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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:07:00 PM EDT
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Born in Russia. My great grandfather was an officer in the red army and was executed by a personally signed order by stalin. You see, he was jewish and a "trator". My great-grandmother was in camps for years. My grandfather lived with my aunt as her kid under a different name in order to avoid a foster home. Something that both of my grandmother's didn't get to avoid after losing their families in wwii. I lived under communism for the first 11 years of my life and I'm so glad my parents immigrated to the US. We have a solid life here but I fear that the US is not the place where I grew up. It's starting to turn into the place where I was born. V +1 My family did not have anyone arrested in the Great Purge of 1938... However came very close a few times. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:07:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:08:09 PM EDT
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One of my uncle was South Vietnamese Army. He had just gotten promoted to Captain and was sent to work at HQ. Before he left, he wanted to go on one last patrol with his men. They got into an ambush by the VC and got surrounded. Rather than surrendering, he and his staff committed suicide because they knew what was in store for them as POWs. He left behind a pregnant wife and two young children.
Another was a Vietnamese Army Ranger and stayed behind after 1975 and was sent to a "reeducation camp" for ten years. After they released him, he and his family left that shit hole and became a part of the boat people. He told stories of eating worms, rats, grubs, basically everything that moves in order to survive. His picture at the time looked older than his father, my grandfather. My father was a VNAF Skyraider pilot. The VC shot out his hydraulics once and he made a wheels up landing at Bien Hoa Air Base. His crash landing made it into Stars and Stripes. On his last mission, they blew a hole so big in the fuselage that he could practically fit his whole torso into it. His superiors felt like his luck as a pilot was ending so they gave him a training command. My whole family escaped in April 1975 and started out with two cardboard boxes of Red Cross clothing to our names when we left the refugee camp at Camp Pendleton. At the age of 35, my father started all over again, first working as a farm hand, then going back to school and eventually got his engineering degree and worked at Exxon, retiring after 20 years. Me, I have no doubt we will be fighting the Russians, Chinese, or their allies in the near future. Our struggle against communism goes on..... 
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:12:36 PM EDT
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Me, I have no doubt we will be fighting the Russians, Chinese, or their allies in the near future. Our struggle against communism goes on..... That seemed so in 1980's. Not anymore. I have severe doubts. I predict, having lived here and there, that US will unit with Chinese and Ruskies and God knows who to fight the domestic insurrection that follows a complete economic collapse. No, US won't fight commies, for the very reason they *are* commies at their highest levels. Just check out the latest Zero visit to Vietnam. Under the statue of Ho-Chi-Min. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:14:43 PM EDT
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Both parents server in Vietnam. That's where they met. I spent a good chunk of my childhood in West Germany.
So, yeah. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:14:45 PM EDT
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When the communists took over Czechoslovakia in 1948 they confiscated a farm that belonged to my family.
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:23:59 PM EDT
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Killed half of my family in Cuba. Uncles, Great Grandfather, one Aunt, and Cousins all executed.
