Drab Grey Socialism and Communism Are Popular in the U.S.

If you ask the young American generations if they believe that capitalism is evil and socialism is good, they will answer with a definitive “yes.” When asked to explain the fundamental differences between the two and whether socialism is the steppingstone to communism, silence will follow.

They repeat the media sound bites that socialism is for “the people” and “things are free.” They do not know exactly what is free, but they enumerate things they want such as free abortions, free food, free housing, free schooling, free transportation, free day care, and free travel. None of these were free in socialist countries ruled by the Communist Party and nor are they free under capitalism. There is no such thing as a free meal, someone must pay for it.

The answers are sad, as they reveal the fact that young Americans have no historical idea about the end-product, communism, and its murderous and sordid history. They believe the media’s and the Democrat Party’s NGO’s disinformation machines that feed them lies daily on every platform possible.

Young women and Jews turned out in droves to vote for the self-described communist for Mayor of the largest U.S. city, a young man with no working experience, who had been an American citizen less than eight years. He promised rent control housing and city-run grocery stores among other things.

Communism has been promoted in public schools and in academia as the future of all Americans. Teachers shamelessly avoided teaching the subjects they were assigned and pushed political activism; they promoted communism verbally or through clever choices of class activities and assignments that had little to do with the subject matter and all to do with their political ideology of Democrat Socialism, a term invented by the left.

Imagine my surprise upon the realization that the corporate globalists have decided in the last few years to transform the face of our colorful society into a drab and communist-looking tapestry: the exterior of buildings, the depressing colors, the lack of colors and offerings in stores, the promotion of grey, ash, concrete grey, black, white, and brown, to include cars, a bothersome uniformity which I recognized from my previous 20 years lived under communism. Why would communism pick such drab, dark, dull, and uninspired colors? Because they wanted to keep the population under their control, oppressed, depressed, and sad. Everything became a soul-less grey and darker grey, barely lit train station as if to conceal the stains of misery.

I have noticed after the lockdowns that all public buildings, restaurants, fast food chains, and even apartment complexes had undergone a similar transformation of dark grey, black, brown, and beige everywhere.

Fast food buildings removed large windows and added small, prison-like windows, and the previously happy colors and signs disappeared. The choices of towels, furniture, cars, clothes, and other products have narrowed to the same basic colors, grey, black, white, beige and brown. Many excused this trend as minimalism. I knew it as Bauhaus utilitarian ugly.

The Bauhaus or Staatliches Bauhaus (state building house) was a German art school which existed between 1919 and 1933. Its vision of mass production and function was quickly adopted by all former Iron Curtain countries in Europe which started churning out ugly concrete block apartments where the helpless populations were herded into from their former homes and farms which the Communist Party had confiscated.

Walter Gropius’s (1883-1969) vision from Weimar spread into modern design, modernist architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design, and typography. The Bauhaus school was closed in 1933 under pressure from the Nazi regime who considered it “a center of communist intellectualism.”

Bauhaus spread internationally to the United States and to Tel Aviv via Jewish Bauhaus architect immigrants. According to some sources, “The White City of Tel Aviv has the highest concentration of Bauhaus architecture in the world.”

As Bauhaus spread increasingly across the world, selected and pushed by globalist corporate controllers, it is no surprise that the color chosen for this decade is grey and the style is Bauhaus utilitarian.

Recently, while visiting my favorite department store which was always decorated by red, white, and green everything, long before the Christmas season, I was unpleasantly surprised to see the Christmas decorations in the form of a grey table with grey chairs, grey plates, black glasses, and white napkin holders. One solitaire painting of a red bush surrounded by green background was overlooking the dismal and funereal décor.

It is not just about depressing the population with ugly buildings, cars, and grey, it is about the global transformation of the west into a socialist/communist society to better control the hapless population in every way.

The freedom to choose anything will completely disappear once digital currency will be imposed on all citizens.

Ronald Reagan aptly said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

And that refers to the freedom to choose anything we want or dream of, including the colors in our lives.

The Train Wreck of Democrat Socialism

“Communism was never conclusively destroyed, and it was never condemned in some kind of court.”   Vladimir Bukovsky

Without brakes, a train will eventually derail and cause an unimaginable disaster and suffering. Similarly, a free society like the United States which tolerates divergent opinions and groups, will be unable to stop the existence or the activism of communist organizations, groups, and individuals who rebrand themselves as Democrat Socialists who want to fundamentally change America from a constitutional republic to a socialist republic.

Socialist appears to be a much less threatening term than communist, and it is very appealing to half of the country who has slept soundly through American history classes or has been indoctrinated since the 1980s by Howard Zinn’s manufactured version of American history.

Socialism, Democratic Socialism, and Communism are incomprehensible terms and notions to most Americans because they did not study specific details about socialism or communism and how many millions have been killed by the Communists under the ruling of the Communist Party.

Democratic Socialism is a term invented by Democrats who love euphemisms and rebrand old and dangerous ideologies that would benefit their plans for total control of the population that would become dependent on them.

Most Americans adopt the exact words and phrases of the daily MSM broadcast and regurgitate them ad nauseam without really understanding what they are saying, and what they are asking for. Such blatant useful idiot ignorance inevitably leads to New Yorkers voting for a Muslim communist as their Democrat mayoral candidate.

A train that derails causes immediate reaction and alarm. But, once people vote for the pie in sky promises of socialism, communism, Democrat Socialism, the results take years before the oppression of what they voted for rears its ugly head. By then, the possibility of reversal is farfetched. It may take decades to reverse the damage. It is easy to vote for a communist, all you need is a ballot and a ballot box. But you need a revolution to reverse course and undo the damages caused by the Communist Party or the Democrat Party rule.

