A Former Soviet Comments on Obama and the New Socialist America!!
The old saying about you’ve got to stop and smell the roses is very true, especially in the United States, where there are “roses” everywhere you turn. Many conspire to convince us those are only thorns, that the roses don’t exist.
It is sometimes difficult to remember the benefits of living in America because there are no visible contrasts from which to draw easy comparisons. That’s not to say that we don’t all have our problems but we do have it better than most.
Aleksey, an immigrant to America from the former soviet union details how his first-hand experiences as a child and as an adult are a vital lesson that we Americans can’t afford to ignore. Aleksey recognizes the direction America’s socialist leadership is taking us in and sounds a warning bell to our nation that we are on the road to national destruction, Poverty and Tyranny.
He writes:
Upon migrating to the United States many years ago, I embraced my new home and left the past behind. Never could I imagine that, at some point, that past would become relevant.
But now, I am compelled to talk about it again.
In the USSR, we had state-controlled media which shaped the narrative entirely.
Our founder, Vladimir Lenin, was portrayed as a noble, charismatic, and smart man — the champion of the underdog (the working class), the seeker of equality, defeater of the rich. The humble man with common ideas who was destined for greatness.
Lenin peered at us intently from textbooks and walls. His was the face behind the good intentions that shaped our everyday life.
As a kid, I was largely shielded by my family — they took the brunt of “adult tasks” in everyday life. They bribed officials to accomplish the most basic of things, they conserved every kopek and piece of bread, they got me the rare medicines I needed, all through means I didn’t dare fathom.
Of course, there was nothing special about those medicines, those favors, or anything else that took such effort to obtain — in America, you can just go out and get it in a corner store. In the Soviet Union, the word “deficit” was commonly used in everyday language.
“This and this product are in deficit.” This meant that you couldn’t buy them. Maybe for the next three months or maybe forever, unless someone was bribed or the product was obtained via the black market, friends, or contraband. Fruits and vegetables had their “seasons” when they made an appearance in local stores — we didn’t have advanced technology like hydroponic farms.
Instead, adults were herded into collective farms, which were the Soviet antithesis of family — or individual-owned farms. Under cheerful banners of “accomplishing a five-year plan in four,” they usually underperformed and the bureaucrats responsible faked the numbers, which moved up the chain of command.
“Deficit.” I heard this term a lot, as I stood in long lines for bread and milk in stores with cheerfully generic names like “Progress” or “Sunrise.”
The lines resembled those formed by hipsters in America lining up for the sale of the next iPhone model — except we stood in them every day.
As much as my family shielded me from their troubles, they couldn’t protect me from factors beyond their control. They couldn’t raise my level of living above theirs. And they certainly couldn’t get me anesthetics for dental visits. Sitting in the gray, sterile corridor for two hours, hearing the sobbing of the kids already in the dental chair as their teeth were drilled without anesthetics, water, or suction, and knowing that your turn was coming — some handled it better than others.
In the local clinic, needles were resterilized and reused. Ambulances took three hours to arrive, if they came at all.
That was our “free” healthcare.
We also lived in a “free” apartment, which was suffocatingly small by American standards, and it took years, if not decades, for an average couple to obtain such a place. Usually, several generations of a family lived under one roof until the government bestowed upon its citizens another gray five- to sixteen-story building that looked just like its gray neighbor and had the same exact green-painted swings in the yard.
Since almost nobody had cars, people could rarely afford to move to another city or republic.
Public transportation, which we all had to use, consisted of cranky people squeezed tightly like sardines inside a rusty box on wheels. Despite that, when I was eight, I wanted to be a trolley bus driver. Partially because of all the buttons he flipped to open and close doors, but mostly because there was a wall between him and the sardine can.
The walls in Soviet apartments were poorly insulated from noise and cold. Therefore, wall carpets were dominant in Soviet culture. They all looked similar, usually colored red with abstract, curving patterns.
Soviet factories were state-controlled. Variety was not a concept. The color red was all over the place — it garnished the banners hanging off the sides of gray five-story buildings, with profiles of Lenin, Marx, and Engels fluttering lightly in the wind, proclaiming that “Marxism-Leninism is the symbol of our times.” Others stated, “Forward toward Communism!”
