Dekulakization: When the Soviets Tried to Wipe Out an Entire Class

[@paulthiessen6444]

I met a woman whose people were Germans from Ukraine. After the war Stalin relocated them to a desolate area near the Afghan border, basically to die. When the local mountain people saw they were German, the assumed that they had a common enemy in the soviets. So they helped them survive. And that’s how pascifist Mennonites were help by the mujahideen.

[@dickystrike6966]

Stalin was the supreme leader of the Union. All the Holodomor and other ppl management in the Ukraine was done by mr.Khrushev. A man that prefered to wear the same Ukranian folk shirt as Zelenskii nowadays.

[@LaughingindaMirror]

Thank you for sharing this story, it's the type of story that should be shared, 🙂👍

[@edwinsubijano263]

Bullshit !!!

[@robertashley7751]

Well now they're doing it in U.K.same commie playbook

[@jontaedouglas7244]

I understand what the Nazis did to the Soviets was beyond disgusting, but the Russian people should be just as enraged at what their own government did to their ancestors not just the Germans

[@4362mont]

Their own Russian government started earlier & kept it up longer. MAGA farmers, take note.

[@ianmacdiarmid1249]

​@4362mont lives rent free in your head, huh?

[@Skygrey2943]

The Nazis did terrible things to their own people too. There's a famous poem about all the people who got sent to the camps.

[@GrievousReborn]

@@Skygrey2943 he never said they didn't did he

[@drscopeify]

​@@Skygrey2943 Yeah the Nazis divided society by race and the Soviets/Bolsheviks divided society by class. The thing about the Soviets is after they took out of the powerful and wealthy, next were the land owners AKA Kulaks in this video. Anyone who owns land, and a private house was seen as Kulak which would be most Americans today LOL.

[@neilreynolds3858]

It was actually more insidious than that. Stalin said that the kulaks were a dying class and then killed them and justified the prophecy. A kulak could be a peasant with a cow.

[@marcusdemetrius1446]

Yes. My grandparents told me everybody in the villages was labeled a Kulak.

[@coimbralaw]

Make your own video Mr. “It was actually more insidious than that.“ this is a brilliant and comprehensive video. You’re insignificant

[@Jadzo87]

Anyone that hired anyone.

[@willmont8258]

And even some people who owned nothing were labeled "ideological kulaks" and deported to the gulag.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

LOL How do you get back loans with a cow. It is despicable what you are saying. It is enraging beyond words. The audacity. Hopefully, history will put things in its place.

[@EmilyJelassi]

We weren't taught any of this in school!! Thank you for bringing this horrendous history out of the darkness and into the light!!

[@reddijoon]

My theory for that is because Stalin was an ally during WWII. Truth is he was worse than Hitler. I know right. But, he was worse.

[@vikingspud]

Simon mentions the Holodomor in this. That should also be in our history books. Humans can be so cruel to each other.

[@Lola_in_the_Black]

@@reddijoon True. Our allies sold us (Poland) after WWII in spite of all he did and even though they knew Poles would be slaughtered through mock trials. They still did it and hid a lot of the Russian crimes for political advantages.

[@maka6134]

@@Lola_in_the_Blacki feel bad what happened to Poland but seeing the end of ww2 i do understand why. The west lost so much men and money fighting the axis. And during the war they spend a lot of resources to get the Russians strong enough to combat japan and Germany. So in 1945 when they could have chosen to fight the Soviet Union they would have fought against the Soviet Union at it’s peak military strength. We would have won but it would mean a war that would exhaust us till we would be in such a bad shape that we might as well lost since it would be the same in damage. In the west everyone was sick of war. We wouldn’t even go after Franco who was an open facist dictator who deserved to be invaded. But we had no more energy to fight further. So Poland sadly had to endure many years of oppression. I’m not sure if a war with the Russians would have benefited the poles since the battlefield would have been on polish soil

[@ChristophersMum]

@@maka6134 It's a real heartache when there is a choice between supporting a friend...or supporting your family... Where I live there was a great rapport between the Polish people and us the Scots...and there is also a Polish war cemetery which is carefully tended to...and there is still a good Polish community living here...not all old couples but young couples with families...so the bond is still strong in Perth Scotland.😁🌠

[@clintonpangburn3698]

Russia. Kicking its own ass since it had one..

[@alena-qu9vj]

Russia - the wet dream of every megalomanic self-proclaimed Ruler of the World..

[@brosephyolonarovichstalin2915]

😂

[@TheDude-w5l]

There was a prison experiment in Soviet Romania initiated by party members with strong ties to Russia; one of the victims, got his ass so often and badly beaten that the other inmates nicknamed him 'cheekless'. You reminded me of that. Search for 'experimentul Pitești '. Maybe Simon could do a bit about it also.

[@chissstardestroyer]

Kind of yeah; and that's downright sad when you think of it.

[@extragoogleaccount6061]

Russian history: and then it got worse…

[@GrievousReborn]

You should cover the Stalinist repressions in Mongolia where thousands of Buddhists were killed in Mongolia when the country was an ally of the Soviet Union.

[@joshh535]

I didn’t know llamas had religion, but Buddhism seems appropriate

[@ChristophersMum]

@@joshh535 I think that he means the Dali lama...a Buddhists spiritual leader... I know that they slaughtered many Buddhist monks there.

[@Aaron-zu3xn]

was it all soviet or was it like tibet where Mao's chinese communists destroyed the country?

[@dickystrike6966]

Only one religion was actually allowed in the USSR - Jewdaism.

[@bobertjones2300]

Karma is inescapable and has unlimited time to work itself out.

[@breadmoth6443]

good to know people talk about communist crimes - because remember the communists were not on the right side of history either.

[@Altrag_]

capitalism is the cause of the world's woes. Didn't you get educated? The only reason it hasn't worked yet is because it "wasn't real communism"

[@Spaceman719]

You’re not on the right side of history when it comes to Ukraine and Gaza pal!

[@DrunkenDemon]

I dont think its Problem in the system, its a problem in people. We always settle for the simplest solutions with the worst outcomes and fail to learn from it.

[@iattacku2773]

@@DrunkenDemonwhy not both. Corruption, greed, etc are all natural facets of human nature and society but what makes it worse under communism is that the state has a monopoly on all industry.

[@DrunkenDemon]

@@iattacku2773 how doeas that differ from an unregulated market with monopolys?

[@danilolabbate]

Very good and informative video. The deeper I go into this subject, the darker it gets. Friends from ex USSR countries don't like to talk about it very much.

[@dpelpal]

Yeah, it's one of the reasons that Russia is still so backward today

[@AndrewMann205]

As Putin looks at the USSR with his rose colored glasses his face lights up while trying to control his emotions that are putting a smile on his face. He, like his society, loves ruthless dictators. The horrible things they have done to millions of innocent people in the past demonstrates the power they had over others. That provides their motivation to be awful human beings today.

[@HannahShayan-fd2rt]

Amazing how you find "niche " topics like this and high light them like this. Time and time again, I realise, how sophisticated I find this youtube channel! Great work, 1000x thank you!

