The article is a stretch. The logic is not something to be taken seriously.
First, Obama’s appearance in Oregon gathered record 75 thousand his supporters. Were they all “Decembrists”?
Second, Obama is going to compete with McCaine for presidency. Everybody in the world who is watching for the show, is choosing from the two. No other choice is offered. So, the fact that the “Decembrists” like Obama better than McCain means just that McCaine is not good for them. Same with HAMAS. HMAS, I am sure, would rather have Sheik Nasralla as the USA president, but he is not running this time. They prefer Obama? It is a matter of whom to prefer. Why Obama has connections to HAMAS than? There may be some really ugly guy, mean and nasty, or even terrorist, who may choose Obama over McCaine. There may be the one of the same kind, who would like McCaine better, so what? Some “white supremacist” or racist from Idaho may hate Obama and choose McCaine. Does it mean that McCaine is a white supremacist or has connection to the new-Nazis?
Third, the mentioned musicians are not necessarily Marxists or communists, just because they are playing the USSR state anthem. Musicians, artists, all kind of art people, they like to do something unusual or even shocking for the public. Like Virgin Mary’s portrait made from elephant’s poop. Ozzie Osborne, used to bite off live pigeons and live bat’s heads when on the scene. The band “Kiss” had their double “S”, depicted like Nazi’s SS logo. So what?
Oleg, people in the USA appreciate your choice to leave the USSR and to come to their country. The USSR does not exist any longer. Relax man. Enjoy your life here; your good car, your house… You did not have all this in the USSR, did you? Nobody is going to take it from you, why work so hard to prove your new loyalty, and that you are more an “American” than the Americans? Get used to the democratic life style, which is characteristic to your new country, the USA. It allows all these: rebellious rock-groups, dissent, freedom of speech, playing music one wants to play, voting for whoever, to be liberal or conservative. It is a free country.
As about:
I have quite an emotional connection to this music: the Soviet-era one-channel radios used to play it at six every morning as a nationwide wake-up call, causing me hours of lost sleep. I tried to escape this dark memory by coming to America, but the American “progressives” just won’t let me forget.
Why did not you turned off your “one-channel radio” to sleep in? And why you just do not ignore the American “progressives”?
