Cancel Culture Like the Soviet Style Control

There is an utterly fallacious belief championed by the promoters of Democratic Socialism who advocate socialism: “It would not be the same here, here such things are impossible.” Solzhenitsyn wrote in December 1983 in The Gulag Archipelago, “Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth.” Would people and nations learn from the experience of other people without having to live through it personally?  

This is evident if one talks to the survivors of communism and their children who have been indoctrinated. These people reminisce longingly about communist tyranny. They want their tyrants back. And so do the young indoctrinated by George Soros’ education manuals printed after 1989 and who attended western colleges on George Soros scholarships.

The Communist Party members worshipped Ceausescu and his wife because they had a better life than the rest. In exchange for their evil souls and the promise to shoot, torture, and imprison anyone who objected to Ceausescu’s tyrannical rule, these boot lickers lived much better lives and were able to travel abroad.

My cousin, who passed away recently, told me in 2015 that she wished Ceausescu could come back. Why, I asked. Her answer surprised me. “We all had a job, we did not make much money, but we did not have to try very hard or work every day. He allowed us to take weeks off from work if we turned in a fake excuse from a bribed doctor. Now we must work hard.”  

Same communist mantra I’ve heard before, “we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.” Once you get used to oppression and lose hope for a better life, you become a lethargic human satisfied with scraps.  There is nothing to look forward to, but you are still alive.

Solzhenitsyn wrote about the Soviet prison industry, about the guards who arrived there via military conscription, and about the prisoners sent there after they were arrested for thought crimes, hate crimes, telling off-color jokes or any joke about the oppression of the Communist Party, printing a political leaflet, typing essays against Bolshevism, hiding one’s wealth, having a large house, refusing to give it to the police state, refusing to give up farmlands and farm implements to the state, having unapproved items in homes, reading forbidden literature, stealing food to survive, bribing the wrong person, having a nicer home, nicer furniture, a typewriter, etc. These prisoners were forever canceled by the Soviet style cancel culture and likely never survived the horrible hard labor gulags.

Those arrested were taken in their pajamas and barefoot because they “didn’t need anything where they were going.” The hard labor prisons needed workers driven daily to the point of exhaustion with little nutrition. Solzhenitsyn wrote that when the family received the note that their loved one was “deprived of the right to correspond” meant that he “had been shot.”

Being the cruel humans that they were, security police officers chose different methods of arresting someone. Taking them in the middle of the night had the advantage of fear, people were sleeping, and officers could steal valuables without having to make a truthful inventory of possessions confiscated which afterwards were given as gifts to those faithful to the State.

The worst arrests were political arrests because people were usually guilty of nothing and had no prepared resistance during the arrest. And the neighbors had to see it all to instill fear in the public. As if people were not afraid enough of the well-armed communist Securitate who dwelled in the tunnels underneath Bucharest like the moles that they were. They had food, clothes, weapons, and anything their hearts desired in those tunnels. And, upon orders, they emerged suddenly from museums, art galleries, opera houses, theaters, and cinemas, all connected to miles of tunnels.

In this country, for the last six years, the leftist wing of politics unleashed cancel culture on the rest of the country if leftists were offended by or disliked what the other side did or said. Cancel culture took an exact page from the conduct of the Soviet Communist Party which controlled the other communist countries in Eastern Europe.

How is the cancel culture movement identical to what the communists did?

The Soviet style communists kept dossiers on every citizen in their countries. To keep tabs on everyone, a huge army of spies and informers had to be employed by the Communist Party. For example, one in three people in Romania worked for the dreaded Securitate police.

These folders were used to cancel people - those who needed to be disappeared, imprisoned, shot, made an example of, their lives and the lives of their loved ones ruined forever.

If their great-grandfather was a landowner, that was a black mark in a person’s file. That individual would never be recommended for any promotions, vacations, travel, awards, college admissions, or better jobs. They were permanently canceled.

People in the U.S. were canceled and lost their jobs, their professional chairs, their medical licenses, hospital privileges to operate, their social media accounts, their platforms, their roles in movies, they were banned from any public discourse, mass media, television, if they talked about masks not being effective against the Covid virus, if they refused to vaccinate or wear a mask, if they questioned the 2020 elections, etc.

Americans on the left, terrified for their lives, listening to their Dr. Fauci vaccine czar, were wearing masks alone in cars, went nuts in public, yelling at people to stay far away from them, and even got lost in thorny bushes in the woods trying to avoid crossing paths on the trail with an incoming person without a mask.

Cancel culture drove the mass hysteria against their citizens on the opposite side of politics, against their own families, against all those who disagreed with them.

Cancel culture drove the crazy mobs that destroyed statues and symbols of our history because they disagreed with it. They wanted to manufacture their own version of history, just like the communists did to their own people.   

Beware that cancel culture is a serious hard left movement that is identical to the Soviet style communist control of the masses which failed painfully and disastrously everywhere it has been tried in the twentieth century.