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.

 

 

 

Communist Regimes of Lies and Terror Failed Spectacularly at Everything

One of the lynchpins of the communist philosophy is the dictatorship of the proletariat. This ruthless approach involves snitching on the entire population, terror, brute force, and unimaginable violence. Lenin used these methods amply to force the dictatorship of the proletariat on the Soviet subjects.

The hapless citizens did not understand in the beginning that the dictatorship of the proletariat was actually the dictatorship of the Communist party and eventually of the dictatorship of the one person who was the most influential and ruthless, and was able to kill most of his enemies in order to claim a clear victory. He eliminated all domestic opposition and any threat from within.

Stalin and other dictators relied entirely on oppression, fear, and terror, and developed the infamous cult of personality – the forced worshipping of the dear leader.

Nikita S. Khrushchev waited three years after Stalin’s death to charge him in 1956 as “a murderer and a pathological liar who dealt in mass terror” during his 20 years of dictatorship.

“Terror and lies are the trademarks of communist tyranny,” but why did Khrushchev wait three years to reveal the abuses of power and the lies used to cover up the brutality, violence, contempt for human life, lack of freedom, and absolute intolerance? He knew about all of the atrocities committed but he remained silent because he was heavily implicated himself.

Many people in all Soviet satellite countries starved to death because the regimes used the Soviet model to industrialize their respective countries quickly by massive grain exports, leaving the population to starve. Communists did not care that people died as long as they were able to finance the importation of technology and machinery in order to develop the heavy industry.

Attacking the sources of food, Stalin ordered in 1929 “the liquidation of the kulaks as a class.” It was not just a war against them, but a war against all peasants, the very people who produced grains and raised cattle.

Who were the kulaks? They represented one tenth of the peasant population. Kulaks had eight acres of land, four cows., two horses, and were considered by Marxist-Leninists class enemies of the poorer peasants. The kulaks were to be deported. If they refused, brute force was used.

Marxist activists (apparatchiks) were ordered to confiscate privately owned farms which were then lumped together to make collective farms (kolkhoz). Within a five months period, half of the peasants were forcibly collectivized. Many peasants resisted by slaughtering their animals – cattle and horses by the tens of thousands were killed.

The opposition resulted in famine in 1932 and 1933. The remaining food was confiscated from the rural population and distributed to the workers in cities. Millions died as a result of this man-made famine. The Soviet Union did not even acknowledge the existence of this famine.

Peasants in other Soviet satellite countries were forced into collectivization by communists who confiscated their private arable land. They left the peasants just enough land for a home foundation and space for a small garden and a narrow yard between neighbors. Collective farms were formed by brute force and the former farmers were pressed into working for meager pay and a share of the eventual crop profits after the communists took their lion’s share from these profits. The field work was back breaking, the labor quotas of the Five Year Plans impossible to achieve, and the rewards minimal. It was the same slogan as in factories, “we pretend to work, and they [the communists] pretend to pay us.”

It was not just the peasants who were oppressed. The urban workers were forced to work for inadequate pay, in harsh conditions, no OSHA-type protections, many died in industrial accidents, and were forced to work night shifts with unrealistic production quotas, a technique that was used for many decades in Communist countries. Workers could find themselves unemployable and unable to find a place to live even if they had as little as “one day’s unjustified absence from work.” You were not allowed to be sick or miss work for any reason.

In a move to control the proletariat even more, workers were forced since 1932 to carry an identity card issued by the police which listed his/her employment date and place, a way to control their every movement and keeping them on the job and in the respective area. They needed permission to be absent and a doctor’s written excuse if they were sick.

Slave-labor camps (gulags), filled with political dissidents and other innocents, helped build the communist empire for free. Under communism, the accused were guilty until proven innocent. They were never paid for their work.  Not only were people imprisoned for their political views, but their families were punished as well, evicted from their meager apartments, dilapidated homes, and even schools.

Next time the young Americans who responded in surveys that they prefer socialism over capitalism, should read more about the actual economic and social conditions under all of the socialist republics of the Communist Party that failed spectacularly.

Do You Take Your Grocery Store for Granted?

Bread line during the 1980s
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The Ceausescu clan and their communist useful idiots were quick to remind us of what an enchanted life we lived under his leadership and how terrible life was under evil capitalism and how their people suffered under the boot of the bourgeoisie.  We were so protected and full of hope under “mother” Elena and “father” Nicolae’s leadership, we were told ad nauseam, while the opposite reality hit us in the face every day.

Commies lied to us in order to cover up their mismanagement of the economy, the disastrous five-year plans, the gross misuse of the land, squandered resources, sold produce and grain to the west for hard currency while people were on rationing cards and hungry, and funds stolen from the treasury or from citizens accused under dubious circumstances of treasonous activities such as enemy of the proletariat.

