Trotsky Sees Decline of Europe

(1 Dec 1932) Former Bolshevik leader lectures in Copenhagen and gives first talking pictures interview.
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[@officialsquadrilogystudio]

how many languages do you speak? Trotsky: Yes

[@herculeskoutalidis1369]

Trotsky: I will need a pen and paper to calculate this.

[@ParDiss-e4i]

😅

[@solovevkiril]

Russian, Yiddish, probably some Ukrainian, English, French, German.

[@gerald1495]

feels really surreal to hear him speak

[@kurade1096]

your name is literally gerald

[@gerald1495]

@@kurade1096 ok?

[@ComradeMel1975]

It does. Brings him to life

[@stummstefan9735]

he's the kind of guy that shouts when talking on the phone

[@theredjoker8857]

It was common to speak loud that everyone could hear you. The audio tools back then were very bad.

[@NoName-pw6fl]

The microphones sucked back then. You hear that static? You had to scream to be louder than the static.

[@marcwhite6267]

And spits, too.

[@jaojao1768]

How many languages did Trotsky know? I've seen clips of him speaking english, french and german.

[@LuffyissHere]

He didn't have much talent for pronunciation , which he admitted. Genius at the rest though.

[@gast-vn5xy]

Besides those Trotsky also knew russian and ukrainian, 5 then

[@ripussr1766]

I imagine alot considering he probably lived in every country from being deported so many times

[@elaovi]

He spoke Spanish too, at least that’s what I heard

[@user-sm5sj6mg2t]

He also might have known yiddish as he was an Ukrainian Jew

[@corneliu-mihaimagureanu6626]

Holy shit i have the exact same accent as trotsky

[@HK-pq7pe]

"You" the person behind the screen or Nikola Tesla?

[@corneliu-mihaimagureanu6626]

@@HK-pq7pe me the person

[@wilhelmu]

@@corneliu-mihaimagureanu6626 where you from? tbh trotsky isn't speaking like russians or ukrainians do when they speak english. at least nowadays.

[@corneliu-mihaimagureanu6626]

@@wilhelmu I'm Romanian

[@LightgreenLP]

@@corneliu-mihaimagureanu6626 Trotzky = Romanian confirmed

[@degenetron7590]

That's exactly what I expected trotsky to sound like

[@sillyloser8302]

Why does he sound like Gru from Despicable Me when speaking English?

[@sillyloser8302]

@Balkanized Lol...

[@gergoturan4033]

0:27 when the hailstorm reaches your town and you have a slate roof

[@drgeorgek]

Exactly what I thought

[@stummstefan9735]

LMFAO XD

[@HK-pq7pe]

Am I the only one who finds Trotsky's voice funny? Not the accent, the voice itself.

[@lucas-928]

He's a silly little guy 😻

[@zooosja]

Why? He is one of the most powerful speakers of his time

[@EdWood2006]

Trotsky sees the future as he always did.

[@awddfg]

*_Edgy nationalist detected_*

[@jesusislordsavior6343]

EdWood2006 Not always. He was quite wrong about the prospects for a world socialist revolution, wasn't he? But he made a fair call here. Anyone who knows the Bible knows also that Europe is not the 'centre of the world'. A far better argument could be made on behalf of the Middle East. History's earliest recorded civilizations came from there, as did the universal Messiah, JESUS CHRIST, in His human Incarnation. Many Christians believe that the region will be the focal point of a final struggle between Christ and Antichrist. I wonder whether Trotsky, being of Jewish extraction, was inclined toward a 'non-eurocentric' vision of history. All too often Europeans have rejected Jews as 'outsiders', consequently many of them have felt drawn to revolutionary and subversive movements.

[@awddfg]

@@jesusislordsavior6343 *_Plus the Middle East kinda connects Asia, Africa, and europe._*

[@jesusislordsavior6343]

@@awddfg Exactly.

[@gionatansamo3083]

@@jesusislordsavior6343 He did say that a failure in revolution could lead to a new period of capitalist develpment, but at a terrible cost (the destruction of WW2). Though he thought this was the most unlikely outcome

[@yoshikatsumi]

that's not trotzki, that's the kfc guy.

