Let me quote a not often watched movie from 1983 Twilight Zone. It was a very young Dan

Acroid and he said, do you want to see something really scary? That is what he said just

before he transformed into a supernatural monster. Well, my guess today, not Dan Acroid

or a monster, is probably a man you've never heard of. But the story of his life played

out like a real life Twilight Zone. We watched his country transform not to anything supernatural,

but an equally terrifying totalitarian socialist monster. We watched it on this side, but he

lived it. 51% of millennials today say they would rather live in a socialist country than

a capitalist country, but they confuse Sweden with a socialist country that is a capitalist

country that from their own prime minister. Now that number rapidly declines with the older

generation, only 30% of anybody 50 to 64 year olds have a positive view of socialism.

Numbers falls to 28% if you're 65 and older. Now why is that? Because the younger generation

has never had the experience of seeing what socialism really is firsthand. They miss the

Twilight Zone of Eastern Europe from the 1940s, 50s, 60s into the late 1980s. That is not

the case of the man you're about to hear from. It is a story of terror, fear, hunger, survival,

it's bizarre. In short, it is the story of socialism. So here we go. You want to hear

something really scary? Next, surviving socialism.

Andy, we have so much to cover and you reading your blog is just so eye-opening. But I want

to do this in chunks. I want to try to take it chronologically a little bit. Tell me

about Romania before the Communists come because it wasn't a violent takeover. Yes and

so Romania was probably one of the most promising countries before the war, before war

too. And unfortunately it got caught into the the Axis alliance with the Nazis. Simply because

of the Molotov-Ribbentrov pact which was between Hitler and Stalin. And that's when following

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