Lenin's Terror: The Brutal Reality of the Bolshevik Rise

In "Lenin's Terror," we delve deep into the harrowing era of Bolshevik rule under Vladimir Lenin's leadership. This video uncovers the chilling crimes and actions committed by Lenin and the Bolsheviks during their early reign. From the plight of the starving peasants to the ruthless war waged against the Church, this comprehensive exploration sheds light on the dark underbelly of the Russian Revolution.
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0:00 - Introduction
2:55 - The Peasants' War
7:56 - The Urban Fiasco
11:30 - (Promotion)
12:54 - The Great Povolzhye Famine
16:36 - The War On The Church
23:23 - Conclusion
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Sources Used:
"The Russian Revolution: A New History" by Sean McMeekin (Primary Source)
"Peasant Russia, Civil War" by Orlando Figes
"The Black Book of Communism" by numerous authors
"A People's Tragedy" by Orlando Figes
"Russia under the Bolshevik Regime" by Richard Pipes
"Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War" by Vladimir Brovkin
"The Famine in Soviet Russia" by H.H. Fisher
"Industrialisierung und Außenhandel der Sowjetunion" by Galina Berkenkopf
"Unter den Roten Machthabern" by George Solomon
"Storming the Last Citadel" by Jonathan Daly
"Istorria russkoi pravoslavnoi tserkvi 1900-1927" by Mitrofanov
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Music used:
"Stay The Course" by Kevin MacLeod
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Tags:
Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Bolsheviks, Communists, Soviet Union, Russian Empire, Tsar Nicholas II, the Russian Revolution, Lavader, Communism, Soviet Famine, Russian Orthodox Church

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[@DjDeadpig]

I wonder if you could do a response video to Hakim.

[@alexanderchenf1]

@Lingle Dongle You would not have been able to leave this comment if you are banned

[@booran_5534]

You're going to make it big, keep up the good work you have genuine potential.

[@DerSchleier]

@Lingle Dongle Go away Communist pinko.

[@sneakysnek8416]

Are u turkish?

[@luck3yp0rk93]

“Lenin was the good guy, it was big bad Stalin that screwed over the Soviets!!!” - every fan boy in your year 10 history class.

[@thorpeaaron1110]

Fr Lenin might have been worse than Stalin.

[@BazedSlavaryan]

Wrong they were both good, but Stalin was better

[@BazedSlavaryan]

@@jaceortman595 Lenin won revolution and brought communism than died, Stalin built the USSR, industrialized and kolhozed with 5 year plan, won ww2, rebuilt the soviet union, retook most of our land that was lost during civil war and got more after ww2, also please read his 1936 constitution the most free democratic constitution ever and made Russia the nuclear power it is today, literally our best leader no one can compare even Peter the great!

[@BazedSlavaryan]

@@Nordbon1523 gtfo in Katyn only 10.000 male nationalist anticommunist soldiers were killed and you call us the bad guys, while germans and ukrainian banderovites killed mostly children and women in Poland, hence it was in their ideology to kill next generations of the race they didn't want to exist, while communists valued their children lives and educated children to be real communists. It was much better for Poland to be occupies by soviets than nazis for their own protection.

[@BazedSlavaryan]

@@Nordbon1523 Finns were aggressors and nazis they deserve everything that should happen to them, balts lived best lives under ussr yet they were the most ungrateful to us and left as first, ukrainian famine was an accident Kazakhs had it worse yet they don't complain as much as them, crimeam tartars are offspring of mongols they don't belong there, chechen should btfo.

[@MartinRussellSchmidt]

Nazi Germany was a state that ran death camps, the USSR was a death camp that ran states.

[@willemvanstaden3292]

@Tutu boy it's unfair towards the Nazis - they were not nearly as intent on murder as the communist hordes.

[@MartinRussellSchmidt]

And your low-key commiecaust denial is unfair to the USSR’s 60 million democide victims.

[@johnstackhouse1706]

​@Tutu boy silence Commie

[@MajorCoolD]

@Tutu Boy You think Communism has a lower deathcount than the Nazi-Regieme, even IF we account ALL WW2 casualties to be their fault alone? Hah... think again mate and look at the great Leap Forward in Communist China alone... and that's before we look at Soviet Russia and the Proxy Wars in the Cold War alone.

[@arnold-ho8kh]

​@@TutuBoy835 it's pretty accurate pre destalinization

[@theguybehindyou4762]

Bolsheviks: (Starves thousands through mismanagement, then executes the survivors) Academics: The west needs this!

[@doronaznible7298]

@@Nordbon1523 unfortunately mate, here in the west most academics are at least somewhat adjacent from Marxism. Being intelligent enough to get a degree doesn’t mean you aren’t capable of being led astray by bad ideas

[@warrioroflight6872]

To be fair, if the West had a Lenin, it might be enough to permanently beat down the Socialist movement, and that would be indisputably wonderful. Although I admit, that's still a ghastly proposition since millions of innocent people would be tortured and slaughtered in order for such a thing to come to pass.

[@maximilianolimamoreira5002]

​@Three Emperorsyeah, but generally, people praise these revolutions, because they influenced the world as we know it, specially in terms of organising the ideologies in the political spectrum

[@ALeaud]

*millions, not thousands

[@herptek]

​@@Nordbon1523 Yet the academics are often more sympathetic to these kinds of ideas than the common people. There is a myth that appeals to botht left-wing populists and apparently some anti-communist elitists also that would have it that communism is a result of a spontaneous revolution of the masses who are simply fighting for their freedom.

[@LastBrigadier]

I find it so ironic that the worker's revolution basically genocided other workers (the peasants) what a clown world lmao.

[@jamesmcpherson8599]

Yes, the Bolshleviks were imperialists and wanted an underclass to exploit. Many Rural Russian Socialists allied with Lenin during the Revolution and organized for democratic elections (which they won btw) but were betrayed by the Leninists who stupidly pretended to believe that a rural worker was less productive than an urban one.

[@chuck948]

Its not ironic they just lied their way into power

[@ZeroResurrected]

@@chuck948Yep. They never cared about the workers or the peasants. The only people they were ever interested in helping were themselves

[@shauncameron8390]

@@ZeroResurrected Socialism = power to the people. In charge, that is.

[@ZeroResurrected]

@@shauncameron8390 No. Socialism=Power to the state and those that work for it. Anyone who’s actually lived under socialism will tell you this

[@jamesquinney6686]

And the fact that people support tyrants and ideologies like this now a days is just crazy to me.

[@ALeaud]

@@Nordbon1523 Poland needs to stand strong against communism and fascism.

[@jorgefalcon224]

There will always be ugly people and leaches

[@long-hair-dont-care88.]

It's the norm for people to support there team regardless of evidence of the teams bad behavior in often presenting such evidence makes people less likely to change their mind.

[@kubakornijenko1927]

​@@Nordbon1523 czy to jest w ogóle legalne?

[@AshfaqurBF]

Just like you, who supports George Bush and Barack Obama

[@sillygoose9791]

Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin's most loyal toadie, once said between Lenin and Stalin, Lenin had been the more severe of the two. Lenin would have brooked even less limits on his power than Stalin if he'd lived.

[@Berserker3624]

So basically an absolute monarch is what your getting at? But RPing as a communist?

