Comments on: NYT's Murky Cold War History http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/10/08/nyts-murky-cold-war-history/ The national media watch group Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:14:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: D. Jessy http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/10/08/nyts-murky-cold-war-history/comment-page-1/#comment-9723 D. Jessy Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:27:14 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=13090#comment-9723 I chuckle every time I see or hear the unthinking comments about how much better off the former communist countries are since they embraced capitalism. I suggest this "anticommunism" deserves a little more serious research. East european countries like Romania, Hungary, Checks and E Germans had free medical, adequate housing at equable prices, free education, reasonable and dependable pensions. These are now all gone, and the majority of people will tell you they have returned to the desperation of the post war period. US ideology is showing along with your media ignorance. Any immigrant will tell you why these eastern european people want to return the communist governments. Their educational standards were far and away better than the west. We see professors here constantly complaining university students cannot even write clear English. University students! I chuckle every time I see or hear the unthinking comments about how much better off the former communist countries are since they embraced capitalism. I suggest this "anticommunism" deserves a little more serious research.
East european countries like Romania, Hungary, Checks and E Germans had free medical, adequate housing at equable prices, free education, reasonable and dependable pensions. These are now all gone, and the majority of people will tell you they have returned to the desperation of the post war period.
US ideology is showing along with your media ignorance. Any immigrant will tell you why these eastern european people want to return the communist governments. Their educational standards were far and away better than the west. We see professors here constantly complaining university students cannot even write clear English. University students!

]]> By: Keith http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/10/08/nyts-murky-cold-war-history/comment-page-1/#comment-9680 Keith Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:14:45 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=13090#comment-9680 right on ! disgraceful and orwellian, how little we remember, isn't it ? remember liberation theology in El Salvador ? Our tax dollars paid to kill priests and nuns who were had a simple Christ-like message - workers in multinational plants and on banana,etc haciendas deserve a wage that feeds them and their children. and they deserve a few rights, like the ability to organize. if we hadn't allowed these same rights in the US, we'd be back in the 1880's when big industry and rail owned our government and children worked in coal mines for pennies a day. right on !

disgraceful and orwellian, how little we remember, isn't it ?

remember liberation theology in El Salvador ? Our tax dollars paid to kill priests and nuns who were had a simple Christ-like message – workers in multinational plants and on banana,etc haciendas deserve a wage that feeds them and their children. and they deserve a few rights, like the ability to organize. if we hadn't allowed these same rights in the US, we'd be back in the 1880's when big industry and rail owned our government and children worked in coal mines for pennies a day.

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