When a Communist Does Not Understand WW1 | Response to Viki1999

Viki1999 created a video explaining the First World War from a Communist POV, and just as one would expect, this view is full of flaws and propaganda, that I am here to unravel.
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Sources Used:
The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin
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Tags:
Lavader, Viki1999, Vicky1999, Russian Revolution, Viki1999 Response, Vladimir Lenin, Tsar Nicholas II, Lavader Response, February Revolution October Revolution, Tsarist Russia, Soviet Union, Bolsheviks

[@Lavader_]

Yes, I am aware of everything that has happened with Viki and the fact that Viki is retired and will not post videos anymore. While this may seem like kicking a corpse, this response video was in planning a month before Viki was exposed, and the script was already done and written days before everything went down. However I do not want my work and effort to go to waste, so I decided to make the video anyway, even if Viki has disappeared from the face of the internet, because what is most important to me is for people to learn a thing or two, and this response video has a lot of valuable facts that people should know about the Revolution. For anyone saying that Viki will not be able to respond to this, Viki has not responded publicly to any other response video targeting the channel's content, so I highly doubt Viki would acknowledge this one,

[@jeepy2693]

It is wrong to let your hard work go to waste.

[@DjDeadpig]

Not like they’d respond as they’ve already fled to Epstein island.

[@crusader2112]

@@jeepy2693 No it isn’t.

[@thegreatestoctopus9739]

I am happy you made this video, it's really good and very educational. Keep pumping out this amazing pickles boss!

[@rektaldischarge7496]

I see this video as still valid since Viki retired in the sense that they were exposed for something criminal and are lying low, rather than renouncing their ideological views, seeing how he/she/it is still a communist, the video is still valid, its not really beating a dead horse if the horse only retired from racing.

[@Don-ds3dy]

"War is bad...unless we do it" -Vladimir Lenin right before invading a dozen other countries.

[@edgar7456]

funny how one of the first things the supposed anti-war "good guys" did was start wars and force other peoples under their regime while slaughtering them

[@kylereece5511]

“Imperialism is bad, unless we do it.” -Stalin before establishing the Warsaw Pact.

[@KissatenYoba]

@@kylereece5511 "Warsaw Pact is bad" -former Nazi general in service of NATO, while writing a book on how Wehrmacht was good, actually

[@KissatenYoba]

@@GavinGavinGavinGavinGavinGavin didn't happen. If you have time, go find source of holodomor photos (its nazis). Then, when you are ready to claim that i am literally a holocaust denier, go google up photos of holocaust and, say, of bengali famine. Then, when you are ready to claim that Soviets just had no photographers, google up Edouard Herriot in Ukraine, georges simenon photos in odessa, and if you can read russian, population migration statistics for USSR

[@commisaryarreck3974]

​@@GavinGavinGavinGavinGavinGavin No...that's an Israeli thing

[@naptimusnapolyus1227]

"That's a woman ?" - _The Lorax_

[@CharlesIsMyName]

Facts.

[@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993]

Wait woman I didn't see any

[@janka4820]

as someone from a former communist country seeing all these people living the nice cozy life provided by capitalism while denouncing it is painful

[@Mounstrum]

As someone from former communist country, im feeling grievance that our countries wealth created so many years by common effort was robbed and privatised by less then one percent of “successful entrepreneurs”. Both western and local

[@reactiondavant-garde3391]

@@Mounstrum So I agree, but communism still really bad. Sadly capitalism is terrible as well, espeically in late state.

[@00.28.]

@@reactiondavant-garde3391 It's almost like there is no good side of the political spectrum

[@reactiondavant-garde3391]

@@00.28. If we talking about mainstream politics, I entirly agree. It is just the same uni-party. The only diffferentc betwen modern capitalism and socialism that they use different methods but there endgoals are more or less the same atomised consume "paradise".

[@generalegg6778]

@@reactiondavant-garde3391 "capitalism is terrible as well, espeically in late state." Capitalism are only horrible if the state or govs, have much higher authoritive control over the economy. Remember this, monopoly can only happend *IF* the government keep lobbying and destroying the fairness out of the free market. Like in america with the excessive amount of lobbying, and regulation, which handcapped small and medium business to compete against larger businesses, and making it harder to start business due to the increased barrier to entry.

[@herrflammen6487]

Never would I think I’d see the day when a German and a Austrian would argue over Russian history.

[@alexanderhamilton2219]

Lavader is Bosnian, not German. He’s just a Germanophile.

