"How the Soviets Kept a Nation in Chains" with Mr. Michael Malice

[@mainemavin]

There is a movie called, " Mr. Jones " , which shows what Mr. Malice speaks of, with the Holodomor.

[@davethebrahman9870]

Great film!

[@adityamohan8514]

Is it available online?

[@davethebrahman9870]

@@adityamohan8514 Apple TV has it.

[@shaiaheyes2c41]

Excellent movie, "Mr.Jones". Can recommend "The Chekist" (1992 russian movie), "Katyn" (polish), "Tortured for Christ" (Romanian) too. I also enjoyed the russian tv series based on the book "The Road to Calvary" and "Trotsky".

[@markmcflounder15]

Ohhhh, just caught the preview Brilliant suggestion

[@anthonybrett]

This lecture needs to be watched by every High School student.

[@theunknownatheist3815]

Maybe even younger. They need to see this BEFORE they are indoctrinated to believe communism is good, and that this is lies and capitalist propaganda. College and university students are so lost, many would reject what he says out of hand, sort of like going before an evangelical church and telling them Jesus never existed, they would laugh you out of the room. Or, violently chase you out.

[@Cheka__]

No. We mustn't allow children to think that the actions of the Soviet government were immoral or unethical.

[@ArcticCat-dm8xm]

It won't be because this is presently on the agenda for many countries. It would be difficult to implement their agenda if people were educated about topics such as this.

[@DanM-ys5pz]

@@Cheka__ They were immoral, unethical and brutal. We have the clear hindsight of history including the testimony of people who experienced it firsthand. Michael offered plenty of examples here and there are plenty more out there if you have the least bit of curiosity and intellectual honesty to seek them out. Go read Solzhenitzyn. Given your comment and your name, I can only assume you're either a fool or something much worse.

[@Cheka__]

@@DanM-ys5pz It's called sarcasm, dummy.

[@amos-bobamus]

Malice begins at 4:24

[@ceesduck2933]

It sure does

[@BV-jq2vg]

@@ceesduck2933lol

[@Nylon_riot]

I make the argument that it works exactly as intended.

[@Cheka__]

Shhh. We're not supposed to let people know that.

[@odesangel]

The biggest problem with communism is that it is run by a bunch of communists.

[@markmcflounder15]

What is missing from G_lag???

[@SepticFuddy]

@@markmcflounder15 U

[@Kaiser68]

Look at the UK today. This is already starting. "The farmers are rich, they must pay inheritance tax to socialise the gains of their lands." I need to get out of here.

[@ArcticCat-dm8xm]

Was just thinking of that. History repeating itself.

[@Cafeconxleche]

Is that real?? That is seriously happening in the UK?? 😢

[@ArcticCat-dm8xm]

Yes it is.

[@abdullahialiyu2687]

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@Cafeconxleche]

@@ArcticCat-dm8xm Im so sorry . I dont know much about UK Politics but is there any political party that is trying to stop crap like this? or fight against it?

[@lloydgush]

Malice is awesome!

[@GimpGladly]

I would love to see a full lecture series on this topic expanded into the other examples that were more or less cut for time delivered by Michael Malice. I must say I really appreciated the handling of the Q&A portion as well. I would hope to see more of that as well; the way he handles each in short time with clear and concise answers and sure to cover as many questions as possible.

[@jarettmeyer4929]

Great talk Michael, I enjoyed listening.

[@richcecere]

I heard some words and ideas during this lecture that I heard recently in America. Scary.

[@SecretCervix]

Me, too.

[@AndyKaknes]

A very gut wrenching subject. I'm curious as to the level of independent research Michael Malice has done on the Soviet Union, and also what sources he has used. It sounds like the primary governement sources are now open or declassified since the Soviet Union collapsed.

[@davethebrahman9870]

Read his book!

[@jamesclark6487]

​@@davethebrahman9870that's a Marxist casting doubt... the "sources" shtick is one of their goto ploys.

[@davethebrahman9870]

@@AndyKaknes This information isn’t new, it’s been known since the 1970’s.

[@AndyKaknes]

@@davethebrahman9870 Which one? Have you read it?

[@AndyKaknes]

Since the 1970's? Interesting, I would have thought it would have been top secret until after that fall of the Soviet Union in 1989.

[@crimony3054]

Agriculture collectivization is a subject that is never studied broadly. You can learn about the industrial revolution in England, France, Germany, USA, etc. You can't find a book about agricultural transformation in various countries.

[@svengroot3909]

I know Malice's voice well at this point and it sounded to me like he was on the verge of crying the entire time. This was a very intense and moving speech, bravo!

[@PilgrimMission]

Its a great summary. For much more detail read "The Gulag Archipelago".

[@bealzy]

Thanks for the great talk Stephen Kotkin!

[@junkscience6397]

This guy is FAR, far less in love with himself than the "great" Comrade Kotkin.

