Learning about the system...
What ensues in this and following posts is not necessarily – or even not usually – what I understood about events at the time they were happening.
Throughout my young life, and even well beyond, I was, generally speaking, as naive as anyone. I did not know many things which are completely clear now; in my younger life, I did not consider as even possible the utter treachery - personal as well as political - that was/is in fact commonplace!
Take the demise of the Soviet Union, for instance. When I arrived in Moscow in October, 1986 at age 47, I did not even consider the possibility that the Soviet Communist Party and Government were totally in the hands of filthy CIA-run traitors such as М.С.Горбачев. Initially, such a situation was for me unthinkable. But the vast experience I had accumulated in the US allowed me to grasp reality rather quickly (not immediately, of course) and prepare myself for what was certain to come – the wretched demise of the Soviet Union.
Even with that understanding, I was then put personally (not to speak of politically!) in a very difficult, some would say untenuous, position: a refugee from the once-criticized US (in Soviet times) to an outcast who had dared to oppose and chose to flee that “magnificent,” “free,” “democratic” American nation which strived only to “embrace” and “uplift” “downtrodden” Soviet cousins who had had to “endure” “terrible, terrible communism” for so many years. Or so the rampant ruthlessly pro-imperialist “perestroika” and post-perestroika propaganda went. Which many in the USSR believed, or at least wanted to believe.
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Let us go back to the year 1930, when my very young (only 17) mother and Leo were married. My biological “sister” Dorothy was the first child, born in March, 1932.
The US secret political police provided my father with a relatively well-paying job, a delivery man for the Borden's milk company. This was the time of the Great Depression in the US, with many millions and millions of unemployed; obtaining a steady, decent paying job was no small thing for a young immigrant who was only in the process of learning how to speak English.
Leo was totally in the fold of the US secret political police; the “services” he had performed for them in Harbin had to be continued in San Francisco. Why else bring him to the US? Leo became a (fake) Teamsters' Union activist, challenging the admittedly corrupt trade union leadership and - not yet a US citizen – joined the Communist Party, which he did not attempt to hide. The latter seemed to be totally foolhardy, as ostensibly he could have been deported from the America as an unwanted alien. Not foolhardy at all, of course, as all this was on the orders of the US secret political police, presumably the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation).
In later years, and no doubt in the 1930s before I was born (in 1939), Leo with his booming bass voice openly and vociferously defended “communism” and the Soviet Union – even during the viciously anti-communist, red-baiting McCarthyite years of the 1950s. For immigrant Leo (and left-wing immigrants were being deported from the US), no problem.
But the former Harbin operative had another task: to track, spy on, provoke my mother. Who was, after all, his wife – notwithstanding Leo's numerous encounters with other bedded-down women - and the mother of his children. No qualms. No problem.
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My wonderful mother was a progressive and kind person, who hated fascism and admired the USSR and its successes in building socialism. She decried lynchings and persecution and nazism. But Mom was not a revolutionary. She also saw considerable good in US President Franklin Roosevelt. Mom did not see it as her business to become actively involved in developing a revolutionary movement in the US (which, in fact, was hardly possible). She did not, to my knowledge, join picket lines or participate in demonstrations. She was just a progressive and kind, warm, loving person, who did not automatically accept all the dogma of “wonderful” American “democracy.”
But simply being an honest progressive-thinking person in “The Land of the Free” is more than enough for the US Gestapo to sic its dogs on that individual. And that was my father's task.
But not only his.
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Перед нами сейчас - коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ, кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».
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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com
Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!
Арнольд Локшин, политэмигрант из США
BANNED – ЗАПРЕЩЕНО!!
ЦРУ - ФСБ забанили все мои посты и комментарии в Вконтакте!
… и в Макспарке!
What ensues in this and following posts is not necessarily – or even not usually – what I understood about events at the time they were happening.
Throughout my young life, and even well beyond, I was, generally speaking, as naive as anyone. I did not know many things which are completely clear now; in my younger life, I did not consider as even possible the utter treachery - personal as well as political - that was/is in fact commonplace!
Take the demise of the Soviet Union, for instance. When I arrived in Moscow in October, 1986 at age 47, I did not even consider the possibility that the Soviet Communist Party and Government were totally in the hands of filthy CIA-run traitors such as М.С.Горбачев. Initially, such a situation was for me unthinkable. But the vast experience I had accumulated in the US allowed me to grasp reality rather quickly (not immediately, of course) and prepare myself for what was certain to come – the wretched demise of the Soviet Union.
Even with that understanding, I was then put personally (not to speak of politically!) in a very difficult, some would say untenuous, position: a refugee from the once-criticized US (in Soviet times) to an outcast who had dared to oppose and chose to flee that “magnificent,” “free,” “democratic” American nation which strived only to “embrace” and “uplift” “downtrodden” Soviet cousins who had had to “endure” “terrible, terrible communism” for so many years. Or so the rampant ruthlessly pro-imperialist “perestroika” and post-perestroika propaganda went. Which many in the USSR believed, or at least wanted to believe.
/////////////////////////
Let us go back to the year 1930, when my very young (only 17) mother and Leo were married. My biological “sister” Dorothy was the first child, born in March, 1932.
The US secret political police provided my father with a relatively well-paying job, a delivery man for the Borden's milk company. This was the time of the Great Depression in the US, with many millions and millions of unemployed; obtaining a steady, decent paying job was no small thing for a young immigrant who was only in the process of learning how to speak English.
Leo was totally in the fold of the US secret political police; the “services” he had performed for them in Harbin had to be continued in San Francisco. Why else bring him to the US? Leo became a (fake) Teamsters' Union activist, challenging the admittedly corrupt trade union leadership and - not yet a US citizen – joined the Communist Party, which he did not attempt to hide. The latter seemed to be totally foolhardy, as ostensibly he could have been deported from the America as an unwanted alien. Not foolhardy at all, of course, as all this was on the orders of the US secret political police, presumably the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation).
In later years, and no doubt in the 1930s before I was born (in 1939), Leo with his booming bass voice openly and vociferously defended “communism” and the Soviet Union – even during the viciously anti-communist, red-baiting McCarthyite years of the 1950s. For immigrant Leo (and left-wing immigrants were being deported from the US), no problem.
But the former Harbin operative had another task: to track, spy on, provoke my mother. Who was, after all, his wife – notwithstanding Leo's numerous encounters with other bedded-down women - and the mother of his children. No qualms. No problem.
//////////////////////////
My wonderful mother was a progressive and kind person, who hated fascism and admired the USSR and its successes in building socialism. She decried lynchings and persecution and nazism. But Mom was not a revolutionary. She also saw considerable good in US President Franklin Roosevelt. Mom did not see it as her business to become actively involved in developing a revolutionary movement in the US (which, in fact, was hardly possible). She did not, to my knowledge, join picket lines or participate in demonstrations. She was just a progressive and kind, warm, loving person, who did not automatically accept all the dogma of “wonderful” American “democracy.”
But simply being an honest progressive-thinking person in “The Land of the Free” is more than enough for the US Gestapo to sic its dogs on that individual. And that was my father's task.
But not only his.
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Перед нами сейчас - коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ, кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».
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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com
Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!
Арнольд Локшин, политэмигрант из США
BANNED – ЗАПРЕЩЕНО!!
ЦРУ - ФСБ забанили все мои посты и комментарии в Вконтакте!
… и в Макспарке!