Nina Khrushcheva is professor of international affairs at The New School and the author of “The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind.”
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.
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Nina Khrushcheva is professor of international affairs at The New School and the author of “The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind.”
They should probably scare CNN, NBC, CBS, etc. Honest news outlets have nothing to worry over.
Effen commies never change. Who let this b*tch in the country?
I can’t even begin to unpack what she was trying to egest there. Where’s my Goebbels’ fanpic? :)
Scare YOU, NBC.
Much scarier than the Marxism of the Democrat Party and the inclination of Democrats to label their opposition mentally unfit?
Pantsuit wetter in training...
One hundred percent pure, unadulterated bullish!t.
It would be like Chelsea moving to Russia and becoming a professor. Sum ting wong.
Stickin’ an “A” after Khrushchev don’t fool us. DOH!
LMAO!
His fake news awards should scare YOU! Not us!
Trump: BOO!
The Ministry of Propaganda IS an enemy of the people.
Nina wants to be Stalin.
Ah but Al Gore and Michael Moore winnimg Oscars(TM) for best documenaties are above criticism.
I loathe Leftist cultural Marxists.
Stalinists lie. always
She needs to have a long conversation with Oleg Atbashian about this. I think his perspective and personal experiences would shock her.
Kruschev boasted he would bury us.
Exactly. The Fake News awards makes me laugh at these clowns. After 8 years of sucking obama’s balls, the MSM are learning they’re now idiots.
Every damn time A Republican president is sittin gin office, these pukes make it personal...
Tecumseh Sgherman was way ahead of this time when he said reporters should be shot as they report to the enemy..
Another deranged, leftist dope living in a self-imagined “nightmare,” all because they happened to lose an election.
Suck it up, snowflake, and enjoy the next SEVEN YEARS.
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