The Bolshevik activists of the Soviet Union, Germany, England, and America of the 20^th century had fanned across the world to indoctrinate poor farmers, factory workers, and all the useful idiots they found into the wonders and freedoms of the promised land of socialism. The Communist Party was going to give them anything free they desired. When the activists were met with pointed questions and resistance by the populace, those farmers and workers were beaten up and disappeared. It was indoctrination by force and by the promise of murderous violence.

Once the Communist Party was successful in eliminating several monarchies, the socialist republics that replaced those monarchies began to build walls, prisons, and gulags (forced labor camps) to keep their populations in, restricting most of their freedoms.

Sadly today, the new generations of indoctrinated Americans have not been taught about the major failures of Marxist economics and the murder of 100 million innocents at the altar of communism.

Vladimir Bukovsky wrote about the absurd theories of Marx and about his predictions that never came true. The numbers of the “proletariat” actually decreased significantly in the developed capitalist countries. Their living standards have increased and not fallen. Marx was wrong about “super-monopolization.”  Small producers have grown and still do. The “market economy” improved the “means of production.” Socialism destroyed their centralized economies. And who are the “proletarians” of today? Marx wrote about “the crises of over-production every ten years.” It never happened because supply and demand controlled that possibility.

The reality is that the socialist regime and their central planning under the guidance of the Communist Party have never been successful at anything except oppressing the masses, paying them the lowest wages possible, and making their lives a continuous misery for most of the twentieth century. They never supplied enough goods to keep their citizens well fed, happy, warm in winter, with a plentiful supply of water, medications, and other necessities for a decent life. The only ones who lived well were the Communist Party members, their apparatchiks, their informers, the standing army, and the security police.

Despite the constant semantics and euphemisms rebranding communism in a positive light by the Democrat Party and the left, we do not have a proletariat in America, nor workers, we have employees. And we are not a democracy; we are a Constitutional Republic. If we are smart enough, we can keep it, but if we keep following the Democrat Party’s direction, we might all be “Democratic Socialists,” whatever that means.

Final note from RevealedEye: 

"Accepting Socialism is basically admitting you can't compete in the real world. You are saying, 'I'm willing to give up my liberty, my religion, and my dreams as long as the state will take care of me.' Accepting Socialism is accepting failure."

 

Sunset Over an Empire

As the sun is setting, it is casting long shadows of objects on the white sandy beach. I never get tired of watching its beauty reflected on the ocean whipped endlessly by the currents. If the weather cooperates, we have a good chance of experiencing again the sunset’s beauty across the sky.

The churning ocean, the shimmering lakes and rivers, the land, the deep gorges, the forests, and the mountains, will be bathed in the last hues of intense orange, pink, and purple before darkness falls.

But the sunset of our ‘empire’ we call a constitutional republic is hard to watch. Its demise is painful, sad, and depressing because it is self-destructive and purposeful, aided by the ignorance and laziness of we the people.

Many from the left seem eager and willing to replace capitalism with communism. The answer to the obvious question of why is simple. Because they have no historical background or actual knowledge that would help them understand the evils of communism. Teachers, Hollywood, and the press have lied to them about communism, directly, or by omission.

One public school teacher in Arlington, Virginia, told her class that “communism is people continuously giving gifts to each other.” Tell that to the millions living under communism who received the gift of a bullet for not bending their knee quick enough to the theft by the communist rulers.

One American commented that her “grandfather received the gift of ‘beatings’ every night for months until he was forced to give up his farm to the lazy people in the village.”

E. Merkel wrote, “Americans frequently quote parts of the New Testament and say that it supports Socialism/Communism. Which of course betrays the fact that they have no understanding of Christianity or Christian principles. With the original first century Christians, giving was completely voluntary, out of the goodness of their hearts and knowledge of the ‘gift’ they had been given. Socialism/Communism completely removes the ‘voluntary’ aspect.”

Few Americans understand what communism is. Although they are told by those who survived the communist regime and fled it, Americans turn a blind eye and deaf ear. The most basic questions they should ask themselves is, if communism is so great, why were millions of communist subjects killed by the Communist Party, and why so many escaped and fled to this country if communism was so great?

“Communism indoctrinates children to make up false accusations against their parents and neighbors; the culprits are disappeared but the snitches are assured the favors of the communist police state. Communism destroys beautiful art, buildings, and statuary they label bourgeois. They destroy beauty because not everyone and everything else is beautiful. They have misery, starvation, and murder in gulags. After the Bolsheviks’ initial promises never panned out, people realized that they sold their souls to the communist devils for lies.”

Under the communist regime, people were isolated, worn out, hungry, and deprived of their ability to resist. Remember the isolation from loved ones, from church, from social gatherings, social distancing, solitary confinement, and forced isolations during Covid-19? We were forced to comply or else be arrested, just like they forced us to comply with the communist party rule.

Because people were paid so extraordinarily little, they could not afford to travel far and certainly not abroad. They thus restricted our movement to a small radius of the place where we were born and lived. Village people were not allowed to move to the city without the explicit approval of the Communist Party.

Information was censored, meetings and gatherings were forbidden, media was dominated by the state rule 24/7. No other views were allowed. Again, this is remarkably like the 2020 Covid-19 lockdowns and how the police state managed the population and curtailed its freedoms. I could go to the swimming pool at the gym, but I had to wear a mask.