[@salutic.7544]

man was on target with so much shit, europe may have been powerful but internally it’s power structures and overall national structure was ripe for collapse and the torch then had to pass towards the US

[@StartsWithACee]

no one: my brain: 0:27

[@edumgarum528]

Why does it cut off wtf

[@christoferkoch786]

Is there any other footage of the German speech?

[@medic2807]

Plot twist: Hitler comes into power in a year. Leon picked a good time to head to Mexico.

[@raffles7556]

Picked?........😉

[@sillyloser8302]

@@raffles7556 Stupid Stalin...

[@miaouxmiaouxnumber1fan]

Yep I defo picked

[@tegarachsendo9730]

Ice picked🥶

[@marcwhite6267]

He was exiled.

[@StephenLuke]

RIP Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)

[@PakNationalist-xy4in]

I wish he became President instead of the dictator Stalin

[@KidMillions]

I need a Trotsky beard.

[@ianreynolds8552]

Try his books

[@KidMillions]

@@ianreynolds8552 I prefer Milton Friedman.

[@vancrocker1243]

@@KidMillions lmao

[@strawberrypancake2866]

@Graf von Losinj - I Post Info What? Lmao

[@ParDiss-e4i]

Friedman is lowkey Engels 😅

[@stephen227]

Audience applauds wearing one tin glove and another of hail.

[@lastcommodore2071]

The man was a political genius.

[@My-name-is-user-tx6ow1ss3b]

​@@Blackbadger554 ледоруб делает бум-бум

[@yodhin79]

Over 10 million Russians and Eastern Europeans died after Lenin and Trotsky took over. They were war criminals by every definition.

[@ParDiss-e4i]

Economics too as he is the one who solved Marx's problem.

[@PainterofBerghof]

He was a J*w, not a genius.

[@hermanmunster714]

No genius just vicious

[@emmanuelquerol]

i'm so shocked, he can speak german?!

[@aperson5436]

Ofcourse, he was a jew

[@swift1793]

His german is way better than his english, that is for sure

[@wojakirl1687]

He could speak Ukrainian, Russian, German, French, Italian and English

[@modgudr3110]

@@wojakirl1687 and Yiddish

[@72guystrikerandwrestler52]

Is he even russian?​@@swift1793

[@Tantibus9]

Thank you Leon very based

[@ppazpppaz8618]

Have you read the WSWS site?

[@unclebanana]

Where's the rest of this footage? It cuts off in the middle.

[@RedTango]

There are other youtube vids that have the whole thing.

[@SagesseNoir]

Can you tell me where some are to be found--especially this speech?

[@Ben-ld3jg]

@@RedTango what are the names of these videos

[@ComradeBugz]

Glory to Trotsky Glory to Red Army

[@s3m1f64]

that's my comrade 🚩

[@weIfed]

such a wise man

[@currypablo]

Trotsky was MAD WOKE👀

[@kova1577]

That was the problem

[@flagwashere]

good

[@Miaomiaomiaomao]

Stalin was a curse

[@DavidL1986]

To be fair - he was right. And this was 6 years before WW2

[@GriefTourist]

Every single time.

[@miaouxmiaouxnumber1fan]

0:28 When it’s raining on a weak plastic roof

[@Madz-fx9qm]

“And the colonial cun-“-Leon Trotsky

[@ParDiss-e4i]

A fellow polyglot. I love him ❤❤❤❤❤😍😍😍😍😍

[@theyetigamer434]

What does he say in German?

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

where's the full video

[@message2612]

He sounds like Gru from Minions 😂

[@Splatypus42]

He was right though.

[@THETRUEVOICEOFROCK]

wtf, why it end so suddenly?

[@boring247boring5]

Rest dans Peace Liliane de Toulon nez le 12-21-2021 to 9-11-2021

[@Literally-hw6jv]

haha ice pick

[@frikko4411]

Spanish.

[@cudanmang_theog]

KFC FOURTH INTERNATIONAL COMFIRMMED

[@ParDiss-e4i]

Amazing. This is the internationalist speech on europe. And the euro is what came because of the internationalist speech and it worked. Really Europe is advanced. But that is why there should be internationalism in the americas oceania and middle east-central asia too.

[@IrishIwasJewish]

it's degenerate, lol. Absolute nonsense

[@god-son-love]

Any Swiss and speak at least four: English, German, Italian, French.

