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Courtesy of npr.org/THE REVIEW This Land is Your Land is an oft-remembered patriotic tune. But how much do you really know about it?

BY SHREYA GADDIPATI Editor-in-Chief

Can you fill in the blank?

This land is your land, this land is __ ___.

If you have lived in the United States of America for a certain amount of time, it is likely that you can recognize this song at the drop of a hat. Ingrained into memories with each passing Independence Day barbecue, political rally and campfire sing-along, This land is your land by Woody Guthrie seemingly seeps with American patriotism or does it? The history behind one of Americas favorite songs is far more complex than it may seem.

While politics and music have frequently overlapped throughout American history, according to university professor Philip Gentry, the trend of writing overtly political or partisan folk style music started roughly in the 1930s. It emerged out of what is called the Popular Front a broad coalition of different political groups, some being communists, socialists and liberals.

The American left had made a concerted effort to adopt more populist aesthetics and culture as part of their organizing efforts, Gentry says.

According to Gentry, it was around this time that the left side of the political spectrum very purposely took advantage of populist music, that being folk music, in order to relate to the average American.

The most famous example of this would be the Seeger family. Charles Seeger and Ruth Crawford Seeger were modernist American musicians who composed in what Gentry called an ultra modern, avante garde fashion. Being the committed leftists they were, they made a shift away from modernism into folk music. Charles Seegers son is Pete Seeger, famed American folk singer and friend to the late Woody Guthrie. Another example would be Aaron Copeland, who also started his career in a very extravagant, modernist style. When the 1930s hit, his style shifted into something that, while not folk, was far more populist.

To be clear, the lefts shift into populist music was not something necessarily welcomed by society. It was during this time that WWII was still ongoing and America had allied itself with the USSR in order to defeat Nazi Germany. According to Gentry, this allyship was a tenuous relationship at its very best. As WWII came to a close, there was what Gentry described as a sense of dividing the world between these two superpowers.

They were worried that there were too many left wing people in the American government and that they were secretly working for the Soviet Union, Gentry says of the perspective of most anti-communists at the time.

Gentry made clear that while this may have been the case for some people in the U.S. government, the government mostly consisted of leftover liberals from the Roosevelt administration who were uninvolved in any sort of treason. Gentry also states that this feeling of paranoia of communism was further perpetuated in reaction against the New Deal, put forward by Franklin Roosevelt, and by the fact that in the late 1940s, the communists achieved victory in China.

So if there was sort of a feeling amongst the United States of losing parts of the world to communism, Gentry says. And there was this sort of sense that communism was insidious. That it wasnt like fighting the Nazis where you went into battle. It was something that would sneak in and come to you and your home. That it might brainwash you in some fashion.

And from this fear rose McCarthyism, a campaign against alleged communists in the U.S. government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was during this time that McCarthy, as well as numerous other government officials, produced a series of hearings and investigations.

Various famed actors, authors, producers, entertainers and musicians especially folk singers were blacklisted during this time for suspected communist involvement.

Given that the folk music scene was an extremely political space at the time, the mainstream music industry tried to distance itself from folk music out of fear of persecution and stigmatization. It was during the 1940s that the mainstream music industry started going through a transition of which folk music, which varied stylistically across the country, would undergo a process of consolidation, so that, essentially, all music consumed by more rural audiences would be put into one category.

In fact, according to Gentry, prior to 1949, Billboard had a music chart titled Hillbilly Records. In search for a less offensive and more inclusive name, the company briefly considered coming up with a name that included the word folk in it. However, out of a desire to distance themselves from the left, they titled it Country and Western, giving rise to the popular music genre many know today.

Folk singers, including Guthrie, emerged from the aforementioned Popular Front. As times passed in the 1940s, the folk revival moved to very urban areas, creating a juxtaposition between a very liberal movement and McCarthyism.

The folk revival moves to very urban areas, Gentry says. Woody Guthrie himself moved to New York City because hes having trouble getting played on radio stations and other markets. So he ends up as part of this revival in New York City with people like Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, the Lomax family and all those sorts of people. So its really out of that that This Land Is Your Land merges.

Woody Guthrie originally wrote This Land is Your Land in 1940 when he first arrived in New York City from Oklahoma. The song was written as a parody of God Bless America, which dominated the airwaves at the time.

God Bless America was written by Irving Berlin, famed composer and lyricist of many smash hits such as White Christmas and Theres No Business Like Show Business.He was also part of what was called Tin Pan Alley, a collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the airwaves at the time.

