Englishman Reacts to... How Did the Soviet Union Actually Work?

[@user-fj3en5pm4q]

In the movie there is a great example of Soviet propaganda methods (around 7:00). Nikolai Yezhov, executed by NKVD, has been removed from the original image.

[@Rhakio]

How it work? It never work

[@bobwisdom7749]

Rob you need to watch tik history to understand this better specificly public vs private, hitlers socialism and hitlers democracy.

[@Corum.z.Dunajca]

3 people is a party, that is from an old slavic told. 1 man can lie, 2 man can lie in 1 business, but when they come in 3 Pearson you just should check the topic. ✌️

[@reddragon_1903]

Comrade stalin

[@mistymoonshine897]

democracy means power of the people or mob rule, if you like, and socialism is, in fact, the epitomy of that idea.

[@bobwisdom7749]

Exactly have you seen tik history

[@strachster]

Capitalism's a uneven distribution of wealth, Communism even distribution of poverty.

[@dominik36127]

Having Rishi Sunak on a flag indeed does not scream democracy. It screams a joke.

[@bobwisdom7749]

What is democracy think about it

[@BogumilBarnaba]

Don't know about this , deep stage 😊

[@yuukonen]

fun fact the 'soviet army' left Poland in 1993 In most countries of old eastern bloc u will still see Lenin monuments, despite decommunization there are hundreds of streets in Poland with names related to communism, till very recently Warszawa still had Lenin st.

[@PaweDabrowski-ux9fr]

Don't forget! Cambridge Spies / TV Mini Series The true story of a group of Cambridge University Students who are recruited to spy for the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.

[@strachster]

Good you could not experience it. Cult of the Idol, North Korea has it still and we know how it goes.

[@CezaryStachurski]

Część Rob pozdrawiam 👍

[@antoniostoyanov2045]

Glory to the USSR!

[@januszstafiej9463]

Remember, in Russia common words have a different meaning. All words that sound nice and appeal to people are deprived of their original meaning and the positive associations are used as a cover for something opposit.

[@CMDRSloma]

Opponenets of Putin get the tea or the window.

[@MasterZeus94]

The Soviet idea of communism is as far from Marx's writings as Spotted Dick the pudding is from medical diagnosis. Lenin was inspired by the writings but his views were so extreme even his fellow socialists thought he was going to far: the Bolsheviks were actually created BECAUSE there was a schism among the Russian socialists caused by Lenin and his supporters. And yes, Lenin did crush the opposition mercilessly, repressed anyone that would speak against his vision, he did not believe in the idea of peaceful reforms and working within the boundaries of the legal systems, but objectively his ideas definitely improved the situation of the people when compared to the Tsar's rule. And then, after Stalin's twisted times, the party in charge decided to keep some of his ideals, which resulted in the wealthy and influential living a good life while at the same time failing to catch up with the world.

[@rafalkaminski6389]

People of the bottom dont know anything 😅

[@caltravels9454]

This is not a fun subject, booo, lol, I'll sit out of this one.

[@rademenes1754]

Rob, you simply don't understand the differences between electoral democracy and parliamentary democracy and democracy (dissociative democracy, i.e. royal democracy), of course there is also presidential democracy and referendum democracy.... every government is legal and if Putler says that he has 999%, it is legal, because this is democracy..... what do you not understand (-: Czego nie rozumiesz ? Pozdrawiam z Polski

[@KM769]

Read about communist Russia: Richard Pipes, Orlando Figes, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Ann Applebaum. Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984 are based on history of communist revolution in Russia (Orwell knew many communists and was on Spain civil war 1936-39 where communists tried to arrest and kill him and his wife). Lenin and Stalin were mass murderers murdering millions of people. Stalin is 4th biggest murderer in XX century (after Mao, Hitler and Chiang Kai-Shek). Lenin killed less people than Stalin only becouse he ruled shorter (and used war gasses against farmers uprising). It's not true that Lenin had different vision of state than Stalin, Stalin realised Lenin's vision. Hitler's state was imitating of organisation of communist state (with different ideology). Stalin was Hitler's ally until was attacked by him. Communist propaganda is blank manipulation and also Marx's writings are full of manipulation.

[@MayaTheDecemberGirl]

Totally agree.

[@dariuszbienkowski9127]

Soviet Union = UE

[@SLAWXP1]

say some more about this, how this is equal