[@kotoid7004]

@@Berserker3624 Nah, just a typical communist totalitarian dictator but worse.

[@itsblitz4437]

I mean probably but somehow doubt because I think Lenin did want to evolve communism under his reign and not totally stalinist.

[@condelevante4]

@@itsblitz4437Stalinism is the logical outcome of a practical reappraisal of the 10 years of Bolshevik insanity. He had to make illyichs dream work somehow Look. The army for one was a mess with no respect for the hierarchy. Had Stalin stayed with Lenin and Trotskys vision I really wonder if the army could have withstood the Nazis.

[@kittikorn6674]

@@Berserker3624 that's what he always wanted

[@morgunism]

Just a few weeks ago an old liberal coworker of mine commented in passing that Lenin was a good guy and a "man of the people". I cant believe people today in the USA can be this evil or ignorant.

[@GeneralBongmeister]

​@@deutschesvaterlandfankanal stfu weharbhoo nobody wants hour opinion

[@jorgefalcon224]

​@@deutschesvaterlandfankanal grande el aborto

[@jorgefalcon224]

Blame ejewcational system

[@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917]

In a country where Lincoln is all but officially declared a tyrant, I wouldn't talk about ignorant.

[@stariyczedun]

The irony is that the guy who wanted to rule with an iron fist through the small group of elite revolutionaries is called "man of the people". Lenin was ruthless, charismatic, smart. Almost completely amoral, for whom ends always justify the means, whatever the cost. But also definitely one of the few big minds Russia produced in the field of philosophy and political science.

[@Taipei_103]

I'm glad you mentioned Trotsky, he would have been just as evil as Stalin had he been given the same power.

[@doronaznible7298]

@Ina's 4,000th Tentacle funny because later on Orwell actually turned against Trotsky too and wrote negatively about Trotskyism

[@GeneralBongmeister]

​@@doronaznible7298 yeah Orwell's ideology is confusing, in homage to Catalonia he praises what the independent socialists and anarchists have done in autonomous Catalonia. but we know he isn't an anarchist, and the socialists in the area were not democratic

[@beezelsub]

@@avus-kw2f213 💯 worse

[@doronaznible7298]

@@GeneralBongmeister he probably just changed his mind sometimes I guess. Can’t really explain it otherwise.

[@POCKET-SAND]

@@GeneralBongmeister Orwell became disillusioned with Socialism as a whole in the last years of his life. Prior to that, he still considered himself to be a Socialist.

[@DjDeadpig]

Man, first time I’ve seen a good anti Lenin video. Most critics of the USSR talk about Stalin or Brezhnev as opposed to the brutal tyrant who actually started all of this shit. On a side note, congrats on getting 7k and a sponsor Lav!

[@chrisharv8647]

Then you will love Nestor mahkno

[@prayingpat6254]

It’s weird to see people criticize Brezhnev when Khrushchev was the far worst leader for the Soviet Union. Not even going to talk much about his massive overspending into military affairs over his own people, who were still recovering from WW2, he really did hurt a lot of ties with allied countries and made things worst between him and the west. Barely was a reformer, in which most of those reforms were curtailed later on anyways. Brezhnev wasn’t the best, but honestly a good amount of the fault falls onto Khrushchev for his dumb decisions years prior.

[@warrioroflight6872]

​@@prayingpat6254 Can you tell me more? What do you mean about Khrushchev barely being a reformer? From what I've heard of him, he was a massive step up from Lenin and Stalin. I know that he was still a dictator and did some genuinely twisted things, but saying that he was the worst leader seems to be going too far.

[@DjDeadpig]

@@prayingpat6254true, but Brezhnev was the one who fucked up detente and ruined the era of peace by invading Afghanistan and storming Czechoslovakia. Khrushchev sucked but at least out of his incompetence and weakness, some stability was temporarily given to the world between the east and west.

[@prayingpat6254]

@@warrioroflight6872 I said worst in the aspect that he wasn’t better than Brezhnev in my eyes, it’s my fault for not better clarifying that. I was mostly talking about how Khrushchev reforms aren’t/weren’t as big as people think. It didn’t really allow for the Soviet citizens to really see much changes to their own lives and the media they consumed. Like I also said, he later goes back on a good amount of them as Khrushchev wouldn’t agree with forms of art, movies, and more which he would usually get the state to ban. Though I will admit that the more private housing policies he would pursue and the increased consumerism in the Soviet Union were some good things to come out of his time.

[@Johnnycdrums]

Not a tear was shed for Leon Trotsky.

[@AshfaqurBF]

Because Stalin was in power. And Stalin hated trotsky

[@TheThreatenedSwan]

The Tsarist regime had been rapidly modernizing before the rise of the Bolsheviks, and the war and internal oppression the latter instigated was extremely costly. It set Russia back decades

[@crusader2112]

@Ina's 4,000th Tentacle “I am the last ruler of the old world. My duty is to protect my nation against politicians.” Kaiser Franz Josef I of Austria-Hungary Rip

[@doronaznible7298]

@Ina's 4,000th Tentacle liberal capitalists and nationalist agitators started the war and ruined Europe.

[@Berserker3624]

@@crusader2112 he succeed, shame the leaches win out against his heir unfortunately

[@crusader2112]

@@Berserker3624 Damn shame.

[@Berserker3624]

@@crusader2112 yeah but I think it’s best that we look at the good instead of the bad just think, for decades a nation had a leader that was competent and cared for his people what an honor it would be to have a leader like that in my nation

[@seandonoghue8197]

The Red Terror must be one of the most disgraceful times in human History.

[@victorperfecto7472]

Red and white terrors. Don’t be one sided

[@HawkThunder907]

​@victorperfecto7472 one was far worse, you can guess which one.

[@vangoghsseveredear]

Red terror. Great leap forward. Cuban revolution. The rise of the Khmer Rouge. All have one thing in common

[@marklegomancartoons2310]

Илья Ратьковский: Белый террор. Гражданская война в России. 1917-1920 гг. в стойло порвачье

[@warrioroflight6872]

The next video should be about all the countries that Lenin invaded! That would be another welcome blow to his fictional legacy as a philanthropist.

[@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917]

Great idea. It can be about how Lenin invaded North America.

[@warrioroflight6872]

​@@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917 Wrong continent.

[@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917]

@@warrioroflight6872 I was being sarcastic.

[@warrioroflight6872]

​​@@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917 I could tell. I don't want to sound rude, but your profile picture was a dead giveaway. With all due respect, you are misguided. History is a bloodfest, and the Bolsheviks were no exception. The story of humanity is the story of everyone believing that their ideas are superior to everyone else's, and the picture is seldom pretty when unbridled power is given to one group of people. Worst of all, the Bolsheviks saw evil everywhere but within themselves, and that made them the most susceptible to its corruption regardless of any pretty words they said. Unfortunately, that's how the world works. Words are cheap. It's results that actually matter. There's a reason why no one has ever been able to deliver on their arrogant promises to fix all the world's problems. Benevolence and wisdom are always in short supply, and anyone who claims that they have a great abundance of both is probably the complete opposite.

[@POCKET-SAND]

@@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917 Do you deny that Lenin invaded Ukraine and Belarus and attempted to invade Poland?

