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 ...
[NBC hired Chelsea Clinton.......nuff said.]
IIRC, for $600,000 per year. She did next to nothing.
Another great donation to The Clintons - might as well have written the check to The Clinton Foundation.
But then, NBC is “objective reporting” so they couldn’t do that.....
Or, perhaps, wants to be her grandfather Nikita.
The "A" means she is female.
I thought Trump was Hitler.
Now he is Stalin. This gets confusing. I guess next month, Trump will be Mao. Or something.
The people in the MSM press are idiots. It’s obvious people get their jobs in the MSM media based on their ideology, not their competence.
This kid...
Even if everything I believe about Trump and the Libertarian/Conservative cause is dead wrong, and liberals are right about everything, in the worst case scenario, this administration is over in 7 years.
I’m stuck with this news media until they go out of business. In short, Ms. Khrushcheva...I’m fear a complicit 5th column media that has proven time and again to be incapable of objectivity (and by extension my fellow rock-stupid American who views their vote as the cost of admission to the “Cool Kids Club”) than I do any elected official serving under term limits.
“Nina Khrushcheva”
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AKA Russian interference. The problem is that the awards will be given for proven Fake News spread and promoted by Socialist mouthpieces. If you look into Nina’s politics you will probably find many Socialist ties, and if she is a naturalized citizen, a member of the Socialist Democrat Party.
Go back to Roosha...Bish.
Gender-specific like some words in French? Didn’t know that.
The difference is Trump can say Fake News every day but the news can continue to put out out their pablum without worrying about the knock on the door in the middle of the night to drag them to the gulag.
Khrushchev understood that the American people are “soft” and would in time become communist to get the social programs they crave. Jane Fonda said it pretty much the same.
No...probably Trotsky is next.
Yes, very highly gender specific.
I’ll have to take a look. Thanks!
I was seeing a lot of fake news before Donald Trump even ran for the Presidency! Most news show are more infotainment these days instead of straight up news reporting!
Granddaughter.
Nikita’s son Sergei Khrushchev emigrated & became a U.S. citizen. That must have had the old commie spinning in his grave.
Goebbelist!
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