From his speech:
Quote:
When I was a boy, the Soviets occupied part of Austria. I saw their tanks in the streets. I saw communism with my own eyes. I remember the fear we had when we had to cross into the Soviet sector. Growing up, we were told, "Don't look the soldiers in the eye. Look straight ahead." It was a common belief that Soviet soldiers could take a man out of his own car and ship him off to the Soviet Union as slave labor.
My family didn't have a car — but one day we were in my uncle's car. It was near dark as we came to a Soviet checkpoint. I was a little boy, I wasn't an action hero back then, and I remember how scared I was that the soldiers would pull my father or my uncle out of the car and I'd never see him again. My family and so many others lived in fear of the Soviet boot. Today, the world no longer fears the Soviet Union and it is because of the United States of America!
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It is entirely possible that in the small country of Austria he saw the tanks.
I heard that some austrians were complaining that he used the word 'communism' instead of socialism. Well, here we pretty much equate the two, so it's all a rediculous attempt to discredit his speech.
IT's amazing to me that lefties are so quick to jump on some nuance, but will let John Kerry take a complete pass on NOT EVEN BEING IN CAMBODIA which was SEARED, SEARED IN HIS MEMORY. honestly, now. get it together.