I grew up as a Communist and I remember the shift against Israel, (although at the time I saw it as Israel rejecting the Soviet Union.) I remember in an issue of Sputnik magazine that we had a subscription to showed a Palestinian freedom fighter with his boot on an IDF helmet. I remember telling a Jewish friend that Zionists we're Nazis. There was also an infantilizing of workers because they needed the Communist Party to lead them otherwise they could be fooled. I left supporting Communism long ago but I didn't know how rotten it was till recently. And the woke left reminds me of the Party's way of thinking and I see the effects of their dogmatism on the polarization in our politics.
Unfortunately the propaganda machine of the Soviet Union is alive and well in Putin's Russia. And he has been able to influence the radical Right as well as the Left.
I grew up as a Communist and I remember the shift against Israel, (although at the time I saw it as Israel rejecting the Soviet Union.) I remember in an issue of Sputnik magazine that we had a subscription to showed a Palestinian freedom fighter with his boot on an IDF helmet. I remember telling a Jewish friend that Zionists we're Nazis. There was also an infantilizing of workers because they needed the Communist Party to lead them otherwise they could be fooled. I left supporting Communism long ago but I didn't know how rotten it was till recently. And the woke left reminds me of the Party's way of thinking and I see the effects of their dogmatism on the polarization in our politics.
Unfortunately the propaganda machine of the Soviet Union is alive and well in Putin's Russia. And he has been able to influence the radical Right as well as the Left.
Truth.