Posted on 08/13/2009 3:24:17 PM PDT by Beloved Levinite
Edited on 08/13/2009 3:54:16 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
wheres the weiners next town hall? i should be able to attend
It is an interesting idea. You know that plant girl asking Obama a question just triggered in me this rage, it 100% resembled the young pioneers crap we used to have back in the old country. I almost smashed my TV. How dumb can people be?
When I read the title of the thread I remember when USSR fell, I lived in Kyiv then and student there staged a hunger strike. I was about 13 then and going there talking to the people profoundly changed me.. also reading Archipelag Gulag around the same age. I live in Canada so not sure I can help much, but is a good idea I am sure there are more people like those guys and me who would be happy to help.
One issue you will have that few of us can talk calmly about it. I can debate people of any kind, but actually speaking about it in public would more resemble a call to hang all commies off the lamposts rather then a good account of events.
Thanks for your input & offer to participate. Now that we have YouTube, it would makes getting these stories out to the masses via video and much easier & maybe less threatening for some who might be hesititant to speak in front of crowds. We’ll keep you posted.
Good one...but it hasn’t happened yet.
re Cubans in the US, many of the English-speaking population left early on, and didn’t experience the horrors of Communism. Many of the recent arrivals, who have lived the nightmare, don’t speak English.
Ping
Now that we have YouTube...”
Now that is a GREAT idea! It would much easier to have hundreds of survivors of communist regimes to record a video and post on You Tube.
I have an account there. I’d be more than happy to post any video for those are not comfortable posting it themselves.
OK, great. We are just in the info gathering phase. Once we have enough participants we will organize the gatherings acording to locations & make sure we have one or two volunteers videographers at each event. Then we can gather the vids & edit them to post on YouTube. One of the Patriots in our circle yesterday is in video production. Stay tuned.
Great idea! Great name! Why include those from former bloc countries? Those folks were itching to get out for ages. How about ‘Russian Tea and Bloc Party?
Hmmmm, we’ll take that under consideration. Thanks.
I agree. And in Miami, I’m sure there are plenty of Cuban-Americans with equally horrific tales.
So what do you think about FreeYankState’s suggestion of “Russian Tea & Bloc Party?”
So what about “Cuban Rum Parties?” (haaaa)
I like that better!
“So what do you think about FreeYankState’s suggestion of “Russian Tea & Bloc Party?”
BL, it has potential. I passed your thread onto one of our friends who is now a US citizen, but who escaped from Soviet occupied Czechoslovakia several years ago. Her reaction was: “I have been trying to tell everybody who voted for Obama what they can expect, but most people are naive. They don’t think it can happen in this country and sometimes they don’t even believe how bad socialism is when I try to explain it to them. I would like to send everybody who voted for the man to Siberia for one year. Then maybe they would get it.” I’m sure this is the same reaction you have, and will hear, from most others that have immigrated from the Soviet block countries.
Thank you Batman. That’s great! WEe need to keep plugging away. Do a search here to find mt thread on “beck czar”. Scary stuff. I’ll be in touch.
bL
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