Why Communism is Even Worse Than Fascism - Konstantin Kisin
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Better tell us about Bolshevism rather than Marxism. It's way better than anything else we had so far.
By the way communism never happened in the USSR.
Adolf did base its objective on stealing private property, brainwashing people to worship the state and seize private businesses for the benefit of the state though didn’t he?
Didn’t people suffer deeply from a loss of meaning to the point of suicide when Adolf died? Implying they *were* brainwashed significantly to put the leader/state above all else?
There *was* a new tyrannical hierarchy installed under the pretence of eradicating it..
Just because he didn’t get enough time for fascism to grow to the levels communism did, that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t have gone the exact same way..
@@zasadacrewcommunism never happens anywhere because it’s illogical.
If communism worked, we wouldn’t need communism.
@@zasadacrew, you learnt that from your marxist professor? This inane talking point is almost as old as bolshevism, comrade. If you even read the Manifesto, you did not understand what's it about, quite obviously.
@@suvorovetz642 , marxism was brought to Russia to divide and enslave Slavic people. Bolsheviks stopped that and that's why west hates Bolsheviks.
Marxism is about to be implemented in the west so let's see how it will play out there. 😆
Konstantin mentioned the example of Bulgaria . I’m albanian and our Communism was even worse than in Bulgaria and Romania. There is one fact that many people don’t know about Albania in late 1980s and early 1990 when Communism collapsed. Albania was in the break of mass famine in 1989-1990 s . If the system didn’t collapse , Albania would’ve experienced the same horror Soviet Union endured during Holodomor 1930s . We were lucky that system collapsed in 1990-1991 , but the consequences are still alive even today in 2023.
Hoxha was a complete madman, and not as well known in the West as he should be
I see now ,why a high percentage of immigrants coming to Britain, are Albanian
I'm an old English guy and I'm very aware of your history I was even around for some of it. You are correct few people are aware of the struggles against Communism. The problem is the youth here know nothing about it and therefore don't see what is developing in the West . We have less freedom of speech and laws that can criminalise criticism of ideologies that have their roots in Marxism . Critical race theory is an example. We really need the people of ex Communist Countries to sound the warning. The UK mother of Parliamentary democracy is under attack in our institutions University's , and as you know it's the place to start from within to change a culture. I fear for many countries Canada, Australia, the USA and here are being fed the bile of Communism .
That's a fact. I was born in Hungary and we had it the best while you guys had it absolutely terrible. Blows my mind that while the scourge of communism is well within living memory many western nitwits now advocate for it.
"But that wasn't real communism!" Give me a break.
Young people in the west need to hear this from people who lived through it, like yourself. My Moldovan friend has told me tales of growing up in Romania, truly horrific. His grandfather and mother were forced marched to the Ukraine to become farmers just because of an ideology. She starved to death and he managed to walk all the way back to Romania. These kids promoting communism have no idea
Konstantin is a great intellectual. I also grew up in the Soviet Union, I studied Marx's BS. My mom's family was sentenced to exile in Siberia for owning two cows. One too many. I saw the system first hand and I confirm Konstantin is accurate on every single count.
I much rather take your word than some spoiled Western Millennial.
He is definitely not. His speech at the university appears to have been an isolated happenstance that created the perception he was an intellectual, but the more you listen to him, the more you realise his ideology is a lot more like the globalist ideology than anything else. Plus, he is pro-war, which in and of itself disqualify him as an intellectual.
There was no doubt here.
Same here. Born in Moscow in 1962, left Russia in 1992, shortly after USSR fell apart. Studied 'Marxism-Leninism' as part of compulsory school and college curriculum. Learned, by the time I was in college, that it all was superstitious antiscientific, counterfactual garbage.
Yes, every single thing Konstantin is saying in this clip is true. It never ceases to amaze me how here in the US, people who haven't the foggiest idea how good they have it, keep turning to the same old superstitious antiscientific counterfactual garbage that leads only to misery and enslavement.
@@stevenfrasier5718 he speaks from his parents experience, they taught him right. It's not his fault 😉
My favourite quote of the whole Chernobyl series is the one it ends with: "Wherever a lie is told, a debt is incurred to the truth. And the debt is always repaid, in FULL." There is never, never ever, going to be a time where anything built on lies will not come out. Anything worth building is only worth building on truth. And a culture that makes truth illegal, legalises it's own toxic inner decay. Like Chernobyl.
You better ask Kisin why ethnic Jews were the main force of Russian revolution.
Indeed. However, can the lie that the USSR's distortions and repressions flowed inevitably from the pursuit of socialism - and not from concealment of the abandonment of that pursuit - be as corrosive to the reactionary charlatans peddling it now, as it was to the USSR itself? I hope so, but there's no proof.
Well said!
Quoting cheap British propaganda lies (just as this video) while talking about 'the truth', how ironic...
The truth is: nothing and no one is more evil than the British empire, countless list of their crimes all over the world, even Stalin was a baby compared to Churchill, but they love to make movies and videos about Russia (sometimes using traitors like this ziokonstantine).
Anglos - always claiming 'moral' high grounds... too many dead bodies buried on these grounds..........
So capitalism will fall.
I once talked with a woman working as a paralegal who told me that she had been an avowed communist since high school. This woman had been born in the US, and had apparently been raised in a comfortable middle class background, but for some reason, she felt that communism was the answer to all of the world's problems. I told her that if we were living under communism, that she would probably no longer have her comfortable office job, and that instead, she might find herself using a hand sickle to harvest wheat on a collective, as someone else shouted Marxist slogans into the air. She looked at me for a moment as if she were trying to do a hard math problem, and then she said that wouldn't happen, because in the United States we have automated harvesting equipment so therefore no one would have to work like a peasant. I pointed out that the harvesters are now owned by agribusinesses, and that they require trained mechanics, parts suppliers, and regular fuel deliveries to keep them running. She said that was no problem, because the government could just take over all of those enterprises, and the harvesters would just keep rolling as usual. - It was then I realized that most self-described communists living in the United States have a fantasy post-revolutionary vision of what the US would be like after the revolution, and in their vision, they don't become the least bit troubled or inconvenienced by the transition from capitalism to communism. In their view they will still be able to shop a fully stocked grocery stores, they will get to keep their same jobs, they will spend their free time going to the marijuana dispensary and clubbing, and in their view, the only real difference will be that all of the fascists will be in prison, and everyone will just be able to love one another. Our public school system has totally failed us, and children like this will hand the keys of our society to monsters, if they have not already done so.
Want to put a socialist on suicide watch, remind them that their equal share of the global gdp is $7,000 a year.
hey, not all potheads are dumb-dumb commies. i'm a riproaring free market capitalist and i love going to the dispensaries 😂😂
Not to mention that they always believe they'd be in charge of the system on account of being true believers. They don't understand that true believers are always the first to be liquidated when communists take over any country.
What you just described is terrifying and unfortunately, very accurate. We must be ever vigilant and protect our children from this poisonous ideology if we are to have at least some hope in the future!
I find that a lot of people that I talk to don't realise that they're supporting communist talking points. They claim to be socialists and say that they deplore communism and can't realise that CRT and other new ideologies are based in Marxism. They really believe that they can have socialism, the forerunner to communism, and freedom, as well. They can't understand that Venezuela is the perfect example of a socialist democracy that evolved into totalitarian Marxism and this is the inevitable end to socialism if we don't keep the socialists in check.
The communist supporters and the far-left youngsters who never knew the Cold war should wonder why my own country (Poland), Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and most countries under communist rule during the Cold War refused to go on like this and became conservative after the fall of the Eastern block.
Great analysis Konstantin!
Well said
I was born in Hungary as a child of communist Greek refugees. There is nothing conservative about Hungary, at least not in the Western sense. We have a Neo Bolshevik system that resembles the old days. Massive government ditribution, crazy inflation, high taxes, state mandated fixed prices etc. We also have a new "chinovnik" class who serve the regime. It is nothing else but a rotten, corrupt system wrapped in the Christian-Conservative suit. Hungary in fact never left socialism behind, and that is what Orban realized in 2002. Hungarians need a daddy figure like Kádár or Rákosi (Former commie leaders). Everything great about Hungarian culture was systematically killed in the 20th century. Our intellectual elites were killed or fled the country. Our greatest industrial enterprises were taken over by the state, the owners were often killed. We never recovered from this. It will take at least another century if I am optimistic.