[@worldfacts5298]

@@alexanderhamilton2219I actually never knew that but he still knows more than most people so.

[@alexanderhamilton2219]

@worldfacts5298 . He talks about being a Bosnian Muslim in multiple videos. That’s also why his avatar/pfp is a guy wearing a fez.

[@herrflammen6487]

@@alexanderhamilton2219 Slavic and Germanic accents just kind of blend together for my American ears. Sorry for the mistake

[@Sheepybearry]

I thought he was a turk, but it turns out hes bosnian.

[@sponge5196]

Listening to Viki speak makes nails on a chalkboard sound like Mozart.

[@DjDeadpig]

The voice of a paedophile can really do that to someone.

[@Brother-in-christ43555]

He sounds like if someone shoved a halo energy sword down Dylan mulvany’s throat

[@notme8232]

@@DjDeadpig ?

[@DjDeadpig]

@@notme8232 they were exposed for grooming minors and abandoned their KZbin channel.

[@darthplagueis3488]

@@DjDeadpignot quite surprised that a commie larper with an anime femboy cat as their profile picture would also be a child diddler and chronic groomer.

[@Raptor810Blue]

Wonder what happened when he finds out how Russian Communists treated gays back in the Soviet Union and China

[@Zhicano]

This isn't a gotcha when they were treated worse in the capitalist west.

[@Taschip]

I know right? Why are so many trannies far left?

[@Raptor810Blue]

@@pastille2585 My friend, do you not know what happened in 1934? Stalin re-criminalizes homosexuality. They were put in gulags and prisons, and after Stalin died the repression increased. Communists are not your friend, and neither are we.

[@d4dr4g0n]

@@pastille2585I always find it weird when I see the hammer and sickle with trans colors. Like, bruh, you’d be dead or in prison if you were trans in the Soviet Union.

[@l-nolazck-rn24]

​@@pastille2585 Tranning wouldn't in a reactionary country like that. You're forgetting they didn't even cared to educate their people to not be harsh against them. Which yes, it's not active persecution, but there's nothing done to stop the people. Also yeah, those frenchies were, but their more roman libertinaje basis was screwes up. It would take liberal democrats to actually make it acceptable. Though you can say they and others following are those who changed normal acceptance to the acceptance we have today. Morality of modern day acceptance (sometimes promotion) it's up to you.

[@leeroy4958]

not even one woman voice was heard in this video.

[@Kronosfobi]

Remember the good ole times when colours on a flag actually had semi-deep meanings to represent cultures and not who fucks who? Yeah, good times.

[@mauretaniafan1133]

red white n' blue! but seriously it's more like: let's just make some boring tri-colour and slap some random colours on it, that'll represent us! the flags of countries at least have meaning, and are recognisable.

[@_Devil]

Whats funny is that all gay people, all "sexualities" and all "genders" you can think of, they all already have one unifying flag to represent them: The regular rainbow pride flag They just refuse to use it because theyre simultaneously smart enough to realize soulless Leftist corporations misuse it for profit but also too stupid to realize that theyre doing that for every other flag they create as well See, I'm a simple man. I identify with the country I was born in, not the people who i want to sleep with. Yes, Straight people do have their own "Pride" flag, but i just dont care. Im not a generic straight person. Im an American. I want people to know where I hail from over who I flirt with.

[@badasscrusader]

Yeah remember when the lgbt was reasonable,good times

[@doge7906]

​@@badasscrusader when it was reasonable it was called LGB

[@MrFredstt]

Seriously. And to top it off the lgbt flag is one of the ugliest flags ever designed

[@tizi087]

war is bad for buisness; unless you have an ammo factory. As the australian youtuber perun said: if you own a factory thats producing soviet caliber ammunition rn, you have the license to print money^^

[@tizi087]

@@adambadam4870 as stated in the video: if your workforce is dying on the front it isnt. furthermore, prices might be controlled by the gouverment, healthy competion is gone etc.