Red was splattered on our classroom walls and our school uniforms.
In grade school, you became an “Octyabronok” (named after the October 1917 revolution) and wore a Lenin-faced star on your lapel. You got a free newspaper, the “Young Leninist.” Later, you became a “Pioneer” and swapped the star for a red tie. After that, you moved on to “Komsomol” (All-Union Leninist Young Communist League). Those who did not follow the groupthink enough to make it to “Komsomol” lost access to crucial resources and careers later in life.
I grew up with no concept of “brands.” If I wanted to get that shoddy water pistol that suddenly appeared in a store, and my parents let me, then that was the water pistol. It broke in two weeks, of course.
Bread in the stores was the bread. Milk was the milk. Kolbasa was the kolbasa. Everything was manufactured by the state to provide the minimum required survivability, and minimum expected functionality. Improvements in design and the manufacturing process did not exist.
When I came to America and laid down on an American bed, it struck me that it was more comfortable than any bed I’d ever experienced. It was the result of evolving design oriented toward customer satisfaction — a concept alien to my former homeland.
The two famous brands of Soviet cars, Zaporozhets and Moskvich (both named after their places of origin), just… existed. We didn’t really have Zaporozhets 1980 followed by a new and improved Zaporozhets 1981 — now with power steering! No such thing. It was a car, and it required no further improvement. There was no customer demand, because people were poor, the state-controlled prices were very high, and product evolution crawled at snail’s pace.
The very concept of “customer convenience” did not exist. We didn’t have bottles sculpted to fit the shape of your hand, nor did we have polite cashiers, for they were under no obligation to please anyone — they worked for the state. The abacus was still in common use in our stores while American stores had electric change machines, credit card readers, and sliding doors.
Like most things, clothes were in “deficit” and thus traveled from older to younger siblings in every family over time. Broken things weren’t thrown away but repaired.
Our giant lamp television was carried in the family since about the time I was born. It received three channels — all State-controlled. On our evening news program, the Chernobyl disaster announcement was calm and lasted fifteen seconds. Our state papers, such as Pravda and Izvestia, were not read but used as invaluable sources of free toilet paper. This is not a joke.
Our propaganda put the big focus on the noble working class and how there was no such thing as a “lower” profession. Much emphasis was made on the nobility of simple working man, and certainly there is something to that.
But when the janitor receives roughly the same salary as a teacher who is paid roughly the same as a surgeon who is paid roughly the same as a programmer, all of them surrounded by peers who get paid the same no matter how well or poorly they perform, some people start carrying the team, and then they just give up. Everyone performs poorly in the end.
It was painfully obvious to everyone just how low the desire of the average person is to produce goods for other people. Without competition or opportunity to get ahead, with the state controlling production and paying equal salaries to workers regardless of their contributions, we had no concept of abundance.
With our “free” services, we regularly experienced water and electrical outages and sometimes went to a nearby forest to get water. Once you fill that bathtub with water, you can’t use it for anything else.
The first time I entered an American food market at the age of seventeen, I froze.
Older Soviets who visited American stores for the first time, got hit harder — all the lies they were taught from childhood through the decades of their lives — until that last moment, they expected them to be at least partially true.
Sure, they heard stories from overseas, but come on, those were just the Potemkin villages, mirages created to make the Soviets jealous. How can one imagine the unimaginable?
“They told us in Odessa, that in San Francisco it’s hard to find milk.”
This is the typical Soviet mentality, and they were used to it, and they bought into it, and then they entered that American supermarket and saw the rows upon rows of milk of different brands and kinds and fat percentages.
This is where some have been known to cry. It is the realization that their lives were stolen from them by the regime. A realization of what could’ve been, if they had been lucky enough to be born in this place which, from everything they knew, could not possibly exist.
I now live in Northern California, in the heart of the Bay Area, thousands of miles away from my homeland.
And yet the poison of Soviet propaganda seeps through college dorms just as it did in Soviet classrooms.