The EU do not want a Conservative Poland, they want a degenerate Poland like western Europe, please resist at all cost.
Many of the modern fans of 'socialism' are actually fascists. Do the so-called 'progressives' realise they've become fascists? th-cam.com/video/1oiRg-wxSSM/w-d-xo.html
Because as bad as Communism was it ironically preserved the East Bloc from Western liberal degeneracy and consumerism. Hence nationalism in former East Germany is more normal than in former West Germany.
A young lad told the Hitler Youth leader to whom he was assigned that his father objected to his attendance in post-school activities, the result? This leader marched to the boy's House and broke his father's jaw. The result? The lesson was learned. We own your children, obey us. Different ideologies, very similar methodologies
Nazi Germany supported family values because they wanted to increase the German population and basically colonize the lands they took from Poland and other parts of Europe.
so yeah, family structure was promoted in Nazi Germany as long as these families were useful for the state.
the Soviet Union hated family structure because family represented conservatism and traditional values.
the Soviet Union basically wanted to create the new Soviet man from scratch. the perfect loyal slave of the state.
today's modern day North Korea s basically what the Soviet Union was, especially under Stalin. or what China was under Mao.
extremely evil.
@@LevisH21The differences are largely cosmetic. Both systems insisted on absolute control. It wasn’t “values” that the Nazis supported, but whatever suited the State. A family without loyalty or autonomy is not a family, just a convenient economic unit.
jamesgornall 2 cheeks of the same arse
@@LevisH21 I feel you missed the point of the remark.
in the soviet union a broken jaw would probably have been the least of his problems
Russian joke from the old Soviet Union: "A Communist is someone who has read Das Kapital. An Anti-Communist is someone who has read Das Kapital... and understood it."
there never such "joke" existed. Nor in the Soviet Union nor in Russia
@@luciaaa233 Была , просто потому что вы её не слышали не значит что не было .
@@Chuchel-hh6hq пиздить НЕ НАДА
и фашистов как этот бандершлюга защищать тоже
а РАЗОБЛАЧАТЬ блевотин этих
Stupid joke. And a false one. Marx is not Stalin. His critique of capitalism is still one of the greatest academic works of analytical theory ever. He is one of the greatest theoreticians and economists who has ever lived. What Stalin and the communists did being attributed to Marx is nonsense.
Good one
Absolutely on point 👌🏻 I remember how grey and sad Polish citizens were when I was little during the 80's. Communism just sucks life energy out of ppl like nothing other. Ppl get apathetic and devoid of any individual traits.
I've migrated to the West 20 years ago and still am shocked that anybody could see communism as a viable system in any circumstance. And when I say that to Westerners that look at me as if I was crazy, cause you know, they're all so wise and progressive and it'll be different this time. And from my experience it's the intellectuals who the worst. They'll intellectualise any bs to justify their overblown sense of moral superiority.
Would you mind sharing some examples of daily life under communism? I think the problem is that we haven’t been exposed to it in order to accurately understand.
@@pagandeva2000 I remember stepping out of a bus when I was 4 and the bus driver closed the door with my hand still between the doors and started to drive away. All the ppl inside were just staring at the situation. My mother was banging her fist on the window yelling to the driver to stop.
Stealing was something quite normal. The farmers were collectivised so U had one "farm" facility which belonged to all the farmers in the village. As it belong to everyone and no one, the "smarter" individuals would steal for their own benefit. This was very prevalent. Same at work in a national company - if u had good relationship with your boss u could steal "legally".
Another thing was failing upwards. When u were a manager (and were a party member) and you screwed up, they wouldn't fire u. They would usually placed u elsewhere, often with better pay grade etc. It wouldn't be a good look that a party member would do something wrong, now would it?
Strangers were very unpleasant to each other. The lady in a shop was top of the food chain and could basically refuse to sell to u for whatever reason, cause the produce was very sparse, so u should have been grateful that u can buy something at all.
Ppl were standing in queues for days on end. Sometimes u didn't even know what kind of produce would be available or if any at all and u stood from 4am till the shop opened to find out that they had washing machines for instance. And ppl would buy them even if they didn't need one just have something to trade with others. To buy a car you had to subscribe on a waiting list and wait for 10+ years.
Just A couple life examples. Beyond that no freedom of speech, indoctrination at school, propaganda and incompetence ruling the country.
@@slatanek wow! Thank you for sharing. I was under the impression that everyone was automatically a party member. How did a person become a party member? Another question, if you feel like answering, how is it that the stores barely had food? And how was housing assigned? I heard that it’s hard to move from one location to another. Again, thanks!🙏
I'm currently doing my personal research about the history, experiences and the madness.I wish there were more people telling stories. It frightens me to my core. Thank you for sharing.
@@InvictusVirtus333 oh the communist ideals - what a beautiful thing of fiction they are...
The fact that you even felt the need to put that disclaimer in the beginning says a lot about how much atrocities caused by this ideology are literally ignored/shrugged off in comparison to others.
On the day ( September 3/1939) that Britain declared war on Germany,Jack Jones leader of the Transport and General Workers Union( Britain's largest) called his workers out strike in support of an ally of the Soviet Union.After the collapse of the Soviet Union,the archives of the KGB 1st( foreign) Directorate, revealed that Jones had been a paid agent of Soviet security since the early thirties.This is just one example of how deep the ideological support for the Soviet Union ran ( and still runs) in certain parts of British society.
And we're dealing with it today in the West. The long march through the institutions.
Wow,Nigel,this blew my socks off,thank you,So effin sinister,and they are still at it.Thank you.
Exactly. The new word for socialism is 'sustainability'@@republitarian484
The full facts please. How many workers, employed where, their actual grounds of strike, how long, and please be clear - you've got missing and stray prepositions.
Jack Jones in September 1939 was a 26 year-old full-time union official in Coventry. You place him at the head of the T&GWU twenty-nine years early; he became its general secretary in 1968.
What KK and all the adoring idiots nodding along here will never understand is the visceral connection the USSR had for a section of British workers - it was a society where the boss class had been dispossessed and driven out by workers' own organs of government, and that made it theirs, belonging to workers the world over. That wasn't ideological; it was in the guts. The impact of the USSR's passing needs to be understood internationally too. The rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East is no accident.
@@ChrisBrown-px1oy Hah, hilarious when someone claims something was not ideological while sounding like he's reciting from the latest propaganda hand-out. "boss class had been dispossessed and driven out by workers' own organs of government, and that made it theirs, belonging to workers the world over." LMAO. Propagandist delusion of the highest order.
Oh yeah, and let's see how you'd do if the workers were in charge of developing the iPhone you use to post your anti-capitalist idiocy.
My wife was born in communist Poland. She thinks we are bat poo crazy in the West for even tolerating the idea of this idealogy. It's easy to champion communist from a comfortable capitalist chair mind you.
India had it’s own version of communism and we still have the communist party to this day. The states where they ruled over have had the worst outcomes, both in terms of economics and society with exceptional violence being very common.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C. S. Lewis
One of my favourite quotes ❤️
Describing Murican 'democracy and human rights'
@@bdleo300Funny thing, America is a Constitutional Republic and second, many Americans are rapidly realizing that “ Human Rights” that the Left, American media, academia and the Government is selling* is nothing more than Government total control in the guise of human rights.
Eh, the thing is that it wasn't even done with any good intentions. I mean, sure, there were people who really believed it. The ones they called "useful idiots". The kind that you see today in teenage commies. But the big guys? Nah. Megalomaniac psychopaths. That's it.
Mussolini started out as an extreme left wing socialist , he didn't have to jump far to create fascism .... they are two sides of the same coin, they come from the same place and produce the same result, in truth their is very little difference between extreme nationalism and extreme internationalism . The good people always end up dead .
That's why a good democracy mustn't include fascism or communism as an option.
@@Franeekythat’s the democracy paradox, me friend
Eh, yes and no
Yes, that is the problem with democracy.
It provides the environment to breed and cultivate those that would destroy it.
Go onto any university campus and see all the over fed intellectually vapid fools sporting the Che Guevara T-shirts and telling us about the evils of capitalism.
They, of course, would be the first to die if their dream Utopia were ever to come to pass.
