"This is not wide spread knowledge" Jordan Peterson on Soviet History

to see the full lecture go to • 2017 Personality 13: E...
In this lecture, he explores the dreadful socio-political consequences of the individual inauthentic life:
the degeneration of society into nihilism or totalitarianism, often of the most murderous sort, employing as an example the work/death camps of the Soviet Union.
Buy The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It is arguably the most important book of the twentieth century.
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[@Dick_Jones]

Those who know their history are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it.

[@Kim-rp7ot]

Man, this shit hurts me more than it should have...

[@Kim-rp7ot]

Pardon my language, your comment*

[@andrewlightbody4221]

Lol... so true

[@DreDay-rg1rx]

@@jacksonmiller6679 american people live in a dream world! not everyone share same thoughts!!!!

[@Jay-gf8tm]

So much repeated propaganda on social media. People know nothing of history.

[@InqWiper]

"A testament to the absolute rot of the education system" -Jordan B. Peterson "The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring of this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators. - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

[@goofinhiemer1153]

InqWiper thank for pointing out what should be painfully obvious but isn't to almost everyone.

[@cretansuperbos2121]

Cite the source of that quote please. I've read Solzhenitsyn and don't recall that one.

[@joerivandeweyer3056]

Finally someone mentions him. Was imprisoned by the Zionists, thank you.

[@theman946]

Communism was the East's correction to quench the fire of the soul. The West merely decided to continue negotiations until the soul of man could be broken.

[@gubourn]

InqWiper classic JP gatekeeping in this clip

[@SteveEdwardCooper]

My friends and I in high school in the seventies read The Gulag Archipeligo and were transformed by it. No teacher of ours knew what we knew. And no teacher could lie to us because we knew things they didn't.

[@firesidewithsumgai9932]

As an American, I have spent the majority of my adult life discovering that even in college, we are not taught much. The only real education we get is that which we go learn for ourselves. This is a huge part of why Americans are the way we are.

[@Orson2u]

ABSOLUTELY. Autodidact’s are liberated and enlightened.

[@harrymurray9702]

Not just Americans, much of europe, asia, africa, the entire world is ignorant, most of all regarding the Savior of the World Jesus Christ. WWII was indeed a holy war.

[@freemind.d2714]

Same here in Europe friend

[@Anigeriantakewithdeo]

Do you think maybe there is too much out there to learn and do schools cannot teach Everything? I don’t think the endless knowledge is the Educational Systems fault and I absolutely believe everyone should explore further on their own but at the same time it doesn’t necessarily take anything away from the school system. Besides, no institution is perfect. I’m Nigerian Btw.

[@firesidewithsumgai9932]

@ololadeabimbola1506 I don't know how schools run in Nigeria, but I would be willing to guess it is ver different from America. In America, history is very diluted and the vast majority of world history, as it relates to American involvement, is heavily painted with a patriot brush. Important events and people are left out unless it fits the narrative. For example, all throught out my schooling, slavery has been depicted as soley a white vs black issue that America had a monopoly over. As we know, however, this issue was prevalent across the globe and often race in itself was not a determinant factor. Most Americans couldn't name 3 historical non white figures that were not American. Our knowledge of geography is pitiful and in some places we have high school graduates that still can not read. While this is not to say that the education system has no merit, I will definitely say that in America, the goal of education is not to educate.

[@IraQnRollAllDAyLong]

I am 72 years old and read “One Day..” of my own volition while in junior high school. That book was one of the most enlightening things I have ever encountered and I have since wondered why there are no museums to the “hundreds” of millions who have been deleted by these regimes. Thank you Mr Peterson for having the guts to shine the light of Truth in our time.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnSyho1tj8igaNk - I’d love to know your thoughts on this

[@jimd1944]

Sir. So true. In high school my english teacher had us read that book and, it was an eye opener which was the start for my "blindness" eventually being lifted. This helped me see beyond what my college professors tried to preach about Communism. But, there was one other teacher (in college) which helped by assigning "Anthem" by Ayn Rand which made me appreciate the inportance of the individual vs the collective. Then I read 1984, I began to really read the constitution and to understand how it is supposed to protect individual and, why it is so necessary to Question and stand up to those who wish to usurp it.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@jimd1944 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKSVaaKPrayIiKNh I’d love to know your thoughts on this

[@jimd1944]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Why? 1. That video has nothing to do with this thread/topic 2. I could not get past 2 minutes of that rediculous video with two rediculous people: what is the point?

[@pedali-hf9tn]

Also read it in high school and wrote a short book report on it. My family left the Soviet Union and came to this amazing land of opportunity aka The United States of America in 1990 when I was only 2. It's appalling and sad to see how many wish for a repeat of the Soviet ways here without realizing what they're actually asking for.

[@t2216]

My grandfather was sent in GULAG for 25+5 Years. Luckily Stalin died and he got out after 5 years. Only reason why he survived is was because he studied to be a doctor in university before sent there and he became doctor of the other prisoners. Otherwise he would have died in freezing cold slavework in Sibera. Reason why he was centenced 30 years in prison was - "political immaturity". My family still has the document stating that!

[@antonbutuzov922]

Society vs individuals vs other individuals

[@marklewen9384]

My great aunt was sentenced to a tenner(10 years in gulag) for teaching Sunday school in 1928. She ended up doing 16 years,and finally made it to the states through the help of the church,and taught Russian language at NYU...

[@t2216]

@@valkyrie9553 Sadly is true. Our family lives in Estonia, not Russia. Estonia was invaded by the Soviet Union over 20 years later than revolution took place in Russia. Over 30 000 people where taken to Siberia from here. The punishment was 25 years GULAG and 5 years living in Siberia. That was ment to be that long because then Russian migrants where brought in living into the homes of the ones who were taken away. Those who came back never get their home back until 1991 when we got our independende back.

[@seankim5762]

@@valkyrie9553 I wanna see ur response

[@ImpulseMTG]

All your grandparents were sent to a Gulag for being reactionary trash. Full stop.

[@petermitchelmore2592]

A favourite quote of mine is by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, which could apply to many nations today: "We know they are lying. They know they are lying. They know we know they are lying. We know they know we know they are lying. But they are still lying."

[@WCF06]

My uncle saved over 2000 Polish officers that were sent to Siberia, stopping the train with his unit. He was awarded highest Polish military order (twice). I'm happy that my family helped those guys avoid such horrible fate :)

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

The issue at hand is sin and God’s nature of being just. Sin brings suffering (the pleasure is short term, and the suffering is long term-on earth and in hell forever). God brings Righteousness (may have short term suffering followed by long term pleasure- on earth and in Heaven). If you love yourself repent of your sins (lying, hatred, unforgiveness, sexual sins, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, stealing, dishonouring your parents etc) & believe in Jesus for forgiveness of sins. (Jesus died on the Cross as a sacrifice and defeated death by rising from the dead)

[@kurzackd]

Officers would never be sent to Siberia. They couldn't have been broken sufficiently to be forced into slave labor, and/or they likely had killswitches (i.e. cyanide pills) in case of capture. So, your uncle is either a huge liar, or YOU are. *OR* these captives were simply regular soldiers or civilians, *NOT officers.* .

[@cbroz7492]

KATYN must never be forgotten!!!

[@Orson2u]

WOW. Write it up - read it with your cellphone video cam and post it on YT!

[@Earthad23]

Imagine the domino effect that had on the world and all of the people and their descendants.

[@MrJayOhare]

‘The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic’ - sad but true

[@tapman1277]

I could be wrong but I believe it was Joseph Stalin himself who said that.

[@europalette3640]

@@tapman1277 Yeah it's said to have come from Stalin, but I think it's just a myth of something

[@Will-gq6gn]

G e o r g e F l o y d

[@williamisabell9539]

@@tapman1277 yes credit is due, even to a an ally and a monster.

[@callomallo7712]

The death of anyone on any scale is a tragedy. I believe wholeheartedly that relegating the loss of human life to mere numbers is a seed of evil. That being said, if it did come from Joseph Stalin, you know what I say is true, as he was a very evil person.

[@pl8154]

"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and whom it is aimed at." - Joseph Stalin

[@vincentcassidy2169]

So fucking true, and look around us..

[@ellisgill1940]

@Dodd Rougeau I wonder what the point of your reply is....

[@stalledimagination]

May he rest happily in hell

[@0570965]

There is a message to take note there. And watch out for it.

[@ByAlonsoBarinotto]

Wow he really said that

[@awax43]

No one does more good than a good teacher, and no one does more evil as a bad one.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

All Humans need to repent & Believe in Jesus. Why? Because all Humans have sinned (lied, lusted sexually, stolen, dishonoured parents etc). Avoid the fires of Hell (justice of God) and choose Heaven today. Jesus defeated death by rising from the dead. GOD IS HOLY

[@victorstalick5528]

AMEN!! And they are sorely underpaid, overworked, and underappreciated!!

[@victorstalick5528]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 That doesn't fit the topic being discussed.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@victorstalick5528 Everyone’s got struggles of some kind, whether it be financial, health related or sinful addictions that you know is bad but can’t stop it. Ask for Jesus to intervene and help. God will help you overcome, thus giving you a personal encounter, and proving He exists to you. I have received a physical healing mir-acle; Jesus is waiting for you to humble yourself and ask (ask because God listens).