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:26:23 PM EDT
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Fascinating stories that should be told repeatedly.... Most Americans, especially the younger generation need to hear these! |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:27:58 PM EDT
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I grew up in NJ, does that count? Quote HistoryQuoted:
I grew up in NJ, does that count? Me, too. My father shot socialists and it's of the few times I make a distinction between the different iterations of that notion. I've been reading The Gulag Archipelago at the same time as Das Kapital, so here's part of today's reading in case you weren't certain exactly how fucked up were the communists. Aleksander Solzhenitsyn was a Red Army captain and twice decorated for combat action at the front. He encountered Soviets who were liberated from German POW camps at the front and in Lubyanka. The Soviets imprisoned their own men after the war ended. Some had seen western ideas and the Soviets feared that they understood that Stalin was evil and stupid. Others, 1 Those prisoners who had been in Buchenwald and survived were, in fact, imprisoned for that very reason in our own camps: How could you have survived an annihilation camp? Somethig doesn't smell right! It was not they, the unfortunates, who had betrayed the Motherland, but their calculating Motherland who had betrayed them, and not just once but thrice. The first time she betrayed them was on the battlefield, through ineptitude-when the government, so beloved by the Motherland, did everything it could to lose the war: destroyed the lines of fortifications, set up the whole air force for annhilation, dismantled the tanks and artillery, removed the effective generals, and forbade the armies to resist. And the war prisoners were the men whose bodies took the blow and stopped the Wehrmacht. The second time they were heartlessly betrayed by the Motherland was when she abandoned them to die in captivity.* And the third time they were unscrupulously betrayed was when, with motherly love, she coaxed them to return home, with such phrases as, "The Motherland has forgiven you! The Motherland calls you!" and snared them the moment the reached the frontiers. ... How many wars has Russia been involved in! (It would have been better if there had been fewer.) And were there many traitors in all those wars? Had anyone observed that treason had become deeply rooted in the hearts of Russian soldiers? Then, under the most just social system in the world, came the most just war of all-and out of nowhere millions of traitors appeared. How is this to be understood and explained? Capitalist England fought at our side against Hitler; Marx had eloquently described the poverty and suffering of the working class in that same England. Why was it that in this was only one traitor could be found among them, the businessman "Lord Haw Haw"- but in our country millions? When the Soviet prisoners returned, the Soviets called them traitors. *The Soviets didn't sign the Hague accords until 1955. Solzhenitsyn also said that the government blocked care packages to the prisoners because, "But to feed them once they were war prisoners? Extra mouths. And extra witnesses to humiliating defeats." |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:30:50 PM EDT
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Dad fought in Vietnam.
His Uncle fought in Korea. I remember both my grandfathers talking about how they would have followed McAuther and Patton straight to Moscow after fighting the Germans and Japanese. I was a Cold War kid. I have 'fond' memories of doing Duck and Cover drills in elementary schools, playing 'The Day After' on the playground, and pretty much living in fear of waking up to Red Dawn all through the '80s. My best friend is married to a Belorussian, and she and her family have a pretty strong dislike of Russia (although, they hate the Germans more). She's had an interesting time adjusting to life in the US though. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:33:23 PM EDT
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My wife is Ukrainian and lived in communism until she was 12 or so.
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:34:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The sons of bitches shot at my Dad in Vietnam, so yeah. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:35:53 PM EDT
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My Dad got to kill some about 50 years ago.
Both of my grandfathers go to kill some in the early 1950's. Does that count? On a similar note.... I grew up being told I'd have a chance to kill Soviets, and that never happened. I kinda feel cheated
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:37:06 PM EDT
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Yes. Son of two Vietnamese immigrants/refugees.
Some fuckwad commies ran my family out of our homeland because we were Catholic. So here I am. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:37:42 PM EDT
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That seemed so in 1980's. Not anymore. I have severe doubts. I predict, having lived here and there, that US will unit with Chinese and Ruskies and God knows who to fight the domestic insurrection that follows a complete economic collapse. No, US won't fight commies, for the very reason they *are* commies at their highest levels. Just check out the latest Zero visit to Vietnam. Under the statue of Ho-Chi-Min. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Me, I have no doubt we will be fighting the Russians, Chinese, or their allies in the near future. Our struggle against communism goes on..... That seemed so in 1980's. Not anymore. I have severe doubts. I predict, having lived here and there, that US will unit with Chinese and Ruskies and God knows who to fight the domestic insurrection that follows a complete economic collapse. No, US won't fight commies, for the very reason they *are* commies at their highest levels. Just check out the latest Zero visit to Vietnam. Under the statue of Ho-Chi-Min. 80s or not, we WILL be fighting Communism either here or over there. No doubt. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:38:31 PM EDT
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My uncle was a door gunner in the air cav in Vietnam
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:40:28 PM EDT
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My dad got shot by commies in Vietnam. ..
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:44:27 PM EDT
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A friend of mine fled socialist bulgaria.
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:46:40 PM EDT
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Lead to the death of dozens of family members of mine.
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:49:46 PM EDT
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Moms side of the family is Ukrainian. Fled the Soviets in early '30s.
