School was the same here in the 60s in Australia. Haircuts, uniforms, physical training, regulations and if any teachers thought you did wrong you were Flogged with a large stick on the hands sometimes breaking bones. I hated those days and still angry with the way i and others were treated back then !
The Lodge Act is the direct ancestor and basis for the MAVNI Program -- or, "Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest," or MAVNI for short. The MAVNI program enabled non-citizens to join the U.S. military with highly sought after skills vital to U.S. national interests, such as interpreters and translators of in-demand languages, etc. In order for a non-citizen to be considered eligible for MAVNI, he/she must first be a legal immigrant (with a green card), permanently residing in the United States, and meet all the qualifications and requirements for enlistment in the U.S. Armed Forces, both physical and mental, as well as be able to pass a background check and speak English.
@@alpinek9hans310 I had family trapped behind the Iron Curtain in Poland. My family members would visit them one a year. The stories they brought back hardened me against Communism even as a young child. It was no laughing matter back then.
20:32 - the translation of the phrase - the parts that are read out loud anyway - was a lie. The phrase says "воспитание советского патриотизма беспредельной любьви войнов своей родине, органически связена..." the sentence say nothing about hatred of the enemy - at least it doesn't in the sentence that was read so far. Of course, one couldn't expect many Americans in the 50s to be able to understand Russian, or to easily translate Russian.
Bitterness towards the Soviet Union/Russia for throwing a gaudier parade than the Armed Services in America. And the danger of Parades. @ 23:11 This clip completely made me rethink my attitude towards Parades. I now see Parades as a show of Power.
comparing this to the posts I have been reading about current problems with DACA? Well that's my review of the Big Picture show for today followed by our national anthem.
FYI, you cannot compare the Lodge Act to DACA. The Lodge Act opened a path of citizenship for Foreign Nationals from Eastern Bloc Communist countries to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces as a path to citizenship, whereby that individual skills in foreign languages, translation, interpretation, foreign intelligence, etc., would be leveraged and maximized in the interests of national security. It was a classic this for that. DACA, however, is neither an accession into the U.S. military nor does it serve vital national U.S. security interests. It's basically a concession and free lunch giveaway and welfare program that makes a chump out of every past U.S. citizen and immigrant who brought real skills to the table and worked hard to pay back the United States for taking them in. DACA, is not the Lodge Act at all. On the contrary, it is completely antithetical to the ethos and the spirit of the Lodge Act. What is comparable to the Lodge Act is "MAVNI." The MAVNI Program -- or, "Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest," or MAVNI for short -- enabled select and qualified non-citizens with special skills to join the U.S. military if they could qualify as interpreters, translators, etc. In order for a non-citizen to enlist in the military, he/she must first be a legal immigrant (with a green card), permanently residing in the United States, and then as long as they met the usual enlistment requirements, including passing a background check and physical exam, they could enlist into the U.S. Armed Forces under MAVNI, serve four-years in active duty, and qualify for U.S. citizenship. This of course, is totally different from DACA. MAVNI, however, is the direct descendant and continues the historical legacy of the Lodge Act. Unfortunately, the MAVNI program has been put on ice and is frozen at the moment until further notice.
Money quote: "There is little joy in school. Life is taught to be a sobering experience." "To me, the faces on those schoolkids, tell the story better than anything else. Life shouldn't be that gloomy when you're only six or seven-years-old." "Well you see these children are subjected to a pattern of military and political training, which they should not really have at that age." LOL. OK, this was 1950, a highpoint in the Cold War, and hindsight is 20/20, but if American public schools today, in 2018 could have even 1/10th of the discipline, seriousness, rigor, never mind the political and military indoctrination that these Soviet and Eastern Bloc kids had back then, America would be a utopian paradise. Currently, we are no where close to that as we have regressed over the past 40 years to become a nation of self-entitled anarchists, drug addicts, murderers, psychotics and domestic terrorists ruling the halls and classrooms of our public schools today. We should be as lucky as the Soviet kids featured in this ridiculously campy propaganda newsreel.