According to Gentry, Guthrie and many of his folk acquaintances most likely took issue with the commercialized and jingle-ized form of music that was God Bless America, inspiring him to parody it.

I think they found it kind of nativist and jingle-istic in a lot of ways, Gentry says. I think it was also just really omnipresent as a form of commercial pop music that you couldnt escape.

According to Gentry, Guthrie never necessarily prescribed a political alliance that in turn inspired him to parody the song.

[Guthrie] was never actually like a doctrinaire ideological member of a specific organization or something like that, Gentry says. I think it was more intuitive to sort of like anger at the nationalism of rah rah America.

Gentry went on to explain that another issue that people on the left seemed to take with the song was the blatant nationalism of the song in combination with the religious message.

The left position on that is, first of all, often anti-nationalist, Gentry says, describing the left political perspective of the time. Like God doesnt bless countries. [Like even] if youre religious, he doesnt bless specific countries in that sense. Its like nation states are not exactly a spiritual formation.

Some of the lyrics to Guthries original version of the song included:

There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me.The sign was painted, said Private Property.But on the backside, it didnt say nothing.This land was made for you and me.

While this verse was recorded in 1944 by Moses Asch, it was never released. In fact, this version of the song was almost lost until it was once again unearthed in 1997.

Additionally, there were even more radical verses that Guthrie wrote but never officially recorded. This verse was scribbled on a loose-leaf sheet of paper found in the archives of Guthries daughter:

One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple,by the relief office I saw my people.As they stood hungry,I stood there wondering if God blessed America for me.

Additional removed lyrics include:

Nobody living can ever stop me,As I go walking that freedom highway;Nobody living can ever make me turn backThis land was made for you and me.

Gentry explains that these lyrics may not have been necessarily removed for a nefarious reason. At the time, folk music was being adopted as childrens music for educational purposes a process that the Seegers were involved in. Therefore, in order to be more child-friendly and universal, it could be likely that these verses were naturally phased out of the song.

However, later in Guthries life, he was blacklisted just as he began experiencing symptoms of Huntingtons Disease an illness that would lead to his demise. His close friend, Pete Seeger, was denounced as a communist and blacklisted as well. The Weavers, a folk quartet, lost their recording contract, could not book concerts and their recordings could not be played on the radio.

Treatment of folk singers at the time had a deep impact on the folk revival with groups such as the Kingston Trio trying to avoid any political or social commentary in an attempt to achieve success without being labeled as communists.

Guthrie died in 1967 from complications of Huntingtons Disease. In the time since, Pete Seeger, alongside Guthries son, Arlo, have made a point of singing This Land is Your Lands more radical verses. In fact, at the 2008 inauguration of President Obama, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger and Tao Rodrguez-Seeger sung this song with many of its radical verses intact.

Gentry explained that even today, many political campaigns will identify with music, though partisanship may not be as obvious from the lyrics of the song.

But I think it is sometimes not legible in interesting ways, Gentry says, explaining that partisanship of the music may not be obvious to various audiences.

However, some songs are so closely affiliated with campaigns that it is hard to ignore the correlation. For example, when Hilary Clinton campaigned in 2016, a song that played frequently at her events was Fight Song by Rachel Platten. When Bill Clinton ran for office in 1992, Dont Stop by Fleetwood Mac was often played at his events.

So there is tons of political music happening out there, Gentry says. I think it suffuses the popular music charts in a lot of ways. But it doesnt always mark itself legibly in the way that a left wing folk ballad of the 60s said I am political, but theres lots of other ways for music to be political.

Gentry also makes an interesting point about music once it leaves its maker. He notes that the Trump campaign has recently been playing Macho Man by the Village People a gay club anthem from the 70s at their rallies. Another song often played at Republican rallies is Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen, which takes a very critical look at the de-industrialization of the Reagan era. The original intent by the creators of either of these songs do not necessarily correlate with the message of the campaigns but are nonetheless frequently played.

Thats how music works, Gentry says. The people who write them arent in charge of them after theyre done.

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"This Land Is Your Land": The truth behind the song The Review - University of Delaware Review

She is not so beholden because the organizations to which she demonstrated loyalty, most notably the Soviet Union, are no more. They were destroyed by the people who they had oppressed for decades. An event that likely still fills her with regret.

After all, the great humanitarian was feted by the usual commie states. Fidel Castros Cuba was afavorite spot which she visited. After one trip she decided that only under socialism could the fight against racism be successfully executed.

