[TheForge] jobs OT

[Andrew Vida]

Ekaterina Harrison wrote:

> More - Less, in my opinion not much difference. But, as Andy expressed, 
> it is not so much Bush or Stalin as it is the Puppet-masters in both 
> cases and the things they set in motion.
> 
> My family and I came here from The Soviet Union in the midst of the Cold 
> War. My family saw it first hand. We experienced being blacklisted. We 
> had friends killed. There were people disappearing. The mass media was 
> used to spin the"news" and to build the "patriotic and nationalist" 
> fervor. Citizens spying on citizens and turning them into the KGB so 
> that they could have a chance of getting a better apartment, etc.

	We came from Hungary.  I come from aristocratic stock, and as such our 
family was on the socialist shitlist.  Most of them were imprisoned and 
executed for no good reason.  My maternal grandpa spent 4 years in a 
gulag, left in a hole in the ground in Siberia with NO clothing.  When 
he returned he weighed something like 70 pounds and was sick as hell. 
My great uncle Desmond was executed because he was the mayor of New 
White Lake.  They made my cousins Steve and Kathy watch their father be 
shot - they were about 7 or 8 years old at the time.  They made his wife 
watch too.  Both cousins committed suicide and my beloved great aunt 
died shortly thereafter.  So much for socialism.