The Gulag Archipelago and The Wisdom of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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In this video we examine some of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's fascinating insights on communism, the nature of evil and the power of truth.
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Also west is so wrong about di kulatization. During Russian Empire millions were starving to death because of Kulaks and Royal family none of this never mentions in western propaganda because all this crap was made of as Cold war Propaganda against evil communists.
Also in gulag been around 2.6 millions Most of them were traitors during WWII who cooperated with Fascists ...
And many other who left their post on front line for which in all world you will go under tribunal.
Just another propaganda channel to lie about real USSR to Wester world .......
By the way Solzhenitsyn was a solder he was very well aware that letter he was sending were inspected by Special units ....I believe he intentionally got him self to Gulag because there chances to survive 41 45 were bigger than chances of millions of brave solder that died for their country fighting fascism ....and east front was nothing like American front with japan .....most of forces were on Eastern front also including many armies of already conquered countries . Like Romanian fascists army and Hungarian ,
You dont know history you just spit with propaganda
Character assassination instead of arguing against ideas. Typical Leftist.
Mihai Soltan Solzhenitsyn reports of many Russian soldiers who sided with the nazis (who they hated) against Stalin. Only to be betrayed by Churchill and Roosevelt.
How does this fit into your view?
Now you know why College Professors tell their students there is no such thing as truth. If a person believes something doesn't exist, they will never look for it.
The Seduction of Unreason by Wolin / publisher Princeton Univ Press discusses history of Post-Modernism and academia...
@@schmittyhanrahan8126; yes, many people have been fascination with Fascism, as well as Socialism/Communism. It could be because these ideologies offer simple solutions to complex problems. The problem is, these "simple solutions" always rely on the loss of individual freedom to work, and always fail in the long-run. Fascism and Socialism/Communism treat the individual like an ant in an ant colony, and that eventually fails because unlike ants, humans have a brain that is capable of self awareness.
@@oldgysgt seems like we're systematically losing our freedoms for one reason or another these days. Like we the people are collateral either way. Human beings as juvenile as we are...are very much social. But the only social group with any semblance of cohesion are in control
@@ripme6616 Some of the anecdotes in "The Gulag Archipelago" are frightening in that they reflect the stances and attitudes we see today:
A man buys a bust of Stalin. Too heavy to carry, he uses his belt around the bust's neck to carry it on his back. That act of 'disrespect' cost him ten years.
A man laughs at an article in Pravda. More disrespect, ten years. Curiously, the person reporting him was jailed as well.
A woman uses a page of Pravda to line her shoe. Ten years.
A young girl picks stray corn from a harvested field and did not hand it in to the collective. Theft, Ten years. Had she collected with friends then it would have been fifteen years for organised crime.
Most families had 'informers' who were tasked with listening out for any speech critical of the regime. Second informers were looking for failures in reporting. Once you were picked to be an informer, they had you over a barrel. Not even your parents were safe.
And today, we see people destroyed for saying things that might be interpreted as critical of certain groups. Yes, there are many injustices in society but the mindset of the people dealing with them is frightening.
@@PhilJonesIII are we heading to communism 2.0?
I heard the word communism spoken 2-3 times in my entire school career. I hear something about the holocaust almost every day.
And almost nothing about modern genocides
That's because the same people caused both.
That’s because the communists run the propaganda now and Bill Cosby is their tool. They know this. They started on the redefining of history (seeing it today) as soon as WWII was over to fight against nationalism. As communists are all about the world collective not nation states. That is freedom.
It is being played out today. Right here on our soil.
Or the Holodomor or the 10 million various Europeans kidnapped and sold as slaves to Africa by Berbers.
@Bill Cosby I know what you did Bill Cosby
This should be a mandatory read for every high school student in the country.
Saint Michael Should be unless the establishment doesn’t want you to have this knowledge.
The reason that it isn't mandatory for high school students, is our educational system is based on socialist policies. The masses CANNOT learn the truth about almost everything as long as government controls the schooling. There are many books and documents supporting this.
especially now
How would you get the loony left to take any of this in,
Evil starts with a small deceit,
Should be but won't, I was told by a great teacher "If you wanna know great books to read. Then seek the ones that have been banned or cause people to be uncomfortable and the truth will be revealed. Leading me here and to many of my favorites books of all time.
This sh*t is getting more & more relevant every day.
Cannot agree more.
This is going to get worse, I can feel a storm coming and have done for a good number of years now
@@davidcadwallader434 There's already articles condoning the removal of Mt. Rushmore, VICE did one nearly 3 years ago !!
Agreed. With powerful people working hard to silence us and to erase our history some of us have started to research what happens to societies where the same occurred.
@@justadjimmi6613 we're all Palestinian now, why does usa fund the occupation against international law?
Solzhenitsyn is gone, but the Gulags may be making a come back.
The criminals will be the police and they will jail you for wrong think.
In China they have!!!!
@@fernvill27 thats denial. Those who will imprison you are the BLM Marks-ists rioters, and the admitted Democrat Socialists, and about 8 Republicans (that I've counted); all who are trying to overthrow Capitalism and eliminate police.
It will be the ex-police, and those who love America that will save your arse. They are merely defunding police in order to clean out their inner cities. They know the fastest way to add to their ranks is to get those people suffering from unabetted crime and then offer them a place in the ranks. You've got to think like a Marks-ist to realize that Politicians with power and money merely want MORE for themselves and less useless eaters.
@@Shyeena I know. My mom comes from a country where the marxists took over. I'm more aware than you think I am.
