"Why? What in Europe could have been so horrible that rational people would risk their lives and their children's lives to escape it? Socialism. It wasn't call

"Why? What in Europe could have been so horrible that rational people would risk their lives and their children's lives to escape it? Socialism. It wasn't called socialism in those days, but that is what it was—unlimited government control and taxation of everything and everybody." That is Mises.org in a nutshell you.