Interesting, from Seattle here. I remember the controversy in the Seattle times and when this guy got fired. It's great to hear from him personally. The Seattle times intern alluding to some of it being "necessary" is beyond chilling and sadly reflects many of the young people here.
@@sherigraham3873 I would watch Mike Naynas short documentary on Evergreen College. That's the epicenter of it. If you want a long explanation you could watch Benjamin Boyces documentary. Both are fascinating
@@sherigraham3873 I ask the same thing about San Francisco; I grew up in the Bay Area and lived in Berkeley, Oakland, and SF from roughly 2005 to 2010. Last time I visited was in 2018 and I was stunned, seeing people sh*tting and sh**ting up in public...and it has only gotten far, far worse since then, apparently.
@@MrBrachiatingApeSan Francisco was one of the most exquisite cities when I was 10 I visited and it was magical. The historic buildings, trolley cars on steeply graded streets, China town? The most beautifully laid out City that left an impression that has lasted to my 60 years. It's a heart break 💔
Honestly, Seattle was more or less a fine place to live. Until 2020. The city had been gradually sliding further and further left and further and further into decline over the last 20 years, 2020 everything went insane. Apart from the BLM/Antifa riots, the Democrats who run our state stopped pretending to care about Common sense. They rubber stamped ultra left-wing legislation for three years and it’s only in the last few months that they started reversing it because they face reelection and popular initiatives that wholeheartedly oppose the disastrous policies of our communist overlords.
It's actually pretty simple. Many, if not most of the members of the intelligentsia of the west are either Socialists or Communists. If you Google Communists or Socialists in the New York Times, you will find positive stories from the Russian revolution on. The New York Times was also pro-Nazi until the Germans invaded Russia in 1941. At that time the Times stopped looking at National Socialists as Socialists, meaning leftists, and changed to calling them Fascists of the right. The Nazi's, just like other Fascists, were actually started by leftists. Mussolini and other Italian Fascists were all Socialists.
Because socialim is superior to capitalism! What should be forbidden is any symbol promoting capitalism the most evil system in history. Capitalism has killed more people than any other system. It is already dead! It has never workef.
Why should they be banned? It is a superior ideology to capitalism. Since the most deadly system capitalism has killed more people than any other system I know what symbols that should really be banned!
I moved from Seattle 4 years ago and know well about this grotesque statue. The fact that anyone in their right mind would consider it a memorial to a great man has forever tainted my opinion of Seattle. Who was responsible for putting it up and who is responsible for leaving it there? Absolutely disgusting.
From what I understand it was a teacher on vacation that saw it at a scrap yard and got the funds to bring it to the U.S. before it got melted. It didn't seem to be politically motivated at the time, he just thought it looked cool. It's disturbing that it's being glorified now especially after 2020 when so many other statues were torn down with zero consequences. If you notice, locals paint the statues hand red as a form of protest.
Decades of uncontested unhinged leftism (all abstract, totally divorced from actually just giving poor working people more money) with absolutely no criticism from once-mainstream journalism and academia, will do this to a people. There is now an entire class of "educated" whose social ideology has been horribly mutilated, and, thus, their lives and those of all their neighbors have been set on a course toward disaster, and the results are starting to become unavoidably apparent across the nation. At the end of the day, people who know better lack organization and courage. That we all know and expect radicals to put up statues is one thing, but for no one to ever expect that decent reasonable citizens could, should, and would, just say NO and tear it down, is the real problem.
My Hungarian grandparents spent three years in a Soviet run gulag to be reeducated. My grandfather's back was broken and he struggled for the rest of his life. My grandmother died. Their crime? They were farmers.
There was a joke I came across a long time ago in a book. A visitor to hell sees Hitler and Stalin in a pool of excrement. The excrement is up to Hitler's chin whereas the excrement is up to Stalin's waist. The visitor asks the Devil why Stalin, a murderer like Hitler, only has the excrement up to his waist. The Devil answers "Because Stalin is standing on the shoulders of Lenin."
Washington freed the slaves of Mt. Vernon as his dying wish. He did this in part to set an example. He was a pioneering leader in the movement for human freedom. I know the author here is of good intent but we should all mention this when discussing the slaves he inherited, owned and ultimately liberated.
that's a good fact (a this point, any fact is good)....but I know what libs will say, "GW couldn't live without his [enslaved individuals of color]" ....I threw a little newspeak in at the end there.
@@burkean No, these people were legally considered his property. I think there were laws against this in some places later to your point. He not only freed them but also gave the elderly medical care and provided job training for the youth. How this is omitted in these discussions is beyond me. He was a noble man.
@@burkean Not illegal, but it would have ruined him financially. The law in the commonwealth of Virginia during Washington's lifetime required that any man who wanted to manumit one of his slaves had either to set that freed slave up with an ability to make a living -- provide him enough land to farm, or property on which he could practice a journeyman trade (if he had the skill to do so) and earn a living -- or transport the manumitted slave out of the commonwealth. Washington would have had to do this for all his slaves, and he simply couldn't afford it; most of his wealth was tied up in property and it wasn't liquid, so he basically would have had to sell Mount Vernon. Freeing them in his will was the only way he could do it without impoverishing himself. As it was, Washington had more slaves on his estate than was economical, because they got married and had children, and Washington refused to sell slaves away from their families, so he bore the financial loss for the sake of not breaking up families.
@@burkean Almost certainly not. When we discuss things like that it was generally as a form of debt control, with a hideously indebted person that owned slaves being banned from selling them off or otherwise divesting of them so that they could continue generating income that could be used to pay his creditors. This was one thing that trapped the likes of Jefferson, since most of the Planter Aristocrats (especially in Washington and Jefferson's generations before the invention of the Cotton Gin) were heavily indebted and cash poor. The reason it probably doesn't apply is because Washington was one of the VERY FEW planter aristocrats of his generation that was actually wealthy in pretty much every facet, having very low and stable debts he kept paying down on a schedule while also having a lot of liquid capital and goods. So the laws forbidding divesting from slavery probably wouldn't apply to him since his estate was solvent without them.
What attributed to Lenin's positive image today among people is the fact that after his death Soviet propaganda kicked in full gear to portray him as a caring, benevolent statesman. Indeed, he wasn't.
I can’t believe this could happen in the USA. My country was communist, controlled by the Soviet government, as many others. And since the regime collapsed, I was astonished how the fascism was criticised but no one was mentioning the horrific regime of communism. My only explanation was that if you are not taught about history, you are doomed to repeat it. But since the USA were against the communist ideology, I have never thought I would see a Lenin statue there and people destroying statues of the founders of the freest country. Nor would I expected that people could loose their job for stating historical facts for a horrific regime, especially in another country and a behaviour as this intern would be tolerated!
it's happening not just in the US, but all over the west. All across western Europe communists are rising out of the mud in droves, claiming to be "anti-fascists" with an utterly twisted idea that everything right of Stalinism is "extreme right" and therefore fascism (when in fact they themselves are far closer to fascists than anything the European right will ever be, we're mostly classical liberals advocating for limited government and personal freedoms). This is actively spurned on by the EU, which is of course a fascist organisation operating under the guise of "international cooperation" in order to create a pan-European superstate controlled by an unelected oligarchy, their main figures moving in and out of national parliaments and cabinets almost at will it seems, blurring the line between where countries end and the EU starts when it comes to decision making.
Because the capitalists don't promote socialism because they believe in the ideology, they promote it because they are less likely to ask for raises or ask for working class advancements when everyone is fighting among themselves. Then there was the unholy marriage. of the Patriot Act, which gave the federal government unlimited power to do what they want under the guise of national security, and then citizens united that gave corporations the rights of citizens. A lot of people are rightfully focused on Klaus Schwab. What most people don't know is that Klaus,along with Henry Kissinger, were recruited by Rockefeller. I can promise you the man is not a communist. Rockefeller sttarted the American public education system. That system was created by the King of Prussia to erase the identity of the newly conquered Poles. None of this is an accident. Irregardless of how people feel about Putin, in his interview with Tucker was correct about one thing, no one in the history of mankind has a propaganda program like the American establishment. The social engineering program has become obvious to a lot of people. And most of this has been driven by the feds. The part everyone gets wrong is why they are doing it. I have narrowed it down to 2 things, reversing population decline ( every country is worried about this) and/or curating the population for WW3. While it may not seem like it, America really hasn't been in a significant engagement since Vietnam. That was 50 years ago. Everything else has just been errands for the UN. And believe it or not, this has been done before. Europeans like to give Americans a hard time about showing up late to world wars but they don't understand how absolutely massive the war machine is and how hard it is to start up. WW1 Europeans had come out of a period of peace, but Americans had the Spanish War. So the country had to spend years convincing Americans to get in, and rebuild the military because we still didn't have a standing army at that time. That provess was the infancy of the MIC. And they got Americans on board through...ethnic targeting. If you know what stats to look at and what pieces are moving, they have been making moves.And then overclocking the nonsense machine to keep everyone distracted. And the more liberal the country, the more intense the programming, which is why Canada is really getting hammered and Poland mainly left alone. Everyone is deliberately decoupling their energy supplies. Manufacturing has been moved from to Mexico. Poland now has a bigger military than Germany. They are deliberately breaking the global order.
It's what happens when the education system teaches students to be ashamed of their country, and hate its past. Re-enforce that with a saturation on social media platforms, and hey presto you have a generation who think history is lies.
The home base of Communism before Russia was London and New York City. Karl Marx’s daughter was close friends with Sidney and Beatrice Webb who founded the Fabian Society and LSE and the Labor Party and much more. Trotsky ran a newspaper before he was sent, with the aid of the Wilson administration and Germany, into Russia with Lenin and Stalin. US troops were sent to Russia during the revolution to protect it from any eastward threats.
At least Trotsky realized that the sowjets became Parasytes themself, wich earned him exile in Mexico and later a Dagger* in the Back. Our sociliast friends prefer to ignore that :) (* I know it was an Ice-pick but Dagger sounds more classy)
@@slippingsnake Trotsky was and remained a deeply believing Marxist-Leninist until his death. He thought that the good and just revolution was stolen by the bureaucracy led by Stalin. He believed his crimes were justified by ideology. His social policy propositions, for eg. labor army, and collectivization were terrible. In many places they mirror Stalinism. If someone already knows the history of Bolshevism well, I recommend reading his autobiography.
@@slippingsnakeseems tradition among soviets, communists.... one leader gets spot by assassinating previous leader and sees same fate after some while. rumours of stalin death were not natural. trotsky was betrayed, then lenin later.
He also managed to rescue a country that was in a medieval state, destroyed by a world war, and ongoing Civil War, and was under foreign invasion. During his reign, he managed to eradicate a literacy, double industrial output, and increase the average life expectancy by an entire decade. It was a hard time and hard choices had to be made.
@@davidahlstrom7533 if you and your family are among them...absolutely nothing.bro you're monstrously stoopid, I've seen dogs smarter than you, now go back to your own puke !
@@Mortablunt you can say the same about Hitler and yet nobody denies he was a monster. your sympathy for criminals is what empowers them. revise your world view dude, you're awfully wrong .
Is there a country for Estonians, Latvians,Georgians and Uzbek today ??? The answer is yes !!! Is there a country for Sioux, Cherookees and Cheyenns ???? The answer is NO !!! But somehow Communists are worse than American settlers....Go figure !!!
Thank you Triggernometry and Mr Volodzko, this was one of the most powerful and important videos I've ever seen. I was taught about the Russian revolution in school and knew of many of the horrors but somehow was left with the impression that Lenin was a naive idealist and that Stalin was the monster... I'm glad to have been wrong for 30 years, as you said, the truth is more powerful.
@@thegeneralist7527Wow, I just woke up in the morning and suddenly China is a statless, moneyless society of artists and scientists, where all physical labor automated
Well that's the ignorance of it's adeherents at work. They believe the fantasy presented to them and never look deeper. I won't go into where communism really comes from (or proto-communism like the French revolution) or who it's actual leaders are. There is still plenty of evidence as to what they really believe and what their real goals are. In their own words. If you just have the courage to look.
"Real communism" always fails on day 1, because people don't wish to cooperate. Then they start forcing people by means of state violence. Communism - an idea so awesome, that people have to be "persuaded" at gunpoint. The "pilgrims" - first settlers of the New England colonies that became the USA tried real communism (a misunderstanding of Christianity) and almost perished during the very first winter. Then they wised up real quick.
It's the man watching people with variously arranged feathers attached to their arms, throwing themselves off a cliff, one by on, and saying: "That's not REAL flying!"
I wholeheartedly support this video. I passed a Lenin statue every day for twenty years on my way to work (in Denmark) but the eventually sold it to the Worker's Museum and put it in a courtyard where I don't have to come. The reason Lenin gets a better rap than Stalin is merely that he died after seven years in power.
@@br1920 So I"ve lived in several foreign countries, and everyone I worked with always wanted to improve their English. Since I am a fantastic writer and pretty good public speaker, I always helped them, with the difficult nuances of the language, and they always appreciate it. Moreover, since I work in a smart-af field, they lock on pretty quick. Of course, some spoke better English than I, and always with an "Oxford" accent, never-the-less, my deep knowledge of several regionals slangs was always skookum to a jive turkey. Since OP is rock solid, I'm just helping, since he's Eastern European, and may need want speak better English. I'm old enough that the Eastern Europeans professionals I worked with spoke Russian before English.
The statue is the least symbol of our problems. Walk-through Ballard at night and you’ll see the haunted homeless. The lack of cops. The boarded up windows. The sealed doors. The law-abiding, tax-paying people too scared to go out at night. Getting fired from the times is quite the badge though. 👍
From what I remember off the top of my head, it's a bit deeper than that. I think that specific statue was made by a Russian artist who may have been secretly trying to convey Lenin's brutality. It then got bought by someone in the US to put in front of his store when the ussr fell. Its for sale no less! Personally, I think thats kinda cool, the originator of this communistic brutal regime reduced to a oddity commodity in the the exact system he was fighting against! Communism is pretty nasty, but I think the artistry and history is pretty cool, the statue certainly made me look more into the horrors of the Russian history. but the statue should probably have a few plaques explaining it's origin and story, cause otherwise it just looks strange Apparently it's also on private land, privately owned, with other silly statues around, so taking it down is a bit of a free speech issue.
This has been worrying me greatly for over 2 decades now... My parents and grandparents had to live through Nazi fascism and then Soviet communism... they spent 40-50 years respectively in two of the worst systems ever created by humankind. I am a millenial and the amount of people my age that I have met who think that socialism and communism are social constructs to be admired... it sickens me to my core. And it makes me parents beyond sad and frustrated. An ideology that cost anywhere from 120-200 million lives in less than a century... regaining traction like this amongst the young population... my god.
I'm a 43 year old single dad. The single dad part isn't relevant but I'm very proud of it so fuck it. It BREAKS my heart there a 20 year old's in this world saying things like you are claiming. I never heard this in 2000. I'm at a loss for words
It’s definitely not a good thing and it’s way more popular now. Not just mainstream - the percentage of college kids that actually think Marxism is better than capitalism has never been higher (in polls). Socialist values are on the rise and this doesn’t include the vast majority of “woke” people that don’t even identify as such.
And this comment shows the success that the rich have at meddling with the narrative & brainwashing us. Thanks for adding 1 more mile away from a more just democracy.
Lenin was dead from the neck down. Always was, still is. The original 'talking head' and already dead even before he became fashionable or famous, even infamous; as he deserves to be remembered. No heart, no guts, no balls, no vitals: a loud and empty empty vessel dismally resounding through real time.
They DO have that level of power over society. There's LITERALLY no industry that can't be leveraged when you throw enough money or pressure at it by a small group of people at the top of an industry.
@@MitjitsuThere are a lot more ways to control society. I mean, how people of France feel about France back in the day, when they literally supported Pol Pot
Considering what happened to the victims of Covid including the mandates and the origin coverup, and anyone within a mile of the events of Jan 6, and the inability of those people to even talk about their circumstances, they do.
@@Mitjitsuthe very fact that you are saying this, your being unaware of how you are controlled through the media, is evidence they can. The insidiousness is just hiding in plain sight for you.
In Viktor Suvorov, the Soviet GRU defector,'s book 'The Liberators', he dramatises an discussion in Czechoslovakia after the 1968 invasion, a Czech asks a Soviet officer about Lenin and the Soviet officer says Stalin killed more innocents than Lenin, the Czech then tells him 'Lenin was the most bloodthirsty degenerate who ever lived. History stopped him in time.' (from killing more than Stalin).
if you want to know who Lenin was in reality not in retelling stories you need to read his works. He is a philosopher and polemicist , it is not an easy read.
A young communist supporter once said to me that I was a fool for Western Propaganda. I told him “No. Unlike you I’m simply old enough to have lived in the 20th Century. You’ve read the Propaganda, I’ve SEEN the history.”
its just propaganda ask bro to tell how many people did radical democratic terrorist killed in past 100 years ww2 was 45% allies killed i think its useless to blame germany for all people dead.
I was born in communist Poland. To hear about Americans praising communism and erecting statues of Lenin sounds like a dystopian scifi movie. These young people were indoctrinated to think and say those things.
"The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes." - Aldous Huxley
One important note... without Communism and Marxism, there would not be Fascism or Hitler. As Giovanni Gentile wrote, Fascism evolves from Socialism. So realistically, the modern day Seattle Communist are not that different from Fascist.
I've been wondering, in my older age, why I learned all about the Nazi's in high school, but not a word about the communists. I had to learn about it on my own.
For real. I was only told that it was when everyone gets a C instead of an A or an F. Then I learned more about it and then was like: this is kinda common sense
Excellent. I've grown tired of the "Sure, Stalin might have been a bit much, but Lenin was good!" argument. Not that it would change the evils of Communism if it was true, but these reprehensible architects of human misery have to be exposed. Che Guevara is another that comes to mind.
By what measure you decide that Lenin was good or not? The monarchy Lenin overthrown was definitely not good. Russia's participation in WWI was stupid idea at very start. So Lenin ended both. At the end of his days he recognized an error in government-decides-all economic policies (was too late, as Stalin took over already). So, misguided - yes. Evil - no.
@@leonidfro8302 Tsar Nick did it to himself. Revolution was inevitable and there were MANY players. HAD Nikolai just stuck BY his agreements of democratic reform instead of reneging on his agreements with the Russian parliament, Russia, et al, would have evolved into a modern, liberal democracy, but NO. He dug his heels in and all the various groups rioted, ALONG with the Bolsheviks. THEY were the real USURPERS,but any1 could have won back then! When my mum's old Russian aged care home erected a bust of Nick, I asked WHY you wasted money glorifying that fool? HE was responsible for what caused the Soviet union to come into being! All because he didn't want to SHARE power with various political parties! And it sadly took EXTREMISTS, to make him see sense! (Albeit to LATE for him & most of his family! & the Russian people in general!)
My Grad School Russian History Professor always said beware of the Good Lenin, Bad Stalin Myth. Of course Stalin was also a brutal monster. I agree with your Lenin analysis. The fact that Lenin came into the world with this much Psychopathy is chilling!! 😮😮😮
I think there is just a profound ignorance about Communism in Western society. It seems to stem from Russia being our "allies" in WW2, people just stupidly assume that the Soviets were somehow the good guys because they also fought Nazi Germany at one point.
correct. Same rotten idea that created the misconception that nazism and fascism are far right ideologies rather than far left ideologies. An idea created by the USA and to a degree Britain during WW2 to make allying themselves with the USSR palatable for the electorate who wouldn't take kindly to supporting a genocidal regime that was extremely close in ideology to the one we were fighting at the time. Of course the same happened in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Support the Taliban because they were fighting the Soviets, when their true ideology was already well known. And then again in the early 2000s, supporting IS because they were fighting AQ in Iraq, when IS was of course far worse than AQ in many regards but they were useful for a while.
I took world history in high school and part of the curriculum was six weeks studying communism. This was in 1987, when Reagan was still president and the cold war was still a big thing. Today, if communism is taught in high schools, it would be to brainwash kids on how great it is. 😡
@@jwentingThe US didn't support the Taliban they supported the Mujahadeen who were enemies of the Taliban and pro western , the T assassinated the M leader and took over.
Who are the good guys? Sadly, the masses are unable to break free from the influence of the people in power, we are all culpable in that. Love of our country, religion, ideology, colour... The leaders exploit that 'loyalty' and we buy into the idea that there is an enemy. I'd like to think that eventually, the masses could see that and the elite will be pulled down from their pedestals and we can all be brothers. Life experience has taught me that even when that happens on even a small basis, the leaders emerge and become the monsters that they initially opposed. There isn't a political system that escapes the nature of humanity. It all gets corrupted.
I think it's more than just that... Marxism has always had a certain intellectual appeal that pulls certain people into various degrees of socialism and communism. But definitely the atrocities of the USSR are given a pass because of ww2.
Wow i cant believe how delusional and heartless that intern was. To find out your colleague had family killed by the Soviets and to say "some of the killings were justified" is f ed up. I would be more leary of that person outside of work. Sadly this person would gladly join the Cheka and send people to gulugs without a thought or remorse. Because to them their "religion" sorry mean ideology demands this.
"Delusional and heartless" is what all those "it's okay when it's against bad people" people use as their baseline. Add the "truth is subjective", "reality doesn't really exist" and "everything is toxic and bad and needs to be "fixed" " and you have the perfect justification for TERRIBLE BEHAVIOR.
In an audio interview of Bertrand Russell available on TH-cam, he recounts how Lenin (during an hour long meeting Russell had with him in 1920) boasted of provoking the poor peasants to get rid of the richer ones who held small pieces of land. Lenin laughed heartily about the richer peasants being hanged on the tallest trees.
@@farminfotay6987 I actually agree with this he may have been very paranoid and McCarthyism might not have been conducted very well but he certainly had a valid point, had cooler minds prevailed it might have been taken up.
Indeed he did. Only those he actually lived there, in that rotten entity known as Russia and managed to escape can bear witness of their unimaginable crimes
It is easy to see how young people admire Lenin. What have they been taught at high schools and universities for years and years now? The intellectuals/academics are to blame- they know better but teach selective history to push a political agenda. Videos like this are ESSENTIAL. Thank you for exposing the truth about Lenin, Stalin and Hitler.
young people just want free education and free or universally insured healthcare. Like all damn Europe have already! And who introduced these concepts to the world, hmm
I’ve literally never heard anything about Lenin in my years in highschool and college accept in freshman year and that was that he was bad. Even still, I like Lenin. This is an independent conclusion I have come to on my own. It seems impossible for you people to think that anyone can naturally disagree with you or come to different conclusions without there being some creepy evil group of “others” behind it
@@samsca8529 I wonder how you reconcile the millions of people he had killed in your rationale. Yes, it is difficult to see how one cannot think this is somehow not evil. So yes, it is quite impossible for me to imagine that someone finds what he did as acceptable, no matter the motivation or "good" reasons he may have had. "for the greater good"? How many have died under that slogan? Millions. I cannot comprehend those who advocate for the view that Lenin was a good man, especially in light of the evidence presented in this video.
@@DrNDJas Whether Lenin was “good” or “bad” is irrelevant. As a materialist I look only at the material conditions of society at the time he lived, what forces and what classes were working against each other. This is the fundamental difference between you and I; I’m not a moralist and I don’t deal in idealist philosophy or politics. I ask you; when thousands of your citizens group themselves into mob militias, and when there are mass mutinies in your army and navy, and when there are uprisings in your cities, and when there are farmers hoarding grain, food and other supplies vital to the survival of your nation-state, all while you are currently engaged in a war, what do you think the proper solution is that you should take? It’s very easy to condemn actions of people in the past without putting ourselves in their shoes and having to make tough choices
@@samsca8529 I wonder if you take the same view of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, etc. Is must be very easy to justify just about anything with this convenient way to look at mass horrors.
@@victorhauk5973 Berlin wall is the wall in Berlin. That is in Germany . Show me the walls and turrets around the former Soviet Union. Would be fun to see!
@@nicolafiliber3062 there are pictures on this internet. East Germany was a part of the USSR. Many people died trying to escape. There were mine fields and guard dogs and machine gun towers on every border with a free nation.
@@victorhauk5973 Free nation kept a foreign army on it's soil, and still keeps it. Soviet Union voluntarily destroyed the wall. How many idiots died trying to cross it, innumerable millions? Idiots always exist, they always run into problems. As Jessy Ventura said - you cannot legislate stupidity
This exemplifies why concentration of power invites coop by evil. Evil is always out there but if power is compartmentalized and counterbalanced then you can stave off disaster.
Authoritarianism: Critics argue that Lenin's leadership style was authoritarian. He suppressed political opposition, censored the press, and used the secret police (Cheka) to eliminate enemies, laying the groundwork for a totalitarian state that would later be fully realized under Stalin. Economic Disruption and Civil War: Lenin's policies, including war communism and the Red Terror, contributed to economic hardship, social unrest, and the devastating Civil War, which resulted in millions of deaths and widespread suffering. Repression and Violence: His leadership saw the use of mass executions, repression, and the establishment of concentration camps for political prisoners, setting a precedent for future human rights abuses in the Soviet Union. At its core, socialism is like fascism at the end of the day.
I argued same stuff with an older dude who was in his mid 60s. He said that Lenin was good because he finally brought progress. He didn’t care how many people had to die for that “progress”.
He only brought progress because Russia was a very backward place at the time, economically and morally, also just ravaged by WW1. When you inherit ruins, the only way is up. That is not to his credit, but it is to the discredit of prior rulers.
@@Shut.Eye.Cinema trolley problems are for people with a conscience. Lenin and other monsters were not weighed down by such dilemmas. Read his "hanging orders". Bolshevik progress was provided by the US and paid for with looted gold and treasure. Speaking of which, the trolley dilemmas are usually posed so that someone inevitably dies, not caused by the actor. The actor is merely faced with the decision - who dies. In Lenin's case that wasn't so. He was killing people for the enjoyment and to achieve his goals. His famous motto was "the worse, the better". This dilemma is a false attribution in this case. As in the case of any such mafia taking over a country - whether it be Robespierre, sHitler, Pol Pot, kimchi or whoever.
You are terribly naive to believe that phrase is only a Lenin thing and hasn’t continued into the modern days. Just look at Israel, Putin. USA etc. Yes Lenin was a horrible narcissistic psychopath, but beware the wolves in sheep’s clothing in our time.
@@ludmilaivanova1603 Forget that... think of 2020 in USA and the West: the BLM/Antifa rioting was all on script with revolution. And it's being tried again. The Left LOVES murder and enslavement, like a church. Try some books by David Horowitz.
I was studying in the Swedish equivalent of a community collage, small as hell, about 50-70 students of which 75% lived in the boarding parts of the school. One person hung up a t-shirt displaying the hammer and the scicle in his window. I brought it up to the teachers and even though they agreed with me about the cause, they never once asked him to take it down.
You're lucky they actually agreed with you on the subject matter, in my experience there is a large swathe of the swedish academic corps who would have sided with the other student, hell since you wrote person I wouldn't have been completely shocked to find that it belonged to a teacher.
Thank you for this great, great video. I'm of Ukrainian ancestry born in Canada. I knew the basic evil of this monster, but you presented much greater detail. I appreciate the references to the DSM and to Jordan Peterson, who was my teacher at the University of Toronto. One the readings required for his Introduction to Personality was an excerpt from The Gulag Archipelago.
The German Nazis were the original green movement in Europe, yes. This was in part because of their ideology envisioning the "greater German Man" hunting and bringing down magnificent beasts in the pristine forests of Germania. Which of course required bringing back animals like the Auroch and Wisent, and recreating the long lost forests that had been cut down to make room for agricultural land and cities over the centuries. Pretty much the same what radical greens want to this day, destroy human habitation and agriculture to bring back nature in all its glory (with a very few worthy souls remaining (themselves) as "stewards of the planet" while the rest of mankind is exterminated). Stalin was cold to most people, but quite warm and charming to some. Whether that was genuine or an act I don't know, and his biographies I've read don't tell (probably because it wasn't documented in any of the archives).
@@jwenting Your argument is entirely bogus. You forgot to mention the autobahn programme, the militarisation of land and sea, the grandiose architecture, the increases in industrial output and the huge amount of reinforced concrete used. Nothing green about any of that.
failurs of communism China top economic world power China top tecnhology world power China top accademic world power Oh and china with 3 time population of u.s.a stil have public healtchare and dont charge 800% price of insuline for profit China hold me beer urss maybe had failed cause u.s.a did all to fail them but china its taking ravenge of bastard warcrime capitalist
"Lenin: God Of The Godless" by Ferdinard A. Ossendowski He died in 1945 and Red Army diged his deadbody out of his greave just to be sure that he died, that is the best proof that his book from 1931 described the Bolsheviks and their revolution very well.
Fascists are just shy communists with limited hubris and with limited grandiosity. Jokes aside, fascists might be limited by their devotion to their own country or people, while communists are not limited by any silly notions like that. Lenin was worse than both.
Look up Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School. They transfered to Columbia University in the 1930s when Hitler came to power in Germany. They could not go to the Soviet Union as Stalin had already killed Trotsky. Herbert Marcuse is considered the father of the "New Left", it was he who coined many of the radical slogans of the campus radicals of the 1960s. When the campus radicals graduate, most go onto careers in education and media so they can change the world. BTW, it was a young journalist named Edward R Murrow that helped get the Frankfurt School intellectuals settled into the USA and into positions at Columbia University.
Yet he was. His works on Philosophy and Economy are still classic. "The development of Capitalism in Russia" is a comprehensive source of economic context for history
To quote Simon Whistler from his S21 video: "One of the great ironies of communism is that so many of its leaders came from the same privileged backgrounds that they rallied against."
What a good essay. I knew about a lot of it, but I didn’t know that Lenin was a 1 level psychopath. No conscious. No remorse. Pure selfish. Thanks for your presentation.
After hearing about the story when Lenin brought his silver Royce vehicle in his meeting with a Georgian scientist, I couldn't despise this narcissist even more!
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I said exactly what you said to my son when he was confused when I told him Hitler was not the biggest monster we know. Lenine, Stalin and Mao are probably the biggest monsters the world has known.
Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Kim dynasty in North Korea... the list is pretty long if you count the numerous communist inspired dictators in lesser known countries. You have to experience first hand what it's like to live in a dictatorship to know how grim life was.
Fascinating account. I learned a lot. Good for you for standing on principle. Criticizing any soviet is still frowned on by the left. It's surprising the left goes after Putin, still KGB at heart. I always believed Stalin to be more evil, but you have opened my eyes. I'm sure you know my friend Donald Rayfield's book on Stalin. I often make the comment to leftists online that Hitler was a horrible monster, but Stalin was worse. I too lost family members in the USSR. The standard insult used by the left is to call someone Hitler or a Nazi. I don't think your opinion on Lenin will change that but anyone with sense should reconsider.
Man this was really well done. I hope there is no counter argument to this. What do people say when u tell them these facts but still choose to celebrate him?
They are counter arguments for everything, victors wrote the history, and there is soo many propaganda on all sides its hard to tell that its not influenced some of that writing. I would still love to see how Russian historians are looking at this because this is much more from West prospective.
My grandfather was part of the American unit in Berlin in WW2. I still consider Lenin worse. Hitlers rise coincided with the radio. I do have a problem with trying to label him with a psychosis. This leaves out the people surrounding him. Himmler orchestrated a lot of the events surrounding the camps. Hitler only ever visited one, one time. My point is that he didn't act alone. Lenin did. He also enacted many of the same policies. I find anyone siding with either one to be mental. But insecure humans will go to great lengths to ensure their own security and why they seek security in collectivism. I am sorry this happened to you and yours.