But not in Russia
“We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.”
Nice and vague, applicable to both capitalism and communism.
MaYang Indeed. The difference is that capital pretends to be better than communism, yet it condemns many more to poverty and death - just via more devious methods.
@@Maranna95 Nothing vague at all. Repression comes when the whims of some command the lives of others. In a free-market capitalist society, each individual can choose whom to do business with or for. In the collective or communist world, you must do business with and how the collective decides. However, it is not even the collective in reality. It is the nature of humans that whoever (group) can bring more force and violence will make the decisions. Hence communism always deteriorates into a form of dictatorship by a small group. The key difference in societies is who makes the decisions that affect individuals.
@@G58 It doesn't pretend to be better. It is better.
@@G58 That is flat out false. Capitalism has pulled more people from poverty than anything. That's why 99% of Americans are wealthier than 99% of the rest of the world.
The United States ecomnomic system has been subverted by socialist for a while now. The more we slide in that direction the worse off and more unfair our system becoms.
When history is forgotten, it is bound to be repeated.
Kinda scary lol
It tends to rhyme instead.
Doesn't matter if the public forgets or remembers. The ruling class and wealthy elite make sure it happens again and fool the public into letting them do it. Look around you! What is it the majority want? More and more they want the largesse of socialism, and you know where THAT road leads. When things get bad enough, the people will cry out for the government to do something, and what will be done will not be in the interests of the public, but in the interests of the collectivists who steered things in that direction. With wealth comes power and when you have the majority of the wealth, you have the majority of the power.
God bless Alexander Solzhenitsyn. A great man and a great writer.
Aye!
God bless all those who fight against Communism!
Actually, his writing is mostly very average and boring. He isnt a writer at all. Just used for an anti-establishment agenda, thats all.
@@jerome_mgozama It's obvious you haven't read the anything he wrote.
@@michaelsorensen8670 the OPPOSITE, as a reader, one understands, how average he was.
Back in 05 when I was a sophomore in AP Literature they gave us a summer reading list. Most of it was teenage feel good crap that one could only enjoy with a form of mild brain damage. I was like "fuck dat!" and read a book an uncle gave me from his political science course in a university in Mexico City. It was "A Day the Life of Ivan Denisovich". I read that book in a single sitting (it's under 300 pages). I was absolutely baffled and also enamoured with the way Solzhenitsyn captured the prisoners humanity against the backdrop of their frozen misery. Then I read Cancer Ward. Afterwards I couldn't ger enough Solzhenitsyn essays. Suddenly I underatood McCarthy-ist policies and regretted that we in the West did not retain a staunch anti-socialist attitude. Now that I'm older and have read more of Solzhenitsyn's works which weren't translated (or poorly translated) into English and have found harsh truths which are uncomfortably relevant today. It's painfully ironic that communism always claims to have the interest of the poorest at heart when in reality the poorest are always the first ones in the camps and the last ones to receive a ration card. Socialism is a cancer which must be expunged.
PS: A big thanks to all those who replied to this thread. It's a pleasure to text with y'all!
Thank you!
@Fish poem aw thanks fellow youtuber! I'm just speaking what I feel in my heart and what my mind knows to be a truth. I'd rather die fighting than die on my knees!
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@@emghee2510 Marxism is the most evil ideology ever created by the mind of Man. It must be destroyed.
If you liked Denisovich and Archipelago, you should check out Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov. Even Solzhenitsyn revered him and his writings.
This just brings a tear to my.
'Imagine what these great ppl could have achieved if they were able to live freely'
I remember reading Solzhenitsyn's "Day in The Life" for school last year. When someone lives through communism and goes on to heavily criticize it, why would someone who's never lived through it think that their opinion is any more valuable? My great grandfather died in a gulag, so it's always infuriating to hear people talking about how great communism is as a system, when people actually died. Unbelievable how some parts of the left in America romanticize a system like that.
I agree communism is bad but if you're referring to America romanticising socialism, you could say a lot of places like Canada, Denmark, Sweden.. are part socialist countries (social democracies) and their system definitely works. Especially taking into account they are some of the happiest countries.
NonLuminousFlame and America is the country with the most amount of people in jail and nearly the most depressed. I could list a whole lot more but really it's not all as relevant as you think. And eventually every progressive first world country will be entirely multicultural and you will have to live with that
Nordic people are known for their dark sense of humor. It's difficult to say whether the happiness quotient is connected to the government or to the preexisting society. The people and their culture came long before the government.
boy punk - saying "some parts of the left in America romanticize a system like that" is just like when Trump claimed those "thousands and thousands" of American Muslims were cheering as the towers collapsed.
It may make you feel better to have such a cut and dry enemy, but it's a fantasy.
are you trying to insinuate that supporters of anarcho-communism, particularly those part of antifa, are not romanticizing communism? whereas trump's claim abt muslims is unverifiable, members of antifa are often self-proclaimed communists...
"Let the lie come into the world. Let it even Triumph. But not through me." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | You just led me to one of my new favorite quotes.
I have heard Jordan Peterson say that this is an absolute must read. Thank you for reviewing it. I had no idea what it was about but now I can see how applicable it is today.
Two Hundred Years Together is just as important to read..
@@musherX that book is proven to be full of innaccuracies and many historians agree that its wrong on many things, but ive never read the book personally, only read criticism about it.