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

It's not "niche" to lie purposefully

[@handsomeboi3767]

I hope people don’t forget that it was Lenin who started the dekulakization. Thankfully he didn’t even get that far because he died, the guy actually and truly believed in marxism he was a fanatic.

[@ferretyluv]

He wasn’t that much of a fanatic. His dekulakization consisted of collectivization and redistribution and then insulting the bagmen.

[@waiflu]

if it wasnt for him russia would still be ruled by a tsar, the soviet union was an improvement for the people and communism is a better option than capitalism

[@Mr.Vape420]

@@waifluinteresting g take

[@Jameson1776]

@@waifluso you think multiple genocides is better? You’re crazy!

[@PalmelaHanderson]

I don't get the romanticization of Lenin. Sure, he may not have been *as bad* as Stalin (we'll never know, he wasn't in power all that long), but he was all for free elections... as long as they went his way. He was all for free speech, as long as he agreed with it. He wasn't above using secret police. Lenin was not a good guy.

[@Interference22]

As they say, seizing the means of production is all good and well until you realise *you're* the means of production.

[@markzuckergecko621]

And they don't seem to understand that redistributing wealth and goods means someone has to be in charge of the piggy bank, and it isn't going to be you.

[@cantsay2205]

@@markzuckergecko621 yep. "oh, they should take the wealth and give it to everyone!" like babe, what makes you think you're getting a single cent?

[@tritium1998]

​@@markzuckergecko621 So all your own democratic revolutions were pointless since you couldn't all be in charge of the bank.

[@tritium1998]

​@@cantsay2205You're literally crying about them redistributing the wealth among themselves out from feudalism instead of you.

[@cantsay2205]

@@tritium1998 at least I don't think anyone owes me anything, maybe I was just raised better though?

[@edwardstarrett5545]

BRAVO! This needs to be common knowledge. Communism is hell. Dostoevski and Solzhenitsyn should be mandatory high school basic history.

[@eadweard.]

Dostoyevsky died long before communism arrived in Russia.

[@arvintyree1109]

People say stalins communism was not true communism. But I've never seen any other kind of communism succeed throughout history

[@eadweard.]

Dostoyevsky didn't live to see communism.

[@Talisguy]

​@@arvintyree1109One reason Orwell, who had strong socialist leanings, was so critical of the USSR is that people _did_ attempt communism that wasn't an authoritarian nightmare - libertarian, decentralised communism was attempted in parts of Spain and France and seemed to be working just fine on at least a local level - and Stalin had it stamped out. Communist communities have worked in the past. They were aggressively stamped out by the USSR. And that's not even getting into the role the US had in toppling any Cold War government that was too far left of centre for its tastes. There's also libertarian socialist Rojava, if you want to count that. It has its problems, but it's a model of openness, high living standards and stability compared to a lot of its neighbours.

[@speakingwithoutnet]

@@Talisguy Communist-like societies can work at low levels and in small groups, but even there they often fail. Israel had many kibbutz 's when it was created, collective farming communities, now only a handful remain. the majority broke up due to disagreements, people wanting more control over their land. On a large scale, Communist countries either just go heavily socialist, with clear class structure between inner party members, outer party members and everyone else (most African countries that were supported by the USSR during the Cold War, current day Venezuela), collapse under their own weight (USSR, Cambodia), become nothing more than dictatorships (China), or slowly become more open and free (Vietnam). And in all of these countries, they see a large amount of the population wanting to leave for better conditions abroad. The problem is Communism expects people to be logical, selfless and ultimately good. You have to be perfect to not have people abusing the system, and once more than a handful of people start abusing it, the whole Communist system collapses.

[@warriorthawitt9971]

My Great-Grandma on my Mom's side was orphaned at the age of 6 by her parents being labeled Kulaks and subsequently, being executed. Her life growing up as a street orphan in the Soviet Union was absolute hell to say the least.

[@vasilyfamilienko4318]

Additionally - after 1930s villagers who got to Kolkhoz's did not get passports until 1970s (and last person received passport in 1981). Without passport they were unable to move to other city, get education over 9th grade, change job, etc. Party members could even deny them marriage. Also they were paying tax on "not having kids" if they are married woman above 25 or man above 20 (unmarried women were not taxed as it was seen as failure of a man that he was not able to force her marry him). It was basically a Feudalism system about them. In report from 1967 Vice Chairperson of Minister's Council of USSR Polyansky D.S. wrote: "37% of population of USSR have no passports. This makes it hard or impossible for them to vote, get education, change job, or move elsewhere". Plus those people were not receiving money for their job (until 1960s), but instead were paid with "workdays" (basically a number of hours they worked at collective farm), which in the end of the year were evaluated and then you could exchange them in the next year for food or cloths. And, by the way, those 37+% were not included into many public statistics, like "average salary" or "literacy rate".

[@endrankluvsda4loko172]

It's still so weird to me people wear and fly the hammer and sickle even though so many people were murdered by it.

[@evolvedape3341]

Knowing real people actually did what is described in this video less than a hundred years ago and you still find it weird?

[@waiflu]

you think no one died in the transition from feudalism to capitalism? look up this little unknown even called the french revolution

[@drscopeify]

@@nickorme8112 What did the USA do in South America? Oh nothing.... Stop spreading conspiracies

[@nickorme8112]

@@drscopeify I sincerely can not tell if that was sarcasm or not...

[@drscopeify]

@@nickorme8112 So tell me what did the USA do in South America?

[@KLRN-qc7jp]

"Created the atmosphere of fear and mistrust that pitted the communities againtst each other." Doesn't that...remind you of something?

[@garyclark3843]

Every dictator or wannabe dictator to ever exist.

[@finncatwillhelm2457]

Fascism

[@thomaswillard6267]

Yeah, sounds like the GOP platform ever since the Southern Swap

[@rorytribbet6424]

@@thomaswillard6267Bruh just accept it is the platform of both parties lol. Feminism, for instance, relies heavily on making sure women are as terrified of men in general as possible, to make them feel like they are still living in the 1950’s in order to keep women in line with their beliefs. This also does the job of driving a massive wedge between the genders, which are supposed to work as a team to support the society, and causes immense social and political discord

[@atenas80525]

@@thomaswillard6267 You mean like comparing the MAGA hat to the swastika? Or the MAGA kid? Or the border whip lie? Or the Hunter laptop "is a Russian hoax?" Or the Mueller report? Or the Jan 6 committee destroying evidence? Or allowing perjury? or arresting reports? Or weaponizing the courts to destroy your political opponent Yeah, the GOP are fascists. Uh huh, sure. I really love when you Soros' bots get on here and allow a chance for the truth to come out

[@AbsolutusMaxiumus]

Not much has changed since then.

[@kingkayfabe5358]

Except people aren't being killed in millions anymore. So a lot has changed actually

[@shanbannan17]

and ppl wonder why they want to be free from this communist crap

[@neilreynolds3858]

No? Russia is probably the least socialist country in Europe. That's why the West wants them gone.

[@markingraham4892]

Ford ran the soviet car industry and communism is a market economy.