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@victorstalick5528 Look ill share something personal. I’ve personally seen Jesus (Not worthy), Heaven and Hell. Hell is worse than what you think (I was shaking after that experience), and Heaven is better than what you think. I have also received a personal healing miracle, I can go into details if you want. This is how God works. If you give Him the benefit of the doubt, He gives you more and more. Would I spend even 2 minutes preaching if I had an ounce of doubt? (I’ve experienced way too much)

[@Bromarrr]

Tuning into professor Peterson’s lectures is such a blessing!! Let’s not take the advantage of free speech and broadcast for granted.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

All Humans need to repent & Believe in Jesus as their God. Why? Because all Humans have sinned (lied, lusted sexually, stolen, dishonoured parents etc). Avoid the fires of Hell (justice of God) and choose Heaven today. Jesus defeated death by rising from the dead. GOD IS HOLY

[@captainfalcon8615]

This man is directly pulling a generation of young men out of darkness. Thank you so much Jordan, you are an absolute godsend I believe you were meant to change the world with your words

[@swississue4950]

I can only agree and raise you ! This guy has the courage of a lion and a heart of gold ! Godspeed, that our collective consciousness can evolve towards enlightenment delivering us from the evil of mankind is part of our fate. Mr Jordan Peterson stands an example for us all to follow !

[@fabianhoigens4620]

Godssend

[@goolabbolshevish1t651]

Look up his work for the U.N. on sustainable development ie population control and how ithasbeen for some of the worst people on the planet. He is controlled opposition and a gatekeeper at best.

[@wolfgangdemmel3598]

No, he is a transformation agent for what the KGB called the normalization phase of implementing communism. I am sure he has no clue about the roll he plays. He gives full credibility to the Hollocaust, which has been pushed on everybody, almost daily. And he sets it equal to the Gulags, which have been shrouded in silence. But, he kfails to draw the connection that both information policies originate from the same interest group. The little detail on who was the most influential political group at the time when all this happened in Russia, and that this group has to this day the stated goal to bring those blessings to Europe and the rest of the world, puts the events of WWII in a completely different light. The amount of publicity he gets it testimony, that he serves the end goal.

[@wolfgangdemmel3598]

@†ANGÉ|† Right on the money.

[@LuisOrtiz-xo5kc]

I am a professor of philosophy at a small university in Mexico. In my philosophy of science class, we reviewed Lysenko's ideological control over science, which represented a severe delay in the development of Soviet science. In other classes, I also mention the genocides under Stalin and Mao, as a consequence of the aims of Marxism. Sadly, few students are impressed by these facts. Most of the professors at the faculty are Marxists or sympathize with this ideology. And they are usually the most popular teachers among students. Actually, the vast majority of public universities in Latin America are infested with radical leftists, who with their simplistic rhetoric easily persuade students. These teachers preach that the "system" must be destroyed, even though they themselves have jobs in the public school (most of them are senior professors), and that same "system" that they teach to hate provides education to the students. It is pure hypocrisy!

[@Guy_Montag]

😢😢 damn

[@rred8674]

Don't stop fighting.

[@waaagh3203]

Fight the good fight, Professor. I think all professors should be like that. Present the facts. Show both sides of a topic. Let the student engage in critical thinking and make decisions for themselves. Unfortunately, too many professors hide facts or even skew history by presenting one point of view THEY agree with most.

[@dinarce]

Dear profesor, Ideology that you try to undermine is especially rooted in countres that felt that destroying capacity of western capitalistic/imperialistic expantion. So, rather then teaching students any ideology, go into the reasons why yours is undesireble in Mexico or many places in Latin or Central America. I reailize that science in SSSR was under influence of ideology, but no more than in countres where thay teach creationism in many universities. Best regards

[@rufeilrahtieh7885]

@@dinarce " Ideology that you try to undermine " How is he undermining a Ideology ?

[@buffuzo4201]

I did a research paper on the Red Terror of the 1930's citing Solzhenitsyn's work (which I read) when I was in high school in suburban Detroit in the early 1970's. I was told to "stop reading that kind of thing", and I got a very poor grade, in spite of the fact that it was likely one of the best papers of the entire class. Subsequently I was placed in a remedial English class, and the teacher of that class demanded I be placed in yet another class as I was disruptive; asking too many intellectual questions. Public education in the 70's was awful, and today it is by far much worse.

[@cameronsweitzer8395]

You probably didn't read the rubric

[@moron1138]

They teach Americans enough crap about how bad Russia was and how bad it is at the monent

[@user-fm7xv5pk5z]

@@moron1138 Soviet Russia was BAD, but USA certainly did help Yeltsin to fuck up Russia.

[@MaxvergaxS]

Your paper sucked because of your shitty ass sources.

[@vik7368]

Because you read bullshit books by bullshit authors and your teacher knew it. There are literal lies in this book. Even his wife was so embarrassed of it, she made public statements clarifying that it was fiction and not factual accounts.

[@robertlegault9226]

I just finished listening to it on audible The Gulags were utterly horrific and everybody should force themselves to read or listen to it. It wakes us up to giving any form of government or ideology too much control.

[@Mates1CZ]

They STILL ARE! That is the problem ...

[@lek8630]

@@Mates1CZ the brainwashing level of western ppl just mind-boggling... imagine that russian ppl who actually lived in ussr loved to live there, only one who hates it are westerners who listen to ANECDOTAL evidence from traitors like solzhenitsin

[@God-dt7om]

we are lucky to have this man in the world at this time, he is an island of truth and common sense.

[@dondressel4802]

Dario Spirit I’ve read about stalins life background from a reputable source Believe me he was no angel He was a paranoid narcissistic insane human being if you can call him a human being He was responsible for millions of his own people’s deaths!

[@fuokugoooge8314]

@Dario Spirit you need more tinfoil in your hat

[@westernman1482]

Dario Spirit it seems self proclaimed right wingers nowadays don’t wanna mention the pure truth because they know they will be vilified as an anti-Semitic. The masses have already been successfully indoctrinated with the zionists versions of history. I also think about it from a controlled opposition standpoint with so called right wing public figures being set up to guide the right wing identifying masses the direction they want them to go. The Jews know if the majority of whites that they’ve worked so hard to divide ever find our tribal bond again it’s game over for their goals to control the world. I believe they spread the Hitler and Germans were bad propaganda also to right wingers to keep white nationalism/white unity from ever spreading because their multiculturalism plans to destroy the white race would be obliterated.

[@InAnotherLife90]

@Dario Spirit see, I love the talk about Zionists indoctrinating us into an alternate version of history. And I love the discussion around exposing it. How families like the Warburgs, Bolognese, etc have hijacked the world's wealth and economic system for the last 500 years. But when you tie it into white nationalism, it just makes your whole shit fall apart. What a stupid way of looking at the world. It almost makes me think your whole motivation for seeking "the truth" comes from your insecurity around other races and ethnicities. What a waste of intellect and effort to boil all of it down to "preserve the white race!"

[@NorthGermanic]

@@InAnotherLife90 -Are you ashamed of being white?- EDIT: Sorry, ignore the question, just realized you're not white - (which explain your comment)

[@Ymirson999]

"Intentionally ignored" seems a much better description than "under examined."

[@ShadowRonan]

My history teachers in high school taught us this and I’m so thankful they did so

[@jodyel]

Same here and I graduated high school in 1979. We were taught all of this and I am glad we were. Education has fallen greatly in the last 40 years.

[@stevedownie1378]

I would attend every single of his lectures. This was very pleasing to listen to.

[@jupitersailing6911]

I had a government teacher in high school that educated my class on the history of the Soviet Union and honestly a lot of other topics that never got covered in history. We were a small class and he was a very wise man, and actually believed in education through real history, not the history they want you to know. I look back now and I am thankful to have had someone like that, that was one of my favorite places to be.

[@markpower5756]

How can you describe something that your teacher covered as something that is never covered?

[@brandoncorona9312]

@@kimobrien. the US and England still hated communist though. FDR and his administration were of course aware of the need of their Soviet Allies. However you still see massacre of West Virginia miners, strike breaking, and all types of anti labour ideas being promoted by the us government, at least before FDR, and then when the soviets start to build their armies enough to make the comfortable west wonder about a shifting balance of power, they like you said see them as a threat.

[@brandoncorona9312]

What is the history “they want you to know”. This “They” would prefer you see the soviets and their ideals negatively, being as they do deserve your criticism, it is still Disney seem as though this teacher was teaching you some really radical ideals and actually what nearly all history teachers say when the topic comes up.

[@anonkasper7937]

@@kimobrien. Any why were the polish soldiers murdered in katyn again?.Why they were executed during the war.If socialist system was so beautiful why did the socialists had to build a wall in Berlin to prevent citizens from east Germany escaping to capitalist west germany

[@kimobrien.]

@@anonkasper7937 You should be directing those questions to the followers of Joseph Stalin because Lenin wanted him out of his post as General Secretary before he died and the Communist movement Split in 1928 with Trotsky leading the left opposition. Stalin would go on to murder the old Bolsheviks in the 1936-1938 Moscow Trials and destroy Lenin's party.

[@phillipmele]

“...if you started to describe it as reprehensible you’d barely scratching the surface...”

[@jrhawk]

Appalling

[@kimobrien.]

@@jrhawk Peterson is a Stalin-a-phob. His academic achievement is to do his damndest to scare the living hell out of you so you do not look any farther than Stalin and his gang of cut throat bureaucrats. He won't mention Trotsky directly and the Cuban revolution doesn't fit into his neat and tidy explanation of socialism as murderous and unworkable.

[@Hitman-889]

@@kimobrien. They were all demagougic fools. None of them could have made communism work, no matter how "good" you think they are.

[@lebowe6131]

@@Hitman-889 they had gulags...jordan's north america had native geocide and slavery of blacks etc

[@Mike__G]

There is an abridged version of The Gulag Archipelago in a single volume which is endorsed by Solzhenitsyn. It is just shy of 500 pages and is quite doable. It gives a clear account of what went on in Russia after the Bolshevik revolution. This should be required reading in high school.

[@BST-lm4po]

If Americans knew 1/10th as much about the Communists as they think they know about the Nazis, this country wouldn't be so screwed up!

