Thread by @RomanNumeral100

Bernie Sanders’ radical past MEGA THREAD. He is likely to become the Democratic Presidential nominee. Knowledge is power.

Bernie Sanders has a long history of radicalism. Here’s a nearly complete timeline of his subversive past that he & his followers are trying to hide:

1/81

TLDR: Anyone would be totally justified in calling Bernie Sanders a Socialist, a Marxist, and/or a Communist. He has long held and expressed the requisite beliefs, associated with the requisite political parties, and praised the requisite people and governments.

2/81

The following is largely copied and pasted from the sources cited at the end. I do not claim to have created this content, only compiled it from multiple locations. I couldn’t find all of this info in one location, so I made it myself. Enjoy.

3/81

1963: As a 22 year old college student, Sanders spent “months” working for the Hashomer Hatzair, a Marxist youth movement founded by Communist Ya’akov Hazan.

Founder Hazan described the USSR as a second homeland, and wrote a eulogy for Joseph Stalin,

4/81

describing how shocked he and his comrades were “to hear of the terrible tragedy that has befallen the nations of the Soviet Union, the world proletariat, and all of progressive mankind upon the death of the great leader and extolled commander, Josef Stalin.

5/81

We lower our flag in grief in memory of the great revolutionary fighter, architect of Socialist construction, and leader of the world’s peace movement. His huge historical achievements will guide generations in their march towards the reign of Socialism and

6/81

Communism the world over.”

Al Hamishmar, the movement’s paper, had a headline that read “The Progressive World Mourns the Death of J. V. Stalin”

This Marxist movement that Sanders joined pledged its allegiance to the Soviet Union, and was described as

7/81

“Stalinist” as late as 1969 - well after Sanders’ visit.

The Times reported that this camp viewed the USSR as a model society worthy of adoption, and often flew the Red Soviet flag at its events - the same Soviet flag, notably, that Sanders would later hang

8/81

in his office as Mayor of Burlington, Vt., according to the New York Post.

1963-1964: Bernie Sanders joined the Young People’s Socialist League, the youth wing of the Socialist Party USA. Sanders also organized for the United Packinghouse Workers Union, a

9/81

known Communist Front, which at the time had been infiltrated by hardened Communist Agents and was under investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

1969: Sanders wrote several essays for Freeman, in which he wrote such things as

10/81

“The manner in which you bring up your daughter with regards to sexual attitudes may very well determine whether or not she will develop breast cancer, among other things” and “Now, if children go around naked, they are liable to see each other’s sexual organs,

11/81

and maybe even touch them. Terrible things! If we [raise] children up like this, it will probably ruin the whole pornography business...”

1972: In another essay to Freeman, Sanders wrote a short story about men and women. In it, he wrote such things as

12/81

“A woman enjoys intercourse with her man - as she fantasizes being raped by 3 men simultaneously” and “Do you know why the newspaper with the articles like ‘Girl 12 raped by 14 men’ sell so well? To what in us are they appealing?”

At this same time,

13/81

Sanders told junior high school students in Vermont that US policy in Vietnam was “almost as bad as what Hitler did”, according to the Rutland Daily Herald.

1971-1976: Bernie Sanders helped found the Socialist ‘Liberty Union Party’ in Vermont, where he ran for Governor

14/81

and Senator while calling for the government takeover of the whole medical industry, all US banks, all privately owned electric utilities, and the nationalization of the entire oil industry - without compensation to the banks or wealthy individuals who owned them.

15/81

Sounding like Lenin, he also demanded that the government actually seize corporate assets and the wealth of “millionaires and billionaires”, namely the Rockefellers, and redistribute it “for all people.”

In a 1976 interview with the Cynic, UVM’s weekly student paper,

16/81

Sanders described himself as “clearly anti-Capitalistic.”

1977: As founder of the Socialist ‘American People’s Historical Society’, Bernie Sanders produced a glowing 30 minute full color documentary of Socialist Revolutionary Eugene Debs, who was

17/81

jailed under the Espionage Act and was hailed by the Bolsheviks as “America’s Greatest Marxist.”

In a 1918 speech in Canton, Ohio, Sanders’ idol Debs reaffirmed his solidarity with Lenin and Trotsky, despite clear evidence at that point of their violence

18/81

and wanton destruction. He ran for President as a Socialist five separate times.

Bernie Sanders still keeps a portrait of Eugene Debs on the wall of his Senate office to this day.

