Stalin Never Said It

~ Clarissa

Forgot to mention this yesterday. Stalin never said the following words:

Joseph Stalin said if you want to bring America down you have to undermine three things—our spiritual life, our patriotism, and our morality.

Whoever thinks he did, is a fool of incredible proportions. Stalin could not have possibly considered and referred to Americans as spiritual, patriotic, and moral. As for “bringing America down”, Marxist theory posits that all capitalist societies will collapse under the weight of their own contradictions. This is the language Stalin spoke. He never slipped into the prissy verbiage of Hallmark stationery used in the quote.

Moral of the story: don’t use Facebook memes in serious discussions.

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10 thoughts on “Stalin Never Said It”

  1. That’s what I thought. I’m not a Stalin expert, but when I heard that “quote” last night I thought it sounded more like anti-communist propaganda from the 50’s than anything a person would say about his enemies.

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  2. You’re not going to believe — or, well, you probably will believe — how many American (a) will be perfectly willing to believe Stalin said exactly that and (b) when they learn Stalin did not say anything like that, will shrug and say, “So what? It’s exactly like what he could have said,” and (c) when told no, no, it’s really not, will say, “I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree then!”

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  4. “Moral of the story: don’t use Facebook memes in serious discussions.”

    Come on, it’s the modern republican party constituents we’re talking about. They depend on facebook memes, chain emails, and youtube video comments for their intellectual input.

    Consume ‘news’ 24/7, still don’t know their ass from their elbow. It would be hilarious if it weren’t so sad.

    So many career options for these grifters too. Run for election, lose election, get a fox news show, write a book about how to rebuild the republican party, do book tours, spew hate on AM radio, squeeze every last penny from your ‘base’, shill for reverse mortgages and companies that buy back gold. Christ.

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    1. Moral of the story: don’t use Facebook memes in serious discussions.
      Facebook memes are old person Tumblr reblogs and old school email chain forwards and bumper stickers. I still get semi-annual “do you know about roofies and maniacs hiding under cars” emails from my one of my mother’s aunts who I block entirely because my email program won’t let me block for content.

      They depend on facebook memes, chain emails, and youtube video comments for their intellectual input.
      Perhaps all of your Facebook friends are serious intellectual giants.:) I see plenty of very stupid memes and videos from people of all political persuasions and educational backgrounds on my feed.

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  5. You want weird anti-Communism?

    “The Communists, through their scientists, educators and entertainers, have contrived an elaborate, calculating and scientific technique directed at rendering a generation of American youth useless through nerve-jamming, mental deterioration and retardation. The plan involves conditioned reflexes, hypnotism and certain kinds of music. The results, destined to destroy our nation, are precise and exacting. Little wonder Conelradthe Kremlin maintains it will not raise the Red flag over America—the Americans will raise it themselves. If the following scientific program destined to make our children mentally sick is not exposed, mentally degenerated Americans will indeed raise the Communist flag over their own nation!”

    http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/21/founder-of-christian-ministry-wrote-bizarre-1965-thesis-on-communist-agenda-of-the-beatles/

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    1. Ok, that’s massively crazy. And what’s even funnier, is that the same was being said in the USSR about the Beatles being a capitalist plot to destroy Soviet youth. 🙂

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      1. Political reception

        Like “Revolution” and “Piggies”,[18] “Back in the U.S.S.R.” prompted immediate responses from the New Left and Far Right, who claimed the group were “pro-Soviet”. As further evidence of The Beatles’ supposed “pro-Soviet” sentiments, the John Birch Society magazine cited the song.[19] The line “You don’t know how lucky you are, boys” left many anti-communist groups speechless.[20]

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_in_the_U.S.S.R.

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