Posted on 03/25/2014 10:02:17 PM PDT by No One Special
I remember our daily food always coming from a long, long line at the end of which was a loaf of bread, a liter of milk, a stick of butter, a bottle of murky cooking oil, or a kilo of bones with traces of meat and fat on them.
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If we wanted to eat, we learned at a very young age that we had to stand in long lines every day, often in bitter cold at 4 a.m. in hopes that the store would not run out of bread or milk by the time we made it to the front counter.
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It wasn’t that the country did not produce enough food in spite of its disastrous centralized communist party planning. The mad dictator Ceausescu was determined to industrialize the country at the expense of people’s food – he exported so much to the West in exchange for technology and hard currency that the Romanians had to make do with the leftover food not fit for export.
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But that was nothing compared to the Soviet plan to starve the Romanian population of Bessarabia in 1946-1947 in order to achieve collectivization. According to the 1897 census, almost 48% of the population was Moldovan and thus spoke Romanian. Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina were Romanian-held prior to the military occupation by the Soviet Red Army during June 28-July 4, 1940. To avoid a military conflict, Romania withdrew from the area following a Soviet ultimatum delivered on June 26. The Romanian province was recaptured by Ion Antonescu from 1941-1944 and then reoccupied by the Soviets in 1944. The regions were subsequently incorporated into the USSR....
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This is such a touching and infuriating quote from AS. I’m glad we have so many people in this country who own guns. I just hope they have the courage not to turn them in when the pressure from the government becomes too extreme.
Did you read the article? It’s very interesting. These people had grain and the bureaucrats searched everywhere for it - including haystacks - and confiscated it. Perhaps they weren’t smart in how they hid their food; I don’t know. So very sad.
Ever read about the Nazi siege of Leningrad? The people were starving.
The Politbureau called in a famous composer to write a symphony to lift the spirits of the people. The composer smelled food when he walked in the door and saw all the Party Members there were well fed while the city starved.
He received the orders to write the symphony and sent on his way. They did not even offer him a bite to eat.
One of the basic premises of Communism, from the Reds, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc., is that a starving man has no time for dissent and protest.
And it is a true adage.
To these people, starving a population is the easiest way to silence dissent. Of course, THEY will still eat well. Communism/Socialism/Liberalism/Progressiveism, etc has always been about the pure application of political power, and nothing else.
I buy sodium hydroxide 50 lbs at a time. At one time I could buy it at WalMart. Buying it in bulk saves a lot. When I open it I immediately package it into 1 lb ziplocks - it absorbs water from the air, so needs to be kept dry.
“Perhaps they weren’t smart in how they hid their food; I don’t know.”
In a sea of starving people, a well-fed person stands out like a sore thumb.
This illustrates the reason for having a Second Amendment.
“Arms” can be used to kill animals ... but this is not why we must protect the right to keep and bear them.
“Arms” can be used to deter or defeat criminals ... but this is not why we must protect the right to keep and bear them.
Arms can be used to deter or defeat TYRANTS ... The Second Amendment is our Tyranny Insurance Policy.
You’re a good man.
I have an 88 yo neighbor who grew up in Appalachia. What she describes about surviving in early twentieth century is remarkable. She said she thought everyone lived like that. Today, she does all her housework and cooking. She loves her washing machine which she has had one only ten yrs; she washes three loads most days! She is so thankful for what she has and considers her life a blessing from God.
No, I’m afraid I’m pretty ignorant about the siege. Sad, sad story. I hate Russian communists - along, of course, with all the rest of the worldwide communists. It’s why I could never get on board with folks here who thought Putin was OK because he pushed around the man-child in the WH...
I hate Illinois Communists.
Odd to hear the truth about ‘liberal’ totalitarians... usually that’s covered-up... A New York Times editor won a Pulitzer some years back for covering-up the starvation deaths of millions in Communist countries. The little sh*ts at the New York Times would do the same today...
I can see that!
The Romanian dictators, I assume? I remember rejoicing in their nasty execution.
I recently watched a documentary called, “The Soviet Story” and it discussed this specific issue in Ukraine! It also discussed the similarities and alignment between Soviet Marxism and Hitler’s National-Socialism.
I highly recommend it to my fellow FReepers.
“You just described my grandmother who I lived with til I was about 12.”
I am old enough to remember not only my grandparents living that way, but MY MOTHER and FATHER living that way so that means I grew up that way. We did have electricity and the grandparents did not. A black woman came to our house once a week and she and my mother washed clothes in a big kettle in the back yard and my mom did make the soap. When electric washers came out, we got one but I don’t know how long they had been available before we had one. There were no dryers at that time.
My mother canned everything so that was most of the food we had in the winter. My father killed two pigs every fall and had a meat smoke house. We lived like that until years later, we bought bread and milk and Crisco at the grocery store. Until Crisco, everything at our house was fried in bacon grease.
There was no government help of any kind in those days and you grew your food and had animals or you didn’t have any unless you had money but there wasn’t much of a selection in stores then and not many stores. There were “poor farms” for poor people to live where they had gardens to till and grow food. There was a poor farm maybe 15 miles or less from our house. Adults would make fun about the poor farm, such as, “I might have to go to the poor farm!” And, everyone would laugh. There were homeless people who would come by the house and mother would give them food.
I remember when margarine came out and one had to crush a yellow coloring in the bag and squish it through the margarine to make it the color of butter.
My generation is dying out and soon there won’t be any left who remember when you had to grow your food instead of run to the grocery.
It was my generation who, when we left home, were able to move from that early kind of life to the grocery store. I am 80.
Also known as “Romanian Term Limits”.
There will not be a need for the US Government to ration food or to act to cut off food supplies. They have control of the medical services industry and our physical beings. All that they will need to do is withhold drugs or procedures from an “uncompliant pleeb” to show as an example to the masses and the sheep will herd right up.
Don’t get too frightened, this time it will be a humane death tho!
“My wife grew up in a culture where they never had enough food, clothing or other essentials.
Although she’s been a US citizen for 40+ years, old habits are hard to break.
She hoards food, medicine, and items of necessity. We could probably survive for 2 years or more on her stash.
I’m not going to change her, because it makes her feel secure.”
Good on you for accepting your wife as she is. Just remember, in our Americanized minds, we are blessed because we can buy what we want whenever we want it. In her mind, she is still blessed to be in America, a country where it is even POSSIBLE to stock enough supplies that she can even feel secure!
It is the same thing really....
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