I was born in USSR, legally immigrated to the US from Belarus fleeing communist dictatorship in 2010’s. Let me share what I know about Communism. You won’t hear this in media - this is life as my family has lived it.
- My grandparents who were born in 1925 were working in collective farms all their lives. They have gotten paid in tangible money not until 1956, the only pay they got was 1/2 sack of expired flour at the end of the year. To survive, they had to have a cow and grow their own food.
- If you didn’t work, you would be sent to prison.
- My mom had to help her dad at the Pig farm at age of 10 by preparing & mixing food for over 100+ pig headcount by hand. My grandad was building a house by his own hands, and relied on his children to cover for him at his day job because he didn’t have any time or resources to hire anyone. He and his family lived in the temporary home he built until then. Most people were in that situation.
- Regime put taxes on fruitful gardens and bushes, so people would remove their gardens not to let communists take anything.
- After the WWII, there were very few job options, and women worked in the hardest jobs - lifting heavy equipments, laying rail roads, chopping down trees, laying asphalt roads.
This is communism.
We know #Communism first hand. AMA #kamunism
Princess Kay beach was full of short metal wires during our last week’s @CarnivalCruise
I kept collecting them in the water and sand for an hour and this is the pile I got, with much more left. Sharp rigid wires under your feet. While young kids and families were playing in the water. What?!
Brought this issue up to the beach manager and he had no good excuse for it, and was remorseful. Shame.
All I know, is that I’m on the side that doesn’t kill anyone, nor celebrates the killing of anyone, nor fantasizes about the killing of anyone...
…just for winning an election
That’s what side I’m on.