Thanks for telling the truth (about Stalinism). All those Neo-Stalinists need to watch this documentary, because virtually all of them have no memory of the true Soviet-communist-history.
Thank you for this documentary! It is very helpful to really know abut communism. Unfortunately the first part of the documentary has been deleted, could you reupload it please? Great job!!!
Now I know what happened to our original form of government here in the CORPORATION known as AMERICA, formally the UNITED STATES Yea, Wilson & Roosevelt couldn't get enough socialism. Anyone who doubts what I'm saying, read the 10 pillars of communism. Then the US Constitution. Then ask yourself which one most closely resembles the governing body politic you live under!
You can the almost religious fervor they had over their ideas that they thought would save humanity. It made them overlook the enormous destruction those very ideas were creating.
@make a wish Yes and farmers, and artists, students, political opponents and many , many innocent people that dared open their mouths .They got rid of the landlords and the state took propriety of everything and formed an elite class that ruled over the masses .The people did not own the means of anything. They were told where to work, how many hours, what shifts, what to produce and for what salaries. Union leaders in communism are high ranking members of the one and only party and get told what to do .The idiots wait in line to buy bread , while the ruling class can have nice things and pretend ''equal''.The human cost for those temporary solutions was insane, yet people like you talk about it like it was a walk in the park.
1991 bbc documentary interview a survivor of white sea canal force laborer,building the white sea canal is like building pyramid,all of work were done by hand. more110 -130 death for every 100 yard
@@cudanmang_theogNot by communist Vietnam, as they promised Chams equal rights and whatnot. You're mixing Vietnam with Pol Pots Cambodia, which was taken over by Vietnam when it massacres vietnamese and tried to invade Vietnam.
There's an error in the credits : It wasn't written by Patrice Chéreau ; he's only doing the (french) narration (voice-over). The documentary was written by Patrick Rotman, a journalist who himself started out as a communist militant in the 1960s, and who outgrew this phenomenon, realizing how the whole ideology turned into religious fanaticism, to the degree of condoning atrocities.
We Americans like to imagine there is always a good choice and a bad choice one can make. This situation illustrates that it aint necessarily so. And it wasn't so for most people most of the time in history.
It really is incredible how destructive and barbaric people become when they get together in mobs and believe in “fix-all” ideologies. This lesson should have been learned by now, but it hasn’t, and I suspect never will.
@@atg131000 That is nothing but US propaganda. They don't ruthlessly persecuted dissidents in Cuba. People like Yoani Sanchez can't write about being a political prisoners so they have to write about what it would like to be a political prisoner. She has made it clear that her hope lies in "Cuban professionals" wanting a Western lifestyle. In other words people who want privileges like those in the old Soviet Union who lead the Stalinist counterrevolution and destruction of Lenin's Party. The revolution had never had a problem educating enough people so those who become dissatisfied can leave..The US has been constantly trying to destroy the revolution by terrorism and then by playing the phoney games like the campaign of independent library provocation that failed to gain traction or artists who sing insults. If they can't get bombs planted to blow up hotels or down Civilian Airliners they the have to settle for Juvenile delinquency. They have know their is no effective opposition on the island since Kennedy's time in their State department records. So a blockade as decided upon as away to deny Cuba money trade and wages to overthrow the Castro. Not to mention the 600 assassination attempts.
This series about communism is very informative. But somehow doesn't have as many views as I'd have thought. It's likely many viewers aren't aware of their availability(?)
@Ahmad It’s likely because the other parts are set as not visible which means they are there but you can’t find them by searching or recommendation, I myself only got here through the playlist recommended at part 1 anyway I can only agree it’s a well produced documentary
21:34 Can anyone who is French and knows about their history tell me what that Frenchman in the center of the screen, and the man on the left, have on their jackets. It looks like some kind of medal/button. I assumed it was a ww1 decoration of some kind based on the man’s middle aged appearance but I looked French ww1 medals up and I don’t see anything that looks like that.
Great footage depicting a time of immense upheaval, of almost unimaginable changes unlike now where there's only stagnation, torpor and a dismal smallness, we're atomised
It’s coming. Gen Z and Millennials are giving up on the ideals of their parents, tang ping (lying flat) in China is taking over, Japan has a shrinking disengaged youth, Russian youth before the war in Ukraine were resisting Putin; these are the vital signs of a coming change. Whether it be revolt or revolution.
The Soviet Union Really did achieve quite a bit in modernization and industrialization, and even had a lot of accomplishments in technology and science, but all these things could have been done without having to be a socialist dictatorship. Much of the world achieved the same things without having to become an authoritarian state. They probably could have achieved even more if they had become a democracy sooner.
Mandy, what the Soviet Union accomplished in its industrialization could not have happened without a social dictatorship. Stalin “beat” industrialization into every peasant and farmer. It was meet goals or die trying.
What you said is correct. But you cannot ignore that Stalin, like Hitler, it also utilized genocide. "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic” ~ Stalin. He was no better than Hitler, and the current Czar is of the same mold. Russia has been ruled by tyrants throughout it's history. I don't think they can survive without a boot firmly planted on their necks.
No. They would not have advanced as much and they would have had a ruling uncaring Monarchy Feudal system and no free health care and tent cities and everyone but the wealthy falling behind and garbage everywhere.
The United States achieved much more and faster than any of those dictatorships... and if we can agree the US has a heavy history in the matters of equality and violence, as compared to the millions slaughtered in Europe, in China, and all over Asia, Africa, or South America, America remained a nation in which you can flip a finger at any politician, and easily getting away with it instead of ending in a gulag.
Mrblaza your reply makes no sense and clearly shows your biased , you read a little part and got triggered , didnt see the part where he said usa where excluded in any wrong doing
In the US, all it takes is an idea, and you have it…that coal miner in this documentary that came up with a new way to extract the coal, well, he probably got a nicer apartment and some more bread for his idea and that’s it.
@@EuricoThrasher No nation with international clout is excluded from wrongdoing. When you see this French guy Thorez kissing Stalin's butt before WWII, and then kissing it again after, and getting away with it means only one thing: the opposite is not true in the former USSR: you spoke against the regime, you broke rocks for the rest of your life. But for some stranger reason, some people still believe Communism did any good to the world...
The inventors of the chemical weapons of World War 1 and 2 that Hitler and others were mad about were Jewish and of the Old Testament Jewish Orthodox faith much like the people of Ukraine are. Also the Italian armies that had the bear symbol had joined Hitler and the Nazis as is portrayed in old films. Also common citizens are said to have participated in the atrocities of the victims of World War 1 and 2 of whom were commonly called Jews even though the majority were of another ethnicity indicating they were religious wars. As an example the famous German Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer had been Baptized as an understanding adult by immersion and refused Catholicism for himself or his church. He is known also for many quotes of compassion. He helped many people escape the Nazis and was found by the Nazis and executed. It is possible that the Italian Nazis executed him.
Also in numerous films people have signs saying their anger toward the French and the Italians. Oddly I have not seen any yet in regards to the Spaniards of Spain that was said to have been friends with Hitler and the Nazis and was said to have had virtually no casualties as they also claimed to be neutral during the war as did Switzerland as well and both countries very prosperous today. Hmmm.
@@mightyea The Old Testament Jewish were inventors of chemical weapons not the Germans. The name Nazi is an abbreviation of German pronunciation of Nationalsozialist with the short word for that being Nazi. The meaning was National Socialist German Workers Party led by Hitler from 1920.
