I could not
wait to escape the oppressive communism of the Iron Curtain even though it
meant leaving behind everything I’ve ever known and everybody I’ve ever loved.
It did not matter that my new countrymen would see me as an inconvenient and
tolerated member of the underclass, “Euro-trash” to be exact. If we came from
Eastern Europe, we were all worthless gypsies or spies at best. But I knew deep
down, if I was given the opportunity, I would prove that I was the best and the
brightest.
After
twenty-three hours of flying half-way around the world, I could have kissed the
ground in New York when we landed, had it not been in the dead of winter, that’s
how elated I was to be free. But a sense of dread, fear of the unknown, and
trepidation were equally overwhelming.
My first
photograph in the free world was that of a young and willowy woman smiling in the
best outfit I owned, eating a boxed dinner out of a paper bag at JFK airport. I
had 10 cents in my pocket which I debated whether I should save it for a phone call
or to buy a bottle of coke.
It was not
easy adjusting to life in the southern part of a vast country, the shining city
on the hill that represented freedom to so many billions around the world. I
was the envy of my home town because I was the one girl who got away from
suffocating communism and I would be rich – wealth by association.
Poor people then
defined rich by very murky standards, one being that dollars grew on trees, easily
picked. But reality then was that dollars were earned with a minimum wage job,
not in the welfare office of today where illegal immigrants waltz in and steal
the hard-earned tax dollars of Americans who work every day and have no input
where their money is spent. Bureaucrats and politicians know best. Their newly
arrived fraudulent voters must be pacified through generous handouts at someone
else’s expense. How else would they stay in office for decades? Constituents who refuse to learn English are
easy picking. They see the world as the Roman soldiers did – is there a pebble
in their shoes?
Everybody
dreamed of Dallas and the Ewings oil
tycoons they saw on TV once a week for a magical hour of escape from the despotic
reality of utopian communism. It did not take much to be rich in the definition
of oppressed people who suffered so much under the boot of communism for so
many decades.
Only in the
revisionist history books of the brainwashed liberal minds is socialism
something worthy of emulating – when asked what’s so good about it, they have
no idea how to define socialism.
In the small
southern town where I landed, the many churches fought over the occasional
foreign student or defector – it was such a source of pride and joy to sponsor
them and parade them every Sunday in church like a freedom prize to satisfy the
flock that they have done their Christian duty to save lost souls from the clutches
of communism and their atheistic emptiness. But not all victims of communism
were atheists. Many worshipped God underground, away from the prying eyes of
communists.
The few immigrants
and poor foreign students were grateful for any help but they had their own
faith and wished to keep their religion not convert to something else. The locals,
who could not understand how anybody else was not Baptist, Presbyterian, or Methodist,
tried to convert as many as they could through kindness. The Catholics, in
their superior faith, were not in any hurry to convert anybody. Yet decades
later they would bring in and shelter thousands of illegal aliens in sanctuary cities,
breaking immigration laws in order to shore up their flock.
But that was
forty years ago. The legal immigrants from the turn of the century on to the
eighties escaped religious oppression, dictatorships, communism, incarceration
for political views, and many other reasons. They welcomed the opportunity to
find happiness and success in the new world if they worked hard.
The
immigrants of today, most of whom are illegal because the legal ones are still
waiting in line for the dispensation of their applications, come for the
generous welfare, to install the religious theocracy they brought with them,
and to overturn the west into the hellhole they’ve escaped.
Life and relative
freedom were good for many years but then America started to change. More and
more foreigners who did not wish to assimilate flooded small towns and demanded
fundamental changes in the fabric of society in order to accommodate their
needs and entitlements. People like me who assimilated and were contributing to
American society became the exception.
Cities
became places of violent gangs and bums, cosmopolitan places without identity; customs
and traditions were lost year by year; the city hall, the mayor, and the board
of supervisors forced the locals to change to globalism, to adapt to U.N.
demands, and to raise their children to be good global citizens without recollection
of history, official language, and national boundaries.
Schools
started teaching our children that it was shameful to be American; America was “evil”
because it oppressed. I always looked around trying to find these fictitious “oppressed”
and saw happy and prosperous people going about their daily lives. They had
jobs, cars, homes, air conditioning, heating, best medical care in the world,
great hospitals, well-qualified doctors, good roads, food, vacations, and other
amenities that made life the best in the world.