@@vigoms3920If you know much about historians, they also can have agendas for opposition. We just need to look at Orwell to understand how history, and the faculty that manages it, can be used for control. I would trust Solzhenitsyn far more than the likes of the history professors I have known. In any case, I feel it's important to have more than one account. I also suggest R.J Rummel's book, Lethal Politics.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
@Hmong Smithy An evil act, and one intended to be good are not mutually exclusive. Actions can be simultaneously evil and well meaning.
@Misty Martin
So much for the power of positive thinking. Ppl who think evil can be very positive about it.
Especially applicable today with all the left wing agitators creating lists
@@josefstalin4532 That is true especially if you follow the ' Ends Justify the Means' philosophy.
There were never any good intentions.
reading this book whilst locked up was a powerful experience
BRILLIANT BOOK
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acajudi100 whilst is correct
Did you write an email critical of tony blair?
And this is what awaits us - the writing is clearly on the wall. Tragic doesn't even begin to get it
Communism is dead . North Korea , Cuba and a couple of other countries and that's it . China is not a true communist country anymore because of it's experiments with capitalism.
@@kookamunga2458 , Marxist/communist cultural subversion is rife throughout the entire West and is dragging down and dividing our countries. The old league of communist countries are indeed dead, failed experiments, but unfortunately much of the West is headed in the same direction those countries went.
@@kookamunga2458 - I'm not meaning to be argumentative, but please read this article www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-parliament-unanimously-re-elects-xi-jinping-as-president
@@thenew4559 the only thing dragging the west down is religion . I blame religiousity period . I have to cruise around after dark in shady neighborhoods and back streets to pick up hookers . If I get caught I am fined and have to go to john school. Religion is holding us back from enjoying all the sin .
@Alexi Barona one of the most exciting and satisfying moments of my day is coming home after work logging on youtube and seeing who I pissed off . I love you too .
"Let the lie come into the world, let it prevail even; but not through me." Words like daggers to the heart.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
- C.S. Lewis
Thank you! Love our dear Clive Staples!
Thank you for writing this comment. I am off to read more of the author.
Welcome to Biden’s america as msm and our tech overlords annihilate our freedom and and plan for re-education camps for people that think for themselves
What book, essay, etc. are you quoting?
@@lollmylifex3 it's from God in the Dock
I’m currently reading the Gulag Archipelago. This is a great companion. Thanks.
"Communist Manifesto" is in the list of mandatory reading for middle school in the US while fewer and fewer people even "heard" of Gulag Archipelago... We're doomed
@Bryan Tittle School district 11 (Colorado) Reading Materials for elementary, middle and high schools in the district 11. "Communist Manifesto" as well as numerous feminism works were included in the middle school reading list and was marked as "mandatory". I wouldn't even be aware of it if my daughter wasn't graduating elementary this year which in turn made me read that school district document they distributed to parents.
Zoe: At a U. N. meeting in 1959, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev took off his shoe & started banging it on the podium & screamed, "We Will Bury You!" He was speaking of the political system of the "West!" It certainly seems as though we are living that prediction's manifestation now!
@@jerryshunk7152 sadly Krushev wasn't kidding
Yeah, you sould be reading Mine Kampf in US, right up your valley.
@@alexxx4434 I'm guessing you've never read that either, considering you can't spell it. Tell me, why shouldn't someone read that book?
Hey Academy of Ideas, I just wanted to step by and tell you what an amazing work you are doing, as a former Venezuelan citizen, watching this video brings tears to my eyes, and hope for the future. Let's hope all the people that, like my family, had to flee 21st Centrury Socialism, may thrive like the kulaks, and that this entrepreneurship spirit be brought back like a flame to ignite the torch of prosperity for the Venezuelan people. Keep doing all these amazing videos!.
+el druida I wish you and your family all the best.
el druids please read about kulaks, they machinegun every last one,nor to you people KGB wives would complain their husbands smelled of blood and sh-t no joke
#SOSvenezuela
"All this happened because men forgot GOD."
-Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
They believed in God, but thought Stalin was him.
A-dutch-Z nobody believed that, trust me, even solzhenitsyn himself said that communists were not russians and hated them to most extreme
@@a-dutch-z7351 I'd argue that conclusion is not on point. No one thought Stalin was God, they thought God was dead or never existed...in the words of Nietzsche several decades prior: "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not try to become gods simply to appear worthy of it?"
Not so. Many did become atheists, but many held tight to their Christian beliefs, as evidenced by the fact that there is in today’s Russia a strong church that is endorsed and encouraged at a state level.
Satan is a defeated foe, but he does do a lot of damage in the world.
God is Sovereign, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against Christ’s Church.
@@a-dutch-z7351 Not quite. To quote Solzhenitsyn: "You must understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated the Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse."
archive.org/details/SolzhenitsynYouMustUnderstandTheLeadingBolsheviksWhoTookOverRussiaWereNotRussians
There is far too much to quote here. It comes from the book "200 Years Together" which is nearly impossible to get, even a partial translation, in English. It is available in Russian and in French. I am told that even the French version is incomplete. I do not subscribe to conspiracy theories but judging from the content I have been able to read, it is disturbing and very significant historically. To the extent that not a few have suggested that its full publication in English is being suppressed. I'm inclined to agree.
The Russian people were generally poorly educated, religious and well used to servitude under rulers who were not considered gods, but the intermediary of God. The late Christopher Hitchens described it as "an ocean of gullibility". He continued on the lines: What dictator or ruler worth his salt would not take advantage of that gullibility and ignorance?
Stalin was Georgian and attended a seminary there. (He was also a violent criminal in the act and sponsored). He learned all he needed to know to usurp the power-vacuum left by the removal of Christianity.
