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Donald Trump's not quite Joseph Stalin. But his 'Fake News Awards' should scare us.
NBC "News" ^ | January 17, 2018 | by Nina Khrushcheva

Posted on 01/17/2018 11:31:46 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Trump’s America is in some ways even worse than Russia was during my Soviet childhood.

But even before Trump entered the White House, his worst insults were usually aimed at the independent media. Or, as he labeled it: the “fake news” and “the enemy of the people.”

As a former Soviet citizen, I am frequently overcome by a horror-movie feeling of fear and disbelief. It’s almost as if I don’t know where I am. In cosmopolitan New York? Or back in monotonous Moscow, listening to Soviet leaders boasting from the Kremlin about Communism’s drummed-up victories and denouncing their illusory enemies?

In the early years after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, and particularly under Joseph Stalin’s despotic regime in the 1930s, “enemies of the people” emerged as the regime's most terrifying label. During Stalin’s Great Purges of 1936-38, the term vragi naroda (enemies of the people) branded all those who disagreed with the Kremlin — whether about the planned economy, unfree press or predetermined election results. That label, which defined Soviet reality, typically resulted in immediate death or imprisonment within the Gulag of harsh labor camps.

This changed when Nikita S. Khrushchev, my great-grandfather, denounced his predecessor Stalin during a 1956 speech to the Communist Party.

Of course, the flashy reality-TV-star-turned-real-estate tycoon-turned-foulmouthed president is arguably more like Charlie Chaplin’s buffoon character in “The Great Dictator” (1940) than the real Hitler or Stalin. Or perhaps Trump is more like Hollywood’s mean clown “Pennywise” — "Trumpywise" — insulting some, punching others and scaring the rest.

But the real danger of this nightmare is that it gets more real every day. And the longer it lasts, the harder it will be to wake up.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: communsmkills; fakenews; fakies; journalism; media; mediawingofthednc; msm; ninakhrushcheva; nobrainscollectively; partisanmediashills; press
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To: SERKIT

WHAT??? Didn’t you KNOW that the news is inviolate.... We can’t DARE question their attempts to gaslight the whole dang country. I mean, seriously. That’s FAR more dangerous than killing 100 million of your countrymen.

At some point, the hyperbole is so insane from the left that there’s not a chance they’re going to get a vote for dogcatcher. They won’t even vote for themselves, it’s going to get so bad.

At what point do they start going to the mental hospitals for their abject insane hatred?

My biggest concern is these nutcases are going to encourage someone to take a shot at Trump.

When does it all stop?


101 posted on 01/17/2018 3:18:03 PM PST by spacewarp (FreeRepublic, Rush's show prep since foundation.)
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To: Leep

Agreed...


102 posted on 01/17/2018 3:22:12 PM PST by DoughtyOne (a/o 01/17/18 DJIA close 26,115.65, 45.993% > the morning of 11/07/16. 716.77 to 50% increase..)
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To: ichabod1

One’s response to this article can only be Ho Lee Fuk.


103 posted on 01/17/2018 3:23:19 PM PST by pluvmantelo (Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

104 posted on 01/17/2018 5:25:44 PM PST by 4Liberty (illegal immigration is a "process" crime too....)
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To: Theodore R.

Hanoi Jane said we’d all want to live under Communism if we only knew what it was. Why the hellbdidn’t she move to a Communist sh1thole?


105 posted on 01/17/2018 5:37:12 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Stop talking Nina. Your attempt to equate my President to communist murderers is yet again another failure by a liberal trying to make an emotional argument.

JoMa


106 posted on 01/17/2018 10:09:29 PM PST by joma89
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