We were worn out by tension and fear under communism and by the inability to find enough food or any food at all, medicines, medical care, and by having to stand in interminable lines for basic food items like bread, milk, sugar, flour, and cooking oil.

Remember the contradictory “advice” and constant fear drilled into Americans from the White House platform of Dr. Fauci about Covid-19? You had to stay home, not permitted to socialize, or exercise even outdoors in large parks.

They closed National Parks, state parks, and even regional parks. They closed clean and safe building facilities and brought out port-o-potties in a huge state park nearby. When parks were allowed to reopen eventually, people were wearing masks alone in the woods; that is what abject fear had reduced them to – automatons who did things that made no logical sense.

The Communist Party cultivated an environment of fear and despair, not unlike the Covid-19 lockdowns and the accompanying irrational fears created by carefully crafted public announcements and artificial decrees that violated people’s rights and freedoms. The futility to resist eventually dominated everybody’s behavior. They knew who was in charge, the police state, and they had guns and lots of jails.

Even though demands were illogical and contradictory, people were habituated to following orders or else they were refused basic needs. Why the arbitrary six feet between people and all the other arbitrary and ridiculous dictates? If people disobeyed, they were refused entry into grocery stores, restaurants, public places like parks, pharmacies, etc. Similar scenarios happened under communist rule. People had to obey, or they had their freedoms taken away for good and their families never saw them again.

Why did the communists allow snitches and their own echelons of apparatchiks to shop for better and more food than the rest? To show everyone who was in charge and to create and maintain an army of faithful foot soldiers.

Why were entire economies shut down then only a few businesses were allowed to reopen at a reduced capacity? The virus recognized those to be safe and stayed away?

Surveillance was developed around the world, money created from nothing to pay people to stay home and “be happy,” medical care and hospitals became torture places instead of deliverers of care; to this day, people do not trust them and doctors because they refused care when people needed it.

Why shame people and ostracize them when they were non-compliant? It is a tactic that the communists used a lot. Fear and a sense of helplessness and dependence heightened to unbelievable levels. Depression, despair, divorces, and suicides increased.

Trivial demands split society and families, i.e., family members had to stand apart and wear masks to dinner in their own homes, random limits on the number of people allowed to be in a group, even in their own homes, the use of sanitizers endlessly during the day and on all objects people touched.

The habit of compliance drilled into people’s minds is evident today when some people are still wearing masks, still injecting themselves with Covid-19 vaccine boosters, and still sanitizing their hands with chemicals instead of washing them.

People have become so irrational and woke that, even when presented with factual and logical evidence to the contrary of what they believe, they reject those facts and stick with their irrational beliefs.

Yuri Bezmenov said in a 1984 interview about the four stages of ideological subversion, that when human beings reject reality in front of their eyes, the brainwashing is complete. FULL INTERVIEW with Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion (1984) (youtube.com)

When that happens to many Americans, the sun will set on the most successful constitutional republic in the history of the world, and the ‘empire’ will rest at the bottom of the dustbin of history and darkness will fall enduringly.

 

 

 

 

Art Presenting Communism Truthfully

I came across one episode of a popular series, Northern Exposure, that ran in the 1990-1995. Highly popular then, it received many accolades, and the main actors were nominated for and received several awards for their excellent performance.

The streaming episode in question, number 25, entitled Zarya, aired during season five. For me, it was shocking because the entire show advocated for capitalism and against communism. There was even a brief plug for the crowd pushing global warming caused by CO2.

I was accustomed to Hollywood supporting all socialist and communist causes, praising the tyranny that had killed one hundred million innocent people around the world, including my own dad.

I knew that public school students and college students only received a cursory introduction to the evils, misery, famine, torture, and death that all communist societies inflicted on their citizens with the Communist Party at the helm.

The communist ideology, adopted by socialist republics in lock step with the Soviet Union, originally stemmed from Karl Marx, Lenin, and Stalin. All these countries were socialist republics run by the Communist Party under the guidance and advice of the Soviet Politburo apparatchiks.

The episode presented an imaginary and secret visit by a Soviet delegation led by Lenin to Alaska post the tumultuous times when the Soviets deposed the Romanovs in Russia.

As truth has become a victim of the lies spewed by politicians, the mass media, academia, and the government, it is important to describe what some of the characters said during this highly interesting episode of Northern Exposure.

One of the Russian characters, Mikhail Borisovich, a medical doctor who accompanies the group, refuses to go back to Russia with Lenin, not because he had lost faith in the Bolshevik Revolution, but because, as a scientist, he was no longer sure that “life can be reduced to class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable,” he said to the fictional Lenin.

The show ended with the fictional narrative that, “after his return from Alaska, Lenin instituted the New Economic Policy which allowed for limited private enterprise. The policy revived the Soviet economy but was scorned by hardline party members. After Lenin’s death, Stalin abolished Lenin’s reforms and returned the Soviet Union to ‘Pure Socialism.’”

The loose connection to the show’s location, the fictional Cicely, Alaska, was brought about by the fact that Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his country’s last remaining foothold in North America, to the United States for $7.2 million.

The real Lenin did propose a New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1921 where a mixed economy with a free market and capitalism, both subject to state control while operating on a “profit basis.” The economy was mixed when the Soviets revoked partially the complete nationalization of industry and allowed a mixed economy to exist for a short while.

The show’s storyline reveals what Lenin’s communist-controlled society wrought: confiscation of private property, total control by the state, politically and economically, hunger, starvation, and the lack of basic goods and freedoms.

