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Hannah Arendt, the German-American historian and philosopher, has a quote about the tactics of today’s politicians, "The constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people who can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong." "And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want"
Fascists, in principle, deeply believe in the importance of social hierarchy, which they see as natural and requiring preservation with force if necessary. In principle, communism and socialism are motivated to dissolve hierarchies based on class, status, etc. In reality, new hierarchies were created within 'actual existing socialism' but this is a very important distinction between the ideologies.
Its funny because socialist seem to adhere to social hierarchy to A s extreme degree. Hollywood worship, commonly work for billionaires, lives in close proximity to extreme wealth on the coast, women sharing of high value men, conformist.
The thing is, communist leaders DO believe in social hierarchies. Very much. They just happen to use the socialism/commie precepts and books to fool idiots into believing they're marching towards a bright and future, free from hierarchies and slavement. Don't be an useful idiot, stop believing socialist and communism nonsense altogether!
аааа No and capitalism is not the best as we all think it's something like (capitalism - work or starve) - (communism- work to starve) - National Socialism .. well they were doing pretty well before the whole world bombed them to pieces so I don't know..
Naziism allowed control of the means of production to remain with capitalists albeit subject to state direction. Communism (in theory) puts control of the means of production in the hands of the workers, subject to state direction. Both are collectivist philosophies with the Nazis also differentiated by their fixation on “racial purity,” and imperialism.
I'd argue that communism has also has a type of imperialism but focused more on ideological imperialism over the physical imperialism that nazism/facism desires. All communist countries have relentlessly tried to sponsor revolutions in other countries since their inception to spread their ideas.
In terms of racial thinking, there was not much difference between NS and Trotzki, Lenin, who thought of Russians as as slave people and of Germans as the real quality people that would create the "real" socialism, and Marx (who was an antisemite) and Engels (who advocated for the extinction of the Basques, among others, as "people garbage").
The Molotov -Ribbentrop pact was political expediency, just as chamberlain did at Munich when Czechoslovakia was sold down the river. Nazism and Communism are polar opposites and a study of the differnces easily show this. The intentions of certain folk to say they're the same is a reactionary push made after WWII.
Inter war era Eastern Europe had an assortment of different ethnicities and budding, political movements, in the wake of the collapse of empire. In these budding, political movements, many in roles of leader ship were your, most educated and and brightest intellectuals, often many of these individuals were Jews. While it’s wrong to say, Judeo Bolshevism, it is entirely historically accurate that Jewish intellectuals were widely influential in eastern European communist movements.
Fascism and Socialism/Communism are two sides of the same coin. Both ideologies are essentially an Authoritarian State with the same end goals….empowerment of the State. And yes, I am aware that communism is “stateless” in theory, however in practice, communism has resulted in a powerful authoritarian state.
5:00 in Bulgaria, the self proclaimed communists used the term "monarcho-fascism" as an umbrella just to get everything opposing in the same basket. They absolutely never once mentioned national-socialism, as that would be too confusing and too close to socialism.
I'm sorry, but there's some oversimplification here. If you read Stephen Kotkin, he says that there were repeated efforts by the Soviet Union to form an anti-fascist alliance with Western Europe (UK, France), but they were repeatedly rebuffed. This forced to the USSR seek out a nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany. And it had three-ponged purpose: (1) send the Nazi war machine West; (2) technology transfers from Germany to the USSR in exchange for raw materials; and (3) establishment of spheres of influence/territorial partitions.
The supposed Non-Aggression pact between Germany and Russia was actually a secret alliance. Not many people know that because it's not contained in any history books written before the mid-1990s. The reason being, in the mid-1990s Russia allowed historians more access to their archives and this was the most interesting fact that came from that access. Protip: Old history books are often missing important information.
Communism isn’t fascism either, but who cares? The prevailing narrative is “it’s all the same thing”, so there ain’t much space for civilized argument.
Yepp... National Socialism and Socialism are divided only by the Nationalism, only for the Geopolitical area of Germany. Fascism, although, aimed as well at social control, was aiming in modernising Society through heavy industrialisation of the country, which didn't happen, the basic ideology of Fascism was the Futurism, expressed in Art, poetry and Architecture, similar to Art neuveux, Art Deco, which wanted a society that used machines in order to promote advancement of it.