[@BillSikes.]

A revised, less brutal version of this is happening right now in the UK 😦

[@Cheka__]

And in many other Western nations, to some extent.

[@ArcticCat-dm8xm]

Am thinking the same thing!

[@lorraineklimek1677]

Less brutal, for now.

[@faustinae3927]

I’ve been waiting for years to hear what it was like during this time. Thank you 🙏 ❤. Awesome video and I’m going to watch your other videos on KZbin. This was a horrible time for. RIP ❤

[@Bee89301]

Thank You Michael Malice for informing people about nightmare of so called Soviet union "paradise". But why Western World was hiding that reality - it's most important question...

[@andreacvecic]

@@Bee89301 If you don't read books a lot of things remain hidden.

[@Cheka__]

East and West, leftists have to support each other.

[@MindbodyMedic]

The west literally made most of the machinery fhay kept soviet union afloat as it was a boon to their industrialists. It was always a potemkin mirage. Was it in 70s they found a massive gas field in Siberia that basically kept it going another 20 years artifically.

[@Alex-lg6nz]

​@@MindbodyMedicUSSR was a mirage? That's hilarious, considering the US economy is a giant bubble that only survives because the global trade was dollar based.

[@funklelester8646]

"Executed for working with the Nazi's. Even though 3 of them were jewish" * Emil Maurice walks into the room *

[@NoobRideseMTB]

What even is empathy… I’m trying to imagine the era and how it might have felt for the people coming into the world at that time, how the industrial era might have made society seem like just another machine to be tinkered with and refined. Communism, although it looks systematic, is perhaps better understood in terms of collective pathology..? Strip away what the theme was and imagine no machinery or collective capability - and what is left can be better understood as simply survival strategy applied at the macro. That people went along with it doesn’t mean we should conceptualise it as thought, but rather just implicit nature running its course. The details blind us? If any of that makes sense… I’ll continue 😊 The reason I felt like writing.. Are we seeing a similar trend arising among the elites of Western democracies? If our climate catastrophe is akin to the Soviets fear of starvation or general national preservation, and if our 21st century technological systems of Artificial Intelligence are to be regarded by the supposed guardians of *our* nations as the great saviour, are we arriving at a place that could be regarded as a developing pathology - might we be entering an age of danger where the imminent threat justifies the means. Bit hyperbolic. If the trends we see within our own culture are that of purity signifiers; is it a soviet like sleight of hand? Where your claim is for the common good, and even as disaster and chaos unfolds; common good becomes a misnomer and nothing is actually lost (so long as you survive). The subversive nature of the Marxist mindset always irks me, in that it asks of purity of your neighbour - what looks like people trying to instil decency among the group, it inevitably produces a sort of discard strategy when viewed at the macro. So is that what it is actually serving on the evolutionary level when the group faces an existential crisis, it is a kind of strategy of extermination? Since the starvation (for the Soviets) was as much a relief for those who survived - we look at it as disaster, but if your next meal is a maybe, knowing there is one less mouth to feed kind of has a wry comprehension of positivity about it…

[@gg_rider]

I now understand Marxism more through the bitter hatred and envy of Karl Marx for all or most of mankind. Contempt for his parents. Little compassion for his best friend Engels, in F.E.'s hour of needing compassion. Criticism of industrial capitalism but much contempt for European workers, who wanted improved conditions not bloody revolution. Inspired by Robespierre, but the Reign of Terror by the Committee on Public Safety was judged by Marx as too mild and insufficient. I recently listened to one economist and economic historian, Michael Hudson, who spoke on Das Capital Volume 2, about banking and finance. Hudson was proud that his father was a Trotskyite and friends with Leon Trotsky. Knowing about Red Terror, I'm appalled. However, APPARENTLY Marx did have some useful insights about the industrialization of banking & credit and how that system would both fuel capitalism but also become a huge leech, especially with unproductive speculation on asset prices undifferentiated from actual improvements and innovation arising from capital investments. Maybe a semi valid comparison is Alex Jones. SOME of what Jones says is dead accurate and revelatory, but a huge chunk is extremely toxic and nonsense.

[@elijah8808]

My grandma in law did say that in the twenties one of her neighbors who was a poor (she said those lazy people were poor coz they were lazy) lady came to her parents and demanded clothes and tools threatening to report them to be called as "Kulaks" [similar to bourgeoisie]. They were Kulaks only coz they labored & worked hard--much like today's small businesses in the US.

[@lhurst9550]

Great to see Michael speaking at my alma mater.