[@tizi087]

@@adambadam4870 as lavader showed many countries still strangley went into economic Depression after wars. After WWI and WWII These things happened Initially

[@tizi087]

@@adambadam4870 due to very specific circunstances

[@robertduluth8994]

Almost as if the people in charge do have every business or industry in mind but their own web of commerce they've been stuck with

[@Testimony_Of_JTF]

@@adambadam4870 Wars are still much worse for economies and companies than a state of peace, especially in a (kinda) globalized economy. When you buy your steel from Germany and then suddenly you're at war with them, stuff gets harder to produce. When you import your oil from America and then suddenly you're under blockade stuff gets near impossible to produce. When your food comes from Russia and suddenly the country is imploding food becomes hard to come by. Only one group benefits from war: The military industrial complex. That's it. No one else does. Neither the food companies, the eletrodomestic companies, the car companies or anyone else. They all suffer either in the short or long term. This is especially true for companies who's production facilities and shops are inside the countries currently fighting (like France where their entire NorthEast got destroyed)

[@MrFredstt]

I seriously cannot understand how people can still be Communists

[@AEIOU05]

Parental negligence

[@risforrandomandrandomisme762]

Humans are dumb

[@resvero8342]

By either being smart or retarded

[@comraderobespierre]

you are watching literal monarchist imagine commenting that lmao

[@risforrandomandrandomisme762]

@@comraderobespierre monarchies worked for centurys, communism couldn't even last a single century lmao

[@BigBearGamer]

Ive actually met a communist on my college campus. He was running a socialism club and wanted to go. Now I am a conservative and when he realized that I was questioning him and fact checking him he "banned" me from the club called me a "Nazi, Racist, and a Misogynist" based on how I was talking. After he gave me the notice I was "banned" from the club which hes not allowed to do, after 2 weeks of not talking to the entirety of the club they reported me to the college and to the police department over a bomb threat I never made. Also the guy running the club dosent believe Stalin killed over 60 million of his own people nor did Mao Zedong but he blames it on the Nazis. These people are extremely delusional. I was also wrong about getting along or being friends with a communist. If you disagree with them, they will go out of their way to ruin your life. I am first hand experiencing this, and as of right now, I have a police case on me because of this group. now I am aiming to dissolve the group because they are trying to ruin my life. Communists are evil people, and I despise them so much. UPDATE: I have talked to a lawyer a few months ago and he said I will not be seeing the cops and nothing will happen to you. I have also joined the Student Government Club this year and found out they all knew who I am and becouse of what I did in the Commie club I have started a internal conflict within the group. They confirmed that the club will be becoming an official club to the school but becouse more than half of the group hates eachother it may not last very long. I also found out who reported me to student code of conduct and to the police. I am not sure if I am going to be suing the college yet becouse I have to wait and see if there is something on my profile that could damage me. I will let you all know if it happens or not.

[@mrsclio4752]

What Stalin gained was to make USSR the greatest country in the world, second only yo US. What Fascism gained was to destroy Europe. Shit up cappie

[@Trollge398]

File and fake case against them in retaliation

[@BigBearGamer]

@Librandu Trollge even better, im going to sue thier asses

[@Trollge398]

@@BigBearGamer if they can try to defame you as some sort of domestic terrorist then do worse to them legally And I am saying it as an leftist

[@heartsofiron4ever]

@@mrsclio4752 The USSR had a smaller economy then West Germany, France and UK

[@kontrabanned]

Anyone that willingly looks like that is a glaring red flag

[@ryszakowy]

communism, red flag... seems in order..

[@HawkThunder907]

They say communism is for equality but Stalin didn't like jews👍

[@Trid3nt861]

If only such a gender communist ever researched that Commizars under Communist dictatorships were very anti-alphabet. Such a creature would've been put in gulag or made to disappear.

[@maybach5787]

@@ryszakowy thats the other red flag.

[@tau-5794]

Tomato tamato

[@DjDeadpig]

Nice to see Lav make another response. Kind’ve funny how every time Lav responds to someone the person they respond to gets exposed for pedophilia.

[@AEIOU05]

It’s a curse

[@crusader2112]

The Lavader Curse.

[@andreascovano7742]

Lavader curse.

[@Trollge398]

The Lavender Syndrome

[@Classical.Conservative]

That tends to happen when you're dealing with leftists

[@Lili_Chen2005]

Ideologues are always hindered by a need to see every human decision and political event through the lens of that ideology. It's a rather incredible thing to see and I'd rather rip my own ovaries out than be stuck in an echo chamber. I think some of the weirdest things I have encountered have been that the Roman Empire collapsed because of a proletarian uprising that sought to implement feudalism to replace the existing system of slavery.

[@whitehawk4099]

What linear, progressive history does to an mf

[@Sigmagnat650]

This is why you worry about lead pipes in your water system *smh*

[@seas1829]

As an Austrian, I apologize for her. Not all of us are this goofy.