But then again, the way things are going now, they may soon get their wish.
You wrote some nonsense. extreme nationalism and extreme internationalism are vastly different, by definition. "Standard" Socialism and Fascism are just about the same thing, with small variations. The OVERWHELMING difference during the 1920's to 1940's was that Fascism was nationalist, while "Standard" Communism was internationalist. Same goes for the differences between Nazism and Communism.
I recommend Ayn Rand's "We The Living" to those who want to understand the similarities between fascism and communism. The book was made into a film by Italian moviemakers during Mussolini's rise. For several weeks it was the biggest box office hit in Il Duce's regime. Then, it was banned and all copies ordered to be destroyed because it pointed out the parallels between the Italian and Soviet systems. Fortunately, a single copy was saved and is available in the West now. A long film but well worth it. Alida Valle and Rosano Brazzi are the stars.
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Also, if we're going highbrow, the antidote to Das Kapital is Mises' Human Action.
What you said: the communists didn't just try to eradicate private property but also any semblance of a private life aswell. And they damn near broke the spirits of their people while doing it. Great analysis. Powerful stuff.
Yep. You're essentially giving up free will to be a cog in the wheel. People may hate capitalism, but at least most people in capitalist societies still have their free will and the ability to criticize capitalism. The same can't be said about communism. I'd rather be a cog in the capitalist machine than a cog in a communist or fascist one. Communism and Fascism are like a snake oil salesman. They just gaslight you and what not to convince you the system is great. Whereas capitalism will rarely ever try to convince you it is good. Most capitalists I have heard talk don't try to sell you the lie of 'our system is great!' Rather, they try to sell you the notion that 'no other system is any better.'
Same with fascists. But fascists were also racist
"Broke the spirits of their people"? Considering that the USSR won WWII, this statement is hardly true. Also the statement is based on false facts. Pavlik Morozov didn't denounce his father. He testified in the court against him.
@@konyvnyelv. Communists often (but not always) end up targeting ethnic minorities as well. Either because of their own personal bigotry or because said minorities won’t conform to the uniform communist system (or because of both reasons). They don’t declare this outright, though, so people think they’re more tolerant than fascists.
It figures why every other country that adopted communism never fully recovered.
Communism, Fascism and National Socialism share far more in common with each other than differences. Once you get past the terminology and symbolism, they are just different flavors of the same thing.
Agreed. Some will make nuanced particular differences between them. When they all bring subjugation, starvation, destruction, and death, the difference in how that is achieved makes little difference to me.
@@dundid1t542absolutely absurd statement to make. Fascism brought no death. France and Britain declared war on Germany after they attempted to liberate German land in Poland that was taken away from them after WW1. These were Germans living there not Polish
@mrwhips3623. The AS weren't murdered? Krystalnacht didn't happen? You might want to look at the history *before* the war!
@@kalburgy2114 ok? I know they used false flags to start the invasion. How is this different to our modern wars? Or the Soviet invasion of Finland or whatever else.
And yet they would have us believe that they are polar opposites. The fascism-communism axis is just one far end of the freedom spectrum. The only reason why anyone would want you to believe that your only two choices are either fascism or communism is so that you never consider the third: freedom from government.
I have for a long time argued "tell me the difference between Stalin and Hitler?" This really stumps those who love communism and then they hit you with the "its not been tried properly"
Usually, 'those who love communism' do not confuse it with Stalinism.
@@pixtilla That's because they prefer communism-the-idea, not communism-in-practice-and-in-reality. Trotskyists, for example, have always criticised Stalinism. If you read about Trotsky, in many ways he was far worse than Stalin... except that he never did as much damage simply because he never took control of any large state. And it's because Trotskyism was never put into practice (at least not outside universities, fringe groups, etc.) that some people have a rosy view of both Trotsky and Trotskyism. Yet Trotsky, in only a couple of years, clocked up his own sizable dead-body count.
@@pixtilla no, they proclaim that they would be a better totalitarian dictator than the Stalin
@@paulaustinmurphy Stalinism and Trotskyism are both, notwithstanding their mutual contradictions of course, continuations of Leninism, which itself was a very peculiar application of Marx's Communist manifesto, tailored to the very particular context of Imperial Russia. French Communism, for instance, expressed itself in a vastly different capacity, almost seamlessly fused into Socialism, to bring about economic prosperity after WWII.
That's a core issue, in fact, with a notion as broad and, yes, theoretical, as 'communism': many different interpretations and applications that usually contradict one another don't make for a coherent definition. Apart for right-wing propagandists who get to deem communistic anything they don't like. Usually their leftist counterpart do the same in reverse with 'fascism'-but now Konstantin gifts us with a right-wing apology of fascism as a lesser evil and I am quite perplexed.
Ah, the old 'Communism only works in an advanced state' gem. You might want to look into the Spartacists and what they had planned for Germany. Must have been pretty bad, for a certain Adolf went from attending the funeral of a socialist Jewish leader in the 20's to running an anti-Jewish government in the 30's. Makes you think, or it should@@pixtilla
TIKhistory does a very good breakdown of the similarities between fascism, national socialism, and communism.
Nazism is Fascism
But is that really the case?
Well it all boils down to the point that for TIK all of those are communism.
as well as the slight differences...
for the un-initiated; it's basically like 3 forms of Christianity; Baptist, Presbyterian and Lutheran... all Protestant, but with certain differences.
Thank you, I can only say thank you so much for this. My family fled from Russia in the early 50s, went from country to country, stayed in poland for the most time. I remember my grandma telling me what a horrible struggle it was to get through this and how she lost her father to a Russian soldier just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. I often try to tell my friends about how horrible communism can be but noone wants to believe me, mostly I hear "that's not real socialism/communism). At my university they run around with red stars and logos of the soviet union without even thinking what those symbols mean and what they used to represent when they were used. It's really sad tbh.
who were your ancestors that they needed to escape from the USSR in the early 50s? In 50, it was mostly the collaborators of the Germans in WW2 who fled the USSR and were finally caught up, so it's a pity your ancestors fled.
@@sunsolar2138 Alright to go into detail here. My entire family both father and mothers side originate from eastern Prussia, they stayed there for a very long time, far after the kingdom was not even a thing anymore. What exactly happened I do not know, All I know is they fled through the western part of Russia, on that way they got into trouble with russian troops, resulting in my grandmas fathers death by being shot, in the end they ended up in Szczecin which is in Poland and they stayed there for most of the time until around the late 70s until moving over the border to Germany, not even eastern Germany but western. How exactly everything worked out I am not sure. I was not there but that is all I know from what my grandparents told me and my family in Poland barely talks about this. I am sorry if I caused any confusion as this entire thing is very confusing to myself as well. I do believe there are things they just refuse to tell. And I respect that. I by now live in Canada so I made an even further journey.
A very interesting story. Lord Buddha bless you. Also, those people are not your friends. A Communist is never a friend.
Russia and China are not communist but state Capitalist. Bureaucracy is the problem as it is under Capitalism. Contemp for the majority whether Russia, China or the West. We need a global revolution.
So you'd rather have a society that doesn't attempt to improve itself and continues to exploit lesser developed countries, exploit its workers, stand by while people starve to death, manufacture wars, and senselessly drive towards a vague idea of progression while billions suffer? You can't just cry about how your family died in a developing country because they had an isolated economy while entirely avoiding the economic side of it. Tens of millions die every year to preventable causes like disease and hunger, things that we have more than enough resources to fix. If you believe we should do that then you are also a communist.
This is what I always thought of as Ukrainian. Communism is a nazism that has never been condemned and judged internationally. And never had its deserved Nuremberg process.
Because they weren't defeated in violent clash. It just crumbled and dissolved. China's next. But hey, don't worry, it's coming again from the west, but with the twist. Strange abomination of fascism and communism is taking over US and their sphere of influence. You won't believe what's coming our way.
Because of who it's creators are
@@jB..33b854 good one
There are authoritarian and oppressive similarities, but "never been condemned and judged internationally"? Seriously? What do you call all the "domino theory" proxy wars fought against communism? What do you call the (admittedly hysterical) "Red Scare" McCarthy "inquisition"?
As to "Ukrainian", even though they were gobbled up by Sovietization and inherited elements of the USSR's systemic corruption, they are neither Nazis nor Communists.
and you are right. and it bothers me the Communists have never had their day in international court.