[@JeeeeeZ289]

We fought the wrong enemy. Patton

[@TheRevolutionReport1917]

Kulaks were not "just peasants that did well for themselves" they were peasants who employed agricultural farm labor on their large private plots often in bad conditions. Even the Bolsheviks differentiated kulaks from the "middle peasantry" which were essentially peasants who did well for themselves but were not agricultural capitalists.

[@sneedchuckington]

You just described a peasant that did well for themselves. Kulak as a definition was broadened sufficiently to include literally any peasant who employed other peasants for labour e.g. a peasant who hired seasonal help at harvest time.

[@Mr.Vape420]

My grandma owned a huge farm in Latvia. My great grandmother was taken to Siberia and stayed for 20 years or something. Many Latvians fled and now don’t speak Latvian like me. My grandpa was ahead of railroad in Germany army so he had to flee. My grandma married some dude high up in army. Now Latvia free 1/4 population smokes I las red.

[@Grenadier311]

What do they smoke?

[@Mr.Vape420]

@@Grenadier311 cigarettes

[@Vtec_Just_Kicked_In_Yo]

My great gramma, my grammas mother, is from Belarus’s had like 20 acres or so, many pictures of my dad as a kid. She only brought up her home life once. My dad fondly remembers how she would just disappear for MONTHS or even YEARS, and would just show up or call one day and be like, I am alive!! (for context my great gramma, gramma and dad are from the former ussr) My gramma hardly mentions anything about this or her childhood. My father believes this is what happened to my great gramma, all that is ever said is happy or silly memories. My father, gramma and great gramma came here in 1989? My father was not born here, but my gramma has worked at the same place since 1979. I have no idea.

[@joeholden6129]

Thanks for this summary. The Soviets were particularly proud of this extermination. The population of Eastern Ukraine was so decimated that they had to relocate Russians there to operate the farms. These Russian speaking people are the predominate group there today. Ukrainian hatred of Russians had its genisis in the Holodomor. Germans saw what communism was doing to Russia and other regions as the Soviet state was being built and were horrified. The Weimar Republic created horrible conditions in Germany. Hitler's appeal to Germans was his promise to eliminate communism. Ukrainians wanted to get rid of the Russian communists that had stolen their land and livelihood and murdered their citizens. This is why Ukrainians joined the Nazis and why Naziism persists in Ukraine to this day. The Soviets cordoned off huge farming regions; took away the farming implements and starved the people to death. There is a lot more film footage of the starving and dead littering the streets. The Soviets were quite proud of their brutality.

[@TheDigitalApple]

Yet many still believe the failure that is Communism can still be done, it sickens me.

[@Ubique2927]

Many still believe that communism worked and it was the evil west that bankrupted the place.

[@sofakingcrazy1]

They'll say... That wasn't REEEEEEEEEal communism.

[@mytruecrimelibrary]

Not many, at least not in America. Communism isn't popular in the states, no matter how much Maga wants us to believe it.

[@ReallyDarnell]

That’s like saying we should automatically abandon democracy and capitalism because it was used enslave Africans and genocide Native Americans in the US

[@brasscross5476]

It did kinda work, Russia went from a litteral medieval state that suffered through, Ww1, a devastating civil war and the horror that was the Eastern front in WW1 to singlehandedly holding back the entire Western Hemisphere and wining the space race against Nazi aided US space program. China is a success story too, went from,.. a lot of shit (the list is long) to being the second biggest economy in the world. I get people hate the casualties (understandable), but what about the casualties of capitalism no one seems to bring up? Not like the system works on exploitation of the less fortunate, violent coups, countless wars for oil and resources, what about those casualties, are they less important than the kulaks?

[@danielhuras617]

my great great grandfather was one of the few people in his Mennonite Kulak family to escape the soviets, to this day I have no idea how many that stayed behind ended up surviving. and I think it would be fair to say that I hold strong anti-communism sentiments because of it.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

Well don't, simply Google: "Russian classic literature kulak mentions". You'll get it and teach others.

[@LyudmilaAs]

Нужна мировая революция. Только мировая революция способна ликвидировать социальное неравенство. Нужно ликвидировать всех классовых врагов.

[@LyudmilaAs]

Предприниматели (бизнесмены) - это спекулянты, ростовщики, эксплуататоры. Они классовые враги.

[@LyudmilaAs]

В обществе, основанном на эксплуатации, высшей моралью является мораль социалистической революции. Л. Троцкий. Агония капитализма и задачи Четвертого Интернационала

[@WarValkyrie]

Damn... China is useing this playbook against the Uyghurs!

[@idkwhatusertouse]

​@karlbrothers2153bro is lying for no reason 😭😭😭😭😭

[@ReySchultz121]

​@@idkwhatusertouse The hell did he say?

[@idkwhatusertouse]

@@ReySchultz121 he tried defending what Stalin did

[@Jameson1776]

@@idkwhatusertouseno China is definitely committing genocide.

[@Jameson1776]

@@ReySchultz121he was speaking about the genocide china is committing.

[@richardbrewis436]

Thank you Into the Shadows and Simon Whistler, a very good documentary article. It requires an unbiased and tempered intellect to make such films. Thank you again!

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

You are still uneducated. Google: "Russian classic literature kulak mentions".

[@nicolashuffman4312]

I went to the second best rated high school in North Carolina and never heard the term Kulak. In fact, I did not learn the term until I was 40. Why is this covered up? I have noticed that all of the genocides and other atrocities of history are enabled by powerful authoritarian governments. We need to keep the peoples of the world more powerful than their governments.

[@cyclonebuzz8172]

Did they teach you about Mao's great leap backwards also?

[@nicolashuffman4312]

@@cyclonebuzz8172 No, they did not. They did teach us that the national socialist workers party was far right though....which makes no sense at all.

[@cyclonebuzz8172]

@nicolashuffman4312 Yeah, it's frustrating when people say fascism is far right when it's a socialist form of government. Mao makes stalin look like a saint in comparison because of all the people who died from his rule. Pol pot also is pretty bad because he managed to eliminate 30% of his population.

[@suryakumarsharna3074]

I would say Pol Pot was the worst out of any of the Communist despots, seeing as he killed over 25% of his population.

[@marcusdemetrius1446]

It was the time of the "Iron Curtain." It was difficult for any information to come in or out of the soviet union(especially in rural areas. Sidenote: The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because Stalin didn't want people to know that even poor people could afford cars in America.

[@kennylarsen5241]

This event and others like it is why many Soviet citizens were inclined to support the Nazis over the Soviet Union.

[@kevindorland738]

2 million Russians eagerly fought on the side of Germany.

[@willmont8258]

They at first thought the Germans would liberate them from Stalin, but found out that they didn't come to liberate anyone, and Nazis saw all Slavic people as "sub-human" who like the Jews, were only good for slave labor or death. That is why many Ukrainians joined with the Germans at first, but found out the hard way that Nazism was just another evil, mass murdering ideology.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

It is 180 wrong. If only you had a glimpse of idea or meaning to the words you are uttering... Despicable.

[@xxvxxv5588]

@@willmont8258 It's true. In the occupied territories of Ukraine, the Germans carried out a brutal colonial policy, as a result of which 4-5 million Ukrainian civilians died and most of them were not Jews, but ethnic Ukrainians. At the same time, Ukrainians are almost never mentioned among the victims of German Nazism, even less often than Poles or Russians due to the fact that anti-Ukrainian prejudices are very influential and they exist not only in Russia.