[@scottperine9820]

I do believe J.P. has fulfilled his calling everytime he speaks. His affection for the truth and his passion for telling it like it is just puts me at ease. I know I could easily call him friend. This is very important to me. Thank you again, J.P.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

All Humans need to repent & Believe in Jesus as their God. Why? Because all Humans have sinned (lied, lusted sexually, stolen, dishonoured parents etc). Avoid the fires of Hell (justice of God) and choose Heaven today. Jesus defeated death by rising from the dead. GOD IS HOLY

[@homesweetsc]

“A testament to the absolute rot of the education system” I love his diction and sentence structure, it always cuts deep

[@Andrewmylife]

I thought I'd leave a comment to go with all of your likes.

[@lebowe6131]

They had gulags His country had schools with mass graves of native kids.

[@underlord3761]

​@@lebowe6131 this is false

[@lebowe6131]

@@underlord3761 how is it false.......

[@lebowe6131]

@@underlord3761 where is your proof that it is false....or did you just defend your hero with no facts and ran away

[@omni288]

I was a history buff even in high school. This was in the 70s. I took a class on Russian history where the teacher was trying to gloss over the atrocities of Stalin. I took this to the principal and she was forced to teach history as it happened. I have no idea if she taught the truth to any other class but mine.

[@MultiPhoenix06]

Why did she try to gloss over that part? Was the idea of socialism not being that bad around even in the 70s?

[@mariakempinska6201]

Thank you Jordan for making this public knowledge and for all your work. I read Ivan Denisovich when I was 16 and followed by reading all of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, I always talk about his work to people who are dissatisfied with life. Profound writer and totally under estimated. My Polish father, mother and grandfather were all in the gulags. They never recovered psychologically and that led me to become a psychotherapist. I know how evil people can act toward 'the other' and when that evil is turned into a system the world increasingly becomes a place of insecurity, threatening and finally of horror. The Russians and Germans did just that and we are still hearing about their terror and tyranny. We are in danger of it happening again as many individual tyrants are using the same psychological bullying against freedom of speech and obliterating history. That is how it all began. Take heed and control yourselves or the social democratic system of brutality through manipulating peoples minds. Know that there is enough food and room for us all and the climate always changes, other than that we are a global community and need to take care of each other even if you have to do more for the other.

[@loyalfrog4864]

A lot of thing’s are wrong for exemple: Stalin wasn’t assassinated he died of an heart attack. Mao didn’t wanted to kill 50 million people but make them because he wanted to build a powerful industry (they starved because of famine). He didn’t talk at all about brejnev and khroutchev reforms, that’s a shame

[@marunia256]

Only problem is that Solzhenitsyn books are inaccurate and have zero historical value. If someone is quoting Solzhenitsyn he is wrong by default and basically whole assumptions of that person are wrong.

[@lebowe6131]

I totally see what your saying about gulags and what they did to people...its one the worst things done in history and your right about the other....all this said...lets look what was done in north america to natives and blacks...that was also all about the other but a lot of canadians like peterson dont mention this much and mostly talk about the great things that were done here......how is this different from many russians who only wish to remember the great things about the ussr and none of the horrors?

[@marunia256]

@@lebowe6131 For your undersanding GULAG stands for Glavonoje Upravlenije Lageriami (Main Minestry of Camps is very loose translation but i hope you get the idea). And when someone says that person was sent to GULAG he shows his incompetence on that matter and after that all his argumentation can be ignored.

[@loyalfrog4864]

@@lebowe6131 oh shit here we go again. Well we know that those gulag were doing building massive infrastructure in Siberia developing the territory. So if those gulag never existed the eastern front would have been harder and the war longer.

[@deuslaudetur2451]

Just bought the book, looking forward to reading it

[@whocares941]

I’m from post-Soviet republic. My great grandfather spent many years of his life in exile. Till he died he was afraid that someone like Stalin would come back. He was so traumatized, that he never spoke about what happened to him. I can’t believe that Americans would want socialism in their country. If you say “socialism” in my country, people would laugh at your face.

[@semyaza555]

What country?

[@amirsabbaghi209]

Well that's TOTALITARIANSIM that you talk about not socialism.

[@Rubinrus]

@@amirsabbaghi209 this indeed wasn't a socialism. It was communism, a totalitarian regime based on a socialistic idea, supposed to be in-between capitalism & socialism thing. Role of communism it to prepare society to make it willingly accept socialism (unlike communism, socialism can't be forcefully enforced). To do so, communism needs a fanatic monster like Stalin, willing to do *anything* to spread socialist idea. *TLDR:* Totalitarianism is a part of communism, a regime which is essential prior true socialism. Also, it always fails for whatever reason. Sometimes it's fear, sometimes it's a cult of personality ( e g Stalin's one), sometimes it's a movement towards capitalism instead of socialism.

[@zissler1]

@@Rubinrus Socialism is the gradual and less violent form of communism -vladamir buschkev

[@zissler1]

Gradual meaning it leads to communism eventually

[@ogre8647]

My Dad did 3 tours in Vietnam and was an Infantry Officer and then turned Military Intelligence and became a Soviet threat analyst. He spoke six languages and got is Doctorate in Soviet Studies. He taught myself and my two siblings about these Soviet and Chinese atrocities and was horrified that people thought the systems were amiable forms of Government. I tried my best to get people to read Gulag Archipelago but did not succeed very often unfortunately! Those that did read it are still my friends to this day and they say that the book change their view of humanity. The World needs to wake up. It I fear it maybe to late!

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

All Humans need to repent & Believe in Jesus. Why? Because all Humans have sinned (lied, lusted sexually, stolen, dishonoured parents etc). Avoid the fires of Hell (justice of God) and choose Heaven today. Jesus defeated death by rising from the dead. GOD IS HOLY

[@3101home]

IMO it’s not that communism is terrible, it’s those country’s leaders who are and have too much power. European countries have blended socialism ideals with democracy and that seems to be the best solution of most equality and highest standard of living for vast majority of citizens.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@3101home Look ill share something personal. I’ve personally seen Jesus (Not worthy), Heaven and Hell. Hell is worse than what you think (I was shaking after that experience), and Heaven is better than what you think. I have also received a personal healing miracle, I can go into details if you want. This is how God works. If you give Him the benefit of the doubt, He gives you more and more. Would I spend even 2 minutes preaching if I had an ounce of doubt? (I’ve experienced way too much)

[@user-jh8mo1gx6l]

@@3101homeCommunism is absolutely terrible. It denies the individuality and uniqueness of every person. In doing so, it denies what God has created. European socialism is not communism. It also takes from those who have and who may have given freely if they had not been commanded by the system to give up some of what they have worked to obtain. Funny how western nations lived within their means, didn’t run up trillions in debt which they can never pay off, until socialism became very attractive to politicians seeking votes.

[@alexandermartirosyan3406]

@@3101home Socialism per se means that leaders have too much power, the more they have the more they want. We saw it very well in Covid period, when the wholw world turned into a huge concentration camp. And now we see it in US and Europe with all that neomarxist agenda.

[@reepacheirpfirewalker8629]

One thing I was told by a guy I was going to a first aid class with he was fighting the Vietnam war in Vietnam against the Americans. He told me that he knew of many Americans who were held in camps that they were pushed to other areas within Vietnam or sent further into Soviet care. In Prison some of them forgetting how to speak English. Many just destroyed

[@Gallowglass7]

'Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an uprooted small corner of evil. Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.'' - Aleksandr Solhenitsyn

[@tetracor]

"Absolute rot in American education ... " Got that right.

[@thanquolrattenherz9665]

not only america

[@colleeninprayer1498]

Jon Cranon sadly the same in The Australian education system sadly.

[@buca117]

Jordan Peterson is a professor in Toronto, Canada.

[@shebbs1]

@@colleeninprayer1498 Our education system, especially wjen teaching history, had definitely declined by the late 1990's, and has worsened since. Australia's education system really has moved to the far Left.

[@colleeninprayer1498]

@@shebbs1 yes very left wing pushing all sorts of political agendas on the innocent little kids. Teaching them what to think and not how to think 😡. We were roughly ranked in the world at about 3rd and now we have sunk down to about 39th in the world.

[@hedgeearthridge6807]

Ive read the Gulag Archipelago. It's the most terrifying and depressing book ive ever read. It's the only one to ever had made me cry (at the Dr. Kornfeld incident). I do warn you of it's terror. But you should absolutely read it. I love that Russia has it as manditory High School reading.

[@ongogablogian6041]

Being Ukrainian i see that this mandatory high school reading has almost no effect on russian kids and adults. Still major part of Russian population are nostalgic abou Stalin and communism and the general direction of russian aggressive politics is on rebuilding Soviet Union v2.0.

[@mikaelj3760]

o yeah o yeah o yeah o yeah o yeah o yeah o yeah o yeah o yeah o yeah o yeah o yeah

[@vedser]

Patrick Earthridge u r wrong it is not mandatory in russian schools.

[@staffan144]

Alexander Solzhenitsyn 200 years together Jordan b peterson kzbin.info/www/bejne/fILbh2Z3nJtkosU

[@reginahelenatelescosta2975]

@@ongogablogian6041 Yeah, I just cant understand the russians mentality. Russians must have developed a sort of slave mentality due to the centuries of insane opression, and like the caged lion, learned to love their chains.

[@HollyLFord]

This info was in various history books in our town's public library. I was reading them at about 15 years old. This was mid 1970s.

[@sharkdegrijze]

This is real history, I love the history of the 20th century special all the events that lead to ww2 because all of then shaped how we live today and all the people that died and suffered but it is the most disrespectful and shameful thing that most people don't even know what happened or how lucky we all are that we don't have to live to that horrible experience, I am from venezuela and all we learned about in history was about our own country's history and not even the real one and how communism and socialism is good, I hate that a lot of people on third world countries learn a different disgusting and insulting history and where people can learn it no one knows it, people complain about the littlest and most stupid thing today but they don't even know how lucky we all are to be on a place where we can strive to be better, help eachother and actually own things

[@heyguy9282]

I see you lived through some of that bull****. I hear the average adult's weight loss in Venezuela is almost 25 lbs. Were you seeing that? I recommend everyone read Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", easiest of his reads). Yes, there are solid reasons why socialism, especially communism is practically universally rejected.