Mustache hated Capitalism most passionately of all. Profit also. He was socialist through and through. A collectivist believer that Capitalism was Jewish. Nazism = socialism with borders and a racial baddie vs a class baddie. Same gross stuff
Honestly though, a Life Sentence in either ideologies Camp System would’ve basically been a death penalty. It’s hard to compare such blatant evils. Especially when the perpetrators were so “nichely” devious in their own right.
@@dorianherndon5026 I dunno dude… Nazism killed ~6 Million Jewish people alone, and Communism gets credit for ~60-90 MILLION deaths, depending on who you ask. I’d say those are pretty fucking evil ideologies. The people perpetrating the acts were most definitely evil, but don’t you dare try giving Nazism, Fascism, or communism a pass because you own a Che Guevara shirt and claim to be Socialist. You are the exact same as a Holocaust denier, just the opposite side of the coin.
@@dorianherndon5026 Nazism killed 6 million Jews, and communism takes credit for 60-90 million people’s deaths… seem pretty evil to me. How dare you try to minimize that because you own a Che Guevara shirt and think socialism is cool.
3:22 national socialism was not meant to be confusing. It was what it said 😂 socialism only for the nation/german people. A socialist state for german people and the jews were the biggest threat. It is confusing for modern people, because we think that nationilism is right wing, but in fact it is socialism in its core. The reason why national socialist went to war with marxism is because marxism was international and a form of globalism. National socialist also have a heritage from german volks socialism while fascism originated from marxism. Fascism did not believe in international but also not in rascism. 30% of italian goverment was jew up to 1938-1940, only after Mussolini was forced by Hitler to implement anti jews laws, italy turned racist. And even then only a few jews were taken. 3 different ideologies, in competition with each other, all socialist but a little different. Those were the times of socialist ideologies clashing after rising in 1900s. Saying fascism or nationalism is right wing is only modern marxism propaganda. Marxism won the socialism wars and so the victor decides history 'truth'
"Saying fascism or nationalism is right wing is only modern marxism propaganda. Marxism won the socialism wars and so the victor decides history 'truth'" It really can't get more absurd as this, it's absolute BS like you're claiming that's a new invention from some right-wing people in the U.S. are claiming, everyone that has some basic education on this topic knows how stupid your claim is. Right wing parties here in Europe aren't as shameless in making such claims since they know people aren't as ignorant about their own history. The Nazis were anti- union and were privatizing in a way that was never seen in any other European country. There are loads of examples that easily proof how blatenly stupid claims like yours is, i don't know what's worst that you know you're lying or so brainwashed and naive to actually believe such fantasies
No, it absolutely was. At the time in Weimar Germany, socialism was very popular among a large swath of normal germans (and communism to a lesser degree). It is telling that a big part if what attracted people to the nsdap was staunch and often street-violent opposition to communists. Quickly the ideological socialists who were part of the workings of the party leadership were very quickly kicked out, imprisoned, exiled, or killed when they began to gain significant power and were totally sidelined or removed once they were in power. Capitalists and large capitalist companies endorsed the nsdap and not because of socialism, but because they knew they were the best chance for preserving capitalism and being friendly to them as business and good for their interests. Words and history are complicated and not black and white, I know.
@@inigo9000 Modern europeans are very cucked in terms of political views, they're very leftist hence they believe Nazism wasn't leftist. Well, it's partially wrong. Nazism quickly evovled into Capital tyranny. But it started as a socialist movement. Problem is all socialist movement devolve into any form of totalitarianism, or trending into that path because that's how it works. It's designed so scummy cunning leaders fool ignorant drooling idiots into believing utopia so they can get inmense power and then change the entire board. Be it continuing the "socialist" agenda like Venezuela/Cuba or just going full capitalist but with a total control of the State like the Nazis. But the sole culprit of all of this is human idiocy by believing and enabling these populist psychos with their cheap stories about "collectives, communes"" and "seizing the means of labour". Whatever the fuck the mean.
If only our grandparent saw what would become of Europe and the USA today…Europeans homelands are being invaded and europe will soon. Be a lot not for Europeans….The Austrian Painter truly did try to save us%
It has always fascinated me how communism is still accepted and proudly acclaimed around the world, but nazism is rightfully reviled and fringe. Strange that you see westerners at rallies promoting Karl Marx and communist ideology.
Capitalism is designed to exploit workers, so why is it strange that workers support a system that empowers them? I suspect that you believe Stalinism or Maoism are communist ideologies, which is wrong. A communist society has no state control by definition.