[@AEIOU05]

*him

[@Myrmidias_Chosen]

@@AEIOU05 Based

[@soulplexis]

I think you guys are considering you're responsible for both world wars. L

[@lordfarquaad2319]

We shouldn't deny history, and we also shouldn't deny biology

[@Skullnaught]

Him

[@white-bellycat8245]

As a Russian (not a "Rossianin", Soviet or communist), I want to say thank you to the author for the work done. But it's a pity that this channel is not popular, it's a pity that the rest of the world calls Russian, what is inherent in the USSR and do not understand what damage the communists inflicted on Russians and our culture.

[@ilyatsukanov8707]

Lol yeah those horrible communists who built everything we have today (cities, infrastructure, technology) and which our parasitic post-Soviet elites haven't managed to eat through even after 30 years.

[@kogorun]

What culture, lol? If anything, USSR became a full industrialised continuation of Russian Empire at least since Stalin. Every communist progressist step was reverted as much as possible while keeping the society focused on the industry and obedient to the ruling class.

[@white-bellycat8245]

@@kogorun Culture ≠ industry. And where are the advantages for the Russians? Also in the twentieth century there were examples where countries achieved industrialization without mass terror.

[@white-bellycat8245]

@@kogorun Is it an achievement when your population has become 5-7 times poorer (in terms of goods)?

[@white-bellycat8245]

@@kogorun Also in the Russian Empire, people who graduated from less than 4 grades of school were considered illiterate, in Western countries who could not read.

[@brineo]

why does it sound like HE is always on the verge of tears

[@mauretaniafan1133]

because he's sad he isn't raping kids

[@thethrashyone]

They're not card carrying members of the 41% Club for nothing.

[@Gekk-rx7nv]

Fr fr, bro needs a napkin or smn

[@pietero.o6792]

HRT voice probably

[@jbellflower83]

Because Marxists are generally weak and spiteful.

[@algerianmonarchist8017]

1:51 honestly just from this image you'll get what Viki is about, and why he's definitely not the most trustworthy narrator on such topics

[@reddawn1873]

Misgendering

[@algerianmonarchist8017]

@@WBT_1995 I'll be real with you, I am not respecting a pedo's pronouns

[@terranovamapping1119]

Who cares about Misgendering a pedo

[@DSHBIuer8wubadkb]

The line about "capitalists use nationalism to divide and conquer the workers" annoys me as an Australian. The biggest proponents of the White Australia Policy were Unions and the Australian Labor Party, it's biggest opponents were Economic Liberals (like the appropriately named Liberal Party), since believe it or not, preventing the importation of cheap, scab labour is in the interests of workers. People like this don't understand history and want to view everything they disagree with as being part of some grand conspiracy/alliance of ebil capitalists and fascists

[@thatfuckingzipfurio]

@@reddawn1873 Anyway, she is a groomer.

[@warrioroflight6872]

Q: When did Lenin become a good Communist? A: When he died. In all seriousness though, I can't understand why some people celebrate that worm. Every time I read about Lenin, all I ever find is another atrocity or ideological failure.

[@Mounstrum]

Like?

[@gmodrules123456789]

When he transformed Russia into a modern state. Even the majority conservative Russian population admires him. They also admire Stalin as well. And not necessarily because they were communists, but because they were strong leaders.

[@Klongu_Da_Bongu]

@@gmodrules123456789 Stalin literally died because the guard was too afraid to enter his room when he was dying. The last guard tried it, and he was executed. Admired? You kidding?

[@warrioroflight6872]

​​@@gmodrules123456789 Lenin was a strong leader, I'll give him that, but that's not the same as being a good leader. After all, can anyone say that Hitler wasn't also strong?

[@warrioroflight6872]

