Been learning about the Cold War and came across this phrase.
Did people actually use it and was communism deemed that bad?
I wonder if anyone here ever actualy had a T-shirt with the phrase printed on it?
Or did anyone go the other way and agree with 'better red than dead'?
Interesting period of history for sure.
"He told me red means run son numbers add up to nothing, and when the first shot hit the dog I saw it coming "
An American officer did say, during the Vietnam War, when the town of Ben Tre was destroyed by bombs and shells despite all the civilians living there: “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it†- presumably from becoming communist.
Much the same as better dead than red.
Four times the total bomb load that was dropped in WW2 was dropped on that peasant nation to save them from turning communist - that didn’t work either.
Yes.
As a Reagan supporter in college I personally heard "better red than dead" many times from people who would surely have been killed by Communists because of their outspokenness.
I don't remember hearing "better dead than red" so much, but the mentality was certainly there.
Communism killed more of their own people in the last century than died in all the wars, but no one was taught that back then. We still don't teach the true horror that Communism is. The truth is that most of us would be better off dead than living in a Communist country. So,
Better dead than Red!!
"And I just turned twenty-two, I was wonderin' what to do"
Was it actually communism as defined my Marx?
A lot of people would say it was simply an authoritarian dictatorship.
yeah but no but wrote:
Was it actually communism as defined my Marx?
A lot of people would say it was simply an authoritarian dictatorship.
An authoritarian regime is the inevitable result of communism as defined by Marx. It happened repeatedly every time, every place it was tried.
yeah but no but wrote:
Was it actually communism as defined my Marx?
A lot of people would say it was simply an authoritarian dictatorship.
There is no difference between Communism as defined by Marx and an authoritarian dictatorship.
communist experiment failed wrote:
yeah but no but wrote:Was it actually communism as defined my Marx?
A lot of people would say it was simply an authoritarian dictatorship.
An authoritarian regime is the inevitable result of communism as defined by Marx. It happened repeatedly every time, every place it was tried.
Yep. Road to Serfdom by Hayek explains why.
I was afraid of Reagan far more the 'Communists'. If it hadn't been for Reagan, Gorbachov could have ended the cold war two years earlier. Reagan was the war monger. He prolonged the cold war and Communism. Maybe Reagan was the Communist since he tried to keep it alive.
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I was afraid of Reagan far more the 'Communists'. If it hadn't been for Reagan, Gorbachov could have ended the cold war two years earlier. Reagan was the war monger. He prolonged the cold war and Communism. Maybe Reagan was the Communist since he tried to keep it alive.
Yeah, me too, I just hate that Reagan is the most popular president since those pesky founding fathers.
Yeah right. He can't even beat Clinton in popularity. You might wanna check those polls again. Reagan more popular than Kennedy, Roosevelt, Lincoln, yeah right.
Absolutely. Sometimes it was said as satire or parody but not always. But that was before t-shirts carried messages. And there were a few of us who did go the other way.
yeah but no but wrote:
Was it actually communism as defined my Marx?
A lot of people would say it was simply an authoritarian dictatorship.
Late in his life and looking at what people had made of his ideas Marx said, "I am not a Marxist."
Yes. A cadet said this to one of my teammates in 1988 on a Spring Break track trip to Charleston. We were training at the Citadel track and jogging around nearby when someone saw him wearing a Russian futurist shirt and said that.
Later at a nearby mall, someone said to him, "Kent State's that way!" Nice. Of course, Kent State was where four peaceful protesters were shot to death.
Actually, my memory was slightly off. What the guy said in the mall was, "the only good Russian is a dead Russian." The cadet did the pointing to Kent State.
saying there is no difference is simply dishonesty or intellectual laziness. There are hundreds of differences.
Chicken Hawk Cowards (those with no Army infantry grunt service on their DD-214) used that phase often to act phony and patriotic.