One of the great contributing factors to the rapid fall of France to the Nazis in the first part of WW2 was the permutation of Communism through large numbers of the French working and middle classes, even reaching some elitists. France, in 1939, possessed a standing army that vastly outnumbered German forces. Problems came when geriatric French army leaders and the unenthusiastic army rank and file, including many soldiers exposed to the propaganda of the French Communist Party, preferred to sit still in the depths of the Maginot Line. This static defence stood no chance against the highly mobile tactics of Nazi 'Blitzkrieg'. It was no accident that an old French Army officer and many, willingly inactive, French soldiers moved south to form a 'collaborators' paradise' around Vichy. Allegedly, for the good of France and to ensure that France 'survived'. Many 'fair weather' French Communists also found a home there, in and out of uniform. These were the French people that, only a handful of years before, swallowed the mythology of lies fed to them by a 'ruling class' of French Communist leaders who, themselves, were actually elitists. The tragic irony of history played out until two staunch anti-communist nations: Britain and America, joined with Stalin who, finally, realised that Russia had no chance against Hitler without 'getting into bed' with modern, industrialised capitalist nations and their Commonwealth allies. As repugnant as it was for Britain and America to join forces with the Soviets, the situation was aptly summed up by Winston Churchill when he said of the Anglo-Soviet cooperation treaty, “If Hitler invaded Hell I would make, at least, a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.” And the irony goes back before WW2. Had not the fascists of Spain, Italy and Germany gained the popularity they did, the idea of a Russian Communist state may have well slowly vanished via popular uprisings against Communist oppression. It was only the blanket of fascism that began to cover Europe that, in time, would ensure the survival and growth of the USSR. Even the eventual defeat of Hitler's Berlin and his Germany by Russian forces was not 'written in stone' prior to the Anglo-Soviet treaty. Despite a massive supply of manpower to cover Russia’s battle losses; without the huge sacrifice of the West in providing heavy weapons, tanks and aircraft via sub-arctic convoys to Russia, a Soviet victory may have been in severe peril. Certainly, without them the war in the northern hemisphere may have dragged on for years longer than it did. I must challenge the timing of this 'generally pro-Russian' documentary at this particular time in recent history. Was this video screened now to, perhaps, divert our attention away from the Russian atrocities occurring in the Ukraine, again? Was this an attempt to occupy our minds with all the terrible events suffered by the Russian people? It's a long shot but it could be. And, a rather ineffectual one at that. The only factual, historical truth this film brings to mind is the fact that not one single nation on this planet has adopted Communism of its own free will without any form of revolution, duress or political/social inducement; unless these came at the point of a gun or the promise of lifelong slavery and starvation. After his death in 1953, it took a long time for Stalin to be exposed as the greatest mass murderer in the modern history of the world. In terms of pure numbers via executions, forced resettlement to regions incapable of sustaining life; slavery and military actions, Stalin made the hideous crimes of Hitler and his SS look like struggling amateurs. One cannot discuss Communism and mass murder without pointing the finger of guilt at Chairman Mao Zedong who was the ultimate 'fanboy' of Joe Stalin; who seemed to take, literally, Stalin’s dark quote, “No man; no problem.” From 1958 till his death, Chairman Mao was directly responsible for engineering the deaths of a stupefyingly conservative estimate of 42.5 million Chinese people. This figure comes from a long-term study of China experts by Pulitzer winner, Ian Johnson. Post war Russian leaders, were so eager to repair the damage Chairman Mao's famines and relocations did to the 'Communism brand', they made even the publishing of Mao’s name in the Russian press a crime. These days, in China, the only mentions of Mao are confined to bland euphemisms about “...years of difficulty...” etc. This unimaginable form of Communism made Chairman Mao the probable record breaker for genocide in the 20th or any other Century. It is, then, logical to assume that Chairman Mao will not receive a mention in this documentary series given its apparent bias. I found this episode disturbing, troubling and slightly depressing to watch, not only because of the plight of the Russian people it documents, but for the fact the anti-Communist narrative does not completely show itself until the last part of the film. I hope this was merely a case of inexperienced script editing of the film's narrative. BH
You have failed to mention how Russia lost 60 million or more people to the Catholic Nazis Facsism. Watch the movie Nuremburg that tells the truth. And oddly the Catholic Italian armies that joined the Nazis never get mentioned either. The Russians do not recognize the pope. The Russian Greek Orthodox is Greek and not Latin of which they do not like. And no one can convince me that World War 2 was not about religion because the Russians and all the rest of the Europeans were called Jews even if they were not Jewish because they had all been Baptized in the water as understanding adults and many may have been the remaining descendents of the 60 to 100 million that were slaughtered in the Catholic Spaniard and German and England and French Inquisitions of the Middle Ages of whom got orders from the Catholic church in Rome as in the place and people that never get mentioned. And all of the land and possessions were stolen by the Catholics after they killed them. Communism was invented and run by the Catholics. Socialism by itself and separate from Communism was not invented by the Catholics and has worked well for Russia and Germany and Switzerland and Norway. But of course the Catholics are outraged and would rather have Communism and the concentration camps such as in China and or a feudal and Capitalist Monarchy system where anyone who is not of the wealthy or high positions falls further behind. And there is no free health care or even distribution of money made from manufactured goods and natural resources. There is nothing Godly about Catholic forms of government that are outdated and are proven ineffective.
@@bawsack69 Communism was invented by the Catholics to cover up the evils of false religion. The Catholics have enough money and resources and people to take over the west along with any where else they choose and they almost have. Communism was brought about in China by the Catholic French Concession of 1949. The Chinese say it is brutal for them. America has strict laws in place so the Catholics are using other unnoticeable ways but there are a lot of cameras in states like Texas and that and control and fear of speech is common in Texas and elsewhere where the Catholic presence is high.
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Communism, as a socio-political ideology, has always been a subject of intense debate and scrutiny. Its theoretical foundation, rooted in the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, promises a utopia of classless society, where the means of production are owned communally, and wealth is distributed according to need. However, the practical implementation of communism in various countries throughout the 20th century has revealed two contrasting faces: one of utopian ideals and another of authoritarian rule. The Ideological Face: Equality and Utopia The theoretical appeal of communism lies in its promise of equality and social justice. Marx and Engels envisioned a society where the exploitation of the working class by the bourgeoisie would be abolished. In its place would emerge a classless society, free from the chains of capitalism, where the state would wither away, and the people would govern themselves democratically. This vision appealed to millions worldwide, offering hope to the oppressed and exploited masses yearning for a fair and equitable society. At its core, communism aimed to eliminate the vast economic disparities seen in capitalist societies. By abolishing private ownership of the means of production and distributing wealth according to individuals' needs, communism proposed a radical solution to social inequality. This ideological face of communism, with its noble ideals of equality, fraternity, and justice, continues to inspire political movements and thinkers around the globe. The Practical Face: Authoritarianism and Failure Despite its lofty ideals, the practical implementation of communism in the 20th century has often resulted in authoritarian regimes characterized by centralized control, suppression of dissent, and the erosion of individual freedoms. Countries like the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and North Korea attempted to build communist societies but ended up creating oppressive systems that strayed far from the original ideals of Marx and Engels. The transition from a capitalist to a communist society proved to be more challenging than anticipated. The abolition of private property and the centralization of economic planning led to inefficiencies, shortages, and often, famine. Moreover, the concentration of power in the hands of a few led to corruption and abuse. The dream of a classless society was replaced by a new hierarchy where party officials and the military elite enjoyed privileges denied to the masses. The suppression of political dissent and the curtailment of civil liberties became hallmarks of communist regimes. The promise of democratic governance and the withering away of the state gave way to totalitarian control, where the state intruded into the minutest details of people's lives. The ideal of creating a society based on equality and justice was undermined by the reality of oppressive rule and economic mismanagement. Conclusion The two faces of communism reflect the complex nature of this ideology and its implementation. While the ideals of communism continue to inspire those who dream of a fairer and more just society, the historical experiences of communist states serve as a sobering reminder of the challenges and pitfalls of turning these ideals into reality. The legacy of communism is thus a tale of contrast between what could be and what actually was, a reminder of the gap between noble aspirations and their practical outcomes.
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It's sad indeed but in the 30s and 40s violence in Europe was a daily occurrence and indiscriminate in choosing its victims. Churches, synagogues, hospitals, temples, schools were all express targets of violence by both the axis and allies.
@@katlegomapyane6811 but more than anyone else in Europe, Stalin went after Churches. And he was an ex-seminarian. He had studied for the Priesthood at a Seminary in Tblisi. His Superiors said he excelled in Liturgical Chant.
@@kimobrien. get real. wars are hardly about religion. nobody really cares that much about their religion--haardly anybody. Wars are about power, territory, money. Wars sometimes happen to fall along religious lines which coincide with other factors that people care that much about, like money.
@@tiagofreitas1976 Its just one persons perspective. Yet, the footage is all real. So to say and ignoramus wrote it only shows how decieved you are. Youd have been there holding up a sign and yelling too.
Thank you for this most interesting information. I never realised that USSR played such a posititive role in the Spanish Civil war. I can now more understand why Churchill wished to carry on WW2 and attack and defeat Russia.
Well after war Churchill have one plan , the Stalin Bomb for defeats Stalin , however Britainish ecomomy are destroyed , and the bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki where badly idea
@@harrietharlow9929 That's interesting news and most likely a good reason why an army truck got in the way of Paton's car one day!!! One of the first "Clinton" type deaths.
