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Earlier this week, my local Tea Party group (The Daisy Mountain Tea Party Patriots) had the privilege of listening to a panel of three people who had lived under separate totalitarian rule at some point in their lives. They discussed how they survived, as well as their appreciation of America and concerns for her safety today. The first speaker was Ms. Zina Brodovsky from the former Soviet Union.
Ms. Brodovsky moved to America 24 years ago, at the end of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. For a long time, she was indifferent to politics here in her new home (likely because the economy was much better and the Soviet Union was beginning to fall apart.) She said she was “brainwashed” in school to believe that “socialism and communism (were) all these great things.”
Of course, as she would later discover the hard way, she was lied to throughout her free education. People were starved and imprisoned in concentration camps. Essentially, everything belonged to the government, the only employer in the neighborhood. Overcrowded hospitals had absolutely no privacy, as Zina saw for herself when a close relative needed surgery. There was practically no medical care post-surgery, even though hospitals were free to use and medicine was relatively cheap. People would become so hungry that they would engage in cannibalism when necessary.
As a Jew in Siberia, Zina felt like she was singled out for public ridicule by the authorities. When she tried to leave in the 1980s with her 17 year old daughter, she witnessed the officials at the airport attempt to convince her daughter to stay behind; this could have been the most sickening event Zina witnessed, even though no one was physically hurt.
In her own words, communism was “an absolutely deadly, deadly, deadly movement” and “evil.” She said that “in reality, we didn’t have any freedom.” Essentially, “we were slaves.”
Needless to say, Zina is very grateful to be an American today. Unfortunately, she sees America embracing communism. Zina especially sees this in aspects of our way of life from health care to education. A teacher, she has seen that “American teachers brainwash Americans the same” like she was during her formidable years. In fact, she claimed that when explaining to a fellow (younger) teacher one time about how growing up in the USSR was really like, he looked at her like she was from another planet. In her opinion, such a reaction indicates how ignorant a lot of adults are about what is happening to our country as well.
Zina especially feels sorry for the Occupy Wall Street crowd, as she says that “they have no idea what they are asking for.” What they advocate for is “all bluff, myth, and lies…there is no such thing as social justice.” She stressed the need for more young people to participate in the Tea Party movement but fears that it is too late.
Throughout her talk, Zina teared up and was shaking. Clearly, it was not easy for her to come forward with her story; words probably couldn’t even begin to describe this difficulty. But I very much appreciated her telling us what it really was like living under totalitarianism, as I am sure almost every other audience member did.
(Part 2 coming soon…)
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She’s right, people need to wake up.
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the communist obama supporters keep calling me a racist ,a birther, a tin foil hat wearer and telling me I’m dead wrong about obama ……but they can no more prove me wrong , than they can prove their right , I say , show America the original BC , show America his college transcripts who put him through school , prove to America he didn’t get aid as a foreign student …show America that his SS number is in fact his , show America the original selective service card…they cant !!!!! so how can they tell me I’m wrong and their right……….they cant
and until they do ! I will never consider this racist ,class warfare trouble maker obama my president ……..and all you republican leaders, who hide your heads in the sand ,this is going to start riots, this is going to get people hurt …maybe killed ….. and when that happens the blood in on your hands, because YOU failed to uphold your oaths to your constituents your country and the Constitution….BARACK OBAMA IS A FRAUD !!!!! …… I SAY …. PROVE ME WRONG !!!!
you’re right on the spot…but, getting rid of BO in 2012 is just the beginning of where we have to go. It’s amazing that the American people are so apathetic. Today I watched a movie called The Pianist. It is a true story and all I can say is repeat ‘all it takes for evil to thrive is for good men to do nothing’. People will not believe it until they are living in the midst of it openly, I’m referring to evil. It’s around us, but, pretty talk fools the useful idiots for they wish to believe in a utopia that does not exist and can’t be created.
Here is an in-depth interview with Zina where you can hear her testimony for yourself. I urge you to listen to this with a young person…
http://www.westernfreepress.com/2012/02/08/wfp-series-so-whats-wrong-with-socialism-part-3-zina-brodovsky/
If you want to hear from others that have lived under communism, here are two other similar interviews…
http://www.westernfreepress.com/2012/02/06/wfp-series-so-whats-wrong-with-socialism-part-2-daniel-paul/
http://www.westernfreepress.com/2012/01/31/wfp-series-so-whats-wrong-with-socialism-part-1/
I lived under Commies 50 years and it makes me sick to watch how deeply Americans are already spoiled and brainwashed.
“People need to wake up,” somebody said.
Well, the time to wake up was in late 1950s at most, when Beatniks started demolishing America. Their baton was picked up by even more sex- and rug-addicted hippies and punks in late 1960s and 1970s, but common Americans kept sleeping well. No, I’m sorry, Americans woke up periodically to join Dems smearing Joe McCarthy. Then – back to fast sleep.
So, now, when the entire educational system is skilfully converted by domestic radicals into a non-stop Commie (and homosexualism as an ideology rather than homosexuality as a biological deviation) propaganda machine, it’s too late to wake up: more than 50% of Americans are irreversibly converted into professional and semi-professional loafers (watch Alexandra Pelosi’s documentary.)
It’s such a pity to witness how incompetently Americans have slept and frittered away once great country, which I was dreaming of all those long years that I spent on the Commie galleys.
I was at a meeting (Constitution Class provided by a group trying to promote education of the people so we can all understand just how wrong our elected public servants are on the issues and the legislation they pass) and a older couple from Greece attended and spoke at the end of the evenings class. He practically had tears in his eyes bkz all he kept saying to the group in his broken English was ‘ do you American people not understand that this is the last hope on Earth for freedom’? many do and others are just the useful idiots. The republicans I blame as much if not more for what is happening. They’ve not done a thing about the Dept. of Edu. or the Energy Dept. or E.P.A. just to name a few….Does anyone really think they care to get rid of the health care legislation? It’s a great campaign slogan-that’s it. In PA (we are one of the 26 states suing over the hostile take-over of our health care) we have the house, the senate and Govenors seat all republican…what do u think our Gov. Corbet did 4-6wks back? He applied for $34million from the feds to do the first stage of implementing Obummercare….by setting up the exchanges! the federal gvt can’t do it without the states co-operation and while some states in the law suit are Not taking the money to begin putting the Exchanges together, our Republican leadership in PA is, so who’s side is the GOP really on? And do you think we can count on them just bkz they’re republicans? NO WAY watch in your state who’s running and know the person before you vote in your primaries….also, the PA GOP has endorse a Steve Welch, a recent democrat who voted for Obama in 08 and supported Joe Sestak for Senate in 2010. Sestak is so far left he makes BO look moderate. Welch voted and campagined and gave around $5-6,000.00 to Sestak’s campaing.. Pat Toomey won but, it was close. Now the GOP leadership thinks we should believe in Steve Welch who calls himself a moderate….We’ve had enough of moderates and that’s why we’re where we are in America today, BO didn’t just walk into that oval office, he was groomed by many in order to get alway with what he is now doing to our country…