In December 1979, about three weeks before Soviet forces invaded Afghanistan, Davis was in Moscow to receive the Lenin Peace Prize and receive an honorary degree from Moscow State University. Sheaccepted the former with abroad smile, receiving afloral bouquet along with the requisite three kissesfrom the Soviet official who pinned the award onto her dress. She noted with approval that the prize bore the glorious name of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin here on the very soil where he led the great October Revolution. Ah,the glorious, peaceloving, freedompromoting, justiceinspiring Lenin. Davis made quite an international splash withher praise for the USSR.

Davis twice visited East Germany, more formally known as the (SoCalled) German Democratic Republic, where she received an award, the Star of Friendship of the People of the World, and an honorary degree from the University of Leipzig. She had apleasant meeting with Erich Honecker, who took over the communist party in East Germany in 1971.Aphoto shows the two smiling broadly, lovely and loving servants of the people no doubt discussing how they could better serve the masses. She also met the Stalinist leader ousted by Honecker, Walter Ulbricht, who ordered construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.

Of course,among the points of interests she visitedwasthe infamous fortified barrier, where she expressed her condolencesfor the East German border guardwho was shot by afleeing citizen,calling the formera loyal soldier, who sacrificed his life for his socialist country. She promised that on her return to America she would undertake to tell our people the truth about the true function of this border. Alas, apparently even the East German people failed to understand the Berlin Walls real purpose since they tore it down the moment they could.

In fact, German workers were notoriously fickle,having revolted against the Sovietinstalled leadershipin 1953. That, after all the work loyal communists had done to suppress dissent! So Honecker &Co. were forced to rule what amounted to anational prison which famously walled its people in. Around athousand were murdered trying to escape. The last East German to be shot down seeking freedom, a20yearold restaurant worker named Chris Gueffroy, was killed in February 1989, just nine months before the border fortifications fell.

Tragically, Honecker did not enjoy as pleasant aretirement as Davis. He lost his job in October 1989. Ungrateful proletarians just did not appreciate his devotion and hard work. He reportedly wanted acrackdown against growing protests across the workers notso paradise,especially in Leipzig ironically the same city in which Davis received her honorary degree. However, the rest of the Politburo balked: the Soviet Unions Mikhail Gorbachev said the Red Army would remain in its barracks and East German officials could not be sure which direction their own troops would fire. Davis dictatorial friend found himself seeking other opportunities, as the saying goes.

Still, the USSR was her greatest promoter. In theFederalistauthor David Harsanyinoted that Davis became afocus of Soviet propaganda, with more resources devoted to her than was being spent on propaganda directly about the Vietnam War. Harsanyi cited Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, author ofThe Gulag Archipelagoabout the Soviet system of prison camps,who observed: We had our ears stuffed with Angela Davis. Little children in school were told to sign petitions in defense of Angela Davis. Sovietborn Cathy Young remembers her elementary school class being obliged to sign postcards on Davis behalf.

Davis friendship toward the Soviet state and its Stalinist spinoffs was no passing fancy for someone unfamiliar with the USSR as aprison state. For instance, when Czech dissidentsmade amoving appeal to her for assistance, she responded: They deserve what they get. Let them remain in prison. Daviss spokeswoman (imagine, aproletarian heroine having aspokeswoman!)said that Davisdid not think people should leave socialist countries to return to the capitalist system. Precisely what one would expect from agreat and respected human rights activist.

Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who consulted on Davis legal defense, similarly requested that she speak out on behalf of Soviet Jews seeking to emigrate to Israel. Her response? According to Dershowitz: Several days later, Ireceived acall back from Ms. Davis secretary informing me that Davis had looking into the people on my list and none of them were political prisoners. They are all Zionist fascists and opponents of Socialism. Davis would urge that they be kept in prison where they belonged.

Naturally, Davis has her academic defenders, whodance on pinheadswhiledismissing her affection for human tyranny. But even they should ask why adevoted representative of the working classes would have asecretary. What could be amore typical example of an oppressor and beneficiary of accumulated capital living off the labor and effort of the proletariat held in bondage by the capitalist system? Surely Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, or at least the glorious Lenin said something about this situation. How forgiving would Vladimir Ilyich be if confronted with such an outrageous example of capitalist oppression? Had Americas communist revolution actually occurred, Davis head also might have ended up on apike!

Angel Davis is amodel member of the tyrannical left, which seeks to destroy everyone and everything that stands in its way. Davis sanctimoniously claimed moral authority to judge others while endorsing amonstrous system which imprisoned more than abillion people, starved and impoverished entire societies, and murdered tens of millions of opponents, critics, independents, and innocents. This was no minor mistake. It was an overwhelming, debilitating ethical failure that undermined her credibility to speak even on other issues, such as racism.