Fun fact, his shirt says אמת Emét = "Truth" in Hebrew, but the first letter (yes, it's the first one) is being erased, with the remainder saying מת Mét = "Dead" in Hebrew. Just writing this to make sure one of the messages he wanted to send doesn't end undelivered
Alexander Ulyanov (Lenin's older brother) wanted to murder the tzar because the tzar humped his mommy and was his illegitimate father. Bolsheviks were terrible, but honestly that dynasty of "tzars" made it all possible, even inevitable. It was a very backward place at the time, very resistant to change, especially in the realm of human rights and dignity. Actual intellectuals (not the likes of today's western leftist intellekshuals) were typically in opposition to the ruling regime, or at least were not heeded, even if they were just mildly and politely critical. Radishchev, who railed against slavery back in Catherine's time was pronounced as "worse than Pugachev" (a violent seditious rebel at the time) by her. Leo Tolstoy was "excommunicated" by the monarchist Orthodox church, even though he deliberately left on his own and scripturally proved that they were an idolatrous heresy, having nothing to do with true Christianity. And there were very few of these intellectuals, probably fewer than 100 in all of Russian Empire, very few educated people. Slavery (serfdom) only ended in 1860's, but the freed serfs were saddled with 49-year "mortgages" of the financial cost of their release. There weren't enough jobs for them, so many turned to banditry. A few generations later, plus a humiliating war (WW1) and conditions were ripe. Lenin didn't even do the revolution, he just took over the chaos. In his own words he writes that political power was "laying in the streets, for anyone to take". Not to mention, he was financed from the West and smuggled back into Russia. But IMHO it wasn't a revolution, it was a country that self-immolated and the opportunists just came to loot the smoldering ruins. Very tragic, considering the great works of art, music, literature, science and humanities. And even the common folk were always very kindhearted, if a bit slavish in their inclinations.
Good points. Lenin was an evil goon. This video doesn’t go into how Lenin came into power and I don’t expect it to. But your response gives a good summary about how he came to power.
Powerful work. Triggernomtey has grown in the last few years from two pissed off comedians into one of the genuinely free political voices on the internet and I am delighted by it even when it’s dropping horrible truth bombshell like this.
Watching this video gave me an even colder chill than i felt when i read 1984. I remember the darkness engulfed my mind as i studied this history in high school. I'm Zimbabwean, but i learnt about the history of Russia in 1999, and I'm shocked at how ignorant a lot of people are in the west about the horror of these ideas. How willing they are to freely defend, champion these doctrines, or sleepwalk their way into hell.
Before WW2 there was well known and translated to many languages book "Lenin: God Of The Godless" by Ferdinard A. Ossendowski, Red Army literally diged out his body out of his greave in 1945 just to be sure that he is really dead = that is a mark of quality for his book from 1931 that he based on his personal experiences not some other people testimonies... And the guy before WW1 was in prison for being anty tsarist's, so he saw bothsides of this coin.
If '1984' bothered you, you should read a novel named "We" written by a Russian in the 1920s. I think his name was Zimyatin. The protagonist has been so propagandized that he thinks his doubts about totalitarianism make him sick and he welcomes his repression.
I don't. Fuck Israel. Founded by mostly a pack of socialists through ethnic cleansing & massacres, & fundamentally built on ethnic discrimination & ethno-centrism. Ben-Gurion was as evil as Hitler & Lenin.
True, if Lenin cared about Stalin at all, he wouldn’t have encouraged him to rob banks for the communist party. A true friend wouldn’t do that to you, a true friend would have said, “Don’t Iosif, please don’t.” He just didn’t care about people turning to crime or even terrorism to fun the communist party. That shows you right there that Lenin didn’t care about anyone, but himself and his communist dream. Then Stalin continued what Lenin started and then the Soviet Union ended with the collapse.
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Convenient how you didn't show everybody that you got your so-called evidence from the CIA you're such a fake you're a grifter
When are you going to get a Climatologist on?
Very interesting subject - thanks for posting!
*Hitler's hatred of Antisemitism? He is the world's most famous Anti-Semite.*
More from Volodzko.
Erecting a statue of a historical communist leader in America whilst toppling their own is pure irony
pure evil
KGB program completed.
Many consider it treason.
@@effexon Mind Virus.
Militant Ignorance knows no irony.
Interesting, from Seattle here. I remember the controversy in the Seattle times and when this guy got fired. It's great to hear from him personally. The Seattle times intern alluding to some of it being "necessary" is beyond chilling and sadly reflects many of the young people here.
I lived in Seattle 40 years ago and it was a beautiful eclectic city that was a joy to visit. What happened.
@@sherigraham3873 I would watch Mike Naynas short documentary on Evergreen College. That's the epicenter of it. If you want a long explanation you could watch Benjamin Boyces documentary. Both are fascinating
@@sherigraham3873 I ask the same thing about San Francisco; I grew up in the Bay Area and lived in Berkeley, Oakland, and SF from roughly 2005 to 2010.
Last time I visited was in 2018 and I was stunned, seeing people sh*tting and sh**ting up in public...and it has only gotten far, far worse since then, apparently.
@@MrBrachiatingApeSan Francisco was one of the most exquisite cities when I was 10 I visited and it was magical. The historic buildings, trolley cars on steeply graded streets, China town? The most beautifully laid out City that left an impression that has lasted to my 60 years. It's a heart break 💔
Honestly, Seattle was more or less a fine place to live. Until 2020. The city had been gradually sliding further and further left and further and further into decline over the last 20 years, 2020 everything went insane. Apart from the BLM/Antifa riots, the Democrats who run our state stopped pretending to care about Common sense. They rubber stamped ultra left-wing legislation for three years and it’s only in the last few months that they started reversing it because they face reelection and popular initiatives that wholeheartedly oppose the disastrous policies of our communist overlords.
As a Polish person i never understand why the nazi symbols are censored in the West while the communist are fine to show.
Greetings from Estonia
It's actually pretty simple. Many, if not most of the members of the intelligentsia of the west are either Socialists or Communists. If you Google Communists or Socialists in the New York Times, you will find positive stories from the Russian revolution on. The New York Times was also pro-Nazi until the Germans invaded Russia in 1941. At that time the Times stopped looking at National Socialists as Socialists, meaning leftists, and changed to calling them Fascists of the right. The Nazi's, just like other Fascists, were actually started by leftists. Mussolini and other Italian Fascists were all Socialists.
Because socialim is superior to capitalism! What should be forbidden is any symbol promoting capitalism the most evil system in history. Capitalism has killed more people than any other system. It is already dead! It has never workef.
Why should they be banned? It is a superior ideology to capitalism. Since the most deadly system capitalism has killed more people than any other system I know what symbols that should really be banned!
@@koschmxAnd you can’t criticize the Allies.
This needs to be broadcasted far and wide.
I moved from Seattle 4 years ago and know well about this grotesque statue. The fact that anyone in their right mind would consider it a memorial to a great man has forever tainted my opinion of Seattle. Who was responsible for putting it up and who is responsible for leaving it there? Absolutely disgusting.
From what I understand it was a teacher on vacation that saw it at a scrap yard and got the funds to bring it to the U.S. before it got melted. It didn't seem to be politically motivated at the time, he just thought it looked cool. It's disturbing that it's being glorified now especially after 2020 when so many other statues were torn down with zero consequences. If you notice, locals paint the statues hand red as a form of protest.
The same people who praise Lenin today would probably be proscribed to the GULAG if Lenin were alive and in charge.
@@oceania2385to tear down statues of Jefferson and Churchill and allow a statue of Lenin to stand absolutely blows my mind.
@@h.r.c.2829 Agreed.
Decades of uncontested unhinged leftism (all abstract, totally divorced from actually just giving poor working people more money) with absolutely no criticism from once-mainstream journalism and academia, will do this to a people. There is now an entire class of "educated" whose social ideology has been horribly mutilated, and, thus, their lives and those of all their neighbors have been set on a course toward disaster, and the results are starting to become unavoidably apparent across the nation. At the end of the day, people who know better lack organization and courage. That we all know and expect radicals to put up statues is one thing, but for no one to ever expect that decent reasonable citizens could, should, and would, just say NO and tear it down, is the real problem.
My Hungarian grandparents spent three years in a Soviet run gulag to be reeducated. My grandfather's back was broken and he struggled for the rest of his life. My grandmother died. Their crime? They were farmers.
There was a joke I came across a long time ago in a book. A visitor to hell sees Hitler and Stalin in a pool of excrement. The excrement is up to Hitler's chin whereas the excrement is up to Stalin's waist. The visitor asks the Devil why Stalin, a murderer like Hitler, only has the excrement up to his waist. The Devil answers "Because Stalin is standing on the shoulders of Lenin."
😂😂😂 bro
😂 good one
I love these jokes, whispered from comrade to comrade in the dark years of communism, to keep their spirits alive, if not exactly up.
😂😂😂😂
Lol
Washington freed the slaves of Mt. Vernon as his dying wish. He did this in part to set an example. He was a pioneering leader in the movement for human freedom. I know the author here is of good intent but we should all mention this when discussing the slaves he inherited, owned and ultimately liberated.
that's a good fact (a this point, any fact is good)....but I know what libs will say, "GW couldn't live without his [enslaved individuals of color]" ....I threw a little newspeak in at the end there.
Wasn't it illegal for Washington to free his slaves before his death?
@@burkean No, these people were legally considered his property. I think there were laws against this in some places later to your point. He not only freed them but also gave the elderly medical care and provided job training for the youth. How this is omitted in these discussions is beyond me. He was a noble man.
@@burkean Not illegal, but it would have ruined him financially. The law in the commonwealth of Virginia during Washington's lifetime required that any man who wanted to manumit one of his slaves had either to set that freed slave up with an ability to make a living -- provide him enough land to farm, or property on which he could practice a journeyman trade (if he had the skill to do so) and earn a living -- or transport the manumitted slave out of the commonwealth. Washington would have had to do this for all his slaves, and he simply couldn't afford it; most of his wealth was tied up in property and it wasn't liquid, so he basically would have had to sell Mount Vernon.
Freeing them in his will was the only way he could do it without impoverishing himself. As it was, Washington had more slaves on his estate than was economical, because they got married and had children, and Washington refused to sell slaves away from their families, so he bore the financial loss for the sake of not breaking up families.
@@burkean Almost certainly not. When we discuss things like that it was generally as a form of debt control, with a hideously indebted person that owned slaves being banned from selling them off or otherwise divesting of them so that they could continue generating income that could be used to pay his creditors. This was one thing that trapped the likes of Jefferson, since most of the Planter Aristocrats (especially in Washington and Jefferson's generations before the invention of the Cotton Gin) were heavily indebted and cash poor.
