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Are Americans Becoming Sovietized?
pjmedia.com ^ | 5/6/2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 05/06/2021 10:36:26 AM PDT by rktman

What ultimately ended the nihilist Soviet system?

Was it not that Russians finally tired of the Kremlin’s lies and hypocrisies that permeated every facet of their falsified lives?

Here are 10 symptoms of Sovietism. Ask yourself whether we are headed down this same road to perdition.

(List below)

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloggers; democommies; didyousearch; notnews; vdh Comment #1 Removed by Moderator

To: rktman

Best article of the day! Thx for posting.


2 posted on 05/06/2021 10:44:01 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: rktman

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3956851/posts

Several posts down


3 posted on 05/06/2021 10:45:56 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: rktman

OMG.... Is VDH a Freeper reading my post? I have been saying we are on the road to Sovietization for quite sometime here....


4 posted on 05/06/2021 10:49:43 AM PDT by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Songs of Angry Men!")
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To: Pollard

Thanks. Gotta love the ‘search’ feature. I used the same header. LOL! Guess it bears repeating.


5 posted on 05/06/2021 10:50:07 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: taildragger

What a plagerizer huh?


6 posted on 05/06/2021 10:51:10 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: rktman
Are Americans Becoming Sovietized?

When I was but a lad in grade school, we were taught this is a rhetorical question. I believe the definition still applies..

7 posted on 05/06/2021 10:52:49 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: rktman

Only liberals and Democrats think communism is wonderful.


8 posted on 05/06/2021 11:00:26 AM PDT by SkyDancer (If At First You Don't Succeed ~ So Much For Skydiving)
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To: rktman
"What a plagerizer huh?"

Lol! tounge in cheak I was, but it is factual, btw luv VDH, however it is as much a Maoist Movement as it is Sovietization.

As a mentor in my sphere said the other day when I noted it is the Biblical, evil is good, good is evil, and they responsed, we have to return to G-d and it is in hands....

9 posted on 05/06/2021 11:02:00 AM PDT by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Songs of Angry Men!")
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To: rktman

Funny how the people who love communism and socialism are still living in this Country..
Why haven’t the ones that hate this Country the most still take advantage of Democracy....


10 posted on 05/06/2021 11:16:38 AM PDT by Pez149 (Time to stop saying a theory is fact....)
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To: rktman

Nyet comrade. Commissar tell you report to stockyards for head bashing. All is good.


11 posted on 05/06/2021 11:18:35 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Where words can mean anything they can also mean nothing.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Of course they are; since our political leadership is Sovietized.


12 posted on 05/06/2021 11:20:20 AM PDT by chopperk ( )
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To: Pez149

Cuba is a short flight away! Why are they still here?


13 posted on 05/06/2021 12:23:25 PM PDT by gr8eman (The "R" next to Snake Plisken's name stands for "Retired")
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To: RoosterRedux

Indeed...quite spooky really.


14 posted on 05/06/2021 12:53:20 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: RoosterRedux

Socialism survives by empowering the lower class, who tend to be rather stupid.

Regimes built on such a foundation tend not to last long, and end in the way they began - in flames.


15 posted on 05/06/2021 3:37:47 PM PDT by hank ernade (armchair macho bravado EverTrumper)
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To: hank ernade
Socialism survives by empowering the lower class, who tend to be rather stupid.

The lower classes, be they workers or peasants or whatever, are only used to bring about the revolution. Once the revolution is complete, they are discarded like worn-out shoes.

For all its promises of equality and utopia and empowerment, communism is really just a tool used to install and maintain a totalitarian government.

16 posted on 05/06/2021 4:40:37 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Totalitarian regimes fail because they are founded on masses of not too bright peasants and workers, and have to rely on them to achieve their aims.

Those who use herds of stupid cattle to achieve their aims tend to propagate larger herds of stupid cattle to do so, and in time the herds become large enough and useless enough that they destroy the regimes that created them.

An example is Garveyism, which was destroyed by those it empowered.

BLM is a latter day form of the same and will destroy those who embrace it.


17 posted on 05/06/2021 8:55:08 PM PDT by hank ernade (armchair macho bravado EverTrumper)
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