>>>The video:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zrsl8o4ZPo>>>
>>>The accusal:
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2209975/b_bernice_young_elementary_kids_sing.html?cat=62>>>
>>>A rebuttal:
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2210691/b_bernice_young_elementary_school_indoctrinated.html?cat=9>>>
>>>You decide.
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>>This is very normal. I grew up singing songs of praise to Lenin and Brezhnev. Occasionally when someone didn't sing the song with the right emphasis, they would be sent out and never seen again. Other than that singing praise to the leader is so inspirational.
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>>I hear they these type of songs of praise are popular in North Korea too. So how can this be wrong?!
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>Thank you for posting that, Dmitry. It's good for us who were born in a free country and have always taken it for granted to be reminded it is not the same everywhere.
You are very welcome Mike. Some day I will tell you (and others) what the inside of a soviet style prison camp look and feels like so that American children can sing these songs of praise to our leader even with more emphasis.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
