By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh ——Bio and Archives--December 21, 2019
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We are going to take care of all people who are NOT willing to work. – part of the Socialist Democrat platform
I have made peace with the fact that social media censors like Twitter and Facebook have shadow-banned me. Google has not allowed any advertising on my website. He talked about himself as a five-year old boy, dressed in a blue jean jacket with stars on it, experiencing fear for the first time, going through communist customs, being pulled out of the line at the airport, by a drab-uniformed soldier from the communist era, armed with an AK-47, asking him if he was there to preach capitalism and America. What could a five-year old boy possibly know about capitalism?
Donald Jr. told a crowd in a recent speech, "I’ve seen the breadlines of communism" while he visited his grandparents in the former Soviet satellite, Czechoslovakia.
I was unfortunate enough to have to stand in those breadlines under socialism imposed by the Communist Party. Imagine the disappointment and hunger, as a small child, having to stand in endless lines to buy bread and other necessities, and getting to the front of the line and the cashier telling me that the delivery for that day had been sold out.
My oldest child still remembers her visit to Romania as a 4 ½-year old in 1985. After a 23-hour flight and delays, we were finally at the airport in Bucharest, waiting in customs to have our passports checked out and validated, my child was tired, and she was rattling a metal fence with her foot. The burly armed soldier snarled at her with a thump of his weapon on the metal gate and told her to stop or he would arrest her. Arrest a little girl for being a tired and bored child?
A self-described "unlikely conservative, the son of a billionaire," Donald Jr. told the audience that his conservatism was shaped by the experiences and events he had witnessed in the former Czechoslovakia, the country of his mother and grandparents’ birth. His mother "escaped communist Czechoslovakia."
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"The boats go only one way," away from the oppressive communism. She, like many others who escaped communism around the world, saw and understood how lucky Americans were to live under freedom.
Having learned at an early age to speak Czech fluently, Donald Jr. was exposed by his grandfather to the reality of communism, of what it was like to live under the socialist/communist oppression in Czechoslovakia. He spent 4-6 weeks there every summer and the breadlines he saw "were not so glamorous. There is nothing glamorous about an empty supermarket and waiting for food," he described.
Donald Jr. remembered seeing his parents’ wedding pictures in which his grandmother was missing because the socialist one party state ruled with an iron fist by the communist party kept tight control over the population by only allowing one person to travel abroad, keeping the other hostage in case the couple decided to defect. Some people defected anyway, leaving behind a spouse, a child, and other family members who were mistreated because their loved one chose to live in freedom and never returned to the prison state. He asks rhetorically, "What kind of system does not let you leave because they know, you ain’t coming back?"
My friend Flor defected 29 years ago and left her eight-year old son behind with his grandfather. She was eventually able to bring him to the United States after years of legal interventions and expenses. She cannot buy back the time she was separated from her child, but she is happy that he is here.
When Donald Jr.’s grandmother watches CNN there because "there is no alternative conservative viewpoint" in the former Soviet satellite, she tells him that you cannot let communism come to the U.S. A tough survivor, she hid from the Nazis in her basement, and spent 40 years under the communist party rule. "She gets it," said Donald Jr. She is in tears from fear that her children, grandchildren, and greatgrandchildren could live under communism in America, the last bastion of freedom.
Donald Jr. made a very good final point that the Democrats have not been able to find one credible witness who would vouch for the utopian socialism they peddle to the American people and would be willing to say, "Let’s bring that crap here, it’s awesome!"
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Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh, Ileana Writes is a freelance writer, author, radio commentator, and speaker. Her books, “Echoes of Communism”, “Liberty on Life Support” and “U.N. Agenda 21: Environmental Piracy,” “Communism 2.0: 25 Years Later” are available at Amazon in paperback and Kindle.