[@arlosmith2784]

Russia needed a strong czar who would have executed Lenin, Trotsky and company back in 1905. Weakness of leadership is what caused the Bolshevik Revolution to succeed.👎

[@misskonaxia]

Screw Grand Duke Michael

[@MalukuPL]

What the bolsevik jews did, is exactly what happening now in the west. Causing a Marxist revolution to establish A Totalitarian Regime.

[@GeneralBongmeister]

​@@MalukuPL "Bolshevik Jews trying to destroy us" what kind of Nazi shit is this

[@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917]

​@@brenttrent8811It's comments like yours that confirm everything I've ever said about the Czar is true. But don't worry, the majority of the West still thinks of him as a human rights activist.

[@thorpeaaron1110]

​@@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917dirty commie

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

If Redditors were given complete control of a country.

[@archravenineteenseventeen]

And twitter

[@HeyItIsMichal]

Nah, Twitter is more of a mixture of Left and Right these days.​@@archravenineteenseventeen

[@nashzahm]

Tsar Nicolas being killed was the worst tragedy by the Red's in my mind. He wasn't the best leader by any means but i don't think he was a bad man, he just wasn't ready to lead. Not to mention killing his whole family. Exile would have still been awful, but at least they could have kept their lives. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, all of them are butchers who sadly aren't called out enough here in the west. In school we only learned about the tragedy's by the Fascists, but not the Communists.

[@BichaelStevens]

Dude was an incompetent psychopathic manchild. Just coz Lenin and Stalin destroyed my country doesn't mean I won't forget slavery

[@A_reasonable_individual42]

Ya I felt bad for his family

[@grandcrowdadforde6127]

... Just found out Georgie V of England wd n"t let his cousin the Tsar and family into England; thus he was directly responsible for their deaths. Good one ! ya Royal Wanker

[@angelusvastator1297]

@@A_reasonable_individual42 Same. Even communist China treated their former monarchs more humanely

[@doncorleone1553]

@@TheWorkingClassCatholic Unless you're a marxist-leninist, why would the Bolsheviks' point of view on it even matter to you?

[@gabrieljordan8015]

Capitalism created an abundance of food. Communism creates the complete opposite.

[@marechaltukhachevsky2909]

Yes, specially in India and Ireland

[@NicholasEzclapz]

Colonialism doesn't equal capitalism ​@@marechaltukhachevsky2909

[@lucamendoza5696]

@@marechaltukhachevsky2909those were state activities, not those of individuals

[@marklegomancartoons2310]

капитализм намного хуже, ведь он создал тебя

[@legaullonapoleonien8760]

Great video, the conclusion where you stated that communist believe that they were supported by the people remind me of of the exact same lie about the French Revolution ! How many time I here that the Revolution was overwhelmingly supporting by the people against the tyranny of Louis XVI although, this is not true and the King was loved by many French until Varennes, it really started to crumble from here !

[@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917]

Generally when the King starves his people, they get a bit upset. Educate yourself on the French Revolution. Start by reading The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine, one of the leaders of the American Revolution.

[@legaullonapoleonien8760]

​@@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917 The King never willingly let starves the people to death. The Kingdom of France was riddled by debt because of the defeat in the Seven Year's. it only got worse when Louis XVI founded the American Revolution as he saw it as good to weaken France's main enemy : England ! Furthermore, the year 1784-1788 saw droughts and violents storms in summer and harsh winters that's lead to recessions. In order to solve the many issues that the monarchy struggled with, Louis XVI 8th 1788, the list of grievances were written then the representatives were elected and sent to the Estates General to solve the problems but they were issues on the way to vote : the Nobility and the Clergy wanted to vote by orders for the majority while the Third Estate wanted by heads for the equality. Louis XVI wasn't really experimented and didn't really know how to solve the situation and the fact that his eldest son Louis Joseph the 4th of June didn't help him at all. To conclude, Louis XVI wasn't a King who wanted his people to starve as you pretend. P.S. : If he was starving his own people, tell me why an entire region of France would revolt full of peasants would revolt against the revolutionnaries in reaction to the death of the King and mass concription for the Revolutionnary war (aka war in the Vendée) ???

[@hbsupreme1499]

Silly comment so many monarchs fan the boys trying to kiss the feet of autocratic authoritarian bodies.

[@Aetherblade-z4o]

​@@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917funny how your quoting a man who would find your ideology disgusting.

[@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917]

@RonanHarkins-xk5zz On the contrary, Thomas Paine's ideology could be at best described as proto-socialist.

[@blairscartoonshistory7477]

Tintin in the land of the Soviets was right of what a communist regime is like

[@Johnnycdrums]

Herbert Hoover is entirely under rated.

[@POCKET-SAND]

He would've fixed the Great Depression too had he not been voted out.

[@Johnnycdrums]

@@POCKET-SAND ; His ideas and plans were shit canned. FDR only met with him, because he had to. Hoover's plans were dismissed out of hand. The hand over was in March, not in January like nowadays. In the meantime, the economy festered into a shithole. Hoover was a "lame duck" and FDR refused to work with him on nothing, nothing, whatsoever. I never liked that cripple in a wheel chair to begin with. He got cripple in Maine from the water, and my home, oh, well. He came from away, and went away, thank God.

[@TutuBoy-835]

I agree, Hoover seems like a good president I would’ve voted for him.

[@Johnnycdrums]

@@TutuBoy-835 ; He wasn't horrible. And not a British tool, I think that's why he got bumped off. Edward VII got his personal stooge with Theodore Roosevelt, unfortunately. If America stayed friends with Russia, London would become irrelevant forever. Cecil Rhodes and the aristocracy could not allow this to occur.

[@jamesmcpherson8599]

Lol, lmao even. He sucked for America. We named pop-up shanty towns "Hoovervilles" after him. He was also partially responsible for the depression to begin with so for him to fix it would be nonsensical, unless you just want to keep alot of the background financial infrastructure that made the depression possible.

[@tashatsu_vachel4477]

Lenin was perfectly clear in his correspondence with Bernstein, the 'revolution was too important to be left to the proletariat and must happen without them'. He also conceded that capitalism had already solved most of the conditions Marx had intended Communism to solve, and all of this was pre-WWI.

[@warrioroflight6872]

When was this said? Is it in a book I can read?

[@shaiaheyes2c41]

Some important books written at that time by people who lived it are ''Cursed Days'' by Ivan Bunin (noble price winner), ''The Tcheka - The Red Inquisition' by George Popoff (heartbreaking) and ''Among the Red Autocrats My Experience In the Service of the Soviets'' by George Solomon. Then you have ''Kolyma Tales'' by Varlam Shalamov (there is also a good documentary simply titled ''Kolyma'') and ''I found God in Soviet Russia'' by John Noble (must read), ''Sofia Petrovna'' by Lydia Chukovskaya, ''Behind Communism'' by Frank Britton and Alexander Solzhenitsyn's work.

[@agent45625]

If you really want a video that pretty much overlaps communism and Nazism in terms of body count, I’d recommend the Soviet Story.

[@lightattheend5023]

Do not equate National socialism to bolshevism. It only existed in oposition to bolshevism

[@agent45625]

@@lightattheend5023 That may be the case, but whoever made the Soviet Story was obviously overlapping and equating it.

