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How Voting For Socialism Caused Czechoslovakia 40 Years Of Misery

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How Voting For Socialism Caused Czechoslovakia 40 Years Of Misery

Americans should heed the lessons of Czechoslovakia, a democracy that voted for a socialist utopia only to wait four decades to win its freedom back.

By Carina Benton
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Democrats are now stooping to seduce voters with neo-Marxist promises to end “systemic racism,” “reimagine” policing, guarantee “free” health care, and “pay” for higher education. The lure of a socialist utopia in which the individual finds ultimate fulfillment in the state has deceived countless people throughout the 20th century. Yet in the end, that promise has delivered nothing but unprecedented atrocities and abuses of freedom.

In 1946, Czechoslovakia became the only European nation to bring communism to power through a legitimate democratic process. Czechoslovakia boasted a successful interwar democracy between 1918 and 1939. But after six years of Nazi occupation, a disillusioned, war-weary, and idealistic people fell prey to the false messianic promises of the communists.

Popular aspirations for a better, fairer society became conflated with the Communist Party mantra, and individual freedom and dignity were substituted for the oppressive power of the State.

Making The Same Mistakes

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Joe Wooten:

--- Quote ---a disillusioned, war-weary, and idealistic people fell prey to the false messianic promises of the communists.
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WIth the added incerntive of red army guns pointed at their heads

Hoodat:
The problem with Czechoslovakia is that they didn't have the right people running it.

dfwgator:
When Klement Gottwald, the first Stalinist leader of Communist Czechoslovakia, was elected to the Czech National Assembly in 1929, this is what he said in his first speech in front of the assembly:

"And we are the party of the Czechoslovak Proletariat and our supreme chief of staff is indeed Moscow. We go to Moscow to learn, do you know what? We go to Moscow to learn from the Russian Bolsheviks how to wring your necks. And you know that the Russian Bolsheviks are masters in this respect… That grin will be wiped off your faces!"

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