1979: Bernie Sanders penned a piece for a local leftist paper

19/81

arguing for the government takeover of the television industry, banishing commercial advertising, and putting all content under the control of the government, much like Nazi’s did with their propaganda or the Soviets did with Pravda.

20/81

1980: Bernie Sanders joined the ‘Socialist Workers Party’, the self proclaimed Trotskyist Revolutionary Party.

Context - In 1979, Iran took 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. Virtually all Americans—Democrats, Republicans and Independents—united in

21/81

support of the hostages and the international call for their freedom. One prominent political figure on the 2020 stage, then almost completely unknown, stood apart by joining a Marxist-Leninist party (the Socialist Workers Party) that not only pledged

22/81

support for the Iranian theocracy, but also justified their taking Americans hostage by insisting the hostages were all likely CIA agents. Who was that person? It was Bernie Sanders. At a time when Iran was holding 52 Americans hostage,

23/81

Sanders thought it was a good idea to join the only political party in the United States that supported Iran over the United States.

When the Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate, Andrew Pulley, came to speak at the University of Vermont

24/81

in October 1980, Bernie Sanders chaired the meeting. During the meeting, Pulley condemned “anti-Iranian hysteria around the U.S. hostages” and “Carter’s war drive against the Iranian people.” As for the hostages, Pulley justified their capture with

25/81

“we can be sure that many of them are simply spies… or people assigned to protect the spies,” which was a direct echo of propaganda that Iran had spread in 1979 - “We defend the capture of this imperialist embassy, which is a center for espionage.”

26/81

Bernie Sanders then supported Andrew Pulley’s run for President in 1980, as well as Mel Mason’s Presidential run in 1984. Their platforms included promises to dismantle the entire US military (during the heights of the Cold War) and to nationalize most industries.

27/81

1981: As Burlington’s new mayor, Bernie Sanders announced he didn’t believe in private charities, and favored disbanding them, explaining that government should be responsible for all social welfare and charity. The citizens of the United States,

28/81

out of every country on Earth, give the most money to charity.

Sanders also immediately began restricting property rights for landlords, setting price controls and raising property taxes to pay for communal land trusts. Local small businesses

29/81

distributed fliers complaining their new mayor “does not believe in free enterprise.”

Bernie Sanders then adopted a Soviet city outside Moscow to be the ‘Sister City’ to Burlington. He also adopted a ‘Sister City’ in Soviet Puppet Nicaragua, to support the

30/81

Communist Sandinista revolution there.

1985: Bernie Sanders had a very busy year in 1985. First, during an interview, he himself said that he espoused “traditional Socialist goals - the public ownership of oil companies, factories, utilities, banks, etc.”

31/81

He then lamented that Americans were unfairly and unreasonably hostile to the Soviet Union, telling the Los Angeles Times that “A handful of people in this country are making decisions, whipping up Cold War hysteria, making us hate the Russians.

32/81

We’re spending billions on military. Why can’t we take some of that money to pay for thousands of U.S. children to go to the Soviet Union?” He then invited officials from the USSR and Communist China to stop by his office. This, despite the facts that

33/81

in the preceding few years, the Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan, shot down Korean Air Lines flight 007, spread Communism to multiple countries, expanded the Iron Curtain, and pushed for the institution of martial law in Poland.

34/81

Oh, and the USSR had also incessantly called for the Nuclear Annihilation of the United States. Let’s not forget that.

Sanders also expressed the view that Breadlines in starving Communist countries were a sign of the system’s success, saying

35/81

“It’s funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is, that people are lining up for food. That is a good thing! In other countries people don’t line up for food: The rich get the food, and the poor starve to death.”

36/81

After next passing a resolution pledging that Burlington would defy President Reagan’s embargo on communist-controlled Nicaragua, Sanders traveled to Managua, Nicaragua to attend, along with Soviet officials, an anti-U.S. rally

37/81

sponsored by the Marxist-Leninist Sandinistas. He reportedly stood with a crowd of half a million people that chanted, “Here, there, everywhere, the Yankee will die” and where Daniel Ortega condemned “State Terrorism” by America.

38/81

Sanders has many times discussed attending the rally, calling it “A profoundly emotional experience.”