​​@@Mounstrum Unfortunately, I can't give many specifics because I don't have access to the big books on the subject, however, I can tell you this: - Lenin encouraged the slaughter of all the aristocratic class, even though he himself was part of it, glorified the display of their corpses as a symbol to those he perceived as being Bourgeois... and then just replaced them with a new class of aristocrats called the "Revolutionary vanguard". Basically the only difference was the name. - He cracked down on the Russian people and explicitly used terror to force them into submission. This was to minimize the number of people who would dare to aid his enemies in the civil war. He punished the families of known or suspected White Army officers, and also allowed his secret police-the Cheka-to operate unrestricted. - On the topic of the Cheka, they arrested hundreds of thousands of people over the course of Lenin's reign, didn't hold trials, and had many sadists within their ranks. These sadists even competed to see who could come up with the worst torture methods and did things to their victims like plunging their hands into boiling water and then peeling the skin off, throwing them into freezing rivers to die of hypothermia, crucifixion, throwing them headfirst down flights of stairs, and even using rats to chew through people's stomachs while they were still alive. Lenin, of course, approved of all this since he wanted the people to be too terrified to resist. - Lenin's forces seized people's grain from collective farms by force to feed the Red Army. This obviously did not make him any more popular since it was pretty much just theft. The farms themselves were also less productive than the previously privately owned ones, which led to widespread hunger since the farmers only got the scraps that the military didn't eat. - The famine that resulted from the failed collectivization experiment was exasperated by Lenin deciding to use it against the people so they would stop believing in God. About 5 million Russians starved to death in 1920-21, with 30 million more being affected. Cannibalism was also seen as a legitimate means of survival. - Lenin started the Gulag system, though Stalin is more famous for his association with it. Gulags, unsurprisingly, had abhorrent conditions for people to work in, as has been the case for slavery throughout history. And that's the basic idea of the atrocities. As for the ideological failures: - The New Economic Policy. This policy allowed Russians to do private trade again to help the new USSR heal from the civil war, which was objectively a good thing, however, it wasn't a success in the ideological sense because it was basically Lenin admitting that his Communist principles weren't working and letting Capitalism-AKA, free trade-come back. - Lenin also eventually decided to swallow enough pride to allow the famine to actually be alleviated and asked the Capitalist countries of the West to help. This led to massive quantities of food being shipped to the Soviet Union-66% of which came from America-mostly for free, and also led to the American Relief Administration organizing donations of clothes, tools, medicine, fuel, and building supplies as well when they saw that Russia was impoverished in more than just food. All this was obviously a good thing too, and credit can be given to Lenin for allowing it; but once again, it's an ideological failure because it's just another example of Lenin admitting that his plans were failing and needing his enemies to bail him out.

[@DonetskChildrenBidenBomba]

A Monarchist who knows history? The Ukrainian in me loves you now

[@user-zy9ht3fd2f]

Great to see a compatriot with same views.

[@kidfox3971]

And the American in me just loves you for being Ukrainian, though maybe that's also the Prussian military ancestry in me having hatred for Rus*ians in my blood.

[@alechboy3578]

Yes, Russian Empire treated Ukraine and Poland good. They even gave Poland one of the best autonomies in history but they wanted to assassinate Nicholas 1 so their autonomy was robbed. I am from Moldova and I consider Russian Empire an important part of our history and one of the best parts of it.

[@user-zy9ht3fd2f]

@@alechboy3578 Ukrainian monarchists are often not pro russian empire, but mostly pro hetmanists or even people who are thinking that kingdom of Ukraine could be the thing, at least in early 20s century

[@chelsearogers6720]

Why? Without Bolsheviks independent Ukraine would have been impossible

[@angelb.823]

You know what's tragic on the historical perspective? One of the war aims of Imperial Russia during WW1 (the 1915 Constantinople Agreement) was to take control of Constantinople and eastern Anatolia, which had sizeable Orthodox Christian population prior to the Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian genocides, compared to other regions in the Ottoman Middle-East (which were granted mandates by the Allies). It could have restored the City and a portion of Anatolia back to Orthodox Christianity since Russia was also an Orthodox nation. The Bolsheviks not only dashed any hope of implementing those former aims, but also worked with the Turkish Kemalists, providing them with weapons, to route the remaining Armenian and Greek Christians out of Anatolia, either to the Soviet Union or Greece, during the Turkish War of Independence. Even now, self-proclaimed communists would bring the narrative that the Kemalists and the Bolsheviks were national heroes that went against Imperialistic powers, when in reality they pushed out only the Greeks and Armenians out of Anatolia, destroying the remaining Christian presence that existed there.

[@rajashashankgutta4334]

So?

[@MeanBeanComedy]

​@@rajashashankgutta4334 You're not going to be capable of understanding. I'll just tell you that.

[@FredomiaIV]

I've never seen his/her/their face until now but it's something I should have expected.

[@darthplagueis3488]

@noreally371unfortunately, the term “it” is also considered a badge of honor for these freaks.

[@Klongu_Da_Bongu]

@@darthplagueis3488 Good, lol. Reality will always crush ideology under heel.

[@bud389]

Dyed hair, piercings, ugly/nonsensical tattoos, pre-stressed clothing. Basically the uniform of the left, because they all want to appear "gritty" and "down to earth", despite the majority of them making up the wealthy and/or privileged. I think it has to do with them feeling guilty over their luck of circumstance.

