Comedian Yakov Smirnoff Describes Escaping the Communist Soviet Union to a Stunned Joe Rogan (VIDEO)

Do you remember Yakov Smirnoff? He was a breakout standup comedy star in the 1980s but he is still around.

He recently appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast and described his life under communism in the Soviet Union and how he and his family eventually escaped. Rogan seemed stunned by the story.

It’s amazing that there are people who have lived in the freedom of America for their whole lives yet are stupid enough to want to revive communism here. They’re just historically illiterate.

FOX News reports:

Smirnoff said the process of getting a visa to America was only possible because of a deal involving the Carter administration, Soviet emigration and U.S. grain.

“[Carter] wanted to see some human rights in the Soviet Union. And the Soviet leadership was — they were starving. They didn’t have food. So, they needed food from America. So, Jimmy Carter made a deal that we’re going to give you grain, and you allow people to get out, and that’s how we were kind of exchanged for some wheat, you know,” he said. “That’s how we got out.”

“Wow. Holy s—, man … you sometimes need to be reminded how fortunate you are,” Rogan said of Americans like himself. “You know, Americans in particular, we’re very, you know, it’s not our fault. You know, people become accustomed to where they live. … And they think this is normal, which is one of the reasons why this push towards communism amongst young people is so infuriating to me.”

“But the solution is not to make the government decide who gets what because they never decide the right way,” he warned.

“They do what people do,” Rogan warned of communist officials. “What people do when they have power is they enact total control over the population so that they can maintain power, and then they live in luxury. And then you wait in line for bread, and that’s how it is all over the f—ing world.

“And if you step out of line, they shoot you. That’s where communism goes. So, what we need is, like, a more, a more moral and ethical version of capitalism.”

This video is cued to start at the 10:06 mark:

Isn’t it fascinating that all of the people who escaped communism to come to America don’t want to go back?

Why don’t leftists get this?

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