[@Erich__88]

⛏️

[@gerussialla]

Ну и акцент!

[@September18revolution]

He looked kind of funny in his speech in Copenhagen.

[@meh9356]

Well may be he had a mission too? May be he was not predicting and just saying what was planned and the mission was passed to him too 😅. He was well equiped for it ..😊

[@SibelCan-wl5jb]

What he said in German؟

[@user-03-gsa3]

man

[@thegoldensealion9463]

⛏️

[@Neomoderniste]

0:12 Почему у него такая же 1 в 1 экспрессивная речь и жестикуляция как у австрийского художника? и акцент немного немецкий

[@BelgradoZhukov]

Yo haciendo la presentación de inglés:

[@MrKillerfreak1]

sounds like mussolini

[@andrewlankford9634]

Europe lasted longer than he did.

[@ianreynolds8552]

Did it

[@justasimplemathematicallye3917]

Comparing a continent's life span to a mere humans is preposterous.

[@phil4863]

@@justasimplemathematicallye3917 so crazy

[@temperglass]

If you listen to his full speech, he says Europe will decline in favor of the US. As in, the old imperial colonial powers will go on to favor doing their business in the US instead of Europe. What Trotsky was saying did come true. He was at that time, also talking about the rise of fascism in Europe which indeed did happen. The rise of fascism (Hitler and Mussolini) was due to imperial powers desperately trying to hold onto what colonial gains they had. Something like that - Trotsky has written multiple essays on this, worth reading. What Trotsky was saying is because Europe was declining (socio-economically), there would be a move towards fascism. Trotsky as a Marxist wanted to offer an alternative to this which would be if all the workers and people in general of Europe united and became one. Then probably, the US would not have arisen as an imperial power. Also, under Trotsky, there would be no more separate nations (because nations and nationalities are a man-made concept). He would have made Eurasia into one giant peoples union.

[@karnak327]

Needs more ice pick. ⛏️

[@biacampbell676]

He was right

[@marcwhite6267]

He foresaw the rise of the US; Stalin was obsessed over the preeminence of Britain. Trotsky was everything Stalin wasn't.

[@boazhang992]

compare to Stalin?

[@ryanh4499]

He helped make Europe decline

[@гражданинссср-э2щ]

He didn't start the war

[@thechekist2044]

@Lee Ruan what. Calm down psycho

[@thechekist2044]

@Graf von Losinj I heard Jorge Soroz helped him too. Get a grip you deluded weasel.

[@temperglass]

@Ryan H Had Trotsky become premier of the Soviet Union, it is very unlikely that Europe would have declined. Infact, under Trotsky, Eurasia would be a thriving geo-political center of the world and not the US.

[@totitoti5563]

The jew trotsky 😂😂😂

[@drgeorgek]

Predicts decline of Europe... didn’t predict the dissolution of the USSR, Trump or an icepick to the back of his head.

[@brentoneccles]

He absolutely predicted that the Stalinist bureaucracy would revive capitalism! Prediced probably isn't the right word... used the Marxist method to extrapolate, might be a better way to put it! If you had read Trotsky, you would know this.

[@jesusislordsavior6343]

George Not surprising that he missed some items. (James 4:14) 'Yet you do not know what your life will be liek tomorrow. You are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes.' Actually the decline of Europe wasn't a new item. Spengler (not a communist) had written a famous book about it about a decade earlier. A lot of media bigwigs failed to predict Trump's victory the night before in 2016. It's easier to take what comes when one isn't a betting man. Right now some Trumpsters are having difficulty predicted that Trump won't be president for the next 4 years. Is Trump himself still having difficulty?

[@drgeorgek]

@@jesusislordsavior6343 all random events.. and totally unrelated. A reality check is required

[@jesusislordsavior6343]

@@brentoneccles Actually Lenin had revived capitalism during the NEP. That was far preferable to having no economy. The problem with the previous policy of 'war communism' (i.e. confiscation) had been that it left people with virtually nothing. Stalin reverted to orthodoxy with the collectivization of farms, ignoring peasant discontent and starving millions (deliberately it seems) during the Holomodor. At the same time, he signed a big contract with the Ford company to build a new plant in the USSR. I guess he was hedging his bets-------which he often used to do. During ww2 Stalin showed what it is to do the right thing for wrong (i.e. totally self-interested) reasons, when he opened churches for public worship. Of course he needed public support for the war effort, and he also wanted to impress the English. (Anglicans and Orthodox tend to get along.) Don't suppose that bureaucratization was only a Stalinist problem. It is a problem of human governance. Wherever officials are put in charge of certain tasks, they are likely to become engrossed in procedural details. I have met enough bureaucrats in this so-called 'democratic' country to realize this. They have little time to meditate on the services they ought to render to 'humanity in general.' Jesus gave His life for sinners, individually and collectively. Bureaucrats ARE sinners like the rest of us.

