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Hi everybody, welcome to the Dennis Prager show on a dark day in American history.

I never thought that I would live to see the United States devolve this rapidly,

and this dramatically, and this clearly.

As many of you know, my field of study in graduate school was communism.

I learned Russian in order to understand what was going on in the Soviet Union,

to read Pravda every day. I did not study Russian in order to

converse, or to read Dostoevsky.

I specifically wanted to read Pravda.

And I studied Russian history, the Russian Revolution, Stalin,

Khrushchev, Brezhnev. I studied that very avidly.

I would say at this moment, you do not have to have knowledge of the Russian Revolution,

and the takeover of the Soviet Union originally Russia,

by communists, in order to understand communism, you have to understand what is going on at this time.

In the United States of America and Canada for good measure,

and to a certain degree in other Western countries, you are living the textbook that I studied,

or the textbooks that I studied.

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