New Yorker Writer Slams Kelly, Claims Honoring Fallen Soldiers Is A Totalitarian Tradition

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Critics of White House Chief of Staff John Kelly’s speech Thursday are now taking the fight to illogical extremes.

Kelly’s statements at a White House press briefing on military service members killed in action were disturbingly totalitarian in nature and reminiscent of the language of a military coup, journalist Masha Gessen claimed Friday in a piece in The New Yorker. The author suggested Kelly’s praise of fallen soldiers reflected that of regimes like the Soviet Union that encouraged people to die for their countries on the battlefield.

Kelly called the brave men and women who have given their lives in service of the country “the very best this country produces,” adding that they “volunteer to protect the country,” even though “selfless service” is not required. Kelly often walks among the finest in America at Arlington National Cemetery.

“It is in totalitarian societies, which demand complete mobilization, that dying for one’s country becomes the ultimate badge of honor,” Gessen wrote in her article. “Growing up in the Soviet Union, I learned the names of ordinary soldiers who threw their bodies onto enemy tanks, becoming literal cannon fodder. All of us children had to aspire to the feat of martyrdom.”

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