[@lebowe6131]

They had gulags....north america had native geocide and black slavery....so lolli gagger jordan should get off his high horse

[@jensstarborg4455]

Feel a bit sad about the demise of education. All this was common knowledge in Europe in the 60s and 70s.

[@user-ni3bj2bi4z]

Am a young person in America. All this and more was taught to me by grade school and elaborated through the rest into college.

[@1noobslayer]

@@user-ni3bj2bi4z Wow, that's literally incredible. You really learned about the gulags and mass genocide that happened in soviet Russia and China by the time you were out of grade school? If you've been through an American university then you'll also understand how rare that is, assuming your early education actually was that thorough, which I really doubt. I had been made vaguely aware of China's cultural revolution by the time I reached high school, and that was just because a middle school English teacher assigned a book about it out of personal interest. The amount of Marxists coming out of universities nowadays does not match up if you're insinuating that most Americans are aware of the baggage that has historically come with it.

[@darrenzhan5302]

@@1noobslayer agreed. And if u r not lucky to have a history teacher who presents history as history not opinions and politics, you’d learn even less 💀

[@painxxxl]

In former ostblock countries you know all these figures from your grandparents and are covered by older generation of history teachers. Mind-boggling is fact that there is good 20% of dumb people who admire - in some way - the old regime.

[@Mathias-kz5dr]

@@darrenzhan5302 I know what you mean. But hi-story is always a story, a subjective narrative. There is always some zeitgeist in it

[@davidrixon3549]

In 1975 I was in year seven at high school in Australia. For education week we could submit a book review and I Chose " the gulag achapeligo" by solzenyetsin as my book. I received it as a present for my birthday in paperback and I read through it over several months. When I was summoned to the head masters office I was handed my review back because obviously I hadn't really read this work at age 13. When I recalled information that was in the book about the NkVD methods of interrogation for example my headmaster was taken aback and I received a prize for best and most challenging book review for that year .

[@klutz3955]

That's amazing! I'm proud of you for that. Perhaps publish it on the internet somewhere? Anyway, unfortunately in this day and age should this reoccur it might be labeled as hate speech or something :(

[@WorksopGimp]

We had Kes (Kestral for a knave)

[@nigelft]

@@WorksopGimp Oh, God, yes ... If you are a fellow Brit of similar age, not only did I have that book as part of GCSE English in 1989/90, but watched that -- almost -- haunting film version by Ken Loach ... What really impacted me was I was in a school, and year, of kids, like me, that weren't that far removed from being as destitute, and the school it self was pretty much what you can imagine a inner city comprehensive of the 1980's, especially post 1987, was like ... In fact, I am tempted to buy a copy now, as alot of memories are flooding back ...

[@KidCity1985]

How has that affected your life.

[@Cheapers-Vac]

Your "head master" was either a Jesuit or under Jesuit instruction and control. The next book you should cast your gaze upon is Ruler's of Evil by F. Tupper Saussy.. You will Never loan it out ! It has become a "banned book".

[@plasmodesma7569]

Thanks to Dr. Petersen covering this topic, I bought the 3 part Gulag series. Almost done with the first volume. It’s stunning, horrifying, emotionally draining, and an absolutely necessary read. It’s both opened my eyes to the generally overshadowed (by Germany WWII) horror the Russians endured, and helped me more deeply appreciate my own life. What it shows is one perspective on how humanity can be so beautiful, while at the same time incomprehensibly ugly. So ugly as to seem unbelievable, but the Gulag was real and sure as death itself.

[@ViZet85]

Though Solzhenitsyn's books should be taken with a massive mountain of salt. Unfortunately, he was known for huge exaggerations and outright false information.

[@TRUMPvsLENIN]

hey the canadian who has woman voice...maybe you make learn your history in north america of genocide and slavery....after this you can play judge about other country's history

[@charlieb6001]

@@ViZet85 There are masses of factual historical literature that support Sozhenitsyn's writings. Either you are extremely naive, an apologist for the barbarity of the Soviet system or are a Russian troll.

[@F.M671]

​@@TRUMPvsLENIN Like his voice means a solitary fuck. It's true that western media should shut the fuck up about black slavery (bitch look at what you did to Indians but I don't see anybody in the mainstream complaining about that, also like Arabic slave trade was far more devastating ) however even then it has jackshit to do with his right or lack of to "judge". Solzhenitsyn was a prisoner in these camps and by no means should we take his words as 100% true. That doesn't mean we should outright discount it.

[@nishcheta885]

​@@TRUMPvsLENIN we are already aware of it. Its not about pointing fingers, country to country. Those who make it like that are fools and puppets. Its about stating that a horrible thing was done, and that we shouldn't do it anymore. If we can all agree on that, there should be no issue, shouldn't there?

[@JohnJBrowne11209]

Thank God for a Catholic school/Cold War era education. I remember learning about this from my sixth grade social studies teacher back in 1973. I also have read the Gulag Archipelago and a Day in the Life of Ivan Denosovichw. Plus Robert Conquest's The Great Terror

[@tomzeman5964]

Coming out of Czechoslovakia in 68 as a political refugee I was appalled at Americas emphasis on the evils of Nazis but total dismissal of the Marxist/Darwinian threat!

[@warrioroflight6872]

I envy your experience. I am struggling to convince the Marxists of the horrors of their ideology and I find it very hard to fight them because, well... The fact is that I have never seen the nightmares of Marxism for myself. I'm fighting in unfamiliar territory with these people.

[@barborabarusova4790]

rozumiete ešte po našom? :)

[@JerrysJets]

Not all of us are deceived.

[@VividFilmProductions]

@Lord Polish isn’t it strange people can be open socialists/communists nowadays but someone being an open fascist is damn near crucified in public? Nobody can convince me our society hasn’t gone more left over time we keep hearing about the evil white supremacist people on the right but all I see are leftists causing all the problems.

[@sleptiq]

Darwinian threat, lol wut?

[@SK-le1gm]

“Ownership of the media is always in the hands of the perpetrators.” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[@brunothepug8807]

And who owns the Media in the United States? The leftists.

[@andresmcguire-buckley1659]

@@brunothepug8807 yes, and before them the "elites". I use quotations marks because they live a life against Jesus of Nazareth the Christ.

[@dmt02459]

@@brunothepug8807 Wrong... The concentration of the bulk of American Media is in the hands of six corporations!

[@dmt02459]

@@andresmcguire-buckley1659 Maybe you don't understand that the American Revolutionaries were leftists. They challenged the monarchical conservatism of their day with (what was then) radical democracy. To lean left in America is to ask questions about the effectiveness of our social, political, and economic system for promoting the common good for the greatest amount of people (public interests). To lean right in America, is to ask questions about the effectiveness of the social, political, and economic systems for promoting the good of the individual (private interests). Both sides are valid as long as they can sustain a working relationship that sustainably meets the needs of both concerns. After all, the United States of America is a Republic founded on Democratic principles. Unfortunately, our capitalist economy and political system has been deregulated to the point that private interests of a minority elite are increasingly at odds with the public interests of democracy and the common good.

[@glennmartin802]

@@dmt02459 Your interpretation of political theory is flawed because its presented as "black and white". The American revolution by all accounts was a conservative revolution in the since that the same people running the states remained in charge. Their wasn't hostility towards the establishment other than a king across the Atlantic. I have never seen an academic authority dispute this interpretation. Left wing doesn't inherently carry a propensity toward collectivism, nor does right wing with individualism. That's just how "conservative" and "liberal" in American culture manifested largely due to party positions more than actual theory An example of left wing individualism would be like anarcho communism which wants collective control over economy while having social autonomy, or neo-liberalism which ironically looks like the Republicans current platform. Of course national socialism would be an example of right wing collectivism and I'm certain you could find other examples as well that lean into traditionalism. I would say the consistent difference falls within nature vs nurture. Right wing being more inclined towards nature and left wingers using the latter. This means the right wing mindset says that people make institutions good or bad thus producing a good or bad society, where as the left wing view would be that institutions make people good or bad thus producing a good or bad society. The left wing authoritarian seeks to control the means of production (factories and land). While the right wing authoritarian seeks to control the means of reproduction (babies). All other positions stem from that fundamental difference.

[@lynettegill14]

I’m 65 and I read “one Day in the Life…” of my own choice when I was a young teenager. It had a profound impact on me and has coloured my thoughts on politics and the potential badness of men in power ever since.

[@darcyperkins7041]

Around 1983 I won a prize for getting the highest mark in a language class in high school (French or German, I forget which). My prize was a coupon to a small, local independent bookstore worth about $10. With that coupon I bought One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and R.V. Rieu's translation of The Iliad. Both books are long gone, but I did manage to read the Solzhenitsyn one; found it totally absorbing and fascinating.

[@justushall9634]

"History is a series of lies mutually agree upon" -- Napoleon.

[@Upstreamprovider]

That was Voltaire, I believe, not Napoleon.

[@Psychoma99]

Guess the point of life is just another lie

[@YouAintGotNoTegridyBoi]

History can come in the form of empirical data that doesn't lie. So that's kinda false.

[@stephenhiatt3364]

@@Upstreamprovider i mutually agree that Napoleon said this

[@knackers2773]

Prefer Napoleon quote about voting. citizens do not vote for their rights, rather their interests.

[@tardarsauce3355]

I didn’t learn about gulags until I took an elective history course on a whim in university. This should be taught in high school

[@killthefalsegodemperorofma4226]

This shit is common knowledge in the circles I travel. I have a cna that's it. Fuck college it's a waste I could teach at the university's, when it comes to knowledge I have. I read and watch documentaries all the time, and biographys are my favorite.

[@thomask837]

I learnt about them in my primary school years... from my parents who escaped from communist rule in 68

[@GloryHoleBased]

wow you mustve gone to a shit school

[@Cumulo9]

relying on the traditional school system will never work. internet is gradually phasing out school system. these knowledge can all be discovered online.