[@Kommiekiller]

TTD

[@tirididjdjwieidiw1138]

im entirely convinced that stolypin was assasinated cause if the peasants are happier, things like anarchism, socialism, and other radical movements become less popular. I believe this because his assassin, Dmitry Bogrov was a social revolutionary.

[@jaykilbourne1110]

Not to mention making the majority of them small-scale landowners makes communism utterly revolting to them. Not to mention it gives them political power due to now being truly invested in the nation, which does threaten the entrenched nobility. There's conjecture that Stolypin's assassination was partly orchestrated by disgruntled nobles who saw his reforms as a threat.

[@Fernybun]

Marxist ideologies require of human suffering to justify their existence, without suffering they are of no use.

[@pivomanslovensko]

Or maybe he wasn't a wholesome chungus hero of the people? This guy is blatantly lying.

[@Pancasilaist8752]

​@@pivomanslovenskoif that were true, then it should have been the more reactionary tsar Alexander III who should also have been killed.

[@herewego7694]

or maybe maybe most assassinations don't happen because a person is le bad, but rather because he is an obstacle to the assassin's ideology

[@Sound557]

Pretty sure Europeans were generally more bloodthirsty in the past. Wars were frequent even before the Great War and people were eager to see their armies march into the cities of their enemies for pride or vengeance. The populations of the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and France were excited at the start of the Great War. Hell, Greece had a civil war in that many Greeks wanted to join the Allies, Ireland juggled wanting to join the war and neutrality. It wasn't the evil Capitalists that forced people to enlist and fight like Viki thinks. Then again, I wouldn't expect a Communist to understand the desires of the working class.

[@the_inquisitive_inquisitor]

The scale of war was generally much smaller up until Napoleon, and then things started getting crazy.

[@the_inquisitive_inquisitor]

@Jon Snow Dawg, even ChatGPT had a hard time deciphering that sentence.

[@jbellflower83]

​@@the_inquisitive_inquisitor😂thank you for voicing what I was thinking.

[@hyperion3145]

That's kind of a given, before the First World War, one of the qualities you would see some anthropologists of the time considered "civilized" was "warlikeness". You see it a lot when they describe indigeonous groups, "warlike people" were treated as being superior to those that weren't seen as militarily inclined.

[@shelbyspeaks3287]

Vikipedia be like: trust me bro

[@enterchannelname5953]

If you lived in the Russian Empire back in 1917, you would be a starving self working for a magical family who are friends to an orthodox wizard, living however they wanted at your expense well your friends die at a war that you never wanted. Now if you lives in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic back in 1950, you can see the difference because now you are free to live in a home, eat proper food, have free time, have a good job, get payed and have an education.

[@AEIOU05]

@@enterchannelname5953 Guevara got what he deserved, lmao

[@enterchannelname5953]

@@AEIOU05 Guevara died fighting for the freedom of the Bolivian people, he abandoned is important job and life in Cuba to give the poor Bolivian people freedom.

[@AEIOU05]

@@enterchannelname5953 he died like the dog he was, probably shat and pissed himself too, lmao

[@jojoslasthamon5120]

@@enterchannelname5953 A.K.A. a terrorist. Honestly, swap his banner and you would not have been that empathetic.

[@thegreatestoctopus9739]

Can you please stop already? I have to buy my FOURTH house because every one before that got flooded by the facts you spitted

[@gidi3250]

12:51 the Russians also wanted to join the war to help their fellow orthodox slavs in Serbia, they also highly aproved of the tsar making promises to Serbia that if they where attacked Russia would come as the protecter of the slav people and as protector of the orthodox faith.

[@HilmanRizaldi]

What can you expect from peasants robbing another peasants in the name of classless society

[@Mounstrum]

But poor peasants robbing rich peasants for a land redistribution will lead to it. Poor peasants based

[@SpaceMarine500]

@@Mounstrum Poor peasants just become the rich elites that way. I know communism regularly fries peoples' brains but you need to do better.

[@Seft2_]

​@@Mounstrum then go get robbed

[@jaykilbourne1110]

@@Mounstrum *Poor peasants are thieves. Fixed it

[@Mounstrum]

@@jaykilbourne1110 stealing from theif not crime. Rightfully yours you take back

[@epistemo3442]

25:02 Based, I want to see more videos that shows the truth of Tsarist Russia.