[@elnationalista]

@Graf von Losinj Geez! You really love to spread that Nazi conspiracy.

[@dreamdiction]

Why was there no Nuremberg for Communism ?

[@Cheretruck_]

Because real (unironic) communists died a long time ago, killing each other. Now is just a bunch of cringey 14 old larpers (thankfully)

[@georgecampbell9638]

Because communism helped the allies win world war 2.

[@dreamdiction]

@@georgecampbell9638 You lost ww2 because you declared war on Germany to stop the Germans destroying communism, that's why everything Mein Kampf warned us about has come true today.

[@heberpelagio7161]

Who raised question similar to yours for a long time was the Lithuanian writer Vladimir Bukovsky! I agree with you...

[@kova1577]

Because the communists won ww2 unfortunately. America should of let Germany and Russia fight it out for as long as possible until they both were so beaten up and exhausted before even setting foot on European soil

[@maksymlysak4092]

100 years have passed and russian propaganda still claims Europe to be declining😂

[@jesusislordsavior6343]

Maksym Lysak Are they rising by comparison? That is the question. Maybe they think that others' loss is their gain. Not a charitable attitude. 'Love thy neighbor as thyself' is the second half of God's Law, but it's not possible if one puts one's pride before God. Well, if they are not European anymore, let them keep their hands off European countries, and everyone should be satisfied.

[@maksymlysak4092]

@@jesusislordsavior6343 they arent developing in any possible way. Instead ,russia tries to degrade others in order to look great. It was ,it is and it will be like that

[@McInte]

It happened just what Trotsky said it would happen. Europe's power in the world declined in favor of the USA from the 40's untill now.

[@maksymlysak4092]

@@McInte everything declines over time! The thing is that russians, living literraly in total shiiii* ,yell that others need to be helped to get out of sh*t, yell that others live in degradation. If you dont understand this then either youre a russian or you dont know russians

[@jesusislordsavior6343]

@@McInte Without a doubt. Also much of the Third World, having got off to a slow start after decolonization, has ascended rapidly in status. Wouldn't you agree that US power reached an apex around 2000 and began to decline slowly? Everything is in flux. But one thing Trotsky sorely neglected: the Sovereignty of God in all this. Too bad that he didn't know his own heritage very well. The Old Testament shows us a succession of empires rising and falling, yet God remains faithful to His people Israel. For Israel was not chosen for any inherent superiority, but so that it might be a showcase to the rest of the nations, a witness to the presence of God among us.

[@raffles7556]

Jew ever wonder where he got his ideas from?

[@thechekist2044]

Follow your leader nazi

[@raffles7556]

@@thechekist2044 .....truth hurts

[@raffles7556]

@Krause Ist Prolet …. Look into it yourself

[@raffles7556]

@Krause Ist Prolet …..?

[@shawnv123]

@@thechekist2044 “nazi”

[@jackcade68]

A decline that he hastened.

[@thechekist2044]

How come? The fascist scourge destroyed Europe.

[@yaldabaoth9235]

Based.

[@JohnKobaRuddy]

Allowed to speak by the bourgeoisie. Says it all doesn’t it Trotskyists!

[@jacobsarvathayaparan2337]

So? Plenty of stalinists are allowed to speak by the bourgeoisie.

[@fawful94]

Stalin appeared in the cover of the very capitalist Time Magazine. Stalin was obviously a capitalist agent.

[@thechekist2044]

@Graf von Losinj lmao

[@elnationalista]

@Graf von Losinj Jacob Schiff hated Trotsky. Also, that was just a Nazi conspiracy with cultural Bolshevism and the use of Trotsky's Jewish heritage.

