Sanders was a "useful idiot" for U.S.S.R. to be exploited

That face you make when you thought it was just gas

The former Soviet Union reportedly viewed socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (Communist-VT) as a useful idiot with whom they could exploit and promote communist propaganda in line with Sanders' own political views and positive regard for Russia, a place where he honeymooned and sang Russian propaganda songs shirtlessly.

The New York Times, a former newspaper, reported on Thursday that newly uncovered documents from Russia showed that Soviet officials sought to “exploit Mr. Sanders’ antiwar agenda for their own propaganda purposes.”

According to The Times, the Russian commies tried to exploit the American commie while he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, an election he won by ten votes [literally]. This attempt came after Sanders wrote that he wanted the United States and the U.S.S.R. to "live together as friends," proving Sanders to be not only naive, but a flaming schmuck of the useful variety to the cause of Communism.

“They also show how the Kremlin viewed these sister city relationships as vehicles to sway American public opinion about the Soviet Union,” The Times reported.

“Nothing in the documents suggests that Mr. Sanders was the only local American official targeted for propaganda, or even that he was particularly receptive to it, though they do describe him as a socialist. But the documents do show the Soviets’ intensive preparation to use Mr. Sanders’ interest in their country to their advantage.”

Can you guess which party the other "local American officials" belong to? I'll give you a clue: it is not the Grand Old Party.

A Soviet Foreign Ministry document discovered by The Times stated: “One of the most useful channels, in practice, for actively carrying out information-propaganda efforts has proved to be sister-city contact.”

Sanders aggressively sought out the sister-city program with the Soviet Union during the Cold War hoping to sway the American people that, in spite of all who were killed in the name of Communism, it could work.  Sanders even led a shirtless Burlington delegation to Yaroslavl to try to establish the basis for the sister-city relationship and sing folk songs together.

“But the trip wasn’t enough to cinch the sister-city relationship,” The Times added. “Mr. Sanders still had to convince Soviet officials in Moscow to grant their approval and allow Yaroslavl representatives to travel to Burlington. He offered glowing reviews in public and ratcheted up his lobbying effort in private.”

Sanders, still aggressively pursuing the program, wrote a glowing review about the communist nation, saying, “People there seemed reasonably happy and content. I didn’t notice much deprivation.” Or death.

At least there weren't any billionaires there to be greedy and jump the bread lines.

Soviet officials coordinated all their responses to Sanders with Soviet officials in Moscow and created a seven-point “plan for information-propaganda work” for their trip to Burlington, to the delight of Sanders and his comrades.

The document stated: “When carrying out propaganda measures abroad, the forms and methods of the information-propaganda work and its concrete contents must be approved by the Soviet Embassy and take into account the Soviet Union’s relationship with the given country.”

This past February The Washington Post reported that the Russians were engaged in trying to boost Sanders’ campaign, which brought a smile to Donald Trump's face.

Top officials “have repeatedly warned that Russia has ongoing plans to interfere in U.S. elections and foster divisions among Americans, part of a strategic goal to undermine U.S. standing in the world,” The Post reported.

“Some analysts believe that the Kremlin’s goal is to cause the maximum disruption within the United States, and it throws the support of its hackers and trolls behind candidates based on that goal, not any particular affinity for the persons running.”

The Post also highlighted Sanders’ connections to Russia early last month:

One connection involves Sanders’s cozy stance toward the former Soviet Union, a record that makes it laughable to criticize President Trump for being too close to Russia today.

The documents from the Sanders archives include a letter from Soviet Embassy First Secretary Vadim Kuznetsov in March 1983.

In the letter Kuznetsov congratulated Sanders on his reelection as mayor and thanks Sanders for receiving him in his mayoral 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 had evidently read a 1976 Time magazine article that exposed Kuznetsov as a member of a “Soviet intelligence squad” posing as diplomats to infiltrate U.S. politics. But maybe they did and didn't see that as a problem.

In 1988, Sanders traveled to the Soviet Union on his honeymoon and forged a “sister city” cooperation program there. Many believe he gave a rosy depiction of conditions there just a few years before the communist system collapsed.


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