Sanders Back in the Old Neighborhood to Make His Case
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Asked what she thought of him, Ms. Lazareva laughed with delight. “Oh, I hate him!” she said.
Ms. Lazareva, who hails from Moscow, recalled waiting in line for three hours each morning to get a jug of milk as a little girl living under communism. “If you lived under socialists, you’d hate them too,” she said. “They make everyone poor.”
Although Mr. Sanders, as a self-described democratic socialist, has a vision for America that is distinct from the economic system in the former Soviet Union, the word “socialist” was enough to provoke anxiety in Ms. Lazareva.
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She was unmoved. “Everyone will be hungry, everyone will be poor,” she said. “If it will be Sanders, we will have the same here. Everybody who comes from a communist country, Russians, Eastern Europeans, even Latinos from Cuba, feel this way. When you know what will happen, when you see it — you’re Republican.”
Farida Lazareva, 57, who hails from Moscow, said she was not a Bernie Sanders supporter, even though she was excited that he once lived in her apartment building. “If you lived under socialists, you’d hate them too,” she said. Credit Kirsten Luce for The New York Times
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Interesting reaction on the ground to Sanders, the self-described "Democratic Socialist".
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I understand that they're quoting someone from his old building, but there are ignorant people everywhere. It's the NYTime's choice to run a photograph of that particular wrong-headed resident and give her so many paragraphs of ink. 
They're either too stupid to know the difference because they slept through class or they know and choose to act like Republicans because it's just so fun to push bigoted stereotypes!
Never thought I would see red baiting here, but I was wrong, one group does it on a daily basis.
It's wrong and they're daft. 
Sanders hasn't hidden away from his core beliefs and embraces the political philosophy of Democratic Socialist. People know the difference between Sweden and Stalinist Russia.
It will be a problem for some, but again many people think Hillary Clinton is a lesbian who murdered Vince Foster for blowing the whistle on their cocane ring. It's absurd, but. People believe what they will, regardless.