It is difficult for us who have grown up in the West to understand the amount of influence the Church had in the daily lives of the people. For many, no major family decision would be made without consulting a priest.
That guidance was lost and Stalin took up the reigns. The results are well known though, there is a lot more bad stuff to learn.
Fortus Victus correctly quotes Nietzche on this subject. Nietzche was an atheist that felt that the removal of religion is not something mankind was ready for.
Truth is the antidote to Evil...Got it
but be clear...speaking the truth is EXACTLY how people were funneled into the Gulags if they were lucky...the most vocal or intelligent were those pictures you saw in the wagons.
@@fortusvictus8297 short sighted...if every man heldup truth in their own psyche there would be nobody willing to execute the orders of killing those people but the people giving theorders
@@SilvrSeven not sure the short sighted one has been identified here...At minimum I'd defer to all of human history as to what the facts are, but in a more nuanced sense we are hardwired to overlay our view of 'truth' with the people around us and default to groupthink when there is a contradiction. It is actually the very thing that enables human cooperation and success, but also enables horrible tragedy.
When faced with a mob only a fool tries to appeal to reason, it will not end well as reason is not part of the equation at work, reason only works in comfort and mutual respect environments.
@@fortusvictus8297 " if every man held up truth in their psyche" you missed the entire point
How ironic, considering that Solzhenitsin was a big fat lier.
I’m 58 years old and have always been fascinated with world history... but this generation is ignorant, unlearned, distracted, dumb down and gullible. Excellent video
every generation is
58 now and I agree, difference is almost in reality or sense of meaning the masses are quite without the ability to reason . They live in an artificially enhanced dream. That dream will become a nightmare for most of us. Romans 1. The vs. thinking themselves wise became fools comes to mind often...
I am reading archipelago now, just finished A Day In The life. I thought I knew how horrible communism is. Words fail in describing my shock, but I’m thankful for being enlightened. Very excellent presentation. Thank you. PS: The Boer farmers are the kulaks of South Africa!
Yep. Most of Africa is learning communism is worse than colonialism.
Read it years ago it is really eye opening, these BLM marxists need to read this and get educated.
@@johnredman2065 The problem with the BLAMtifa Marxists is they have too much education. What they need is a dose of reality - good and hard.
25+ million Orthodox Christians murdered.. millions sent to the gulags.....
@@johnredman2065 it's too late for them my friend.... Their ideology is their new religion !...antifa , BLM, far left in Democrat party, etc.. this is what their ultimate goals are this is their agenda...
I have had discussions with so many communists and communist apologists that haven't even heard of this book. Unbelievable.
Superzaldor The ones who have heard of it just call it Western capitalist propaganda.
Yes, precisely!
The book deals with the logical step from the theory of marxism to the Gulags. It began way before Stalin. But you didn't know this because you're only interested in pro-communist litterature.
Ok, I'll play this little game...
What country has managed to build your communist utopia? It sure wasn't Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, Laos, Cambodia, or Vietnam. They've managed to kill more of their own people than the entirety of human history. If you want to argue that Communism /= Stalin, then I have to point out that if your system of government is 1 mad man away from murdering millions, it's simply a shitty system.
What communist country didn't have forced labor/death camps? The camps in Russia were created by Lenin as soon as the revolution started, and were used to exterminate opponents and create mass terror. Forced labor is required to prop up the failed communist economic system. Gulags were a means of population control, as well as mining vital natural resources, which were required to prop up this failed system.
lol
"Those who are capable of contentment will always be satisfied."
What a great quote and note to end with
This needs to be seen by everyone right now!
I'm in the middle of reading this book right now - very harrowing stuff. My America is drifting this way...
His Nobel Peace Prize for Literature lecture is phenomenal. It made me think of art in a completely different way, as something spiritual, uplifting, rather than being vacuous and merely materialistic. He is a voice crying in the wilderness, we should take heed to listen
There are many souls crying in the wilderness (or solitude) today. Literature is part of the solution, but only part of it.
Grow up! Solzhenitsyn is a talentless hack. The Nobel Prize was the work of the CIA.
Btw. wth is Nobe Peace Prize for Literature?
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Wow, this absolutely nails where the left is today in America on July 4th 2020...
Everything you believe to know is a lie. No left, no right, figure it out yourself or remain hopelessly enslaved.
There definitely is liberalism diseasing peoples minds with like-minded ideology
And even more so on July 20, 2021. I will not submit.
And doubly now on October 7, 2021. F**JoeBiden and all these Commie Bastards in power in the USA today. They aren't there by free and fair elections, I can assure you.
@@Pack.Leader let's go Brandon indeed
"Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied."
SJW's are never satisfied.
MarxlstJs are never satisfied or content
They love a scrap and scuffle that’s for sure 🙂 Highlight of their day it does seem. Makes them feel something when they won’t repent. Self righteousness is a good excuse for that.
"Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied."
This is required read in Russia high school I hear, and should be for all
realy
Mack Doza I’ve never met a single Russian who spoke very highly of Communism. I hear they hate it over there.
@@thegame61923 Modern state propaganda certaintly does its job. But do not worry, resentment to capitalism is growing. Everywhere.
I agree
@@alexxx4434 Other way around thats why those like you will be put away and will be the ones who deserve to have nothing in the end.
Who else know Solzhenitsyn because of Dr. Jordan Peterson?
I loved Aleksandr before Peterson, but I'm rereading him because of him.
