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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Being Guiliani's understudy isn't going to cut it. You've got to have a message that appeals to everybody. I know that NYC is liberal, but it's more of a classic lunchbox Democrat liberalism than out-and-out Marxism.
Thank you for mentioning this. I have been posting about it but I don’t like to repeat posts again and again.
Pamela Geller’s website, Atlasshruggs, has a video of her raving about this. It’s long but you can skip the early part. I’ll post the link in a minute or so.
He actually said he’s not a morning person! What about being around while the rest of the city is humming?
In contrast to Giuliani, who would get picked up by Lategano at Gracie Mansion at something like 6 in the morning and they would start work in the limo.
I’m even more convinced that weiner’s wipeout was pre-arranged.
Not that he didn’t do the stuff. Just that it being made public was ‘arranged’. De Blasio is an Obama crony and Weiner was a Clinton crony. Clinton lost that round.
I’d move if I were y’all. He wouldn’t handle another 9/11 like Giuliani. He’d declare martial law.
Of course it was prearranged. So was the takeout of Quinn. That was in the paper today too. De Blasio’s friends were part of the PAC that helped destroy Quinn. PACs are not supposed to be tied to campaigns. Of course his people are swearing the campaign had nothing to do with it. No, right, only de Blasio’s friends.
Have you heard about the shots fired at Garden State mall?
Just saw it. My family in NJ are big shoppers. Hope they were safe at home.
Of course it was at the Nordstroms. That’s the one store I reliably visited every time I went to that mall.
who is the pro-life alternative in the NYC Mayoral race, both candidates are pro-abortion.
visiting the ussr, just like clinton another progressive socialist.
I don’t think there is a pro-life candidate this year.
There was one in the primaries (Dem) but he could barely speak English and had zero grasp of the issues.
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