Eyewitness to the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

" Half a century ago today, I watched as Soviet tanks rolled into my native Czechoslovakia to suppress the slight relaxing of the odious repression that was necessary to maintain a purported socialist paradise. “Prague Spring,” as the loosening of tyranny was called, ended before the summer was over.'

The buddy whose gal hung on my bicep that fateful night was shot to pieces two weeks later by a machine gun on a tank for waving the Czech flag.  Another friend was shot at close range by a soldier with a Kalashnikov on a crowded commuter bus; his girl next to him almost had a heart attack.  The reason: he refused to take down from his lapel the red-blue-white tricolor with a black beam across.  Three more friends were murdered in a like fashion for similar “high crimes” against the Big Red Brother.

Lastly, a memo to the foolish  misguided Millennials following as if in a trance the old greedy crook Bernie (who never had a real job in his life!), the supremely ignorant and vacuous Ocasio-Cortez airhead:  Communism and socialism murdered 100 - 200 million innocent civilians in peace time; only God knows the exact number!  Do you really want to live like this or be a part of the “elite” doing the killing?  The choice is yours, for now, because you live in the greatest, most generous and brave nation ever!  Better dead than Red -- take my word for it. We have the graves and the scars." 

[Robert of Prague]