[@ramblinman4197]

Especially citizens of the Ukraine, which suffered through the holomodor. They welcomed the Germans as liberators but, as others have mentioned, were later victims of the Germans as well.

[@dougpauls5565]

thank you - this is the story of my wife's grandfather - Franz Dyck - in the Spring of 1931 - exiled from the Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine rural country side to a 'work camp' in Chelyabinsk, Russia - a miraculous escape back to the Ukraine in the Winter of 1931. Only to be betrayed by his cousin & executed at the Zaporizhzhia police station in 1938 as an 'enemy of the state' a horrible period of time in human history

[@invidatauro8922]

Thank you for shedding light on Communist atrocities.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

It's the trolley problem. Nice way of saying you lack basic math skills.

[@invidatauro8922]

@@Shut.Eye.Cinema ?

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

@@invidatauro8922 let's say that you have. a button that kills 99.9% of population, but also a guarantee that from what remains will sprout and emerge a new civilization that will span the milky way and beyond, forever. HOW FAST WILL YOU PRESS IT?

[@bobertjones2300]

Shut Eye keeps eyes shut but continually opens mouth with nonsense.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

@@bobertjones2300 countless examples in the comments. You're one to talk. Zero counterarguments. Clap

[@LillibitOfHere]

My last name is very close to Kulak. It makes this extra alarming to listen to.

[@eadweard.]

So this is about you in a way.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

I am lost for words how dumb this sounds

[@scott2452]

Worth looking up on here Bertrand Russel talking about his interview with Lenin. Apparently Lenin laughed about whipping up the poor peasants to hang the rich ones from the nearest tree. This didn’t start with Stalin.

[@michaelcoward1902]

people forget that Lenin was a monster as well...Trotsky wouldn't have been much better.

[@scott2452]

@@michaelcoward1902 I suspect one of the reasons we hear criticism of Stalin and not the other communist leaders is because it was ‘allowed’ by Khrushchev in his 1956 report against cults of personality… and a whole lot of western academics toe the party line

[@dickystrike6966]

​@@michaelcoward1902Trotski controlled the red army and responisible for all the atrocities

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

The term "class" is a category of meaning, it is not extermination of flesh

[@scott2452]

@@Shut.Eye.Cinema …is this a bot? No one mentioned ‘the destruction of the kulaks as a class’…what was mentioned is a first hand account of Lenin laughing about encouraging effectively the ‘destruction of flesh’…

[@string_fellow_hawk]

Smooth Simon again . ❤ Great work Olivier 👏

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

It's despicable to lie this way.

[@string_fellow_hawk]

@Shut.Eye.Cinema ?? Simon sounded fine and Olivier did a good job writing .

[@Aphotic_One]

@@string_fellow_hawk It is a commie bot. it is shilling for the ussr so it wants to claim history is a lie

[@Edward-yoo]

Simon, I must say the timing of this video is so uncanny. I am just about finishing up the Gulag Archipelago, and for the past few days I have been saying wouldn't it be nice if my favourite KZbinr were to release a video on Into the Shadows about this book. The same way you did with the Lefortovo Prison episode, and would you look at that, Simon did make the video.......amazing. Next on my reading list is An Island Hell by S.A Malsagoff, fingers crossed there will also be a video about it

[@chrismodski6284]

If you haven't read it already, *One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich* is another good first-hand account of gulag life.

[@Edward-yoo]

@@chrismodski6284 I didn't even know about it. Thank you, I will look for a copy of it

[@PhilJonesIII]

I'm surprised the book(s) were not mentioned in the video. A harrowing read in places. Interestingly, it has been required reading for Russian students (16-17 yo) since around 2010. This part of history was untouched in my school years and certainly, none of my children had heard of it.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

Ah, the book that states on the first page it is a work of fiction... You are still uneducated. Google: "Russian classic literature kulak mentions".

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

That Island Hell was erected by the Tzsar

[@chissstardestroyer]

And many times these deportees often wound up in *one particular place* a death-camp way deadlier than *any and all*, especially those in Nazi Germany, an area referred to in historical records as "Kolymar gulag", one that actually meant certain death. The journey itself was deadly enough; after the trip on the transsiberian railway; on *boxcars no less*, they were offloaded at Vladavostok, and swiftly loaded into not transports, but *freighters*, crowded up against the hull near the freezing water, and sent to the port of Magdalan in Kolymar, where they were hastily offloaded again, and shipped to the mines in the region. Going the opposite direction, however, were the products they were to extract: gold supplies. The arrangement was simple: men go in, gold comes out, you get to eat only so long as you fulfill the quota we set- and you *will* need to eat; no, we will NOT send men after you; we'll simply let the environment do our work for us... and the food supplies were so low and of such low quality that they *ensured* that there were events of outright cannibalism between the prisoners just to stay *alive*.

[@4362mont]

Those with fanily farms, take note.

[@aubreymorgan9763]

You will own nothing

[@Eh-Mungu-Nguvu-Yetu-q8p]

Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany had alot in common

[@jaconbran2367]

Genicide doesn’t have to be race / ethnicity based or be a whole group or even involve death even if persecuting the Kulaks didn’t result in their demise it would still officially be considered genicide

[@AeSyrNation]

The system cannot work without enemies within and/or enemies without.

[@zackatwood2867]

Without what

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

Categories of Meaning; Means of production - factory. A computer is a tool of production. A shovel is a tool of labor. A toothbrush is a personal property, A wife is not, and so are guarded facilities. “Private property” never existed beyond a sheet of paper. It is fiction by definition itself.

[@xavierzabie8184]

Love how the comments blame the ideology for one man's cruelty. It's like blaming the concept of a Republic for Sulla's purges. Or blaming the concept of democracy for Sparta sacking Athens. Misses a lot of nuance. But sure communism vs fascism or whatever y'all are on about.

[@xpendabull]

Good thing no one today wants to eliminate anyone who has more due to hard work…oh wait…

[@morgo5000]

Arguably as bad as the holocaust but rarely heard about. Thanks for making this 👍

[@neilreynolds3858]

Rummel at the University of Hawaii has written books giving the best estimates of how many of their own people Communist regimes killed. For the USSR, the estimates cluster around 60 million. That doesn't even include the war dead by the Germans.

[@dickystrike6966]

It was mentioned in Mein Kampf as almost all the soviet bolsheviks were jews.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

It is 180 wrong. If only you had a glimpse of idea or meaning to the words you are uttering... Despicable. As a person whose family died in the holocaust but a small part was saved in the CCCP - I am reporting you for misinformation. There is nothing to "argue" or discuss.

[@SafetySpooon]

In some ways *worse* - and I say this as a Jew. The SCALE was worse, way worse. But the intent to *murder* wasn't necessarily part of it.

[@AstralLice83]

My great-grandfather and his wife were dispossessed in 1927 during period of collectivization policy and sent to "special settlement" in Gulag near Novokuznetsk in Siberia. Until 1986, all my relatives had no political rights due to the status of "enemies of the people and the revolution". My great-grandfather was 18 and his wife was 19. According to Soviet law, they were considered kulaks, although due to the starvation of cattle, they had only a horse left at that moment. He also tried to enlist in a penal battalion during World War II, but was denied the reason for the "treacherous genes".

