Jake Danishevsky
A Soviet-born (and now) American Jew, issues a warning to the U.S. of the dangers of accepting socialism.
"Don't give up the freedom that is rightfully yours. It is that simple. We in America have choices that most other nations do not. Do not give up what is rightfully yours."
--Jake Danishevsky
What if you were a first-generation American, raised in a family that fled socialism and all of its chains, when you were a young boy?
What if you were watching your newly-adopted country accept the same form of government in increments and were dismayed to know that not even Americans, who are exceptional, can "do socialism right"?!
You would try to warn your fellow countrymen, which is exactly what Jake Danishevsky does for us in his new book.
In this post and others leading up to the election, I am going to share thoughts from Jake and his new book, shown here (and available here) on exactly why America should fight socialism with everything it has to prevent the tragedy of socialism--in any form--from happening here, the last best hope on earth.
Here I begin a series with an interview with this author, which I hope will accomplish these goals:
1. Encourage you to read his book.
2. Encourage you to vote AGAINST socialism.
3. Preserve your beloved USA and its freedoms against those who seek to take them from you.
4. Pass along a FREE AMERICA to your children and grandchildren.
This election is unlike any other, and if the voice of a man who has LIVED the socialist lifestyle can help us understand why we absolutely CANNOT accept this way of life, that is his goal.
Joni: Thank you Jake, for agreeing to do this interview, and for your time in giving it.
Jake: Thank you for the opportunity to speak to your readers. I hope each will read and listen, because I want to present my political memoirs to help the American people avoid the pitfalls of miseries of socialism. My point in writing this book is simple and this is it:
"Why would anyone willingly give up their freedoms? In the Soviet socialist society, the system makes everyone equally miserable. My conclusion is that a nation should never try socialism in the first place!"
Q: First, Tell us where and when you were born? Could you tell us a little bit about your childhood in the Soviet Union?
A: I was born in 1966 in the former Soviet Union in Kiev, Ukraine, to a father that was a blue collar worker at a factory, and mother who was in the photography industry. We had enough, which is as much as any Soviet citizen could or should have. Enough is all that it was.
Even if my parents worked harder or longer hours, being able to provide more or items that might seem luxurious was nearly impossible. There were shortages of money on the part of nearly everyone, there were also shortages on almost anything and everything.
Even if you had connections to the black market to get more items of some food or clothing, it was illegal and punishable by imprisonment: in socialism, there is no FREE MARKET for the average person. If you were to get in trouble with the law for having forbidden items, you did not want trouble with the law if you didn't have connections to those in government to help you out, because the government system is so corrupt.
I was a Jew, not by religion, but by birth. I am a Jew by nationality and by birth. In the Soviet society any religious belief is banned. I did not know what actually "being Jewish" meant until coming to America. But, life in the Soviet Union did remind me each day of my life that I was a "Jew" by birth. Our family was part of a 1970's agreement between Carter, Brezhnev and Israel to let any Jew who wanted to leave and "had relatives abroad" out of the Soviet Union.
Q: Who do you hope to help by writing this book and whom do you see as the main audience?
A: All Americans but especially those who are "on the fence", are ruled by emotions, are very young, or those who don't know what socialism can do to a country and to its people. I need, we all need, to save this nation. I don't want to face what we ran from!
Socialism sounds good, in that the government will provide and run everything. But the real result is that nothing is good for any one of the people except for those in power. None of the programs are run in an excellent way, and all the results are is misery.
As a child in the Soviet Union, I was not faced with many of the financial worries or burdens, since we had what we "needed" according to the government. We were accepting of this because we lived how all the others lived; with just enough. We simply accepted this and didn't strive for more.
You are told from the beginning that socialism is the greatest and most humane form of government in the world, and in the Soviet Union, the media told us that as well and that capitalism ruins lives and socialism is the only form of government that takes care of people.
How else is a Soviet citizen supposed to be able to know otherwise? Everything we saw or heard was that we had the best lives possible, and that it made all of us equal and that we only needed what we had to be healthy and that ours was not an "opportunity driven" society.
"We left the Soviet Union when I was a thirteen and a half, and America was the only choice. Why? Because to my family, America was the beacon of freedom and where my parents wished to take their kids for opportunity and freedoms that we would never ever be able to have had we stayed back in the Soviet society."
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Thank you, Jake!
Feel free to leave YOUR THOUGHTS on what Jake has said so far, and to order his book, at this link: Amazon.com