[@lightattheend5023]

@@agent45625 well then he was wrong. The only simularity in the two isthat both were autocratic regimes

[@ZeroResurrected]

@@lightattheend5023So, Nazism would not have existed if not for communism. Good to know

[@lightattheend5023]

@@ZeroResurrected I mean it's true

[@yuriykhasidov1626]

The policy called war communism was the most brutal time period of any country. The Bolshevik’s came and killed my great grandfather and his entire family of 4 because they where considered kulaks. Why you might ask because they had a horse and cow while others didn’t. The Russian revolution thru the country thru famine and political prosecutions then came collectivization!

[@davidgusquiloor2665]

I remember when i first read a book about the Comunist takeover and finding out how henious Lenin's actions and reign was. And then wondering why i only heard about Stalin before. Comunism in all of it's forms is monstrous.

[@pivomanslovensko]

Anarchists and socialists are all stalinists trust me bro communism bad

[@hbsupreme1499]

Calling communism monster is kind of ignores the monstrous atrocious committee on the monochism and capitalism.

[@Aetherblade-z4o]

​@@hbsupreme1499classic communist turns around and says WELL CrApITalism did bad shit too yeah no really bro this isn't about that it's about your shit ideology that killed 100 million people oh btw don't say that number is fake cause it isn't

[@doncorleone1553]

@@hbsupreme1499 You are delusional if you think those things are worse than Bolsheviks

[@TheSpeezo81]

@@hbsupreme1499You are a m o r o n and a liar saying what you just said is like saying swimming pools are dangerous because of millions of people have drowned in them.

[@RunakRishiSecondCousin]

Watch the same tankies who defend war communism act repulsed and appalled when the topic is german war crimes in ww2.

[@Raptor810Blue]

You can find plenty of tankies and digital socialists in the comment section.

[@doncorleone1553]

@@Raptor810Blue Their ideas are too disgusting to spread in real life, so they have to complain online, it's the marxists' only choice.

[@NBrioDaZueraRules]

imagine being this retarded to the point you think that everything is the same thing, nazis and communists are not the same, it's good when the communists do it, and bad when the nazis do it, there are no bad tactics, only bad targets

[@alexanderchenf1]

In 1927, under the guidance of the Soviet Russians, the first Soviet regime in China was founded - Hailufeng Soviet. The Chinese communists committed documented cannibalism against land owners they persecuted in Canton, NOT because they were hungry, but to express their revolutionary pleasure and hatred. I am only going to translate SOME of the Chinese communist evil deeds: For those fortunate landlords, it was grace if they were killed without being tortured. It was lucky if they were cut off of one limb, witnessing others were cooked and eaten, and then being executed themselves. Some were quartered. Others were locked into boxes, and sawed into pieces slowly alive, while the torturers would take a rest and drank tea to lengthen the sufferings. Communist Youth League member CHEN Shaomin recalls: The second evening he went back to the county to report his work. When he was in the zone of talking with his classmates about the process of their regime change, a bitter cry appeared. It turned out that Captain WU Zhenmin was interrogating the evil landlord of Mei Long. Captain Wu asked (the victim), "Is it very painful?" So much was his hatred towards the land-owning class. The second evening, our classmate ZHENG Junmin and two others transported several landlords to the train station for execution by order. A seriously fat landlord was too sacred to walk. So he was dragged. After a while, those classmates accomplished the mission and came back. We were about to take off our clothes and went to bed. Suddenly, I saw Comrade ZHENG Junmin was carrying a piece of fat white meat on his back. I was suspicious. It was late night, where did the fat meat come from? So I asked him, "Where does your little fat meat come from that you are carrying on your back?" He answered seriously, "We are to eat his flesh, and sleep on his skin. Tonight I take this little piece, to let you guys taste the fat white oily meat of those landlords who fed on the blood and sweat of the peasants." This remark, made all the classmates within the bedroom laugh. Source: 1927年10月11日，国际恐怖组织在南粤（Cantonia）成立海陆丰苏维埃政权。 “这个政权发动了真正的消灭地主的斗争。在那里，大约有三、四百个地主被砍了脑袋。（鼓掌。有人在座位上喊道：「少了，还要多一些。」）在这个有几百万居民的地区内，地主已经被从肉体上消灭了。最后，我们现在还看到整个广东，特别是在广州周围，已经形成非常紧张的局势。”（ 布哈林：《国际形势和共产国际的任务 - - 在联（共）布第十五次代表大会上的报告》（1927年12月13日），引自中共中央党史研究室第一研究部编：《共产国际、联共（布）与中国革命文献资料选辑（1927-1931）》（上），中央文献出版社，2002，第25页） “很清楚，在这个政府的统治下 - - 实际上是专政 - - 农民对共产主义事业的信仰的问题，已不再用同样的措词。即使我们考虑到有强迫的成分，考虑到有超过五万的居民从这两个县逃到香港、汕头和广州（并非全是有钱人，远非如此），也考虑到有许多农民确实主要出于狭隘的原因参加了叛乱，事实依然是，大量的农民支持这个取销了他们的债务，废除了他们的地租的政权（虽然支持的程度有所不同，从积极到被动的同路）。即使他们并非有意识地寻求革命，他们发现自己登上了革命之舟，并且与其说他们是集体化的支持者，还不如说他们是恢复旧秩序的支持者，但他们中的大多数人从这一变革中获益匪浅，而害怕地主阶级复辟。 还有更紧迫的理由害怕复辟：许多人可能已没有逃避报复的希望，因为他们曾卷入抢劫、放火和杀人，总之，他们实施了「红色恐怖」。苏维埃当局曾有计划地采取恐怖活动 - - 像往常一样，着眼于动员农民。农民既需要鼓励，从心理上摆脱屈从的枷锁（通过变得确信旧秩序已经被摧毁，决不可能恢复），也需要使之参加破坏和屠杀的行动，使他们不可能后退或开小差。总之，这个计划是从海陆丰消除一切中立和一切保留：「谁不和我们站在一起就是反对我们。」因此，在一大群被邀去喝彩和提出意见的人中，出现了公开的、甚至戏剧性的处决反革命的场面：「这些罪犯该不该杀？」甚至被邀积极参加屠杀。从而也有了组织「人头会」的习惯，它预示着（通常这是从相反的方向）诗人普雷韦尔所描绘的「人头宴」。但是在海丰没有宴会；只是把新近砍下的头穿在讲坛上方的一根绳上，为演说者激烈的言词提供一个恰如其分的布景。 不过，在海陆丰实际上也有宴会。有时（例如在捷胜）甚至出现拒绝吃受害者心肝的那些人被斥为「假兄弟」。但首创这种人肉宴的是农民自己，而不是苏维埃当局。彭湃故意制造的恐怖主义（不可能有怜悯和饶恕的问题，因为那意味着对革命者的冷漠和残忍）使人联想到圣茹斯特冷冰冰的推理，但这与农民恐怖主义的虐待狂式的欢庆、丰富和巧妙发挥无关。公开行刑吗？公开行刑比示众好；是许多农民参加，不应错过的节日，由于高喊「杀，杀，杀」而嗓音嘶哑。至于（更大量的）不公开示众的处决，到两星期过了以后，苏维埃政府也无需给行刑者以报酬：赤卫队员（大多是青年农民）非常乐于执行这种令人羡慕的光荣任务。对一个反革命来说，没有受拷问就被杀死是一种恩典。那些被砍下一肢，亲眼看到他人被煮熟吃掉，然后被杀死的人是幸运的。有些人被大卸八块，另一些人被关在一个板箱里，被慢条斯理地锯成一块块，而行刑者们还不时停下来喝茶休息，以延长其痛苦。”（ 费正清、费维恺编：《剑桥中华民国史1912-1949》（下），中国社会科学出版社，北京，1993，第354-356页） 共青团员陈绍民回忆，他“回县述职第二天晚上，在卧室内和同学谈论此次夺取政权的经过，正谈得入神的时候，忽传来一阵嚎啕痛哭的声音，原来大队长（吴振民）在审问梅陇的恶霸地主，用大木棍打他。还清晰地听到吴大队长这样地骂了一句：「好痛吗？」他对地主阶级的仇恨就是如此。第二天晚上，我们的同学郑俊民等三人奉命押解受审的几个地主到火车头枪决。一个很肥胖的地主吓得走不动了，给拉着走去。一会儿几个同学完成任务回来了，大伙正想宽衣上床，忽然，我看郑俊民同志的背上带有一块白肥肉，我心里怀疑，半夜三更，这小块肥肉是从那里来的？就问他说：「你的背上那块小肥肉是怎么来的？」他却一本正经地说：「我们要食其肉，寝其皮，今晚带回这一小块，让你们尝一尝用农民的血汗养的那些地主老爷肥腻腻的白肉是怎么样的味道。」这句话，逗引了卧室里的同学哄堂大笑。” （陈绍民：《大革命时期的海丰农民自卫军》，引自中国人民政治协商会议广东省委员会文史资料研究委员会编：《广东文史资料》第三十辑，广东人民出版社，1981，第76页）

