That's why E Europeans who experienced Soviet rule are such staunch freedom fighters.
I will never forget visiting friends in Czechoslovakia when I was little. the husband came to meet us but froze us with a desperate look as we were about to go up and say hello. We pretended to look in a shop window so he could walk ahead and let us follow him to his home. When he reached his building and went in, we walked round a couple of streets before going in when there was no-one about. He was waiting on the stairs; we crept up to his apartment, went in and drank tea and talked in whispers. Nothing political, just old friends meeting up.
That's communism. People living in constant fear, never knowing who is listening or watching.
My parents survived Stalin's holodomyr and Hitler's concentration camp and slave labor. All my life they told me what life was like. And now I see all that here.
That's why E Europeans who experienced Soviet rule are such staunch freedom fighters.
I will never forget visiting friends in Czechoslovakia when I was little. the husband came to meet us but froze us with a desperate look as we were about to go up and say hello. We pretended to look in a shop window so he could walk ahead and let us follow him to his home. When he reached his building and went in, we walked round a couple of streets before going in when there was no-one about. He was waiting on the stairs; we crept up to his apartment, went in and drank tea and talked in whispers. Nothing political, just old friends meeting up.
That's communism. People living in constant fear, never knowing who is listening or watching.
"See, here's why you're wrong." - Starc*cks barista who hasn't ventured further than 100m from his parents' basement.
People that escaped from communism should be in our public schools teaching this as a prerequisite to our kids until those kids get what's up.
Agree. I was taught through junior high and high school by WWII vets. These guys kept us in line and made sure we learned.
My parents survived Stalin's holodomyr and Hitler's concentration camp and slave labor. All my life they told me what life was like. And now I see all that here.
Oh no! He nose!