Solzhenitsyn and the communist decalogue of evil

[@lmf9308]

A great concretization of how the initiation of force kills peoples' ability to use their mind.

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Indeed...situation becomes an impossible 'my mind vs my life'

[@riccardodigiuseppe8661]

​@@nikossotirakopoulos6876 A great author Nikos, despite the fact that, as you know, Ayn Rand despised him a lot.

[@yogablessings]

I just watched a video with you in another channel here on KZbin and was impressed with your intelligence, knowledge and lucidity. Thank you so much! 👏👏👏👏👏

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Many thanks, glad you found it of value!

[@nicolaskrusek3703]

Another outstanding video, thank you!

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Thank you Nicolas!

[@sot11cat]

Congratulations Nikos for another great talk! Νίκο σήμερα τυχαία βρήκα το κανάλι σου και ειδα μερικές εισηγήσεις σου! Τα συγχαρητήρια μου για τις παρουσιάσεις, τη θεματολογια και το ύφος και ήθος της διαπραγμάτευσης των θεμάτων! Τα βιντεο αυτά έπρεπε να ηταν διαθεσιμα και στην ελληνική γλώσσα.

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Ευχαριστώ πολύ! Μιας και εδώ και χρόνια είμαι εξωτερικό, τα αγγλικά είναι η πρώτη επιλογή.

[@riccardodigiuseppe8661]

​@@nikossotirakopoulos6876 Great video.

[@bjrnhagen4484]

This is what happens when the collective is given priority over the individual, i.e., the state is responsible to the collective, the people, an abstraction, which is easy for the state to comply with because an abstraction for obvious reasons cannot complain. And if an individual complains, the state can respond: _who are you to think you are more important than the collective? Don't be selfish._ A culture will therefore arise where the social gain from defending the state's lies, no matter how absurd, exceeds the gain from standing up for the truth. The purpose of the lie is to prevent people from talking to each other, for fear of being reported, which means that the more absurd the lie, the better it works as a means of control. A believable lie would not have been as effective. Something to think about when considering the cultural debate in the West these days.

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

'And if an individual complains, the state can respond: who are you to think you are more important than the collective? Don't be selfish.' 100% this!

[@denismijatovic1239]

Solzhenitsyn was very sad to read. Thank you for reminding me of some of the content. Good video!

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Thank you! One of the darkest authors indeed. Understandable, with what he went through.

[@denismijatovic1239]

@@nikossotirakopoulos6876 About being transported in trains with other people: "Put your ear to their quiet humming and the steady clickety-clack beneath the car. After all, it is the spinning wheel of life that is clicking and clacking away there."

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

@@denismijatovic1239 Wow. The train-transportation part was one that I also found among the most impactful.

[@Conserpov]

Harry Potter is also very sad to read in some places. Both are works of fiction

[@imalcontent]

Mate, that was very well articulated. I enjoyed your retelling of Solzhenitsyn's words (as much as 'enjoy' might be the wrong word to use with such dark content). Thank you.

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Thank you, glad you found value in it!

[@WLBarton4466]

It seems that the more one would try to stay away from political talk, to just do his work and go home to his wife and kids, the more certain he was to be noticed and tortured. Fear extinguishes hope.

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

And at the same time, the more politicised ones, and the most faithful to the regime, were at the highest risk for persecution. Madness.

[@Cirnenric]

Thank you!

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Thank you Enric!

[@CapitalistSpy]

Your videos must be share …..

[@4E-P]

The human nature of laziness is why communism is desirable and why it always fails.

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

But laziness is not our nature; it is the default choice of someone who doesn't bother to understand how to operate as our nature commands, which is by using his mind.

[@edwardrichardson8254]

​@@nikossotirakopoulos6876 It has zip to do w/ laziness. That comes after communism has kept you in a deep freeze and you don't even know how to write a check and have zero impetus to excel because you cannot "get ahead" if you wanted to. It's sold on envy, the ancient Bible warning of coveting what your neighbor has. But even that's not enough. As Nietzsche stated, it has to be implemented with ruthless, violent force as man wanting to improve himself, wanting to have some land and possessions is thoroughly natural. That's why communism only takes hold in agrarian, pre-Industrial societies. Leave people alone and individualism will break out, free markets just happen, and self-regulate as they did after the near complete societal breakdown of China after the Cultural Revolution, which nearly sent them into civil war. Govt officials went out into these provinces they had heard were breaking the rules and free trading and what they discovered is they were flourishing. Instated of cracking down like Stalin's post N.E.P. terror, they just left them alone and this is the origin of China's economic liberalization. It never came from the top, it came from people just doing what they do. Watch Professor Frank Dikötter's lecture on the Cultural Revolution here to learn about this. Also, and critically - these are not revolutions any more than the French "Revolution" was a revolution - these are coups by an armed extreme minority when the army is away or otherwise preoccupied with fighting someone else. The October Revolution was no "revolution." Lenin was hiding in disguise in Finland with a warrant out for his arrest by the Russian govt! He had tried to start a revolution that summer in Petrograd and it backfired just like Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch and he and the Bolsheviks scattered. What happened was rumors began circulating a Russian general named Kornilov was marching to the capital to overthrow the govt and they got nervous and needed Lenin's 30,000 Latvian riflemen (aka the "Red Guard") paid for w/ German money, thank you very much. Remember Lenin is funded via the Germans who sent him there and Zionist organizations. Read Solzhenitsyn 's phenomenal "300 Years Together" regarding the early marriage of Zionism with Bolshevism). Kerensky rescinds the arrest warrant and Lenin returns, Kornilov never moves on the Provisional Govt, and Lenin instead uses his thugs to seize control of the capital (Petrograd back then) after the Bolsheviks massively lose the only free election Russia has ever had. A biblically bloody civil war ensues after that. A pirate English translation of "200 Years Together" can be found here: ia800301.us.archive.org/32/items/Solzhenitsyn200YearsTogether/Solzhenitsyn-200%20Years%20Together.pdf It has never been officially translated into English, only French, and the family has been pressured to not release it in English although every year there are news stories about it finally coming out. Regardless of its topic - Jewish involvement in the coup and subsequent Murder State set up by the Bolsheviks, who were easily 80% Jewish, maybe even 90% - I can tell you there is not an anti-Semitic bone in Solzhenitsyn's body. He never overplays their involvement and is as cool as a cucumber in his historical research. The only fault I might have with it is that although it does not overplay Jewish involvement with Bolshevism, it understates Russian gentile complicity. There is a "this was done to us by people who have nothing to do with Russia" attitude, but it's a false sentiment - merely look the rehabilitation of Stalin today in Russia and the fact that the Communist Party is the second-largest party in the nation today routinely pulling in 30% of the vote. No, I'm sorry, Russians are a big part of the problem.

[@ffktrc]

Root of name Solzhenitsyn is "лже" = "false"... About talking names ;)

[@Conserpov]

Do you also believe in Saddam's WMD? Do you also believe Harry Potter is a real hero who defeated a real dark lord? 'The Gulag Archipelago' says "A WORK OF FICTION" on the title page. People play a game of pointing out fiction on any page of this book. Hilarious.

[@ffktrc]

And Biden win 2020 :))))

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

'In this book there are no fictitious persons, nor fictitious events'. Literally the first words by Solzhenitsyn in his author's note.

[@Conserpov]

@@nikossotirakopoulos6876 Hilarious. You clearly didn't even read the book like I did. Otherwise I wouldn't be surprised you believe the Earth is flat too. "No fictitious events", 🤣 Like Spiderman is real because New York is a real, non-fictitious city 😆