[@MrExtraordinaire16]

Wait wait wait ✋️, what do you mean they went into cannibalism just for the fun of it? Are you saying that they 1 day just chose to become cannibal?

[@alexanderchenf1]

@@MrExtraordinaire16 KZbin “Tang meme”

[@MrExtraordinaire16]

@@alexanderchenf1 ... Uh? I'm not sure I understand?😅

[@achair7265]

@@MrExtraordinaire16 Looks like it.

[@MrExtraordinaire16]

@@achair7265 yup pretty much.

[@LamentedGuide]

Whoa… this video was… harrowing. I knew that the Soviets starved out millions of their people, but I didn’t realize that it started IMMEDIATELY. Wow…. Really goes to show what a disaster communism is. P.S. Spoon sent me your way, and I think you just found yourself a new subscriber!

[@pivomanslovensko]

Correct me if im wrong, but weren't the famines during civil war due to the fact that the whites held most of the farmland while the reds held mostnof the urban areas?

[@NBrioDaZueraRules]

@WereTheGermansSoStupidDocument this video is blatant jewish propaganda and anyone who thinks communism is jewish is himself a jew and a thoughtcriminal and 🇳 🇪 🇪 🇩 🇸 🇹 🇴 🇧 🇪 🇸 🇱 🇴 🇼 🇱 🇾 🇪 🇦 🇹 🇪 🇳 🇦 🇱 🇮 🇻 🇪 🇧 🇾 🇨 🇦 🇳 🇳 🇮 🇧 🇦 🇱 🇸 🇫 🇷 🇴 🇲 🇳 🇪 🇼 🇬 🇺 🇮 🇳 🇪 🇦

[@fate8007]

read theory lib

[@ladosdominik1506]

I still did not see all of the videos produced on this channel, but from what I know, (and is honestly not talked about very often), is what the Tzarist regime was like before the war and why the war was failed. The monarchy liberated the peasants in such ways, that those who choose to work hard for another 5 years could keep their land and those who did not had an opportunity to work in factories. (Interestingly enough, the workers were the ones most easily swayed by socialist thoughts). The other fascinating part, is that the Russian army was PLAUGED by the constant stupidity of the socialist agitators, who actually made the soldiers stop fighting often times and gave back won positions. The Russian army was plauged by these issues. So yeah, more research and knowledge about these years is good and what happened before and during the Russian revolution, and most importantly to the monarchy is important to know. The Mad Monarchist is a good start though he did not provide sources.

[@juandegorerodriguez2360]

WTF are you saying 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@buddyfats4768]

You have any book recs?

[@DmitriPolkovnik]

This is nonsense. Alexander II's freedom of the Serfs came with massive caveats like the Serfs having to buy out their landlords for the loss of their "property" (themselves) and the land they were given, which entrenched a status quo of massive generational debt for the vast majority of former Serfs, i.e their conditions only changed marginally for the better. Meanwhile for the small number of urban factory workers conditions were hellish. In 1890s Petrograd the average worker worked for 13 hours a day for subsistence wages and did not have any social welfare or the right to strike and usually lived in a barracks style accommodation, sharing a room with 10-15 people. The Tsarist government also massively mishandled the economy during the war, with food prices increasing 6x from 1914-1916. I'm a supporter of Martov and Luxemburg, I heavily dislike Lenin and the Bolsheviks, but pretending that Tsarist Russia was just fine prior to the Revolution is delusional.

[@LUR1FAX]

And Earth day is on Lenin's birthday. I kinda doubt that that's a coincidence.

[@jigglypig]

It's not. It's to diminish the significance of Lenin.

[@gb-jg1ud]

Every believer that Lenin was fine and Stalin was the reason communism failed needs to be educated as to real events. This video is a good start

[@r.w.bottorff7735]

For all his proletarian musings, let it not be forgotten that Lenin once brought legal action against a peasant that had caused minor damage to his property. Some man of the people.

[@savagedarksider2147]

Great job with the video. Don't show this video to thefinnishbolshevik.

[@jigglypig]

"I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy."

[@fortunatomartino9797]

Who financed all the arms that killed peasants? Where was all the $$$ coming from to create communism in the first place?

[@andymiller4134]

"God's chosen people"

[@your_waifu_hates_you]

All the funding come from wall street

[@yokai1235]

the manufacturing came from western europe and usa the funding came from banks and the western politicians and political activists that wanted to undermine russian empire and profit both ideologically and financially by either make the proletarian revolution or come to a destroyed nation and turn into a colony for other empire

[@superiorshotgun4348]

@@Nordbon1523 oh you hate the jew bankers for massacring people you sound jealous

[@stanzer38]

Oy vey, guyim, stop asking questions. This is very anti-soymitic.

[@neilreynolds3858]

I like your attitude. Hitler could have written a book titled: Everything I Needed to Know About Oppression I Learned From Lenin.

[@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917]

Then why did Hitler attack the USSR, nimrod?

[@SireJaxs]

@@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917 maybe because the alliance hitler and stalin made to carve up eastern europe wasnt useful anymore, crazy if u think about it. almost like communists worked with the nazis before the really suprising backstab

[@warrioroflight6872]

To be fair, Hitler didn't like Lenin last I checked. But still, the two of them were 90% the same.

[@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917]

@@warrioroflight6872 That's stupid. The reason fascism thrived is because the ruling-classes of the West feared Bolshevism. It just goes to show the extent they went.

[@NicholasEzclapz]

​@@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917found the brain dead commie

[@suckersupreme4380]

This is the first time the algorithm decided to show me one of your videos, great shit man!

[@FishReporting]

This was fantastic. Excellent work mate. Subscribed.

