My Dad and Mom both grew up in the Soviet Union in the 80's and saw for themselves how much it sucked and are honored to be Americans, considering that in this country you can afford two cars and a big house. At one point in middle school, I had become a socialist because I thought it would solve all the world's problems, and my Dad specifically managed to explain to me how socialism made life in the Soviet Union hell. How they lived in communal apartments, apartments where 9 people lived in 3 small rooms, how store shelves were empty, and the underfunded and overcrowded schools, and the overcrowding problem was so bad, that my Dad had to go to school at night and others went at day, as well as how the government lied so much. For example, how in the 1950's, around the city of Chelyabinsk, where he was born, the government dumped Nuclear waste into the rivers and silenced anyone who spoke out. And he also convined me to join Trump's side and defend American workers and industries, to stand up to China's crap, to return the troops from the Middle East, etc...
Either way, Thank you Dad.
My Dad and Mom both grew up in the Soviet Union in the 80's and saw for themselves how much it sucked and are honored to be Americans, considering that in this country you can afford two cars and a big house. At one point in middle school, I had become a socialist because I thought it would solve all the world's problems, and my Dad specifically managed to explain to me how socialism made life in the Soviet Union hell. How they lived in communal apartments, apartments where 9 people lived in 3 small rooms, how store shelves were empty, and the underfunded and overcrowded schools, and the overcrowding problem was so bad, that my Dad had to go to school at night and others went at day, as well as how the government lied so much. For example, how in the 1950's, around the city of Chelyabinsk, where he was born, the government dumped Nuclear waste into the rivers and silenced anyone who spoke out. And he also convined me to join Trump's side and defend American workers and industries, to stand up to China's crap, to return the troops from the Middle East, etc...
Either way, Thank you Dad.
The power of fathers
Dads have so much influence they don’t even know about. We never really talked politics at my house but my dad did teach me the value of hard work, family, and religion. That was enough.
That’s the foundation of being a productive citizen and a positive influence on society. Sounds like he did a good job.
It’s tough. I hope I impart something of value into my kids.
You will no worries. The biggest thing is time. Even if you have to schedule it. Throw a football, play basketball, play video games. Just choose something and be around. Hunting fishing camping whatever. You’d be surprised what life lessons a kid can learn fishing.
Good parenting is not a popularity contest, it is about making tough decisions for the good of the family, about being there and to teach right from wrong, providing for them. I applaud all parents here on TD.win, because your being here already demonstrates that you strongly believe in conservative values and your families have all to benefit from that !
A fuckin-men.
Your Dad is A REAL American. Don't ever let anyone say we don't like immigrants. We just expect guests to come in the front door, not through the window.
Glad you and your family are here now.
We like assimilating immigrants. Or assimigrants (trademark pending)
Assimigrants™ your patent is approved and its number is: 2020
They have to join our culture not just our economy
Crucial aspect
Reminder that Josef Stalin's granddaughter is an all-American baddass who loves guns! ✊🏻
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3496532/Tank-Girl-Josef-Stalin-s-tattooed-British-educated-granddaughter-mother-abhorred-murderous-tyrant-s-dark-past.html
Not sure what I was expecting. Not that. But makes sense
Cringe at the first picture!
Someone teach her gun safety rules!
As a Lithuanian once told me: "You see those walls over there by the sea? The Soviets buit them, and they went all along the seashore. We were assured by the Soviets, 'no, no, those are not to keep you in. Those walls are to protect you from all the evils of the west. Evil things like religion, and capitalism, and freedom, and meat!'" The same Lithuanian: "You see that building over there? That's the old KGB headquarters. It's the tallest building in Lithuania! Don't believe me? I know, it looks small, but trust me- it's so tall you can see Siberia from the cells in the basement!"
You could say the same about people who grew up in ANY Communist country. It's why the Cuban Refugee vote in Florida is almost as solidly Republican as the Active-Duty Soldiers in our military bases: once you have seen the monster at the bottom of the Marxist abyss, you'll do everything in your power to escape it and prevent it from spreading to your new home.
Great name.
Absolutely a FACT
I've been to Russia numerous times, both while it was still under Soviet rule, and since the fall of communism. I was there on the day that Mikhail Gorbachev was taken prisoner in his own dacha, thus initiating the fall. I've been all over the Iron Curtain countries, from Estonia to Bulgaria to the Ukraine. I even met Polish labor leader and president Lech Walesa. I'm here to tell all my fellow pedes that:
I was never as oppressively sad in a country than I was while in Leningrad. It was rundown; the paint was uniformly faded, dreary, and peeling off the walls; and there was no private car traffic--only official cars and municipal vehicles. All the storefronts were leftover from tsarist times (no new store construction) and were uniformly empty. The people were all dour and very quiet. It was the quietest big city I'd ever experienced. All the other Soviet satellites that I've been to were all identical to Leningrad, with the exception of Tallinn, Estonia. In what was considered to be the "vacation destination" of the USSR, at least Tallinn wasn't rundown, but every single building in the capital was painted the exact same dismal shade of dull mustard yellow.