The reason it probably doesn't apply is because Washington was one of the VERY FEW planter aristocrats of his generation that was actually wealthy in pretty much every facet, having very low and stable debts he kept paying down on a schedule while also having a lot of liquid capital and goods. So the laws forbidding divesting from slavery probably wouldn't apply to him since his estate was solvent without them.
What attributed to Lenin's positive image today among people is the fact that after his death Soviet propaganda kicked in full gear to portray him as a caring, benevolent statesman. Indeed, he wasn't.
Indeed, he was
I can’t believe this could happen in the USA. My country was communist, controlled by the Soviet government, as many others. And since the regime collapsed, I was astonished how the fascism was criticised but no one was mentioning the horrific regime of communism. My only explanation was that if you are not taught about history, you are doomed to repeat it. But since the USA were against the communist ideology, I have never thought I would see a Lenin statue there and people destroying statues of the founders of the freest country. Nor would I expected that people could loose their job for stating historical facts for a horrific regime, especially in another country and a behaviour as this intern would be tolerated!
it's happening not just in the US, but all over the west.
All across western Europe communists are rising out of the mud in droves, claiming to be "anti-fascists" with an utterly twisted idea that everything right of Stalinism is "extreme right" and therefore fascism (when in fact they themselves are far closer to fascists than anything the European right will ever be, we're mostly classical liberals advocating for limited government and personal freedoms).
This is actively spurned on by the EU, which is of course a fascist organisation operating under the guise of "international cooperation" in order to create a pan-European superstate controlled by an unelected oligarchy, their main figures moving in and out of national parliaments and cabinets almost at will it seems, blurring the line between where countries end and the EU starts when it comes to decision making.
Because the capitalists don't promote socialism because they believe in the ideology, they promote it because they are less likely to ask for raises or ask for working class advancements when everyone is fighting among themselves. Then there was the unholy marriage. of the Patriot Act, which gave the federal government unlimited power to do what they want under the guise of national security, and then citizens united that gave corporations the rights of citizens. A lot of people are rightfully focused on Klaus Schwab. What most people don't know is that Klaus,along with Henry Kissinger, were recruited by Rockefeller. I can promise you the man is not a communist. Rockefeller sttarted the American public education system. That system was created by the King of Prussia to erase the identity of the newly conquered Poles. None of this is an accident.
Irregardless of how people feel about Putin, in his interview with Tucker was correct about one thing, no one in the history of mankind has a propaganda program like the American establishment. The social engineering program has become obvious to a lot of people. And most of this has been driven by the feds. The part everyone gets wrong is why they are doing it. I have narrowed it down to 2 things, reversing population decline ( every country is worried about this) and/or curating the population for WW3. While it may not seem like it, America really hasn't been in a significant engagement since Vietnam. That was 50 years ago. Everything else has just been errands for the UN. And believe it or not, this has been done before.
Europeans like to give Americans a hard time about showing up late to world wars but they don't understand how absolutely massive the war machine is and how hard it is to start up. WW1 Europeans had come out of a period of peace, but Americans had the Spanish War. So the country had to spend years convincing Americans to get in, and rebuild the military because we still didn't have a standing army at that time. That provess was the infancy of the MIC. And they got Americans on board through...ethnic targeting. If you know what stats to look at and what pieces are moving, they have been making moves.And then overclocking the nonsense machine to keep everyone distracted. And the more liberal the country, the more intense the programming, which is why Canada is really getting hammered and Poland mainly left alone.
Everyone is deliberately decoupling their energy supplies. Manufacturing has been moved from to Mexico. Poland now has a bigger military than Germany. They are deliberately breaking the global order.
It's what happens when the education system teaches students to be ashamed of their country, and hate its past. Re-enforce that with a saturation on social media platforms, and hey presto you have a generation who think history is lies.
The home base of Communism before Russia was London and New York City. Karl Marx’s daughter was close friends with Sidney and Beatrice Webb who founded the Fabian Society and LSE and the Labor Party and much more. Trotsky ran a newspaper before he was sent, with the aid of the Wilson administration and Germany, into Russia with Lenin and Stalin. US troops were sent to Russia during the revolution to protect it from any eastward threats.
Not believing it can happen is why it happens.
Both Lenin and Trotsky were brutal in the repressions of the USSR.
as first things after taking over, lenin's soviets attacked bunch of countries.
At least Trotsky realized that the sowjets became Parasytes themself, wich earned him exile in Mexico and later a Dagger* in the Back.
Our sociliast friends prefer to ignore that :)
(* I know it was an Ice-pick but Dagger sounds more classy)
@@slippingsnake Trotsky was and remained a deeply believing Marxist-Leninist until his death. He thought that the good and just revolution was stolen by the bureaucracy led by Stalin. He believed his crimes were justified by ideology. His social policy propositions, for eg. labor army, and collectivization were terrible. In many places they mirror Stalinism.
If someone already knows the history of Bolshevism well, I recommend reading his autobiography.
@@slippingsnakeseems tradition among soviets, communists.... one leader gets spot by assassinating previous leader and sees same fate after some while. rumours of stalin death were not natural. trotsky was betrayed, then lenin later.
Tony Blair read and studied Trotsky for 2 years while at university. His own words .
"Lenin knew he was killing innocent people, he simply did not care"...you nailed it perfectly
He also managed to rescue a country that was in a medieval state, destroyed by a world war, and ongoing Civil War, and was under foreign invasion. During his reign, he managed to eradicate a literacy, double industrial output, and increase the average life expectancy by an entire decade. It was a hard time and hard choices had to be made.
Yeah, and what's 100 million deaths while you're at it.
@@davidahlstrom7533 if you and your family are among them...absolutely nothing.bro you're monstrously stoopid, I've seen dogs smarter than you, now go back to your own puke !
@@Mortablunt you can say the same about Hitler and yet nobody denies he was a monster. your sympathy for criminals is what empowers them. revise your world view dude, you're awfully wrong .
Is there a country for Estonians, Latvians,Georgians and Uzbek today ??? The answer is yes !!! Is there a country for Sioux, Cherookees and Cheyenns ???? The answer is NO !!! But somehow Communists are worse than American settlers....Go figure !!!
Thank you Triggernometry and Mr Volodzko, this was one of the most powerful and important videos I've ever seen. I was taught about the Russian revolution in school and knew of many of the horrors but somehow was left with the impression that Lenin was a naive idealist and that Stalin was the monster... I'm glad to have been wrong for 30 years, as you said, the truth is more powerful.
WHERE do you THINK Stalin LEARNT it from?
Lenin passed as a civilian.
it is so funny how people like to learn the truth from one video. Why not to educate yourself?
@@ludmilaivanova1603 Your name is ironic to me drooga! My mum's name is Ludmila, & her mum's maiden name was Ivanova!
Privet!
@@DMSProduktions privet! warm wishes!
Tell this to Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, has a bust of Lenin on his office bookshelf
Klaus Rothschild and Lenin both same cult
@@Salman-sc8gr Exactly. Trying to figure out why Hitler tolerated his father. Maybe because they owned all of the banks.
His father was a Nazi.
@@Salman-sc8grThe Roth's played with all parties as long as they made money.
Klaus Schwab is a capitalist who’s parents literally worked for the N*zis lmao, he’s not a communist
Klaus Schwab has a bust of Lenin on his bookshelf in at least one of his WEF videos
Its so funny because he is obviously capitalist 😂
@@CaDzA818 they all are. Capitalism for them communism for us
@@CaDzA818 Capitalism is a economic principle, not a political ideology. This is why communist China can utilize capitalism so successfully.
@@thegeneralist7527Wow, I just woke up in the morning and suddenly China is a statless, moneyless society of artists and scientists, where all physical labor automated
@@CaDzA818ah yes, the private capitalist entrepreneur trying to make a centralised state to control everything. Not very free market is it
Remember, every time they tell you, “But it wasn’t real Communism,” keep this in mind:
It was ALWAYS real Communism. Every time, all the time.
Well that's the ignorance of it's adeherents at work. They believe the fantasy presented to them and never look deeper.
I won't go into where communism really comes from (or proto-communism like the French revolution) or who it's actual leaders are. There is still plenty of evidence as to what they really believe and what their real goals are. In their own words. If you just have the courage to look.
My point being yes, that is the point of communism not an unintended side effect. It has always worked as designed.
"Real communism" always fails on day 1, because people don't wish to cooperate. Then they start forcing people by means of state violence. Communism - an idea so awesome, that people have to be "persuaded" at gunpoint. The "pilgrims" - first settlers of the New England colonies that became the USA tried real communism (a misunderstanding of Christianity) and almost perished during the very first winter. Then they wised up real quick.
Imo it feels like they just want an excuse for their mistakes
It's the man watching people with variously arranged feathers attached to their arms, throwing themselves off a cliff, one by on, and saying:
"That's not REAL flying!"
As peterson once said.
If your henchmen is Josef Stalin, your probably not the good guy.
Based Stalin
@@Boconnor401. I mean if Russian hitlers your flavor dude be my guest.
@@Boconnor401. No.
Based Lenin big Spoon Stalin
@@Cris-if8kf I mean if gay Russian hitlers spooning is your flavor be my guest.
I wholeheartedly support this video. I passed a Lenin statue every day for twenty years on my way to work (in Denmark) but the eventually sold it to the Worker's Museum and put it in a courtyard where I don't have to come. The reason Lenin gets a better rap than Stalin is merely that he died after seven years in power.
English tip: "where I don't have to go". Not only is it correct, it has no double entendre.
@@br1920 So I"ve lived in several foreign countries, and everyone I worked with always wanted to improve their English. Since I am a fantastic writer and pretty good public speaker, I always helped them, with the difficult nuances of the language, and they always appreciate it. Moreover, since I work in a smart-af field, they lock on pretty quick. Of course, some spoke better English than I, and always with an "Oxford" accent, never-the-less, my deep knowledge of several regionals slangs was always skookum to a jive turkey.
Since OP is rock solid, I'm just helping, since he's Eastern European, and may need want speak better English. I'm old enough that the Eastern Europeans professionals I worked with spoke Russian before English.
Denmark. The statue referenced in this video is in the Scandinavian neighborhood of that city. Soydinavians and socialism go hand in hand
No, it is because in 2000 years there was no more Christ-like figure
Getting fired from the Seattle Times is a Badge of Honor.
The statue in Ballard speaks to the long term rot that has invaded our country.
The statue is the least symbol of our problems. Walk-through Ballard at night and you’ll see the haunted homeless. The lack of cops. The boarded up windows. The sealed doors. The law-abiding, tax-paying people too scared to go out at night.
Getting fired from the times is quite the badge though. 👍
North Seattle is a failed society. Soydinavians are weak and socialist
Wow! A statue of Lenin is in Seattle?! That blows my mind.