Basically he's correlating the similarities between the Nazis and the Soviets, they aren't polar opposites as you were led to believe but more like different flavors of each other. Just depended in who was in power at the time. It's just history now.
The future of corporate control of society by destruction of the state and deregulation. What you seem to support without knowing it. or maybe willingly ?
Political ideologies are all the same in their final result: The masses being controlled by a minority. The difference is the time during which a particular ruling minority is in power. With democracies, there are elections every 4 years in which the masses believe they are choosing who governs them. With dictatorships, the timeframe is based on how well the party in power keeps the military "happy" and the masses fearful. The various "isms" have all their pros and cons on paper, one certianly can't say that ALL of socialism is bad or all of capitalism is bad or all of communism is bad. What we can do is look at the actual results in the places where these ideologies have been implemented and see happens and draw the conclusions there, always being mindful of the "no true scotsman" fallacy.
Hey, Lex, youtube has caused issues for channels who include the Nazi insignia on thumbnails in the past (despite it being for educational purposes)!!! Might want to blur it out! I'd hate to see people successfully attack you on this basis. I love your mission, keep fighting the good fight of open thoughtful communication with everybody!
We reached a day where a jew can't show Hitler nor swastikas because it's inappropriate. Even though the contents of the video have categorical criticism. You can't whitewash history at the end of the day, the access to information nowadays is practically free and you don't need historians to record it. If you can't be shown the true face of human nature how are we supposed to tame it. The images of the Holocaust, WW1, WW2, japanese invasion of China, devastation of Japan, Korea, Vietnam war, Iraq war, Bosnia, Kosovo etc. and the current war in Yemen, Sudan, Ukraine and Gaza. We have images of all of this but we have difficulty accessing these images because they are censored. If you even try to shed some light into these kinds of holes you end up like Mr. Assange. You do have a totalitarian cult but by omission.
Sadly, anti-semitism existed in the Soviet Union as well, whereby massive political purges or "pograms" would take place against ethnic minorities including the Jewish community.
You’re right. The Soviets and Nazis demand to destroy community and religion in favor of political division and national party favor is insane. I’m glad you agree that the nazis and socialists had the same end goal as our two parties have today
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Hannah Arendt, the German-American historian and philosopher, has a quote about the tactics of today’s politicians,
"The constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people who can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong."
"And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want"
Very similar to Alexander Hamilton’s quote: “Those who stand for nothing, will fall for anything.”
This is what i consider the ministry of truth. It is left wing and right wing.
Aquí pienso "pues no conoce al pueblo bien"
Quién piense en pueblos tontos ya perdió
Lo noto créeme
That quote is not what she actually said if you google it
Fascists, in principle, deeply believe in the importance of social hierarchy, which they see as natural and requiring preservation with force if necessary. In principle, communism and socialism are motivated to dissolve hierarchies based on class, status, etc. In reality, new hierarchies were created within 'actual existing socialism' but this is a very important distinction between the ideologies.
Its funny because socialist seem to adhere to social hierarchy to A s extreme degree. Hollywood worship, commonly work for billionaires, lives in close proximity to extreme wealth on the coast, women sharing of high value men, conformist.
The thing is, communist leaders DO believe in social hierarchies. Very much.
They just happen to use the socialism/commie precepts and books to fool idiots into believing they're marching towards a bright and future, free from hierarchies and slavement.
Don't be an useful idiot, stop believing socialist and communism nonsense altogether!
"which was complet nonsense" of course 👃🏽
I noticed that too 😂😂 he was worried of being taken out of context
@@joedav02 Oy vey!
Heard that too and perked my ears like yeah you’re a real historian huh
The title: Nazism vs. Communism
The thumbnail: Nazism vs. Nazism
Yeah I was waiting for the comparison too
аааа No and capitalism is not the best as we all think it's something like (capitalism - work or starve) - (communism- work to starve) - National Socialism .. well they were doing pretty well before the whole world bombed them to pieces so I don't know..
@@Alex-hu8gj and the "world" bombed them because...
@@Alex-hu8gj "well they were doing pretty well" no they weren't lmao
@@rakishlyaskew After WW1 before WW@ end , so explain for us who don't know. ""Rakishi""
'No regime has ever achieved total control of the population under it's grip'. North Korea has come very close.
