We must all be more intelligent than Greta Thunberg or we will be nothing more than tools in the hands of evil people! TD
"This is what Mamdani will do if he is elected mayor of New York. Do you want to see portraits of Iranian ayatollahs on Broadway and Fifth Avenue?
"On November 28, 1978, I arrived in Rome with other émigrés from the USSR, and I was stunned by what I saw. The entire city was covered with portraits of Lenin, Che Guevara, and Fidel Castro, and decorated with red flags—even more so than Moscow on the anniversary of the October Revolution. An endless procession of beautiful Italian nurses walked along Via Veneto, Rome’s main street, carrying giant banners: “WE WANT FREE MEAT TWICE A WEEK, LIKE IN THE SOVIET UNION!”
We fresh émigrés from the USSR looked at each other in amazement. Since 1917, only prison sentences had been free in the USSR. Before we left, they took away our passports and citizenship and even charged us 500 rubles (about $600) for our incarceration!
However, at that time, not only were all the grocery stores in the USSR empty, they were empty absolutely —except for cans of Bulgarian “lecho in tomato,” there was nothing on the shelves! At factories and government offices, workers and employees were given coupons allowing them to buy no more than two kilograms of bones with some meat on it. This was called “to give meat.” Whenever food went on sale somewhere, we would run there with money and bags, telling our neighbors, “They’re giving buckwheat at the store!” Or, “They’re giving sugar!” In the Soviet lexicon, the word “to give” meant selling at the state price. We only used the word “to sell” in reference to the market, where the same products were five times more expensive. However, foreign journalists living in Moscow didn’t delve into such details. They heard people running to the store and shouting, “They’re giving potatoes!”, and wrote that in their newspapers…. Full article,,,
Edward Topol "Born in Baku, Topol spent his teenage years finishing local school in Baku and graduated from Azerbaijan State Economic University. [1] He also did his military service in Estonia. He worked as journalist for newspapers such as Bakinskiy Rabochiy and Komsomolskaya Pravda and wrote the screenplays for seven movies, of which two were banned due to censorship under the Soviet government."
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