America and Western societies have much to answer for. But they have acted to redress past errors and crimes, and undoubtedly will do more in the future. And they never had to wall their people in, something which Davis saw firsthand on her visit to East Germany. But she chose to take the side of the oppressors. When it comes to communism, proponents really should have to say they are sorry. And say it again and again. As should Angela Davis, before mercifully, finally, and quietly retiring from public life.

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Communism Collapsed, but Communists Are Still with Us - Cato Institute

On the weekend of October 3031, 1920, twenty-six socialists from all over Australia met in Sydney. They resolved to establish the Communist Party of Australia (CPA), an organization whose contribution to the workers movement echoes to this day.

The CPA grew rapidly in the 1920s and 30s, claiming over twenty thousand members by the late 1940s. Although the party enjoyed a brief upsurge during the 1960s and 70s, the anti-communist atmosphere of the Cold War eventually tipped it into slow decline. In 1991, delegates at the final CPA congress voted to dissolve the party.

Today, a hundred years after that founding meeting, we need to preserve the memories of Australias communist militants, unionists, and organizers and to make their experience relevant to a new generation of leftists.

In March this year, the SEARCH Foundation, an organization established by the CPA before its dissolution, put out a call to ex-members, their descendants, and a range of labor historians. Instead of producing a formal history of the CPA, SEARCH asked for stories about the lives of Australian communists.

The response was overwhelming. Within a few months, respondents nominated over two hundred potential subjects. The new book Comrades! Lives of Australian Communists is the result; it collects one hundred biographies. SEARCH plans to publish at least another fifty online and more as they come to hand.

Bill Earsman and Christian Jollie Smith were two of Australias first communists. In 1919, while Australia was in the throes of the Spanish flu pandemic, they made their way north to Sydney. They had planned to establish a new labor college modeled on the one they ran for Melbourne workers, housed in the Victorian Railways Union building.

Earsman was a metal worker, an immigrant from Scotland and a champion of independent working-class education. After arriving in Melbourne in 1912, he rose quickly through the ranks of the Amalgamated Engineering Union to become its Victorian secretary.

He was also a member of the Victorian Socialist Party (VSP) and, like the VSPs most renowned leader, Tom Mann, he was strongly influenced by the syndicalism of the Wobblies, as the Industrial Workers of the World were colloquially known.

Dressed nattily in tan shoes, leather gaiters and a Baden-Powell hat, Earsman was a familiar figure at Andrades Bookshop, a center for socialist and syndicalist discussion in Melbourne. His pamphlet, The Proletariat and Education: The Necessity of Labor Colleges, was published by Andrades in 1920. In it, Earsman argued that it was necessary to

point out the dead-end to which the present educational system is leading, viewed from the point of view of the working class we found it necessary to have independent unions and an independent Labor political party, (so) why not an independent educational institution?

Christian Jollie Smith, Earsmans comrade and partner, came from a conservative, middle-class Melbourne family and was one of the first women in Australia to be admitted as a barrister and solicitor. The movement against conscription during World War I radicalized Jollie Smith, as did her close friendship with socialist intellectuals Guido Baracchi, Nettie Palmer, and Katharine Susannah Prichard.

In 1917, she became an enthusiastic supporter of the Bolshevik revolution. This attracted the attention of the security service, who saw to it that she was sacked from the Crown Law Office, under suspicion of having leaked information to comrades who faced deportation for their radical political beliefs. To support herself, Jollie Smith assumed the pseudonym Pamela Brown and became Melbournes first female taxi driver.

After arriving in Sydney, Earsman and Jollie Smith set up house in a terrace just up the road from Circular Quay, where they recruited Jock Garden, leader of the so-called Sydney Trades Hall Reds, to their labor college project.

When they met Peter Simonoff, a Russian migr and the Bolshevik representative in Australia, they set a more ambitious goal. Working out of Simonoffs office, the comrades formed an uneasy coalition with leaders of the Sydney-based Australian Socialist Party (ASP). Together, they called the October 3031 meeting at the ASP hall. They invited delegates from across Australia to discuss the formation of an Australian Communist Party.

As it happened, only twenty-six people turned up, of whom three were women. Despite their small number, this eclectic assembly resolved to form a communist party, electing an interim executive committee, with Earsman as secretary.