[@GreenCanvasInteriorscape]

Imagine if we could see what the audience sees 👀 When he mentioned Stalin smiling I looked to the screen and realized 👀 A worthy educational must listen lecture nonetheless, I've pointed out some of these facts to Communists and they still shrug, just like the anti-israel crowd who shrugged when shown footage of Hamas torturing Arab prisoners in their jails and Arab refugees pointing to their amputated limbs and saying Hamas shot my foot off for stealing food, intersectionality indeed in a complicated world indeed

[@GreenCanvasInteriorscape]

37 minutes, cameraman woke up 👀

[@BV-jq2vg]

Maybe they assume the videos are fake

[@VincentFulco]

Very educational. In future speeches, be sure to step away from the podium, get closer to your audience and engage them by walking around the stage, looking in to faces and enjoying yourself.

[@davethebrahman9870]

The first few times you talk to a large audience is nerve wracking!

[@Why4skWhy]

I can't believe Michael is the shortest out of Tim Pool, Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro.

[@itranscendencei7964]

16:20 I am not educated enough to disagree with any of the history presented here, but I can say as a matter of fact that controlling the weather is 100% something that we can do and are currently doing. Just wanted to point that out.

[@joshuabeaumont1219]

What is a “President Beaumont”? From the context (59:10-59:30) it sounds like a 3 dollar bill. But as someone with that surname, I’ve never heard the term

[@TheWhitehiker]

Starts at c. 4.50. Too bad we cant see the photos.

[@TheCruxy]

Hell yeah Michael Malice, better than that bum Tom Woods

[@BV-jq2vg]

Failure of a podcaster

[@zenoc6715]

So what is going to be the difference between, the Soviet Union then and America the way its going?

[@Grumpytheman]

In the last 45 years, we have witnessed a political project where the political and economic elites in the West have built the world's first mega-state out of the communist state of China. This elite has elevated China to this position by deindustrializing its own nations, and then providing state aid to all of its own nations' businesses that relocated to countries in South-East Asia, and mainly China. To nations without emission requirements for industrial corporations with astronomical emissions to air, soil and sea. They changed the production-based national economies of Western nations into consumption-based green national economies with an inherent obsession with Western environmental footprints. They promoted corporatism over private ownership. They want mass immigration and no borders. And a working life with low wages, and few or no rights for the individual employee. The silent revolution is noisily active in the shadows.. They want the horrors of the Communist state upon us all

[@SecretCervix]

And few even see it

[@ScandinavianHeretic]

Hes so TINY! :D ...Oh yeah and good lecture.

[@TorianCJ]

This was great. The Q&A was a flop. He wasn’t very attentive to the questions. I’d love to hear the questions be posed by those who wrote them or a moderator who reads them off rather than the speaker.

[@ivandeward4601]

@TorianCJ I am going to politely disagree regarding the Q&A. I largely skip the Q&A on these wonderful lectures because, as Michael points out, the questioner too often rambles on for precious minutes before getting to the point of their query. It's extremely aggravating. In this case I'm glad I stayed.

[@TorianCJ]

@ it’s poor moderation when that happens. I agree it annoying when it happens; equal annoyed when the moderator doesn’t speak up to say 1min keep it brief . Frank Turek, Charlie Kirk, Cliffe Knechtle, the list goes on of people who do well at this.

[@ivandeward4601]

@@TorianCJ Fair enough friend. Cheers!

[@griparbelli]

long life to Revolutions .

[@faustinae3927]

Camera man needs better angle 😉

[@harrysmith8338]

interesting. if the abandonment of morality is the means to an end, what type of retardation of logic allows for a return to morality?

[@harrysmith8338]

Shared

[@saa82vik]

is he dressed as a north korean captain?

[@0bzen22]

Probably.

[@AtlantaBill]

I suggest you watch this short film at the link below. With it, the director Andrei Tarkovsky broke into cinema in 1959 as Steven Spielberg did with Duel 12 years later in 1971. The film was produced for national television in the USSR. The plot about a disaster that takes place in a small Russian town. If home viewers watched it and were puzzled that the characters were not robot-like under the weight of totalitarianism, it would have caused a scandal. The film is really spellbinding. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2PQeXWJaciZebM In the first minutes, Malice is misinforming you: Lenin's faction was called 'Bolshevik' (majority) because they were the majority in the Russian section of the Democratic Socialist International (opposing WWI) but a minority in the SD International (supporting the senseless carnage of the Great War.

[@joe_DWilson]

I hate these anger-porn videos. Don’t tell me about what happened, tell me who did it, why, and what motivated them.

[@crimony3054]

Lenin hated the rural peasants. They were successful against them in the civil war that followed the revolution.

[@joe_DWilson]

@@crimony3054 Lenin was a jew who lived his entire early adult life in Western Europe. Leon Trotskis name was Leon Bronstein, also from Western Europe

[@davethebrahman9870]

@@joe_DWilson The Left always have to find someone to blame when their theories don’t work in real life.

[@dominicp.2702]

What are you asking? I think the how and what were clearly covered. Motivation...there's other studies. Malice stays true to straight fact. You can't prove motivation.

