Albanian Refugee Peter Lumaj (Screenshot)

Socialism’s promises are enticing, at first, but citizens ultimately lose their freedom, a man who fled Albania to come to the U.S. warns.

Peter Lumaj, now a conservative activist in the U.S., told Fox News on Sunday that, despite its promise of free goods and services, “Socialism becomes a big prison system at the end”:

“The most common words that they use, when they talk about socialism, is providing free things to the population. Don’t they do that with the prison system? “Socialism becomes a big prison system at the end – where we provide free services to people. But, again, the population loses its freedom and the opportunity to prosper.”

America is on this same path, using enticing redistributionist rhetoric to gain support for socialism, Lumaj said. But, in the end, socialism always fails – which is why, every day, people are fleeing socialist countries to come the U.S., he said: