Remember When: The gifts of freedom – Lancaster Eagle Gazette

Mark Kinsler, Correspondent Published 4:21 a.m. ET June 7, 2021

Josef Stalin began to build a Communist empire from the ashes of the second World War and the world-wide economic depression that preceded it. Unfortunately, the US overreacted, beginning 44 long years of a Cold War which benefitted nobody.

This appeared in the June 1, 1949 issue of the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette.(Photo: File photo)

Here, from the June 1, 1949 issue of the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, is one of the earliest propaganda efforts of that war. The aim was to show the weary people of France, Hungary, Indonesia, and Germany the advantages of capitalism over Communism.

The 2021 semi-post-pandemic recession seems to be further separating our haves and have-nots, and many of us would be delighted to enjoy some of these listed luxuries: too many workers lack effective health care, are afraid to unionize, and cannot afford to own a house.

This appeared in the June 1, 1949 issue of the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette.(Photo: File photo)

But we were and still are on the right side.The real gifts of freedom are not the material ones shown in these photographs. We have spiritual, intellectual, and physical security, were protected by the rule of strictly and uniformly enforced law, and our expectation is that government will remain largely uninterested in what we may think, say, or believe. These are difficult to show in photograph captions, but theyre real and worth defending.

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Remember When: The gifts of freedom - Lancaster Eagle Gazette