[@VeritasEtAequitas]

I learned more from a community college professor than let's say "communal" university. Look up the Sykes-Picot Agreement and Balfour Declaration. The "allies" were complicit in the world wars, for profit, and the ultimate victors were the world bankers who got their own country and the biggest shield to hide behind. Funny how the modern postmodernist movement uses the same tactic of hiding behind minorities snd accusing you of oppression if you date criticise them. Who's at the top? Those who it's the worst to criticize ever, EVER... Israel. ;)

[@grusha5744]

well, we know all of it in the post soviet countries. In fact, this repressions are not only talked about during our history classes but during literature and art classes too.

[@williamberry9228]

So true Mr Peterson. An absolutely Evil and shameful situation. Thanks for enlightening us from your platform

[@edithbannerman4]

@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

[@skojigoquist9288]

When living in canada, NO-ONE knew about not Stalin not the gulag nor any of the related topics. .but the holocaust - they knew it back and forth. Big logic.

[@wolfgangk2824]

Solzhenitsyn also wrote a book called "200 Years Together" which is banned in the West.

[@henrymabee8195]

I find it difficult to believe that “No-one” knew about Stalin. I grew up in Canada and we learned about Stalin and the USSR. Perhaps not to the extent that we all should have, but we certainly learned about it the gulags, Stalin, Lenin etc. That is not accurate Skojik, maybe you were in North Dakota. That is also not Canada, it’s a part of the USA.

[@skojigoquist9288]

@kristof verbruggen aaaaaaa. It's for the Americans. Let's feel sorry for ourselves...... I lived both in Russia Nd the USA - the second one is far worse

[@abcdefg1392]

I agree with Henry... most people who are at all educated or well-informed I know in Canada know what gulags are I don't know what y'all are talking about

[@skojigoquist9288]

@@henrymabee8195 no :) I'm afraid not. It was Canada, Ontario, Toronto, 2015, well educated and rich business people with good background and yeah. They had no clue. When I said gulag - they thought I said: goulash. Long explainations started and it was not easy because they also didn't know many other things. The educational system in Canada is not the best. Well, I know it's tough to face it that your peole are so stupid but unfortunately it's the case. It's ok - stupid pple are easy to lead. North America - not only north dakota- is the best examples of this. I'm sorry guys - I know it hurts. But it's real. Sorry again.

[@TheGeorgeAtkisson]

I remember when Solzhenitsyn came to the U.S. The MSM was all set to praise him as a hero, until he challenged them for THEIR hypocrisy and turning a blind eye to horror and totalitarianism when it suited The Narrative. He dropped out of sight as “old news” shortly afterwards. 😡

[@leonne07]

Yes. He blamed the US Government and NATO directly and openly for the bombardment of Yugoslavia back in 1999 as being an aggression on a sovereign state. Quickly after that he was pushed to oblivion and ignored by the media that just before these events have glorified him and famously baptized him as the "The consciousness of the world!" When he changed the tune and had pointed his finger at US, he was immediately sidelined.

[@erikswanson5753]

Yes I remember this. He came to the West as a Hero and instead of being "grateful" he acted as some kind of avenging prophet railing against the West for its' shallowness and hypocrisy. He lived for a time in Vermont and then after the Soviet Union fell, during Russia's brief spell with democracy under Yeltsin he had a television program in which he railed against modern Russia for having lost its soul. He was one of a kind.

[@sztypettto]

@@erikswanson5753 , kind of shallow to label another person as the narrative fits. Let's call spade, a spade. The US government and Western Media is a hypocrite.

[@erikswanson5753]

@@sztypettto not sure who you're calling shallow. Me? Solzhenitsyn? Both? Don't know.

[@danzervos7606]

@@leonne07 The Clintons were behind that. Hillary as Secretary of State pushed the war in Libya and then Syria which resulted in about a million deaths. All those women supporting Hillary who Julian Assange described as a sociopathic war monger. Are those women ignorant or does their blood lust for abortion cloud their minds.

[@norbert7297]

You are an absolutelly needed person in the whole world sir! The only other person i could name besides yours is maybe Ben Shapiro, but you always have a more professional approach to questions because you are one! Please countinue working as hard as ever educating us, because it seems no one else will. And i know it is a far more bigger responsibility that one can expect from an another to take happily but if there is someone that is capable of handling such an enormous thing then it is definitelly you sir!

[@luciatheron1621]

You lost me on Ben Shapiro. No comparison whatsoever.

[@norbert7297]

@@luciatheron1621 dont really care what you think

[@Memer44]

If JP were to teach me history, I'd gladly listen to it.

[@rev.stephena.cakouros948]

From Handbook for American Conservatives: "In America communism is a roaring lion. In Russia it is a dead dog. " Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

[@supremereader7614]

Rev. Stephen A. Cakouros 😁Did he really say that?😅

[@CasperLabuschagne]

I remember that quote from many decades ago.

[@jz1528]

Rev. Stephen A. Cakouros but the scary part is the communist party is the second largest party in Russia.

[@fus132]

And the funny part is what Russia had a dominant party system for the most of it's existence. So the commies are as irrelevant as any other party what doesn't have a 54% majority in seats. I.e. any party besides the ruling one, United Russia.

[@burthollabaugh2182]

Christianity is estimated to be 70% in Russia. ]f you did not know better you would think, Putin had made peace with Christians.

[@amazinggrace4507]

I, sir, can tell you that I am aware of this history only because my grandparents spent 5 years in Stalin's hard labour camps. They faced starvation and death daily. They were just humble farmers in Romania who had fled from their German roots because of Hitler. I have seen the poor farm house my father grew up in as my grandparents took me there in 1981. My father was the blacksmith on their farm and though poor they had land, animals, farming equipment, and 2 sons to help out. That is until Stalin stole their land, their animals, and their home. They were thrown into his hard labour camps in Siberia while my father and my uncle managed to flee to Canada. My Dad ended up marrying into a wealthy family and somehow they managed to pay my grandparents' way out of Stalin's hands and they were freed to come to Canada. I learned much from my family history and did study the Bolshevik Revolution and the history of Russia very much. My grandparents were blessed to make it out alive.

[@AugustusCaesar88]

“From what I understand, the Soviets had prepared an invasion force for Europe and were not prepared to defend themselves against Germany.” Sounds like Jordan Peterson knows more about the real truth of WW2 than he lets on at times.

[@TheArchangel911]

A wise person can read between the lines of history.

[@hnys7976]

They also had a large invasion force near Mongolia and China. Stalin was certain that the Germans did not want to invade the Soviet Union and he also wasn't preparing to invade Germany. Trotsky had opposing thoughts to Stalin and he certainly believed that the Soviet Union should do something about hitler.

[@Gillxy]

i dont get it. could you explain. i felt like there was an innuendo there.

[@AugustusCaesar88]

@@Gillxy basically the story you’ve been told about “Germany bad, allies good” is much more complicated than it first appears, at least to anyone whose studies WW2 military history in any depth. The whole “Hitler wanting to conquer land in the east to wipe out inferior races” story is a load of crap. The Soviets were planning an all out assault on Europe, Stalin was cheated of that chance when Germany annihilated France in 6 weeks. So Germany invaded first as they saw the fight was inevitable and the Soviets had infinite resources they could take their time. The Germans saw themselves as defending European civilisation, and they weren’t wrong.

[@Gillxy]

@@AugustusCaesar88 interesting. have you got any links so i can look more into this. also so in that case. considering you said germany were protecting european civilization you dont class the soviets as european majority

[@lima1087am]

I have had a number of excellent lecturers in my time but this bloke would have kept me riveted in class

[@MegF142857]

Religious Catholic private schools did teach this history back 40 years ago when I was attending. There were many Hungarian Priests who fled to the USA when the Soviet tanks rolled in. The Soviet Union was very anti-religion and atheistic, so suppressed the Priests brutally. That is one of the reasons that I particularly admire Professor Jordan Peterson warning about this to young adults! It's IMPORTANT to remember!

[@nikolayspine2793]

I will surprise you that the most amount of church were during Stalin. Then it started to grow after collapse of USSR. As well as amount of crimes, drugs, and suicides. I will surprise you by the fact that Russian Orthodox Church worked with Hitler, so there were a lot of reasons for mistrust toward church. But look how good the life in Russia is right now with these beautiful churches.

[@brianbennett4279]

Communism and Judaism go hand in hand think about it most of the people killed in the Russian revolution were Christian

[@annelieswallace237]

@@nikolayspine2793 Lovely. Now the Russian Orthodox Church works closely with Putin. Whichever way the wind blows....

[@nikolayspine2793]

Annelies Wallace because the church is a political prostitute.

[@annelieswallace237]

@@nikolayspine2793 You have hit the nail on the head👍

[@krumuvecis]

People were loaded in cargo trains and sent to Siberia. This was done in summer and people weren't told where they were going, so they didn't take any winter clothing. You can probably imagine what happened when those -40C Siberian winters came. They also had to work intensely and weren't fed much. Stalin didn't need gas chambers, he had Siberia.

[@condew6103]

As humans we seem to have a blind spot for murders that are done by arranging the situation so people will die. So you murder millions by arranging for them to freeze to death, apologists will whine that you didn't kill anybody. There is a much smaller replay of that going on in the U.S. right now where there is an epidemic of suicide and drug addiction among those formerly employed in manufacturing, formerly middle class. But we don't call those deaths murder by the wealthy who exported those jobs, we smugly put the blame on the victims for "personal failings".