I knew Seattle was ridden with extreme leftists, but this is crazy indeed
Me too!!
From what I remember off the top of my head, it's a bit deeper than that. I think that specific statue was made by a Russian artist who may have been secretly trying to convey Lenin's brutality. It then got bought by someone in the US to put in front of his store when the ussr fell. Its for sale no less!
Personally, I think thats kinda cool, the originator of this communistic brutal regime reduced to a oddity commodity in the the exact system he was fighting against! Communism is pretty nasty, but I think the artistry and history is pretty cool, the statue certainly made me look more into the horrors of the Russian history.
but the statue should probably have a few plaques explaining it's origin and story, cause otherwise it just looks strange
Apparently it's also on private land, privately owned, with other silly statues around, so taking it down is a bit of a free speech issue.
This has been worrying me greatly for over 2 decades now... My parents and grandparents had to live through Nazi fascism and then Soviet communism... they spent 40-50 years respectively in two of the worst systems ever created by humankind.
I am a millenial and the amount of people my age that I have met who think that socialism and communism are social constructs to be admired... it sickens me to my core. And it makes me parents beyond sad and frustrated. An ideology that cost anywhere from 120-200 million lives in less than a century... regaining traction like this amongst the young population... my god.
*Mankind. "humankind" is newspeak.
They don't know history because they are ignorant and they selfishly revel in their arrogant ignorance.
Now now, can't go bringing 'god' into this!
@@DMSProduktions Perhaps the problem is the communists reject god outright, maybe god needs to be brought into it so to speak.
Karl Marks Fridrih Engels.Lenjin,Staljin, Tito-Josip Broz=ista "ideologija koju je stvarao zapad
I'm a 43 year old single dad. The single dad part isn't relevant but I'm very proud of it so fuck it. It BREAKS my heart there a 20 year old's in this world saying things like you are claiming. I never heard this in 2000. I'm at a loss for words
Communists have existed in the West since the time of Lenin. They are just more brazen and open about it now. This is, strangely enough, a good thing.
@@mack7170 I agree I'm glad they are more open, but kids in their 20's don't realize what they are being 'open' about :(
I'm proud of you. These people are so f'n stupid it takes my breath away.
It’s definitely not a good thing and it’s way more popular now. Not just mainstream - the percentage of college kids that actually think Marxism is better than capitalism has never been higher (in polls). Socialist values are on the rise and this doesn’t include the vast majority of “woke” people that don’t even identify as such.
It's effective indoctrination.
A statue of Lenin in Seattle highlights the failure of our educational system.
It is worse though because it is not a failure but a success of Marxist indoctrination.
And this comment shows the success that the rich have at meddling with the narrative & brainwashing us. Thanks for adding 1 more mile away from a more just democracy.
Lenin was dead from the neck down. Always was, still is. The original 'talking head' and already dead even before he became fashionable or famous, even infamous; as he deserves to be remembered. No heart, no guts, no balls, no vitals: a loud and empty empty vessel dismally resounding through real time.
"Talking head' excellent description, and to think academia today is bursting at the seams with these heartless b...ds
@@outoforbit00 Exactly. Just look at them...AOC, Letitia James, Maxine, Ilhan Omar, etc. The exact replicas of these brainless monsters.
That’s a good description, I visited his tomb when I was young.
It sounds like you’re describing what is now just a “democrat” in America.
I like the way you worded that.
The reason he's so admired by elements of our society, especially by the elites. Is they secretly wish they had that level of power over society.
They DO have that level of power over society. There's LITERALLY no industry that can't be leveraged when you throw enough money or pressure at it by a small group of people at the top of an industry.
@@sigmacademy Our elites can't control us anywhere near to the same extent that those in the Soviet Union could.
@@MitjitsuThere are a lot more ways to control society. I mean, how people of France feel about France back in the day, when they literally supported Pol Pot
Considering what happened to the victims of Covid including the mandates and the origin coverup, and anyone within a mile of the events of Jan 6, and the inability of those people to even talk about their circumstances, they do.
@@Mitjitsuthe very fact that you are saying this, your being unaware of how you are controlled through the media, is evidence they can. The insidiousness is just hiding in plain sight for you.
"We would never tolerate a statue of Hitler, so why would we tolerate one of Lenin?" That pretty much sums it all up.
In Viktor Suvorov, the Soviet GRU defector,'s book 'The Liberators', he dramatises an discussion in Czechoslovakia after the 1968 invasion, a Czech asks a Soviet officer about Lenin and the Soviet officer says Stalin killed more innocents than Lenin, the Czech then tells him 'Lenin was the most bloodthirsty degenerate who ever lived. History stopped him in time.' (from killing more than Stalin).
I'm reading Viktor Suvorov's book "The Aquarium, the making of a top Soviet spy" at the moment. Good book
Lenin was vicious, Stalin was merely pragmatic.
@@shaiaheyes2c41Great book. I read it some 30 years ago. And it has changed me for ever.
Another fake book paid by CIA. Same as Solzhenitsin's one. Don't trust one side completely, search for the truth.
if you want to know who Lenin was in reality not in retelling stories you need to read his works. He is a philosopher and polemicist , it is not an easy read.
These Leninists are well embedded in all of our organisations !!
I couldn't work around anybody who idolizes Lenin or Stalin.
I would immediately consider that person a threat to the safety of others.
A young communist supporter once said to me that I was a fool for Western Propaganda. I told him “No. Unlike you I’m simply old enough to have lived in the 20th Century. You’ve read the Propaganda, I’ve SEEN the history.”
or you just stupid
its just propaganda ask bro to tell how many people did radical democratic terrorist killed in past 100 years ww2 was 45% allies killed i think its useless to blame germany for all people dead.
THat's because you are either stupid or paid.
Lmfao
I was born in communist Poland. To hear about Americans praising communism and erecting statues of Lenin sounds like a dystopian scifi movie. These young people were indoctrinated to think and say those things.
"The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes." -
Aldous Huxley
AKA modern day America.
DDR, a democrasy by definition
Bread and circuses, does anything change?
One important note... without Communism and Marxism, there would not be Fascism or Hitler. As Giovanni Gentile wrote, Fascism evolves from Socialism. So realistically, the modern day Seattle Communist are not that different from Fascist.
That's pure BS.
@@johnnyblue4799 maybe check what Hitler said about Marxism teachings and him himself.
Yes!!!!
Fascism was and is a form of socialism. The word “socialist” was even in the Nazi party’s full name.
Reminds one of 4ntifa. Black shirts instead of brown, but same thuggish behaviours.
I've been wondering, in my older age, why I learned all about the Nazi's in high school, but not a word about the communists. I had to learn about it on my own.
..and let me guess you don't know what communism is?
For real. I was only told that it was when everyone gets a C instead of an A or an F. Then I learned more about it and then was like: this is kinda common sense
Mr Volodzko that was beautiful and horrifying. Thank you for telling the truth.
the truth??? how do you know this? have you read many historical books?
Truth is what profits him
No truth was spoken here, literally
Excellent. I've grown tired of the "Sure, Stalin might have been a bit much, but Lenin was good!" argument. Not that it would change the evils of Communism if it was true, but these reprehensible architects of human misery have to be exposed. Che Guevara is another that comes to mind.
By what measure you decide that Lenin was good or not? The monarchy Lenin overthrown was definitely not good. Russia's participation in WWI was stupid idea at very start. So Lenin ended both. At the end of his days he recognized an error in government-decides-all economic policies (was too late, as Stalin took over already). So, misguided - yes. Evil - no.
@@leonidfro8302 Tsar Nick did it to himself. Revolution was inevitable and there were MANY players.
HAD Nikolai just stuck BY his agreements of democratic reform instead of reneging on his agreements with the Russian parliament, Russia, et al, would have evolved into a modern, liberal democracy, but NO. He dug his heels in and all the various groups rioted, ALONG with the Bolsheviks.
THEY were the real USURPERS,but any1 could have won back then!
When my mum's old Russian aged care home erected a bust of Nick, I asked WHY you wasted money glorifying that fool? HE was responsible for what caused the Soviet union to come into being! All because he didn't want to SHARE power with various political parties!
And it sadly took EXTREMISTS, to make him see sense! (Albeit to LATE for him & most of his family! & the Russian people in general!)
What we call Communism is Marxism-Leninism. And a man like Lenin seems now to be the master of China.
@@leonidfro8302 Only to be replaced by a civil war which lasted up to 1923.
@@rewdwarf123 So? Monarchy was unquestionably bad. People supported communists because rulers were incompetent and borderline evil
My Grad School Russian History Professor always said beware of the Good Lenin, Bad Stalin Myth. Of course Stalin was also a brutal monster. I agree with your Lenin analysis. The fact that Lenin came into the world with this much Psychopathy is chilling!! 😮😮😮
I think there is just a profound ignorance about Communism in Western society. It seems to stem from Russia being our "allies" in WW2, people just stupidly assume that the Soviets were somehow the good guys because they also fought Nazi Germany at one point.
correct. Same rotten idea that created the misconception that nazism and fascism are far right ideologies rather than far left ideologies. An idea created by the USA and to a degree Britain during WW2 to make allying themselves with the USSR palatable for the electorate who wouldn't take kindly to supporting a genocidal regime that was extremely close in ideology to the one we were fighting at the time.
Of course the same happened in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Support the Taliban because they were fighting the Soviets, when their true ideology was already well known.
And then again in the early 2000s, supporting IS because they were fighting AQ in Iraq, when IS was of course far worse than AQ in many regards but they were useful for a while.
I took world history in high school and part of the curriculum was six weeks studying communism. This was in 1987, when Reagan was still president and the cold war was still a big thing. Today, if communism is taught in high schools, it would be to brainwash kids on how great it is. 😡
@@jwentingThe US didn't support the Taliban they supported the Mujahadeen who were enemies of the Taliban and pro western , the T assassinated the M leader and took over.
Who are the good guys? Sadly, the masses are unable to break free from the influence of the people in power, we are all culpable in that. Love of our country, religion, ideology, colour... The leaders exploit that 'loyalty' and we buy into the idea that there is an enemy. I'd like to think that eventually, the masses could see that and the elite will be pulled down from their pedestals and we can all be brothers. Life experience has taught me that even when that happens on even a small basis, the leaders emerge and become the monsters that they initially opposed. There isn't a political system that escapes the nature of humanity. It all gets corrupted.
I think it's more than just that... Marxism has always had a certain intellectual appeal that pulls certain people into various degrees of socialism and communism.
But definitely the atrocities of the USSR are given a pass because of ww2.