Was actually listening to 1984
@@norsejohn7248 how original!!! do you want a cookie?
fady Alfons ME 😊. As well as Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Jung, Carl Rogers, Kierkegaard, Piaget, Sartre, and others. I’m hip to Dr. Jordan Peterson for about four years now and going strong. My hope is that others will take it vantage of TH-cam and take these courses that are offered so freely. Also, Dr. Robert Sapolsky. I just plug in psychology, great thinkers, behaviorism… and other keywords, and then go to town watching these videos. I love it
that loser and jewish shill lol
But...but...a bunch of weirdo class mates and some of my resentful professors said Marxism was good!
While living here. Ask a Russian who lived under their system.
@JNetwork32 censorship of truth
You should stop believing the nay-sayers and bullshit-masters like Soljenitsin, and see the hard facts: that after the revolution a mostly agrarian country sprung into the status of super-power in a matter of decades while also beating nazi germany in WW2, and growing in population more than in modern times while doing so.
@@alexxx4434 what did Soljenitsen lie about?
@@1111Tactical A lot in his writings is fictional. He was basing his claims on folklore, and rumors. For example the actual number of "victims of Gulag" he presented is pulled out the ass.
The Gulag archipelago took me about a month to read in my spare time but is worth persevering for. Solzhenitsyns insight into morality and the human spirit is deep and it really changed my mind.
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” Jeremiah 17:9
His book needs to be required reading for seniors in high school or college freshman.
High school freshmem.
Unfortunately, most high schoolers can barely read anything longer than a tweet. The first book alone is nearly 700 pages...single spaced. It will never happen. Memes are much easier to read and believe.
I played Deus Ex Mankind Divided, and it has this location that is basically a sci fi gulag. It had of course a resistance movement, and the password to their hideout was: “When you rob a man of everything, he is no longer in your power, he is free again.” It's from Solzhenitzyn's book The First Circle. They made sure to namedrop Solzhenitzyn as the author of the quote as well. It was a nice touch from the game's writing team. Even if the game itself wasn't that stellar.
Thank you. That was brilliant.!
Spend a moment .. a prayer for South Africa.
I find great value in this movie. I have read this book multiple times in the past and this simple 11 minute video saves me HOURS when I feel a need to re-visit this most difficult and disturbing subject matter. This should be manditory reading material in our high schools. Thanks for this most comprehensive and well presented overview.
Well done sir!😁
I found this while doing some research to understand the Gulag Archipelago and I am impressed. This is well done, the speaker has good control over his voice and his points are simple and to the point. Good job.
This author changed my cognitive perception of history, society, and my very own being. Along with a lengthy honest study of Carl Jung and Nietzsche, ideologies have been left naked and find no accommodation in my cognitive structures. (Perhaps this is only a wish.) What we used to call demonic possession is clearly now understood by me as individuals possessed by ideology. For they do not speak for themselves but only struggle and flail to maintain some twisted perception of their being. The real self is subjugated to this 'creature' they harbor. We all struggle to understand ourselves. But when answers are not forthcoming we become willing to cling to lies and folly. I think they call that 'dumbing down'. Keeping people confused and ambivalent. This makes us ripe for ideological possession. As if this is a sinister goal of some people.
Diatribe done. In spite of his suffering, Solzhenitsyn was gracious to share his talent at a poignant time.
Nope, demons are actual beings. You're still lost. Quantum physics can help you.
@@ch3rok33jo3 Intresting combination, medieval beliefs with a hope in the Standard Model. The spin of your two quarks doesn't add up to a full proton!
Powerful and positive and deeply profound in truth!
May I suggest a video on Leszek Kołakowski. He's also someone never talked about in academia. I guess because he himself was a communist turned critic of Marxism which makes his thoughts on communism all the more damning.
And relevant
Thanks for the recommendation! Everyone who knows Marxism is cancer should listen to this man's observations:
th-cam.com/video/aL9MHoYdiJE/w-d-xo.html
Start at the 9-minute mark on the video.
Cheers!
Great Video. Alexander reminds me of Viktor Frankl, both great thinkers who seems to agree on their approach on suffering.
Man, I love this channel. The value is simply astonishing👏
I love the way they omit Alexanders Sohlsenetsyns Christian commentary,he was a Christian first and foremost,annoying somewhat,that again the truth has been supressed.
The Truth look up his last two books “200 years together.” Unfortunately they were never translated into English.
@@thetruth7515 ---- What about the "Christians" that did the same things. What about the Hindus and Buddhists and Muslims and Atheists that did the same thing.
What about the Jews, Christians, Hindus and Buddhists and Muslims and Atheists that led and lead exemplary lives.
Your attempt to demonize a whole set of people is simple minded and self destructive.
Yes, hugely ironic. But Christians are the new lepers, beyond the pale, in the Neo-Marx West.
@@BoopShooBee when did christians, buddhists or hindus cause the intentional deaths of over 60 million with forced famines to ethnically cleanse populations?? I think you are attempting to liken groups to alleviate responsibility. just like a jooo.. how sneaky and dishonest. Like the same people who opened the gates to their sand colored slaver friends on the christians naive enough to believe they would live in peace. "The same thing".. there is no same thing. fkn immoral marxists are like children unable to fess up to their actions..
@Dojocho
No doubt.
