Military parade on Red Square in Moscow to celebrate an anniversary of the October Communist Revolution. November 7, 1990. (Image: TASS)
Market Watch: Millennials: Communism sounds pretty chill
‘This report clearly reveals a need for educating our youth on the dangerous implications of socialist ideals’
According to the latest survey from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a D.C.-based nonprofit, one in two U.S. millennials say they would rather live in a socialist or communist country than a capitalist democracy.
What’s more, 22% of them have a favorable view of Karl Marx and a surprising number see Joseph Stalin and Kim Jong Un as “heroes.”
Really, that’s what the numbers show.
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WNU Editor: I have mentioned this before .... but my father who grew up in the Soviet Union .... who lived under Stalin, fought in World War Two, was a high communist official, etc. .... when he moved to Canada he observed the following and it was something that he always enjoyed telling me .... there are more Communists in Canada than in the entire Soviet Union. The above poll proves him right .... and in my own experiences I have seen and heard many who have voiced a longing to live in that type of society. As to those who lived under Communism and who have lived under a capitalist democracy .... I have yet to meet anyone who would preferred/prefers the Communist system .... no one wants to go back to that .... this blogger included.
