Out From Communism and Into America: Russian Immigrants Tell Their Stories Part 1
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
What was it like to grow up in a Communist country? Believe it or not, the similarities to what happened then and what’s happening now in the United States are startling. Sit back and listen today as two Russian immigrants share their families’ stories and explain how the Russian education system was used to usher in 70+ years of Communist totalitarianism.
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| 1:09.8 | St. John for Congress.com. I wanted to thank you guys for coming out to the event that |
| 1:15.1 | we had in Felida Park on Wednesday. It is really good to see you guys getting off the |
| 1:19.2 | bench and onto the battlefield. It's part of the reason that I am running for office |
| 1:24.1 | in the first place really is to set an example to say listen if that, you know, if that |
| 1:28.6 | homeschool mom, that mother of seven, that grandmother, if she can put herself out there, |
| 1:32.4 | surely I can put myself out there because our nation is in trouble. And a couple days |
| 1:38.4 | ago we talked about communism and Marxism, Marxism being a philosophy and idea that really |
| 1:43.8 | is a dangerous idea that when it takes root, it ultimately results in communism. And a |
| 1:49.1 | couple of years ago, I was very, very honored and pleased to be invited to start speaking |
| 1:54.7 | and do a few events with an organization called Slavic vote. And when they approached me, |
| 1:59.3 | I decided, yes, this is amazing because there's so many people here from the Slavic community |
| 2:04.0 | and I still believe if they will be engaged and get involved in what's happening politically, |
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