[@EugeneBorzov]

its Golodomor

[@dancegod1691]

Aristotle once said "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." If you're reading, at least entertain this thought and understand I give good reason to it below. If you dismiss it after entertaining it, that's ok. But I'm not a hateful person; I don't believe in white supremacy, and I don't want genocide. If you read my above post, I explain why hitler didn't either... So I believe those were just labor camps. That's it. The "proof" was fabricated and you were indoctrinated into not ever questioning it and to believe anyone who did was blindly hateful and racist. KEEP READING BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME, YOU PROBABLY WILL BY THE END OF THIS. Every point I brought up, you ignored like you were told to from a young age (5th or 6th grade, right?). If you look into Hitler's actual motives instead of blindly assuming he was super-evil, the story of the holocaust just doesn't make any sense. And it's even more suspicious when you realize Hitler, though definitely hateful and dehumanizing to jews, was absolutely right about zionism. Learn about the jewish religion and you'll notice that jews that are born jewish are told to only marry other jews that were born jewish. Judaism is a religion and ideology based on keeping a bloodline. Their ideology also tells them to be undyingly loyal to other jews. In addition to all this, they have an advantage of being a minority. They don't have to be "evil" to be dominant with these strategical advantages. Unfortunately, the side-effect of unregulated capitalism is a slowly more materialistic, disgusting, unhealthy society that decimates family values completely in exchange for individualist, determinist, marxist philosophy. The brilliant idea that judaism teaches is that human beings have an inner animal that must be kept in check at all costs. It is the responsibility of human beings to keep this animal in check. Well, the problem with this is that people without that ideology to guide them are stupid and lost. They'll eat whatever sounds good. They'll do whatever they feel like if they see other people doing it and not dying. And smart successful businessmen/zionists know how to appeal to these animals; give them the slop. The animals eat, and the businessmen become rich. Not just food, but everything. Society will (and has) become more sexual because, when the option is presented to people, people will chose to be more sexual than they need to be. Zionists see no problem with putting that temptation in front of people. But over time, it leads to the collapse of the family structure and to the collapse of society itself; low birth rates and too much violence. Everything goes south. Think.. If I said lizard people are in charge of the world, you'd have dismissed me as crazy and laughed. If I said the illuminati are in charge of the world, I'm also just crazy. These are somewhat popular theories, but people still think an actual elitist class would let them become well-known in the first place, much less letting people consider them without any deterrent. But do you know what theory is NOT popular? The one I'm telling you. Not only is it not popular, it is socially shamed and even banned in some places. Now riddle me this, what response to me, assuming (at least hypothetically) I'm right about who they are, would be in their best interests? That I'm crazy, stupid, and should be allowed to entertain people with my theories and how dumb they are (illuminati youtube videos are everywhere)? Or do you think they'd want you to say I'm evil and racist and shut me down entirely? Shut off your brain, he's a nazi guys. If I were an elite, I think I'd rather have that response to people bringing up the notion that I was in charge. Otherwise, the idea might actually resonate and spread. And that's why they lied to you. As an impressionable child. They're executives; they're producers; they're our wealthiest. They're raised very well and set up to succeed, and they're the one race that is the absolute most loyal to their people. And no one calls them racist for it. Society is filled with animals that eat slop; and they're more than willing to let society fall to make their money off those animalistic instincts. It's not their society. They're not all like this; a lot are clueless and just nice religious kids growing up to be good people, but a minority of them are absolutely contributing to society's downfall. If you want to learn more about hitler's story, google "the greatest story never told" and watch it. Again, don't buy into everything blindly. But don't dismiss everything blindly just because you were told to.

[@arnaeri9290]

Oskars Arājs if just deported dude :/ people where gathered in train carriages to their full capacity so that you couldn't lie down properly, they were fed salty fish and not given water (This is what I've been told but idk how this is possible to not get any water during months of travel) Also about holodomor. It happened in my country too, not to such big extent as in Ukraine bcuz population there was way bigger but I imagine the process was similar. All the food or grains or anything comestible was taken away from people in exchange for some stupid excuses, after which that food was gathered in deposits and left there to root. Just for the sake of it. It wasn't transported to front lines or other poor regions of USSR it was just left there (tons and tons) where's people where dieing of starvation and had episodes of cannibalism. I can't describe to the full extent what happened there but so you know, people who suffered this where better off working in Nazis working camps than being "set free" by the same type of "government" who intentionally set its own population to starve to death.

[@xres1329]

During warmer months medical students went to the camps and cut up the corpses to learn medicin.

[@thelechiteknight7185]

My Grandfather and his family were sent to a Gulag in Siberia after Soviets/Germans had carved up Poland in 1939 they surely would have died then and there had it not been for the fact that Germany had invaded the USSR which at that point Stalin decided to set up a Soviet backed Polish army and let most prisoners free in exchange for joining the army. I also remember my Grandfather saying it was so cold in Siberia that when the trees imploded due to the cold it sounded like cannons going off.

[@delawareteacher1182]

Outstanding video!

[@vaclavholek4497]

Powerful, and so true. I have said for years, "In the US public education system, if it happened east of the Rhine, it didn't happen." No one teaches the history of central and eastern Europe.

[@biggusdickus1689]

Sadly the case, I'm thankful to live in an age where I can learn about history on my own terms

[@shaunhawkins44]

If the West would read more history of eastern Europe they'd understand the centuries of wars, murders, rape, invasions, etc...eastern Europe has been in-between everything forever and the people who have lived within it have suffered greatly whether they were voluntarily involved or involuntarily involved...

[@tavish4699]

An american that knows the rhine? Impressive

[@Smartcom5]

Yup, especially the *_#Rheinwiesen_*_ camps_ where million of unarmed German personnel and other surrendered Germans were starved to death under horrific circumstances. They were purposefully designated as _Disarmed Enemy Forces_ (DEF) or _Surrendered Enemy Personnel_ (SEP), to prevent them having any whatsoever human rights as prisoners by falling under the Geneva convention as Prisoners of War (POW) - all that on purpose, just to let them rot to death fenced in in the open under the sky.

[@theonehappyorc1235]

@Vaclav Holek ahaha, "so true", what a loser you are)))

[@jmcmaxfield9314]

Jordan Peterson!! Canada's 🇨🇦 greatest gift to men all around the world ✅

[@jerryschneider145]

Amen, I love Canada.

[@doveboyz857]

Absolutely!

[@md4227]

He literally is Canada’s greatest gem. Magnificent human.

[@Bustin_cider00]

John Garand too

[@andrewmccullagh4371]

And women. My mum is a big fan

[@jaws2858]

Listening to it now.

[@joseotero2555]

I use to like it when the teacher used the overhead projector and write notes on the lesson as she spoke. That technology is a keeper. Lol.

[@GeorgeChernoff]

In Latvia on Russian literature classes we had to read Archipelago Gulag when we were 16. Mindblowing stuff

[@mrtsmvadim504]

Ну хоть я не застал этого времени и чтения помой, не удивительно ненависть Латвии к России растёт как на дрожах

[@purplep3466]

@@mrtsmvadim504 ну, а что, в целом там все верно описано, с документами и первоисточниками. Что товариСЧ? Тебя порвало?

[@mrtsmvadim504]

@@purplep3466 ПуикА, меня адская пропаганда не рвёт, к откровенной лжи привыкнешь за многие годы. Там не в только в целом одна ложь, а вообше полностью. Но вы верьте, во что угодно, лишь бы против

[@gromosawsmiay3000]

the same in Poland, but we read this book on literature classes on every secondary school, also "The Inhuman Land" written by Józef Czapski and literature related to national socialism in germany :-)

[@archilebralidze8209]

And your mind is still on that journey?

[@realistic.optimist]

It was required reading when I went to boarding school. History is getting ready to repeat itself.

[@therespectedlex9794]

The trouble with the Tsars, much like our own monarchy, is that they too were a dictatorship. Perhaps it shouldn't surprise me that the wannabe vestige of aristocracy, in boarding schools, still wants to run everything.

[@realistic.optimist]

@@therespectedlex9794 Wants to? Lol. Been running things the whole time.

[@therespectedlex9794]

@@realistic.optimist Have you? Jolly good then.

[@realistic.optimist]

@@therespectedlex9794 👍🏻

[@ireadcomments.4710]

If so. Should we call history history.? Should we call it insanity.?

[@michaelhylton1979]

Anyone know where this complete lecture can be seen? Thanks.

[@Lolslos90]

This book explain part of the story, un need to read "200 years together" by Soljenitzyne. It might be hard to find an English version because some people in USA don't want you to read it😉

[@juliesteimle3867]

I read "One Day in the life of Ivan Denesovich" while in high school. It was very well written and enlightening. It also opened my eyes to things outside the US. I don't think people realize how spoiled we are in the US. I live in Post-Soviet Russia from 1994-1996, and I was blown away at how much better we in the US really have it.

[@shananagans5]

Julie: No doubt. In college, my best friend had defected from the USSR. She was a translator for a joint nuclear reactor project with the US & when she defected it was exactly like you see in the movies. Russia had rented a bunch of appts in the same complex I lived in. That's how I met my friend. Anyways, they rented those appts because they all faced inside, towards a courtyard & there were only 2 entrances with a big wall around the complex. It was easy for security & they had guards posted at each exit. The Russians working on that project were basically prisoners. They were allowed to go to the courtyard area with the pool & the workout area but they were not free to leave the complex. Every morning when they left for work, they were lined up for roll call & walked out in a line to a bus with blacked out windows. Anyways, my friend escaped by climbing out the back of a 3rd floor appt & climbed over the wall at 2:30 AM. When the guards saw the sheets hanging out her window they had an entire security force looking for her. They had all the Russians standing outside in their underwear doing a roll call to see who/how many escaped. It was very surreal. After she defected I moved into a different place with her & she was really paranoid that they were still after her. I kinda doubt they were, she was just an interpreter. In the grand scheme of things she wasn't important to the USSR so I can't imagine they were still after her after she defected but maybe I was naive. Maybe they would have done something to her to make her an example for the others that may be thinking of escaping. It's kind of funny now but she ended up defecting just a few months before the USSR collapsed & she could have just walked away. She did quit worrying after the collapse but she has nearly endless stories of the hardships of growing up in the USSR.