Since the fall, I've been back to these places and have watched them come alive. Leningrad's been renamed St. Petersburg; it's lively and colorful. All the 18th century buildings are painted their French-influenced pastel shades; masonry's been repaired, window boxes and iron-filigree street lamps are hung with boxes and baskets of flowers; the famed canals now have jet skis zooming by; all the stores are brimming with products. Communism had simply forced a nationful of Russian citizenry into a hibernation sleep for 80 years...and they awoke to find that they were amazingly still alive and it was now the 1990s.
This is exactly what the communists want to do to the US: force it into an unwilling anesthesia, during which they plan to slit the nation's throat.
If you haven't been back to Tallinn and Riga, I strongly suggest going back! I went there a few years ago, and they are two of my favorite cities in the world. It takes a LOT to make me like a city- I'm a country bumpkin who pretty much hates all things urban, and I absolutely LOVED both cities.
Since the fall of communism, these places have just bloomed! I remember buildings in Tallinn that were still pockmarked with bullet holes, leftover from WWII, that the Soviets left unrepaired in their disregard for the city, or perhaps as a reminder of what could befall the Estonian people if they were to revolt against their enslavement.
There's nothing in the world as terrible and misery-inducing as communism. Nothing.
Like your dad, I grew up under the martial law until I was 15. I am from Taiwan, and we were under martial law for 50 years.
Tonight, I told my 7 years old kid what Taiwan was like when I was her age. I feel so shameful that Taiwanese fought so hard to get out of martial law but they just gave up their hard earned freedom so easily during the pandemic.
I've had the opportunity to talk to someone who lived in communist Romania. Same experience. America is the best.
Same and same. The thought of having to live in communal pods while I worked my government assigned job and subsisted off of bread is nothing short of a nightmare.
Fake News. The Soviet Union wasn't real socialism.
Commie lurkers: “ WE FOUND MUHRUSSIA BOT!”
KEK
"The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, "Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American in the Gulag" by Alexander Dolgun and Patrick Watson, and "Mao: the Unknown Story" by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday are a few good starts for what life is like under socialism and the thinking of socialism's leaders. As for the system itself, "Marxism: Philosophy and Economics" by Thomas Sowell is a good start. All of these are fairly lengthy reads, but they are all fantastic.
The Tuttle Twins are some simple books that explain basic conservative values: rule of law, property rights, etc. I don't know i they have one that is against socialism per se, but they seem to highlight the virtues of capitalistic societies.
Can confirm. Well written and produced books that will keep the attention of children.
The Law, The Road to Serfdom, The Creature From Jekkyl Island, etc for kids.
Good Dad. Good family!
Dads. They're important.
Pede, I'm serious when I say it's people like your father and mother who have dealt with this stuff first hand - who need to speak OUT. They speak from experience and their whole hearts are in the message. Those of us whose families have been here many generations, when we speak against socialism, our voices are drowned out by the know-it-alls who think they have the answer even though they can barely formulate the question. I wish people like your mom and dad, and even you, would speak at colleges about such things. Glad you guys made it over here. Peace.
Can confirm 100%. I used to live in Russia over 20 years ago and it seriously sucked.
Buy this man a beer. Yes I assumed his gender. His name was probably chadski!
That’s a very nice story gaylordganster69.
My dad is the same. He's not a perfect man, but I am lucky to still have him in my life.
Not trying to spam or hijack, but you guys may want to check out thepeoplescube.com
The site's owner/operator, Oleg Atbashian [Red Square] is a former soviet agitprop artist who came to the US after the fall of the Soviet Union. He tells stories just like the one Gaylordgangster69's father told him. Dark tales of misery and despair.
So what you say is you are Russian bot, da?
being a socialist is simple, that's why it's so easily adapted by children, college retards and leftist adults who never mentally grow up.
HOW TO BE A SOCIALIST:
Good post
Thanks for sharing
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"Are you winning yet, son?"
Looks like you are now...
Whew, I almost thought I missed Father’s Day. Even better that it isn’t. Great story and I know it is heartfelt.
funny how people who fleed actual communism like the cuban, vietnamese, korean.. tend to lean republican.
I grew up with a dad that lived in Europe during ww2. He made sure I knew the horors of communism.
Confused by the username.
A family of Soviet sleeper agents, you say?
I am so glad your parents came to the U.S. and raised you here. Your parents are Great Americans. So are YOU!
That's the biggest issue. All these kids who are for communism never lived under it.
They don't know that, if communism took over, they would be at a minimum imprisoned as potential troublemakers or shot.
I grew up in upstate NY....every time Mario Cuomo came on TV, my dad would call him Cuomo the homo. Now when the homo's filthy offspring come on my TV, I know that my father was being careful about what he said in front of me.