@@GuiCury92 Nazis had a racist approach and attacked multiple countries at the same time. Communists and Nazis committed genocide but Nazi Germany went further and there's a reason why Stalin and the West fought together against the Nazis and their fascist ally Italy. As it's said in the video Communism was the world's hope to stop Fascism in Europe especially Hitler's Nazis from seizing power in Germany. Greetings from Germany
It seems that mistakes were made by the communists early on which did not result in the workers control but Stalin. That would be a long conversation. Both Stalin and Hitler were rather similar and bounced off each other and were Nationalists in a sense. Maybe the lesson is don’t kill off your intelligentsia and suppress the Socialists and Social Democrats. A split between Socialists and Communists was ultimately destructive and resulted in a fascist type of Communism in Russia.
The Famine is called Holodomor, not Holocaust. My grandparents, Ukrainians, survived it (barely), having lost some siblings, friends and relatives during it. The psychological trauma outlived them through next generation.
Have you seen a newish movie called MR Jones. It’s about the famine and a dramatized trip Gareth Jones took. He was a real life journalist from Britain who spoke Russian. In real life He saw the horrors of collectivization all over the Soviet Union, I read his article after watching the movie, they are free online. Chilling.
@@1984isnotamanual of course I did, it’s a great movie. I cried, because his mom lived in my hometown (Yuzovka back then, Donetsk nowadays), it’s under russian occupation now yet again. For 10 years already. Then I cried because those children songs about Stalin, I’ve heard them before from old people’s stories, those were told in a whisper. And I cried when they revealed cases of cannibalism, because those were true as well. There’s a book called Red Famine that tells more about it, and I’m bracing myself to finally read it.
@@UA_in_USA WOW I’d love to talk to you more about it! That Stalin song chilled me to the BONE and the scene showing the forced grain requisitions by idk if it was the red army or NKVD or both but yea. What I don’t like is that we never talk about Soviet crimes in the west, or at least not anywhere near like Nazi crimes. Movie after movie about the Nazis, which is good, there should be but I want more movies about the Soviet times. Not just the starvation of Ukrainians but the purges. God I can talk about this all day I have so much to type I hope TH-cam doesn’t delete me comments lol, TH-cam comments aren’t the best for longform conversation but anyway yea Soviet period not shown enough in art hear, except for books. Also I didn’t know, I learned recently that a lot of what Stalin did was done by Lenin. I’m sure you know all this and your family lived it but Lenin built a lot of those gulags, of course the checka, during war communism they requisitioned grain from the peasants. The more I learn about it the more I am convinced that the Soviet Union was bad from the beginning and deserved to fail. I read this in Gareth Jones articles that apparently in response to them that Duranty guy I just mentioned, again the NYT Pulitzer Prize winning journalist said there was 'no actual starvation' but only 'widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition'. 🤮that disgusting euphemism. Using over complicated technical language to cover up a black truth. Still happens to this day actually. I’m going to look up that book you mentioned, if you know anymore or any more movies please let me know or any stories from your family if that’s ok. I feel it’s my duty to learn about this but luckily I cant learn about it enough.
@@1984isnotamanual I hear you and I agree with you - Soviet crimes were swept under the rug. Since ussr was one of the winners of WWII and the winners are not judged (c) The people who suffered, Ukrainians, were silenced, almost nobody could escape to tell the truth, some of them lost memory because the experience was that traumatic. Because of constant NKVD “field work”, one couldn’t even write or say aloud anything down that would be against the mainstream propaganda. Death or Siberia was the punishment. My grandpa lived through Holodomor in the city, orphan. Never talked about it, unless when really really drunk. He’d cry and say they were eating crows, then they ran out of them, sparrows disappeared next. Dandelions, weeds, anything really. Grandma was in the village, she lost several baby siblings during that time and it’s all she’d say, very quietly. They took our food, our animals and our land she’d add under her nose. She was afraid to be heard even at home with no one around but me! After all these years. She had a permanent damage to her hand from digging frozen soil, looking for grains. Being an old lady, she was happy as a clam to see green wheat growing. She’d pick one plant and check on grains, her facial expression is the one I’ll never forget. Every single piece of grain, none should fall… There’s another book I’d like to recommend: Winterkill by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch.
@@UA_in_USA wow that so insane, no human should have to go through that. I added that book to my “books”bookmark thank you for that. What makes me so angry is that people now, dumb privilege teenagers usually, actually think the Soviet Union is good. They fly their flag in their profile, identify as Marxist Leninist. I literally was just arguing with someone on Reddit who fits this description. He was saying that it was a good place and they had rights because of the Soviet constitution of 1936. I couldn’t belive it and pointed out to him that a year after that the worst purges every where all those “rights” were ignored and the constitution was for propaganda purpose only. He said something like “well it was just small hiccups it’s not big deal” type of thing and I just had to tell him I can’t continue this conversation I’m not talking to a morally normal human being and I told him to enjoy his totalitarian faith. Madness. Also it pisses me of about how Russia is talking about Ukraine today. Russia saying what they are doing Ukraine is for security and calling you guys Nazis. As if Ukraine wasn’t invaded by the Nazis and the same experience of invasions from the west. As if the red army didn’t have Ukrainians in it fighting Nazis with people from other Soviet republics. Such Nonsense! Pisses me off. Also I talk to people that think the famine was not intentional, a result of mistakes made during collectivization. That’s partly true from what I’ve read but in Ukraine it was deliberate, as you know literally closed off the country and killed anyone who tried to flee and refused to let food aid in.
this *docu* is comically produced in that everything they say has been said since the inception and organization of the soviet and the dictatorship of the proletariet. (see churchill and his antisemetic view of communisms(socialism)origin, his views and willingness to kill the revolution and bolsheviks in its birth as they were in the vanguard,uniting people of many different classes, though mostly workers and peseants, working in solidarity with any other political group that was truly representing people in any region they did not have power or representation(see nestor makhno and his anachist state in ukrain). One positive thing is that on 22:37 they admitt that in 1935 stalin had somehow correctly predicted that war with germany was inevitable.if not germany,then maybe japan, britain france ,america or all the above. greatefull to the patriotic people of the USSR.
If only they knew then what we know now. Stalin, as "fatherly" and gentle as he appeared during his speeches of workers uniting for the good of the USSR, was really doing it all as his own propoganda, i.e. to build up his image.
People in the west should have realized already in 1920s what kind of country the Soviet Union was becoming and taken a firm stance against Russia when it was still possible.
I have trouble calling the Soviet system "communist". What is Communism, anyway? Lenin changed his economic policies just as often as he changed his underpants. So, was he a communist? Cuba and North Korea are stamped as "communist countries", even though their economies function very differently from one another. Is Communism simply the control of the means of production? Well, there were many "communist countries" which had a very relaxed attitude towards privatization of industry. You did not see the Gulag system as being, essentially, the Federal Reserve in other "communist countries". There was no Gulag in Cuba or in the "communists" of Central America. Even Iran was declared as a communist country before the coup which put the Shah in power. To cut a long story short, the USSR was Stalinist from the 1930's until Gorbachev's 1980's. China was Maoist, not communist. Cuba was Fidelista, Venezuela was Chavista, and so on. This point should be remembered, preferably emphasized, whenever "communism" is mentioned in any political or even in any merely intellectual discussion.
It is said in Spain "tiempos de rojos: hambre y piojos" meaning times of reds: hunger and lice. We are starting again to lose any trace of democracy leading towards the hardest communist dictatorship as in Cuba or Venezuela.
@5:53 Visitors of the West Marvelled huh!!!😅 Never heard of Potamkin villages 100 years ago , that must be a more recent catch phrase.... Lenin once said""""" The West are wishful thinkers.... So we will give them what they want to think""""".... Incredible foresight into 21st century Democratic leadership today. They actually believe in their own b.s. and creation of a Nanny state of """learned HELPLESSNESS """"""😅
In a time when democracy and capitalism were at it's weakest it allowed Nazis and communist to rise in power.. Seems like an important lesson there as I'm sure it will happen again at some point... and people will have forgotten by then,,
Socialism is the obsolete 'ideology' that lost the Cold War when the Soviet Union disintegrated without a single shot being fired, a conflict that the United States and Capitalism WON; but Socialism/Communism also failed miserably in Romania, Chile, Hungary, Cambodia, Czechoslovakia, Sudan, Mongonlia, Cape Verde, Burma, Bolivia, Chad, Djibouti, Granada, Ethiopia, North Korea, Algeria, Congo, Bangladesh, Eritrea, Guinea Bissau, Tanzania, Albania, Bulgaria, Sierra Leone, Benin, Angola, Soviet Union, Guyana, Yugoslavia, Nepal, Zimbabwe, Laos, East Germany, Mozambique, Poland, Nicaragua, South Yemen, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Somalia, Cuba, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, China (which hasn't been communist except in name since the economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping in 1964 which was done because the previous and latest Communist dictator, Mao Zedong, killed more than 30 million Chinese with his stupid policies and hunger, although he didn't suffer any hunger or anything, in fact he was rich, a hypocritical feature that characterizes all Socialist dictators, just ask Nicolas Maduro, his son literally showered himself with bundles of $100 dollar bills in a party while Venezuela lost a quarter of all of its population) and many many other places; after which Communism caused over 120 million DEATHS BTW, how come Lefties always complain about American 'imperialism' anyway? What about Vietnamese imperalism in Cambodia? Or Soviet imperialism in Hungary or Czechoslovakia or Poland or East Germany or Latvia or Lithuania or Estonia? Or Chinese imperialism in Tibet and North Korea and Vietnam? Or Russian imperialism in Georgia or Azerbaijan or Ukraine or Byelorussia or Armenia? Or Cuban imperialism on Angola or Venezuela or Nicaragua or Bolivia? And remember to recite the Communist's Prayer: "That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, it's not a big deal. And if it is, it wasn't their fault. And if it was, they didn't mean it. And if they did, the victims deserved it."