The people that need to read this book never will
For people who want to better understand the nature of the Bolshevik Revolution, you should read this chapter from Solzhenitsyn's book 200 Years Together (censored in the West):
200yearstogether.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/chapter-18-during-1920s/
"You must understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. The October Revolution was not what you call in America the "Russian Revolution." It was an invasion and conquest over the Russian people. More of my countrymen suffered horrific crimes at their bloodstained hands than any people or nation ever suffered in the entirety of human history. It cannot be understated. Bolshevism was the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant of this reality is proof that the global media itself is in the hands of the perpetrators."
Solzhenitsyn and two hundred years together would make a good documentary.
Should someone put together a full and true translation.
Extremely relevant today
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation…We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” A.S. The Gulag Archipelago 1918 - 1956
This passage NEVER GETS OLD no matter how many times I read it.... And has never been more fitting than at the time we're in now. Not necessarily physical combat... Yet... Well until they're removing us from our homes and forcing medical experimental gene therapy on us or throwing us into isolation camps....
Powerful stuff, and much needed now. I do notice, however, that the Academy Of Ideas worked very hard to ignore Solzhenitsyn's faith in Jesus Christ, who bluntly stated "I Am the Truth" (John 14:6). His stubborn stance on that bedrock of Truth - not "my truth is better than your truth" - resulted in Divine strength to endure Russian Communism and communicate Communism's danger to the world. He was also blunt in his insistence that the USA, with its moral relativism, is too weak to combat the danger of Communism. The election and reelection of soft Communists (i.e. Socialists) in Vermont and New York City shows that Solzhenitsyn was right.
Read his book "200 years together".
Keep spreading the word.
Loved the book. Solzhenitsyn's wit and expression was sublime. Never finished it however. Thanks for making this
You should finish. Don't give up.
@@PhilJonesIII Life and the book get in each other's way. Anyway thanks I can pick it up again during this slow period.
I just bought this book I think we can learn a lot studying Russian and Chinese history
This is needed today more than ever
1917 - Kulaks
2017 - White privilege
its nothing to laugh at. Slappy you opened my eyes
OMG! Of course!
No, dont pretend like it is the same. It is not. No SJW wants to kill the succesful. They hate them, yes, but they dont want to kill them. It is all much better in 2017.
1979Weasel
Correct but it gets worse every day, the people abusing the kulaks didn't rationalize it overnight.
@Salmon Neocons are literally purged Trotskyist from a communist regime that killed millions of whites
HISTORY.....LEARN FROM IT OR SUFFER FROM NOT DOING SO
The cycle repeats, the foolish masses have yet to break the cycle, since time immemorial.
They are rewriting the history to assist them in the brainwashing of our youth. Just like in the book 1984
I guess no one will be "feeling the Bern" after watching this most excellent vid
Bernie 2020 bitch
:aa edgy. You must be sad to soon see that Biden will get the Democratic nomination.
:aa this didn’t age well
Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right?
Mark Cartret
Americans have been taught that diversity is our greatest strength.
Thousands of years earlier, the Greek storyteller Aesop wrote “coniuncti sumus seiuncti labimur” or “united we stand divided we fall.”
Western Civilization refers to a people that were strongly influenced by Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman cultures.
One does not have to be an intellectual to understand there is a global effort to undermine and ultimately destroy Western Civilization. Brexit and the election of Donald J. Trump seems to have upset the balance of progressive powers and a new world order is rapidly emerging. While a president who put America first represented defeat to a movement that had been gaining ground since the end of the Second World War, it was the Clinton’s scheme in 2001 to put China in the WTO that was threatened.
Had Hillary Clinton been elected, the stars would have perfectly aligned-America would have been much closer to a one world government while China’s economy would have completed one-world dominance.
The Clinton’s would have become overnight billionaires.
Never before in the history of the world have nations been under such concentrated assaults from within their own borders.
The new world order dictated by globalist elites has no need for borders, flags, and democracy. Democracy makes it much more difficult for oppressive regimes to unilaterally put people under one yoke.
Among many inventions, Western Civilization gave us the rule of law, the Magna Carta, individual rights, and Christianity. Capitalism and democracy are perhaps two of Western Civilization’s most recognizable contributions. Thank Western Civilization for private ownership of property, due process of law, and a right to peaceably assemble.
An imperfect creation of man, Western Civilization runs counter to Marxism, an invention of the left that has led to the death of a hundred million people.
A 2018 New York Times headline, “Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right!“ by philosophy professor Jason Barker declared that “educated liberal opinion is today more or less unanimous in its agreement (with) Marx’s basic thesis” on the flaws of capitalism.
Sadly many educational institutions have been filled with instructors who would agree with the professor.
The product of their work is seen through shouting, screaming, in-your-face flag burners demanding to defund the police while declaring anti capitalist autonomous zones. We are told “silence is violence" but destroying property, looting stores, tearing down statues, throwing Molotovs at police is not.
In America the left’s leaders are often educated in Ivey league schools courtesy of middle class taxpayers who cannot afford to send their own children to these once prestigious universities.
So who are these “protestors” and what do they really want? It could be said they have little clue of the mission themselves, as they destroy statues of abolitionist.
To better understand their motivations we must go down a long road to the past.
If private enterprise is a road headed to the town of capitalism, communism is most certainly on the roadmap of Marxism, just across the bridge from socialism. And Marxism will inevitably lead to the state of revolutionary communism.
Karl Marx, the father of communism most certainly knew the methods to bring about the destruction of capitalism. And so did the Bolsheviks.
In 1917 the Bolsheviks, committed to the ideas of Marx, eventually became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Nobel Prize laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once said:
“You must understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They Hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse.”
In America and throughout Europe we have foot soldiers from the left, assaulting, looting, burning and tearing down remnants of Western history. They violently march through our streets with the clinched fist of communism.
