Offensive Communist Lies

Communist dictators indoctrinate the masses with offensive lies on many subjects. In his book, Pinstripes and Reds, Ambassador Funderburk coined the term “Ceausescuisms,” referring to the peculiar lies spun by the communist dictator.

“Romania’s religious policy is more liberal than that of the U.S,” said the Romanian dictator. That was such a blatant lie, there was no liberalism in his communist society where “every institution or group had to be registered by the state.” Lecturing a U.S. Congressional delegation in 1983, Ceausescu told them that he “did not need any more American type of religious groups, such as a third Baptist cult in Romania.”

Religion in his police state was tightly controlled by the Communist Party which had infiltrated heavily its Orthodox Church ranks in seminaries. For Seminaries to be allowed to exist, they had to be approved by the state, and so did the church parishes. The priests had to be approved by the Communist Party, even in remote villages. Priests survived financially with a small monthly salary paid by the state and from parishioners’ donations.

There were some priests who were honest and did not comply with the communist party dictates on faith, but they were few and far between. Their sermons did not indoctrinate the faithful into submission to communist rule. Some were heavily persecuted for their religious beliefs which they imparted honestly to the faithful despite the discomfort their actions caused them. Some were tortured and even killed in the many communist prisons.

The church was allowed to exist because it was a convenient tool to control the population, for weddings, baptisms, and burials. Regular participation in services every week was discouraged except for old ladies in rural areas. Nobody cared how often they attended services.

I genuinely believed that, once the communists “fell” from power in 1989, the church will be free of the police state control and people will worship liberally. It is true that more than 6,000 churches have been built and many repaired, but the numbers of the faithful did not swell as much as expected. People, who had been severely brainwashed by decades of communist oppression, were resentful that the state was spending money to build and repair churches instead of building schools and hospitals.

Young generations were schooled in the west, some in the country, but all used curricula and textbooks written by George Soros’ NGOs that penetrated Romania right after the December 1989 revolution and Christmas 1989 execution of the Ceausescus.

Their education was saturated with globalist ideas and the new religion of environmentalism and Mother Gaia worship, to the detriment of humans. The youth, like everywhere else in the world, were encouraged to separate themselves from history, from who they were, from where they came from, and to become global citizens beholden to a globalist government at the U.N.

Milan Kundera wrote very aptly in his book,

“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

One story highlighted the level of brainwashing among young priests who were born and raised in the “free-of-communism” society, as members of the European Union since 2007.

While visiting Romania in 2015, I came upon a beautiful wood church in Poiana Brasov, near the famous ski slope where international competitions were held for many decades during the communist regime. Close to the church was a memorial to Liviu Cornel Babes, a 47-year-old Romanian electrician and painter, who committed suicide by immolation, coming down the Bradu ski slope at Poiana Brasov on March 2, 1989, to protest Ceausescu’s tyrannical regime. He was carrying the sign, “Stop Murder! Brasov = Auschwitz.” He lasted to the bottom of the slope where he fell off his skis, moaning in agonizing pain. He was not given any medical care at the hospital and died from his severe burns two hours later. He was not declared a hero until June 2007 (Law no. 93).

As I entered the beautiful but tiny Orthodox church, a young priest came over and started a conversation with me. I asked him about the memorial outside and, what the priest said, would not have shocked me during the communist regime when the Orthodox Church was heavily infiltrated by communists. Priests had to carry the Marxist indoctrination to the parishioners because they were paid by the police state and were allowed to be priests only with their permission. “If Liviu would have minded his own business and had done what the communist leaders told him to do, he might still be alive today.”

Here was this young priest, 26 years after communism “fell” on December 25, 1989, and yet he was advocating in 2015 that the population should have obediently embraced their oppressors and should have been submissive indefinitely to the communist tyranny.

Historically, if we study what happened in the communist colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts, we find that the religious men and women of the colony grew discontent with the commune life and resented each other; single men felt like slaves when they had to work for other men’s wives, and married women resented having to cook and do the laundry for their own husbands and for the single men in the colony.

It was clear, as W. Cleon Skousen wrote in The Naked Communist, “Communism cannot be practiced without setting up a dictatorship” because even religious men and women are not altruistic enough. Governor Bradford himself “concluded that Communism is not only inefficient but that it is unnatural and in violation of the laws of God.”

During the same December 1983 meeting with the U.S. Congressional delegation, the communist dictator asked of those present, “Don’t you wish you had only one political party in the U.S.?”

We have heard this same question uttered in the 21^st century speeches, by Democrat politicians who wished that the U.S. had just one party in control of the country, copying the Chinese model of governance, which they believed to be perfect.

Today we have more than 30 states with a “trifecta,” the one-party rule (Democrat Party) of the Senate, the House, and the judiciary. Such Democrat states are mismanaged and corrupt, in financial dire needs which require heavy federal cash infusions, gang-ridden, and plagued by high crime.

The question I have asked rhetorically many times, still troubles me; has communism really died? Or has it just gone underground after 1989 and regrouped to infest and capture western cultures without bullets, violence, and force, just by indoctrination in schools and in the media owned by six corporations and beholden to the Democrat Party? The honest answer is, yes.