Seeing those “spontaneous” gatherings of people singing “God Bless America” and cheering EMT workers on television reminded me of a story my old friend Yuri Maltsev once told me. Yuri spent the first part of his life in the Soviet Union (he was an economic advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev before he defected). The story is about a neighbor woman who almost every day would open her apartment window and shout praise to the Communist Party. “Why do you do that?” Yuri asked her. The answer was something along the lines of “So they don’t suspect I am not loyal and obedient.”
Reminds me of the recent “spontaneous” singing and cheering here in the new Union of Soviet Socialist American Republics (USSAR).
7:50 am on April 6, 2020