Well written. Well said. Well done.
"Communism and Fascism are like the North and South Poles. They are at opposite ends of the earth, but if you woke up at either pole tomorrow morning, you could not tell which one it was." (Attributed to Winston Churchill.)
Absolutely right. I recently watched Chernobyl and was surprised to find not a "ban the nukes" rant, but an accurate picture of Soviet totalitarianism. From your first word, I thought "Chernobyl." And then you said "Chernobyl." We must have watched it at about the same time!
"Chernobyl", accurate? Lol.
Also, go read up on Bhopal - the actual most disastrous technogenic catastrophe in history, brought about by greed of Union Carbide Co., and the nuclear disaster on Fukushima, where glorious and technologically advanced capitalist Japanese fucked up just like USSR in Chernobyl, and then made it even worse by trying to cover it all up until it was too late. And now they're about to dump all the radioactive water into the ocean...
Thank you so very much for this, Konstantin!
The story of the banning of Zelev's book was quite revealing.
I hope to meet you, Francis and Anton again.
Your new Bulgarian friend.
Konstantin….
I think that you mistake the German Nazzis - they were socialist fascists.
Look up the name of their party.
Hit|er’s Prora holiday camp was for the socialist workers.
Hit|er’s Gustav Wilhelm cruise liner was for the socialist workers.
Hit|er’s VW car was for the socialist workers.
The Nasties were all socialists, just as were the Russians. The Russians were never communists, because all the party beurocrats and leaders had special apartments, dachas, holidays, and foreign currency shops. There was not a drop of communism, wih the CCCP.
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I haven't read that book, but I doubt it can be anything like as interesting as Miklos Haraszti's ironically titled and also banned 1977 book, "A Worker in a Worker's State".
Haraszti described his first-hand experience of the piecework system of wage slavery in a Hungarian factory and explained it in detail. The way the low rates required exhausting long days of frantic keeping up, would have been familiar to millions of workers in western Europe.
Sadly, Konstantin would have no use for this book, because it contradicts his almost obsessive insistence that all the atrocities of the USSR and its satellites resulted from their ideologically-driven pursuit of equity. In fact, the scale and longevity of the repressions only makes sense if in Stalin's USSR, Marxism was being worn as a mask for the enrichment of a new elite of privileged state employees. It's quite a delicate thing running an entire state and society so as to present an elaborate fiction.
Konstantin is Jevvish, same as 99% of bolsheviks in 1917.... he is in Britain and attacking Russia, just like Lenin and Trotsky, the same s....
I had an epiphany recently after playing through a video game called Bioshock 2. The primary antagonist is a psychiatrist named Sofia Lamb, she is a deep rooted communist with a dominating mother personality, her goal in the game was to turn her daughter into the world's first Utopian, by her definition, a being with no selfish desires whatsoever, who only thinks about the common greater good. It was there that it hit me about how impossible Communism is when taken to its most logical conclusion. When a person has selfish desires, they're not always for nefarious reasons, we often think about the negative definition of the word Selfish, a person taking more than giving, like taking the last slice of pizza when there could've been other people who haven't gotten a slice. Selfishness can simply be defined as thinking for yourself and your needs, we need air to breathe, we need food for nourishment, and water for hydration, these are basic survival needs that we all desire. I think, therefore, I am.
So when I say Sofia wanted a being who had no selfish desires whatsoever, I mean a person who didn't have to breathe, eat, or drink to survive, because her daughter obtained magic powers to which if she could, she could learn how to not do those 3 things by via magic, which means more food/water/air for everyone else. The irony of this is that this very goal, is selfish.
So why am I talking about this? Because look at how communists demand for equity, a core component of communism, the equality of outcome. Everyone gets the same food, water, and air, well how do you regulate/control that? Everyone must be the same size, no exceptions, no one can be sick, no one can have any defects whatsoever, no one can be taller, smarter, faster, have better anything than the lowest common denominating human. When you consider how every human being on earth is unique in some way shape or form, it already becomes apparent that communism can't work or exist, because it 100% goes against Nature. It goes against our needs, wants, and desires. It works against us at every turn, preventing us from reaching full potential.
The point of this is that the real goal of Communism is this, Communism seeks to Abolish the Self. You are not allowed to have selfish desires whatsoever, you cannot breathe more air than others, you cannot eat more than others, you cannot drink more than others, less someone has less than you and suffers as a result.
This is why we need to be more appreciative in not just the Western World, but to capitalism as well, it works along side our unique differences, it works along side our wants, needs, and desires. We can eat and drink as much as we want, so long as we earn it, we can splurge on housing and have more children, we can buy inhalers if we struggle to breathe. Are you sick? Here's some medicine. Have a defect? We have technology and charities that can help even the weakest beings survive. Our selfish desires have made the world a better place, which takes wisdom, strength, and courage. Capitalism along with Merit, brings out the best of the best through simple hard work, meaning people actually qualified should be running powerful institutions (which is not happening right now due to wokeness). Look at sports, only the best of the best can play professional sports, and even then, not every player is going to be famous enough to be recognized by the entire world. Capitalism does have legit faults, but a lot of them can be fixed not just with debate, but with careful studying of history.
I apologize for this novel, but when communism comes up, I have to share this every time. Thank you if you read this
an ant colony is unironically communist
Thank you, I appreciate your novel. 😊 I have very similar observations and thoughts. And you even see the signs of the things some might dismiss as extreme examples. A scientist that proposes we encourage breeding humans to be shorter and smaller so they need less food has been invited to present at WEF and his ideas promoted in leftist media including the NY Times. A 'bioethicist' professor has written if they can perfect drugs that render people cooperative and compliant it would be in the interest of society to administer it to people without their consent or even informing people they were being given it.,
Well, speaking as a fascist myself, I will call out the need for truth and won't agree with you simply because I too hate communism. What you are talking about is hardcore communism, I don't even think the soviet union was that hardcore, also you kind of went off track with the whole magic thing. You could be faster, intelligent, stronger in the Soviet Union, it's just that your job was probably placed for you. If you are good at maths, the soviet union probably placed you a placement at a university, if you were good at swimming, sport, faster, stronger, you were probably placed by them on a sport team.
We have the same alignmentt against communism, but I won't spread misinformation and fear mongering to get my results. A lot of what you say and your whole point is kind of irrelevant. Soviets wanted people to give themselves to the state, not create a race of equals in everything.
The soviet Union was a scam however, it is like the china of today, if you join the party, you will become more equal than others, richer, influential, etc. Communism is just another pnsy scam, the same way religions like the Quran, catholicism, etc control their masses, with a book that outlines all the shiny things you can become if you do this.
A man chooses, a slave obeys.
Taking care of one's self is the greatest contribution towards the common good.
No this was great.
I LOVE it when people use fiction to set and example and analyze our situation also. I love it that out of the three games you brought up, it was Bioshock 2 lol. It's usually considered the black sheep of the trilogy you know. The one that's not as smart as the others.
But it greats you found that aspect in it, and you're right. Communism doesn't work! And this is exactly why.
The entire idea of equality... Doesn't make sense! It's a pipe dream! We're not equal, we're NEVER going to be equal.
I am a woman, and I am NEVER going to be as strong as a man! It's not happening. That's just how it is, and this idea that I have to be as strong as a man is absolutely ridiculous, it sets women up for misery and failure. Forever.
But also... I grew up in Denmark, so that makes me very privileged. Just because of where I was born. My Parents were lower middle class so... I am not as privileged as a rich person. I have been measured to have a high IQ so that's a huge privilege... But I suffer from Skizo-affektive disorder, so that's a disadvantage... There's so many things here. And to put me equal to anybody is just... absolutely insane! We as humans... are actually not equals. Nobody is. We all have each our skills, each our connections. Family connections, location, skills, time and place... This all puts us at different places on the scale. Inequality is just a fact of life! That's how it is and how it will ALWAYS be, you can never ever get rid of it. Because... That makes no sense!
And having a drive, a selfish drive, is what propelled humans forward. And that's also how free societies succeeded so well over socialist societies.
In a free society a man is motivated to build a house he can call his own, he is motivated to start that business, to invent, to do stuff.
In a society where all must be equal... there is no point because if you build anything the state is just gonna take it, because it now belongs to everyone so... What's the point? Why do anything? Why put in the afford? That's why these societies FAIL! utterly!
