With Internet communication instantly available around the world, it is easy for any publication on distant continents to know exactly what is happening in the United States and to comment on these events just as quickly. One of these publications is Pravda, the Russian equivalent of the New York Times or the Washington Post.

Back in Soviet times, Pravda was the official mouthpiece of the Russian Communist Party and quite critical of American capitalism. But now it seems to have as much freedom as any publication in the West, and what it now writes about events in America is quite ironic. In its issue of April 29, 2009, Stanislav Mishin writes:

“It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American descent into Marxism is happening with breathtaking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people. Full Piece