Excellent article. As an old American public school teacher, I had a Swedish immigrant grandfather & Norwegian immigrant grandmother who left their relatively poor nations c. 1900 & 1911 as teens w their families to America. Their relatives, esp. in Norway, when their letters weren't pilfered by the Nazis during Occupation, told of the horrors they endured. Swedish relatives of my grandfather were so anxious after Norway was occupied, they just feared they'd be next. I grew up during the 1960s & 70s & we studied the Soviet Bloc in HS & in college. My father was a young WW2 Army 1st Lt. who led his unit w others to liberate Nazi Death Camps at the end of the War. He witnessed the atrocities as a 25-yr old man. The Croatian Camp, right over the Austrian border was the most horrific he told me when I was studying The Holocaust in HS Adv Senior World History.
Patterns of this authoritarian behavior is still with us & has now taken root in the USA. My heart is broken. How can we not make comparisons to History? So much Russian disinformation pushed by FOX News & the rise of money grubbing RW social media trolls not interested in the damage to our Nation.
Tragic. Now we have utter idiots in charge of the rest of us.
I have a friend who grew up in communist Poland , she sometimes wish she stayed there after seeing what unregulated capitalism has done to the United States. And how Poland is becoming a more people friendly government after it shed communism. She thinks this country is getting more like a communist dictatorship in the guise of capitalism.
Excellent article. As an old American public school teacher, I had a Swedish immigrant grandfather & Norwegian immigrant grandmother who left their relatively poor nations c. 1900 & 1911 as teens w their families to America. Their relatives, esp. in Norway, when their letters weren't pilfered by the Nazis during Occupation, told of the horrors they endured. Swedish relatives of my grandfather were so anxious after Norway was occupied, they just feared they'd be next. I grew up during the 1960s & 70s & we studied the Soviet Bloc in HS & in college. My father was a young WW2 Army 1st Lt. who led his unit w others to liberate Nazi Death Camps at the end of the War. He witnessed the atrocities as a 25-yr old man. The Croatian Camp, right over the Austrian border was the most horrific he told me when I was studying The Holocaust in HS Adv Senior World History.
Patterns of this authoritarian behavior is still with us & has now taken root in the USA. My heart is broken. How can we not make comparisons to History? So much Russian disinformation pushed by FOX News & the rise of money grubbing RW social media trolls not interested in the damage to our Nation.
Tragic. Now we have utter idiots in charge of the rest of us.
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I have a friend who grew up in communist Poland , she sometimes wish she stayed there after seeing what unregulated capitalism has done to the United States. And how Poland is becoming a more people friendly government after it shed communism. She thinks this country is getting more like a communist dictatorship in the guise of capitalism.
I feel what you say here...damned