Are Americans Becoming Sovietized? By Victor Davis Hanson

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Are Americans Becoming Sovietized?
By Victor Davis Hanson May 06, 2021 12:39 AM ET


What ultimately ended the nihilist Soviet system?

Was it not that Russians finally tired of the Kremlin’s lies and hypocrisies that permeated every facet of their falsified lives?

Here are 10 symptoms of Sovietism. Ask yourself whether we are headed down this same road to perdition.

1. There was no escape from ideological indoctrination — anywhere. A job in the bureaucracy or a military assignment hinged not so much on merit, expertise or past achievement. What mattered was loud enthusiasm for the Soviet system.

Wokeness is becoming our new Soviet-like state religion. Careerists assert that America was always and still is a systemically racist country, without ever producing proof or a sustained argument.

2. The Soviets fused their press with the government. Pravda, or “Truth,” was the official megaphone of state-sanctioned lies. Journalists simply regurgitated the talking points of their Communist Party partners.

In 2017, a Harvard study found that over 90% of the major TV news networks’ coverage of the Trump administration’s first 100 days was negative.

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Да, конечно.

[skeeter]

The one difference is the Russians remained cohesive enough to finally throw the Bolsheviks off. The America left has used race & ethnicity to demolish our traditional system, and for us to throw them off we'll need to do runs absolutely contrary to human nature and hasn't been done in the history of mankind - come together regardless of the many races, religions and ethnicities here in the name of the Judeo-christian ideal of the sovereign individual.

Many here now have not the slightest idea what that means, let alone accepts it. Who's gonna teach them?