Grandpa HATED Russians and communists. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:50:10 PM EDT
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My great-grandfather on my mother's side was part of the Waffen SS. He fought commies. My great-grandmother was raped by communist bastards when Berlin fell. She's still kicking to this day, one tough old broad if I ever knew one.
Had family members on my father's side who fought in WWII, the Korean War, Vietnam, and the Latin Americas. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:56:58 PM EDT
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Part of my family on my dad's side moved to Russia during the age of Catherine the Great, and purchased a good chunk of land there. They didvery well for themselves and gave money
to the local towns to build churches and a hospital. That all ended one night during the Russian Revolution when the Reds came and took whatever horses and cattle they could, and burned everything else. All the Russian workers they had were shot if they didn't join the Red Army on the spot. My great aunt could would cry when she recounted that night because she could still remember all the horses screaming in the barns trying to escape the flames. She and her mother, sister and father were sent to Siberia with nothing but the clothes they had on. Once in Siberia, they were forced to work on Collective Farms for a few years until they were helped out of Russia with the help of the Mennonite Central Committee in Lancaster, PA. Many more relatives were on the wrong side of the Berlin wall when it went up, and suffered unspeakable horrors at the hands of the Reds after WWII. There's no love for Communism in my family. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:58:33 PM EDT
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Im from Ukraine
Both of my grandparents were orphans and barely survived Stalin's famine A great uncle died fighting in Berlin and other family members perished at the hands of the Nazis |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 10:05:01 PM EDT
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YEAH, we're ALL Communists!
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Posted: 5/25/2016 10:10:56 PM EDT
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I am the first generation born in America (Mothers side). My grandfather was a doctor in Cuba when everything went to shit. The government took his land and moved 6 families into his family home because he had "too much" for one family. He was able to get visa's for his family to "visit" the US, but he was not eligible for a visa since the government knew the professionals would flee. Shortly after his family left for the US he forged a visa and left Cuba with nothing to his name. It took a while to get citizenship, get his license back in the US, and get up and running. It wasn't easy since they left with no possessions and started life over again. But his children are all college graduates, one son a Mechanical Engineer, another owns a very successful international law firm, and my mother was a teacher before deciding to run a day care. He raised all of his children to appreciate what this country has to offer if you work for it and I am grateful that lesson was passed on to all of us.
Unfortunately he passed away a couple years back and I was unable to make the funeral because I was deployed at the time. Like most Americans born in Cuba that are living here he hated Castro and would tell everyone who would listen the downsides of Communism. -Mike |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 10:19:50 PM EDT
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My grandfather fought in the Winter War and Continuation War against Russia in the Finnish Army, along with my great uncles. My grandma was hunted by Russian pilots when she ventured out of a cellar for food. My great aunt was in Helsinki during the bombings of Helsinki, and got on a bus during an impromptu evacuation, where she saw people blown to pieces. My grandpa fought the same 2 wars. Grandma had to escape her home with her little sisters in the middle of the night to evade the fucking commies. I was able to find his photo book from those wars. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 10:28:51 PM EDT
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My grandparents on mom's side emigrated from what is now Croatia around WW1. Family that stayed became Ustashi (Croatian Facists) during WW2. One of Grandma's cousins was executed after the war. He was killed by a communist government.
Mind you we hanged more than a few Facsists after the war too. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 10:46:56 PM EDT
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Grand father was an Army Infantryman in the 9th infantry division in the Mekong Delta from 67-68
My great grandfather was navy field corpsman with the 1st Marine Division in Korea...he died a month before I was born. I wish I could know more about his experiences in the Korean War... |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 10:53:38 PM EDT
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Every human being should be militantly anti-Communist. Anyone who isn't doesn't understand commies. I saw those fuckers in Cuba and Korea. Sons a bitches.