A very hungry Comrade Borisovich is plied with the abundance of decent food in capitalism, and he eats the offerings on the capitalist table like the starved and hungry socialist that he was – a doctor working for Soviet Polyclinic number 6. His female interlocutor reminds him that on Nevsky Prospekt, he could not buy a new pair of socks nor needle and thread to darn the ones he has.

The fictional Lenin visits the local shop to buy bunion shields. He explains to the elderly shop owner that, “unfortunately, for all the triumphs of our Revolution, the quality of shoes has declined.” The well-informed shop owner tells Lenin that she has read about his Soviet Union. “If you remove the profit incentive, you get shoddy merchandise.”

Lenin counters that “the middlemen, brokers, like the owner of this shop, are economic parasites.” She tells him proudly that she is the owner of the shop. “You mean your husband,” he replies. “I mean me. Why would you presume otherwise?” Lenin replies, “given the subservient position of women in capitalist society.”

“You utopian social engineers are all alike,” she replied to Lenin. “If Karl Marx had made some capital instead of writing about capital, things would have been much better.” Lenin was shocked that such a “well-adjusted woman could live in a bourgeois society.”  He was accustomed to Soviet political commissars controlling everything and everybody.

Capitalism is not perfect, but it does not deny the existence of the soul, of God, of the inventive minds of people who are unique individuals with God-given rights to explore all possibilities and opportunities to become the best that they can be, not hobbled by the communist police state.

It is surprising that Hollywood produced this episode in 1993, so soon after the “fall” of the Soviet Union in 1990. It would be ideal if public schools in the 21^st century America would teach students in detail how socialism and communism had enslaved and terrorized millions around the globe. This education would dispel any positive opinions young people have about communism.

Submission to Communism

With the help of technology, technocrat corporations have enabled those in control of our country to find out everything there is to know about each and every citizen.

With the help of AI, scouring our social media platforms facilitated by the development of the Internet, bureaucrats and unelected controllers spend no time to worry about how to collect information and build dossiers on all citizens to keep them submissive and compliant.

There is no freedom of speech on social media platforms. Simple posts are removed under the guise that it violates “community standards,” i.e. any post with a prayer, or that uses the word God, posts against Marxism and wokeism, posts criticizing the woke Olympics, posts against the globalist digital currency, against global communism, or anything the social media platform owners dislike.

There was a time when the Soviets and their communist satellite countries in Eastern Europe and around the globe had to spend a lot of time, money, effort, and manpower to control the populations living under those police states.

There were many ways to control their citizens:  fear, beatings, jail, torture, death, starvation, small wages, gun confiscation, money confiscation, land theft, house theft, savings theft, inadequate medical care, empty stores, empty pharmacies, taking children away, no job promotions, denial of travel, higher education, and denial of basic human rights and freedoms.

Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, who defected to the west but was once Ceausescu’s right hand, wrote in his book, Red Horizons, about the conversation between the dear leader and his wife Elena, who was unhappy that their communist underlings could not find out who wrote an anonymous letter sent to Radio Free Europe in Munich, criticizing the cult of personality of the dictator and his wife.

She suggested that the dictator should fire everyone and then should bring in the army. Irritated, Ceausescu asked his wife how the army could find out who wrote the letter. She answered sternly and grimly, “If they can’t figure it out, then they’ll just shoot every other suspect.” All it took in the communist regime was to be a declared suspect and you died without the benefit of a trial.

If that suggestion was not extreme enough, the dictator ordered that in three months’ time all Romanians’ handwritten samples had to be collected, starting with children in first grade. Retirees and housewives were to be forced to fill out an absurd form to obtain their handwriting samples.

He also ordered samples of every typewriter in use at home or in offices around the country which then had to be registered with the Security police. He decreed that renting or lending a typewriter was also forbidden to all Romanian citizens, and the police had to authorize ownership.

When the dear leader was told by one of his minions that such an order would be unconstitutional for private citizens, Ceausescu responded, “Did the Constitution make us, or did we make the Constitution? We made the Constitution. We will change it if we have to.” Law, order, human rights, and the lives of all citizens were worth nothing to the communist dictator and his wife.

Ceausescu’s behavior had a Soviet precedent. When Khrushchev wanted to institute the death penalty for speculators, he was told by the public prosecutor general of the Soviet Union, Roman Rudenko, that the law did not authorize the courts to do that.

Khrushchev responded, “Who is the boss, we, or the law? We are masters over the law, not the law over us – so we must change the law, we must see to it that it is possible to execute these speculators.”

The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet issued a decree introducing the death penalty for the crime of speculating.” Why were there speculators (often from the lower ranks of the Communist Party or their informers) in the first place? Because the economy was horrific, people were starving and would pay high prices to speculators to buy food and medicines on the black market.

Communists had no qualms about eliminating people from the opposition or even their friends who became too competitive and thus inconvenient; they manufactured crimes to dispose of them. Countless individuals of the communists’ inconvenient friends and of the opposition were thus sentenced to death or “disappeared” in gulags.

Not even famous people escaped the control of Ceausescu’s communist regime. The famous Dr. Aslan, the founder of the first geriatric institute, who made money abroad in the 1970s in the west with her Gerovital pills and cosmetic creams, was not allowed to keep any of the money she made in foreign currency.

Gen. Pacepa described in his book the event when Aslan was arrested at Bucharest airport with $800 hidden in her hair bun. The communist regime was infamous for confiscating the earnings of famous athletes as well.

It seems that today, in our country, it does not take a whole lot to become a suspect and displease those in control; all one must do is contribute money to the non-communist political side, vote for a non-communist candidate, or attend a peaceful rally. The repercussions and the fear of being jailed prevent any future participation in political dissent. That is how the Marxists win.

