Nikita Khrushchev’s granddaughter: Trump uses ‘fake news’ like Stalin used ‘enemies of the people’
The granddaughter of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev warned Wednesday that President Trump’s remark about TV stations losing their licenses is authoritarian and compared his use of the term “fake news” to the dictator Joseph Stalin.
“Here, President Trump defined ‘fake news’ the way Joseph Stalin defined ‘enemies of the people’: if they offer a slightest objection to his rule they must be wrong. And they must be silenced,” New School international affairs professor Nina Khrushcheva told the Washington Examiner.
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Khrushcheva, the biological great-granddaughter but adoptive granddaughter of Stalin’s successor, said in an email that “maybe because he is so used to reality TV, real news seem fake to him” and that she believes his use of the term is “very Orwellian — war is peace, ignorance is strength and so on.”
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“Somewhere on the way to his real estate/reality TV career he forgot his lessons in civics and American democracy from high school,” Khrushcheva said. “Or maybe he always had an ‘F’ in those subjects; being rich, he didn’t and still doesn’t think they apply to him.”
“For that we are all paying dearly,” she continued. “And the longer he stays in, offering more and more somewhat Stalinesque amendments to American democracy, the more autocratic erosion to this once wonderful system we will experience.”
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