Naziism allowed control of the means of production to remain with capitalists albeit subject to state direction. Communism (in theory) puts control of the means of production in the hands of the workers, subject to state direction. Both are collectivist philosophies with the Nazis also differentiated by their fixation on “racial purity,” and imperialism.
I'd argue that communism has also has a type of imperialism but focused more on ideological imperialism over the physical imperialism that nazism/facism desires. All communist countries have relentlessly tried to sponsor revolutions in other countries since their inception to spread their ideas.
Well said. Both are essentially the same philosophies with different operating processes.
Exactly
@@splinte111 I agree.
Ur assuming what was done in the span of 12 years was the end game. And the USSR had private business too
He is king of turning 100 words into 10000…
Everything can't be 3 bullets for the slow kids
@@DeathsInverse 3 bullets? You're too optimistic. They're just accustomed to 6 second tiktok shorts. Total brain rot.
In terms of racial thinking, there was not much difference between NS and Trotzki, Lenin, who thought of Russians as as slave people and of Germans as the real quality people that would create the "real" socialism, and Marx (who was an antisemite) and Engels (who advocated for the extinction of the Basques, among others, as "people garbage").
I don't know if I agree with all the statements given here.
The Molotov -Ribbentrop pact was political expediency, just as chamberlain did at Munich when Czechoslovakia was sold down the river.
Nazism and Communism are polar opposites and a study of the differnces easily show this. The intentions of certain folk to say they're the same is a reactionary push made after WWII.
Inter war era Eastern Europe had an assortment of different ethnicities and budding, political movements, in the wake of the collapse of empire. In these budding, political movements, many in roles of leader ship were your, most educated and and brightest intellectuals, often many of these individuals were Jews. While it’s wrong to say, Judeo Bolshevism, it is entirely historically accurate that Jewish intellectuals were widely influential in eastern European communist movements.
Widely influential? More like dominant. But yeah, ... it's wrong to say that... lol
Fascism and Socialism/Communism are two sides of the same coin. Both ideologies are essentially an Authoritarian State with the same end goals….empowerment of the State. And yes, I am aware that communism is “stateless” in theory, however in practice, communism has resulted in a powerful authoritarian state.
More like hijacked by the Authoritarian State.
@@RobertSmith-lg7jp Can't exist w/o an Authoritarian State.
Socialism is NOT communism ffs
@@notmyname4261 “The goal of socialism is communism” - Karl Marx (father of Communism)
@@notmyname4261 Who cares? They both use violins to take your stuff.
5:00 in Bulgaria, the self proclaimed communists used the term "monarcho-fascism" as an umbrella just to get everything opposing in the same basket. They absolutely never once mentioned national-socialism, as that would be too confusing and too close to socialism.
I have no idea what this man just said
A lot of words to disguise the effective totalitarian similarities between two st8ist wet dreams.
then you have an attention deficiency
I thought he was very articulate.
I'm sorry, but there's some oversimplification here. If you read Stephen Kotkin, he says that there were repeated efforts by the Soviet Union to form an anti-fascist alliance with Western Europe (UK, France), but they were repeatedly rebuffed. This forced to the USSR seek out a nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany. And it had three-ponged purpose: (1) send the Nazi war machine West; (2) technology transfers from Germany to the USSR in exchange for raw materials; and (3) establishment of spheres of influence/territorial partitions.
The supposed Non-Aggression pact between Germany and Russia was actually a secret alliance. Not many people know that because it's not contained in any history books written before the mid-1990s. The reason being, in the mid-1990s Russia allowed historians more access to their archives and this was the most interesting fact that came from that access. Protip: Old history books are often missing important information.
Sounds like Hannah Arendt read 1984.
This guy being accurate is the same as calling him jacked AF.
Nazism isn't fascism.
Communism isn’t fascism either, but who cares? The prevailing narrative is “it’s all the same thing”, so there ain’t much space for civilized argument.
Yepp...
National Socialism and Socialism are divided only by the Nationalism, only for the Geopolitical area of Germany.
Fascism, although, aimed as well at social control, was aiming in modernising Society through heavy industrialisation of the country, which didn't happen, the basic ideology of Fascism was the Futurism, expressed in Art, poetry and Architecture, similar to Art neuveux, Art Deco, which wanted a society that used machines in order to promote advancement of it.
