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Totalitarian Climate in America Reminds Caller of His Childhood in the Soviet Union

 This person lived in  Russia, knows the effects of communism first hand, and compares the government abuse to the liberal agenda in this country. We can’t afford to ignore eye witness accounts.

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Rush Limbaugh

I’d like to start with a story of growing up in Soviet Moscow.

RUSH:  Oh, by all means do.

CALLER:  My parents, particularly my mother, taught me the truth about growing up in the Soviet Union.  My mother actually used to know and help out Solzhenitsyn with distributing his books and such, and so growing up, my childhood was quite a bit different in that regard as a lot of the kids around me. And when I was in school in second grade, I was probably around seven, we were reading a book about World War II, and there was a scene in there where the soldiers are carrying a banner that said, “For Mother Russia, for Father Stalin.”  And I, you know, as a seven-year-old raised my hand, and I said —

RUSH:  Wait, Dmitry, where were you when you were this old?

CALLER:  I was in school in Moscow.

RUSH:  You were in school in Moscow.  Okay.  Okay.

CALLER:  Yes.  And I raised my hand, I said, “But isn’t Stalin dead?”  And at first, if you could find pins on sale in Moscow at that time, you would hear a pin drop, but then all hell broke loose. 

RUSH:  I can imagine.

CALLER:  My teacher started chewing me out. All the kids in the class kind of turned on me, and I didn’t know what the problem was.  My mother told me later that she actually got a call from the school, which was lucky that it didn’t go much worse.  I actually had a son of a KGB agent in my class.  And this was right at the beginning of Perestroika. It was about 1985.  And of course a year or two later everybody in my class agreed with me.  But the reason I bring this up is you talk a lot about how in this country when you kind of step over the line, when you step out of the party line, whether it’s something politically incorrect or something that makes Democrats look bad, it’s not good enough just to disagree with you, they have to destroy you. They have to get you fired.  They have to, you know, if they could, it would be even worse than that.

RUSH:  They have to ruin you. They have to ruin you.

CALLER:  Yeah.  Absolutely.

They have to ruin you personally, destroy you, and then gloat over you.  And, you know, there’s nothing new to that, obviously.  Those of us who grew up in places like the Soviet Union saw that kind of stuff all the time.  My great-grandfather was a village priest, and the communists took him in the middle of the night and he was never seen again, and we didn’t find out until the eighties or nineties as to what actually happened to him.  He was shot with many others.  And thank God this country is not communist Russia, but those of us that came from those kind of backgrounds, we’re just terrified when we see these kinds of patterns and these kinds of thought processes emerging here where, you know, the country’s just headed in the wrong direction, we just want to scream, “Stop!”

RUSH:  Is your wife from Moscow as well?

CALLER:  She actually is from Russia as well.  We met in college here.  But she also came from Russia.

CALLER:  My daughter’s birthday was yesterday, so I actually gave her the audio CD version as well, and she was very excited. That’s the first thing she saw in the morning.

RUSH:  How old?

CALLER:  She just turned 11.

RUSH:  They like Liberty?

CALLER:  Oh, yeah. They love Liberty. (chuckles)

RUSH:  I am more appreciative here than I have a way of expressing.  Your call has just been a highlight.  Everything in it.  Everything in your call has just been top-drawer great, and I can’t thank you enough.  I have just profound appreciation for it. The fact that people like you are in the audience and out there listening every day, I just pinch myself at my good fortune.

So I thank you. Hold on so Mr. Snerdley can find out where it is we send the Liberty-autographed book. It’s not really Liberty. Liberty doesn’t sign it. It’s just kind of a horse-hoof stamp that Liberty uses. It’s got the name there, too, but it gets it done.  It’s cool.  I appreciate it, Dmitry. Thanks very much.