Here’s the story of my 1987 interrogation by East German border guards. That was my first experience lying my ass off for hours in two different languages. I was able to bullshit my way to freedom and then clobber the East Bloc in the New York Times.
My East Bloc adventures vaccinated me for life against trust socialism. Here’s my spiel on my adventures behind the Iron Curtain – part of the Future of Freedom Foundation series on the Horrors of Socialism
Wall Street Journal Europe, January 25, 1987. Bartering Across East Bloc Borders by James Bovard Socialism makes bad neighbors. This past summer, a Czech border guard stopped a Polish family leaving Czechloslovakia and ordered a Polish kid to take off his new Czech shoes “because taking children’s shoes out of the country is prohibited.” The […]
(Video starts after 7 or 8 seconds) Hearty thanks to Matt Kibbe and Free the People for inviting me on this podcast. Plenty more comic relief where this came from at this link – Here’s a story I wrote for Mises Institute in 2018 on that adventure at that communist border. Here’s the article composed […]
The American Conservative, February 18, 2020 Yalta and the Death of the ‘Good War’ by James Bovard FDR’s complicity in Stalin’s post-WWII bloodletting started a trend of lies and hypocrisy in U.S. foreign policy. Yalta summit in February 1945 with (from left to right) Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. (public domain) *** This […]
OK, so I screwed up in one of my illegal jaunts behind the Iron Curtain. But at least there’s a funny story about how I was able to eventually bluster my way out of a long interrogation at the Czechoslovakian – East German border in the Erzgebirge mountains. This broadcast includes my novel pronunciation of […]
Some folks think that I have only recently become cynical. Actually, my skepticism has a long pedigree… xxx New York Times, December 20, 1987 BUSINESS FORUM: ECONOMIC COLLAPSE; Eastern Europe, the New Third World By JAMES BOVARD IN the wake of the summit talks between President Reagan and the Soviet leader Mikhail S. […]
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