Stop a random youth on the street and you’ll find out what he thinks about capitalism (bad!) and communism/socialism (good!). Their favorite news programs are the “Daily Show” and the “Colbert Report,” where comedians reinforce their brainwashing via short, catchy clips.
Walk through Berkeley and you will see wall graffiti of the same hammer and sickle that adorned the big red flags of the Soviet era.
This doesn’t extend to just youths. People of all ages, even acquaintances that I otherwise respect and admire, are like this. They support the “progressive” leader Barack Obama, worship the nanny state, and believe in equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity.
They badmouth capitalism and complain that only one percent of the American population has the “American dream.” They buy into the class warfare rhetoric hook, line, and sinker. They want artificially raised minimum wage, government handouts, and believe that Obamacare is the greatest thing since the invention of pockets.
I look at them and the red ties materialize, familiarly, around their necks.
There are “academic” speakers now who advocate that having too many choices is “bad for you.” Too stressful to choose, you see.
Living in the Soviet Union, being bombarded with similar nonsense, we had nothing to contradict it. When we walked outside the school, the everyday reality had no traces of the wealth afforded by capitalism. We lived in the grayness and that grayness was all there was.
Americans leave school to go home and they drop by a mall to buy something from an incredible selection of wealth and choice afforded by capitalism. They drop by a small corner store, which could probably feed a savvy Soviet village for a month (dog food is food, too, you know), and they pick up some “entertainment food” that did not exist in the USSR, in quantities that weren’t affordable for an average Soviet family.
Then they go home and write essays on their expensive iPads about how they don’t have the American Dream.
Now, most American news sources are no different than Pravda and Izvestia. Now, the government used the IRS to stifle political opposition. Now, ObamaCare is a wealth redistribution platform disguised as a common good. Now, Obama is being portrayed in academia and the media alike as a charismatic, messianic, “progressive” figure, fighting for the “underdog.” He would feel right at home as the General Secretary of the Communist Party. Now, Obama Youths are me, from decades ago. Leninist academia has had its way with them. Now, just like Soviet leaders, American leaders give lip-service to “social justice” while stocking up on personal wealth for their families.
There’s nothing new under the sun. I’m hardly the only ex-Soviet to point out the parallels. But some things matter enough to bear repeating.
Dear beautiful America, please, stop moving Forward.
The use of the word “Forward” as a campaign slogan is nothing new. It has been used by European Marxists and radicals to indicate that their movements were a part of an inevitable march of history, moving forward past capitalism and into socialism and communism.
It was by through no oversight that this historic message was attached to the campaign of Barack Hussein Obama. It was a recognition of his place in history.
The sad reality for those of us who have our eyes open and know what is being done to our great nation with overwhelming speed and thoroughness is that we are seemingly powerless to do anything to prevent it.
Enemy forces who have taken over the media and highest political offices are, with few execptions, the greatest threat to the survival of our nation. Their methods are time-tested over centuries and through regional power struggles across the globe. They know exactly what they are doing, how long it will take, and when to pull the trigger.
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Barack Hussein Obama is an SOCIALIST / NAZI / COMMUNIST / DICTATOR!! The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FORBIDS People in the CONSTITUTION that they CANNOT RULE from the WHITE-HOUSE as a DICTATOR or king!!
( Proverbs 24:21-22 KJV ) “My son, Fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle Not with them that are given to Change: For their Calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the Ruin of them both?”!!
WE THE PEOPLE of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WANT OUR NATION BACK NOW FROM THIS TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT NOW!! NO One is Above the LAW in the United States Of America, and that includes Presidents in the WHITE-HOUSE and Senators in Congress!!
Our Government is OUT of CONTROL and NEEDS to STOPPED NOW!! They Spend more money than they bring in each month, this is NOT a Budget at all!! The WHITE-HOUSE and CONGRESS Belong to WE THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, and FOR THE PEOPLE!! People who pervert the CONSTITUTION are GUILTY of TREASON and TYRANNY!!
DO NOT TRUST in PATHOLOGICAL LIARS Like Barack Hussein Obama PERIOD!! Obama is a DEVOUT Evil Islamic Muslim and he is NOT a Christian at all!!