 

Painful Memories of Escaping Communism Legally

To escape communism, its dire poverty, and the total lack of opportunity for a good life for my present and future family, I left behind everything I have ever known and all the people I loved who loved me back. I embarked on a journey to freedom that has given me, my mom, and my children a life that I had never dreamed of having.

For four long years, before I was given permission to emigrate, to depart the lovely communist country I was born and raised in, I was interviewed and interrogated at the most inconvenient times, sometimes in the middle of the night, had to file hundreds of sheets of various forms, affidavits, all notarized, translated, and quite expensive to obtain; I had to pay for my “free” government education I received as part of being a Romanian citizen, schooling which suddenly became valuable because I was going to live with the capitalist enemies and my education was too important to the communist police state and it cost an x number of dollars which I had to pay in cash. Not having such cash at all, I had to rely on my American husband.

At that time, I did not know that I would spend four more years in America being interrogated by the INS and filling out paperwork, notarizing them, paying expensive fees with money I did not have, before I could become a naturalized American citizen. Today all that process has become an expensive joke as illegals waltz across the border greeted by a welcoming committee of NGOs who give them money, clothes, phones, apartments, plane tickets, bus tickets, voter registration cards, and free reign of America, no questions asked.

Knowing what I know now, would I do it again? I am not sure since communism has followed me to America in my golden years. I had thirty years of what made America great, and it was wonderful. But it is waning fast and becoming communist.

Communism did not really die, as the west proclaimed assuredly in 1989, it went underground, it regrouped, and re-emerged stronger and more insidious than ever on the shores of the most powerful nation on earth that had fought communism. McCarthy was right. Not only do we have communism now, but it has also spread globally.

One of the many reason for my journey was that I was born to impoverished parents who were not Communist Party members, were part of the proletariat, did not have college degrees, were ordinary people who worked hard in the communist factories for a paltry salary and a rental apartment in a small, grey, reinforced concrete high rise complex which the communists built in a hurry to house urbanites and villagers alike whom communists dispossessed of their land, homes, and family valuables. We had no hope of building a more prosperous life and nothing to look forward to in such an oppressive regime. I had to escape and, even though I was an only child, my parents agreed that it was the only way.

Did I want to leave behind my parents, my friends, my relatives, my books, my grandparents, and all memorable places attached to my growing up? Most certainly not, but I had no choice. The communists made it difficult for people like us to succeed, all venues were closed to us and were reserved for communist party members, their children, and even their extended families. The dear leader’s armies also had special privileges not reserved for the likes of us, simple people spied upon by an army of informants to make sure that we took our place in the daily drudgery, cogs in the communist well-armed machine.

When I moved to America legally, the locals called people like me derisively Eurotrash. To my face, they were welcoming, unsure where exactly my country was on the map as geography was not their strong suit or any suit for that matter. I was the stranger who left her family to come here – who does that, they said, and they were right unless they knew where I came from. Nobody in her/his right mind would move halfway around the globe for a better life, with no family at all, no friends, and fighting new prejudices and rejections from the locals. The rejection was so obvious, you could have cut it with a knife.

If I had money for an air fare back then, and they were quite expensive, I would have returned to my birth home, but I was too stubborn to admit that I was wrong, and that America and my new family did not exactly welcome me with open arms.

I endured the pain and eventually became comfortable with my new life and family, becoming a naturalized American. My roots still live inside me but I am an American citizen. The apartment that I grew up in, our “home,” is still standing today, but I found it more foreign with each visit to my homeland. The expression, you can’t go home again, rings true because you can never find again what you are looking for.

Is there any place left in the world to escape to from the global communism that is infecting the planet and our country?

The American Reds and the Blues

Someone decided a long time ago that the Democrat Party should be represented by blue, a cool color, while the Republican Party should be represented by the color red, an angry color. USA Today claimed that they may have had something to do with it. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/03/heres-why-republicans-red-and-democrats-blue/6144842002/

Red has always represented the oppressive communist movement since its inception. Those in power knew that red is an angry color, and it still represents communism around the globe. They assigned the angry red and the cool blue to fool the voters. Everyone knows that both Republicans and Democrats are part of the same national suicide pact driven by their greedy quest for power, control, and money.

Having witnessed the destruction planned and accomplished by the Communist Party in Romania, I am reminded daily of the destruction wrought upon this country by the Marxist Democrats in power.

My childhood friend wrote to me recently that the rest of the world is watching anxiously what America is doing to itself because, without America’s financial help, development, and progress, everyone else is doomed. “Our fate depends on your fate. It would be so nice if we had peace on the planet and hatred between countries would stop. After all, we are all mortals.”

If policies applied under the communist regimes in the Iron Curtain seem familiar to you, it is because the Marxists in power here are adopting similar policies. Americans who vote for socialist Democrats do not understand the significance of their error because their historical knowledge of communism is extremely limited as schools do not teach students what happened inside the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain.

When it came to controlling the population, the commies made up crises, and then offered solutions that were worse than the crisis they created in the first place. The communist elites ruled by intimidation, fear, brute force, fealty, insecurity, and snitching on families and friends. It was an Orwellian police state that controlled everything.

Birth rate – the Communist Party realized that the birth rate was plummeting because no women in their right minds would bring children into the world where famine, scarce food supply, rationing, difficulty to find or afford a place to live, were the norm. It was a very hard life created by the police state.

But the police state needed workers for their factories and agriculture; they could not bring workers in via illegal immigration, nor did they want to. So, they forced women to have 4-5 children to prove their loyalty to the Communist Party and to the common good.