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

We have countless examples of people whose parents did wrong but themselves reached high. What you describe could be a multigenerational crime syndicate of pariahs. A horse is not a tool for a loan shark to get his money back, which is what kulaks did. With respect, I am not dictating your legacy, I am pointing out facts.

[@extragoogleaccount6061]

@ Shut.Eye.Cinema Without respect, you are just making shit up out of nowhere, telling a survivor of intergenerational trauma that his family was a crime syndicate because they owned a horse. Psychotic

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

@@extragoogleaccount6061 Well, you can calm yourself with the fact that the others couldn't argue, you just couldn't read.

[@shelleybergen1232]

And this was why my father-in-law, his sisters, infant brother and their parents fled Russia for Canada. His infant brother died on the ship journey to Canada. The village where he was born no longer exists, the Russian's obliterated it.

[@Based_n_Boredpilled]

A truly “classless” society.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

wat

[@DogmaticAtheist]

Simon's beard is my spirit animal

[@thormusique]

This is excellently done, thank you! It's something everyone should learn about in school (well, if history were even a thing in schools) as an example of how not to run a country, as well as how to tell if your own country has decided to go 'full marxist'. It also makes the EU's current pressures and controls on farmers (under the guise of 'green policy') look even more suspicious, alarming and, well, Stalinist. Cheers!

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

You are still uneducated. Google: "Russian classic literature kulak mentions".

[@steveblomefield9513]

excellent, simon, superb

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

You are still uneducated. Google: "Russian classic literature kulak mentions".

[@007ShaolinMonk]

So this is what they mean by 'denazification' and 'demilitarization'.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

Oh you have no idea. Read my other comments

[@owenlichtenberg7932]

2:15 Stalin is pictured as some dim witted brute, devoid of any ideals. This is a caricature. He was incredibly shrewd, charming and a communist true believer. His reason for collectivising agriculture was ideological; the extermination of capitalism in the countryside.

[@jacobgleisner5630]

Yeah he didn't build all those camps Lenin was the architect. Stalin definitely was one of the hammers later on but he was a spider for sure.

[@zachshepherd9445]

I took a class on the Soviet Union in college. When we got to discussing the Kulak liquidation, the discussions were so unbelievably watered down and listening to the socialists in our class that tried defending Lenin and Stalin’s atrocities was unfathomable. Political science departments at universities throughout the United States are filled with this filth. How?

[@davybear4116]

I am lucky, my university went into full detail. Most students didn't know about it, but the few who did were very vocal. We had one marxist in our course and he was really quiet.

[@markzuckergecko621]

Because we lost the Cold War.

[@PhuckedUpPhilosophy]

@@davybear4116are you saying you would’ve had an issue with him for sharing his opinion ?

[@rob6052]

​@@PhuckedUpPhilosophy He didn't say that at all. He said the "Marxist" stayed quiet. I'm sure that said Marxist might have actually learned something that wasn't in the party manual.

[@PhuckedUpPhilosophy]

@@rob6052 thanks for adding your clearly unbiased comment.

[@seanmellows1348]

Excellent overview, very condensed. Thanks.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

You are still uneducated. Google: "Russian classic literature kulak mentions".

[@adriannaconnor6471]

What Stalin did to the kulak children really sounds like what China is doing to Uyghur children.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

LOL are you outta your friggin mind?

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

🏥🙏🌎😇 Thank you very much 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@aq5426]

Nevermind that most of the Kulaks were Ukrainian. Dekulakization was nothing more than a run-up to the Holodomor.

[@jessicazaytsoff1494]

I know only a bit about the Holodomor but I understood it as more of a forced famine in Ukraine. There could have been food but they were the wrong type of people. (According to the USSR.)

[@dickystrike6966]

Holodomor is how bolsheviks created Ukraine (separatis state) from the Ukraine (Polish colony conquered by the Russian empire).

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

REPORTED FOR MISINFORMATION. REST IN YOUR GROUNDS, MJOLNIR ABOVE YE

[@thilgu]

​@@Shut.Eye.Cinemarussian bot.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

@@thilgu Oh, you have no idea just how out of touch you look from the side. I'm honestly gonna screenshot this for good memories. I'd be proud to be a RUS bot, however I'm just privileged with common sense and critical thinking. Anything else is a blessing.

[@billgriffin835]

When you seize seed grain as hoarded food there's nothing to plant come spring.

[@DouglasHalvorson]

Thankypu for all your hard work and for all the wonderful entertainment 🎉

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

You are still uneducated. Google: "Russian classic literature kulak mentions".

[@swampy1584]

I had no idea about this thank you for such a good explanation

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

You are still uneducated. Google: "Russian classic literature kulak mentions".

[@kellyrobinson8157]

Proud great great grandson of a kulak who escaped to Canada

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

You are still uneducated. Google: "Russian classic literature kulak mentions".

[@fullmetalmex0172]

Awesome video!! Thank you

[@JohnAPrins]

It was both class- and geno- cide, the Kulaks were targeted with these horrors partly for not being the same people as those that ran and controlled the Bolshevik party.

[@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537]

Average _Early Life_ section enjoyer...

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

As someone whose family died in the H, but a small part survived in the CCCP, I am reporting you for misinformation. It is despicable what you are saying. The audacity. It is enraging beyond words. Hopefully, history will put things in its place.

[@JohnAPrins]

@@Shut.Eye.Cinema Average "Truth I don't like Is misinformation" Schizophrenia haver... Given that the H has to have laws preventing people from asking questions about the ridiculous claims I'm surprised you would want history to put things in their place, since the H would fall under "foundation myths".

[@JohnAPrins]

@@Shut.Eye.Cinema As someone who tries to use the H to bludgeon people I'm surprised you would want history to put things in their place. "Foundation Myth for an attempted takeover of the West" is a way worse bludgeon than "Big meanies gave us our 'FO' after decades of 'FA'".

[@JohnAPrins]

@@Shut.Eye.Cinema Are you sure you want history to put things in their place? "Interruption of FAFO turned into a Foundation Myth" has a lot less weight as a bludgeon than the current mythology surrounding the H.

[@dmitryisakov8769]

8:16 what are the posters here?🤔 which languages?

[@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg]

Happening today in South Africa and Zimbabwe

[@Aaron-zu3xn]

happening today in the USA to people fleeing the mexican cartels they're even forcing medical sterilization surgery on women so they can never have kids again if they're ever released from the concentration camps

[@tritium1998]

Only those 2 African countries? They must've had unique colonialism.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

Glad to hear.

[@lashlarue7924]

@@tritium1998By your logic turnabout is fair play in Europe.

[@jmace2424]

The kulak level definition kept getting lower from having a big farm down to… having a cow or a goat.

[@84marcow]

People are sick

[@CruelandCold]

Communists aren't people.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

Yeah, to lie to his audience like that is a new low

[@captlazer5509]

​@Shut.Eye.Cinema Stalin was far far worse and destroyed millions of lives.