Jollie Smith also joined the committee, helping to draft the partys first constitution. As its first goal, the CPA set out to obtain recognition as the Australian section of the Comintern, the international communist organization set up by Lenin to coordinate world revolution.

After two years, many internal debates and several visits by delegates to Moscow, the Communist Party of Australian was accepted into the Comintern. Earsman played a crucial part in this, working on the ships that took him from Australia to Moscow, where the Comintern convened, to secure his passage.

While in the young Soviet Union, Earsman met many of the twentieth centurys most famous communist leaders, including Leon Trotsky, and was inducted into the Red Army as an honorary member. He was appointed to represent the Comintern in Australia and tasked with carrying propaganda material and instructions into Germany on his way home.

However, as we now know, Earsmans movements were closely monitored by the British intelligence services, who ensured that he was eventually refused reentry into Australia as a risk to national security. He went back to Moscow where he worked for a while as a teacher in the Red Army Academy, before returning to his native Edinburgh to become an active union leader and a member of the Labour Party.

Meanwhile, by 1922, CPA membership had grown to several hundred, with branches in every mainland capital and several regional centers. Although the Australian Labor Party (ALP) opposed the CPA and banned its members from joining, working-class support for communism grew.

By the 1930s, this made it possible for the communists to build militant rank-and-file organizations in many unions. They complemented these efforts by organizing the unemployed to resist evictions and building a mass popular movement against war and fascism.

Several CPA members, women and men, traveled overseas to join the International Brigades fighting Francos fascist armies in Spain. All the while, CPA members were subject to constant surveillance by security agencies and harassed through the courts. After serving briefly as the partys general secretary in Earsmans absence, Jollie Smith returned to her legal practice where she defended communists and the organizations they led in the courts for several more decades.

During World War II, the authorities briefly made the CPA illegal. However, following the Soviet Unions entry into the war on the side of the Allies in 1941, the party experienced a surge in popularity. By the wars end, communists held senior leadership positions in many of the countrys most important working-class organizations and progressive social movements. It was the high watermark of the Australian communist movement.

As Jodi Dean has written, the term comrade, as it developed in the international communist movement, carries a wealth of meaning that has been endangered by the individualism endemic to neoliberal capitalism and identity politics. The short biographies of Australias communists collected in Comrades! push back against this, while also bringing to life Deans more abstract and theoretically sophisticated account.

As individuals, the communists who were members of the CPA were an extremely mixed bag a monument to diversity long before that word became ubiquitous on the Left. Poets, novelists, actors, writers, academics, and artists worked with and met in the same branches as cleaners, wharf laborers, hotel and health workers, teachers, seamen, and metal workers.

Some comrades spent their whole life as members, while others left after only a few years. Following splits, some joined alternative groupings for example, many became critics of Stalinism from the 1930s onward. The ranks of anti-Stalinist communists were further bolstered following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Others became supporters of the Chinese Communist Party after the Sino-Soviet split, forming the CPA(M-L) in 1963.

Another group split to form the Socialist Party of Australia in 1971. This followed the CPAs criticism of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, a move that led the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to revoke the support it had extended to the CPA since 1922.

Communists were as active in smaller cities, regional towns, and the outback as they were in the major party centers of Sydney and Melbourne. Over the decades, Australian communists created networks of rank-and-file organization in workplaces all over Australia, a tradition that often owed as much to the partys syndicalist roots as it did to the Comintern.

Above all, the communists proved their worth by building successful and powerful mass movements, against war and fascism, against British and US imperialism, against nuclear arms and uranium mining, and in support of the rights of indigenous and colonized peoples in Australia and its overseas territory in Papua New Guinea. The CPA was the first party in Australia to include the demand for rights for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in its program, in 1931.

From then on, CPA activists played key roles supporting struggles against the repressive native welfare legislation, for equal wages, and for land rights. Don McLeod, a white contractor, helped the Pilbara Aboriginal stock workers wage Australias longest-ever industrial battle. In the 1940s, he joined the party to help build support. The partys 1950s program for Torres Strait Islander independence and self-determination was published in five Torres Strait languages.

The communists international solidarity work was exemplary, building local support for independence and national-liberation struggles across the Asia Pacific region, in the Middle East, and in Latin America and the Caribbean.

In the 1970s and 80s, for example, Brian Manning, a Darwin wharfie and communist maintained an illegal radio operation in Darwin. Assisted by his comrades, he kept open lines of communication with East Timors FRETILIN guerrilla force as they resisted the 1975 Indonesian invasion of their country.