[@night6724]

Mad Monarchist did a great video.

[@hispalismapping155]

Always stand with Russian Republic against Bolsheviks.

[@elmascapo6588]

The only problem with this is: Ewwwwwww, moskals

[@enterchannelname5953]

The Russian Republic Choose war over its people, I pick Bolsheviks who actually fed the masses. That is why white soldiers changed sides.

[@enterchannelname5953]

@@elmascapo6588 yes the whites shot the masses like in the 1905 and 1917 revolutions and the reds had support and made a better society.

[@angelicidio]

no

[@DavidSmith-dl8dm]

@@enterchannelname5953 both sides just plain horrible

[@heartsofiron4ever]

Peace, Bread, Land, Lenin's motto. Peace: after 5 years of brutal war in RUSSIA, with 3 million dead, bread: after greater Russian famine caused by Lenin killing up to 2 million, Land: only for the government

[@enterchannelname5953]

If you lived in the Russian Empire back in 1917, you would be a starving self working for a magical family who are friends to an orthodox wizard, living however they wanted at your expense well your friends die at a war that you never wanted. Now if you lives in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic back in 1950, you can see the difference because now you are free to live in a home, eat proper food, have free time, have a good job, get payed and have an education. The famines where caused by foreign powers.

[@heartsofiron4ever]

@@enterchannelname5953 the difference comes after 1950, because Stalin has consolidated his power, displaced ethnic minorities in the millions, Russified their lands, and is free to exploit all of Eastern Europe, between 1917 and 1939, soviet lives would barely change

[@meirintheguard]

lenin fight for freedom and peace but stalin didnt

[@algerianmonarchist8017]

@@enterchannelname5953 did you not watch the video or are you just retarded?

[@enterchannelname5953]

@@meirintheguard Yes he did, he did everything to avoid war, even singing a non-aggression past with Hitler.

[@evanceaicovschi7230]

Nothing quite like calling for support from the working class and then calling us stupid in the same breath. Thanks for this video mate. I'll be subscribed from now on.

[@Astorath_the_Grim]

Champagne socialists are the worst.

[@marshallscot]

Classic communist behavior. Marx idealized that the revolution would come from the peasants or low class, but every single communist revolution in history has been a creature of the intelligentsia.

[@Brother-in-christ43555]

Nice to see a fellow monarchist God bless☦️

[@nouvellelune8699]

💀

[@klub7justin]

☦️☦️☦️☦️

[@foundationofBritain]

The working man is the most reactionary in society… mostly because change affects them the most.

[@HeydenHarvey]

Because capitalism will always want to extract more from the workers

[@johnthomson2377]

Anyone who researches the Russian revolution(s) will find that it was much more Kosher than popular...

[@celticman5128]

who would have thought!🤥

[@Para0234]

His voice sounds like if he's trying to sound as feminine as possible and in the brink of mreaking down in tears. When you add what he said, it both sounds bad, and it is bad.

[@ovs8691]

Why does every Communist sound like they are on the verge of bursting into tears?

[@Classical.Conservative]

I commend you for being able to keep your sanity while refuting these brain dead communist arguments

[@enterchannelname5953]

If you lived in the Russian Empire back in 1917, you would be a starving self working for a magical family who are friends to an orthodox wizard, living however they wanted at your expense well your friends die at a war that you never wanted. Now if you lives in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic back in 1950, you can see the difference because now you are free to live in a home, eat proper food, have free time, have a good job, get payed and have an education.

[@enterchannelname5953]

@boconnor401 YES

[@thegreatestoctopus9739]

@@enterchannelname5953 you would also be free to be send to a concentration camp, not be able to say anything about the government, have effectively 1 or 2 choices in finding a job and if God punished you by you being born a jew, you might not even get education, let alone a job. Stop saying bullshit, my country was destroyed by communism and thrived under monarchisim, if you want to live under communism, live in China, where everything you do would be known by the government and you would be forced into being a loyal citizen or else be send to a camp like the Tibetans and Uyghurs

[@resvero8342]

@@enterchannelname5953 You are no better then fascist, you are the oppressor of the farmer.

[@Classical.Conservative]

@@enterchannelname5953 I probably would've been killed for being Catholic either way

[@aightimmaheadout3573]

Stand against the Communist Horrors!

[@BigGuyGaming3288]

Man every time lavader posts it’s always a banger

[@mr.bimmlerproductions]

The October Revolution. 1917. I was there dude...and it sucked!!!

