Dana Mathewson

When Putin is telling western countries they have a problem with rising Marxism, it’s time for everyone to pay attention. That’s like Brian Williams calling out Don Lemon for lying on air.

Except Putin is right. He clearly knows Russia’s history. He sees the dangers of "woke” because his country invented it.

Putin ripped "wokeness” at the18th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, where the topic was "Global Shake-up in the 21st Century.” His speech was recorded and translated into English.

Putin hits the nail on the head. He recognizes four dangerous staples of "wokeness” happening in the U.S.: erasing history; special treatment, rather than equality, for minorities; devaluing parental roles; and blurring, if not blending, genders.

"We see with bemusement the paralysis unfolding in countries that have grown accustomed to viewing themselves as the flagships of progress. Of course, it’s none of our business or what is happening, the social and cultural shocks that are happening in some countries in the Western countries. Some believe that aggressive blotting out of whole pages of your own history, the affirmative action in the interest of minorities, and the requirement to renounce the traditional interpretation of such basic values as mother, father, family, and the distinction between sexes are a milestone, a renewal of society.”

Putin also says what every history buff knows: Today’s American wokesters are using strategies directly out of the commie playbook.

"But there is one thing I would like to say. The recipes they come up with are nothing new. Paradoxical as it may seem, but this is something we saw in Russia. It happened in our country before the 1917 revolution; the Bolsheviks followed the dogmas of Marx and Engels. And they also declared that they would go in to change the traditional lifestyle, the political, the economic lifestyle, as well as the very notion of morality, the basic principles for a healthy society. They were trying to destroy age and century-long values, revisiting the relationship between the people. They were encouraging informing on one’s own beloved and families. It was hailed as the march of progress. And it was very popular across the world and it was supported by many, as we see, it is happening right now.”

Putin went on to mention how puzzling it is that we in the west are now experiencing what Russia went through in the early part of the 20th century.

And we see what is happening in the Western countries. It is with puzzlement that we see the practices Russia used to have and that we left behind in distant path. The fight for equality and against discrimination turns into an aggressive dogmatism on the brink of absurdity, when great authors of the past such as Shakespeare are no longer taught in schools and universities because they announced as backward classics that did not understand the importance of gender or race.”

Puzzling indeed, considering the U.S. fought a cold war with communist Russia for decades. We fought a hot war against communists in North Korea, with China fighting, too. We fought communism in Vietnam. Yet, today, so many leftist "Americans” seem to be leaning toward, even pushing, communism.

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