[@joe_DWilson]

@ where to these antagonists come from? Was Lenin from Russia? Why did he seize power there? What motivated him? Was it religious? None of this was answered, just ‘look at what these bad guys did’

[@okeng71487]

Is he wearing a Mao suit?

[@astrogumbo]

Prolly

[@glebperch7585]

If it was so bad why do polls show most E Europeans miss socialism?

[@dominicp.2702]

Ask a West German. Talk to one man from Stuttgart about modern Berlin. Don't talk, just shut up and listen.

[@Xasew]

Are you actually using the fact that old people miss the 'good old days' as evidence? 😂

[@AT-AT-AT-AT]

brazil 2022

[@mariakatariina8751]

43:04 "Kuolema camps" - death camps

[@BillSikes.]

Kolyma, it was just one tiny part of overall "Archipelago"

[@Alex-lg6nz]

If they were "death camps", then why was the prisoner death rate in the Gulag system around 2% per year, including natural causes? (With exception of 1942, 1943 >20%)

[@dandoesntknowsstuff1769]

Harvey ‘Pecker’ 😅

[@elijah8808]

Just to let you know how much the Soviet people appreciated Mr. Kirov: every town in every city has a street in his name, a park in his name, or a local library named after Kirov. Still there is a city in Russia: Kirov. Kirov was the right person, but he chose NOT to challenge Stalin, because for the last 10 years of working with the dictator, Kirov realized it was a bad idea to oppose Stalin.

[@jasonfay2250]

But give up your guns.

[@ludmilaivanova1603]

The lecture is of a middle school level- everything was said thousands of times by numerous persons who want to express a negative view on the Soviet Union. If the country was a ruthless tyranny, why did most of the population regret the fall of the SU?

[@romany8125]

Stockholm syndrome.

[@BillSikes.]

That's the power of propaganda, and the ever present threat of a midnight knock at the door from the NKVD!

[@Tofu_va_Bien]

​@@BillSikes. Nonsense. NKVD propaganda plain for all to see. Regular people did not live in fear of midnight calls from KGB agents, party officials and high ranking bureaucrats did though. Shock therapy (capitalism unleashed in its most naked form) is what really cemented the loss for most people. The ensuing chaos resulted in the largest reduction in life expectancy during peacetime in recorded history. Hyperinflation caused the price of consumer goods to increase by 200% overnight. People's savings were wiped out. Unemployment, drug & alcohol abuse, and prostitution soared. I don't believe there is any country, beyond those ravaged by war, that has experienced a more dramatic decline in living standards than the former republics did after the illegal dissolution of the USSR.

[@vicpso1]

The SU fell because nobody wanted to save it . The "new" system was unstable, corrupt and had all the bad things of the former. It was buyers remorse!

[@ludmilaivanova1603]

@@vicpso1 simply not true: there were many who defended it and if not the US interfernce Eltsin would not win presidencey.

[@harrysmith8338]

Shàred

[@frankiehunter.]

Lies, lies and always lies when Russia is concerned.

[@kimobrien.]

The Soviet Union was never intended to be a nation. That was Bukharin idea and signed on to by Stalin, Trotsky answered it with The Draft Program of the Communist International: A Criticism of Fundamentals

[@michaelhutchings6602]

Why were people shot for leaving the USSR?

[@kimobrien.]

@@michaelhutchings6602 Ayn Rand left legally since she left before Lenin died and she got her University education and advanced studies in Soviet Russia.

[@sergiyavorski9977]

BTW, Holodomor means forced starvation in Russian.

[@Alex-lg6nz]

It doesn't mean anything, it's not a real word.

[@aungkyawmoe8023]

both e/acc and communism have a similarity. one group made up of technocrats and technology enthusiasts another is made up of normies, furries and emos. They are both fandoms, you are a fan first then learn and commit to ideology later. When you are developing your character as a young person, you join those fandoms.

[@reneprovosty7032]

lol clemsozon

[@astrogumbo]

I cant believe you introduced this cat as one of Amerikas leading intellectuals hahahahaha 😂😂😂😂

[@Bee89301]

You are moron evil

[@arimoff]

F..k your communism

[@yakovsannikov3909]

Oh, Malice explains something? This guy could not explain a pimple on his own nose. He is just regurgitating what passed for the 'history of the USSR' in the 90s. Nah, thanks.

[@0bzen22]

Ouch, what a rebuke.

[@dominicp.2702]

For real, bro! Malice can't even explain why your balls are so small and wrinkled.

[@metrobusman]

I stopped listening when the speaker identifies the small shopkeepers/producers as the bourgeoisie. Such comprise the petite bourgeoisie, which is a part of the whole bourgeoisie. Does he not know what he is talking about, or is he lying?

[@martinneal5240]

Malice is full of it....Malice... and malice is not a sound platform.