It’s as if society is engaged in a revolution with only one side fighting-the left. Anyone who disagrees with the left is labeled, demonized and discounted by a mainstream media complicit in the mission. It is very possible Senator Joseph McCarthy was on to something. If there was ever a person the media hated more than Trump, it was McCarthy.
Our permanent political class seem less attuned to the majority of society while openly taking the knee in deference to the mob.
Drunk on the wine of political correctness, they have sold out entire countries, obtaining global contracts for family members, while amassing multi-million dollar foundations. The Clinton dynasty went from bankruptcy in 2001 to being worth more than one hundred million dollars while Dick Cheney’s Halliburton profited $7 billion from the Iraq war.
The aftermath of the political classes’ destruction is rapidly becoming visible.
Look at Sweden, France, Germany and Britain.
Intolerant migrants are increasingly proven to be less tolerant of the inviting culture while forcing foreign customs and traditions on their welcoming hosts.
In 2010 Angela Merkel finally conceded multiculturalism has been a failure after a study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation showed that some 16 million of Germany's people with foreign origins had come to the country for its social benefits. Yet in 2015 she opened the door to 1 million economic refugees mostly from Syria.
There is very little difference on this side of the Atlantic. Churches and other faith-based “nonprofits” earn millions of government dollars to bring in economic migrants-most of which enroll in social programs. In the US we have 55 million people who were not born here. Entire townships, as in Great Britain, resemble foreign countries while other European cities have no-go zones.
Europeans and Americans often proclaim feeling as if they are strangers in their own lands. London England was called no longer English in 2019.
Far from melting pots, intolerant regions are springing up in host countries.
Make no mistake about it, America like Europe, has been sold out.
Multiculturalism and diversity demanded tolerance by a class who believe neither.
While handing out the kool aide, community organizers forgot to mention “when there comes here, here almost always becomes there.”
And it’s happening all over the world.
Open borders and uncontrolled immigration have provided a steady supply of like-minded voters for the left. These large numbers of economic migrants almost always support Marxist causes, in deed if not in name.
More times than not they become entangled in social programs funded by hard-working taxpayers. Ever hear the phrase biting the hand that feeds you?
Even when these new citizens do not march in the streets, they vote overwhelmingly for liberal candidates offering platforms that resemble the attributes of Marx.
Marx believed that capitalism could only be overthrown by a revolution.
The left has been preparing for revolution for decades while the West has been in denial and embracing ideals tantamount to suicide.
Nikita Khrushchev once bragged “We will take America without firing a shot.” Khrushchev was a visionary.
Today the Democratic Party of the US seems to be morphing into the Communist Party.
In “1984” George Orwell prophetically wrote:
“Every record has been destroyed, or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped."
Historians know that history never really stops and we are doomed to repeat our mistakes if we do not learn from it.
It is becoming more evident that among the left’s Trojan Horse’s are unchecked immigration and indoctrination camps controlled by Marxist professors.
These Marxists in the streets hate America and our culture.
They hate democracy and capitalism and seek to force Marxist ideologies on our children. They do not care about black lives, white lives or any life. Their actions cause racial divisions not seen during the civil rights movement.
They are not accepting our constitutional republic or its democratic processes while forcing their ideology on those of opposing beliefs.
Once America goes, so too will Europe. The West will exist only in fairy tales and denigrated history books.
If the left takes control in November, many of us won’t have to wonder about what comes next.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn already told us.
These short tours through intellectual history are probably the best thing on TH-cam right now… Thank you for taking the time to assemble them!
Very good video. Thank you. That last bit about satisfaction from within was very interesting.
BLM, CRT, LGTQ+, FEMINISM, Transgenderism, Inclusivity, Global harmony, progressive
From the book The last of the Tsars by Robert Service, page 271 a quote from Lenin, Hang ( and ensure the hanging takes place in the full view of the people) no fewer than 100 Kulaks.
Excellent Vid, I read Solzhenitsyn many years ago in my teens, Cancer Ward is also a brilliant book.
Wow. "Withdrawn deeply into the life of the mind" is a powerful concept.
What many of these commentators don't tell you is that Soljenitsin wrote how non-russians predominantly Jews were up in the hierarchy of the running of the Soviet communist system and for that reason has books reduced in popularity and we're not pushed as reading material in western schools by the more PC socially orientated teaching systems, because some scholars considered soljenitsin to be anti-semitic.
One Israeli newspapers recently published a story about how a soviet general Genrick Yagoda; who was Jewish by birth, was responsible for the starvation of over 5 million Ukrainians. Stalin eventually considered him a threat and had him executed, but according to Soljenitsin 75% of the Russian Communist hierarchy were Jewish by ancestry.
He would be banned on youtube, fb, twitter today.
When I went to school, we repeatedly learned of the horrors of the holocaust, every time we did WWII (Which we did a lot because our school system is lazy) we took a look at it and reminded ourselves of it.
I did not know what communism was nor heard the name until I had left school and entered college.
In my school, we learned of those Russians that welcomed the Nazis as liberators, but we never were given any reason why. They never told us of the Soviet system or communism or why it was, it was just kind of "Russia was really bad as well then"
And then the people who welcomed the Nazis as liberators regretted it and changed their minds and that was that. We never learned how brutal Soviet communism was, I had to read up on it myself.
Beautiful man, beautiful book, God bless him
I’ve read the Gulag Archipelago when I became a Christian and my political views started to shift from the left . One thing that stood out to me about AS was when he embraced Christ.