His trip was said to have been paid for by the Sandinista government. Sanders, in turn, invited Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega to visit the U.S. via a letter

39/81

he wrote to the Sandinistas, in which he said they had undergone a “Heroic Revolution” and pledged support for their struggle (against the United States). He called Ortega an “Impressive guy,” while attacking President Ronald Reagan. Sanders signed the

40/81

letter with “Vinceremos”, or “We Will Overcome”, which was the rallying cry of Che Guevera, the Cuban Communist revolutionary who, among other horrendous acts, executed hundreds of prisoners without trial at the orders of Fidel Castro, was a noted racist,

41/81

specifically targeted homosexuals to put them into forced labor camps, and eliminated Free Speech and Freedom of the Press in Cuba.

An important point is that Nicaragua’s issues weren’t unknown to the world (or, likely, to Sanders) before Sanders took his trip.

42/81

In the months before he visited Managua, the Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights had issued a 159-page report documenting the use of death threats, psychological coercion and other human rights abuses by the Cuban-trained Sandinista secret police.

43/81

As far back as 1981, The New York Times reported that the Sandinistas held more than 4,000 political prisoners. A 1984 report by the National Security Council chronicled a litany of human rights violations, including forced relocation of native populations.

44/81

Despite all this and more, Sanders still made his visit, had nothing but praise for the Sandinistas, and nothing but criticism for the United States.

In October 1985, a few months after Bernie Sanders traveled to Nicaragua, the Soviet-backed Nicaraguan government

45/81

suspended the civil liberties of its citizens, including the rights to free speech, free assembly and labor strikes.

A few days after this, Sanders received a pointed letter from a constituent. How, the letter-writer wanted to know, could Sanders

46/81

continue to embrace "another in a long line of dictatorships, whose only true concern is its length of stay in power?" Sanders wrote a letter in reply, making no apologies. He said the situation was “complex”, and immediately pivoted to attack the United States.

47/81

In an interview with Vermont government-access TV, Sanders claimed “The Sandinista government has more support among the Nicaraguan people -- substantially more support -- than Ronald Reagan has among the American people,” even though Reagan had

48/81

just been reelected in a historic landslide, winning all but 1 state, and D.C., in the fifth most lopsided presidential election in US history.

In the public access TV interview, Sanders said that if U.S. policymakers "are expecting a tremendous uprising in

49/81

Nicaragua, they are very, very, very mistaken." Less than five years later, with their Soviet aid slashed as the Cold War ended, the Sandinistas agreed to their first free election — and were promptly voted out of power, in what some might call a ‘tremendous uprising’.

50/81

In the same interview, he praised Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, claiming “he educated their kids, gave their kids health care, totally transformed society.”

Sanders, even today, struggles to say one negative thing about authoritarian Communist Cuba

51/81

under Fidel Castro, instead continuing to praise their “literacy programs”. However, before Castro, Cuba had a literacy rate that was almost double the global average, and their literacy gains under Castro are comparable with those of other nearby countries,

52/81

who all did it without having to suffer the hemisphere’s longest running and most brutal dictatorship.

Bernie Sanders capped off his exiting year with an interview with the Los Angeles Times, where he proclaimed “The whole quality of life in America is based on greed.

53/81

I believe in the redistribution of wealth in this nation.”

1986: Sanders recalled feeling “very excited” by Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution, which played out during his teens. “It just seemed right and appropriate that poor people were rising up

54/81

against rather ugly rich people,” he said in 1986.

1988: One day after wedding his second and current wife, Jane Sanders, the two traveled to the USSR for their honeymoon, with a group of other US politicians. Sanders did not halt his expressions of

55/81

disapproval of the US while abroad (in the USSR, no less), criticizing American foreign policy to such an extent that one of the Republicans on the trip rose to rebut him, and then stormed out of the room, according to NBC News.

In a mirrored version of

56/81

going to the USSR and doing nothing but criticize the US, when Sanders returned to the US, he did nothing but praise the communist USSR. He specifically applauded their health care and housing, noting “the cost of both services is much,

57/81

much higher in the United States. There are some things that [the Soviet Union does] better than we do and which were, in fact, quite impressive. Subway systems in in Moscow costs 5 kopecs — or 7 cents. Faster, cleaner, more attractive and more efficient

58/81

than any in the U.S. — and cheap," an official statement from the Burlington's office reads. "The train trip that we took from Leningrad to Moscow — for Soviet citizens — was very cheap." Sanders then went on to praise "programs for youth and workers"

59/81

that he saw during the trip, along with their “palaces of culture.” Sanders also likened Soviet problems in "health care, environmental protection, and agriculture" to those in the United States.

