Oleg ran to America from stagnant, depraved, Soviet Union but now finds America has turned into the old USSR complete with 1-party rule

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11/9/12, “Old Soviet jokes become the new American reality,“ The People’s Cube, by Oleg Atbashian

“At first the move to America from the former USSR made me feel as though I had made a jump in time, from the stagnant depraved past into a distant dynamic future.

There was an abundance of commonly available futuristic contraptions, machines, and appliances that made everyday existence easier and more enjoyable. Less obvious but just as exciting was the media’s openness: 

I no longer needed to read between the lines to know what was happening.

Most importantly, there was honesty, dignity, and respect in relations among people.

Today I’m feeling like a time traveler again.

Only this time the productive, honest and self-reliant America is vanishing in the past….


It is the future of equal poverty, 

• one-party rule,  
• media mooching,  
• government looting,  
• bureaucratic corruption,  
• rigged elections,  
• underground literature,  
• half-whispered jokes, and

the useful habit of looking over your shoulder….

All of a sudden I find myself playing the role of a comrade from the future, helping my new compatriots to navigate the quagmire ahead of us.



Deprived of free political speech, Soviets had developed a culture of underground political jokes. I used to remember thousands of them….

Americans had no first-hand knowledge of a totalitarian government, ideological uniformity, and shameless propaganda.

But that is changing. The more America “progresses” back to the Soviet model, the more translatable the old Soviet jokes become….

The six contradictions of socialism in the United States of America

- America is capitalist and greedy – yet half of the population is subsidized. 
- Half of the population is subsidized – yet they think they are victims. 
- They think they are victims – yet their representatives run the government.   
- Their representatives run the government – yet the poor keep getting poorer.
-The poor keep getting poorer – yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.   
- They have things that people in other countries only dream about – yet they want America to be more like those other countries.

There’s more where it came from – or where we’re going, whichever the case may be.”

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“At The People’s Cube, we do NOT equate all “liberals” with communists. The purpose of this website is to pick up “liberal” hitchhikers and give them a ride to the communist wonderland – the inevitable end result of their “well-meaning” policies.” …via Free Republic. images from People’s Cube 



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Ed. note: Those who listen to talk radio have over the years heard empassioned ex-Soviets call in begging Americans to understand what is happening here is what they ran from. A BBC article below from June 2012 describes a Russian enclave in NY City that equates Obama with what they left in the USSR, big government and anti-business:

6/2/12, "New York's Republican enclave," BBC, Reggie Nadelson

"While most of the city is pro-Obama, there is a corner of New York that traditionally votes Republican - the city's holiday destination, Brighton Beach.

"You hear more English in Odessa in the summer than here in Brighton Beach," says Ramon, a waiter at Restaurant Tatiana....

Perhaps the recent memory of too little choice - and sometimes too little food - is still palpable on Brighton Beach....

"But why is that slightly scary fellow staring at me? Then I realise it is the "Re-elect Obama" button on my jacket.

This is a little bastion of Republicans in an overwhelmingly Democratic city.

These are people who remember the Soviet Union all too well and resist what they see 

as big government and anti-business programmes."... 

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photo from BBC

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