WATCH: Ken Burns takes aim at DeSantis and compares education laws to ‘Soviet system’

DOcumentary filmmaker Ken Burns took aim at Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) An appearance CNN On Tuesday morning, the leaders’ policies were compared to the Soviet Union. “the Nazis.”

“All of these bills that DeSantis and others are doing limit our ability to understand who we are and are not inclusive. They are exclusive,” He said.

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Burns was heard on Monday Florida House Bill 999 Twitter: This would ban state universities using diversity, equality, inclusion and critical race theory rhetoric or principles when hiring or developing programs. Additionally, the state universities would have to remove “any major or minor in Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, or Intersectionality, or any derivative major or minor of these belief systems.”

This thread was written by the director to express his disgust at the measure. He slammed it as “an assault on the very liberties articulated by the Founders.”

“They are narrowing the focus of what is and isn’t American history. It’s terrifying. It feels like a Soviet system or, you know, the way the Nazis would build a Potemkin village,” He explained it to the hosts.

“It’s just a kind of rewriting of history at the most dangerous level. It’s a huge threat to our republic,” He concluded.

Burns also claimed that “I can tell you that Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine and George Washington and John Adams and James Madison and Alexander Hamilton are rolling over in their graves if they think that this person is carrying the mantle of what it is to be American,” He revealed that he was currently “working on a major series on the history of the American revolution.”

He claims that the Florida governor wants to portray American history in a positive light. “neat, tidy white picket fence morning in America.”

However, Burns said, “this is a complicated world,