Unearthed photo shows Tim Walz appointee decorated house with posters of murderous communist dictators

A cabinet-level political appointee of Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz embellished the walls of her home with posters of homicidal communist totalitarians, according to a picture published on Facebook in December 2021 that was found by a Minnesota homeowner and shown Fox News Digital.

Ida Rukavina, the commissioner of Minnesota’s Department of Iron Variety Resources and Rehab, was designated by Walz in 2022 to manage the financial advancement of the northeastern part of the state, where the world’s biggest untapped copper-nickel reserve sits.

On Dec. 19, 2021, Rukavina published a picture of her pet dog to Facebook, according to metadata connected to the image, which appears to have actually been erased. In the background were plainly noticeable posters of communist leaders Mao Zedong and Che Guevara embellishing the wall. The poster of Mao, China’s communist totalitarian from the late 1940s up until his death in 1976, and whose policies have actually been blamed for the deaths of millions, consisted of the communist motto regularly proclaimed throughout his guideline: “Transformation is innocent.”

On the other hand, the poster honoring Guevara, a popular communist figure throughout the Cuban Transformation who killed and tortured numerous his political challengers, was coupled with an unique on Rukavina’s bookshelf about his life.

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Fox News Digital connected to both Rukavina and the Walz project numerous times however did not get a reaction by publication time.

Rukavina’s affinity for communist leaders comes amidst examination over Walz’s ties to communist China. By the guv’s own admission, he has actually taken a trip there numerous times, consisting of a journey in 1993 that was spent for by the Chinese federal government. Walz, a previous social research studies instructor, was frequently accompanied on these journeys by his trainees, among whom explained the guv turned vice governmental prospect as “Maoist to the core.”

Rukavina was tapped by Walz to guarantee “regional neighborhoods in northeastern Minnesota have the resources they require to flourish.” Part of the area Rukavina supervises consists of among America’s only main domestic sources of nickel, which the United States presently exports from a range of other nations, consisting of Russia, Canada and Norway.

In 2024, the United States experienced an unfavorable trade deficit on raw nickel of $79.4 million, according to the Observatory of Economic Intricacy.

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Ida Rukavina, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Iron Variety Resources & & Rehab, along with her deputy commissioner. ( Minnesota Department of Iron Variety Resources & & Rehab)

Rukavina is the child of the late Democratic Minnesota state Rep. Tom Rukavina, who has actually been referred to as holding communist and socialist compassions.

” Tommy Rukavina is somebody I when called ‘Tommy the commie’ on the Home flooring,” Congressman Tom Emmer, R-Minn., stated jokingly throughout remarks eulogizing his relationship with the late political leader.

On the other hand, Rukavina supposedly when boasted he was the last socialist in the Minnesota legislature, according to regional news outlet the Leader Press. “He’s gotten a little conservative in his aging. He’s a socialist now,” previous Democratic state Rep. Carly Melin stated, the regional news outlet included.

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The late Tom Rukavina belonged to the Minnesota Legislature in between 1987 and 2013. ( Charles Bjorgen/Star Tribune through Getty Images)

On the other hand, recently, the Daily Caller News Structure revealed that a person of Walz’s other political appointees in Minnesota belongs to China’s third-largest political celebration, which has actually been approved approval to run in the communist nation since it vows to “rally carefully around” the Chinese Communist Celebration’s Central Committee, the outlet reported.

The appointee, a Minnesota-based lawyer called Chang Wang, was tapped by Walz in 2020 to serve on the Minnesota Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans, which encourages “the Guv, the Legislature, state companies, and Asian Pacific companies and people,” on concerns affecting the Chinese Minnesotan neighborhood. Wang is presently the council’s vice chair, according to his profile on the council’s main federal government site, and his term there is anticipated to conclude in January 2025.