Mustache hated Capitalism most passionately of all. Profit also. He was socialist through and through. A collectivist believer that Capitalism was Jewish. Nazism = socialism with borders and a racial baddie vs a class baddie. Same gross stuff
Means of production is now means of communication & information for attention.
Very concise. Amazing! Thanks
“Giving themselves this *eep* odd name”
Lmao they called themselves socialists for German workers because they meant it
😂
Long story short: theyre both evil.
Quite a finish to the end of this video
Wow. This guy knows his stuff.
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Hitler gave Fascism a bad name.
I agree. Good idea gone extremely wrong. Why? Because comunism won in every part of the world, as we can see
Bro is ignant on Germany and Capitalism
Yup, time and again they lie and pretend that Adolf was a hyper capitalist, he hated Capitalism and saw it as Jewish, same as Marxism
100% fascism isn’t capitalism. It’s a top down control of markets that is much more like socialism than free market capitalism is
Capitalism was the main enemy of the Nazi Party.
There we're leftwing.
@@alr2157 ignant is still ignorant as State control of Capitalized Businesses is still Communistic
Aka Death penalty vs lifetime in prison
Tell me you just read the title of the video, without telling me you just read the title of the video.
Honestly though, a Life Sentence in either ideologies Camp System would’ve basically been a death penalty.
It’s hard to compare such blatant evils. Especially when the perpetrators were so “nichely” devious in their own right.
@@markusstewart9298 Political parties aren't evil, they are just that: political parties. The people committing the atrocities are evil.
@@dorianherndon5026 I dunno dude… Nazism killed ~6 Million Jewish people alone, and Communism gets credit for ~60-90 MILLION deaths, depending on who you ask.
I’d say those are pretty fucking evil ideologies.
The people perpetrating the acts were most definitely evil, but don’t you dare try giving Nazism, Fascism, or communism a pass because you own a Che Guevara shirt and claim to be Socialist.
You are the exact same as a Holocaust denier, just the opposite side of the coin.
@@dorianherndon5026 Nazism killed 6 million Jews, and communism takes credit for 60-90 million people’s deaths… seem pretty evil to me.
How dare you try to minimize that because you own a Che Guevara shirt and think socialism is cool.
Really appreciate this
3:22 national socialism was not meant to be confusing. It was what it said 😂 socialism only for the nation/german people. A socialist state for german people and the jews were the biggest threat. It is confusing for modern people, because we think that nationilism is right wing, but in fact it is socialism in its core. The reason why national socialist went to war with marxism is because marxism was international and a form of globalism. National socialist also have a heritage from german volks socialism while fascism originated from marxism. Fascism did not believe in international but also not in rascism. 30% of italian goverment was jew up to 1938-1940, only after Mussolini was forced by Hitler to implement anti jews laws, italy turned racist. And even then only a few jews were taken. 3 different ideologies, in competition with each other, all socialist but a little different. Those were the times of socialist ideologies clashing after rising in 1900s. Saying fascism or nationalism is right wing is only modern marxism propaganda. Marxism won the socialism wars and so the victor decides history 'truth'
"Saying fascism or nationalism is right wing is only modern marxism propaganda. Marxism won the socialism wars and so the victor decides history 'truth'" It really can't get more absurd as this, it's absolute BS like you're claiming that's a new invention from some right-wing people in the U.S. are claiming, everyone that has some basic education on this topic knows how stupid your claim is. Right wing parties here in Europe aren't as shameless in making such claims since they know people aren't as ignorant about their own history. The Nazis were anti- union and were privatizing in a way that was never seen in any other European country. There are loads of examples that easily proof how blatenly stupid claims like yours is, i don't know what's worst that you know you're lying or so brainwashed and naive to actually believe such fantasies
No, it absolutely was. At the time in Weimar Germany, socialism was very popular among a large swath of normal germans (and communism to a lesser degree). It is telling that a big part if what attracted people to the nsdap was staunch and often street-violent opposition to communists. Quickly the ideological socialists who were part of the workings of the party leadership were very quickly kicked out, imprisoned, exiled, or killed when they began to gain significant power and were totally sidelined or removed once they were in power. Capitalists and large capitalist companies endorsed the nsdap and not because of socialism, but because they knew they were the best chance for preserving capitalism and being friendly to them as business and good for their interests.
Words and history are complicated and not black and white, I know.
@@inigo9000 Modern europeans are very cucked in terms of political views, they're very leftist hence they believe Nazism wasn't leftist.
