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Communism on Parade? High School Marches to Marx and Lenin

Earl Wrote: Sep 28, 2012 8:40 AM

"Marchtime" is a parody of ignorance. Ever hear of a modern scholar named "Bernard Lewis?" How about Robert Shapiro, one of Stalin's biographers? Many of the citizens of Israel are former victims of Russian or Polish anti-Semitism or the descendants of victims. Stalin, a Georgian and former Orthodox Christian seminarian, was extremely anti-Semitic, refusing even to acknowledge the marriage of his daughter Svetlana to a Jewish physician.

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Communism on Parade? High School Marches to Marx and Lenin

Editor’s note: A version of this piece first appeared at FoxNews.com.

“What do you think of this?” So began a phone call from Todd Starnes of FoxNews radio. Starnes asked me for a comment on a shocking story: A band at a high school near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania performed a halftime show titled, “St. Petersburg 1917,” a musical commemoration of the Bolshevik Revolution, replete with hammers and sickles, military uniforms, and red flags.

“No way,” I responded. “Are you sure this wasn’t a joke, a parody?”

It wasn’t. And parents of the students aren’t...

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