CNCS là một xã hội tốt đẹp mà loài người hướng tới, không còn phân biệt giai cấp, không phân biệt giàu nghèo, một xã hội công bằng dân chủ, mọi người có cuộc sống tự do ấm no hạnh phúc.
53:21 How could a person who really believes in a classless society live so lavishly, enjoying parties while hundreds of thousands of his countrymen were dying slowly in Siberian camps? Edit: Human psychology remains the same. Why should I care for them while the going is good? Let me make the most of it, labels like communist, socialist, nazi, capitalist just don't matter.
The US became the world's first superpower in about 8 months, from the time it entered WWI to the time it put an end to it, with all major belligerents owning billions of dollars to us. Before that, the USA didn't even have a standing army of more than 20,000 soldiers. At the height of its "power", the GDP of the Soviet Union was the one of Belgium, and often no more than Luxemburg. California ALONE has a GDP 20 TIMES higher than the USSR had in its time, compare year to year. In 1914, the US was the first industrial power in the world, followed by Germany. Not sure when you get your history classes, but Big Brother is very much messing up with your brain. The USSR started as a failed state, lived as a failed state, and died a failed state. The only time it did well was when the US was supplying billions upon billions of equipment to Stalin during WWII, before realizing it was perhaps the greatest blunder ever.
@@benbenhomeandlifestyle5122 the same story is unrevelling in china last decades: Helplessly undeveloped and hungry nation became REAL threat to world police state no. 1, USA?? How come?? Only 50 years ago they were starving!! Where did that power came from? Socialisem??? No it can' t be. Dictatorship? That must be the only answer, brain what??
@@damijanxxx7221 Indeed, the rise of China can only put in question our old western democracy model, somewhat imperialist there is no doubt about it. It is the end of the American century, but not the end of the United States, which remains by far the most innovative and inclusive nation in the world. Only after 1945 was the United States required, more than willing, to step up to the plate of international affairs. It is perhaps time to go back to our old isolationist way, and bring our troops home wherever they are. This way, no one will be able to say a thing about us when the world order goes back to the shit that led to WWI and WWII. "The American Way of Life is not negotiable".
Working people in the past had taken their fates in their own hands, which contributed to the ultimate shaping of capitalism; ie after the Black Death when feudal labor and serfdom was destroyed in some places, leading to incipient forms of mercantilism and proto capitalism, in Europe. Or did these historical facts only emerge so recently (ie in the last 5 minutes?) as to be overseen?
Autorzy filmu zapomnieli o głównej przyczynie upadku rewolucji w Europie, klęsce bolszewików w Bitwie Warszawskiej gdy rosjanom nie udało zająć krajów zachodnich
Thanks for telling the truth (about Stalinism).
All those Neo-Stalinists need to watch this documentary, because virtually all of them have no memory of the true Soviet-communist-history.
Это не работает. Они смотрят, потом говорят "это ложь" и продолжают фапать на убийцу их собственного народа.
Thank you for this documentary! It is very helpful to really know abut communism. Unfortunately the first part of the documentary has been deleted, could you reupload it please? Great job!!!
Now I know what happened to our original form of government here in the CORPORATION known as AMERICA, formally the UNITED STATES
Yea, Wilson & Roosevelt couldn't get enough socialism. Anyone who doubts what I'm saying, read the 10 pillars of communism. Then the US Constitution. Then ask yourself which one most closely resembles the governing body politic you live under!
Its on the same channel
It's here u js gtta look harder I have em all saved
@@janne5942what is it called
You can the almost religious fervor they had over their ideas that they thought would save humanity. It made them overlook the enormous destruction those very ideas were creating.
@make a wish They also ''decolonized'' everyone who had a different opinion or owned anything
@make a wish Yes and farmers, and artists, students, political opponents and many , many innocent people that dared open their mouths .They got rid of the landlords and the state took propriety of everything and formed an elite class that ruled over the masses .The people did not own the means of anything. They were told where to work, how many hours, what shifts, what to produce and for what salaries. Union leaders in communism are high ranking members of the one and only party and get told what to do .The idiots wait in line to buy bread , while the ruling class can have nice things and pretend ''equal''.The human cost for those temporary solutions was insane, yet people like you talk about it like it was a walk in the park.
@@cristiangaban960 首先，共产主义让人民的生产积极性空前的高，他们会最大程度上完成生产指标，甚至超额完成，但这并不意味着你必须完成，如果工人认为生产指标不合理，他们可以向上级反馈来调整指标，你可以试着跟你现在的老板反馈看看，你会滚蛋的。
@@cristiangaban960 工人的工资不高，是因为他们的社会福利实在太好了，免费医疗，免费的房子，免费的教育，免费的公共设施，几乎免费的食物。而且工人上班时间固定，就是8小时，一周上5天，没有加班，没有下岗。苏联解体前甚至考虑过7小时工作制，这和现在的西欧可能没法比，但是对于广大的亚洲非洲拉美来说，这就是劳动者的地上天国，乌托邦
@@cristiangaban960 你是个不太聪明的人
The white sea canal, one of the world's largest mass graves.
"Water cannot run uphill!!"
Shot
Central Vietnam is also a mass grave of indigenous Cham people who were slaughtered by Vietnamese racists
1991 bbc documentary interview a survivor of white sea canal force laborer,building the white sea canal is like building pyramid,all of work were done by hand. more110 -130 death for every 100 yard
@@MarkH10No but it can come down.
@@cudanmang_theogNot by communist Vietnam, as they promised Chams equal rights and whatnot. You're mixing Vietnam with Pol Pots Cambodia, which was taken over by Vietnam when it massacres vietnamese and tried to invade Vietnam.
There's an error in the credits : It wasn't written by Patrice Chéreau ; he's only doing the (french) narration (voice-over). The documentary was written by Patrick Rotman, a journalist who himself started out as a communist militant in the 1960s, and who outgrew this phenomenon, realizing how the whole ideology turned into religious fanaticism, to the degree of condoning atrocities.
Excellent comment. Thanks.
I thought so
That's how it goes with all idealogies because human nature been around a lot longer
@@seanohare5488 No, communism gets the star for both stupidity and moral degradation.
So true. All movements start out with some potentially constructive goals, then the pendulum swings too far the other way.
"They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work!"
That was a common saying in the old East Germany.
"We destroyed a monster (Nazi) and we created another monster -- the Communist Monster" W.C.
Says the monster
The west joined the wrong team. Anyone living in the west today should recognize that.
Nazis were socialists.
We Americans like to imagine there is always a good choice and a bad choice one can make. This situation illustrates that it aint necessarily so. And it wasn't so for most people most of the time in history.
@@mightyea Nope
Anyone happen to know what the song at 7:05 is? It’s embarrassingly catchy.
What did Bolsheviks use for light before candles?
Light bulbs
It really is incredible how destructive and barbaric people become when they get together in mobs and believe in “fix-all” ideologies. This lesson should have been learned by now, but it hasn’t, and I suspect never will.
What was a guide to revolutionary action was turned into a religion by Stalin. Fidel Castro revived the revolutionary heart of the movement.
@@kimobrien. But he did not stop the ruthless persecution of the dissidents and even potential dissidents
@@atg131000 That is nothing but US propaganda. They don't ruthlessly persecuted dissidents in Cuba. People like Yoani Sanchez can't write about being a political prisoners so they have to write about what it would like to be a political prisoner. She has made it clear that her hope lies in "Cuban professionals" wanting a Western lifestyle. In other words people who want privileges like those in the old Soviet Union who lead the Stalinist counterrevolution and destruction of Lenin's Party. The revolution had never had a problem educating enough people so those who become dissatisfied can leave..The US has been constantly trying to destroy the revolution by terrorism and then by playing the phoney games like the campaign of independent library provocation that failed to gain traction or artists who sing insults. If they can't get bombs planted to blow up hotels or down Civilian Airliners they the have to settle for Juvenile delinquency. They have know their is no effective opposition on the island since Kennedy's time in their State department records. So a blockade as decided upon as away to deny Cuba money trade and wages to overthrow the Castro. Not to mention the 600 assassination attempts.
