It is somewhat dismaying that fifteen or so years after the fall of the Iron curtain most Americans have totally forgotten that there were people risking their lives to escape Communist hell.
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During the years of the USSR, the American media was as soft toward Communism as they are today about Obamaism. So, most Americans have no idea what the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc people actually lived through.
Right. As we reflect, the media has been on the side of communists for a long time. Loved Castro fighting the evil Batista in Cuba, loved Daniel Ortega and the Sandanistas standing up to the evil Reagan-backed Contras. Loved Che, Mao and all the other sweatshirt silk screened mass killers.
The younger generations have no idea what communism is or does. All they hear is media saying it gives folks a chance, cares for the poor and underprivileged, is “cool”...