Mom
and I were given a plot of land that we have never seen. I am told that it is
covered with rocks, the type that an enterprising fellow nearby is already
exploiting and selling to construction companies for road building. I am not
holding any high hopes or interest right now to plant a crop but it feels
strange and empowering at the same time to own an ancestral piece of property
that had belonged to my family for generations but was taken by force after World
War II. Grandpa would be proud!
In
1921, peasants were given 4 hectares of land. When communists came to power in
1945, under pressure from Moscow, a new agrarian reform was passed meant to
disband large farms and to gather votes for the Communist Party. Hundreds of
thousands of farmers received small plots of land to grow crops on and feed
their families.
Once
entrenched, the communist agricultural vision changed. Their leaders were
convinced that small properties were not valuable and condemned to
non-modernized operations. At the time, people had plenty to eat and their
families were thriving. However, community organizers fanned across the country
convinced them through extensive propaganda that the state would be more
efficient in administering the land.
The
Marxist-Leninist dogma said, “A small property generates capitalism day by day,
minute by minute, spontaneous, and in mass proportions.” The small-time farmer feeding
his family, with a little surplus, was seen as an individual member of the
bourgeoisie, requiring squashing.
The commie’s
strategy was to turn farmers against the richer farmers through class envy and
class warfare and it worked quite well.
The
communists began the process of confiscating land from farmers who owned 50 hectares
or more in a violent manner in March 1949 via an immediate executive order or
decree. Overnight, farmers were taken out of their homes and forcibly moved to
other villages, while their homes, animals, agricultural equipment, and land
were seized. Farmers who had some mechanized agricultural tools were labeled “rich
and bourgeois.” The “socialist transformation of agriculture” followed via
division of farmers into five categories: those without any land, poor
peasants, middle peasants, well-to-do farmers, and the very rich farmers.
The Communist Party
introduced the quota system in order to compensate for lack of food in cities
across the nation, to make war reparations to the Soviet Union, and to ruin
farm operations that were doing well. A significant part of the crops had to be
turned over to the state. Oftentimes the farmers were only left with the seed necessary
for next year’s crop or nothing at all. Thousands of previously well-off farmers
or people of modest means were ruined this way, including the very poor whom
the communists pretended to protect.
The farmers who
opposed collectivization, the joining of small private farms into large, state
owned and controlled farms, were violently repressed through deportations,
incarcerations, and confiscation of everything they owned, including clothes.
Deportations
involved taking families who were considered most resistant and uneducable in
labor camps and placing them in the middle of nowhere, far from civilization
and transportation, forcing them to live in a hut in order to have shelter from
wind and cold, surviving like the American pioneers in the west. More than
40,000 farmers were deported this way to 18 geographically difficult regions to
survive in, the so-called called „special communes” run by the dreaded security
police loyal to the Communist Party.
Northern
Moldova and Transylvania offered most resistance. The farmers were arrested, shot
in their homes, or summarily executed without due process. Thousands were sent
to jail by 1950 and their wealth confiscated. If allowed to return to their
village of birth after a lengthy deportation (1949-1956), farmers found their
homes occupied by other families who were staunch communist party members and
were rewarded for their loyalty with ownership of a confiscated home. Injustice
was swift and the spreading of wealth was cruel.
Collectivization
was completed in 1962 with medal awarding ceremonies. The chaotic and
mismanaged agricultural system under communists experienced such a sustained crisis
between 1948-1962, that the effects are still felt today, twenty-three years
after the communists lost power.
Can this happen
in America? Can we lose our land and property to someone else deemed more
deserving by constant leftist propaganda? Can we lose our land to wilderness
because environmentalists in control force us to move? Or is it already
happening peacefully and silently while the population is being soothed with „hope
and change,” lies and fabrications on a daily basis?
Americans are
asleep, ignorant, mesmerized, doped up, or so corrupt that they no longer care
what happens to their fellow citizens, their children’s future, the future of
our country, so long as they have a cushy job, mindless television shows,
sports, a pay check, perhaps bribes, comfortable homes, club memberships,
vacations, and most of all, intoxicating power and control.
Redistributing wealth
is the only thing communists know how to do brutally and stealthily well. Those
who do not pay taxes or hold down jobs protest that it is their right to steal
someone else’s money. They’ve even come up with a new euphemism, they are not
stealing the wealth of producers, they are merely forcing them to „share the
burden.”
But it is
stealing! Every moment of time that we must work to earn money and pay taxes
that are then spent by our out-of-control government on non-producers is a
moment too long that we are slaves to someone else, a moment of time that is stolen
from our limited time on earth.
It was just yesterday our president was visiting our children in the school house and offering them candy in exchange for their votes. It seems like such a desperate act, to target the youngest and most naïve of voters. No doubt, they think they are worldly, and they see the favors offered as coming from the printing press, or from evil Corporations that deserve to be punished.
ReplyDeleteIn reality, many of us on pensions are finding our resources evaporating as our government denies us any kind of realistic returns on our investments.
Those who want their governments to take care of them and every imaginable sin are easy prey. It would be less of a problem if they were the only prey.
We know the dangers of credit cards, they have destroyed so many households. It is no more than legal slavery. Our children look on as their Government enslaves their children, as if they have no cares at all.
China has taken the credit card game to the highest level, the present Administration doesn’t have a care in the world, as the card they’re using belongs to our Grandchildren.
Harry Reid? A budget? Who needs a budget when you have someone else’s credit card to use ??
America… when your Children ask you, what were you doing Mom and Dad when they were running up the bill on our credit card? Did they bribe you too?
George,
ReplyDeleteYou are right. I do not understand what is happening to Americans. It is madness!