CPA members undertook this work in the face of sustained and systematic harassment and surveillance by a succession of security agencies that were developed with anti-communism as one of their primary tasks. Ironically, however, files maintained by those agencies have provided the primary source material needed for much of this hidden history in particular, those of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and its predecessor, the Commonwealth Investigation Branch.

In 1848, in the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels described communists as those who fight for the attainment of the immediate aims, for the enforcement of the momentary interests of the working class, while also taking care of the future of that movement.

As comrades ourselves, then, we owe a twofold debt: to previous generations of communists who inspired and taught us, and even more importantly, to the comrades of future generations, who will continue the struggle. Of course, theres no point pretending that the communists of the past have all the answers to todays questions. But the CPAs history does hold precious experience. Its successes and mistakes may yet furnish us with important lessons.

Most importantly, as Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally, two comrades from New Zealand and South Africa put it, we cannot afford the costs of historical and social amnesia for contemporary and future struggles. This isnt only because forgetting is costly: we should value these histories because, thanks to our comrades, weve still got a world to win.

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Happy 100th Birthday to the Communist Party of Australia - Jacobin magazine

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev believes the American series Dallas is responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union, according to Dave Stewart.

When speaking about the Soviet collapse, Stewart who formed one half of the British pop duo Eurythmics with Annie Lennox named the drama series Dallas as its unlikely cause.

During an appearance on Joss Stones A Cuppa Happy podcast, the songwriter claimed that it was Gorbachev who had put forward the theory to him in the Nineties.

What Gorbachev was saying it was Dallas, the TV show, said Stewart. Somebody managed to get a VHS to work and broadcast it to part of Russia and they thought, Hang on, thats how people live in America.

Dallas ran on CBS from 1978 to 1991. The hugely popular series told the story of The Ewings, a rich and feuding family, and their oil empire.

Dallas was revived in 2012 with several stars of the original series including Patrick Duffy and Linda Grey as Bobby and Sue Ellen Ewing

(Warner Horizon Television)

The 68-year-old claimed that Gorbachev had said that [Dallas] had more effect that half an hour than anything else on the fall of communism.

He explained further: [Gorbachev] was saying what brought Russia down was they werent allowed to see any shows from anywhere. In the churches, they had giant blockers of signals so theyd only get fed the information from the government. People would go and try and crack open these blockers.

Stewart told Stone: My friend, him and his mate lay on their back and heard Radio Caroline for 15 minutes, and they heard The Beatles and another band and they were just lying on their back in a church just crying because theyd never heard anything like it.

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Mikhail Gorbachev blames TV show Dallas for the fall of communism and the USSR, says Dave Stewart - The Independent

Prof RV traces RSS and Communism that were born about 100 years ago in India and how they fared. One of the excellent themes in Pgurus and Prof RV aptly suggested it as a research theme. After independence Commies formed governments in Kerala, WB and Tripura states in a decade, and continued its rotten system in WB State for 35years and ruined economically too.

Today, Commies are on the vain, tired and retired and there is no future for them in India. But its massive radical leftist deep rooted employed in print-visual media/MSM, Twitter, FB and self-employed journalism with clandestine funding and employed in majority of the Universities world-wide is hurting many nations progress. Noble Prizes are given to them in selective fields!! Tainted NDTV leftist anchor is now an academician in one of the Universities in USA! Commies Journalists Network is in billions! Their wards study abroad! Their parents create danga masti in India while Government looks the other way!

RSS ideological offshoot BJP took nearly 71 years to form a coalition Govt at the Center with 24 crutches(1997-98), later with 19 (1998-99) and 13 crutches (1999-2004!After 89 years formed a Govt in 2014 at the Center with 282 majority of its own and Bakistan PM Imran Khans gifted 303 (otherwise 180 to 200 MP seats) in 2019. Their desire to abolish 370 and Ajodhya is fulfilled. Hats off to them.

Unfortunately this ideological shift in governance since May 2014 has not produced sustained development and growth economically and in fact policies have been disruptive and not transparent too. Since May 2019 not only our economy is ruined not also banking system collapsed and few with M&A totally derailed beyond recognition!!

Flexing muscles under French made Rafael combat aircraft deliveries are not the answers.These RSS trained fellows are of no use but believes in histrionics, creating an aura around them.We need a good leader who should be a multi-faceted personality taking us to greater heights economically with strong internal security first. India must be economically and militarily a super power!

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Prof RV traces RSS and Communism, that were born about 100 years ago in India and how they fared - PGurus