[@velvetcroc9827]

Only someone who never had to endure living under the sway of the kulaks could regret this.

[@tomsheppard378]

The soviet system worked so well it turned the soviet union into a net importer of grain. Rewards are necessary to motivate people to work and innovate something lacking in the soviet system. The 5 year plans demotivated innovation

[@dickystrike6966]

Supreme soviet were jews who tried to implement the practices of managing ppl as cattle they applied in Poland's colony of Ukraine.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

So they did not give grain to France? go figure

[@tysondennis1016]

Great video!

[@bertman4399]

The modern equivalent is saying that someone has "privilege " and that wealth and power should be redistributed to collective "identities"

[@michaelcoward1902]

IT says a lot that you think having to listen to other peoples opinions is the same as being Dekulakified. It speaks of a very small minded human being who has lived an incredibly sheltered life and hasn't had to do much sharing.

[@bertman4399]

@michaelcoward1902 my dude do you know what a straw man argument Is? It's where you deliberately misrepresent an argument to undermine it,and the ad hominem attack is weak,you don't even know me to make those claims.

[@bertman4399]

@@michaelcoward1902 did you pour some extra pretentiousness on your morning cereal?

[@cbbees1468]

​@@michaelcoward1902Ok Gr00m3r.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

Categories of Meaning; Means of production - factory. A computer is a tool of production. A shovel is a tool of labor. A toothbrush is a personal property, A wife is not, and so are guarded facilities. “Private property” never existed beyond a sheet of paper. It is fiction by definition itself.

[@JanuszKrysztofiak]

Regarding Stalin and kulaks, perhaps the word 'justified' is not the best here, but there was a deeper reasoning behind his attitude, rooted in the failure of NEP. Lenin's New Economic Policy created a strange hybrid of state economy and private small-scale economic activity, including agriculture. It helped to kickstart economy after the complete ruin, but its hybrid nature eventually lead to the 'scissor crisis'. With private farming operating on market principles, the state industry not and no free foreign trade, there was no good feedback loop between the two. So when the farmers initially increased the production, the industry either could not or did not want to respond sufficiently with the availability of goods for farmers to buy. Thus, the agriculture prices dived, whereas the industrial ones increased (it looked scissor-like on charts). So in turn, the farmers seeing that their increased productivity does not bring them tangible material benefits scaled down their output. The rationale behind collectivization was to make the countryside produce more without quick gratification. Moreover, it was hoped that bigger collective estates would be able to exploit economies of scale better than individual, smaller onces. All that extra production could be then exported to finance importation of know-how and machinery for the military-industrial complex. The irony is that whereas tsar Alexander II abolished serfdom in 1861 (albeit with high compensations for land-owners, turning the released peasants into long-term debtors), Stalin effectively reinstated it: until late 1960s, rural population of kolkhozes had no free access to internal passports and as such could neither travel (let alone migrate) outside of their vicinity without explicit permission.

[@mrbushi1062]

people dont realize that in its own way Soviet Russia was as bad as Nazi Germany

[@FairbrookWingates]

Didn't Stalin actually kill more Russians than Germany, between famine and purges? NOT excusing Hitler one iota, just something I think is true, and supports what you wrote.

[@markzuckergecko621]

@@FairbrookWingates more than the Nazis and fascists put together. And it's sad that you even have to add the disclaimer about not excusing Hitler, but I know what you mean. If you just say "communists bad", they'll accuse you of being a Nazi. It's so damn dishonest.

[@edwardbateman3094]

This is Nazi apologia

[@mrbushi1062]

@@FairbrookWingates I mean yeah Mao Zedong killed more then both combined lol I'm not trying to say Nazis weren't awful. Industrial death factory are a horror. However because they were "part" of the allies I feel most of this gets pushed under the rug. Nazis almost get to much attention. Japan was worse imo and that coverage is JUST now coming to light. Japan also killed just as many Chinese as Nazis killed Jews but is barbaric ways.

[@waiflu]

if it wasnt for them youd be writing this in german rn pal

[@Jen39x]

I’m seeing several comments about the Mennonite. Someone told my father, who dressed similar to the Mennonite, that by the end of WWII there were no longer any Mennonite in Ukraine despite being quite common before. I wonder how many of these people were also Jewish as they were common in the Ukraine as well. So yes a class cleansing but also a religious based genocide of anyone not Orthodox as well. I’m sure a bunch of the more religious of that church were gathered up in the “cleansing” as well. It was anyone who put a faith above anything else.

[@manicmechanic448]

This feels familiar.

[@goodlookinouthomie1757]

Who's watching this just as the UK government start coming after farmers.

[@Lord_Yoshi]

12:56 They really love that number.

[@martist911wasits-not-real4]

Yeah, they get unlimited mileage outta that number. Used frequently on TV and hollywood. I realized it as a kid and "the six million dollar man" got me thinking 🤔

[@JB-kt9dx]

U onto something

[@SafetySpooon]

@@JB-kt9dx No, he's *on* something.

[@Jadzo87]

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Mr Simon has a book "the gulag archipelago" talking about these events and his own internment for writing the book. There was a wave of zeks(prisoners) consisting of wives who had refused to give up their husbands and were enemies of the state(because the husbands were law abiding soviets.) Edit: engineers wave that were sabotaging machines that were broken, farmers wave...all kinds of waves. They filled the prisons with a gold wave and kulaks spilled over straight to gulag...in one massive step

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

Please read the first page of it, where it states it is a work of fiction, a figment of imagination.

[@Aphotic_One]

@@Shut.Eye.Cinema Just like communism

[@thestevenjaywaymusic7775]

And Putin wants to repeat this. How vile can you be?

[@renaissanceredneck73]

I think it is a bit more complicated than that. He isn't wanting to go back to the Soviet era, he envisions himself as more of a "Peter the Great" and he is wanting to go back to the Russian Empire era with him as the "Great and Terrible" Tzar. Both are bad, both should be prevented if possible. We do not need a new era of *Monarchs!!*

[@ReySchultz121]

​@@renaissanceredneck73There we go.

[@AuntieMamies]

​@@renaissanceredneck73💯💯💯

[@Dr.Mlieko]

Not just Putin most of the guys you see waving pride flags and BLM banners do despite the fact that communism is extremely anti-gay

[@Dr.Mlieko]

@@renaissanceredneck73 he still admires Stalin, and made it illegal to criticize him

[@Metikoi]

I gotta say the thumbnail for this looked like Simon tossing his hat in the ring for the UK election with a bold policy statement.

[@mikkojaatinen4508]

EU seems to have soft version of this for small farms and cattle farms. It's just something epic to do when you have unlimited power.

[@dirtbagdeacon]

US Department of Agriculture has entered the chat. Edited to be a better comment

[@dallysinghson5569]

Soft version? The EU does nothing that even resembles any of this. Keep away from the tabloids.

[@mikkojaatinen4508]

@@dallysinghson5569 Ok. Truth commission entered to the chat 🧐. It's actually "farmers for the EU" as EU is farmers best friend. Sorry I was totally confused.

[@pauliusiv6169]

what the soviets did with dekulakization is equally reprehensible and morally bankrupt as what the nazis did with the holocaust, no matter how one tries to slice it

[@ianmacdiarmid1249]

The number of comments defending this are ridiculous.