Lobbyists
and politicians started passing laws that fattened their pockets, their
influence, their re-election campaign coffers, and dumbed down the education of
our children; life-long Democrat representatives destroyed the lives and any possible
future success in the areas they lorded over for decades; deviants with
powerful lobby forced a weakening change in our society and in our military.
Daddy
government welfare destroyed the family unit; Roe v. Wade legalized the murder
of unborn children; fascistic feminism forced vile behavior on society; people
crossed themselves helplessly and prayed that God would right the wrongs that kept
piling up. The drug culture took over the minds of our young and the crack
babies became of age, angry and violent characters with no moral compass.
Then
politicians flooded the world with the flotsam and jetsam of the third world in
a sick social engineering plan of forced international migration aimed at
destroying sovereignty and installing elitist global governance.
Hollywood
and their fellow travelers told us how bigoted, racist, and homophobic we are
while they hid behind tall fences and locked palatial gates. They told us that
we had to commute in tin cans, bike, or walk, while they jet-setted around the
world in their private yachts, airplanes, and drove the most expensive cars
money could buy. They told us that the fake global warming they invented and
pushed with a rabid vengeance was going to destroy the planet unless we
repented our capitalist life-style and adopted primitive living conditions.
Our children
were indoctrinated daily by communist teachers to be ashamed of their country,
their national anthem, their history, their traditions; we were the oppressors,
there was nothing to be proud of, “the virtue of the oppressed” was a quality
that had to be admired, primitive cultures chopping hands and heads were noble
while our own culture was decadent and rotten.
More and
more liberal constructs such as “micro-aggression,” “white privilege,” and “implicit
racism” were invented to diminish the worth of the very successful and tolerant
middle-class.
Then the
flood gates of Islam opened and Europe will never be the same. Now it is
America’s turn to become the world Caliphate they seek. The very politicians we
trusted with our governance have become the oppressors of our freedoms by
enabling the invaders to use our tolerance in the takeover process of our
western civilization which is falling apart without so much as a whimper.
People live
in fear of jihadis but bend over backwards to accommodate them in a western country
and culture where they do not belong and do not wish to assimilate into.
Citizens around the world are told that they must live in fear of violence,
rape, and death and get used to the new frightening norm lest they be labeled
racist, xenophobe, or bigot.
People
cannot honor their history and traditions because they might offend someone
else who invaded our country and now demand that we change to make room for
their barbaric traditions.
Liberals
made sure Thanksgiving and Christmas have become just opportunities to shop for
things nobody really needs; crosses and other symbols of our Christianity are
removed from any land or town. Graves are defaced or torn, crosses broken, and
monuments witnessing our history are removed as racist and offensive to black
people. The Taliban could not have done a better job of censoring our own
history they did not like.
Young women
demand birth control and the irrational “choice” to kill their babies up until
the moment of live birth but go into a screaming rage when someone cuts down a
tree or goes fishing. Animals have rights and, to protect them, we must eat
dirt and grass. They push strollers with dogs and cats while billions in the third
world reproduce like rabbits and wait to be fed by the producers who wisely and
perhaps unwisely limit the number of children they bring into this world.
Feminism
destroyed the relationship between men and women and the media and academia
have created effeminate men who are afraid of their shadows and scream like
banshees looking for a safe space on campus when reality, carrying no
participation trophies, hits them in the face.
We had two television
channels under communism and both ran the dear leader speeches all the time
with the occasional movie, cartoon, or a decadent Texan soap opera. Communist
screeners allowed the series Dallas to
be viewed in hopes of showing the proletariat, starved for food and basics, how
decadent capitalism was. Instead, people loved the life style and wished they
had a scintilla of it in their lives or at least the opportunity to dream and
try.
We have here
in the U.S. hundreds of TV channels that are mostly laden with smut and
Hollywood degenerates. The MSM broadcasts nothing but fake news and disinformation;
they have outdone even the Soviet dezinformatsiya.
It is a sad day when RT (Russia Today) actually broadcasts more informative
programs and truthful news than all of the alphabet soup cable news in the U.S.