Wow i cant believe how delusional and heartless that intern was. To find out your colleague had family killed by the Soviets and to say "some of the killings were justified" is f ed up. I would be more leary of that person outside of work. Sadly this person would gladly join the Cheka and send people to gulugs without a thought or remorse. Because to them their "religion" sorry mean ideology demands this.
"Delusional and heartless" is what all those "it's okay when it's against bad people" people use as their baseline. Add the "truth is subjective", "reality doesn't really exist" and "everything is toxic and bad and needs to be "fixed" " and you have the perfect justification for TERRIBLE BEHAVIOR.
Lenin was objectively a terrible person, with absolutely no redreeming aspects.
In an audio interview of Bertrand Russell available on TH-cam, he recounts how Lenin (during an hour long meeting Russell had with him in 1920) boasted of provoking the poor peasants to get rid of the richer ones who held small pieces of land. Lenin laughed heartily about the richer peasants being hanged on the tallest trees.
Lenynched?
@@jim6038 GREAT pun!
Just imagine how poor those "rich" peasants were. They own two cows instead of one. Oh boy.
@DMSProduktions a pun-tmanteau?
@@sherigraham3873 Tu da gulag for yu droogy!
Yuri Bezmenof warned us.
Yes he did. And too few of us listened.
So did Joseph McCarthy
@@farminfotay6987 I actually agree with this he may have been very paranoid and McCarthyism might not have been conducted very well but he certainly had a valid point, had cooler minds prevailed it might have been taken up.
@@farminfotay6987in retrospect he was right although his intentions were bad
Indeed he did. Only those he actually lived there, in that rotten entity known as Russia and managed to escape can bear witness of their unimaginable crimes
It is easy to see how young people admire Lenin. What have they been taught at high schools and universities for years and years now?
The intellectuals/academics are to blame- they know better but teach selective history to push a political agenda.
Videos like this are ESSENTIAL. Thank you for exposing the truth about Lenin, Stalin and Hitler.
young people just want free education and free or universally insured healthcare. Like all damn Europe have already! And who introduced these concepts to the world, hmm
I’ve literally never heard anything about Lenin in my years in highschool and college accept in freshman year and that was that he was bad. Even still, I like Lenin. This is an independent conclusion I have come to on my own. It seems impossible for you people to think that anyone can naturally disagree with you or come to different conclusions without there being some creepy evil group of “others” behind it
@@samsca8529 I wonder how you reconcile the millions of people he had killed in your rationale. Yes, it is difficult to see how one cannot think this is somehow not evil. So yes, it is quite impossible for me to imagine that someone finds what he did as acceptable, no matter the motivation or "good" reasons he may have had. "for the greater good"? How many have died under that slogan? Millions. I cannot comprehend those who advocate for the view that Lenin was a good man, especially in light of the evidence presented in this video.
@@DrNDJas Whether Lenin was “good” or “bad” is irrelevant. As a materialist I look only at the material conditions of society at the time he lived, what forces and what classes were working against each other. This is the fundamental difference between you and I; I’m not a moralist and I don’t deal in idealist philosophy or politics. I ask you; when thousands of your citizens group themselves into mob militias, and when there are mass mutinies in your army and navy, and when there are uprisings in your cities, and when there are farmers hoarding grain, food and other supplies vital to the survival of your nation-state, all while you are currently engaged in a war, what do you think the proper solution is that you should take? It’s very easy to condemn actions of people in the past without putting ourselves in their shoes and having to make tough choices
@@samsca8529 I wonder if you take the same view of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, etc. Is must be very easy to justify just about anything with this convenient way to look at mass horrors.
The Soviet Union built a fence and walls on its border not to keep people out, but to prevent the escape of prisoners of the regime.
You can show the remnants of these walls, I reckon?
@@nicolafiliber3062 we have a piece of the Berlin Wall from when it was torn down.
@@victorhauk5973 Berlin wall is the wall in Berlin. That is in Germany . Show me the walls and turrets around the former Soviet Union. Would be fun to see!
@@nicolafiliber3062 there are pictures on this internet. East Germany was a part of the USSR. Many people died trying to escape. There were mine fields and guard dogs and machine gun towers on every border with a free nation.
@@victorhauk5973 Free nation kept a foreign army on it's soil, and still keeps it. Soviet Union voluntarily destroyed the wall. How many idiots died trying to cross it, innumerable millions? Idiots always exist, they always run into problems. As Jessy Ventura said - you cannot legislate stupidity
The scariest part of this whole video is the intern in the Seattle Times boardroom saying the Soviet Empire was the greatest state ever to exist.
Lenin was a real-life Emperor Palpatine!
And he is the GOAT political in mankind history, no jokes, I've read all of his 50 tomes. A man who shaped the XX century.
Socialism or barbarism (c)
Can't wait for my local park, in a housing scheme in Glasgow, to get its Pol Pot statue!! 🤞
👍🙏💕🏴 xx
😂
Please don't give them any ideas.
Probability would suggest you are more likely to get an Ayatollah Khomeini statue.
Surely Idi Amin he was, after all, the last king of Scotland.
You are all great, fellows! 🤣🤣🤣
This exemplifies why concentration of power invites coop by evil. Evil is always out there but if power is compartmentalized and counterbalanced then you can stave off disaster.
Very true!
Authoritarianism: Critics argue that Lenin's leadership style was authoritarian. He suppressed political opposition, censored the press, and used the secret police (Cheka) to eliminate enemies, laying the groundwork for a totalitarian state that would later be fully realized under Stalin.
Economic Disruption and Civil War: Lenin's policies, including war communism and the Red Terror, contributed to economic hardship, social unrest, and the devastating Civil War, which resulted in millions of deaths and widespread suffering.
Repression and Violence: His leadership saw the use of mass executions, repression, and the establishment of concentration camps for political prisoners, setting a precedent for future human rights abuses in the Soviet Union.
At its core, socialism is like fascism at the end of the day.
I argued same stuff with an older dude who was in his mid 60s.
He said that Lenin was good because he finally brought progress. He didn’t care how many people had to die for that “progress”.
Yikes. The mystery is that there are a portion of people that are inhuman in this world. When they get into power is when we all shudder.
He only brought progress because Russia was a very backward place at the time, economically and morally, also just ravaged by WW1. When you inherit ruins, the only way is up. That is not to his credit, but it is to the discredit of prior rulers.
Trolly problem, are you familiar with it?
@@Shut.Eye.Cinema trolley problems are for people with a conscience. Lenin and other monsters were not weighed down by such dilemmas. Read his "hanging orders". Bolshevik progress was provided by the US and paid for with looted gold and treasure. Speaking of which, the trolley dilemmas are usually posed so that someone inevitably dies, not caused by the actor. The actor is merely faced with the decision - who dies. In Lenin's case that wasn't so. He was killing people for the enjoyment and to achieve his goals. His famous motto was "the worse, the better". This dilemma is a false attribution in this case. As in the case of any such mafia taking over a country - whether it be Robespierre, sHitler, Pol Pot, kimchi or whoever.
How many people died during the Industrial Revolution in Britain and America? Or the Belgian Congo? Or Chile?
Powerful video and message. Thanks 🙌
And sadly people still think Hitler wasn't a Socialist.
Sorry you're this unintelligent
What a tremendous video. I learned many things here.
That comment he received about Lenin and 'that violence was necessary' is so incredibly chilling!
You are terribly naive to believe that phrase is only a Lenin thing and hasn’t continued into the modern days. Just look at Israel, Putin. USA etc. Yes Lenin was a horrible narcissistic psychopath, but beware the wolves in sheep’s clothing in our time.
can you compare to what is going on today in the middle east?
@@ludmilaivanova1603 Forget that... think of 2020 in USA and the West: the BLM/Antifa rioting was all on script with revolution. And it's being tried again. The Left LOVES murder and enslavement, like a church.
Try some books by David Horowitz.
@@ludmilaivanova1603 No.
Was the American revolution peaceful?
I was studying in the Swedish equivalent of a community collage, small as hell, about 50-70 students of which 75% lived in the boarding parts of the school.
One person hung up a t-shirt displaying the hammer and the scicle in his window.
I brought it up to the teachers and even though they agreed with me about the cause, they never once asked him to take it down.
You're lucky they actually agreed with you on the subject matter, in my experience there is a large swathe of the swedish academic corps who would have sided with the other student, hell since you wrote person I wouldn't have been completely shocked to find that it belonged to a teacher.
@@erikwallvik3397 most definitely, but to work as a teacher in this school you had to love your work
Sweden. Soydinavians are socialists
Just a correction: Mao actually did not come from poverty. His father was a wealthy farmer who was able to send Mao to university to be educated.
They should give up their dollar bills and other money if they're going to tear down the statues
well in that case, Benjamin Franklin was a real dickweed--- he was totally maga.
"Truth erased, leads to Death." At least that's how I'm reading the shirt. Clever design.
According to Jewish lore, TRUTH is the word written on the forehead of the Golem. Erasing the aleph is the only way to stop (kill) the Golem.
Thank you for this great, great video. I'm of Ukrainian ancestry born in Canada. I knew the basic evil of this monster, but you presented much greater detail. I appreciate the references to the DSM and to Jordan Peterson, who was my teacher at the University of Toronto. One the readings required for his Introduction to Personality was an excerpt from The Gulag Archipelago.
Bravo! Exceptional essay and an amazing addition to the Triggernometry family.
Apparently in private, both Hitler and Stalin, were very 'charming' and caring, especially towards 'animals'...
It's anedoctal that Hitler was vegetarian.
The German Nazis were the original green movement in Europe, yes. This was in part because of their ideology envisioning the "greater German Man" hunting and bringing down magnificent beasts in the pristine forests of Germania. Which of course required bringing back animals like the Auroch and Wisent, and recreating the long lost forests that had been cut down to make room for agricultural land and cities over the centuries. Pretty much the same what radical greens want to this day, destroy human habitation and agriculture to bring back nature in all its glory (with a very few worthy souls remaining (themselves) as "stewards of the planet" while the rest of mankind is exterminated).
Stalin was cold to most people, but quite warm and charming to some. Whether that was genuine or an act I don't know, and his biographies I've read don't tell (probably because it wasn't documented in any of the archives).
Is in line with the narcissistic personality common to all of these dictators. Charming people to get what they want, not out of genuine emotion.
@@jwenting Your argument is entirely bogus. You forgot to mention the autobahn programme, the militarisation of land and sea, the grandiose architecture, the increases in industrial output and the huge amount of reinforced concrete used. Nothing green about any of that.
@@jwenting see Robert Proctor's 1988 "Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under The Nazis".
