Surviving Communism: The Biggest Lie Is That You Will Own the Factories | Panel

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Surviving Communism, part four: the socialists promise you will own the factories, and a survivor from Nicaragua calls it the biggest lie they tell. Jenny Beth Martin reads the Democratic Socialists of America's program for delivering its promises to six people who grew up under governments that delivered them: public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries, publicly owned housing, and a new constitution that abolishes the Senate, the Electoral College, the police, prisons, and ICE. The answers are concrete. Ovidiu Frusina, a mechanical engineer from Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania, describes the no-debt, no-mortgage life: seven people in 500 square feet, the state as…