'Professor or comrade?' Republicans go full red scare on Soviet-born Biden pick

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Three decades have passed since their hero, Ronald Reagan, went to Berlin to exhort Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall!”, the Soviet Union collapsed and America claimed victory in the cold war.

For Republicans in Washington, however, these appear to be mere historical footnotes. On Thursday they dusted off the “red scare” playbook to portray Joe Biden’s choice to run one of the agencies that oversees the banking industry as a dangerous communist.

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Questioning whether Omarova was still a member of communist youth organisations, Kennedy said: “I don’t mean any disrespect: I don’t know whether to call you professor or comrade.”

The remark prompted gasps in the hearing room on Capitol Hill.

Omarova replied, slowly and firmly: “Senator, I’m not a communist. I do not subscribe to that ideology. I could not choose where I was born.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/professor-or-comrade-republicans-go-full-red-scare-on-soviet-born-biden-pick/ar-AAQS4XK

[dalton99a]

1. Kennedy was on the GOP pilgrimage to the Kremlin

[tanyev]

4. That is exactly what I was wondering!

Not to mention you can hardly swing a cat at any GOP event without hitting a Very Wealthy Friend of Putin.

[Mopar151]

2. She has perspective on Russians!

She knows how shady they are, even over minor issues, and that a certain % are always up to s*&*!

[WarGamer]

3. Here's an informative piece on her...

https://www.rferl.org/a/saule-omarova-biden-soviet-union-comptroller/31524305.html

Summary... she's brilliant.

[iemanja]

5. That's a propaganda hit piece

[WarGamer]

6. from Radio Free Europe?

Radio Free Europe receives funding from the US Congress. In fact it's controlled and produced by the US Government.

It's hardly propaganda.

Did you read the article? It's hardly a hit piece, it's accurate and complimentary.

from the article:

Omarova has denied she has communist sympathies, telling the Financial Times: “My grandmother was orphaned because Stalin sent her entire family to Siberia, and they died there. Her family was destroyed because they were educated Kazakhs who didn’t join the party.”

In the same interview, Omarova explained what she believes is behind the controversy over her nomination.

“I am an easy target," she said. "An immigrant, a woman, a minority. I don’t look like your typical comptroller of the currency. I have a different history. I am easy to demonize and vilify.”

from wikipedia:

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a United States government-funded organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Caucasus, and the Middle East where it says that "the free flow of information is either banned by government authorities or not fully developed". RFE/RL is a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation supervised by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, an independent government agency overseeing all U.S. federal government international broadcasting services.

[iemanja]

7. Radio Free Europe

like Radio Marti, is a propaganda arm of the US.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C24&q=radio+free+europe+propaganda&btnG=