In March 1984 measures were established to allow the government to check women every month at work to see if they were pregnant. If they were, the women were forced to carry the baby to term and, if they could not afford to feed it, the babies would become wards of the state. Still, more than half of all pregnancies were aborted via illegal means.

Women were denied proper medical care, were malnourished, and some died if they miscarried. Doctors were afraid to treat them. Women who spontaneously miscarried were labeled criminals by the state and so were the doctors who treated them. High school girls were encouraged to have out-of-wedlock babies and were given medals “for contributing to the construction of the socialist police state.”

Diet and food consumption – the communists even invented a “scientific diet” that involved little or no meat because meat was in short supply, most production was exported to the west for cash earmarked for the Communist Party elites. Remember the push globally now to eat crickets and worms which are already added to many products and are listed on the label with their Latin names?

Hot water, heat, electricity, fuel rationing – there was so much export of goods to fund the commies’ pet projects that there was so little left for the population. They were forced to do without hot water, heat, electricity, and fossil fuels at a time when they were most needed. Shortages of everything, rationing, and long lines dominated the economic landscape.

Destruction of historical and religious monuments – two such monuments were destroyed in Romania in July 1986, the last Sephardic synagogue in Bucharest, and in August 1986, the largest Seventh Day Adventist church. The list of historical churches demolished to make room for the Bauhaus style construction of communist pet projects was quite long.

Destruction of historical buildings and statues – The move was intended to make room for the gaudy monuments and statues dedicated to communism.

Scarcity and rationing by coupon books issued monthly to each family – It included food, shampoo, rice, cooking oil, sugar, coffee, milk, eggs, cheese products, soap, and detergent.

Fake and non-scientific warnings about the dangers of overeating - The population was starving and thin already, and the ridiculous advice was passed to hide the lack of food and other staples. Food was rationed and calories were dictated by law while the rotund elites stuffed themselves.

The monopoly of the printed word - The Orwellian Ministry of Truth was the controllers’ way to know everything people thought, said, and wrote. If you were declared a “danger to the public order,” you were not allowed to own a typewriter. If you owned one, you had to declare it along with a sample of its print.

The blatant mismanagement of the economy from the top was blamed on black market profiteers. Everything produced went for export to fatten the pockets of the elite Party members – food, grain, energy, electricity, steel, and crude oil.

Destruction of private property and valuables - People’s private homes were destroyed, and valuables were confiscated and distributed among the top elites of the party. The new socialist/communist man did not need a house or personal possessions because the Party would provide it all. This promise was just one more lie added to the many told before.

Confiscated farmland for communist agriculture – The regime moved farmers into ugly apartments in the city, bulldozed their homes, and confiscated their land for agriculture. Overnight the farmers became “town peasants” who were dependent on the state to supply them with food, gas, and electricity as wood burning was no longer necessary or allowed. Trees were reserved for logging and exports.

These are real stories witnessed by many who escaped communism. Now that a new brand of communism is blanketing the globe, one wonders where one can escape it as the west is destroying itself and turning to the neo-communism developed by the globalist technocrats who control everything in their lives.

It is no longer about the Reds and Blues fighting for political office and power, the winning of which is already decided by the authorities who control the voting and the huge invasion of voting illegal aliens. It is about surviving the technocratic neo-communism which many around the globe have already accepted despite the loss of personal freedom and national sovereignty.

 

 

Mamaia's Stove

I recently found online a lovely photograph which brought back so many memories of my grandmother Elena. I called my maternal grandmother, mamaia, which derives from ‘mama,’ mom.

Dressed in a folk costume, an elderly lady is cooking in her dark kitchen adorned with a white stove made of mud and manure bricks. The cooking top was made of cast iron with different size openings (eyes) to accommodate various size pots. The openings had three concentric circles which could be removed one at a time with a ‘cleste’ (tongs) to fit small and large pots. The fire burned wood if the wood reserves lasted for the winter.

Mamaia bent over the stove for most of her nine decades of life. As the eldest child, her parents would have given her the task of bringing wood into the house and start the fire in the morning before all her other siblings woke up. Nothing about country life was easy. Women, men, and children toiled all day until it was too dark, and everybody had been fed, including the animals in the yard, the pig, the chicken, the geese, the rabbits, the horse, the cow, and the ducks. They all served a purpose to keep the family growing and thriving.

The second floor of the barn, accessed by a ladder, was used to store grain, wheat, and corn; an army of cats kept the mouse and rat population to a manageable size. I can still hear the mice colony running through the walls at night. No matter how many cats infested with fleas grandma amassed in the yard, they could not keep up with the fast-multiplying rodents who ate the corn and the wheat stored for winter.

Occasionally, I would get to ride with grandpa in a horse-drawn cart to the grist mill at the edge of the village. He would turn wheat and corn into flour and cornmeal. I could only hope that the grain had been separated from the mice droppings before it was ground into cornmeal and flour. Mamaia’s many cats could barely keep up eating and killing the mice colony resident in the barn loft and the walls.

As for me, it was a treat to ride on soft hay to the mill. It was not a smooth ride on the unpaved road filled with potholes created by heavy wagons. But then the twice a day bus running to the city six miles away was no smooth ride either. The rickety bus was full of Diesel engine pollution fumes and had holes in the floor sometimes, a fascinating way to watch the road underneath run over the cloddy roads.

