Zina is a most amazing woman who came here years ago as a Russian refugee.  She became a US Citizen and is extremely involved in many Conservative Constitutional organizations including Arizona Project.

http://youtu.be/LDAx-ax-f1o

Every American should hear Zina’s remarks, especially:

1. students and teachers from grade school through college who think socialism is “cool”, and
2. all those who still think Barack Obama is “The One” who can actually make good on the promises of a Big Government nanny-state utopia.

News flash for both groups above:  History did not begin at breakfast.  Big Government socialism / progressivism / collectivism / redistributionism / communism has been tried many times before, and it has inevitably failed — miserably. On our continent, it failed as early as 1621, and all across Europe and Asia it failed catastrophically in the 20th century, with the dead numbered in the tens of millions.  In various forms, it is failing again in North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Western Europe and elsewhere.  Even as some of these countries are belatedly trying to move away from it, we in America, astoundingly, are moving toward it.

Zina Brodovsky experienced Leftism’s failures and tryanny as a citizen-subject of the old Soviet Union.  Now she is shocked and dismayed to see the same Leftist pattern starting up right here in America.  Do you see what she sees?  If not, why not?

The text of Zina’s remarks appear below the video.  You can also see an interview with Zina Brodovsky at this link, along with interviews of two other survivors of socialist regimes at this linkand this link.

Zina Brodovsky, from March 24, 2012:

For years I was asking myself why most Americans cannot see what I see, cannot understand what I understand. And I came to a very disturbing conclusion – while the truth about horrible atrocities and unaccountable victims of the communist regime was hidden from us, the soviet citizens, the same truth was hidden from Americans.

And when I saw and heard American school children singing the praises of Barack Obama, my heart stopped beating. I saw my little 3-year-old daughter in front of the store window with Lenin’s portrait in it. Her tiny hand was raised in the salute and she was reciting the poem praising Lenin. That scene was repeating every day on our way from her Daycare school. The small crowd would gather around us. Nobody ever said  a word. Neither did I.

Do you see what I see?

From the daycare facility, through the  kindergarten, middle school, high school, college and university there was an unstoppable communist propaganda.  As a result, Soviet regime had a great success in creating a “new man”, a man without any religious faith, but with faith in Communism, a man who will cheat, steal, lie, kill, even betray his own father.

In 1932 millions of Ukrainian villagers were dying from starvation due to a terrible famine. At that time, during the requisition of the grain from the farmers by military brigades, a 14 year boy, young communist Pavlik Morozov told the secret service officer in charge that his father hid a bag of grain. The father was arrested and immediately executed. Later, his father’s relatives killed Pavlik Morozov and his younger brother.  Pavlik Morozov became a symbol, a hero, a true young communist for many generation of the soviet children. As a child I was taught to praise that hero. As a teacher I was required to teach my students to praise him as well.

Do you see what I see?

Communist state owns everything: schools, universities, TV and radio stations, newspapers, magazines, hospitals, land, housing, industries, stores, transportation  – everything. State is the only employer in the whole country and controls everything and everyone: the military, the police, the judges, the courts, the jobs, the wages, the healthcare, the class curricula.  It controls what people eat, buy, read, say, watch and listen to.

Do you see what I see?

Journalists and reporters paid by the Government told us outright lies in the Government owned media, and they knew very well that nobody believed them. The whole country lived in the ocean of lies, corruption, and bribes. But who could dare to voice the truth? Those few who did were either sent to the concentration camps or committed to the special mental institutions.

In 1961 Nikita Khrushchev declared that the stage of building socialism was now complete. The final stage, full communism, would be achieved within twenty years and by the 1981 the Soviet people would be living in a world of peace and plenty, guided by the Karl Marx principle:

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”

1981 year came and two workers, Ivan Khakhulin and Ivan Provotorov, read this program in a public place. They got three and a half years each in a labor camp for “anti-Soviet propaganda”.

When I am watching occupied Wall Street crowds with slogans for socialism, communism, equal rights, social justice, fair shots, and fair share I am terrified and, at the same time, I feel sorry for them. They remind me of tens of  millions of brainwashed soviet teenagers. One of them, Lev Kopelev, now a distinguished dissident writer, was personally involved in actions against starving villagers in 1930’s . He wrote:

“In the terrible spring of 1933  I saw people dying from hunger, I saw women and children with distended bellies, turning blue, still breathing, but with vacant, lifeless eyes… I saw this and did not go out of my mind or commit suicide.  Our great goal was the universal triumph of the Communism, and for the sake of that goal everything was permissible – to lie, to steal, to destroy hundreds of thousands and even millions of people… everyone who stood in the way”.

Do you see what I see?

Recently, I was asked why Russian people did not fight. With what? Weapons were taken away from them by a government decree. After that between 20 to 50 million innocent people (nobody knows the exact figure) were murdered by that evil regime.

Fair share, fair shots, social justice, and equality… These words are horrible myths, lies, and deceit.

Here is the truth:

FAIR SHOTS meant that 200 million innocent people were tortured and murdered by their own communist regimes in the Soviet Union, China,  North Korea,  Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Poland,

vakia, Bulgaria, Romania, East Germany, Algeria, and Cuba.

FAIR SHARE means that tens of millions of innocent citizens were and are incarcerated in the labor camps or mental institutions by communist regimes. Tens of Thousands of them had died and are dying of starvation, extreme conditions, diseases and hard work.

SOCIAL JUSTICE means forced  labor of the prisoners of the labor camps, no freedom, no liberty, no rights,  and no justice at all under any communist regime.

EQUALITY means that the members of the government of the communist regime living in multimillion dollar palaces, having billions of dollars stashed in the Swiss banks, and the rest of the population lives in abject poverty, misery, constant fear and terror.

Communist Governments have their own dollar stores, private schools, exclusive universities, hospitals and excellent health care. None of it is available to citizens.

Communist Governments take away weapons from the citizens by the decrees and then murder tens of millions of their own innocent people.  They call it gun control.  There is way more, but let Zina tell it.  It’s more powerful that way.