'We've Seen This Before': Russian-American Grassroots Organization in North Carolina Seeks to Wake People Up to Dangers of Communist Agendas

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% :RSAF seeks to educate Americans of the group's experiences under communism "and how it's detrimental to society," because, according to Androsova, the ideology is "upon us."
56% : Badalian called it a "learned helplessness.""I'm seeing a lot of people here expecting a lot from the government, such as free education, free health care, and free supplemental income, and I just know from my experience that nothing is free," she said.
55% : Though at times it seems as if America has been too overshadowed by socialist agendas dressed up as "government assistance," Gatt said there's still hope in the Founding Documents, such as the United States Constitution.
54% :Janna Badalian, the co-founding chair of RSAF, grew up in a family of Soviet scientists living in a university town in Siberia, where, despite being of a slightly more privileged class, she still experienced the fear, poverty, and lack of opportunity and freedoms that socialism brought with it, Badalian told The Epoch Times.
52% : ""Seventy years of socialism in Russia fundamentally affected the mentality of people and the soul," Badalian said.
52% : And that's the purpose of RSAF, Gatt said; to educate people on what it was like for those under Soviet rule and how cleverly socialist policies are sold to the public.
49% : In any country that has experimented with socialism, Gatt said, the principles protected by the First and Second Amendments have always been targets of those who seek to implement the socialist policies.
48% : "Because we all grew up in the socialist Soviet Union with the implementation of communism in our homeland, we know exactly what is happening because we've seen this before," Androsova said.
44% : The growing reliance on government -- a hallmark of socialism -- not only impacts people economically, she said, but it also "kills the spirit.
44% : When speaking at events, she tells the audience, "I escaped socialism twice: once in post-Soviet Russia, and then a second time in California," where she said socialist policies were being approved without notice in local municipalities.
44% : Anyone disloyal to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's centralized agenda was sent to the Gulag camps, where for many, death from starvation, disease, exhaustion, and execution was their only exit.

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