The Commies are coming!

[wrascalism.livejournal.com]

And they'll be hungry, time to prepare dinner.


1950s


1967

Comments

[jazzybabe56.livejournal.com]

OL Canucklehead here....

the really weird thing for me is in the fist pic - I recall schoolrooms that looked like that even tho the teachers didn't......

in the second....I wanted SOOOOO bad to go to Expo 67 - we got a gold coin and some other crap - oh flags with the logo on them and a pin with the logo on a maple leaf - coz we never got to go.....

*sigh*

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

Ha! I love the second one!
I'm a big Expo 67 geek and this made my day!

[leoprincess.livejournal.com]

The more things change, the more they remain the same - just replace 'Communism' with 'Liberalism'.

[gotham-syren.livejournal.com]

BINGO!

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

What is most scary is that "the right" would simply yield all our individual rights and freedoms to rapacious multinational corporations under the pseudo-religion of "free markets". Just listen to the kooks on Fox News and you'll hear it every bleepin' minute.

[blue-sky-lark.livejournal.com]

*Icon chosen for the panicking*
This! I live in Wyoming (red state through and through, and we've got a high percentage of tea-baggers) and any form of not-conservative-republicanism and/or liberalism and/or dissent is treated with a great big socialism freak out.

Not all Republicans or tea-baggers are like this, but it's definitely a trend.

Socialism is the boogeyman and keeps any meaningful change or discourse from happening, IMHO. "Hey, what about adjusting our health care system?" "SOCIALISM!! DON'T TREAD ON MEEEE!"


*Liberal I am, but I lean more towards Democratic Socialism^.^

[losingstreak7.livejournal.com]

ia sfm

[write-light.livejournal.com]

No, that's so 90's. Replace it with Marxist-Nazi-Leninist-Kenyan-Socialist.

[leoprincess.livejournal.com]

Right. My mistake. ;)

[vonjunzt.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or is that Commie teacher trying to seduce that little boy?

Re: Canadair

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

It's all very well to simper and giggle. but it's remarkable how well that first paragraph describes modern-day victims of American public “education.” And properly so, in the eyes of those who have caused it. Devoid of moral responsibility - ignorant of history… “Homeschooling” became a still-growing mass movement for a reason.

Re: Canadair

[raven-moon.livejournal.com]

If public school students are ignorant of history (which is not remotely the same thing as "intellectual honesty," which is what the ad says) it's because of the Religious Right trying to rewrite history (to say nothing of science, and a slew of other subjects) via the Texas School Board's textbook shenanigans (among others), not some victimizing indoctrination program. Homeschooling CAN be an excellent experience. In reality, it often isn't, with curricula like A-Beka and many, many others failing to give students basic levels of education in sciences and history.

Sorry to go off-topic, but I needed to comment on this. If you want to continue the discussion, feel free to do so on my LJ, as this is not the place.

Re: Canadair

[blue-sky-lark.livejournal.com]

Yes! Thank you for commenting about this. I've got plenty of issues regarding public school education, but have never been able to really articulate it well. You did, and I applaud your off-topicness (it's a word now^.^).

Re: Canadair

[raven-moon.livejournal.com]

Er, you're welcome... and thanks!

"off-topic-ness" I like it! LOL

Re: Canadair

[beetle-breath.livejournal.com]

motherfucking this

Re: Canadair

[raven-moon.livejournal.com]

Er, thanks!

*can't look away from your icon*

Re: Canadair

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

Amen.

Re: Canadair

[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

*yawn*

[urso.livejournal.com]

That Expo 67 ad is very famous. It was ultimately responsible for a great many visitors from The States. At Expo 86 in Vancouver, they had the next-to-last Soviet Pavilion.

I wonder how many Americans would have gone to Shanghai's Expo 2010 this year if they knew there was a North Korea Pavilion.

(I run the site http://www.ExpoMuseum.com incidentally)

[itskelp.livejournal.com]

i don't think that many, it's a lot easier to get into Canada than China. . .

[thesilverlight.livejournal.com]

I don't know about that... LOL

[itskelp.livejournal.com]

um well for one you can't just up and drive to China.

[wrascalism.livejournal.com]

Neat!

(Mind if I 'friend' you? We share several frenz.)

[urso.livejournal.com]

Most certainly!

[raven-moon.livejournal.com]

"ignorant of moral responsibility, devoid of intellectual honesty"

Sounds a lot like the Religious Right to me... Pot, meet Kettle, you two have tons to talk about.....

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

So the Soviets built a model of Dulles Airport in Montreal, five years after the original opened in DC?

[jena.livejournal.com]

I wish I had seen this when it was posted last weekend while I was in Montréal, driving around the old Expo sites!