Communism makes no sense in reality!
My father's first language was Croatian. He immigrated with his parents to the United States about 1906 or '07. When I was a boy in the 1940s and '50s, he told me, "Even if you aspire to nothing more than digging ditches, master the English Language." Here we are about 70 years later and I still haven't mastered the English language as well as some guy from Russia!!!
Konstantine is as much as "Russian" as Zelensky: both are jevvish, both are failed comedians and both are working for CIA/MI6
What??
he was more motivated.russia is a bigger shithole than yougoslavia was.gladly croatia is now free again ,serbia still is the same crap like russia .
@@Worldaffairsloveryou need translation?or to borrow you some neurons ?the message was clear,what didn t you understand?
@@schlauspieler1991 it just didn’t make any sense
I also happened to grow up in Bulgaira under communism and can remember the story of Pavlik Morozov very clearly, as they tried to zombify us with it at a very early age. Now I tend to think of it as a fictional instrument of communist propaganda than a real life story. I hope so at least...
But now you are a goal of new propaganda
Thank you, Konstantin.
Konstantin….
I think that you mistake the German Nazzis - they were socialist fascists.
Look up the name of their party.
Hit|er’s Prora holiday camp was for the socialist workers.
Hit|er’s Gustav Wilhelm cruise liner was for the socialist workers.
Hit|er’s VW car was for the socialist workers.
The Nasties were all socialists, just as were the Russians. The Russians were never communists, because all the party beurocrats and leaders has special apartments, dachas, holidays, and foreign currency shops. There was not a drop on communism, wih the CCCP.
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hear hear
If only readers and writers of the Independent and Guardian watched this
And the BBC
How does this imperialistic trash differ from MSM?
I've often seen Communism and Fascism as being two sides of the same grubby coin, but what sticks it for me is just how much of an easier ride Communism seems to get. If I went around in a T-shirt with Hitler's face on, I'll seen as a lunatic and maybe even have things shouted at me (in Germany I could even be arrested), but if I had the same T-shirt with any choice of the Communist dictators, some far more murderous than Hitler ever was, the most I'd get is an odd look.
Name one communist dictator far more murderous than Hitler ever was, please
Depends on where you are. In some countries you will get a punch for wearing Stalin face, but nothing for wearing Hitler’s face (for example, in Japan and India, many wouldn’t care if you had Hitler shirt) In other countries it’s the opposite. Hitler is more controversial in the west, likely because he invaded west europe and soviet was allies to the west in the war
That is thanks to the fact that Soviets got help from the Allies and the West forgot about communist atrocities which is why Communist symbols are not so bad compared to the Nazi Swastika. The amount of hatred for a symbol and one ideology was so prevalent in the 1940s that nearly everyone forgot about communism also being atrocious up until the Cold War.
@@austria-hungary4981 name some of the atrocities of the soviets that was worse than Nazi's did to subhumans
@@AlkantelRU They can't be worse than the Nazis because both used concentration camps. The Nazis used them to exterminate Jews while the Soviets used them to make "lazy people do work" (if you catch my reference).
But then again, since the Soviets managed to liberate Berlin to avoid being the bad guys in WW2 like the fascists, the Hammer and Sickle became acceptable and you can still show it today without severe repercussion unless you want to commit riots.
This is all very true. Communism was vastly worse than "fascism", meaning National Socialism. Orwell eventually came to understand this, though more importantly, he recognized the essential similarity.
I cannot thank you enough for this video. My mother (a toddler at the time) and her family were taken from their home in Poland by the Soviets in early 1940 and placed in a gulag in Siberia where two of her sisters (my aunts) died. My grandmother managed to get most of her kids to the U.S. where I now live. When we learned about WWII in grade school and I tried to tell my teachers that my mother was enslaved by the Soviets during WWII, I was told that I was mistaken and that, surely, I meant the Nazis. The appeasement of Stalin in the U.S. during WWII was so great that it continues to color "history" taught here today. As you noted, so many here (particularly "intellectuals") not only appeased Stalin but celebrated him, only too willing to turn a blind eye to his brutality.
I guess your teacher didn't know about Katyn Massacre or the fact that soviets patiently waited for the Warsaw rise to be crushed...
@@benjaminthibieroz4155 No, she certainly did not. Not convenient for her or anyone else in the U.S. to know about that atrocity.
@benjaminthibieroz4155 There is a large statue in Baltimore dedicated to the victims. Every few years, I go back and read the plaque.
A toddler survived gulag, another believable 'personal story' on YT.
Not sure about toddlers sent to American concentration camps in 1941.for no other reason but being Japanese....
@@bdleo300 calling it "concentration camps" is wrong in the context of the period. People were unfairly secluded in, but it was by no mean comparable to gulag or prisoners camps. The rate of mortality was on par with the rest of the US's civilian population (who didn't suffer from the war).
Very concise, very accurate and powerful. That this needs saying at all is a testament to Yuri Brezmenov's warning.
What's most terrifying for me is how "the powers that be" have so easily joined the powers of wokery without so much as a whimper of doubt. It's so redolent of how millions of Germans during the rise of Hitler, choked back their intelligence, and their instincts, so easily, in order to be on the 'right side of history'. One explanation is that the old guard of "the powers that be" didn't capitulate and betray their values, but simply retired, passed on through the upper echelons, to be replaced by hordes of automatons generated in the last twenty-odd years from the neo-Marxist cess pits of our universities.
Thank you, Konstantin, for an excellent video. Please keep them coming. Much appreciated.
As someone who was born and lived in communism (Former Yugoslavia) I can only say bravo, bravo, excellent description of that terrible form of ruling people and their minds, and I was lucky to be born in a country that had the mildest form of that crap .
Hallelujah Brother!!!
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I see the two as equally oppressive all powerful governments, under fascism you get to keep your house and the economy works a little better. Other than that they are equally horrible.
@@jeffk464”You get to keep your house”…… as long as you do with it what the government tells you. Refuse and you and your family are off to the labour camps. The difference is largely cosmetic.
@@peterwebb8732well yes, both share the same system and even to a degree mental genealogy.
My dad fled Yugoslavia before they opened the borders and let people travel and leave the country. I acctually think that the Yugoslavian ''milder'' form of communism was even worse than what they experienced in the other communist countries. In Yugoslavia they gave you an illusion of freedom. In the other countries you had a clear picture who your adversary was. The fact that the different ethncities were ranked in a hierarchical and hegemonical system, with the Serbs on top while Bosniaks weren't even acknowledged to have a nationality, made it even more poisonous. The war was inevitable, and there most certainly will be wars down the line.
Yeah, in many cases, you were able to keep someone elses house too.@@jeffk464
The British government also tells us what is acceptable to think these days and the chiefs of local police are their Gauleiters
Way I see it is the horse shoe version of the politics has :- Communism on the left and Facism on the right but right next to each other. Hence meaning almost the same.
The gulag archipelago gives me nightmares and I couldn't even finish it!
Well, it's a fiction story, so you can sleep now. Author admit it in very beginning.
Fascism and Communism are like two sides of the same coin, different beliefs that use similar methods to achieve the same ultimate goal, to control.
China is the best supporting argument for this. A country that seamlessly transitioned from communism straight into fascism without much effort. One would think that when transitioning from one end of the spectrum to the other, literally everything would have to be upended. But this doesn't seem to be the case, so the only explanation is that fascism and communism are not polar opposites.
There's only one axis that matters: freedom from government.
both are leftist ideologies.
@@CristiNeagu And here i thought china had state capitalism...
Very sorry, but the whole point of Mr Kisin's analysis is to show that they don't use similar methods. The one is more brutal than the other.
@@SoloRenegadeYour comment is spot on. It’s remarkable how many people do not understand the relative placement of these ideologies on the political spectrum. Well said.
I am glad that you pointed out the Nazi National Socialism was just another kind of socialism. It's just not the type of socialism we usually hear about. Instead of reorganizing society for the benefit of the working class, Hitler wanted to reorganize society to benefit what he considered to be the German race. It was racial socialism, but it was still socialist.