@@kimobrien. Oh yes, one dictator is better than the other, the mind of a communist.
@@kimobrien. Castro was another butcher. Why are they all butchers? Because it is the only way they could stay in power.
This series about communism is very informative. But somehow doesn't have as many views as I'd have thought. It's likely many viewers aren't aware of their availability(?)
@Ahmad It’s likely because the other parts are set as not visible which means they are there but you can’t find them by searching or recommendation, I myself only got here through the playlist recommended at part 1
anyway I can only agree it’s a well produced documentary
TH-cam's algorithm often neglects informative videos and promotes entertaining videos.
How do you view rise of Islam in the light of communism. Is there any similarities.
The algorithm favors shorter apolitical videos
It's likely you're gay.
21:34 Can anyone who is French and knows about their history tell me what that Frenchman in the center of the screen, and the man on the left, have on their jackets. It looks like some kind of medal/button. I assumed it was a ww1 decoration of some kind based on the man’s middle aged appearance but I looked French ww1 medals up and I don’t see anything that looks like that.
Great documentary. Thanks for sharing ♥️
Great footage depicting a time of immense upheaval, of almost unimaginable changes unlike now where there's only stagnation, torpor and a dismal smallness, we're atomised
It’s coming. Gen Z and Millennials are giving up on the ideals of their parents, tang ping (lying flat) in China is taking over, Japan has a shrinking disengaged youth, Russian youth before the war in Ukraine were resisting Putin; these are the vital signs of a coming change. Whether it be revolt or revolution.
Like thrice. Who says that anymore?
@@duncancurtis1758 In the US 'nomenclature' still has currency, let's keep those words coming
Democrats have morphed into Communist party.
@@duncancurtis1758 yeah people can't be bothered any more their in a torpor
"Spontaneous demonstrations were organized". Lol
Wait. Spontaneous.... organized. ? Oh I see whatchu did there
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part one Utopia in Power (1917-1928 is deleted from youtube please share new link
Where has part 1 gone? :/
The Soviet Union Really did achieve quite a bit in modernization and industrialization, and even had a lot of accomplishments in technology and science, but all these things could have been done without having to be a socialist dictatorship. Much of the world achieved the same things without having to become an authoritarian state. They probably could have achieved even more if they had become a democracy sooner.
Mandy, what the Soviet Union accomplished in its industrialization could not have happened without a social dictatorship. Stalin “beat” industrialization into every peasant and farmer. It was meet goals or die trying.
What you said is correct. But you cannot ignore that Stalin, like Hitler, it also utilized genocide. "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic” ~ Stalin. He was no better than Hitler, and the current Czar is of the same mold. Russia has been ruled by tyrants throughout it's history. I don't think they can survive without a boot firmly planted on their necks.
@@woody844 Perfect, without force, communism wouldn't have worked.
@@woody844 it couldn’t have happened in the timeframe it did but it most certainly could have happened
No. They would not have advanced as much and they would have had a ruling uncaring Monarchy Feudal system and no free health care and tent cities and everyone but the wealthy falling behind and garbage everywhere.
The United States achieved much more and faster than any of those dictatorships... and if we can agree the US has a heavy history in the matters of equality and violence, as compared to the millions slaughtered in Europe, in China, and all over Asia, Africa, or South America, America remained a nation in which you can flip a finger at any politician, and easily getting away with it instead of ending in a gulag.
@MR Blaze Pukka That is correct for the most part indeed. Some would even say GB was a freer country than the young US was...
Mrblaza your reply makes no sense and clearly shows your biased , you read a little part and got triggered , didnt see the part where he said usa where excluded in any wrong doing
In the US, all it takes is an idea, and you have it…that coal miner in this documentary that came up with a new way to extract the coal, well, he probably got a nicer apartment and some more bread for his idea and that’s it.
@@EuricoThrasher No nation with international clout is excluded from wrongdoing. When you see this French guy Thorez kissing Stalin's butt before WWII, and then kissing it again after, and getting away with it means only one thing: the opposite is not true in the former USSR: you spoke against the regime, you broke rocks for the rest of your life.
But for some stranger reason, some people still believe Communism did any good to the world...
The USA today is far away in social equality, standard of living from western Europe and a lot of other countries
Only 2 classes. Lower class and ruling class.
don't forget world class!
The inventors of the chemical weapons of World War 1 and 2 that Hitler and others were mad about were Jewish and of the Old Testament Jewish Orthodox faith much like the people of Ukraine are. Also the Italian armies that had the bear symbol had joined Hitler and the Nazis as is portrayed in old films. Also common citizens are said to have participated in the atrocities of the victims of World War 1 and 2 of whom were commonly called Jews even though the majority were of another ethnicity indicating they were religious wars. As an example the famous German Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer had been Baptized as an understanding adult by immersion and refused Catholicism for himself or his church. He is known also for many quotes of compassion. He helped many people escape the Nazis and was found by the Nazis and executed. It is possible that the Italian Nazis executed him.
Also in numerous films people have signs saying their anger toward the French and the Italians. Oddly I have not seen any yet in regards to the Spaniards of Spain that was said to have been friends with Hitler and the Nazis and was said to have had virtually no casualties as they also claimed to be neutral during the war as did Switzerland as well and both countries very prosperous today. Hmmm.
@@carolynetter8046 well.. you maybe on to something. I always wondered.. why the name Nazi was given to them because it is part of Ashkenazi Jews..
@@mightyea The Old Testament Jewish were inventors of chemical weapons not the Germans. The name Nazi is an abbreviation of German pronunciation of Nationalsozialist with the short word for that being Nazi. The meaning was National Socialist German Workers Party led by Hitler from 1920.
One of the great contributing factors to the rapid fall of France to the Nazis in the first part of WW2 was the permutation of Communism through large numbers of the French working and middle classes, even reaching some elitists.
France, in 1939, possessed a standing army that vastly outnumbered German forces.
Problems came when geriatric French army leaders and the unenthusiastic army rank and file, including many soldiers exposed to the propaganda of the French Communist Party, preferred to sit still in the depths of the Maginot Line.
This static defence stood no chance against the highly mobile tactics of Nazi 'Blitzkrieg'.
It was no accident that an old French Army officer and many, willingly inactive, French soldiers moved south to form a 'collaborators' paradise' around Vichy. Allegedly, for the good of France and to ensure that France 'survived'.
Many 'fair weather' French Communists also found a home there, in and out of uniform. These were the French people that, only a handful of years before, swallowed the mythology of lies fed to them by a 'ruling class' of French Communist leaders who, themselves, were actually elitists.
The tragic irony of history played out until two staunch anti-communist nations: Britain and America, joined with Stalin who, finally, realised that Russia had no chance against Hitler without 'getting into bed' with modern, industrialised capitalist nations and their Commonwealth allies. As repugnant as it was for Britain and America to join forces with the Soviets, the situation was aptly summed up by Winston Churchill when he said of the Anglo-Soviet cooperation treaty, “If Hitler invaded Hell I would make, at least, a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”
And the irony goes back before WW2. Had not the fascists of Spain, Italy and Germany gained the popularity they did, the idea of a Russian Communist state may have well slowly vanished via popular uprisings against Communist oppression. It was only the blanket of fascism that began to cover Europe that, in time, would ensure the survival and growth of the USSR.
Even the eventual defeat of Hitler's Berlin and his Germany by Russian forces was not 'written in stone' prior to the Anglo-Soviet treaty.
Despite a massive supply of manpower to cover Russia’s battle losses; without the huge sacrifice of the West in providing heavy weapons, tanks and aircraft via sub-arctic convoys to Russia, a Soviet victory may have been in severe peril.
Certainly, without them the war in the northern hemisphere may have dragged on for years longer than it did.
I must challenge the timing of this 'generally pro-Russian' documentary at this particular time in recent history. Was this video screened now to, perhaps, divert our attention away from the Russian atrocities occurring in the Ukraine, again? Was this an attempt to occupy our minds with all the terrible events suffered by the Russian people? It's a long shot but it could be. And, a rather ineffectual one at that.
The only factual, historical truth this film brings to mind is the fact that not one single nation on this planet has adopted Communism of its own free will without any form of revolution, duress or political/social inducement; unless these came at the point of a gun or the promise of lifelong slavery and starvation.