[@Petter_GM]

Very interesting and informative. Do you have a list of sourcematerl or referenslist or something like that? I'd like to use this for my research. Thank you ❤

[@Nordbon1523]

You can find it in the description of the video.

[@nataliamundell6266]

That was very informative

[@crusader2112]

Another banger of a video. Be careful thought, KZbin ain’t gonna like this. Peace ✌🏻 Could you do a video on Boris Savinkov?

[@thorpeaaron1110]

Yes the based Vozhd!

[@tommysiegel9295]

Yes and how do you think tsar kills his overrule by "not intentionally"?

[@Arpitan_Carpenter]

good video alta

[@adenmelton8264]

This is just me questioning a bit but why was black book of communism used as a source. From my understanding it’s considered unreliable and drastically raises the death toll. This is just me questioning it and I’d always love to have someone inform me as such

[@ManiacMayhem7256]

Agreed but overall his sources check out. The black book is fine when discussing atrocities but unreliable on numbers. You can thank the main author for that, a practice which the other authors of the book, many of whom were historians, criticized him for.

[@danieljliverslxxxix1164]

Marxists and communists act as if they are above thinking in terms of personalities, but what is their ideology but a literal personification of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, with the occasional Stalinist and Maoist? Just think for a minute, if personalities do not factor into the agenda of historical materialism, why then do they despise Trotsky? Wasn't he doing what was materialistically necessary of him to do? On the other hand, suppose Trotsky had claimed Stalin's position? Would he not have been as bad as Stalin? again, because he would have faced the same material obstacles as Stalin and so would have reacted in the same way. So what is it, commies? Is history driven by material and economic needs, or is it the personalities of great men? Remind me again the names of the men whose faces are on those red flags and sigils you wave around are.

[@90Degrees_]

Great video

[@danjuricic9582]

I’m new and I like your vids

[@BosnianBEAST-ky9xv]

have you ever considered america bad tho?

[@ryanparker4996]

Muh murica bad, muh orange man just like hitler

[@marvelloustraveller3559]

Whataboutery , last tool of communists when losing an argument .

[@henzohewson]

Tbf I knew that Lenin and Soviet Russia weren’t great to begin with, its just I didn’t exactly realise how bad they were. I always had this idea that Stalin was the man who turned the USSR into a nightmare and that he warped Lenin’s revolution to fit his own personal interests and increase his power base. Whilst I still think this is true, the Bolshevik Revolution was a bloody affair from the very beginning, and it wasn’t Stalin’s policies in the ‘30s that turned it violent. In fact, the worst violence probably preceded Stalin’s reign in the chaos of Lenin’s rise and consoldiation of power. I would say Lenin presided over turmoil and anarchy in the vacuum of the Russian Empire which he was attempting to control, resulting in mass deaths and huge suffering.

[@billd3356]

Not only that, the gulag system started under Lenin. I've not been able to find much real information on him and I assumed, wrongly, that the gulag network was Stalin's doing. I've read somewhere that by 1921, there were 84 camps operating. So "Peace. Land. Bread" turned into civil war, no private property and starvation.

[@TheMarianadealmeida]

Hopefully you are gonna get big

[@TitlefluidImperator]

youre work is of incredible value, please dont stop doing videos.

[@Posty-vw9jc]

Great Video

[@savagedarksider2147]

Russia and the tsar should have never sided with the British and french.

[@HawkThunder907]

Yeah, get the full force on your side is the ultimate trick.

[@duke9534]

especially since britain rejected the Tsar when attempting to flee his (and his families) murder.

[@crusader2112]

German🤝Austria-Hungary🤝Russia What could’ve been. 😢

[@thorpeaaron1110]

​​​Too bad Kaiser Willy basically disbanded the League of the Three Emperors and pushed Russia into the arms of Britain and France. Undoing Bismarck's efforts to prevent a European war.

[@crusader2112]

@@thorpeaaron1110 That’s a genuine mistake on Kaiser Willy’s part, but I still have a soft spot for the Kaiser.

[@erkkihelminen7580]

Very similar to cambodia under pol pot

[@ryanparker4996]

Where do you think Pol Pot got the idea? That wasnt a grass roots movement.

[@shauncameron8390]

And Ethiopia under Mengistu Haile Mariam.

[@SgtValentine8448]

Remember. Both Lenin and Trotsky were secular jews. Along with many party members when Russia turned red.

[@3ème_Empire_français]

and? both became athiests

[@POCKET-SAND]

Remember. Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and every head of state after him all atheists. Marx, Hitler, and Mussolini were also atheists.

[@POCKET-SAND]

@@wully8411 They were atheists, just like Marx, Mussolini, and Hitler.

[@leongremista95]

​@@3ème_Empire_français unfortunately, he is not talking about religion in this one

[@POCKET-SAND]

@@wully8411 All three wrote quite a bit about their atheism, Marx and Mussolini especially. State Atheism slaughtered more in the 20th century alone than all world religions combined. Repent.

[@martinwhite5076]

Nobody mentions the 1 third of humanity that goes to sleep 'hungry' .. Whether you chose to ignore these facts or to understand the problem is for each individual...

[@nickcarroll5034]

You like a lot of others won't address that many Jews were Bolsheviks because it would be "anti-semitic" to do so. The organized Gulag that appeared in 1928 (White Sea-Baltic canal project) introduced unbelievable conditions and was entirely designed and headed by Jews: Lazar Kogan (Head of Gulag and Chief of Construction 1930-32) Matvei Berman (Deputy Head of Gulag to 1931 and Head from 1932) Seymon Firin (Assistant to Deputy Head of the Gulag 1932 and Deputy Head from 1933) Yakov Rapoport (Deputy Chief of Construction from 1931) Naftaly Frenkel (Assistant Head of Canal Construction) Genrik Yagoda (Deputy Head of OGPU (NKVD) secret police from 1924 and later Head until 1936) Five of them received the Order of Lenin for their Gulag "successes" with the sixth(Firin) writing a celebratory book about it. This same group went on to head the Gulag as it spread throughout Soviet Russia ("metastasized" is the word used by Solzhenitsyn) and Russia found itself with a new Jewish "revolutionary" bourgeoisie (described in detail by Slezkine in his book, " The Jewish Century ") moving into the better class homes of their victims and enjoying elite educational academies, Pushkin evenings and visiting their country dachas (the inspiration for George Orwell's " Animal Farm "). The Ukrainian death-famine (Holodomor 1932-33 in which 6-7 million Ukranians died 30% of them being children)which was organized by Lazar Kaganovich, aided by Yagoda, with a majority of Jewish NKVD officers, meticulously removing all foodstuff from the country, killing wild animals and sending out inspection teams with any hoarding punishable by death.

[@Nordbon1523]

They didn’t like the tsar for his oppression against the Jews, go figure.

[@ivongrey9047]

@@Nordbon1523 Cope Commie

[@nihil4361]

@Lavader_, i love your channel, but i want to comment on your other video, concerning Serbian collaborators. You portrayed Dimitrije Ljotic wrongly

[@larshaas2658]

Now you only forgot the part where you tell how the majority of communists (mostly in high positions) where of a certain ethnic group of wich their name shall not be uttered. And that they certainly weren't out to destroy the slavic peoples so they could have a strong basis to try and spread it to the rest of the world. You should also make a video about Weimar republic Berlin, that shit is beyond fucked up.

