"This article is the first of what will be a multi-part series on life under socialism, recounted by people who’ve actually lived under socialism.
"In this initial article, Brad Zinn* interviews Zina Brodovsky*, a naturalized US citizen who lived under Soviet socialism and communism in the former USSR.
"Americans who think socialism sounds like a great way to achieve “fairness” and “social justice” should listen carefully to Zina’s story. She knows firsthand how the real-life version of socialism works compared to any utopian university-faculty-lounge version.
"This interview consists of three parts, each less than 15 minutes for a total of 39 minutes. You can listen to the whole interview or use the time slider on the video to choose topics of interest from the index of topics below.
"All three parts offer valuable insights, delivered from the heart, but I especially recommend the third part (at 38:15), where Zina delivers a message to her fellow Americans, so many of whom have come to take America’s freedoms for granted and have been seduced by socialism’s false promises.
"Fortunately for Zina, she could escape to America in 1997. But America has been moving visibly leftward toward socialism for more than a half-century. In fact, socialism’s full history in America goes back nearly 200 years and technically twice that far if one counts the 400-year-old socialism failure at the Pilgrims’ Plymouth Colony!
Most importantly for today, socialists and Marxists, whether implicitly or explicitly declared, now have nearly full control of one of our major political parties. Aided (indeed some would say led) by a complicit media, the outlines of a future socialist America are beginning to appear." . . . Part 1 – Life in the former USSR
00:22 Zina’s recollections of communist indoctrination growing up in Odessa, Ukraine, USSR 02:12 Zina’s first realization that the socialist promise was a lie 03:55 Government involvement in everything 04:45 Socialism’s false promise of “fairness” 05:20 The black market and corruption 06:20 First truths about Stalin era come to light after his death 07:25 Zina’s personal history, KGB intimidation, and emigration to America with her daughter 10:00 Departure via Moscow, more intimidation 11:30 The socialist view of capitalism 12:30 Socialism and the press
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