{"id":2157,"date":"2013-05-01T14:40:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T21:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2013-05-01T14:40:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T21:40:23","slug":"victims-of-communism-day-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/05\/01\/victims-of-communism-day-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Victims of Communism Day, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Today is\u00a0<strong>Victims of Communism Day<\/strong>. \u00a0It is also &#8220;May Day,&#8221; where &#8220;useful idiots&#8221; march and demonstrate in free countries, while those who have to actually live under Communism are made to march lest they face dire consequences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nobel Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn\u00a0recounted in the\u00a0<em>Gulag Archipelago<\/em> an account of a local Communist Party meeting where an affirmation of Stalin was adopted. \u00a0People stood up and started to cheer and clap like they were required to do. \u00a0They clapped, and clapped, and continued to clap until their hands were raw and bleeding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Finally, the Chairman stopped and sat down, with everyone else quickly following suite. \u00a0The next day the chairman was arrested for being the first one to stop clapping&#8230; after over ten minutes. \u00a0Test whether you could endure over ten minutes of clapping in celebration of a communist tyrant, and in protection of your own life.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FY8tR0OQ1oc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A question for the &#8220;Berkeley Bolsheviks&#8221; and other lovers of Communism: Could <strong>YOU<\/strong> clap for over ten minutes in celebration? \u00a0Go ahead, and test your loyalty to the proletariat, comrade. \u00a0Prove that you are a true believer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Today is\u00a0Victims of Communism Day. \u00a0It is also &#8220;May Day,&#8221; where &#8220;useful idiots&#8221; march and demonstrate in free countries, while those who have to actually live under Communism are made to march lest they face dire consequences. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nobel Laureate Aleksandr &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/05\/01\/victims-of-communism-day-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[19,9,24],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-europe","tag-leviathan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}