[@Jameson1776]

Russian trolls is my guess.

[@thelordofcringe]

​@@Jameson1776nope. This is the reality of American universities. Infested with communists from top to bottom.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

You are still uneducated. Google: "Russian classic literature kulak mentions".

[@antecalic8881]

Great video on a unknown topic to me. I think classacide is happening today just not in plain sight like before.

[@JPriz416]

It's to bad we needed a man like him on our side.

[@christopherharmon2433]

When asked how he a staunch anti-communist could ally Britain with Stalin, Churchill is alleged to have replied 'I said that I would make a deal with the devil to defeat Germany, and I very well may have.'

[@AK-bw8xk]

Another shining example of socialism/communism

[@theroundestfrog7913]

My mother family were Kułaks, stripped from their land and homes and thrown in jail for years often till death. My great-great grandfather was raising and training horses, somebody warned them that the party was coming for them so his wife and children were able to escape, many horses were killed just to make him cry before they took him away along with dozens of livestock and said horses. His mother who had a lot of land and often housed displaced families was known to be an activist for educating children, she was taken away and died in jail. My great grandmother and my grandmother faced poverty to extend that I barely can imagine, going from places to places, then living in small one room shed as eight people stealing crops from neighbors and foraging for roots and greens to not starve. Then when my grandma was 6 her father was taken for 11 years to a work camp, somehow he survived but he was different and everything was different for him. So much pain and suffering for nothing.

[@marcusdemetrius1446]

Yes, my grandfather told me there was no animals around(squirrels, rats, dogs, cats, horses). He survived by drinking his urine. But it can't be done continuously because it becomes tRats, My grandmother lost 3 children and survived but with really bad scoliosis.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

Easily disproven when reading the penal codex. I urge anyone having second thoughts.

[@theroundestfrog7913]

@@Shut.Eye.Cinema Hi I don't really understand the point of that comment. While I encourage everyone to think for themselves and have second thoughts did you really red the penal code and didn't you have second thoughts yourself? This has literally happened in my family, we do have some photos and few documents but there is a lot that has been lost. Also when I read through articles and data involving RSFSR Criminal Code you can clearly things like article 58 and 107 that were commonly used in liquidation of the class in a form of deportation and extrajudicial punishments. Again Idk what were you tried to prove beyond just being an contrarian

[@Aphotic_One]

@@theroundestfrog7913 It isd a mindless communist supporter. Do not expect logic, coherentness, or anything but evil from it

[@Sirithil]

Russian history can be summed up with five words: "And then things got worse."

[@benallen7704]

All for the "crime" of ownership

[@JiesellTVMotoboink]

Remember that the Soviet Union has many states and if you lead such, you play games most people won't get. And it's kind of annoying that your own people can't comprehend it. Thus, instead of following orders, they tend to act tough. Therefore, blood is needed to be shed. However, religion should accompany such acts. Only by then could it be appeased. Today, we are experiencing REAL COMMUNISM. AND MOST ARE BLIND.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

PRIVATE PROPERTY HAS NEVER EXISTED BEYOND A SHEET OF PAPER. IT IS, BY DEFINITION, FICTION. A FIGMENT OF IMAGINATION. READ MY LIPS.

[@willmont8258]

@@Shut.Eye.Cinema So you are just another communist trying to BS the world again, but this time the masses know better.

[@willmont8258]

@@Shut.Eye.Cinema Communism has never existed beyond the point of a gun and threat of a firing squad.

[@Angrybogan]

Any mention that the Kulaks were also members of the Orthodox Church?

[@chissstardestroyer]

Yeah, that messed them up about productivity: they eradicated the most proficient farmers; and what happens: the cities starve even worse!

[@mattkeith1180]

Damn your beard. It had shamed mine once again, SW!

[@nomanvardag1]

Industrious, hardworking, entrepreneurs, efficient class was massacred for their virtues.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

You are still uneducated. Google: "Russian classic literature kulak mentions". It is 180 wrong. If only you had a glimpse of idea or meaning to the words you are uttering... Despicable.

[@ramblinman4197]

What makes it even more ironic was that these kulaks had only been free of serfdom for 60 or so years. Like he said, they were not rich just people who managed to have some success during that brief period between the end of serfdom and the beginning of dekulakization.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

@@ramblinman4197 By any chance do you pay rent? Okay then.

[@ThDirtyCurfDrummer]

While I believe in the ideas of Communism, that being of the people owning the means of production and everyone having an equal say in how their community is run, I cannot condone the barbaric actions of those who took the concepts of Karl Marx and turned Communism into the ugly reality of which it became. And I don't believe Marx would've either. In defense of the Kulaks, Marx said this in his manifesto: "Hard-won, self-acquired, self-earned property! Do you mean the property of petty artisan and of the small peasant, a form of property that preceded the bourgeois form? There is no need to abolish that." When Karl Marx wrote "Dictatorship Of The Proletariat," he didn't mean one person ruling over the masses with a bloody iron fist for sole control of land and people like the kings who came before. Rather, Marx meant that the proletariat, the entire working class, should be in control, making decisions together. Marx wanted to end the oppresive structure of heirarchical capitalism in favor of stateless/classless anarchistic communism. In other words, Direct Democracy from the local community level.

[@Ubique2927]

2:15… just for a second I thought you were talking about Putain.

[@christopherharmon2433]

He did work for Stalin's butcher boys.

[@russellfitzpatrick503]

Where do you think Putin learned it from?

[@jamesewanchook2276]

deja vu oer usual. Slava Ukrani🇺🇦🇨🇦!!

[@PhilJonesIII]

@@russellfitzpatrick503 No fan of Putin but he did endorse the Gulag Archipelago as required reading for Russian students from around 2010. Interestingly, Stalin was a student at a seminary in Georgia and was a top ranking student. He was no slouch and his nickname 'The Priest' was not without merit. The people had been well used to a rulership at the hands of people who were godlike in their status and didn't hesitate to exercise their powers. That same fear/respect was expertly exploited by Stalin. All aided, in no small way by what he had been taught. Stalin's favorite tzar was Ivan the Terrible. Says a lot I think.

[@katherinecollins4685]

Very informative

[@jokodihaynes419]

"History can say what it wants but rarely does it remember anything correctly"-Lawkeeper Equity Mlp Ace Attorney EOJ

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

HISTORY DOES NOT REPEAT. HOWEVER, IT DOES RHYME.

[@adamsmith1813]

It's crazy how most of this is not covered during history classes. It's literally about Germany on repeat until graduation, despite the Soviets making Nazis look like amateurs.

[@dickystrike6966]

The soviets (aka bolsheviks aka reds) were 99% jews that's why. Btw the term 'soviet' means a democraticly represented counsil. The bolsheviks banned all the other parties (like Zelenskii in Ukraine) and labeled themselfes as 'the soviet'.

[@gimzod76]

Well duh, the people running the education system want this everywhere.