[@jamesmcpherson8599]

... just say you're a nazi. Stop trying to "hide your power level" you're fooling no one and aren't speaking any "esoteric truth" no matter how hard you will cope to say its true. If Weimar Germany was "fucked up" then I wonder what kind of totally non "fucked up" system of government you'd have advocated for as the solution.

[@achair7265]

Hitler participated a rather temporary revolutionary government while still in the military during the early years of that "republic".

[@admiralfrancis8424]

"Now you only forgot the part where you tell how the majority of communists (mostly in high positions) where of a certain ethnic group of wich their name shall not be uttered. " Who counts as a member of this certain ethnic group? Do the grand-children of said ethnic group count? Even if the grand-children didn't even know their grand-parents belonged to said ethnic group? Lenin for example didn't know his grandfather belonged to said ethnic group. Why does this certain ethnic group matter? What would be the purpose of pointing out that a majority of communists in high positions belonged to this certain ethnic group?

[@larshaas2658]

@@Nordbon1523 what do you mean?

[@larshaas2658]

@@Nordbon1523 the one with the long noses

[@marclayne9261]

communism & fascism are different heads of same monster....

[@IchabodvanTassel98]

​@@dzalbs_different heads man.. the head could bite the other's head but at the end of those two came from the same body.

[@IchabodvanTassel98]

@@dzalbs_ your welcome. They are from the same body from the context of this video is that they both use harsh treatment, terror and, manipulative tactics against their own yet they hate and fight each other aswell.

[@reaperstudios5068]

At least fascism didn't kill its own citizens

[@buddyfats4768]

Not really Facism actually worked for the countries they were implemented in.

[@VivaCristoRei9]

no, the ex-fascist nations are prosperous and wealthy (fascism works)

[@intifadayuri]

bro unironically cited the black book of communism 💀

[@mcbeaty3971]

The only unreliable part is it’s numerology; which he didn’t cite, so what’s your problem?

[@intifadayuri]

@@mcbeaty3971 I think there are many problems apart from "the numbers" in that book, nowadays even their authors are ashamed of such obvious piece of antisoviet propaganda being taken so seriously. Next they´ll cite the very historical work of fiction "Gulag archipelago"

[@tiziogg6350]

​@@intifadayuri how can you be so sure komuniak?

[@onemoreminute0543]

I'd be interested to hear your take on Khrushchev as a so called 'good' Soviet leader like Lenin when compared to Stalin and Brezhnev.

[@grandparagnar6709]

Damn, it genuinely sounds like CHOP/CHAZ on a national scale

[@FaithfulFumoFan23]

It basically was until after WWII when they were able to make use of Poland and east Germany for all their manpower and industry plus more aid from the US.

[@shaiaheyes2c41]

14:22 That sums up the Marxist-Leninism/Communism for you...

[@warrioroflight6872]

The true Communist flag: 🏳️

[@stanzer38]

*🇮🇱

[@matheuspinho4987]

the flag of France?

[@TheThreatenedSwan]

🏳️‍🌈

[@warrioroflight6872]

​@@TheThreatenedSwan Actually, that's not a bad point.

[@warrioroflight6872]

​​@Tutu boy The woke degenerates don't seem to mind associating themselves with Marxism. That's what woke ideology is, actually-a continuation of Marxism. No wonder it's causing so much damage.

[@HD_Hates]

"To bring about a new transformation" wow, i have heard that word "transformation" before - our own disgusting communist regime in south africa use the same word constantly.

[@DrCruel]

You have no idea how much crap I've had to take for saying exactly this. Thanks for this detailed video.

[@osamaal-jundi2186]

Hey good research But I am interested do you view Winston Churchill the same way he took food from all over the world to win most notable India but also other places like where my father was born the british mandate of palestine Both Jews and Arabs agree the British took their food Also Egypt the British took food and loans and they never paid it back Do you blame Winston Churchill as much as you blame Lenin and do you blame the British empire as much as you blame the soviet union

[@jamesmcpherson8599]

EXACTLY! I wouldn't mind critique like this if it wasnt for the blatant hyperbole and hypocrisy.

[@A_reasonable_individual42]

He is criticizing the communist party not Winston Churchill.

[@osamaal-jundi2186]

@@A_reasonable_individual42 Do you know how to read I said Churchill did the same thing And I asked a question do you view Winston Churchill the same way

[@VivaCristoRei9]

The british empire is not so black and white. Unlike communism it was often a force of good for the world. Look at the abolition of the atlantic slave trade.

[@peterkarras8523]

Replace one repressive regime for another repressive regime

[@Raptor810Blue]

Stalin was just another Tsar

[@NBrioDaZueraRules]

the bolsheviks were not repressive enough

[@Jay_in_Japan]

23:40 Also keep in mind that the war had been over for a while

[@archravenineteenseventeen]

Russian civil war ended in 1925 and it's not including the yakut revolt yet

[@brandonemmons2822]

They moved to America right after Russia

[@alexanderchenf1]

Stalin was gentler than Lenin

[@lautysanchez992]

my family is from ukraine and they had to eat rotten bodies to survive the holodomor, genocide in which 7-10 million people died (mostly ukrainians) my family had to flee to poland and then to argentina, stalin was a monster and i dare say he was worse than hitler

[@tiagomonteiro130]

​@@avus-kw2f213Aren't you bussy grooming Children with you're tankie friends and celebrate a state that collapsed after 80 years.

[@grandcrowdadforde6127]

Alexander Solzhenitsyn !!!

[@grandcrowdadforde6127]

pre watching comment: the Soviets//Lenin seized 90 + % of GUNs after 1922: what ever else re the Second Amendment in the US>>> that the government shall NOT infringe upon the right to bear arms}}} they got that one right!

[@franzordway19]

Always the ingrate, Lenin never thanked the Germans for returning him to Russia.

[@user-vt9jd4tc5h]

Lucifer's 2nd death gang

[@nono_Hoi4]

Wot to do with famine relief money? spend it on other stuff

[@gergelyritter4412]

I have to say, that these comment sections are the most confusing ones I have ever seen. I have 0 idea of what's going on half of the time.

[@JoaquimSerafim]

Lenin was a monster

[@RaulCashflow1916]

Wait you’re telling me in a civil war people died :O

[@helloimskip]

Has The Deprogram deboonked this yet? /s

[@Raptor810Blue]

The Deprogram is so goofy

[@VivaCristoRei9]

ywnbaw

[@francisparkeryockey4891]

next good video 👍

[@DS-ud6ys]

4:16 most likely 1940s

[@nelo1]

It's not that I disagree about what the video says about Lenin and the bolsheviks, it is that, at times, the practices that it accuses the bolsheviks about were standard practices for, initially, Western Colonialism and, later, for multinational corporations capitalism. Yet, the author is not ready to condemn the west for what he is fast to condemn the bolsheviks about.

[@thaddeusnoble9141]

The entire situation has a huge Kosher stench to it !