God is under
attack daily and the souls of the global citizens are empty of devotion. Bodies
are well-fed and exercised, food is abundant because it comes from the grocery
stores liberals think, gyms are everywhere, but the collective soul is empty,
evil, and corrupted by the societal debauchery and moral decay. The family,
mother and father, are no longer there to teach their progeny the virtues of
faith, salvation, honor, and the urgent need for a moral compass.
Forty years
from now, there will be no witnesses left to real history, books will be a strange
concept, and the world will be ruled by invisible nanoparticles, robotic
technology, and glowing blue screens. This virtual world is fast replacing
reality for the new generation of global citizen drones. Like Aldous Huxley
said, “It’s a brave new world.”
Ileana, you are truly American when you have been here long enough to recognize her flaws as well as her benefits.
ReplyDeleteOn more than one occasion God has put people in what seems like the most hopeless situations so they would know it was not by their own hands that their lives were improved or their enemies were defeated.
We must never ever lose hope. With God all things are possible. What we have to desire is that His will is done and that our lives were in compliance with His plan.
Believe that nothing happens that is beyond His power and love. Judgment and justice are His.
Yes, with God everything is possible, Chriss.
DeleteWhat amazes me is how fast everything is collapsing. From the 1950s motherhood and apple pie to the virtual reality and insanity gone mainstream. When people can actually believe their are 50+ "genders" and that cutting off an appendage changes your DNA from male to female -- well -- the inmates are running the asylum. But, as Chriss says, we hope in God not men. And "all things work together for good to those who love the Lord and serve according to His purpose." So we fight on and continue to love the true, the good, and the beautiful. Ultimately ugliness will self-destruct.
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DeleteYou are right, we must never lose faith and hope. It is just hard to understand for me how things have gone so bad in 40 years. I escaped communism to be free and I find myself approaching 60s and realizing that we may live and die again under communism. THAT is very hard to adjust to - for me.
This came from a friend of mine, Ironman, who wanted to post it to CFP but was unable to complete the task. Here is his comment:
ReplyDelete"Few Americans could write the brilliant analysis seen here. Every American should read it! Having escaped the jackboots and oppression of Communism, Ileana’s excitement about, and enthusiasm for America have steadily been eroded by the actions of liberals in government, academia, Hollywood and the media. Only a legal immigrant like Ileana could see the changes so clearly and express her fears so forcefully.
And few Americans could vouch for the accuracy of Ileana’s observations as I can. Having lived through WW-II and the booming 50’s and 60’s that followed I’ve seen the negative changes in our way of life. I well remember my brother and 14 million others of Tom Brokaw’s “Greatest Generation march off to war, and sadly the gold stars that appeared in the windows of many homes. I fondly recall the high standards in the news and entertainment media when a radio announcer would never even say “Hell” or “damn” for fear of losing his broadcasting license, and the uplifting movies like “Going My Way” and “Mary Poppins” that were typical of our entertainment fare. Before globalization I recall when a man’s factory salary supported his many children, with mom in the home, and he could expect a significant pay raise each year. I recall when the safest person in America was the baby in the womb, in contrast to the 61 million innocents that have been brutally murdered in the womb since 1973. I recall when nearly every black child was properly raised by having a father in the home, contrasted with the 72 percent now born to an unwed mother…..leading to a disordered family, supported forcefully by working taxpayers, and producing druggy members of gangs that often end up in prison. I certainly remember when the sole mission of our schools was to teach the three R’s as well as possible, not to indoctrinate their charges with liberal social precepts. I lament the 1970’s when universities stopped operating women’s dorms as safe, wholesome homes-away-from home, instead irresponsibly letting the male students in without limit.
Ileana’s essay should be a wake-up call to every patriotic American who ruefully senses our vast decline from the golden days of the 1950’s and 1960’s and dreads the possibility that America should follow Europe on its certain path towards becoming a Muslim caliphate. For her stunning observations Ileana should be deemed an American hero and her homes in Mississippi and Virginia should be designated national historic landmarks. How blessed we are that Ileana left family and friends behind in Romania at age 20 and cast her lot in America!"
Agree to a point, luckily I see many young under 35, going against media & the liberal teachings. There are good family's of faith everyday proving with God all things are possible. Keep the faith.
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