Many on the Left believe that it's either definitionally or logically impossible for a socialist regime to also be racist and nationalist. But that's just an article of faith. Historically, racism was rife in socialist circles in the second half of the 19th century. And racism could be found in literally all socialist regimes throughout the 20th century. On a smaller scale and up to the present day, various kinds of racism can be found in most (perhaps all) Leftist groups. Leftist types of racism may be different to Nazi racism, and the product of different theories, but the racism is still there.
Yeah and now we got racial socialism in the rest of the West too, it just supports any group that isn't white against the white oppressor... Different name, same thing. Racial socialism... or racial communism. Whatever. It's the same idea, white people owe all the rest of the people, and if we just got rid of the whites, all the rest would be able to live in prosperity and peace.
The difference was, they made it work.
Rather like the Scot Nats then?
Good point.
Interestingly enough, I think Rainer Zitelman actually wrote a book called "Hitler's beneficiaries" that goes somewhat into detail that the Nazi regime actually improved the life of the ordinary "racially german" worker, at least before the war turned around. So it still was socialism on the "worker" front as well.
I can't remember what personage, but a while ago, I was "informed " that "Trigonometry" is a woke f&%kfest! I'm pleased to discover that this is one of THE best intellectual, informative & on point news aggregater around. What a great episode, thank you.
I grew up in Poland just after communism collapsed and 100% agree.
Fascism was that much better. I get fascism at least had traditional faith in Catholicism vs like a drone atheist stooge cultivation worker. On the merits of Annihilation Communism may actually etch out ahead at the annihilation of the Christian Slavic's People. As a combined goal they were fantastic at complete utter destruction and then following the war the loans granted to them kept them even more burdened and enslaved or as a more proper term subjugated. Who's fault was it that well over 60 million Slavic's people were liquidated from just 1914 - 1957. Those are just only statistics water under the bridge. They won't say that about the Holocaust but about 60 million Christian Slavic People ten times that of the Holocaust nobody knows cares to know. Water under the bridge.
As a fifty something fan of broad history it’s scary whenever I talk the younger generation and they have no knowledge of basic historical facts. How can we prevent repeats of both fascism and communism if the kids don’t know what we’re talking about?
Or maybe Germany Fascism was in response to the real threat of Communism along with the unfair punishment of the TOV. After all, the Communists did end up getting 1/2 of Europe.
why would you want to prevent fascism? Liberal democracy is a fair-weather system, look at the woke marxists today. So-called liberals getting eaten alive in the very institutions they founded. Poor, piss poor.
We are all born ignorant. The problem is convincing young adults that they still are.
As a fifty something they're the ones who are going to have to deal with it. Maybe that will open their eyes when they're in some sort of killing fields scenario, but, I'm not holding out hope.insert amiright? or whatever kids say
They are not only ignorant, they are aggressively miseducated.
I will give you one more reason why communism is way worse::::::
My grandfather left Spain in 1960s (in the middle of Franco's dictatorship), he just sold all his properties and got the money, went and get a passport, a Visa and he was free to leave the country with his 3 children and all his money after selling his properties. He started a new life and work really hard. That's not possible under communism.
Spain wasn't really fascist, we have to understand that Franco was more of a Catholic conservative authoritarian rather than a devote Falangist, he even recreated the falagne party to be more loyal to him and rid the country of the old Falagne who were loyal to Jose Rivera and National syndicalism.
@kaisermarxistdixie6842 you are right but he was certainly closer ideologically to the fascist than any other political group of the time. But in any case, my point is that leftist dictatorships are worse than the ones in the right
Communism and a Green future is necessity. Why Bolsinaro got the boot in Brazil. The Amazon and Indigenous rights must be protected. What Kisin cannot comprehend. And by the way,China and Russia are State Capitalist. Certainly not Communist.
Franco knew sth, he grabbed power and kept it as well. Oh, he is labelled a fascist but I guess more close to Degrelle's Rex party-just a thought.
😂 Franco defeated the communist in Spain.
Excellent explanation, thanks; condensed but very informative speech
Damn good video post. I just wish it were longer.
Well done Konstantin! Having had a similar personal experience to you with the communist regime in occupied Estonia for the first 20 years of my life, I say it does something to a person. My bullshit detector has also been tuned well to react to the untrue things in the world for the remainder of my life. No amount of ideology and propaganda, for whatever cause will ever change facts of life, those things will win in the end.
👏👏👏
remember the Katyn massacre by the commies in 🇵🇱 that was whitewashed by UK and the 🇺🇸
Despite it still being a bit fanciful, I like this quote from enemy at the gates - 'We tried so hard to create a society that was equal, where there'd be nothing to envy your neighbour. But there's always something to envy. A smile, a friendship, something you don't have and want to appropriate. In this world, even a Soviet one, there will always be rich and poor'.
There's a great book about North Korea called "Nothing to Envy."
Yes, there will always be rich and poor, but you missed two important points: 1. The proportion of poor to rich is much greater in Communist societies than in capitalist. The key goal of a Marxist socialist system is equality of outcome ("equity"), and achieves equality only in mass poverty. 2. In capitalist countries like the US, the poor are often richer than the "rich" in Communist economies. An Indian man desperately wanted to immigrate to the UnitedStates. When asked "Why?" he replied, "Because I want to live in a country where even the poor people are fat!" Remember the footage op of First Lady Michelle Obama volunteering to dish out food to poor people in Washington, DC? All the "poor" recipients of the free food were taking selfies of themselves with her taken by their own smart phones! Poverty has a completely different definition in capitalist societies than in Communist countries.
I agree. Though I think the quote is trying to move us away from only thinking about wealth as monetary wealth; that there is more to life than money and given we are born as we are, it is folly to seek any kind of equality for all people simply by controlling their financial income. And by extension perhaps that when freedom in matters of wealth is taken away, there is then little recourse to balance out those predetermined or unlucky features of one's own life, making true equality possibly worse in some sense even under perfect communism. @@bearowen5480
@@thatbobbi Is there a book: "The worst genocide in modern history:
How Americans killed 30% of North Korean population and napalm bombed rice fields"
No? I wonder why....
@bdleo300 Well then write it baby! I guarantee there's an audience for literature like that today. 😂
An excellent speech, very well written and delivered.
My wife grew up in Moscow and was a fully paid up member of the communist party when we met and married. She was under no delusions how bad communism was and was still the subject of racial abuse, being Jewish.
It is a willful blindness, a charade of compliance that keeps communism in power, not just tyrannical authoritarianism.
Eloquent and well argued. thank you.
I'm so glad you pointed out one of the basic differences between Fascism and Communism. Fascists are not against personal property or wealth, in fact they get into bed with big business. My German Grandfather actually made good money 1933 - 1945 as a small business owner. I'm not proud of that but it's a real example of the basic difference.
By 'get into bed' you mean that they totally controlled private industry, rather than confiscated it.
Read 'The Vampire Economy' by Gunter Reimann
In wartime almost everything is "controlled" by the government. Same in England. Point is they got paid for their output and the government didn't try to take over the businesses. Nearly all the major corporations were extant post WWII. Krupp, Siemens, AEG, Bayer, Lurssen, IG Farben, Daimler-Benz, BMW, Rheinmetall, MAN, and Bosch all exist to this day. @@juliantheapostate8295
Volkswagen as it is now was initially formed as KDF in 1936 by the government. And it's now its one of the biggest corporations in the world. Messerschmitt, Bolkow Blom unt Voss and Dornier continued post war too and eventually just became part of Airbus.
I keep saying it's what we have now. Except the big monopolies don't fear the gov't anymore. The shoe is on the other foot because the mega corp controls the gov't. They could try threatening them with taxes and regulations and get laughed at because it just drives the out little guy. But everybody equates fascism with small moustache man (they don't even mention Moussolini!?!). There's no nuance anymore. Precious little curiosity.
What about that great communist country, China? They've made plenty of money..Especially, their elites, just the same as in the US only with a bit more control.
None of the 'isms' have worked, or will work, because the predator class end up at the top. Stalin wasn't a communist neither was Mao. Hitler wasn't a socialist. The Democrats aren't democratic. They are, or were nutter megalomaniacs. You could identify as anything you liked, even in those days. Konstantin, like Lex Friedman has done well for himself, since moving to the UK and US respectively, and probably isn't happy about giving back some of his cash (in taxes) that he makes, in part, from people like you listening to him. At least Lex Friedman is slightly charming. I think Konstantin is an irritant who looks like he forgets to go to bed and needs to catch up on his sleep. I shall try to remember to avoid anything he's in.....