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Posted: 5/25/2016 11:19:12 PM EDT
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80s or not, we WILL be fighting Communism either here or over there. No doubt. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Me, I have no doubt we will be fighting the Russians, Chinese, or their allies in the near future. Our struggle against communism goes on..... That seemed so in 1980's. Not anymore. I have severe doubts. I predict, having lived here and there, that US will unit with Chinese and Ruskies and God knows who to fight the domestic insurrection that follows a complete economic collapse. No, US won't fight commies, for the very reason they *are* commies at their highest levels. Just check out the latest Zero visit to Vietnam. Under the statue of Ho-Chi-Min. 80s or not, we WILL be fighting Communism either here or over there. No doubt. the problem is, we have become the communists. 3/4 of the way there, anyway. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 11:22:05 PM EDT
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My family was slaughtered by the Nazis then the Communists. I have been inoculated against Communism and would die to put an end to it. You may get that chance if we get more hope and change. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 11:32:28 PM EDT
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My Grandma had a lot of family in Prussia during WWII. After the end of the war they never herd from them again.
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Posted: 5/25/2016 11:36:55 PM EDT
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Dad was on the team that took second place in the southeast Asia War Games. Still hates Asian food.
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Posted: 5/25/2016 11:38:52 PM EDT
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My Dad's first divorce was caused by the communists.
 His ship was diverted to fight when the Norks crossed the 38th parallel, and during the resulting time away his wife decided she wanted to be married to someone else. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 11:47:35 PM EDT
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Mom's father murdered by the North Korean government. She became a war refugee. My parents met in Seoul.
Dad spent 1950-53 in Korea, starting in Task Force Smith. An expedition to Lebanon. Multiple tours in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and other places. Two Combat Infantryman's Badges, a Silver, 6 Bronzes, and 8 Purples. 
I followed to a bunch of different places. 1 Korea tour, then the bad guys changed. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 11:49:13 PM EDT
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Polish on my mothers side. My Grandmother hated the Russians with a passion(They come from around Dresden). You couldn't mention Russia without her spitting. I've heard little tidbits but it says a lot when you hate the Germans just slightly less than the Russians. My great grandmother from Poland apparently talked about how they had to hide Polish language books when the Russian soldiers were around. Another Polish ancestor on a different branch fled to Paris and then the US due to being on some commie hit list in the late teens. Nobody else, as far as I know. I do have Italian ancestry and they're only allowed to have two religions: Catholicism or Communism, but I've never heard reports of any commies. ETA: My grandfather also killed a bunch of commies in Korea. |
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Posted: 5/26/2016 12:32:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Mom's father murdered by the North Korean government. She became a war refugee. My parents met in Seoul. Dad spent 1950-53 in Korea, starting in Task Force Smith. An expedition to Lebanon. Multiple tours in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and other places. Two Combat Infantryman's Badges, a Silver, 6 Bronzes, and 8 Purples. http://www.recordnet.com/storyimage/SR/20051111/ENT/511110306/AR/0/AR-511110306.jpg&MaxW=315&MaxH=315 I followed to a bunch of different places. 1 Korea tour, then the bad guys changed. Now that is a good story, and your dad is a certified badass. On a semi-related note my uncle that was Army in Vietnam operated in the same area as ROK troops a few times and he loved it because the Koreans took absolutely no shit from anyone and scared the piss out of the VC. The ROK really hated Commies and took the war very seriously. He said on a search and destroy mission one time they captured the district's VC head honcho who proceeded to act hard as nails...right up until their company commander said to the RTO "Call up the ROK over in xxxx (I forget the name of the village, but it was only like 5 klicks away from where my uncle's platoon was) and tell them we're sending a prisoner over for them to handle. This asshole can catch a ride back to Bien Hoa with them." He said as soon as those words were spoken the guy turned into the most cooperative dude to ever put on black PJs. |
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Posted: 5/26/2016 12:47:04 AM EDT
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My father swapped gunfire with Commies in Korea. Lost his best bud in a shelling he survived. I remember his nightmares waking us up when i was young. :(
He was also a man slut in his youth, so i probably have half siblings from his I&I breaks in Japan. :) |
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Posted: 5/26/2016 12:26:47 PM EDT
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Dad served in Korea. Brother later taught ROK dog handling on DMZ as an MP. Had a cousin,Tom, killed in Vietnam. Fuck commies.
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Posted: 5/26/2016 12:28:07 PM EDT
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My dad served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War, so I guess it did.
