of documents concerning de Blasio’s involvement in the communist-front Nicaragua Solidarity Network confirms that notes of one meeting in 1991 say that he stated that Islam was an emerging “power,” and wondered if there were “progressive elements” in Islam “we can work with.”
Marxists like de Blasio who were sympathetic to the Sandinista “liberation” struggle in Nicaragua were typically active in support of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), a Soviet/Cuban-backed terrorist group. Indeed, anti-Israel and pro-PLO material was found in the archives of the Nicaragua Solidarity Network.
Another document regarding the “vision” of the group says, “End world capitalism and replace it,” and next to de Blasio’s initials are the words “democratic socialism.”
Baldwin’s comments during his MSNBC de Blasio interview included such observations as, “You seem to have a very warm positive healthy home life.” De Blasio, who is white, married a black woman and former lesbian, Chirlane McCray, and they have had two children together.
Modern-day progressives usually consider it wrong to even discuss the option of voluntarily leaving the homosexual lifestyle, but they have let the matter of McCray’s rejection of lesbianism pass without critical comment.
De Blasio says one of his wife’s poems about “growing up as a young African-American girl in a racist society” helped him to fall in love with her.
There is no indication that McCray abandoned Marxism after living in an enclave known as the Combahee River Collective.
The Combahee River Collective had issued a “revolutionary” 1977 statement saying, “We realize that the liberation of all oppressed peoples necessitates the destruction of the political-economic systems of capitalism and imperialism as well as patriarchy. We are socialists because we believe that work must be organized for the collective benefit of those who do the work and create the products, and not for the profit of the bosses. Material resources must be equally distributed among those who create these resources.
We are not convinced, however, that a socialist revolution that is not also a feminist and anti-racist revolution will guarantee our liberation.”
The “collective” has been depicted by the media as a respectable group of feminist intellectuals, who were merely “radical” in some of their thinking.
The Combahee River Collective “statement” was favorably cited by Harvard Professor Richard Levins in a Monthly Review article called, “Continuing Sources
of Marxism: Looking for the Movement as a Whole.”
In discussing the emergence of the Combahee River Collective and other such groups, he wrote, “In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels state that what distinguishes communists from other socialists is internationalism and looking for the movement as a whole. ‘Looking for the movement as a whole’ is a fluid concept that expands to embrace ever more inclusive struggles against capitalism and for a just and sustainable world. Increasingly, a movement centered on the working class has to champion the entire cause of the species.”
He mentions the Combahee River Collective after noting that a “core of strong proto-feminist women [had] emerged in the Communist Party USA just at the time when McCarthyism was making all red organizing difficult.”
He went on, “Groups such as Redstockings, the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, and the Combahee River Collective and publications such as Sojourner developed a stance against the whole system of oppression. Within feminism, Marxists have played a leading role in insisting on a class analysis that showed that ‘women’ cannot be treated as a homogeneous mass with common interests, and also struggled against racism within the feminist movement.”
Bringing the situation up to date, New York magazine ran a story declaring that Chirlane McCray “would be a First Lady in the mold” of Hillary Clinton.
On a Spanish language New York radio station, WADO 1280 AM, de Blasio was asked about his Cuba trip and he proved evasive: “What did you see in Cuba, what is your impression going on your honeymoon in a country that hasn’t had free elections in the last 50 years. What did you get from the trip?” The radio host went on, “If I can ask you one thing you came back from Cuba with, what was that thing?”
As noted by the New York Daily News, de Blasio dodged the questions and replied, “I didn’t go on a trip to fully study the country, I don’t pretend to have full perspective on the country. I have a huge critique of the current government there because it’s undemocratic.”
But it was just as undemocratic then as it is now. So why did he visit the communist-controlled island, and what did he see and do there?
De Blasio’s opponent, Joe Lhota, has said that de Blasio “needs to explain himself—and explain himself now—to the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who escaped Marxist tyranny in Asia, Central America, and from behind the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe.”
Lhota noted that de Blasio’s involvement with the communist Sandinistas “didn’t happen in 1917; it happened 70 years later when the cruelty and intrinsic failure of communism had become crystal clear to anyone with a modicum of reason.”
He added that de Blasio, who promises to tax the rich and spend more public money, is pursuing a “class warfare strategy” that is “directly out of the Marxist playbook.”
The new MSNBC show, “Up Late with Alec Baldwin,” did include some legitimate news reaffirming de Blasio’s controversial announced intention to crack down on police surveillance of terrorists and criminals. De Blasio opposes the stop-and-frisk practices of the New York Police Department (NYPD) and wants to replace Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who has authorized surveillance of radical Muslims in order to thwart terrorist attacks.
“There have been 16 known terrorist plots against New York City since September 11, 2001,” the NYPD says.
The current mayor is Michael Bloomberg, a liberal who has nevertheless been a strong supporter of aggressive police tactics against potential criminals and terrorists.
Bloomberg says, for example, that overturning stop-and-frisk would turn “over the streets to the criminals.”
Mike Long, the chairman of the Conservative Party of New York, told Emily Miller of The Washington Times, “I don’t often agree with Mike Bloomberg, but stop and frisk has made New York City that much safer. It has clearly saved the lives of people of color and is absolutely an important tool for making New York City one of the safest cities in the country.” Long said that without this enforcement mechanism, “we will be like Chicago in very short order.”
But the liberal media are betting that Lhota’s “Republican” label will be more objectionable than the communist sympathies of de Blasio and his wife, sympathies that are being played down by most reporters.
Cliff Kincaid is the Director of the AIM Center for Investigative Journalism.
Just like Odungo makes Jimmah Carter look good. This will be the rise of the criminals, gays, feral blacks, wackola-weirdos, snake oil salesmen, and down-and-out libtards. It will be the downfall of morality, honesty, the middle class and family values. It will be the downfall of the schools in NYC that still work. Feral blacks and their white and Hispanic counterparts will make crime a new sport. It will cost the city billions in damage, court and jailing costs, etc.—if indeed they are allowed to pursue and arrest the perps at all. I am also quite sure that illegals will see an election of this vomitus as a green light to further invade the city and help themselves to free education, medical care, housing, EBT, etc. to which they don’t even begin to be entitled.
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