In Fact, Obama is ANTI-ISRAEL-YISRRAEL / ANTI-ZIONISM / ANTISEMITIC / ANTI-CHRISTIAN and JEWISH PEOPLE / ANTI-AMERICAN / ANTI-CONSTITUTION / ANTI-BILL OF RIGHTS / ANTI-GUNS ( Second Amendment ) / ANTI-AMERICAN FREEDOMS / ANTI-FREE SPEECH!! SO, I will Say this Again and Again;
DO NOT TRUST Barack Hussein Obama PERIOD!!!
( II Chronicles 7:14 KJV ) “If My people, which are called by My Name, shall Humble themselves, and Pray, and Seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven, and Will Forgive their sin, and Will Heal Their Land.”!!
( Genesis 12:2-3 KJV ) “And I Will Make of thee a Great Nation, and I Will Bless thee, and Make thy Name Great; and thou shalt be a Blessing: And I Will Bless them that Bless thee ( Israel and USA ), and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all Families of the Earth be Blessed.”!! May GOD BLESS Israel / USA and our Christian Earth!!
( Matthew 6:33 KJV ) “But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His Righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”!!
( Deuteronomy 28:1-2 KJV )”And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the Voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all His Commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt Hearken unto the Voice of the LORD thy God.”!!
( Matthew 5:9 KJV ) “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall bee called the children of God.”!!
( Mark 3:25 KJV ) “And if a house DIVIDED against itself, that house cannot stand.”!!
( 1 Thessalonians 5:2 KJV ) “For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.”!!
( 1 Thessalonians 5:18 KJV ) “In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”!!
( James 1:25 KJV ) “But whoso looketh into the Perfect Law of Liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”!!
( I Thessalonians 5:16-18 KJV ) “Rejoice evermore. Pray Without Ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the Will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”!!
Ye MUST TRUST in Our LORD and SAVIOR Jesus Christ ONLY!! Jesus Christ is the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE, NO one comes unto the FATHER, but through Me ( Jesus Christ )!! Thus Jesus Christ is the only WAY to enter into Heaven!! Ye are ALL Children of our LIVING God In Heaven!! Jesus Christ is the SON of God our FATHER which art in Heaven!! God CREATED the Heavens ( UNIVERSE ) and the Earth!! God CREATED us in HIS OWN IMAGE!!
( John 3:15-17 KJV ) “That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so Loved the world, that He gave His only Begotten Son ( Jesus–Yeshua ), that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be Saved.”!!
( Proverbs 3:5-6 KJV ) “Trust in the LORD ( ADONAI ) with all thine Heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways Acknowledge HIM, and HE shall direct thy Paths.”!! TRUST in the LORD Jesus-Yeshua Christ with All Thine HEART and SOUL!!
( Matthew 28:18-20 KJV ) “And Jesus Came and Spake unto them, Saying, All Power is Given unto ME in Heaven and in Earth. Go ye therefore, and Teach All Nations, Baptizing them in the Name of the FATHER, and of the SON, and of the HOLY GHOST: Teaching them to Observe all things whatsoever I Have Commanded you: and, lo, I AM With You Always, even unto the End of the World. Amen-Amein.”!!
( Matthew 6:9-13 KJV ) “After this manner therefore Pray ye: Our FATHER which art in HEAVEN, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done in Earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this Day our Daily Bread. And Forgive us our debts, as we Forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but Deliver us from evil: For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, For ever. Amen-Amein.”!!
( John 6:35 KJV ) “And Jesus-Yeshua Said unto them, I AM the Bread of Life: he that Cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that Believeth on ME shall never thirst.”!!
( Philippians 2:10-11 KJV ) “That at the Name of Jesus-Yeshua Christ-Messiah and Yeshua HaMashiach-Messiah Every Knee should Bow, of things in Heaven, and things in earth, and things under the Earth; And that every Tongue Should Confess that Jesus-Yeshua Christ-Messiah is LORD, to the Glory of GOD the FATHER.”!!
( Hebrews 12:2 KJV ) “Looking unto Jesus-Yeshua Christ-Messiah the Author and Finisher of our Faith; who for the Joy that was set before HIM endured the Cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the Right Hand of the Throne of GOD.”!!
