Soviet spy congratulated Bernie for 1983 election win, met in his office too

Sen. Bernard "Comrade" Sanders before becoming a prominent Communist contender for the U.S. presidency and before becoming a U.S. senator, was a mayor of Burlington, Vermont.

Upon his win, a spy from the Soviet Union, congratulated him in March 1983 for the re-election win. He even met Comrade Bernie in the mayoral office where they discussed who knows what.

The Washington Post reported on Monday: 

“The documents from the Sanders archives include a letter from Soviet Embassy First Secretary Vadim Kuznetsov in March 1983, congratulating Sanders on his reelection as mayor and thanking Sanders for receiving him in Sanders’s office,”  “Kuznetsov had been in Burlington to attend a conference on nuclear disarmament at the University of Vermont a few days earlier. Neither Sanders nor conference organizers appear to have read a 1976 Time magazine article that identified Kuznetsov as a member of a ‘Soviet intelligence squad’ posing as diplomats to infiltrate U.S. politics.”

Perhaps the Post underestimates Sanders by assuming he didn't know about Kuznetsov's career goals, but c'mon, the guy honeymooned in the Soviet Union and shirtlessly sang patriotic Russian songs with his commie buddies.

The TIME Magazine article that the Post linked to stated: “Posing as diplomats, embassy officials and newsmen, Soviet intelligence agents have been conducting a determined effort to get classified information on Capitol Hill by bribing or compromising staff members in key positions. TIME has learned that in more than a dozen cases in the last decade or so the FBI has stepped in to ‘control’ the relationship, fearing a staffer might begin giving out restricted data.”

The congratulatory letter Kuznetsov sent to Sanders stated:

Dear Mr. Sanders,

Please accept my sincere congratulations on your re-election to the post of Mayor of Burlington.

I have been following with a great interest the final stage of this mayoral race which attracted a lot of coverage by the national news media.

Thank you for receiving me in your office on February 3.

With best wishes,

Vadim Kuznetsov

"Destroy this note after reading," should have been added.

Democrat strategist Zac Petkanas posted a copy of the letter and tweeted: “For the love of all that’s holy. The piece links to the actual letter a Soviet official sent Bernie Sanders congratulating him on getting elected. Can you IMAGINE what Trump would do with this?”

Can you imagine if the mainstream media was conservative!

Hoover Institution research fellow Dr. Paul R. Gregory, a Harvard economist, wrote in a 2019 article that Sanders was a socialist because there was little to no difference between what socialists believe and what Sanders believes as a self-described “Democratic Socialist.”

Gregory wrote:

Sanders has spent a long political career obfuscating his true political beliefs. The media rarely pushes back on his standard platitudes, such as “we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.” His two-minute video, promising to explain his brand of socialism, leaves the viewer clueless, probably deliberately. Sanders insists that he is not a “socialist” but a “Democratic Socialist,” as if the difference is self-explanatory. When pressed further about his Democratic Socialism, he resorts to filibustering about the Scandinavian-like paradise of free medicine and education, guaranteed jobs, livable wages, and other free things he intends to introduce when elected. He does not bother to note that the Nordic states rank among the most free-enterprise economies of the globe.

Gregory noted that Sanders is “fully on board with the [Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)] narratives of capitalist exploitation and the need to organize” and that there is no distance between what Sanders believes and what DSA promotes. 

In other words, they basically hate the country but they don't come out and say it.

Sanders' current legislative initiatives, such as Medicare-for-all, as described in his Senate bill, nationalizes all medical care and people with private health insurance can basically go to hell.

So, private health insurance and employer insurance would disappear and private providers would need to reorganize as non-profits and/or governmental organizations. A enormous government bureaucracy would thus determine our medical care. What could go wrong? It isn't like an Iowa caucus, right?

Let's face it, if Sanders is prepared to nationalize fully one-fifth of the economy, he should have no qualms about doing the same to his loathed private energy and the banks and other financial institutions.

Smelly Karl Marx declared that a socialist revolution would be required to part the capitalists from their capital. That's called theft and envy and it's immoral.

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