[@willmont8258]

That is because the political left has taken over most of the public school systems in the west, and many leftists still see the Soviet Union as the model for mankind.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

As someone whose family died in the H, but a small part survived in the CCCP, I am reporting you for misinformation. It is despicable what you are saying. The audacity. It is enraging beyond words. Hopefully, history will put things in its place.

[@SafetySpooon]

@@dickystrike6966 Thanks for showing just how stupid Jew-hating liars are.

[@Wustenfuchs109]

Talking about it without explaining why it happened is kinda pointless. There is a reason why people were OK with it to a large extent, as was the case with many things Communists in Russia did. Kulaks, or as you describe them as well-off peasants, were the sort of "upper middle class" of rural Russia for a long time. Up to 19th century almost, the only person who could OWN the land was an aristocrat. Up until 1861, Russia had serfdom - basically slavery with some extra steps - and the regular people could not own land. In the period between 1861 and 1917, a small class of people got very wealthy in basically the same way that certain people got wealthy after the fall of USSR and some other socialist countries - when the times were changing, they knew people who knew people, so they got their hands on large piles of capital (land, houses, factories later, whatever) through corruption and exploitation of the weaker ones around them. That is exactly what Kulaks did. And, in the time since they started, they HEAVILY exploited the rest of the peasants around them who were basically forced to work on their large farms for as low as a pan of flour for a hard day labor. Somewhere between 1kg and 2kg of flour per workday in the fields - and that's not your 8 hour workday, those were 12 hour workdays. So Kulaks got richer and richer, people around them were basically slaves in all but in name. That's the "secret" of how Kulaks were successful peasant class. Just like how certain oligarchs all around the world became what they did almost over night. So, when the revolution came, those same peasants who were heavily exploited over half a century - were more than happy to shoot them some Kulaks or throw them in forced labor camps to have a taste of their own medicine. Remember, even in totalitarian countries, things don't happen if majority is not for them. We can put the blame later on one person or a small group (Hitler, Stalin, Nazis, Mao, Churchill, Idi Amin...) but the fact is, all atrocities that we talk about a century later - were in fact supported by majority of ordinary people of the time, or if not supported actively, then at least majority saw no problem in it. In this specific case, poor peasant majority (80%+ of Russian Empire and early USSR) was more than happy to chop the heads of any and all aristocracy, kulaks and anyone who they deemed wronged them over the course of several decades up to the onset of the revolution. That is in fact what happens in every revolution, since the dawn of time. Video was good in explaining WHAT happened, but not much was said about WHY. Which is very important to know, because that is the message to actually take and learn from history - do NOT oppress people, because when they rise up at one point (and they always do when they feel they have nothing else to lose) those who oppressed them will probably lose their heads. Sure, more than likely new oppressors would take their place under the cover of revolution (revolution always eats its children) but the lesson needs to be learned. If we don't, why are we surprised things repeat?

[@ZSEMZilliard]

So your saying that the h0l0caust was justified because the majority agreed with it . You are very smart .

[@alena-qu9vj]

In fact, the "new oppressors" are the behind the curtain force behind the all revolutions, manipulating and using the unsatisfied majority to help them to remove the old ones and take their place. Exactly as in the case of the celebrated French revolution, nobility has been the scapegoat, to cleare the way to power for bourgeoisie and finacial oligarchy. Which rules until today, democracy beeing their most shrewd sting.

[@Wustenfuchs109]

@@alena-qu9vj True, true, I agree on all points. I just don't like when people, stating that fact, insinuate that the majority of population was not justified in their anger. Revolutions happen when people are fed up and can't take it anymore. But you are 100% correct in statement that the group that wants to take power (and there is always one in every society) uses that anger and dissatisfaction to get in power. For the majority of people, little changes, if anything. But their justified anger is what fuels and makes revolutions possible. That is why destroying kulaks was actually a popular move in USSR. It would be like someone coming to power today in USA and start sending all those good for nothing millionaires to work camps. Vast majority of people would welcome that move, because they are fed up and continuously exploited by those people and end up having nothing.

[@alena-qu9vj]

​@@Wustenfuchs109 Also agree. I just see a difference in that the powerful groups behind the scenes nowadays has knowledge and means of manipulation and propaganda which the bolshevics only could dream about. They could have counted on the justified anger of the exploited uneducated masses, while our "enlightened" lazy majority could be led on a cooked noodle wherever the globalist's propaganda wants.

[@neilreynolds3858]

A kulak could be somebody who owned a cow. That doesn't exactly make them an oppressor. Most kulaks were virtually as poor as their neighbors but that little bit of anything extra made them targets when the agitprop people got to their village and stirred up trouble.

[@cantsay2205]

Now, let's not allow this to happen again.

[@neilreynolds3858]

It's happening around you.

[@cantsay2205]

@@neilreynolds3858 which is why we need to stop it in its tracks.

[@alena-qu9vj]

I am glad that you use the term "Soviets" and not "Russians". As I am sure we all know, Stalin himself was ethnic Georgian and his bolshevic Supreme Soviet has been almost entirely jewish. So, in fact, Slavic Russians and Ukrainians were the main victims of the Soviets.

[@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537]

A lot of Russian history has a nose problem, most notably the Muscovy era we are still in as they are basically the IRS money changer tumor in the operation. Every time someone tries to improve, a Gavrilo shows up and makes things worse.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

REPORTED FOR MISINFORMATION

[@willmont8258]

@@Shut.Eye.Cinema Reported to who? The NKVD?

[@g.g.moquete]

​@@Shut.Eye.Cinema No.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

@@g.g.moquete Know

[@Mantis_Toboggan_TrashMan]

I'm not sure if it would fit this channel, but it would be nice to see you cover H5N1. Honestly, when I first learned of H5N1, I thought people were blowing it out of proportion. But my god, it just keeps getting worse; it's at the very least concerning. H5N1 currently has a mortality rate of 50%+, unlike other flus, but interestingly similar to the Spanish flu, which killed 50 million+ people. H5N1 has the highest mortality rate in young adults. Rather than the very old and the very young. But wait, there's more. You probably heard that it spread to cows. That is just the tip of the iceberg; it's rapidly spreading to different mammals. It's been detected in more than 200 different mammals.

[@davidflint12]

Capitalism is voluntary, communism is forced.

[@waiflu]

absolutely untrue, private ownership has not always been a thing, it had to be introduced to most developing people and capitalism itself is a fairly new phenomenon historically

[@nickorme8112]

​@@waiflu Capitalism dates back a couple centuries in Europe alone dating back to the kingdoms and aristocracy even if the forms of it has changed. But you are right, many nations, such as the entire South American continent under US dominion were forced into clientel capitalism at gunpoint.

[@liamh5127]

[@ZSEMZilliard]

@@waiflu You are right . Socialism is Natural and Capitalism is Artificial . To win the revolution the slogan of political change should be Socialism is Natural and Capitalism is Artificial. Since the youth and most people in general hate Artificiality and are in Love with anything MotherNature this slogan could Animate towords a Critical Mass of ClassConsciouness . Ideas Matter . The Enemy is Aeternal . The Revolution is Aeternal .

[@gimzod76]

@@ZSEMZilliard But Socialsium is the most artificial idea of all time and has to be enforced at the point of a gun. Oh and it's also failed every single time it's been tried.