Mamaia’s yard was seldom clear of mud and barnyard animals’ poop. We did not care much after a while. We ran barefoot and the mud and bird poop squished between our toes. It drove Mamaia nuts because many of the kids running around eventually developed worms from the contaminated bird droppings. Many died without treatment, and I lost quite a few friends except Stella. Mom brought us disgusting medicine from the city to treat the infestation.

Life was hard in the village and people worked from sun rise until sundown just to survive, providing food for their families, and to contribute their required “fair” share to the communist co-operative farm. There was, of course, no such thing as “fair” when it came to the Communist Party. Their leaders required sometimes the impossible and a pound of flesh from their subjects.

Mamaia had to sew to supplement the meager income and provisions and Tataia (maternal grandpa) repaired bicycles, tractors, flat tires, wagons, and anything villagers brought him to fix.

Water pump I photographed in 2015; it belonged to my aunt and

was almost as old as my Mamaia's

I wished I had a camera when I was a child; I would have captured Tataia in his shop, a large bench with tools, and an awning leaning from the mud brick house. I would have photographed Mamaia hand-washing clothes in a small wooden tub carved out of a large tree trunk, after getting iced water from the pump in the yard. She had to pour first a pot of hot water in order to melt the ice clogging the cast iron pipe above ground.

I do have a picture of her from 1985 with my daughter Mimi, who is almost 5 years old, pumping water for her. I posted this picture on my first book, Echoes of Communism. The pump is still there, a decorative relic, no longer connected to the underground well.

Mamaia’s iron cast top stove cooked many delicious meals in wintertime and warmed the tiny adjacent bedroom where I used to sleep; an air duct from the mud brick stove guided the hot air into the room.

Mamaia’s mud brick house has been demolished after she passed away at the age of 90. Her grandson Sorin, who inherited the property, built a modern home thanks to his earnings in Italy. Mamaia would have been happy and proud.

Communism Is Now Globalism

Communism did not disappear in 1989 with the revolution that ended its tyranny in the Soviet bloc countries in Eastern Europe. China, Cuba, North Korea are still ruled by the communist party. China has adopted a capitalist business model but the rest is still pure socialist repression. South America is almost entirely socialist, the precursor to communism.

European Communism went underground, spread mightily into the U.S. via NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and rebranded itself as globalism, communism on such a large scale that Stalin and Khrushchev would envy its tentacles dug deeply into the flesh of nations under the guise of environmentalism. Billionaires and U.N. are saving/protecting the planet from human footprint thanks to the pixie dust net zero carbon of green energy.

Because communism was never really taught in American schools, young generations today do not understand what it is and that one cannot be a loyal American and a communist at the same time.

Through their demonstrations, chants, and destruction in big cities, young Americans do not understand that we are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic, and that overthrowing the institutions of our society and replacing it with the materialist dialectic of Marxism is not at all democratic. They promote violence, brute force, and revolution at their atheistic core and use deception, masquerade, and false promises to achieve their goals.

Communists want to destroy law and order, to create chaos, by making false claims of police brutality, illegal arrests, persecution, racial discrimination, and inequity. Defund the police claims and support of illegal invasion of our country are two of the weapons in their ideological arsenal. They create more as they go.

As J. Edgar Hoover wrote, “The legacy of communism in this country has been to implant distrust of free government, law and order, and the rational solution of conflicts.”

Violence and the concept of “class struggle” and racism are the tools of communist propaganda and agitation.

Young Americans should know more about American traditions, our national heroes, our history, good and bad, and democratic traditions that are now being replaced by a technocratic, race-based tyranny.

In the early 20^th century America, communists hid their activities. The first known representative of the Bolshevik regime of V.I. Lenin in America was Ludwig C.A.K. Martens, a strange communist, wearing “ill-fitting clothes,” making “clandestine movements in Lower Manhattan.” From his office on Broadway, he financed his activities in the 1920 by “smuggling diamonds into the U.S.”

A century later, after the first Bolshevik in the U.S., Martens, an army of Marxists staff our universities, the technocrat corporate world, the halls of political power, the mainstream media, the government at all levels, and the public schools.

With access to “intellectual community,” hundreds of thousands of students, faculty, and “civil society” with interest in “academic freedom,” the master propagandists posed as protectors of “democracy” and the Constitution. But we are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic. Repeat the lie of democracy often and it becomes the truth for the brainwashed masses.

Radio, television, mainstream media, and the Internet have enabled the lies of communism to be spread non-stop to the gullible masses who lacked the knowledge of history and of facts in their basic education. The church, the Pope, priests and preachers, jumped into the fray and became mouthpieces for the globalist [communist] movement. Communist propagandists with a clerical cloak don’t denounce religion as the “opium of the people” but they denounce white parishioners as “white supremacists” and the benefactors of “white privilege,” made up constructs in order to vilify and divide the races.

The mainstream media has become the press of the communist party platform as represented by elected politicians who are no longer servants of the people but their dictators.

On June 9-15, 1968, the convention of the New Leftist Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) met in East Lansing, Michigan. The Guardian newsweekly reported it as such: “The new left in the United States has developed in the last several years from liberalism to anticapitalism, from reformism to revolution.” A picture of attendees was showing them waving two flags, a red one for communism and a black one for anarchism. The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was the major organizational expression of the new left.

To achieve their goals in the 20^th century, communist organizers used the civil rights movement and black nationalism to their advantage. They also used labor and industry as a means to propagate their “democratic socialism” and the need for revolution.

In the 21^st century apparatchiks are using environmentalism, illegal immigration without borders, hate speech, which is any speech they disagree with, and new racial segregation across the country in order to keep the country divided.