After his death in 1953, it took a long time for Stalin to be exposed as the greatest mass murderer in the modern history of the world. In terms of pure numbers via executions, forced resettlement to regions incapable of sustaining life; slavery and military actions, Stalin made the hideous crimes of Hitler and his SS look like struggling amateurs.
One cannot discuss Communism and mass murder without pointing the finger of guilt at Chairman Mao Zedong who was the ultimate 'fanboy' of Joe Stalin; who seemed to take, literally, Stalin’s dark quote, “No man; no problem.”
From 1958 till his death, Chairman Mao was directly responsible for engineering the deaths of a stupefyingly conservative estimate of 42.5 million Chinese people.
This figure comes from a long-term study of China experts by Pulitzer winner, Ian Johnson.
Post war Russian leaders, were so eager to repair the damage Chairman Mao's famines and relocations did to the 'Communism brand', they made even the publishing of Mao’s name in the Russian press a crime. These days, in China, the only mentions of Mao are confined to bland euphemisms about “...years of difficulty...” etc.
This unimaginable form of Communism made Chairman Mao the probable record breaker for genocide in the 20th or any other Century. It is, then, logical to assume that Chairman Mao will not receive a mention in this documentary series given its apparent bias.
I found this episode disturbing, troubling and slightly depressing to watch, not only because of the plight of the Russian people it documents, but for the fact the anti-Communist narrative does not completely show itself until the last part of the film.
I hope this was merely a case of inexperienced script editing of the film's narrative. BH
You have failed to mention how Russia lost 60 million or more people to the Catholic Nazis Facsism. Watch the movie Nuremburg that tells the truth. And oddly the Catholic Italian armies that joined the Nazis never get mentioned either. The Russians do not recognize the pope. The Russian Greek Orthodox is Greek and not Latin of which they do not like. And no one can convince me that World War 2 was not about religion because the Russians and all the rest of the Europeans were called Jews even if they were not Jewish because they had all been Baptized in the water as understanding adults and many may have been the remaining descendents of the 60 to 100 million that were slaughtered in the Catholic Spaniard and German and England and French Inquisitions of the Middle Ages of whom got orders from the Catholic church in Rome as in the place and people that never get mentioned. And all of the land and possessions were stolen by the Catholics after they killed them. Communism was invented and run by the Catholics. Socialism by itself and separate from Communism was not invented by the Catholics and has worked well for Russia and Germany and Switzerland and Norway. But of course the Catholics are outraged and would rather have Communism and the concentration camps such as in China and or a feudal and Capitalist Monarchy system where anyone who is not of the wealthy or high positions falls further behind. And there is no free health care or even distribution of money made from manufactured goods and natural resources. There is nothing Godly about Catholic forms of government that are outdated and are proven ineffective.
Agreed
I disagree, the doc is fairly objective. After watching this it’s not surprising why France fell so quickly to the Blitzkrieg.
The whole purpose of communism is to destroy western civilisation
@@bawsack69 Communism was invented by the Catholics to cover up the evils of false religion. The Catholics have enough money and resources and people to take over the west along with any where else they choose and they almost have. Communism was brought about in China by the Catholic French Concession of 1949. The Chinese say it is brutal for them. America has strict laws in place so the Catholics are using other unnoticeable ways but there are a lot of cameras in states like Texas and that and control and fear of speech is common in Texas and elsewhere where the Catholic presence is high.
Communism, as a socio-political ideology, has always been a subject of intense debate and scrutiny. Its theoretical foundation, rooted in the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, promises a utopia of classless society, where the means of production are owned communally, and wealth is distributed according to need. However, the practical implementation of communism in various countries throughout the 20th century has revealed two contrasting faces: one of utopian ideals and another of authoritarian rule.
The Ideological Face: Equality and Utopia
The theoretical appeal of communism lies in its promise of equality and social justice. Marx and Engels envisioned a society where the exploitation of the working class by the bourgeoisie would be abolished. In its place would emerge a classless society, free from the chains of capitalism, where the state would wither away, and the people would govern themselves democratically. This vision appealed to millions worldwide, offering hope to the oppressed and exploited masses yearning for a fair and equitable society.
At its core, communism aimed to eliminate the vast economic disparities seen in capitalist societies. By abolishing private ownership of the means of production and distributing wealth according to individuals' needs, communism proposed a radical solution to social inequality. This ideological face of communism, with its noble ideals of equality, fraternity, and justice, continues to inspire political movements and thinkers around the globe.
The Practical Face: Authoritarianism and Failure
Despite its lofty ideals, the practical implementation of communism in the 20th century has often resulted in authoritarian regimes characterized by centralized control, suppression of dissent, and the erosion of individual freedoms. Countries like the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and North Korea attempted to build communist societies but ended up creating oppressive systems that strayed far from the original ideals of Marx and Engels.
The transition from a capitalist to a communist society proved to be more challenging than anticipated. The abolition of private property and the centralization of economic planning led to inefficiencies, shortages, and often, famine. Moreover, the concentration of power in the hands of a few led to corruption and abuse. The dream of a classless society was replaced by a new hierarchy where party officials and the military elite enjoyed privileges denied to the masses.
The suppression of political dissent and the curtailment of civil liberties became hallmarks of communist regimes. The promise of democratic governance and the withering away of the state gave way to totalitarian control, where the state intruded into the minutest details of people's lives. The ideal of creating a society based on equality and justice was undermined by the reality of oppressive rule and economic mismanagement.
Conclusion
The two faces of communism reflect the complex nature of this ideology and its implementation. While the ideals of communism continue to inspire those who dream of a fairer and more just society, the historical experiences of communist states serve as a sobering reminder of the challenges and pitfalls of turning these ideals into reality. The legacy of communism is thus a tale of contrast between what could be and what actually was, a reminder of the gap between noble aspirations and their practical outcomes.
Kindly give link to part 1 of this series.
Очень интересный материал,хотя и не все стороны советской жизни показаны .Tolle Arbeit!
Для Западной публики. В целом картина ясна. Но несмотря на эту информацию американцы сегодня слепо идут по этому пути. Хотят что-то даром не за что получить а такого не бывает. Западня для дураков.
@@y.k.9705 It is brainwashing, how can it be stopped?
we russians and we know better than you that the western world is about to be dead, we just have to wait and work for putins succiding! @@IrvingZismun
Anyone notice that one song in this is being sung to Red River Valley?
i like this series very much. very informative and interesting
I felt so sad to see a church destroyed by explosives in just the first two minutes of the film.
All religions will disappear in a couple of centuries, as they are unnecessary and useless.
It's sad indeed but in the 30s and 40s violence in Europe was a daily occurrence and indiscriminate in choosing its victims. Churches, synagogues, hospitals, temples, schools were all express targets of violence by both the axis and allies.
@@katlegomapyane6811 but more than anyone else in Europe, Stalin went after Churches. And he was an ex-seminarian. He had studied for the Priesthood at a Seminary in Tblisi. His Superiors said he excelled in Liturgical Chant.
@@erikriza7165 When you consider how many people have died in religious wars I can understand why Stalin would target Churches. .
@@kimobrien. get real. wars are hardly about religion. nobody really cares that much about their religion--haardly anybody. Wars are about power, territory, money. Wars sometimes happen to fall along religious lines which coincide with other factors that people care that much about, like money.
i wish all the people in my country- Vietnam - could see this video
Do they have ( 📺's ) there???
Bosheviks 1918- "Were going to end Russian backwardness"
Russia 1991- Still hangs carpets on the walls
Communism made that everybody could read and write...But don't you dare write the"wrong " stuf or read something "forbidden ".
Written by a life-long French Communist, and it shows.
Thanks for looking that up. i was wondering what piece of garbage wrote this simplest explanation of history.
In what way? It feels appropriately and definitely anti communist to me.
Albert Camus..?!
Lol... 😂😂😂❗
Comment written by an ignoramus and it shows
@@tiagofreitas1976 Its just one persons perspective.
Yet, the footage is all real.
So to say and ignoramus wrote it only shows how decieved you are.
Youd have been there holding up a sign and yelling too.
Where is part one of this series? You have episodes 2 thru 5 uploaded. Can we please have episode 1 uploaded?
It was age restricted by youtube
Utopia la putere (1917-1928) why is this not available?
Stalin: do as I say or die!
20,000,000 murdered : We rebelled against the Czar for this???
Su títulos en español ? Por favor
Thanks from China.Nice video🎉
Where is part 1 of the documentary?
Tak wielki skrót historyczny doczytać zawsze należy
Thank you for this most interesting information. I never realised that USSR played such a posititive role in the Spanish Civil war.