I am a working class man with a 1980's London inner city comprehensive education ( i.e barely could read or write leaving school at 15 ). My father was a staunch Labour party man and activist like my grandfather, who was a shop steward at a printing factory. I grew up to loath socialism. I saw the pain and misery it caused my mother with the constant lack of money as party was put before family and growing up in a environment of what I now know was mental torture and propaganda by a father too ignorant to understand his own teachings, gave me a taste of life I swore never to repeat to my own family. I grew up and prospered under Thatcher's conservatism and became a home owner, like many others who conveniently forget what they now own is because of her dragging us kicking and screaming into a modern world. Socialism is a social cancer embraced by the ignorant and those looking to control the ignorant. Free market conservatism is the wa forward, but we have a UK Tory party party who have lost their way and forgotten the true values they once stood for. But anything is better than a Socialist Labour party in power.
So well articulated. Thank you.
The Tories have been riding on Thatcher's coattails for decades. They are charlatans. Thatcher was the anomaly.
I agree with most of what you say, but, in recent years, AND CURRENTLY, we have a bunch in power who don't know their arse from their elbow, i.e neither one or the other. HELP !!
Anything?
You'll be glad then that successive Tory governments have extracted a historical amount of wealth from the poorest to the richest.
Yes a hard series to watch and emotionally triggering. Your insights into the life you and your family come from truly makes me count my blessings for the two countries I grew up and live in - UK and Australia- despite their misgivings. Thank you for sharing.
Emotionally triggering to a bunch of western brainwashed morons who never left their country. The guy is a traitor and he is paid by your money to say sweet lies. Reality is unforgiving - USA is a shithole, and USSR with PRC is a worker's paradise.
Thank you for saying who the Che Guevara really was. Thank you so much. As a Cuban myself I thank you.
Intellecual honesty. That rarest of human skills along with critical thinking that needs to be taught in schools at an early age.
Parents have to do that. You can't leave it to schools.
@@ankavoskuilen1725 whats the purpose of schools if we have parents... Indeed well spoken.
Schools are too busy teaching kids that they are in the wrong body
@@ankavoskuilen1725 A well rounded education involves parents and schools. Expecting one or the other is a false dichotomy.
This was brilliant. Thank you, Konstantin.
Konstantin is around 20 years younger than me, but his life-experience is almost identical to mine. I had the good fortune to leave the Soviet Union as a child in the early 1970s. The only person in my family that this ended well for is me. When I read George Orwell's writings I was stunned by how accurately he captured the Soviet Union power structures. However, as I got older and gained more life-experience I see that the West is willfully heading in the same direction, but from a different starting point. Fundamentally, the adage "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" is what describes totalitarian societies. The "tyranny from above" has a few powerful individuals, backed by a military structure, is what describes Fascism and Communism. The West is moving towards the "tyranny from below", which has the capacity to become the "tyranny from above" where majority-rule stomps over the rights of individuals. Dishonesty and the politics of envy are the powerful tools by which even the West might unravel. Personal freedoms, and particularly the freedom of speech, are the tools to resist the "tyranny from below".
The problem people have is that emotion controls their minds, fear especially. Every economic extreme is horrifying, but the first extreme a person witnesses scares them so much that they run as far away from it as they can, and the terror of what they're running from blinds them to the horror of what they're running to. When you put your fixation on economic theories ahead of individual welfare, suffering will result.
The only economic system that works is the only one that has ever existed in reality: a mixed economy. Whenever politics pushes a nation's economic system too far to one extreme, consequences inevitably force it back towards moderation, but the political resistance to this natural repulsion brings only more devastation until it gives way. As long as people are drawn to absolutes, suffering will continue.
Can we all just take a moment to recognise the courage it took for KK to post this 👏🏽 proud of you!
"What we do in Life, echoes in Eternity" ❤
What courage? Are you writing this comment on TH-cam where anri-communism is rampant, or are you in space? What courage hahahaha
Courage to shill for MI6? He is a failed comedian, what else he can do: a few British pounds and free coke, a price for his soul (if he had one)
When you said people don't know about the Ribbentrop - Molotov pact, you gave me shivers... because you're right. Having grown up behind the Iron Curtain, in a country directly affected by that secret deal no less, you're preaching to the coir in my case.
Forgetting the past is the first step in repeating it. I cringe every time someone claims communism has never been achieved because it is a theoretical ideal. Invariably, those holding such views have never lived under communism. It is not unlike claiming that a swastika is a sacred symbol. True, thousands of years ago or even a 150 years ago. False today.
And you are correct. Communism was worse than fascism, in the same way that dying of hunger is worse that suffocating, because it takes longer.
People don't know mainly, even in Poland or worse were thought that USSR take half of Poland to "protect" from Hitler....
Please leave the coconut husks out of it.
People don’t know about the that almost every other European nation signed with Nazi Germany, what’s your point?
@@johneyton5452 Can you explain for not native English speakers?
I'm French. The left here loves to remind us how active and important the communist were to the Resistance (and credits given they were indeed)... not so much about how Communist started as nazi allies. And that's only one exemple of how nitpicking they are about their own history.
Totally agree, as a person who is from the same country as Kissin.
Thank very much for the clarity.
This might honestly be the most important video you've made.
Bravo Konstantin.
Thank you. It only takes a few minutes, properly thought out, to make the foundational arguments against the Communist and Socialist tolerant platitudes disturbingly common in western academia. Sadly this is the first outstanding example I've seen do that in under 10 minutes. Anyone who hopes to be at all informed can surely handle that.
@@IrishLegend26 LOL Give a few examples from history of successful, desirable communist countries. How about start with even one
Europe is run on socialist democracy, cope harder.
Now go watch a video on why communism is good then you can call ur self informed.
@pse2020. Have you ever learned any non-socialist ideologies?
@@kalburgy2114 Capitalism, facism, state capitalism, communism , resource based economy (the venus project) and more, Why?
Konstantin, you are one wise, inteligent and reasonable Rusky! Agree with all you said. Cheers from a former communist state - Poland.
Orwell was RIGHT with his 'A pox on BOTH your houses', approach!
You spoke from my heart. Having grown up under a socialist regime, I keep explaining to people in the West that communism is to be feared as much if not more than fascism. It is taking away all the rights of any individual for the claim of the greater good but only serves the elite to control the masses in a more sinister way than under fascism.
What you might want to add is the principle of fascism relying on a collaboration between state and cooperation. And this is where it gets very tricky as I would argue that the new pathway of our western governments appear to be the merger of fascism and communism.
We see massive monopolisation of businesses creating elite cooperations which determine who is in charge in government on country and global organisational levels and what we are allowed to say and think under the pretence of the greater good aka our climate or our health or even identity "rights".
With the looming introduction of CBDC and digital IDs and the introduction of misinformation legislation, with WHO mandates overruling country rights we are already sliding into this new oppression of humanity with little resistance. The majority is still trying to figure out how it could come to this mess without seeing the bigger danger ahead of us.
Well said. Another aspect which is leading us toward a communist-fashioned society is that voting is becoming more and more pointless, every elected government, doesn't matter if left or right winded, must comply with the rules and regulations imposed by the sovranational organizations such as WHO, IMF and so on.
I’ve studied Sovietology since high school. I loved the mini series Chernobyl for its truthful portrayal of life in the Soviet Union.
I knew a Pole who survived not only Poland’s occupation by the Nazis, but the Soviets. He said the Nazis were terrible, but the communists were worse.
Under the Nazis, if they were to arrest a person, the police/Gestapo would show up with a lot of noise at night. Under the Soviets, the same thing occurred. The difference? The Nazis arrested the suspect. The communists arrested everyone on the apartment floor, including children and babes. (Suspicion of “contamination”.) Those arrested were never heard from again in both cases.
I suggest your viewers read The abroad the Serfdom by FA Hayek. In it is a concise comparison between Nazis and Communists in but a few sentences.
Basically, Nazis are leftists (not rightists as we’re told in a political lie) and communists are the radical left.
Thanks for your vid.
Cheers!
Spot on about the false description of Nazis as rightists.
(I suspect you mean Road to Serfdom)
Thank you for sharing this. Thank you for your dedication to teaching & sharing truth.