Citizens can’t see the full problem because they do not understand or know that communism is a totalitarian philosophy of human life encompassing education, art, literature, press, medicine, work, police, military, mobility, travel or lack thereof, property, and leisure.

The easiest population group to indoctrinate are students in public schools. Marxist teachers have their pupils’ attention every day for ten months each year of the twelve years of public-school miseducation. They teach them what to think instead of how to think. Once the brainwashing is done, it is not reversible.

It is obvious today to anybody who pays attention and thinks logically that “Communists adapt their agitation and propaganda to the fears, prejudices, problems, and special grievances or aspirations of many ethnic, racial, and religious groups to be found in this country,” including issues between native-born and legal foreign-born.  (J. E. Hoover, On communism, Random House, 1969, p. 129)

 

Communism Explained for Useful Idiots

Communism cannot be described and incorporated into one definition because it is a philosophy, an economic system, a political doctrine, a highly directed and controlled lifestyle, a police state, a psychological conditioning, and an absolute indoctrination by any means necessary, primarily through fear, violence, and brute force.

The adherents of communism describe it as a philosophy which attempts to explain where humans came from, how they developed across the millennia, and their ultimate future in utopia.

The communists do not believe in God, they are atheists, although the Communist Party allows some churches to exist for the sole purpose of using the priests to spread Marxist indoctrination to their congregations, for traditional baptisms, church weddings, and burials. The police state does offer matrimonial services by a state clerk in the Marriage House set up by the Communist Party leadership of the area.

When the priests do not cooperate to indoctrinate their flock, they suffer the same disappearance fate as the non-compliant masses they call the proletariat.

The proletariat and professionals are equally poor and miserable, never smiling anywhere, looking down when walking or standing in crowds, working for pathetic wages as in “we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.”

The communists believe in keeping the masses poor enough and wanting enough that they comply with the oppression in order to survive – like a dog fed enough rations to keep it from dying and making that underfed dog beg every day for the said rations in exchange for good behavior.

The communist world is a world full of fake equality, abundance of material benefits for life, and total social justice although up close and personal, it is an outrageous injustice for all those who are not members of the Communist Party elite.

When out and about, the proletariat has to be prepared to be asked to show his/her papers on demand and the word “please” is never found in the authorities’ lexicon.

In communism, the proletariat, the farmers, and professionals are always guilty of whatever crime the Communist Party decides and manufactures until proven innocent which in a communist court of law never happens.

Communists don’t just offer free housing, child care, education, personal needs, free education, a chicken in every pot, a car in every garage, “all things to all men,” and a cure for all of world’s ills, but also it promises “a paradise on earth.” The problem is that it never delivers any of it.

My grandma had a very wise saying about all these communist promises of freebies, “never go with a large bag to an orchard on expectations of a bountiful crop because you might just leave empty-handed.”

Despite their rhetoric, communists do not like democracy, they prefer tyranny. Their euphemistic and charismatic language attempts to cover the fact that they are wolves in sheep’s clothing.

Communists are not interested in building anything, in building a better nation, a better life, they are interested in wrecking and destroying everything, including history, who people are, and in remaking the globe and life in their desired image.

Their ultimate goal is world domination which explains why they prefer a new world order called globalism. And the push for global communism is coming from the U.N. and NGOs in Geneva. Some believe that communism, fascism, and tyranny do not really exist; it is the technocracy that we have to fear. But technocracy is the tool with which the global communists seek to control us.

The Fifth Column of the Nazis has been surpassed today by the Fifth Column of Global Communism. Western Civilization is in peril and the symbol of the free world, America, is also in peril. It is being attacked from within and without by the forces of the Fifth Column. And the indoctrinated generations, without any historical knowledge of communism or context, are willing to destroy their own country and future. They are the Useful Idiots as the Soviets termed their status.

“Atheistic communism denies every ideal we uphold” and uses terrorism, subversion, and relentless academic and mainstream media propaganda to trap everyone in a giant communist spider web under the guise of racism. Everything and everyone who disagrees with them and their platform is racist and thus immediately fired and “cancelled.”

There is a huge difference between what communists say communism is and what it actually is – a totalitarian form of socialism based on “duplicity, hypocrisy, and sham.”

Communists promise:

1.     Materialistic explanation of the origin of man

2.     Economic interpretation of history based on class struggle

3.     Abolition of capitalism which is seen as exploitation

4.     How to overthrow capitalism

5.     Moral code based on utility

6.     Abolition of all religions

7.     World-wide communist revolution

8.     World-wide communist society.

It is impossible to calculate the amount of human misery and death caused by the communist empires of the 20^th century.

The history of communism has shown that their proletariat are nothing but pawn, slave subjects to the Communist Party’s whims, with no civil rights, no justice, just gulags, where terror and torture are the order of the day.

The communist paradise is just a lie where injustice, poverty, and misery rule. War is never abolished as communists promise. People cannot revolt because they have no guns.

When they took power, communists confiscated guns, land, private property, money, homes, and personal possessions. They left the people penniless and dependent on a “benevolent” government to care for them. If the people refused to obey, they met a quick death, or long-term imprisonment, if they were lucky.

Communism, since the publication of the Communist Manifesto pamphlet in 1848, has not:

-         Held free elections

-         Had independent search for truth

-         Had freedom of the press

-         Had freedom of speech

-         Had freedom of religion

-         Had an independent judicial system (judges were always controlled by the state)

-         Had a legacy of love, just hatred

-         Had freedom, just coercion and the use of force, violence, and death.

The fanaticism of communism is so deeply rooted that they are still faithful to the original Soviet communism and atheism to this day - once a communist, always a communist.