I can now more understand why Churchill wished to carry on WW2 and attack and defeat Russia.
Well after war Churchill have one plan , the Stalin Bomb for defeats Stalin , however Britainish ecomomy are destroyed , and the bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki where badly idea
So did Patton. He wanted to go after Stalin big time.
@@harrietharlow9929 That's interesting news and most likely a good reason why an army truck got in the way of Paton's car one day!!!
One of the first "Clinton" type deaths.
Because he knew that communism is equal/or worse than nazism
@@GuiCury92 Nazis had a racist approach and attacked multiple countries at the same time. Communists and Nazis committed genocide but Nazi Germany went further and there's a reason why Stalin and the West fought together against the Nazis and their fascist ally Italy. As it's said in the video Communism was the world's hope to stop Fascism in Europe especially Hitler's Nazis from seizing power in Germany. Greetings from Germany
At 26 minutes a beautiful song in French occurs. Does anyone know the name of this song? It's just people singing, without musical instruments.
O primeiro vídeo está OCULTO.. PQ?
But where is part 1?? :O
For some reason unbeknownst to me, it says: hidden and unavailable. I think we'd not be viewing it anytime soon, lol.
Fantastic program
Hi. I can't find part 1
I really enjoyed this
may i ask where is the 1st part？
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It seems that mistakes were made by the communists early on which did not result in the workers control but Stalin. That would be a long conversation. Both Stalin and Hitler were rather similar and bounced off each other and were Nationalists in a sense. Maybe the lesson is don’t kill off your intelligentsia and suppress the Socialists and Social Democrats. A split between Socialists and Communists was ultimately destructive and resulted in a fascist type of Communism in Russia.
The Famine is called Holodomor, not Holocaust. My grandparents, Ukrainians, survived it (barely), having lost some siblings, friends and relatives during it. The psychological trauma outlived them through next generation.
Have you seen a newish movie called MR Jones. It’s about the famine and a dramatized trip Gareth Jones took. He was a real life journalist from Britain who spoke Russian. In real life He saw the horrors of collectivization all over the Soviet Union, I read his article after watching the movie, they are free online. Chilling.
@@1984isnotamanual of course I did, it’s a great movie. I cried, because his mom lived in my hometown (Yuzovka back then, Donetsk nowadays), it’s under russian occupation now yet again. For 10 years already. Then I cried because those children songs about Stalin, I’ve heard them before from old people’s stories, those were told in a whisper. And I cried when they revealed cases of cannibalism, because those were true as well.
There’s a book called Red Famine that tells more about it, and I’m bracing myself to finally read it.
@@UA_in_USA WOW I’d love to talk to you more about it! That Stalin song chilled me to the BONE and the scene showing the forced grain requisitions by idk if it was the red army or NKVD or both but yea.
What I don’t like is that we never talk about Soviet crimes in the west, or at least not anywhere near like Nazi crimes. Movie after movie about the Nazis, which is good, there should be but I want more movies about the Soviet times. Not just the starvation of Ukrainians but the purges.
God I can talk about this all day I have so much to type I hope TH-cam doesn’t delete me comments lol, TH-cam comments aren’t the best for longform conversation but anyway yea Soviet period not shown enough in art hear, except for books.
Also I didn’t know, I learned recently that a lot of what Stalin did was done by Lenin. I’m sure you know all this and your family lived it but Lenin built a lot of those gulags, of course the checka, during war communism they requisitioned grain from the peasants. The more I learn about it the more I am convinced that the Soviet Union was bad from the beginning and deserved to fail.
I read this in Gareth Jones articles that apparently in response to them that Duranty guy I just mentioned, again the NYT Pulitzer Prize winning journalist said there was 'no actual starvation' but only 'widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition'.
🤮that disgusting euphemism. Using over complicated technical language to cover up a black truth. Still happens to this day actually. I’m going to look up that book you mentioned, if you know anymore or any more movies please let me know or any stories from your family if that’s ok. I feel it’s my duty to learn about this but luckily I cant learn about it enough.
@@1984isnotamanual I hear you and I agree with you - Soviet crimes were swept under the rug. Since ussr was one of the winners of WWII and the winners are not judged (c) The people who suffered, Ukrainians, were silenced, almost nobody could escape to tell the truth, some of them lost memory because the experience was that traumatic. Because of constant NKVD “field work”, one couldn’t even write or say aloud anything down that would be against the mainstream propaganda. Death or Siberia was the punishment. My grandpa lived through Holodomor in the city, orphan. Never talked about it, unless when really really drunk. He’d cry and say they were eating crows, then they ran out of them, sparrows disappeared next. Dandelions, weeds, anything really. Grandma was in the village, she lost several baby siblings during that time and it’s all she’d say, very quietly. They took our food, our animals and our land she’d add under her nose. She was afraid to be heard even at home with no one around but me! After all these years. She had a permanent damage to her hand from digging frozen soil, looking for grains. Being an old lady, she was happy as a clam to see green wheat growing. She’d pick one plant and check on grains, her facial expression is the one I’ll never forget. Every single piece of grain, none should fall…
There’s another book I’d like to recommend: Winterkill by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch.
@@UA_in_USA wow that so insane, no human should have to go through that. I added that book to my “books”bookmark thank you for that.
What makes me so angry is that people now, dumb privilege teenagers usually, actually think the Soviet Union is good. They fly their flag in their profile, identify as Marxist Leninist. I literally was just arguing with someone on Reddit who fits this description. He was saying that it was a good place and they had rights because of the Soviet constitution of 1936. I couldn’t belive it and pointed out to him that a year after that the worst purges every where all those “rights” were ignored and the constitution was for propaganda purpose only. He said something like “well it was just small hiccups it’s not big deal” type of thing and I just had to tell him I can’t continue this conversation I’m not talking to a morally normal human being and I told him to enjoy his totalitarian faith. Madness.
Also it pisses me of about how Russia is talking about Ukraine today. Russia saying what they are doing Ukraine is for security and calling you guys Nazis. As if Ukraine wasn’t invaded by the Nazis and the same experience of invasions from the west. As if the red army didn’t have Ukrainians in it fighting Nazis with people from other Soviet republics. Such Nonsense! Pisses me off.
Also I talk to people that think the famine was not intentional, a result of mistakes made during collectivization. That’s partly true from what I’ve read but in Ukraine it was deliberate, as you know literally closed off the country and killed anyone who tried to flee and refused to let food aid in.
this *docu* is comically produced in that everything they say has been said since the inception and organization of the soviet and the dictatorship of the proletariet. (see churchill and his antisemetic view of communisms(socialism)origin, his views and willingness to kill the revolution and bolsheviks in its birth as they were in the vanguard,uniting people of many different classes, though mostly workers and peseants, working in solidarity with any other political group that was truly representing people in any region they did not have power or representation(see nestor makhno and his anachist state in ukrain). One positive thing is that on 22:37 they admitt that in 1935 stalin had somehow correctly predicted that war with germany was inevitable.if not germany,then maybe japan, britain france ,america or all the above. greatefull to the patriotic people of the USSR.
Amigo, onde consigo as legendas desse documentário?
If only they knew then what we know now. Stalin, as "fatherly" and gentle as he appeared during his speeches of workers uniting for the good of the USSR, was really doing it all as his own propoganda, i.e. to build up his image.
People in the west should have realized already in 1920s what kind of country the Soviet Union was becoming and taken a firm stance against Russia when it was still possible.
The footage on these is unreal.
Thats cos its all pro Stalin fake trash from the 30s. Act or be disappeared.
where is part one?
Quality documentary of an awful utopia...
Dystopia
@@davidmackie8552 Utopia always becomes dystopia.
Communism and its offshoots killed more than 100 million people
An awful Utopia because full of lies not once even on this documentary does it mention their intense hatred of God and religion vanity over humility
感谢无私分享
Cadê a parte 1?
I have trouble calling the Soviet system "communist".
What is Communism, anyway? Lenin changed his economic policies just as often as he changed his underpants. So, was he a communist?
Cuba and North Korea are stamped as "communist countries", even though their economies function very differently from one another.
Is Communism simply the control of the means of production?
Well, there were many "communist countries" which had a very relaxed attitude towards privatization of industry.
You did not see the Gulag system as being, essentially, the Federal Reserve in other "communist countries". There was no Gulag in Cuba or in the "communists" of Central America.
Even Iran was declared as a communist country before the coup which put the Shah in power.
To cut a long story short, the USSR was Stalinist from the 1930's until Gorbachev's 1980's. China was Maoist, not communist. Cuba was Fidelista, Venezuela was Chavista, and so on.