[@skywillfindyou]

Do you see how wrong you are here? The 90s, the years you experienced there were the worst for Russia. And it was the start of capitalism. "Raw capitalism" i can say, that was not even communism. Your vision is still still blur.

[@basilmweramakokha9557]

@@skywillfindyou so after communism and millions of deaths, the 90's were still the worst years for Russia huh? And her vision is blurry but not yours? You see all?

[@ElenaXrm]

Basil Mwera Makokha you can lookup simple statistics on the population of Russia. The drop in population during 90s is the same as during WW2. So, yes, that was one of the worst period in the history of the country.

[@nextyrannis2151]

Виталий, I see how wrong YOU are here. Transitions are always chaotic. The time of transition in Russia of the late 1910s and early 1920s from mercantilism and feudalism over to socialism after the communist revolution was far more disruptive and economically disastrous than Russia's transition to prosperity in the 1990s. You must look at the end result; Russia after the establishment of socialism was a miserable place characterized by starvation and murderous oppression; but with capitalism today, Russians eat well, and have the goods and services that make for higher standards of living.

[@TheEgg185]

One of my teachers mumbled something about Stalin killing way more people than Hitler. I remember thinking "Then why the fuck aren't you teaching us about THAT?????"

[@deltaxcd]

Japanese murdered more than Hitler and Stalin together including soldiers who die in the ww2. isnt that a reason to talsk about that intead?

[@TheEgg185]

This is news to me. Tell me more.

[@vladimirtepes4417]

"On both paternal and maternal sides Karl Marx was descended from rabbinical families."--Univ. Jew. Encyc., Vol. VII, p. 289

[@milocule1]

This man is in my opinion the greatest mind of our time, I’ve read both of the books he mentioned and I think they should be required reading for ALL students, the very fact that we have university students who believe socialism is a good thing shows an absolute failure by our institutions of “higher learning “.

[@tim4u2uTube]

Nice points

[@tankcread7792]

Tell it how it is brother. Finally a guy with the balls to speak truth about the rotten to the core educational system in America

[@TRUMPvsLENIN]

canadian with woman voice should learn history in north america of genocide and slavery....after this he can play judge about other country's history

[@Cenot4ph]

​@TRUMPvsLENIN your name suggests you know very little in general

[@TRUMPvsLENIN]

@@Cenot4ph yes cult member 424...your right because your fearless leader jordan is always right.....keep listening to him, just keep doing it

[@debbieragsdale7517]

Including the elite Ivy universities who push censorship and the positives of Communism, disgusting.

[@Dark89Avenger]

Well...In Eastern Europe this is a wide spread knowledge

[@1v966]

You would be unplesantly suprised if you learned how many Russian people still think that Solzhenitsyn was a liar and (probably) also a western spy, and wish the Stalin days were back. Surprised and terrified, my dude

[@gaelannash2279]

@EJ yep....Demorats = dirty dirty commies

[@jasonvoorhees4713]

Yeah I live in England and when I was at school we weren't even taught about any Russian History or Marxism at all.

[@thetruth7515]

@@jasonvoorhees4713 because german jus indebted the british crown and extorted their way into breeding into the royal family... the crown is seated with german jus who funded the bolshevik revolution... course they dont teach us (subjects of the crown) about who, what, why etc... otherwise they would be on the recieving end of a french style revolution.

[@JanDzialak]

I mean in Belgium we get the whole sjabang from the bolsjevik revolution till the death of stalin

[@thomaswaffle5121]

Just because they say this is history doesn't mean it's true

[@ronjon7942]

It’s a slap in the face wakeup call to me to realize the 20th century was the cruelest, most vicious, and violent century ever in human history, while I’ve been merrily living my life in peace, prosperity, and calm.

[@redwhiteandbluebonnets8180]

Something we should all remember: “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

[@SepticXable]

If only they had a 2nd Amendment

[@jalsr.speak2379]

@@SepticXable Looks like our 2nd amendment isn't going to do anything for US if we wait any longer.

[@jalsr.speak2379]

@@matthewchristopher4139 True but are we going to wait till they do or be like the French and swarm the streets first which I doubt.

[@nutbastard]

@@jalsr.speak2379 Right now it's a stalemate. Law enforcement is being crippled so that crime will increase to justify more gun control. I'm not a fan of law enforcement, because there are way too many laws, and their motivations are skewed six ways to Sunday. Arm yourself. Have fun, be safe, stay dangerous.

[@jalsr.speak2379]

@@nutbastard" Too many laws" and they know they can just follow you till you break one. I heard a cop say that. I'm for law enforcement but I'm not too keen on many behind the badge. Many lie.

[@morypal]

It's incredibly aggravating that the state of the Chinese government isn't common knowledge. The amount of people who are killed by the regime, nevermind left to die, every year is thought to be more than all other nations combined. Never mind the Credit Systems, surveillance and so on.

[@sarahroberts8293]

True. Communism is a face of the devil. Also, remember, “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” (Ephesians). So remember that prayer is a weapon!!!!!

[@morypal]

Amnesty says more people executed in China than rest of world combined (2018 Report from The Guardian). Was suggested again in 2019.

[@LetsGoBrandon-yf1ue]

I remember this man being held in high regard by the media until.he started warning about the evils of the Soviets and Communism then they dropped him like a hot potato

[@Smartcom5]

_“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize”_ - Kevin Alfred Strom · »All America Must Know the Terror that is Upon Us« The above seems to be wrongly attributed to Voltaire, the French Enlightenment philosopher.

[@GR4NT01D]

Actually he started his rise to fame by riding off the scrutiny about opposing the Canadian Bill C-16, which in fairness, he completely misrepresented.

[@LetsGoBrandon-yf1ue]

@@GR4NT01D how so? and yes I got your attempt at.humor. Solzhenitsyn like Peterson was.correct prophetic in his representation of bill c-16 and how it would be used by the State. Look what Canada is doing to authors, poets, pastors, artists. Chilling governmental controll of free speech and religious freedoms

[@GR4NT01D]

@@LetsGoBrandon-yf1ue I'm not sure what attempt at humor you're talking about. Bill c16 is incredibly short and only adds language to an existing law. Literally all it does is add trans people to the list of "you can't discriminate based on race, gender, Creed, etc."

[@lebowe6131]

Where is the part where peterson talks about talks about mass graves of native kids in those old canadian schools...aka re education camps created to get rid of native indian culture here.....if your gonna talk about the dark parts of history...DONT FORGET YOUR OWN.....ps check out some modern polls in russia on ussr....and how people talk about Nikita K. And Leonid Brezhiev in russia....again something male soporno cult leader jordan " forgets" to mention

[@hardassteel]

I read the book, ‘Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich’ one of the greatest books of all time.

[@slimhope1]

Strange, an error message when you try to share this on FB.

[@TheArchangel911]

Top pinned comment becomes prophetic. I love it

[@Jeremiah-bz3ox]

FARCEBOOK IS CENSORING CONSERVATIVES AND ANY ONE ELSE WHO TELLS THE TRUTH, THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH AND FACTS THAT LIBTURD LEFTWINGERS CAN'T GRASP.

[@harrymills2770]

You must have a significant following. I'm a nobody, so they never touch me.

[@hiddenmanna3683]

Not strange at all. They know exactly what they are doing. They are trying to cover up the Real History of the World.

[@GrubKiller436]

@@thisguyhere1 The way they're going about it... *No.*

[@ihavetubes]

Not enough movies are made about the Gulag Archipelago.

[@kjvail]

Nor will there ever be as long as Marxists run the Hollywood studios. The make movie after movie about Nazism (wrongly called "right wing" every time) and NOTHING about the USSR.

[@InqWiper]

Because Hollywood is controlled by the tribe behind Holodomor.

[@YahuDean-Da-Warrior]

Gulag Archipelago

[@nextyrannis2151]

Kevin Vail, Yes, I read a lot about the history of the 1930s, and see how it was the political Left (the socialists) who worshiped Hitler and his particular brand of socialism. It irks me to no end how the Left has turned that around in our public "education" system to brainwash our kids into thinking that Hitler was a Republican, and this is then used as reason for shutting down the free speech rights of anyone who disagrees with the ruling Marxists.

[@swinetrek]

Get "A Day in the Live of Ivan Denosovitch" with Tom Courtney. great movie and great book.

[@TruthShallSetYouFree2023]

You are listening to a TEACHER. Bravo. A REAL teacher. May God bless you.

[@foothillgirl7989]

What's up with the overhead projector?

[@jameskulevich8907]

[@tomfoolery333]

Yeah, but they send more (poorly trained) doctors and nurses around the world per capita than any other country. /s

[@murcielagosky]

@@tomfoolery333 And your point is???

[@murcielagosky]

I was in Chile when Allende became president of the country, ( with a fraudulent election) And I saw with my own eyes the methodical deconstruction of a democratic country. By 1971 we had to make lines to buy most of the bare necessities, cooking oil, bread, butter, any kind of meats, etc. most young to middle age people have no idea what socialism or communism is really about.

[@tomfoolery333]

@@murcielagosky The doctor thing is used by lefties to defend the regime and I was mocking that.

[@yannikoloff7659]

When you got no one to robe, then you would also doomed. Cuba lives much better than rest of Latin America, that been under supervision of US for 2 century.

[@unseemly917]

"Man has forgotten God. That is why this has happened." -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[@franbatista9062]

Because Marxists are atheist and anti God and Antichrist

[@warrioroflight6872]

@@franbatista9062 Oh my gosh, you just reminded me of Jordan Peterson criticizing that post written by a woman who claimed that she was a Christian and a Marxist. That was a funny video because those two ideological systems are virtually opposites.

[@franbatista9062]

​@@warrioroflight6872 You want something even more oxymoronic ?

[@KristerAndersson-nc8zo]

Which god?

