A Cautionary Tale: From the #WalkAway Campaign

Listen to Kahina’s Story she shared on the #WalkAway Facebook page, it’s inspiring, and cautionary…

Kahinia– “Can’t say I ever “walked away” because, you see, I am not an American.
I was born and grew up in the Socialist Republic of România. In the ’80s Socialism was progressing towards Communism, and we were showing the decayed Capitalist West how well Socialism was working.
By which I mean food, electricity and water were rationed, we waited in queues for half the night to buy meager rations and things like toilet paper, coffee or sweets were the height of luxury.
Back then, listening to the radio on a forbidden frequency or owning “capitalistic” music like Beatles could land you in jail.
Well, most things could land you in jail. Stockpiling food or gas, for instance, or complaining about the government, or making a joke. There was a journalist that landed in jail because he wasn’t permitted more than 2 colors in his printed newspaper, and he chose 2: red and green, so a picture of an athlete with our flag on her costume came out as having a Hungarian flag on, by mistake.

In ’89 people had enough. They swarmed the streets fought, died. In the end, the dictator fled, was captured, tried and shot on Christmas Day.

That year, on Christmas, I got oranges, for the first time I remember, a pair of red stockings, and freedom. And I will never forget Freedom isn’t free. You need to fight for it, and to maintain it, sometimes with your life, or people will take it from you “for your own good”.

Keep your country Great, and keep it as a bastion of Freedom. It’s what keeps this world balanced towards good.”

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