Despite what CNN says, there's nothing cool about socialism

Despite what CNN says, there's nothing cool about socialism
It is frustrating to me that many Americans are ignorant of the crimes of socialist and communist movements.
My grandmother grew up in Ukraine, which was then a part of the USSR — the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
After waking each morning, she checked to see if any of her family members died during the night. Many of her compatriots were already dead because Joseph Stalin, the Soviet leader, implemented a mass starvation program.
Known as the “Holodomor,” the goal of the policy was to starve Ukrainians into submission.
It worked as intended: Stalin murdered perhaps four million Ukrainians. (For this reason and others, Ukrainians are a bit prickly when asked if their accent is Russian.)
My grandmother only escaped this torture when she, along with the Russian man who would become my grandfather, were kidnapped by the Nazis and taken to Germany as slave labor.
Thus, they stopped living the Soviet Socialist dream and began experiencing the National Socialist dream, instead.
...My grandmother passed away in 1995 and my grandfather died last month.
It is in their honor that I tell their story and on their behalf that I make this plea: Just like with Naziism, we must make it socially unacceptable to express any positive sentiments toward socialism or communism.
Its 100 million victims cry out..."
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