In the days leading up to New York City’s mayoral election, a powerful video began making the rounds online. It features a man who grew up under communism in the Soviet Union, and his warning to Americans is loud and clear: do not fall for the lies of socialism.
This man lived behind the Iron Curtain, where people didn’t have freedom of speech, private property, or the right to vote in fair elections. He saw firsthand what happens when the state controls everything—and he’s stunned that anyone in the United States would even consider going down that same road.
“I lived behind the Iron Curtain. To want socialism or communism is one of the dumbest things anybody can say in this country,” he tells journalist Kaitlin Bennett in the now-viral video.
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— Kaitlin Bennett (@KaitMarieox) November 4, 2025
This isn’t just a passionate opinion—it’s a warning based on lived experience. In communist countries, the government decides what you can say, where you can live, and how much food you can buy. The man explains that people in America have no idea how good they have it. He even suggests that college students should be required to volunteer in a third-world country just to understand the blessings of American freedom.
Why are so many young Americans turning toward socialism? The answer is simple: they’ve never been taught the truth.
Our schools have failed to teach the horrors of communism. They’ve failed to teach the value of freedom, hard work, and personal responsibility. One of the most shocking things the man says in the video is this: “I have a friend who has no idea what Auschwitz is. Forty-two years old. How is that even possible?”
It’s not just ignorance. It’s a dangerous rewriting of history.
Now, candidates like Zohran Mamdani are trying to bring those failed ideas to America’s biggest city. They claim they can make socialism work this time, as if history didn’t happen. They think they’re smarter than the millions who suffered and died under Marxist regimes in the 20th century.
But socialism always ends the same way. Shortages. Suffering. Control.
Another voice joined the warning this week—Christine Gretagauthier, a young woman who legally immigrated to America from Russia. She too is stunned that Americans would flirt with the same system she escaped. In a recent video, she explains what lies ahead if people keep voting for socialist leaders. She knows that freedom is fragile, and once it’s gone, it’s very hard to get back.
The truth is clear for those who are willing to look. Socialism has failed in every place it’s been tried—Cuba, Venezuela, the Soviet Union, East Germany. It leads to poverty and loss of liberty. And yet, some in America believe they can make it work by doing it “the right way.” That kind of thinking ignores both history and human nature.
Our Founding Fathers understood the dangers of big government. That’s why they built a Constitution that protects individual rights, limits federal power, and secures the blessings of liberty for future generations.
But liberty is not automatic. It must be defended—especially when young Americans are being taught to despise their own country and embrace the same tyranny their grandparents fought to defeat.
This is more than a political debate. It’s a battle for the soul of our nation. And if we don’t teach the truth now, we risk losing everything that makes America free.
Let the words of those who lived through communism serve as a warning. We cannot afford to ignore them.