[@takjel1585]

So did Stalin, who even sided with the fach, give them Ukraine, poland and shit ton of oil on silver plates but hey "That doesn't count" right 🤨

[@heberpelagio7161]

The "success" of Stalin - the man who used to boast about having conducted the U.S.S.R. "from the plow to the atomic bomb in just a generation" - compared to Gorbachev's failure shows that a socialist economy is unable to function with a minimum of efficiency without requiring a massive dose of political violence. In an attempt to reform a decadent regime, Gorbachev moved faster with the process of economic opening in the hope of removing the predictable resistance that the Soviet bureaucracy would create to economic reform measures, as thorough proof with the failed attempt. coup d'état in August 1991 - which ended up precipitating the final crisis of socialism and the dissolution of the USSR itself Its Chinese parallel - Deng Xiaoping - adopted a logic diametrically opposed to that of Gorbachev: it prioritized the achievement of economic prosperity (adopting in practice capitalism) precisely to delay any attempt at political opening, as was evident with the acceleration of the economy. reforms after the Tiananmen Square massacre. It is important to note that it was Karl Marx himself who, in his Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, discerned the scenario in which the conditions for a social revolution process are formed, describing it as follows: “At a certain stage in its development, the material productive forces of society contradict existing production relations or - which is only their legal expression - with the property relations in which they have been active until then. From the forms of development of the productive forces, these relations are transformed into fetters of them. So, it is a time of social revolution. ' * By rejecting the pursuit of profit maximization as an instrument to stimulate innovation, socialist countries ended up condemning themselves to obsolescence. Thus, they lost the chance to incorporate the productivity gains made possible by technological progress. That is why the capitalist countries managed to provide a greater rise in the standard of living of their population, even without pursuing the egalitarian ideal. Therefore, until the “final crisis of socialism” (to paraphrase K. Marx's own definitions once again), it was only a matter of time. But religious fanatics do not give up on their faith, even against the indisputable proof of the facts, which completely refute it! * Reproduced according to MARX, K. Preface to the Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, organized by Florestan Fernandes and published under the title K. Marx: Theory and historical process of the social revolution, In Marx & Engels, Great Social Scientists Collection, History, vol. 36. São Paulo: Ática, 1983. p. 232. Commemorative edition of the centenary of Karl Marx's death

[@KardasheviteUltravisionary]

And the real kicker here was that the New Economic Policy was allowing the Soviets to "speed-run" through Capitalism without needing to resort to state violence (that's not to say the Soviet state didn't use leverage to get peasants on to kolkhozes, but that's something all nation-states do frankly) to collectivize the peasantry into co-op farms (kolkhozes). The NEP had it's flaws in terms of market fluctuations, and shifted the state's focus of repression more on the urban working class. However, by the time of Stalin's ascension the NEP was helping develop the USSR and a lot of it's worst flaws were more manageable.

[@sr-gc6vh]

Your logic is circular and is easily refuted.

[@sewnsew6770]

Capitalism leads to a few people having all the stuff and the rest basic subsistence or homelessness ie nothing. So if there is opportunity that would lead to revolution. However the capitalists can become totalitarian ie fascist to prevent revolution. They then direct the resentment of the proles against the other ie to war either external or even internal with race war. The USA is in late stage capitalism right now so the USA elite are pushing for world war 3. It’s actually very simple and you get to witness it happening. The USA has a Gini coefficient of inequality like Zambia now. The novel 1984 describes the end stage of capitalism although Americans think it describes communism

[@mememanbehindtheshadows546]

​@@KardasheviteUltravisionaryhow manageable, the NEP is not that effective as it was, or atleast a substitute for capitalism.

[@ParDiss-e4i]

Stalin was good at writing but he wasn't a good statesman or jurist. He was too corrupt and racist and technically he wasn't really Russian or ukrainian but mughal.

[@Tomoko_Kuroki888]

I believe that europe can retain its former glory

[@nikiphoross]

During his German speech, didn't he look like Hitler?

[@temperglass]

no

[@Thot_Patrol_USA]

Is that his actual voice 😂 He sounds like a geek going through puberty

[@hameleon2894]

Как на соплеменника своего Адика Шикльгрубера похож.

[@Krishtonas]

I'll follow your footsteps aswell as Lenin comrade 🤝