This point should be remembered, preferably emphasized, whenever "communism" is mentioned in any political or even in any merely intellectual discussion.
I can't watch part 1. Video was disappear
Best Documentary communism is much older than you know from the official "history" victorious allies, communism is several hundred years old
WTF is the thumbnail shot flipped left to right? Did you think no one is paying attention?
It is said in Spain "tiempos de rojos: hambre y piojos" meaning times of reds: hunger and lice. We are starting again to lose any trace of democracy leading towards the hardest communist dictatorship as in Cuba or Venezuela.
Why is there no part 1?
The Nazis destroyed it
Why were tractors towing log cabins?
@5:53
Visitors of the West Marvelled huh!!!😅
Never heard of Potamkin villages 100 years ago , that must be a more recent catch phrase....
Lenin once said""""" The West are wishful thinkers....
So we will give them what they want to think"""""....
Incredible foresight into 21st century Democratic leadership today. They actually believe in their own b.s. and creation of a Nanny state of """learned HELPLESSNESS """"""😅
А где 1 часть?
The main reason Stalin sent troops to Spain was the counter Trotsky's popularity there.
Stalin no have godly supporters like America and Franch when support white exercit against bolcheviques , Spain having Italy and Germany in his power
Where did you learn that?
In a time when democracy and capitalism were at it's weakest it allowed Nazis and communist to rise in power.. Seems like an important lesson there as I'm sure it will happen again at some point... and people will have forgotten by then,,
Socialism is the obsolete 'ideology' that lost the Cold War when the Soviet Union disintegrated without a single shot being fired, a conflict that the United States and Capitalism WON; but Socialism/Communism also failed miserably in Romania, Chile, Hungary, Cambodia, Czechoslovakia, Sudan, Mongonlia, Cape Verde, Burma, Bolivia, Chad, Djibouti, Granada, Ethiopia, North Korea, Algeria, Congo, Bangladesh, Eritrea, Guinea Bissau, Tanzania, Albania, Bulgaria, Sierra Leone, Benin, Angola, Soviet Union, Guyana, Yugoslavia, Nepal, Zimbabwe, Laos, East Germany, Mozambique, Poland, Nicaragua, South Yemen, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Somalia, Cuba, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, China (which hasn't been communist except in name since the economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping in 1964 which was done because the previous and latest Communist dictator, Mao Zedong, killed more than 30 million Chinese with his stupid policies and hunger, although he didn't suffer any hunger or anything, in fact he was rich, a hypocritical feature that characterizes all Socialist dictators, just ask Nicolas Maduro, his son literally showered himself with bundles of $100 dollar bills in a party while Venezuela lost a quarter of all of its population) and many many other places; after which Communism caused over 120 million DEATHS
BTW, how come Lefties always complain about American 'imperialism' anyway? What about Vietnamese imperalism in Cambodia? Or Soviet imperialism in Hungary or Czechoslovakia or Poland or East Germany or Latvia or Lithuania or Estonia? Or Chinese imperialism in Tibet and North Korea and Vietnam? Or Russian imperialism in Georgia or Azerbaijan or Ukraine or Byelorussia or Armenia? Or Cuban imperialism on Angola or Venezuela or Nicaragua or Bolivia?
And remember to recite the Communist's Prayer:
"That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, it's not a big deal.
And if it is, it wasn't their fault.
And if it was, they didn't mean it.
And if they did,
the victims deserved it."
Very concise. Very well stated. Very good. Thank you.
I don't find part 1
4:27 Say again?
39:47 I'm in love with the Spanish revolutionary woman 😄
They received an ass kicking from Franco and the Nationalists
“Cause was never in doubt”
No it was in doubt. They needed everyone to beat them. Look at what happened in Spain
Excellent 👌
25:20 tf this guys's shirt looks like a modern one
Вывод: Не было бы коммунистов,
Не было фашистов и гитлера
CNCS là một xã hội tốt đẹp mà loài người hướng tới, không còn phân biệt giai cấp, không phân biệt giàu nghèo, một xã hội công bằng dân chủ, mọi người có cuộc sống tự do ấm no hạnh phúc.
Very shallow in the Soviet Union coverage. Misplaced music. Misplaced use of term Holocaust.
please upload part 1. thanks
53:21 How could a person who really believes in a classless society live so lavishly, enjoying parties while hundreds of thousands of his countrymen were dying slowly in Siberian camps? Edit: Human psychology remains the same. Why should I care for them while the going is good? Let me make the most of it, labels like communist, socialist, nazi, capitalist just don't matter.
Thank you 🙏
Not one mans sacrifice (other than his own), is worth utopia.
Ussr became world superpower in a span of 50 years from backward feudal country to space giant.
The US became the world's first superpower in about 8 months, from the time it entered WWI to the time it put an end to it, with all major belligerents owning billions of dollars to us.
Before that, the USA didn't even have a standing army of more than 20,000 soldiers.
At the height of its "power", the GDP of the Soviet Union was the one of Belgium, and often no more than Luxemburg.
California ALONE has a GDP 20 TIMES higher than the USSR had in its time, compare year to year.
In 1914, the US was the first industrial power in the world, followed by Germany.
Not sure when you get your history classes, but Big Brother is very much messing up with your brain.
The USSR started as a failed state, lived as a failed state, and died a failed state.
The only time it did well was when the US was supplying billions upon billions of equipment to Stalin during WWII, before realizing it was perhaps the greatest blunder ever.
@@benbenhomeandlifestyle5122 the same story is unrevelling in china last decades:
Helplessly undeveloped and hungry nation became REAL threat to world police state no. 1,
USA??
How come??
Only 50 years ago they were starving!!
Where did that power came from?
Socialisem???
No it can' t be. Dictatorship?
That must be the only answer, brain what??
@@damijanxxx7221 Indeed, the rise of China can only put in question our old western democracy model, somewhat imperialist there is no doubt about it.
It is the end of the American century, but not the end of the United States, which remains by far the most innovative and inclusive nation in the world.
Only after 1945 was the United States required, more than willing, to step up to the plate of international affairs.
It is perhaps time to go back to our old isolationist way, and bring our troops home wherever they are.
This way, no one will be able to say a thing about us when the world order goes back to the shit that led to WWI and WWII.
"The American Way of Life is not negotiable".
Nic się nie zmieniło ...
This documentary could just as well be called “the unimaginable hatefulness and stupidity of human beings”
在那里，工人可以说自己是这个国家，工厂，社会的主人。现在的你可以吗？你所工作的地方是属于你的吗？你们是这个国家的主人吗？
@@longlivethepeople2821If by ,,workers " you think - ruling party.
Hey thats me Comrade 2face
再好的思想主义，也战胜不了人性的贪婪，注定是一个屠龙少年终成恶龙的故事。
Stalin was kind of a jerk.
Kinda ?
He was a professional bank robber and protection money extortionist, that was his job.
He was a puppet.
@@mightyea The puppet 🤡 is you and your Western leaders
@@emmaegede1262 they are all owned by Zionists..
Working people in the past had taken their fates in their own hands, which contributed to the ultimate shaping of capitalism; ie after the Black Death when feudal labor and serfdom was destroyed in some places, leading to incipient forms of mercantilism and proto capitalism, in Europe. Or did these historical facts only emerge so recently (ie in the last 5 minutes?) as to be overseen?
Very distorted documentary
Incidentally, the White Sea Canal did not have many ship[s pass through it.
Because it was full of bones
Outstanding!!
Autorzy filmu zapomnieli o głównej przyczynie upadku rewolucji w Europie, klęsce bolszewików w Bitwie Warszawskiej gdy rosjanom nie udało zająć krajów zachodnich
كل الناس الذين ظهروا في
مقاطع من الفلم توفوا ...وسيأتي
يوم ما سنلحق بهم ...
الحقيقة لاتوجد على وجه الأرض
الحقيقة توجد هناك بعد مغادرتنا
هذه الدنيا .
ini baru betul mantap ceritanya is the best man
Those darn Kulak land owners! How unfair of them to have worked hard and bought land for their families.
Да, а ещё они выдавали кредиты под 100% не богатым крестьянам, и превращали их в рабов, которые работали на них за еду👍
А ещё они устраивали саботажи, так как были против колхозов👍
Милые ангелы, Kulaki 🤡
Theo quan điểm của tôi thì vẫn là tuyệt vời. Tất cả mọi thứ vận hành đều là do con người. Mà đừng nên đổ lổi cho ai
The juice just didn't treat the Russians brutally enough.
Love the intro music
Stalin, fue un asesino diez veces peor que Hitler; sin embargo, Hitler se rayó en la historia y Stalin, quedó como héroe.