Yet, experts on the Soviet Union say that Sanders

60/81

drew a misleading picture for the people of Burlington, and America. "How skewed someone's perception can be on what they're observing. There were people in the West who unfortunately genuinely believed the Soviet Union was

61/81

better at some things than the West, like infrastructure," Anna Borshchevskaya, a senior fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told the Examiner. "People like Sanders don't realize what the cost of tickets meant in the context of Soviet society.

62/81

Nothing was 'free.'"

"When I lived in the Soviet Union, everything was falling apart. People don't realize how many people Stalin killed by building the Moscow subway station. Sure, the trains worked, but that other factor is dismissed.

63/81

I have no doubt Bernie was sincere in what he said, but there was a whole disregard for life and safety in every aspect of Soviet life, including infrastructure," Borschevkaya said.

According to Marion Smith, executive director of the

64/81

congressionally authorized Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, “[Sanders] turned a blind eye to what was known about the ongoing systematic human rights abuses, the suppression of religious and ethnic minorities, the jailing of dissidents,” Smith said.

65/81

“He was very clearly joining the ranks of the useful idiots who believed in the propaganda of the Soviet Union and carried it to the West.”

66/81

Three years after Sanders praised the infrastructure of the USSR and said its problems were similar to those of the U.S., the Soviet Union completely collapsed and ceased to exist.

67/81

1989: Bernie Sanders finally visited the Communist Cuba that he had previously seemed so enraptured with, and upon his return to the US lauded the country’s “free health care, free education, free housing,” while blithely dismissing the plummeting wages,

68/81

human rights abuses, and government held political prisoners by saying that they weren’t a “perfect society,” according to The Free Press of Burlington. He sought to meet with Fidel Castro himself on this trip, but had to settle for the mayor of Havana.

69/81

After returning from Cuba, Sanders mocked the notion that Cuba was an undesirable place to live, chalking up criticisms of the island nation as right-wing propaganda. In notes attached to a draft of the remarks, Sanders highlighted what he perceived as

70/81

strengths of the Communist Cuban regime, which includes their system of "democracy," as well as state-provided housing and healthcare.

Had Sanders scheduled his trip a year and a half later, he would have witnessed what is known as " Período especial," or

71/81

"The Special Period in Time of Peace," which was a nearly decade-long economic crisis that resulted in famine. From 1990-1995, Cuban adults lost an average of 5% to 25% of their body weight, according to a study from the National Institute of Health.

72/81

With the West on the verge of winning the Cold War, Sanders gave a speech to the National Conference of the U.S. Peace Council -- another known front for the Communist Party USA, whose members swore an oath to “the triumph of Soviet power in the U.S.”

73/81

1990: Bernie Sanders is first elected to the US House of Representatives, as an Independent. Ironically, his support of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia caused the Liberty Union Party, which he helped create, to see him as a sellout,

74/81

calling him “Bernie the Bomber.” They laid into him with “Bernie became an imperialist to get elected in 1990” and declaring, “Bernie’s selling out says clearly to working people and those unable to find work that even leftists become mainstream politicians,

75/81

when and if they win office.” The group also observed that, at the time, Sanders had “no person of color on his staff.” No matter how “progressive” you are, you’re never progressive enough. Even if you’re Bernie Sanders.

76/81

Note: This document merely seeks to reveal and assess Bernie Sanders’ radical past. It does not go into any details of his more recent radicalism, such as promising free healthcare to illegal aliens, backing the economy destroying Green New Deal,

77/81

claiming that the American Dream is more realized in Venezuela than the US, calling himself a ‘Democratic Socialist’ to try and soften his radical past, saying that he wouldn’t have killed Terrorist Soleimani, the fact that Project Veritas revealed

78/81

that he has multiple self declared Communists working for him that he refuses to fire despite them saying they seek to put all Republicans in gulags, seeking to completely change the structure of the economy during the most prosperous time in world history, etc etc etc.

79/81

Hopefully all of that stuff is more obvious.

Sources Compiled From:
investors.com/politics/edito…

nationalreview.com/2018/12/bernie…

washingtonpost.com/politics/in-co…

80/81

washingtonexaminer.com/news/bernie-sa…

nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…

forbes.com/2008/12/24/ame…

thedailybeast.com/when-iran-took…

documentcloud.org/documents/2157…

babalublog.com/2020/02/23/the…

81/81