I remember learning a lot about communism in high
school, but like some high school students I did not pay attention. I do remember
watching videos about it, reflecting back on those videos helped me with the reading.
When reading about Vladimir Lenin Russia’s dictator I immediately reflected
back to the videos in high school. In one of the videos it talked about how
Lenin was one of the most popular dictators and his ideas were well liked. I
may be wrong on this fact, but what I remember and found most interesting was
the country froze Lenin’s body and wanted to examine his brain because they
found him intelligent. I also remember when they had the summer Olympics in
Russia they included a segment of when Lenin ran and that was an important part
of history for them. Just reading this chapter I got the impression that communism
was just over all bad and turned into an outrage. I know that America was so
frighten of communism; Americans basically treated it as a disease. One of my
teacher made a statement that communism was similar to the accusing of
witchcraft. For example that people would blame other people of witchcraft because
they were either greedy, jealous, revenge, or wanted their land. When the idea
of communism came to America, people began to start accusing abundant of
people, with any reason they can come up with, which is similar to the accusation
of witchcraft. I really found that comparison very interesting. I really
enjoyed reading the segment about communist feminism. I sort of found it funny due
to America adopting the communist feminist idea, and most of those ideas are
still exercised today. America was so afraid of communism and did not want any influences
or the thought of it, but the adopted numerous idea from it. America exercises equality
in politics, legalizing divorces, abortion (still iffy among stated), women did
not have to take their husband last name, and pregnancy leave while women work.
Due to America exercising the communist feminist idea does that mean we are
living a partial communist lifestyle? Overall women benefited the most from
communism. I feel like just over history women are greatly affected the most,
they are either limited or they benefited from it, but over time it seems like
women are only benefiting more throughout history. It was sad to read how many
of people died or was sentenced to labor camps. It seems like labor camps was a
big practiced used in World War II or the period leading up to the War. Russia
used labor camps for people who seemed like enemies to them, Germany used labor
camps to house the Jews and others that did not qualify for the Aryan race, and
America used labor camps to house the Japanese after the attack of Pearl Harbor.
Labor camps just feels like an excuse where they can either torture people,
work people to death, or do mass murders.
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