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Posted: 5/26/2016 12:31:37 PM EDT
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My great grandfather was sent to a gulag for 10 years. I despise communists with every fiber of my being.
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Posted: 5/26/2016 12:50:40 PM EDT
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Now that I have more time....
My family was well off in Cuba. We owned numerous businesses and had family in Government. My Great Grandfather on my Father's side was executed by Ernesto Guevara. He was a government minister. I had one uncle die in the mid 90's from starvation. I had a couple of cousins killed in Angola. They were conscripted and sent over to Africa to sread Marxism. They didn't want to go and were forced to because if they didn't the family would be punished. I had an aunt raped by corrupt police and she later killed herself. Our farms, hotels, and homes were confiscated by the government. We lost everything and had to rebuild in the US. My Abuelo took part in the Bay of Pigs. My mother's side was executed since they were cops. My family fought in Vietnam. I had an uncle in South America during the 80's running around with SF. Fuck the commies. |
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Posted: 5/26/2016 12:54:56 PM EDT
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the problem is, we have become the communists. 3/4 of the way there, anyway. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Me, I have no doubt we will be fighting the Russians, Chinese, or their allies in the near future. Our struggle against communism goes on..... That seemed so in 1980's. Not anymore. I have severe doubts. I predict, having lived here and there, that US will unit with Chinese and Ruskies and God knows who to fight the domestic insurrection that follows a complete economic collapse. No, US won't fight commies, for the very reason they *are* commies at their highest levels. Just check out the latest Zero visit to Vietnam. Under the statue of Ho-Chi-Min. 80s or not, we WILL be fighting Communism either here or over there. No doubt. the problem is, we have become the communists. 3/4 of the way there, anyway. It will run its course. The only question is will it be bloodshed free or not. I am leaning towards or not. |
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Posted: 5/26/2016 12:56:05 PM EDT
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My dad's cousin killed a lot of commies in Vietnam, he was some flavor spec ops back then. They left some shrapnel in him.
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Posted: 5/26/2016 12:56:09 PM EDT
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Yeah, me. Damn communists armed themselfes with guns to overthrow the government starting Sweden on a path to gun control.
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Posted: 5/26/2016 1:10:27 PM EDT
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My fraternal grandfather lost 2 brothers and 2 nephews during the Korean War. One of the nephews is actually still missing. The Norks say they don't have him. My maternal grandfather was extremely lucky. When the Norks came into my mother's hometown, they rounded up anyone who had ties to the South Korean government. Luckily, the townsfolk hid my grandfather and he survived the war. My mom told me there was a guy in town ratting everyone out to the Norks. The townsfolk beat that guy to death.
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Posted: 5/26/2016 1:22:13 PM EDT
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Went on board a Soviet naval vessel in 1990 (school ship Kruzenshtern).
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Posted: 5/26/2016 2:12:58 PM EDT
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Mom's father murdered by the North Korean government. She became a war refugee. My parents met in Seoul. Dad spent 1950-53 in Korea, starting in Task Force Smith. An expedition to Lebanon. Multiple tours in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and other places. Two Combat Infantryman's Badges, a Silver, 6 Bronzes, and 8 Purples. http://www.recordnet.com/storyimage/SR/20051111/ENT/511110306/AR/0/AR-511110306.jpg&MaxW=315&MaxH=315 I followed to a bunch of different places. 1 Korea tour, then the bad guys changed. Please tell your Dad I said "Thanks!". But with 8 Purple Hearts, I've got to know... Was his nickname Bullet Bait or Shrap Magnet??? 
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Posted: 5/26/2016 5:33:57 PM EDT
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I spent a good deal of my childhood under a desk because of those dirty commies.
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Posted: 5/26/2016 5:47:00 PM EDT
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Wife's mom wanted to be in the military (nice uniforms and actual food!) in China and her brother wanted to be a teacher in the 60s, but they had an uncle who was a poet who got blacklisted... So my future Uncle in Law got to learn to farm in the crappiest way possible and my future mother-in-law got put on a plane to America to live with relatives who were being hosted by a church in Texas.
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