Well, it's partially wrong. Nazism quickly evovled into Capital tyranny. But it started as a socialist movement.
Problem is all socialist movement devolve into any form of totalitarianism, or trending into that path because that's how it works. It's designed so scummy cunning leaders fool ignorant drooling idiots into believing utopia so they can get inmense power and then change the entire board. Be it continuing the "socialist" agenda like Venezuela/Cuba or just going full capitalist but with a total control of the State like the Nazis.
But the sole culprit of all of this is human idiocy by believing and enabling these populist psychos with their cheap stories about "collectives, communes"" and "seizing the means of labour". Whatever the fuck the mean.
If only our grandparent saw what would become of Europe and the USA today…Europeans homelands are being invaded and europe will soon. Be a lot not for Europeans….The Austrian Painter truly did try to save us%
You really want to murder anyone who doesn't look just like you??????
@lex do you really need to use the image with the swastka as click bait on the thumbnail. Come on man
Swastika was used for thousands of years in many cultures, we cannot let Hitler take this symbol from us. He has done enough destruction.
It has always fascinated me how communism is still accepted and proudly acclaimed around the world, but nazism is rightfully reviled and fringe. Strange that you see westerners at rallies promoting Karl Marx and communist ideology.
Capitalism is designed to exploit workers, so why is it strange that workers support a system that empowers them? I suspect that you believe Stalinism or Maoism are communist ideologies, which is wrong. A communist society has no state control by definition.
Nice i read this guys book a long time ago
Basically he's correlating the similarities between the Nazis and the Soviets, they aren't polar opposites as you were led to believe but more like different flavors of each other. Just depended in who was in power at the time. It's just history now.
The future of corporate control of society by destruction of the state and deregulation. What you seem to support without knowing it. or maybe willingly ?
What?
@@Spractralhe is describing the American corporate government
Still the st8.
Both Gnosticism
Both leftwing socialist's.
Trumpism ought to be discussed too😂
Political ideologies are all the same in their final result: The masses being controlled by a minority. The difference is the time during which a particular ruling minority is in power.
With democracies, there are elections every 4 years in which the masses believe they are choosing who governs them. With dictatorships, the timeframe is based on how well the party in power keeps the military "happy" and the masses fearful. The various "isms" have all their pros and cons on paper, one certianly can't say that ALL of socialism is bad or all of capitalism is bad or all of communism is bad. What we can do is look at the actual results in the places where these ideologies have been implemented and see happens and draw the conclusions there, always being mindful of the "no true scotsman" fallacy.
Hey, Lex, youtube has caused issues for channels who include the Nazi insignia on thumbnails in the past (despite it being for educational purposes)!!! Might want to blur it out! I'd hate to see people successfully attack you on this basis. I love your mission, keep fighting the good fight of open thoughtful communication with everybody!
Naw he is in the goodboy club, he's good here.
We reached a day where a jew can't show Hitler nor swastikas because it's inappropriate. Even though the contents of the video have categorical criticism. You can't whitewash history at the end of the day, the access to information nowadays is practically free and you don't need historians to record it. If you can't be shown the true face of human nature how are we supposed to tame it. The images of the Holocaust, WW1, WW2, japanese invasion of China, devastation of Japan, Korea, Vietnam war, Iraq war, Bosnia, Kosovo etc. and the current war in Yemen, Sudan, Ukraine and Gaza. We have images of all of this but we have difficulty accessing these images because they are censored. If you even try to shed some light into these kinds of holes you end up like Mr. Assange. You do have a totalitarian cult but by omission.
Sadly, anti-semitism existed in the Soviet Union as well, whereby massive political purges or "pograms" would take place against ethnic minorities including the Jewish community.
Socijalisti i jedni i drugi !!
This guys is lost.
Making slaves Christian is requiring fanatical loyalty.
This guy is amazing Lex!
Warhammer 40k vibes lol
It is the corp and state above the people. They are all forced to be nationious and both leaders said that samething. This is a joke.
4:30 The socialist and communist movements in Germany and Russia were filled with Jewish people, the connection doesnt appear out of thin air.
Unbelievable the parrelells to the modern day
You’re right. The Soviets and Nazis demand to destroy community and religion in favor of political division and national party favor is insane.
I’m glad you agree that the nazis and socialists had the same end goal as our two parties have today
Nazis are Socialist.
@@voodoolovedrexactly