TDS Best Of 2019 for Monday, 12/30/19

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🗓️ 30 December 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Jennifer Zeng grew up admiring the Communist Party of China and adhering to its stringent rules. But her life changed forever when she embraced religion and was swept up in a government crackdown on Falun Gong. Arrested four times as a young adult and held in as a prisoner in a labor camp, he quickly woke up to the horrors of living in a socialist state. After being subject to brutal torture, Zeng managed to escape China and now tells about the evils of socialism and communism. At a time when more Americans are embracing Karl Marx’s teachings, Chris Wright has helped Zeng share her story as part of a network called the Anticommunism Action Team. They recently spoke to The Daily Signal along with Darian Diachok, who escaped from Soviet-era Ukraine as an infant and has helped former Soviet satellite states democratize and overcome their failed communist systems. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast and I'm Kate Trinco. We're on a short hiatus for the holidays, but we wanted to share one of our favorite interviews from 2019 with you. We'll be back to our regular programming on Monday, January 6th.
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0:48.6	We are joined in the Daily Signal Podcast today by Chris Wright, Darien Diachach, and Jennifer
0:56.5	Zung.
0:57.5	Darien and Jennifer both have experience with communism and have graciously agreed to share their stories on the
1:05.2	Daily Signal Podcast with our audience.
1:07.8	And Chris Wright is somebody who is doing phenomenal work in getting the message out about the horrors of communism through the
1:15.8	anti-communism action team.
1:17.8	Welcome to all three of you and thank you for being with us.
1:20.3	Thanks for having you as Rob.
1:21.7	Chris, I'd like to begin with you.
1:23.4	Can you tell us about the anti-communism action team and the work that you do?
1:27.0	Sure.
1:28.0	In 2013, my Alexandria Tea Party had a big program.
1:31.0	Dr. Lee Edwards from your Heritage Foundation was one of our speakers and it was all about
1:36.1	survivors of communism. I went on to form a separate entity, the anti-communism action team in 2014,
1:42.2	to formalize the activity. We added the
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