( Hebrews 1:3 KJV ) “Who being the Brightness of HIS Glory, and the express image of HIS person, and upholding all things by the WORD of HIS Power, when HE had by Himself Purged our sins, Sat Down on the Right Hand of the Majesty on High;”!!
( John 1:29 KJV ) “The next day John seeth Jesus-Yeshua Coming unto him, and Saith, Behold the LAMB of GOD, which Taketh away the sin of the World.”!!
( John 3:16 KJV ) “For GOD so LOVED the World, that HE Gave HIS Only Begotten SON, that whosoever Believeth in HIM should not perish, but have Everlasting Life.”!!
( Acts 4:12 KJV ) “Neither is there Salvation in any other: for there is none other Name under Heaven given among men ( or anyone ), whereby we must be SAVED.”!!
( Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV ) “For by GRACE are ye Saved through Faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the Gift of GOD: Not of works, lest any man ( or anyone ) should boast.”!! TRUST in the LORD Christ-Messiah Jesus-Yeshua!!
( John 14:6 KJV ) “Jesus-Yeshua Saith unto him, I AM the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE: no man ( or anyone ) Cometh unto the FATHER, but by ME.”!!
( I John 4:4 KJV ) “Ye are of GOD, little children, and have overcome them: because Greater is HE ( Christ-Messiah Jesus-Yeshua ) that is in you, than he that is in the world.”!! TRUST in the LORD Christ-Messiah Jesus-Yeshua With All Thine HEART!!
( I Peter 1:25 KJV ) “But the WORD of the LORD Endureth For ever. And this is the WORD which by the Gospel is Preached unto you.”!!
( Revelation 1:7-8 KJV ) “Behold, HE Cometh with Clouds; and Every eye shall see HIM, and they also which Pierced HIM: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of HIM. Even so, Amen. I AM Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, Saith the LORD, which is, and which was, and which is to Come, the Almighty.”!!
( Luke 3:22 KJV ) “And the HOLY GHOST descended in a bodily shape like a DOVE upon HIM, and a Voice Came from HEAVEN, which Said, Thou art MY Beloved SON; in thee I AM Well Pleased.”!! Amen-Amein Hallelujah and Maranatha!!
( Exodus 3:14 KJV ) “And GOD said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and HE said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent ME unto you.”!!
( Galatians 4:6 KJV ) “And because ye are sons and daughters, GOD Hath Sent Forth the SPIRIT of HIS SON into your Hearts, Crying, ABBA, FATHER.”!!
( John 17:3 KJV ) “And this is Life Eternal, that they might know Thee the ONLY TRUE GOD, and Jesus-Yeshua Christ-Messiah, Whom Thou Hast Sent.”!!
( Psalms 83:18 KJV ) “That men ( and everyone ) May Know that thou, whose Name Alone is JEHOVAH-YAHWEH, art the most High over all the Earth.”!!
( Exodus 3:15 KJV ) “And GOD said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD GOD of your fathers, the GOD of Abraham, the GOD of Isaac, and the GOD of Jacob, hath sent Me unto you: this is My Name ( JEHOVAH-YAHWEH ) For ever, and this is My Memorial unto all Generations.”!!
( Psalms 68:4-5 KJV ) “Sing unto GOD, sing Praises to His Name: extol Him that rideth upon the Heavens by HIS Name JAH ( JEHOVAH-YAHWEH ), and Rejoice before HIM. A FATHER of the fatherless, and a Judge of the widows, is GOD in His Holy Habitation.”!!
There is Only ONE TRUE GOD ( JEHOVAH-YAWHEH ) the FATHER and, ONE SON ( Yeshua-Jesus Christ-Messiah ), and ONE ( HOLY GHOST–HOLY SPIRIT ) PRAISE Them and They’re All THREE in ONE!! Sing Glory Hallelujah and Maranatha!!
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Jesus Christ-Yeshua HaMashiach Watching over Jerusalem-Yerushalayim Israel-Yisrael Above!! Praise Jesus-Yeshua Christ-Messiah For Today and Everyday!!
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