The Soviet Union may have failed, but that is not discouraging today's radically secular left in the USA.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Communism would work if only the right people were in charge.
See, that’s why it keeps failing is that the right people aren’t allowed to be as ruthless as they need to be in order to bring about a worker’s paradise.
Because, you see, communism is always just one more murder away from perfect.
Just one more is all they always need to kill.
Just one more.
2 posted on
10/26/2017 12:47:41 PM PDT by
MeganC
(Democrat by birth, Republican by default, Conservative by principle.)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
3 posted on
10/26/2017 12:51:21 PM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
(Gimme That Old Time Religion: it was good enough for Athanasius, and it's good enough for me.)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
When I visited the USSR in the 1980's (on a bicycle group tour) I was surprised at how much religious stuff was still around. We even spent a day at a monastery (in Novgorod) with monks walking around, a "fountain of youth", and we had dinner in a monastery dining hall... complete with real mead to drink.
Even in Moscow, there were lots of churches... some of which our official government "minders" allowed us to go see.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
The Church in the village from which my family escaped was turned into a tractor repair shop. A beautiful building, lovingly crafted by generations of poor farmers, destroyed.
5 posted on
10/26/2017 12:59:49 PM PDT by
Haiku Guy
(eliminate perverse incentives)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
And what this exhibition demonstrates is that nothing – not decades of propaganda nor state-sponsored terror – will be able to quash that instinct from human life. Rather than saying they failed because it's an unquashable "instinct," I think we should say it failed because the Lord will not be defeated. Don't know if that'll convince lefties to lay off, but at least we tried without resorting to specious arguments.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Communists never give up trying.
7 posted on
10/26/2017 1:00:55 PM PDT by
I want the USA back
(It's harder and harder to have a sense of humor in this insane world.)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
The U.S. attempt has pretty much suceeded.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
They can get rid of churches, and they can get rid of religion, but they can’t get rid of God.
11 posted on
10/26/2017 2:05:51 PM PDT by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
An excellent book about that is The Persecutor by Sergei Kourdakov, who was one of those who did the persecuting for the KGB.
It’s a biography of his life and fascinating.
12 posted on
10/26/2017 2:08:21 PM PDT by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
“How many divisions has he...” indeed...!
14 posted on
10/26/2017 3:15:22 PM PDT by
TalBlack
(It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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