Read his book 35 yrs ago, never imagined this could be so near in our life. History does repeat but should learn the history the Education system & the MSM had supressed.
Prayers to the world.
It’s hard to find this book in the library these days😾🇦🇺
You can read it online here: archive.org/details/TheGulagArchipelago-Threevolumes
or download here: self.gutenberg.org/articles/eng/The_Gulag_Archipelago
It's out of copyright so available for free.
10/14/21. Here we go. Once again, the madness is on the horizon. Good Luck.
I’m here in June 2020! We should get it now!
What a wonderful presentation!!
Thank you!
‘When I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Always.”
Gandhi
When working for Starbucks - I had a feeling that they had read this book. And applied the tactics.
And Canada.
And the USA.
I couldn't wait to leave.
Com on! Starbucks is not a siberian Gulag's camp!
@@mikemancuso2526 @ well - actually- it is
My great grandfather was a kulak exiled to Siberia. My mother was born in Siberia and moved to America by her 20s. The stories that she told me about how he and his wife and kids were abducted and dropped into the wilderness, with less than an hour's notice, only to survive despite the impossible conditions, are an inspiration.
vins0r I'm reading this book now to get myself ready for life in the 2020's under life President Trump and with one party rule.
@@musicstewart9744 This comment didnt age well lol Its going to get crazy with Biden, you'll be begging for Trump.
@@cannonball8885 LOL
Jordan Peterson is fond of this book I also find this video to be very interesting. I don’t know who these older works are so relevant...I appreciate what you do on this channel bro. Keep it up you’re doing the world a great good.
most crucial commentary here, now in the US- THANK YOU
2021, we are getting there, fast and steady.. Further we are from the God Jesus Christ, closer we are to this.
Brilliant video. This is truly the best philosophical channel on TH-cam. Thank you!!
What an amazing video, refreshing in these challenging times
"Two Hundred Years Together" ... why! ... has this not been published in English ...?
A genius who can only be truly appreciated when we've allowed his warnings to go unheeded.
9:45 "Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." Phil 4:11-13
Great video! I have heard Jordan talk about this book a lot, happy I got this video recommend to me. I will make sure to check it out
Another brilliant post!! Thank you so very much!
Better dead than red, lads
You will do nothing in the grave! Solzhenitsyn lived and told.
@Barrack Obama Vlogs found the commie
Then lads better dead reds
BennKay Well, maybe we shouldnt have let the rats that invented bolshevism in. Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote 200 Years Together, its a far better audiobook. It really, helps us see who we arent allowed to criticize. Who, controls the modern world. Good guys, didnt win ww2.
I think there were a lot of germans that would have wanted to live tho...
Nope. I think the "greatest generation" chose our fate for us in advance. Gulag it is.
Anyone who proclaims to be with Antifa really needs to watch this and take some notes.
David Anton Savage .... Alternatively, anyone who proclaims to be with Antifa should be imprisoned.
This should be compulsory reading in schools
A very accessible breakdown of some complex and intense historical horrors.
I started reading this book, but stopped. I felt I was living it .
It has been my cursory observation that those that have not found their niche or met their desires in a capitalist system tend to lean towards communism. Instead of trying to figure out their limitations, they project those limitations onto society. In their mind the only solution is to change society, rather than themselves.
I have never met a person in a capitalist system that is living within their means, meeting their expectations, and/or fulfilling their dreams express any interest in communism. If that person exist, they most likely are borne of guilt imposed by a personality flaw and a desire to be accepted by a particular family or peer group.
It seems communism may attract the soured minds of any society. If this is true, then each communist sympathiser can be reprogrammed by understanding their needs for self actualization. Inspiring the uninspired can rekindle the fires of freedom within, rather than allowing imprisoned academics to dash their dreams into shackled equality.
The mystery is why a college student would feel defeated before they have even begun? My guess is that they have learned defeatism before they entered college.
Dare to make a Marxist successful, and you will find a Capitalist ally.
just visiting
+X Files Excellent observations.
Not everyone can be rich. Janitors and Fast Food people are necessary for capitalism. But you are right with all its flaws Capitalism makes the world go round.
@@covenawhite4855 , they aren't necessary when automation can do their jobs cheaper than they can.
Catholic Faith is an antidote to Communism
@@susanlangguth955 Explain the statement. I honestly don't understand, because faith is a belief in an idea or concept without sufficient evidence for that belief. Although I believe Marxism is a failure, based on the evidence, I believe Catholicism is a failure based on the evidence as well. Historically speaking Catholicism and Marxism are suprisingly related. Both create a authoritarian regime based on centralized power and require communal service and sacrifice to the detriment of it's followers. Freedom is not an option, only the mandated illusion of freedom. Catholicism has had a great history of oppression. In respect to Catholicism and Marxism, one merely places the power upon the church, and the other on the state. Marxism eliminated the church not because it held any fervent few of theism or atheism, but that it was well aware of the historical political power of the church. And when there's two gunslingers in town, one's gotta go...I don't see how faith would help anyone in the face of Marxism, other than making it very easy for Marxism to overthrow the faithful.
The best thing about Solzhenitsyn. He was committed to truth and never wavered from it.
This statement is laughable, the book is a work of fiction, not intended to be taken seriously but used by the US as anticommunist propaganda in the Cold War period, the fact that so many in this comment section unquestioningly and uncritically accept this propaganda piece is stunning.
@@datepicgamer6326 Which book? He wrote many.
Sykes The Gulag Archipelago