The five-year plans had impossible to achieve goals set by those apparatchiks with high ranking in the Communist Party.  People would go to jail for not meeting these goals in the time frame dictated by the Stalinist bureaucrats, illiterate community organizers, who understood nothing about the economy, about industrial or agricultural planning.  When things went missing in factories, and they did often, accountants and managers would go to jail as theft occurred under their blind watch.

More tight lines for food
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At some point, they ran out of cattle feed and Ceausescu had to distress-slaughter cows. I remember mom saying that beef was tough to chew and purple-looking. To this day, we don’t eat beef. The meat was rationed to 2.5 kg per family per month.  Butchers would chop up bones in the meat which turned it into a purplish grey mass thrown on the counter with contempt. We had to bring our own wrapping newspapers and expandable jute shopping bags to carry food home. In addition to this shopping jute bag, people carried extra cash in case a line developed somewhere which meant that they could not pass up the opportunity to buy whatever was on sale.

This type of pathological lying to the people is not unlike the Democrats covering up their failed economic policies by telling Americans for eight years now how the economic status quo is our new normal, we should get used to the global economy, to the manufacturing sector moving entirely outside of the U.S., and how our jobs are never coming back.

Living under the boot of communism, we could not compare our meager existence with how other people lived because we were forbidden to travel, television programming was tightly controlled, and so were radio broadcasting and the press. 

Once in a while those in power slipped and broadcast successful mini-series like “Dallas” which gave us a glimpse of the opulent and dreamy life of the Ewings in Texas, the faraway Shangri La where money grew on trees and oil bubbled out of the ground.  American movies were smuggled into Romania, translated by a very courageous lady, and sold on the black market when VCRs became available.

Romania was not the only Iron Curtain communist regime to treat their people this way, but it was one of the worst.  Joe Keller described in a recent post, “When Victor Belenko defected and flew his Mig-25 Foxbat into Japan, he was taken to a safe house in Warrenton, Virginia, for debriefing and subsequent resettlement. Warrenton was not much of a town at the time. We had Peebles, shoe stores, grocery stores, an IHop and a couple of other restaurants and a bunch of gas stations. Belenko thought the Agency had staged the entire town for his benefit and did not believe stores had clothes, and restaurants had food in America. It ran against everything he had been told.”

The dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, a man with no formal education, ordered in 1982 the passage of the “Program of Scientific Nutrition for the Population,” a law that established the rationing of food, how many calories a person could eat, and how much one could weigh.  Two years later, the nutritional standards were reduced even more.

Portions and consumption were controlled through the issuance of cards which could only be used at the local neighborhood grocery store where residents had to register each family member, present proof of identity and residence, and the number of people living in the house, including renters or temporary visitors.  Food could only be bought based on the number of people registered.

Lying was impossible as the police informers, the beat cops, and the housing registration office knew exactly where each person lived or if they moved and where. Cards were color-coded by cities and towns. Urban residents could buy more food while farmers were given less rations on the assumption that they grew some themselves. Those who tried to purchase in excess of their rations, when found out, were sent to jail. It was considered speculation punishable by law if a person tried to barter goods or sell food on the black market.  Many enterprising Romanians were clever enough and were never caught. http://adevarul.ro/locale/alexandria/ce-mancau-romanii-vremea-ceausescu-jumatate-paine-zi-litru-ulei-kilogram-zahar-luna-pui-marimea-porumbeilor-1_555f0c0acfbe376e3578994d/index.html

Imagine how mesmerized I was when I first entered the one and only grocery store in a small town in the south, population 3,000, Horn’s Big Star. It was filled with food to the rafters.  I was in awe and I kept filling the cart to the brim. My husband was laughing, putting things back and telling me that they will be there tomorrow. I did not believe him at first, I expected empty store shelves on my second trip.

I was so incredulous! I went to the grocery store every day to buy nectarines and Red Delicious apples. I was so shocked that I could buy fresh fruit in early January. I just knew that it was all staged for my benefit. Albert, the owner, who was a friend of the family, always greeted me with a big smile which I thought odd. Why is this man always smiling?  I was used to sour employees, shouting and treating us like animals, while we pushed and shoved each other in endless lines, often getting to the front of the line and finding out that they ran out of whatever we were waiting to buy.

We have an abundance of food and people get irritated in the U.S. when they can’t find their particular brand. Few have any idea that our grocery stores only stock a three-day supply of food. When major storms strike or even the potential of inclement weather in the U.S., shelves of milk, water, and bread disappear really fast at Walmart. 

Until you have to stand in endless lines to buy food and basics for survival, such as bread, milk, sugar, oil, flour, butter, or toilet paper and vitamins, until you have to live in the dark and cold when lights, heat, and electricity go out daily, when you have no running water at all or hot water is a rare occurrence, you cannot claim that you are poor, living in an “unjust country.” What you really need is a lesson in history, a trip to Cuba, to some other third world country, and an attitude adjustment to reality.