[@brotherbear6434]

@Joe Menguy need to love God overpowers the forceful fear of God or hell

[@grosvenorclub]

I read "The Gulag Archipelago" years ago about the same time I was reading Ayn Rands books "The Fountainhead" and others . These books formed my view of life and the side of politics that I still favour .

[@Richard-gp5tg]

Her best, and most personal book,, is "We the Living". Don't miss reading it.1

[@tekis0]

AMEN. Try to find a copy of "200 Years Together." It's also by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

[@evazigon5288]

My father was nearly starved and tortured to death in a Yugoslav prison during the time when Stalin was still alive and before Yugoslavia distanced itself to a certain extent from Stalinism, and for what? As a student he and a few of his friends listened to the news from the UK on a hidden radio and circulated a pamphlet on them in order to present a different point of view to the party propaganda being spouted all the time. Later, he smuggled a lot of prohibited books into the country - including the works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, which I also read at the time. Which is why I am shocked at the way Marxist organisations like BLM and Antifa are now strutting their stuff and seeding this same old enimity and destruction in the west - and even being encouraged by the so-called "Liberals". People really don't know what they are talking about and the attempt at controlling and carrying out a coup d' etat that is going on right in front of their eyes - and has been for the past 4 years - is just passing them by. I hope they wake up soon, because in such cases, ignorance is not bliss, as the consequences are all too dire.

[@zigarepansek2193]

Eva živjo, je tvoj oče oz. stari oče morda kasneje živel tudi v Avstraliji?

[@kimobrien.]

My understanding is that Tito came to power at the end of WW2 in a revolution lead by partisan fighters battling NAZI Germany. Although Tito sided with Stalin in the Stalin Trotsky dispute he and Stalin never got along because Stalin had promised not to oppose British Imperialism in Yugoslavia and Greece. Tito supposedly sent a letter to Stalin saying if he sent any more assassins he'd send one to Moscow who wouldn't fail.

[@kilbridemeredith8742]

@@naps3386 Independence in sustaining oneself is critical, but no man is an island and the whims of fate are fraught with peril even for an industrious and responsible person. Insurance does a fair job, but sharing of risks is precluded for the most part in a society that espouses a form of capitalist system that relies on profit, more production and productivity with less and less. A person born into wealth and privilege has advantages and those that are wealthy have unequal ability to compound their wealth. Much is made of being "self made" here but please understand ~70% of today's wealthy are _inherited wealthy,_ hardly a fair and equal start point. And the vast majority of endeavors to become well off, like starting a business, fail. Those in poor health and those that are born with physical and mental challenges are often left behind too. Even with the help available for them in this country, for example blind people and the sick are amongst the statistically poorest here. Many combined household are an example of an attempt at "community", the root word of communism. But you're probably correct, on a state level a system of share and share alike would be untenable. But wouldn't health care be an example of a good thing that can be implemented? Other countries seem to be able sustain such, like our neighbor to the north. I understand their system is quite satisfactory to their citizens. Is the USA still the "greatest" nation on Earth? I definitely question that way too general full of hubris bit of patriotic ferver. And even if the US ranks high (13th overall based on several factors last I checked), what is wrong with trying stuff? The US "worked" for a while, but is failing her people now, for example the vast majority of wealth is continuing to pour into the hands of the 1%. What about the prison count? 25% of all prisoners in the world are in the US, that has 5% of the world's population. Counterproductive especially when one realizes 90% of prisoners are money crimes, alcohol and drug offenses. And what about that police and court system with 90% pleading out, some innocent to avoid draconian sentences? Ouch. The US is irrefutably on a down slide and gaining momentum. Now is a good time to shuck the status quo and move forward with new ideals. Isn't that what made the US in the first place? I'm not down on the US at all. Improvement concepts and critical thinking is all I am saying. Easier to improve a place like the US now with existing (but degrading) infrastructure, literate population (literacy is falling) and a "can do" attitude. I really have no ideas of what would definitely work, but the status quo is no longer viable and with all the predicaments of AGW, rising fascists, overpopulation, depletion of finite resources, expanding psychopathy and psychotics, insanity (flat Earthers, 6000 year old Earth believers, deniers, etcetera) and more we are at a crossroads. Whatever we do now actually will decide our fates in the short term.

[@kilbridemeredith8742]

@@naps3386 One person, Crowder (AGW denier BTW) making one attempt at "testing" the healthcare system is hardly indicative of an entire healthcare system. Regardless of implementation, the intentions of upleveling to a national healthcare system is on solid ground; morally, for the "common good" and so appropriate in this global industrial civilization with such physical and electronic infrastructure and other countries foray experience with a citizen healthcare system. The baseline needs of any population, like defense, law enforcement, courts, ability to sue etcetera, should be a consideration for the PTB be continuously monitored and upgraded/ upleveled as appropriate. It can be argued that an all ilnclusive citizens healthcare system, whether percentage based insurance or the "shared cost"- like school taxes. The "100" people thing. I have observed people are pretty much the same in a general sense; that their wisdom, experience, resources available, situation and circumstances are the factors that determine whether a group of 100 flourishes. That and beautiful spouses for children etcetera. Past all that, fate can blast an Earthquake on even the most flourishing 100. We mustn't over general and "paint all with the same brush". Or at least double think whenever. I'm thinking, one instance, albeit verified, may be a bit over labeled and falsely predictive based on non refereed peer reviewed information to base a conclusion on.. Like me and everybody else: There is conscious and unconscious bias. Both appropriate and not. We both may see both sides of issues, but often weigh in on our bias and neglect to properly assess things in their entirety. I firmly believe that all "politics is local". Does 'this and that' affect me personally? What one individual experiences is unique. You'll be surprised how many people are so engrossed in national politics and ignore local politics that affects them in more ways.

[@mikecamps7226]

@John Rayburn Your STATE RUN NEWS.....thats FOX and TRUMP who have thrown out the constitution. WE ARE IN A CIVIL WAR...A NEW AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The Protesters in the streets....they are VOTERS. Rand Paul's comments about leaving the RNC and being mobbed stating they were all not from DC.....yes thats TRUE....they were coming in for the MLK Memorial the following day......but that was being mis-represented by RAND PAUL and THE PARTY.....FAKE NEWS. RAND PAUL SHOULD REALIZE HE IS A RED COAT in THIS NEW AMERICAN REVOLUTION. THE POLITICIANS HAVE BROUGHT IT UPON THEMSELVES and PARTICULARY THE REPUBICANS. The republicans have done more to scuttle this country than any other political party in the history of the country. They brought on the great depression ! Starting with Nixon 50 years ago......the Democrats held the executive branch only collectively 20 years......where as the Republicans held the executive branch for 30. Richard Nixon, a republican, went and got in bed with CHAIRMAN MAO.....our enemy and a communist who was worse than STALIN.....before we were even done with fighting communism in VIET NAM......NIXON WAS A TRAITOR......and where are we today ???? That was a slap in the face to all the Korean war people and those in Viet Nam with the war. >>>>>>continue on believing the crap the republicans feed you and their propaganda machine......Republican HEZBOLLAH.....NAZI's

[@TheIndieGamesNL]

the way he commanded the student without hostility but with a sense of urgency and fun (with the smile) really shows how he has mastered the art of teaching

[@littleteethkeith]

That’s the first overhead projector I’ve seen in a long time.

[@oldpain7625]

It is so important to teach this.

[@darko714]

I read "The Gulag Archipelago" as a teenager. It influenced my life and my worldview at the time and ever since.

[@philipkemp426]

This says EVERYTHING about teenagers but nothing about the work in question.

[@Happy_Spatula]

Appropriate Username

[@davidmulhall2710]

“ To taste the sea, all you need is one gulp “ !

[@lebowe6131]

He should talk about the dark parts of his countries history too...they had gulags....your country had schools with mass graves of native kids

[@coastermaker3832]

@Ie bowe I think there are pretty many motivational and numerical differences between these... I mean, canadian problem was underfunding and irresponsible planning. Still, the number of deaths weren't nearly as high as any dictatorship in the world. I'm not even canadian, btw. Not saying it was okay, because it's surely repreensible, but comparing it to gulags is like: "Ohhh but you're criticizing corrupt politicians? You should remember THAT day which you jumped the line as a teenager! You are also corrupt!"

[@kenarnott8075]

I would’ve given anything as a student to have someone like JP as a teacher and mentor. Life changing educators like this man are incredibly rare.

[@serratedcreature890]

Then become one

[@neckbone3943]

Yeah, I just missed being selected at Harvard. Would have been nice.

[@here330]

Good news, his lectures are everywhere.

[@lebowe6131]

@@here330 please are you one those people who thinks he is a good source on russian history lol

[@kiton1890]

Thanks

[@Mrblazed420]

To be honest I think I have learned more about history from you tube than I ever did in school

[@Ableten]

All of the proper respects for posting these short clips of Peterson. Thank you for your time and dedication.

[@szhzs6121]

here in poland we've experienced this first hand so people are generally fully aware of the atrocities of communism. and starting a communist political party or expressing communist views is illegal just like nazism.

[@henryperez606]

I think there are so many things that Poland does right

[@thedistinguished5255]

i go to art high school in poland and for some fucking reason we have openly communist classmates, it really spreads like cancer and regrows like the most stubborn weeds

[@danieldietsche2954]

Yes, Poland, and others in eastern Europe, are duty bound to never let the world forget the evils perpetrated by the USSR's communist government. Even here, in the 'somewhat' conservative USA, the lies, and coverup of the totalitarian Left's crimes is frightening. During this current Covid19 pandemic, we are starting to get a glimpse of the power a government can have, if not forcefully limited.

[@henryperez606]

Peacrushed 11 Out of the frying pan and into the fire

[@danieldietsche2954]

@Peacrushed 11 Yeah, Stalin was such a humanitarian...

[@charlottemajewski5992]

Read that in high school. Fascinating book.