Oh, you are still driving a used car, not a brand new? And still trying to entertain Americans, you wanna be a friend to, with horror stories about your sleep deprivation by CPSU (or KGB) while living in the USSR? Than you may not understand some things.
OK, I am going to explain…
“The Chicago Tribune” wrote about 75 000 Oregonians that came to see B. Obama, because they indeed came. The crowd and the weather conditions described right. I do not see any specific style the Soviet poets used to glorify public appearances of the great Stalin. Just normal report about the event, as it was. The Tribune did not write about “the Decembrists”, not because of the fear to harm Barak Obama’s reputation, but because, who the hell, those Decembrists are? I doubt that the Tribune’s correspondent even heard about that band. (I, myself, being in the USA for 15 years, just learned about this group from you.)
So, to call the show of a insignificant musical group the most interesting development is just a work of your imagination. The Decembrists’ support of Obama says nothing new. The active politically young people, both the radical and the moderate will vote for Obama. He promises changes, and changes is what the USA needs. But it, by no means, make Obama kinder or meaner, better or worse. What matters is not who are among the Obama’s sympathizers, but what Obama says and what plans he may have for the USA.
If stripped of all the husks about your personal agonizing experience under the communist rule in the USSR and the irrelevant robbery of a coach full of money by Stalin in 1907 in Tbilisi, your article is:
The Decembrists are playing the Soviet Union anthem, so they are communists. They came to sing in support of Barak Obama. That means the Communists support Barak Obama. Communists are bad. That means that bad people support Barak Obama. We are good people, and we must not support Barak Obama.
I do not buy your point. You put together superficial facts. It is just a cheap propaganda trick. The state of the USA political life and the phenomenon of Barak Obama’s rise of popularity are more complex.
