This last Christmas (2020) I was invited to my neighbor's home for Christmas dinner. His mother was visiting. My neighbor and his wife are very conservative, so some of the conversation drifted around to politics and how the socialist/communists have made such gigantic strides in the U.S. in the past 50 years. In particular was the talk about the fraud committed by the leftist Democrats stealing the presidential election
My friend's mother began talking about "communism." She was born in East Berlin in 1947. She explained they managed to get out in 1952, finally making their way to America. She still has a few relatives living there who were unable to get out before the communists closed it down. She explained how horrible it was in East Germany living under the communists. She said that people in this country who extol the "great virtues" of communism have not even the faintest idea what it is like to try and survive under a communist government: the constant fear of informants, listening watching, the Party dictating every moment of people's lives, the brainwashing, the fear of the police, etc., etc. Communism was not the Great Utopia our American Marxist dupes claim it is. It was as interesting an evening as I've spent in many years.
She said she never thought she'd see the day when the same thing would happen here, but it is.
The dinner was quite good, however, as my friend's wife is an excellent cook. So not all the evening was disturbing.
L.W.
