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 In his article "This Was Communism, You Fools," Rod Dreher writes - "This has been the 100th anniversary year of the Bolshevik Revolution, one of history’s greatest calamities. The beginning of Soviet communism’s end arguably came with the founding of the Solidarity trade union in Poland, or possibly with the accession to power of Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985. "Whatever the case, it decisively arrived with the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall. College students today did not live through the Soviet and Eurocommunist years. This grieves and offends Harvard undergraduate Laura Nicolae, whose parents escaped from Ceausescu's Romania." Dreher then quotes some bone-chilling accounts from Laura Nicolae and from a Christian prisoner in Romania. I've visited Ceausescu's Romania and met some Christian ex-prisoners. I've also visited most of the Soviet satellite countries and the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s. Then I lived in Russia for 17 years during the fall of the USSR, the collapse of its socialist economy and the painful period of trying to recover from 74 years of socialism. The young, smarty-pants fools at Harvard have no idea of the violence, poverty and moral depravity that socialism inevitably engenders. Get the whole story: read the full article & get our free weekly newsletter: subscribe below! |