[@D4rkNRG]

From my POV and just from what I have read. I see Lenin as having been a voice for the working class and poor. IMHO there were bad actors that infiltrated and took Lenin's party over. He was a staunch proletariat, his last few years in office were done in a state of incapacitation after having been shot 3 times and enduring a series of strokes. I'll even give you a short timeline of events: In 1917 Pravda, the Bolshevik newspaper, refused to publish Lenin's 'April Theses' on April, 17th, 1917. Just a year later on March 3rd, 1918 Lenin would sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk which effectively withdrew Russia from WWI. 4 months later, on July 16th Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of Yakov Sverdlov executed the Royal family. 2 weeks later on August 30, 1918, Fanny Kaplan, would try to assassinate Lenin after a speech at the Hammer and Sickle factory. And just 3 days after that, while Lenin was convalescing, Yakov Sverdlov, who ordered the Romanov family executed and who I believe actually controlled the Bolsheviks put his 'Red Terror' plans into motion. Ultimately killing over 26 million Christians. Lenin would never fully recover, yet remained Head of State until 1922. His dream of a proletariat, worker led government wold never be realized. Having died just 2 years later after suffering several strokes due to the assassination attempt 6 years earlier.

[@novinceinhosic3531]

>Ultimately killing over 26 million Christians. This is nazi dogwhistle. No, Lenin fully supported the terror and planned for it from ahead if you bother to read him both before and after the revolution. The Terror ceased once Dzerzhinsky handed over a report to Lenin and decided that the death penality has finished its role and that there is no longer a need for be so liberal (freely) with it. Yakov Sverdlov did not sign any order to execute the Romanovs. It was a hastey decision taken by the delegates of the Party out of fear that the White Army might recover them and give them a moral boost. Many in the party thought that the best way was to have a proper trial of the tsar and put him in reformative labour camp to see if they can make him change his mind and use him as a propaganda tool just as Puyi in China was used. Also the account of 26 million is absurd. That amount would be the total of the losses since the start of WW1 until the end of the Civil War. As I remember the numbers of executions by the Red Terror was around 11k.

[@ivongrey9047]

@@novinceinhosic3531 Communism sucks.

[@user-dd5ou5um6l]

Wow turns out when all the major empires of the world sanction and invade a nation, average civilians suffer. Same thing happening with Cuba. It’s idiotic to frame the lack of resources as a failure of the socialist government when they *aren’t allowed to import resources like usual.* Don’t ask, “where has socialism worked?” Ask, “where has socialism been allowed to work without serious and deadly opposition from the capitalist powers?”

[@coffeehousedialogue5684]

So, the Tragedy of the Commons was not present in Jamestown or Plymouth, then?

[@shauncameron8390]

Tanzania Mongolia

[@D4rkmatter]

In my country (Bolivia) and: - It has created fanatics of the MAS who literally sack businesses in protest times. - It has created a hidden crisis that is coming up. - +60% Debt. - It sold the resources to China and Russia. - It created a very corrupt state. - The government is slowly shifting towards authoritarianism. Thats your answer leftie.

[@jackbrunton9833]

I may be a libtard but my god some of your content is pretty good

[@parllax]

A hill not worth dying for against a communist lol

[@altfrlf]

Red terror, great!

[@beartales1427]

Tf are you even supposed to do when you’re fighting against the entente, the counter revolutionaries and a fucking legion of checoslovakian soldiers that are occupying your main railway

[@kaiserwilhelmii674]

Idk, Not brutalize and alienate your only supporters.

[@Indianmf]

Idk, not block the US supplies?

[@workingproleinc.676]

I stop at 2:00 _Russians Did not Just Beat the White Army,But other Westerner Nations,And Their Colonys_ e.a India_ This was not Just intern struggle.

[@gogodaal7273]

cry about it

[@dimitristrutt4046]

"no other state had to resort"....well....no other state was attacked after the first world war by major external powers! A parallel could be made with France in 1793 having to fend off foreign and internal (from previous ruling classes) armed hostility. The 1793 civil war did not have much to do with Republican ideology and the defence of the new State in the 1920s had little to do with communism as such. That is not to say that atrocities were not committed (there was many, on all sides) but it is particularly disingenuous to try to portray the armed opponents of the Bolsheviks as mild liberal-minded constitutional monarchists defending some peaceful way of life or the Church as some benevolent organization

[@Nic_Bloody1905]

In defence of Lenin, he was a symptom not the cause of Russia’s vile times in the 1920s-30s. The real issue was, as in all societies, land. The issue was that the under the Tsarist regime and in particular the Squires and Nobleman the peasants were oppressed to the nth degree with serfdom (slavery) and neo serfdom causing resentment to built to a boiling point. Not to sound snobby or classist, but the average peasant of Russia was more vengeful, hateful and blood thirsty than the Germans in 1930-40s. The Bolsheviks simply gave them the leadership, the war the opportunity, and literacy the potency, to become monsters in human flesh. But it was the Tsars that did this, they forced a system of autocratic government on to deeply anarchic libertarian people, and were surprised went it bit them in the Ass. Read Orlando Figges for more information

[@Isaac-ib3wp]

Just brush over the fact that Russia was invade by the the UK, USA, Canada, France, Japan, Poland and Greece and more. This definitely had no bearing on food production and political stability 🤦‍♂️

[@Isaac-ib3wp]

Also using the black book of communism as a source… two of the authors admitted they made up the figures for that book

[@coffeehousedialogue5684]

Citation needed.

[@shauncameron8390]

Invaded by Greece and Finland? Are you admitting that Russia was pathetic and weak? LOL

[@user-tp8pf5ke8o]

​@@shauncameron8390how is that admitting they were weak, if they were it wouldn't be a problem anyways, it was mostly true. But you seem to lack the simple understanding that those countries had troops in russia fighting the boldheviks with the white army

[@Robertbuccellatobooks]

Honestly Lenin was the Paul Atreides of world politics. Personally you would be hard pressed to find a single era or regime in Russia history where the poor citizenship weren't terrorized or saw their rights stripped from them. Yeah, Stalin was an insane monster, but Lenin used terror to serve the goals of the revolution. He also declared war against the peasants because they were an easy scapegoat during the early famines of the civil war. No he was not as bad as Stalin, not even close. No he was not as violent as the Czars, no he wasn't and only a personal dogma against Communism would make you think so. But he was not a kind man and he was able to eliminate people with the coldness of a mathematician

[@zekkez8057]

even tho i despise lenin, your video isn't a trustable source bc you're a national conservative monarchist who believes in corporatism, so what you say is 100% influenced by your ideology

[@ManiacMayhem7256]

Poisoning the well fallacy. His political beliefs while they do influence his anti communism, don't invalidate the primary and secondary sources he uses in the video. He uses the works of several historians as well as the testimonies and interviews of several people involved in these events. I am a republican so I oppose monarchy for the most part but that doesn't automatically invalidate his claims.

[@zekkez8057]

@@ManiacMayhem7256 among other sources, he used the black book of communism, which is known for being fake. i don't know if the other sources are trustworthy, but he isn't for sure

[@hbsupreme1499]

​@@ManiacMayhem7256not really since this man reads from a monarchist view even in his hisotry of the revolution

[@ManiacMayhem7256]

@@hbsupreme1499 Yet most of his sources here are non-monarchist. So...

[@VivaCristoRei9]

Literally everything everyone says about politics is influenced by ideology

[@heikkijhautanen4576]

Russia or the USSR has allways been a nightmare, to its own citizens and its neighbours :/

[@user-tp8pf5ke8o]

No