Are Americans Becoming Sovietized?

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Are Americans Becoming Sovietized?
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By Victor Davis Hanson
May 06, 2021

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.

3. The Soviet surveillance state enlisted apparatchiks and lackeys to ferret out ideological dissidents.

Recently, we learned that the Department of Defense is reviewing its rosters to spot extremist sentiments. The U.S. Postal Service recently admitted it uses tracking programs to monitor the social media postings of Americans.

CNN recently alleged that the Biden administration's Department of Homeland Security is considering partnering with private surveillance firms to get around government prohibitions on scrutinizing Americans' online activity.

4. The Soviet educational system sought not to enlighten but to indoctrinate young minds in proper government-approved thought.

Currently, cash-strapped universities nationwide are hiring thousands of diversity, equity and inclusion staffers and administrators. Their chief task is to scan the admissions, hiring, curriculum and administration at universities. Like good commissars, our diversity czars oversee compliance with the official narrative that a flawed America must confess, apologize for and renounce its evil foundations.

5. The Soviet Union was run by a pampered elite, exempt from the ramifications of their own radical ideologies.

Now, woke Silicon Valley billionaires talk socialistically but live royally. Coke and Delta Airlines CEOs who hector Americans about their illiberality make millions of dollars a year.

What unites current woke activists such as Oprah Winfrey, LeBron James Mark Zuckerberg and the Obamas are their huge estates and their multimillion-dollar wealth. Just as the select few of the old Soviet nomenklatura had their Black Sea dachas, America's loudest top-down revolutionaries prefer living in Martha's Vineyard, Beverly Hills, Montecito and Malibu.

6. The Soviets mastered Trotskyization, or the rewriting and airbrushing away of history to fabricate present reality.

Are Americans any different when they indulge in a frenzy of name-changing, statue-toppling, monument-defacing, book-banning and cancel-culturing?

7. The Soviets created a climate of fear and rewarded stool pigeons for rooting out all potential enemies of the people.

Since when did Americans encourage co-workers to turn in others for an ill-considered word in a private conversation? Why do thousands now scour the internet to find any past incorrect expression of a rival? Why are there now new thought criminals supposedly guilty of climate racism, immigration racism or vaccination racism?

8. Soviet prosecutors and courts were weaponized according to ideology.

In America, where and for what reason you riot determines whether you face any legal consequences. Politically correct sanctuary cities defy the law with impunity. Jury members are terrified of being doxxed and hunted down for an incorrect verdict. The CIA and FBI are becoming as ideological as the old KGB.

9. The Soviets doled out prizes on the basis of correct Soviet thought.

In modern America, the Pulitzer Prizes and the Emmys, Grammys, Tonys and Oscars don't necessarily reflect the year's best work, but often the most politically correct work from the most woke.

10. The Soviets offered no apologies for extinguishing freedom. Instead, they boasted that they were advocates for equity, champions of the underclass, enemies of privilege -- and therefore could terminate anyone or anything they pleased.

Our wokists are similarly defending their thought-control efforts, forced re-education sessions, scripted confessionals, mandatory apologies and cancel culture on the pretense that we need long-overdue "fundamental transformation."

So if they destroy people in the name of equity, their nihilism is justified.

(C)2021 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author, most recently, of The Case for Trump. You can reach him by e-mailing author@victorhanson.com.

Americans are being hoodwinked and bamboozled

Not me, Comrade! Nyet!

victor hanson's article suggests that we are in the very early stages of sovietzation of america. some areas are more advanced in that part of woke ideology.

this wokeness spreading thru out the fruited plain is not a good thing for america, it sure wasn't for russia during its 70 year reign of terror.

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Any of this ring a bell?

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Any of this ring a bell? Originally Posted by the_real_Barleycorn

That's the Liberal Credo.

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Any of this ring a bell? Originally Posted by the_real_Barleycorn

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Any of this ring a bell? Originally Posted by the_real_Barleycorn

Sounds like republicans for trump...

Americans are becoming sovietized? Bwahahahahahahahahaha!

Sounds like republicans for trump... Originally Posted by pfunkdenver

thats because the other side started that shit. repubs can't turn the other cheek like they used to. they have to do what they're doing. who taught them that?

Americans are becoming sovietized? Bwahahahahahahahahaha!

Victor Hansen thinks so.. if you read his piece. look at his list and compare whats going on. you'd have to be blind not to see the similarities.

thats because the other side started that shit. repubs can't turn the other cheek like they used to. they have to do what they're doing. who taught them that?

Victor Hansen thinks so.. if you read his piece. look at his list and compare whats going on. you'd have to be blind not to see the similarities. Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

I guaranty you, I could write something similar, claiming that all conservatives, and republicans, are becoming more, and more biased regarding religion, and family dynamics. I could back it up with studies, other's opinions, and news stories.

I'm certainly not blind.

Americans are being hoodwinked and bamboozled Originally Posted by winn dixie

Yeah from the Zionist

Not me, Comrade! Nyet! Originally Posted by Lapdog

keep supporting far left Democrat agendas and see how that works out for ya, Comrade

Yeah from the Zionist Originally Posted by PeterBota

well. look who returned from the land of banned, next thing you know Groot will be posting here too.


are you pro Israel?

well. look who returned from the land of banned, next thing you know Groot will be posting here too.


are you pro Israel? Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

No pro Israel
No pro Zionist

I never really leave
Have many many handles

I hope krypt doesn’t read this. I might get banned again

Groot. He’s a good guy. I like him

Nixon hated the Zionist. They set him up

No pro Israel
No pro Zionist

I never really leave
Have many many handles

I hope krypt doesn’t read this. I might get banned again


he will


Groot. He’s a good guy. I like him


if you say so


Nixon hated the Zionist. They set him up Originally Posted by PeterBota

Nixon set Nixon up