Know people who endorse communism and Lenin on discord. They are ignorant or don't care about Lenin's crimes or the failures of communism.
failurs of communism
China top economic world power
China top tecnhology world power
China top accademic world power
Oh and china with 3 time population of u.s.a stil have public healtchare and dont charge 800% price of insuline for profit
China hold me beer urss maybe had failed cause u.s.a did all to fail them but china its taking ravenge of bastard warcrime capitalist
In Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, the communists referred to themselves as Super Fascists.
todays left and wef! everywhere!
"Lenin: God Of The Godless" by Ferdinard A. Ossendowski
He died in 1945 and Red Army diged his deadbody out of his greave just to be sure that he died, that is the best proof that his book from 1931 described the Bolsheviks and their revolution very well.
Fascists are just shy communists with limited hubris and with limited grandiosity. Jokes aside, fascists might be limited by their devotion to their own country or people, while communists are not limited by any silly notions like that. Lenin was worse than both.
And Adolf H. said he's gonna take true socialism from the left's hands.
So what?
I still see some people in academia citing Lenin as if he were a serious thinker. Don't really get it.
Look up Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School. They transfered to Columbia University in the 1930s when Hitler came to power in Germany. They could not go to the Soviet Union as Stalin had already killed Trotsky.
Herbert Marcuse is considered the father of the "New Left", it was he who coined many of the radical slogans of the campus radicals of the 1960s.
When the campus radicals graduate, most go onto careers in education and media so they can change the world.
BTW, it was a young journalist named Edward R Murrow that helped get the Frankfurt School intellectuals settled into the USA and into positions at Columbia University.
Yet he was. His works on Philosophy and Economy are still classic. "The development of Capitalism in Russia" is a comprehensive source of economic context for history
RIP to all Victims Everywhere that died at the hands of these Regimes 🕊️🕊️🕯️🕯️🙏🙏
So Lenin, like Che, was a rich kid who was just fucking evil.
Privlaged rich ki dto go to school and make their own assumptions about running the world
Like all lefthis liberal college kids
BRAVO , THE ELITES ...........
He was the second coming of christ
Like ALL OUR PRESIDENTS lol
To quote Simon Whistler from his S21 video: "One of the great ironies of communism is that so many of its leaders came from the same privileged backgrounds that they rallied against."
What a good essay. I knew about a lot of it, but I didn’t know that Lenin was a 1 level psychopath. No conscious. No remorse. Pure selfish. Thanks for your presentation.
no self. selfless
Sounds like the public schools are not teaching history as they should!
Kinda reminds me of a person named Hillary Clinton and her contemporaries.
Another victim of the educational system and its correctional facilities
@@Shut.Eye.Cinema Progressive ed, from Pragmatist John Dewey, literally disintegrates the mind.
Comprachicos-Ayn Rand
After hearing about the story when Lenin brought his silver Royce vehicle in his meeting with a Georgian scientist, I couldn't despise this narcissist even more!
The word "truth" is written on his shirt
There's more, look closely. The א is being erased, leaving us with the word "dead". It sends a message
I was wondering. Thanks to both of you.
@@royxeph_arcanex isn't that the golem thingy from Jewish mythology?
@@HereTakeAFlower yup, exactly!
Thank you!
This was incredible.
Maybe they should get statues of Pol Pot and Idi Amin put up for diversity and inclusion
Please dont give them any more ideas
France can build one. I mean, they literally supported him back in the day
As a black person I will take my chances with communism rather than fascism
i’ll take thomas sankara over any US president
Fascism is communism's offspring.
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I said exactly what you said to my son when he was confused when I told him Hitler was not the biggest monster we know. Lenine, Stalin and Mao are probably the biggest monsters the world has known.
Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Kim dynasty in North Korea... the list is pretty long if you count the numerous communist inspired dictators in lesser known countries. You have to experience first hand what it's like to live in a dictatorship to know how grim life was.
Mengistu
Castro
Choibalsan
Ceausescu
Wow this video is a perfect summation. Saving this one for later.
Well done..😊
Great program. A reminder of what underlies the "one murder away from utopia" political depravity.
"Telling the truth" means nothing, if people will not hear it and act on it. Still, for those who will listen, a great video.
Fascinating account. I learned a lot. Good for you for standing on principle. Criticizing any soviet is still frowned on by the left. It's surprising the left goes after Putin, still KGB at heart. I always believed Stalin to be more evil, but you have opened my eyes. I'm sure you know my friend Donald Rayfield's book on Stalin. I often make the comment to leftists online that Hitler was a horrible monster, but Stalin was worse. I too lost family members in the USSR. The standard insult used by the left is to call someone Hitler or a Nazi. I don't think your opinion on Lenin will change that but anyone with sense should reconsider.
Man this was really well done. I hope there is no counter argument to this. What do people say when u tell them these facts but still choose to celebrate him?
They are counter arguments for everything, victors wrote the history, and there is soo many propaganda on all sides its hard to tell that its not influenced some of that writing. I would still love to see how Russian historians are looking at this because this is much more from West prospective.
The counter-argument I've heard in defense of Stalin is "Lies, all lies." I'm sure it's the same for Lenin.
Cold blooded, inhuman people without feeling. Frightening. It's terrible how history repeats itself.
@@CaDzA818I think you will find that he mentioned a number of Russian biographers
@@CaDzA818 Russian here. There is no unity of position, and thus there is always a polemic!
My grandfather was part of the American unit in Berlin in WW2. I still consider Lenin worse. Hitlers rise coincided with the radio. I do have a problem with trying to label him with a psychosis. This leaves out the people surrounding him. Himmler orchestrated a lot of the events surrounding the camps. Hitler only ever visited one, one time. My point is that he didn't act alone. Lenin did. He also enacted many of the same policies. I find anyone siding with either one to be mental.
But insecure humans will go to great lengths to ensure their own security and why they seek security in collectivism.
I am sorry this happened to you and yours.
God what a bs
"A serial killer in a Mafia state" perfectly sums it all up in just a few words.
Fun fact, his shirt says אמת Emét = "Truth" in Hebrew, but the first letter (yes, it's the first one) is being erased, with the remainder saying מת Mét = "Dead" in Hebrew.
Just writing this to make sure one of the messages he wanted to send doesn't end undelivered
I'd listen to an audiobook read by this guy
Alexander Ulyanov (Lenin's older brother) wanted to murder the tzar because the tzar humped his mommy and was his illegitimate father. Bolsheviks were terrible, but honestly that dynasty of "tzars" made it all possible, even inevitable. It was a very backward place at the time, very resistant to change, especially in the realm of human rights and dignity. Actual intellectuals (not the likes of today's western leftist intellekshuals) were typically in opposition to the ruling regime, or at least were not heeded, even if they were just mildly and politely critical. Radishchev, who railed against slavery back in Catherine's time was pronounced as "worse than Pugachev" (a violent seditious rebel at the time) by her. Leo Tolstoy was "excommunicated" by the monarchist Orthodox church, even though he deliberately left on his own and scripturally proved that they were an idolatrous heresy, having nothing to do with true Christianity. And there were very few of these intellectuals, probably fewer than 100 in all of Russian Empire, very few educated people. Slavery (serfdom) only ended in 1860's, but the freed serfs were saddled with 49-year "mortgages" of the financial cost of their release. There weren't enough jobs for them, so many turned to banditry. A few generations later, plus a humiliating war (WW1) and conditions were ripe. Lenin didn't even do the revolution, he just took over the chaos. In his own words he writes that political power was "laying in the streets, for anyone to take". Not to mention, he was financed from the West and smuggled back into Russia. But IMHO it wasn't a revolution, it was a country that self-immolated and the opportunists just came to loot the smoldering ruins. Very tragic, considering the great works of art, music, literature, science and humanities. And even the common folk were always very kindhearted, if a bit slavish in their inclinations.
Good points. Lenin was an evil goon. This video doesn’t go into how Lenin came into power and I don’t expect it to. But your response gives a good summary about how he came to power.
This is a fantastic analysis. Nothing more need to be said
Apart from cleverly not mentioning the majority of Bolsheviks including Lenin and Stalin were same cult that is genociding Palestinians today.
Very accurate description, thank you
The liberal mind is a strange thing.
Powerful work. Triggernomtey has grown in the last few years from two pissed off comedians into one of the genuinely free political voices on the internet and I am delighted by it even when it’s dropping horrible truth bombshell like this.
Free political voices 😂😂😂😂 I nearly wet myself when I read that … Are you a “comedian” too???
Thank you so much for thhis reality adjustment. Most grateful.
An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes”- Sun Tsu
Watching this video gave me an even colder chill than i felt when i read 1984. I remember the darkness engulfed my mind as i studied this history in high school. I'm Zimbabwean, but i learnt about the history of Russia in 1999, and I'm shocked at how ignorant a lot of people are in the west about the horror of these ideas. How willing they are to freely defend, champion these doctrines, or sleepwalk their way into hell.
Before WW2 there was well known and translated to many languages book "Lenin: God Of The Godless" by Ferdinard A. Ossendowski, Red Army literally diged out his body out of his greave in 1945 just to be sure that he is really dead = that is a mark of quality for his book from 1931 that he based on his personal experiences not some other people testimonies...
And the guy before WW1 was in prison for being anty tsarist's, so he saw bothsides of this coin.
If '1984' bothered you, you should read a novel named "We" written by a Russian in the 1920s. I think his name was Zimyatin. The protagonist has been so propagandized that he thinks his doubts about totalitarianism make him sick and he welcomes his repression.
"The Truth will set you free" said Jesus
And Lenin was his second coming
@@Shut.Eye.Cinema WTF are you on?
"The goal of socialism is communism." Vladimir Lenin.
I am very sorry to hear of your family and your job. I stand with the Jewish people. I stand with Israel. ☘️🇮🇱🇺🇲
Well the current prime minister of Israel is a war criminal 🤷
I don't. Fuck Israel. Founded by mostly a pack of socialists through ethnic cleansing & massacres, & fundamentally built on ethnic discrimination & ethno-centrism. Ben-Gurion was as evil as Hitler & Lenin.
When you choose Stalin as one of your henchmen, you can't be a nice guy.
True, if Lenin cared about Stalin at all, he wouldn’t have encouraged him to rob banks for the communist party. A true friend wouldn’t do that to you, a true friend would have said, “Don’t Iosif, please don’t.” He just didn’t care about people turning to crime or even terrorism to fun the communist party. That shows you right there that Lenin didn’t care about anyone, but himself and his communist dream. Then Stalin continued what Lenin started and then the Soviet Union ended with the collapse.
In Berlin there is still a KARL-MARX-ALLE, but as far as I know no Street named after GORBATSCHOW
Rename the streed for example Bismarck, Friedrich the Great for example. Greetings from Estonia
Chilled to the bone... even though non of this is exactly news to me. But I'll never not be completely horrified contemplating this man.
Important. I admire you for putting your career on the line for the truth.