Sad that this will fall on deaf ears of those who need to hear it the most.
It will embolden them, as they will twist it in a way that for them confirms their delusional beliefs.
Excellent. Now I can send friends this link to help them understand why I will not stop pointing out the subtle but real instances of communism / marxism / maoism / socialism that have started popping up in more and more aspects of American life. Many Americans are practicing marxism without even being aware of it. It's quite insidious. Thanks Kisin.
That's completely true.
You mean like "leibensraum", "manifest destiny", and "all people are created equal"?
Yeah yeah, the USA wasn't a Gnostic cult before 2010 was it?
Try watching some of TIK history channel's political philosophy play lists.
Start with Public vs Private.
The idea of "human rights" is a thoroughly misguided
gnostic religious notion too.
There's a difference between British liberalism and European liberalism.
English Common Law starts with the assumption we are free. We elect courts of 12 peers to discerned the most just outcome where people's actions compromise their neighbours freedom.
Acts and "laws" passed by a parliament or congress can be ignored should a jury decide they are unlawful in that the trespass unfairly and unnecessary on another's freedom.
This is why the US declaration of independence claims "we declare the following to be self evident". It is not a state body awarding human rights by decree, it is declaring that it aligns with English Common Law in that it is self evident we are free.
Watch these as an introduction to why rights are God given and not declared by a "court".
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How are many Americans practicing marxism without being aware of it?
The thought that I could be unknowingly a practicing marxist is frightening.
Please don't let the boogeyman get me...
@@hairywhodini3429 You're kinda slow arncha. Every time you simply say "diversity is our strength" or "no human is illegal" you are practicing marxism. Bet you've never questioned yourself about why you do that. I don't mean why according to what someone else said, according to your personal policies after much thought and consideration. Read a book.
He so spot on, I can't speak on other countries but in America people are made to believe the saying you will own nothing and be happy is a good thing, but for those of us who have/had family that lived under those beliefs know it only leads to pain and suffering of the people.
In Britain, people have always defended their home. Your property doesn't belong to a "state" you came before that state and nobody, not even the king, can step foot accross the threshold without your consent.
As someone who doesn't like either ideology I can't help but notice one very important thing. There have been many communist governments nearly all having committed some amount of mass murder. Of the fascist governments I know of only the Germans carried out a mass killing event. If I'm wrong forgive my layman ignorance.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War#:~:text=Around%2020%20million%20people%2C%20mostly,of%20the%20rest%20of%20China.
And the Germans weren't technically fascist, but National Socialist!
Looks that way to me, too.
As bad as the Nazis were, they were amateurs at murdering their citizens compared to the Communists.
Italy in greece, yugoslavia, etheopie in adition to weeding out oposition at home. Spain with the white terror under Franco. This based on the term 'fascist governments' Many more 'superior race' ideoligies have come and gone.. So also all of them.
Hitler was closer to socialism and communism than anything right wing as far as I’m concerned. Fascism is not necessarily left or right
You’d be wrong. Hitler and the NSDAP were far Right.
Depends on who is defining the political spectrum. To Communists Hitler was far right. To American conservatives he was far left.
@@kalburgy2114 Shows how ignorant American Conservatives are. Hitler and the NSDAP were far Right.
There are many reasons why Communism is worse than Fascism but the most important is that, while actual Fascism - as opposed to calling anyone with whom one disagrees "Fascist" - is politically insignificant in most Western nations, Marxism still attracts well meaning, intelligent people in positions of influence who should know better.
Fascism is politically insignificant? What rock have you been sleeping under? What about the unite the right rally, Charlottesville. What about Richard Spencer, Nick Fuentes, Georgia Meloni (who was openly fascist in her youth), Marine Le Pen and her party founded by fascists, Ron DeSantis (who made that campaign video with fascist symbols in it), Lauren Southern, Hungary under Victor Orban, Russia under Putin. Fascism is more existing now than it has been for a long time. I don’t see any marxist political parties taking power in the west, not many at least, but constantly the nationalistic right wing populist parties with close ties to fascism seems to take power
A very well thought out argument .
Thank you, KK 🙂
Very well said mate.
I always called communism "fascism with no property ownership".
Also don't forget the World Economic Forum said this by 2030: "You will own nothing, and you will be happy"...
yep, you are ignorant
you just have shown that you dont know the doctrine of communism, so you are detesting not communism, but your imaginations installed by repeating that lie. Thats called brainwashing
I am far too intelligent to fight for what I believe, or believe in anything at all. I'd rather just whine on the internet about things I don't actually understand.
Very good, well done. 10/10.
It’s totalitarianism that we are dealing with which is currently a mix of fachist and communist methodologies. But it’s totalitarianism that’s the real danger.
The EU
Yeah! So well put! Thanks for that!
Brilliant truthful speech sir 👍🏻 God bless.
Very, very important podcast, thx Constantin Kisin! Don't stop talking to us!!!! Have lived in East Germany, Hungary, Tschechoslovakia...as daughter of diplomats (yes, I was free, but under constant watch), my grandparents and their families have lost everything by the communists...I have seen the most dishumanized people in East Germany in the beginning of the 80ies, a population of avatars, their souls corrupted and empty...communism ends humanity
Just propaganda I lived in USSR and did not see zombies on the streets. Moreover today there are more zombies who killed their soul in pursuit of money profit.
"population of avatars, their souls corrupted and empty."
describing Americans and their EU vassals today: they lost their souls, they even lost their genders.....
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Of course, "communism" has never been tried properly. Nor will it ever be - because...human nature. Thank you for this episode, Konstantin.
Communism - good idea, wrong species.
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Same with Christian love and mercy. But we still try
@@user-pe5gz4ey7e How many more million dead people do you need in trials before comprehending that communism is not even nice in theory and a crime on humanity in reality?
Having slaves or believing in the divine birthright of kings was also "human nature" several centuries ago. Yet here we are enjoying the right to be citizens, to vote and defend ourselves in court. Unthinkable by medieval standarts.
A clear exposition, as always.
Konstantin has superseded himself.... Great presentation, especially IMHO the last few sentences.
It's amazing that the disclaimers are necessary to prevent misrepresentation.
It speaks to either the sincerity or Intelligence of the ideological opposition.
Either they will sieze upon the opportunity to misrepresent, arguing in bad faith....
Or worse. They literally cannot parse the argument without instructions.
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I had friend at school who came from Bulgaria. He told me once how his cousin saved up for a long time to make a pilgrimage to Highgate Cemetery, just to urinate on Karl Marx's grave.
Thank you Mr. Konstantin. I am from Poland and I have never understood why to me a fascism was always anathema but being a communist is fashionable. Communism is responsible for at least the same amount of misery as fascism.
If it wasnt for the Red Army liberating Poland from nazis and banderites Poland wouldn't even exist anymore
I once remarked that I believed the far left was an even greater danger than the far right. People looked at me like I was crazy, but this video illustrates what I feared about the ideological totalitarianism of far left hacks.
Just ask any left winger to describe a scenario where their own politics would go to far, within their actual country that they currently live in. They can't and will not ever do it. Meanwhile ask a conservative, and he can give you a thousand examples of how his politics can go to far.
Nazism is left-wing, not right-wing.
same thoughts
do you realize that soviet are the equivalent of modern day conservatives?@@dixonhill1108
The far left barely exists though. At least in the west, while the far right tried to stage a coup in the US and kills people all the time, and controls the country in Russia. Far left exists in India and other countries though, and can be dangerous. But in the west the farthest mainstream left there is are people like Bernie Sanders, which is pretty tame
To this new Bulgarian friend of yours, Konstantin i wanna say - Благодаря ти приятелю, че те има.
My father is a Korean war orphan, most of my family was r@ped, tortured and killed when "progressive" Chinese showed up and started their struggle sessions in his village...... despite this there are leftist who can't understand why my entire family is against "progressing" society past it's old ideas, habits, customs and culture towards a more equitable society. They think we're just assholes. We think they need to read up on the Chinese "progressive" cultural revolution and how terrifyingly similar it is to the current western "progressive" movement.
You sound Fascist
@@user-ns2dt3le1e Because I'm not a communist? LOL of course!!! How typically "progressive" of you.
I’m Bulgarian and thank you for pointing it out
Same.
If the choice is Mao or Mussolini, that's an easy decision to make.