[@enterchannelname5953]

Yes a Populaire revolted that ended corruption, nationalism and occupation and genocide of millions in Russia and brought an end to a undemocratic feudal Russia to a equal prosperous Soviet Republic must be terrible.

[@mr.bimmlerproductions]

@@enterchannelname5953 Nothing will ever end corruption, it certainly didn't end nationalism, DEFINITELY didn't end the occupation of anything, genocide was still committed, undemocratic Russia still very much continued to exist, and the first decade after the revolution certainly wasn't prosperous.

[@thegreatestoctopus9739]

@@mr.bimmlerproductions the first decade? Brother it wasn't until the 50's that things even STARTED to get good, but it didn't last long because after the moon landing Russia just went into a downward spiral in terms of industry, economy and military

[@mr.bimmlerproductions]

@@thegreatestoctopus9739 Never said anything that would suggest the contrary.

[@thegreatestoctopus9739]

@@mr.bimmlerproductions yeah I know, just saying so no lefty can try and start an argument how it got "better" after Russia industrialized

[@Ussonan-Foderation2016]

You also didn't mention that you need someone to buy the goods. Can't buy if you're fighting

[@ashutoshpathy1886]

Looks like God is really on Lavenders side

[@FictionHubZA]

The power of God and anime 😅

[@tau-5794]

"And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us."

[@manolgeorgiev9664]

Not a good sign

[@jshadowhunter]

Oh great... it's a t-ranie too... Why are almost all breadtubers that as well?

[@Skullnaught]

Mental illness

[@ryszakowy]

left trash moron and a transtard from lgbtrash disease they seem to be connected

[@StartsWithACee]

Do you want gay and trans people put into concentration camps? Please answer this simple yes or no question.

[@minitntman1236]

They don't want to work, either on themselves or for themselves

[@zacharygilligan7811]

Had Nicholas not gone back to the front and stayed at the palace he never would have been forced to abdicate. He would have seen Petrograd was not as bad as he was told it was. He would have better command of the imperial guards garrison. And then Nicholas could have informed his generals at the front the situation was not as bad as they all thought it. Nicholas’s generals were just as badly informed as he was. Had the generals known the truth, they could have sent loyal troops to Petrograd and the Alexander palace. And the the whole revolution would have been dealt with.

[@RandomGuy-ej5dr]

if the hair is pink, the facts sink

[@crusader2112]

On Russia and “Feudal-Slave State”, the book One Man in His Time covers this and in it, Russia is described as a growing power. I’m over half way through and it’s a great book, if anyone here wants to check it out. Great video. Peace ✌🏻

[@edgar7456]

yeah, Russia was rapidly industrializing before the reds took power

[@45acpisdope]

they yell at St. Nikolai II, calling him evil, he was a great man, despite being Inept, I truthfully believe he could've Succeeded, but he Fell to peer pressure, he founded my parish, he was a good man in a circumstance where bad people rule, and he was surrounded by bad people

[@StartsWithACee]

When the starving peasants of the Tsarist Empire couldn't see how BASED of a man Nicholas II was.

[@jaykilbourne1110]

@@StartsWithACee starving, Tsarist Empire. Pick one.

[@hans2936]

The problem was he was far too week willed and passive to face the crisis plaguing Russia at the time, and was more concerned with how other European royalty viewed him

[@johnstackhouse1706]

​@@hans2936 I think the correct word you seek to describe him is merciful, he could have had many, many more people executed, or exiled to Siberia for opposing him (or deserting during the war) simply by not commuting their sentences

[@sasi5841]

​@@hans2936 this.

[@HistoricalFanatics]

I’m a libertarian This “capitalism causes war” argument is stupid

[@thejohnreview9650]

Not only capitalism, but the interests of capitalists also play a role in the outbreak of wars.

[@LucaShutz]

No it's not stupid, if you humbly run some brain gears and connect two dots you can realize what private arm contractors seek economically, the pursuit for peace is not something they seek. You see these two can't co-exist because one goes against peace for the very sake of profit.. And then what happens when these companies kindly "donate" money to a political campaign? Oh yeah, legalized bribes to destroy the common people's living conditions (both internally and externally) by causing conflicts around the world and preventing the political class from acting because they were bought. It's not hard to understand. If you produce weapons and can't find a buyer you're going to fail, a big company selling death doesn't just stop at selling a country's defense systems and gives up on growing, that goes against the competitive nature of capitalism. Just because monarchism didn't have capitalists seeking profit through conflict it doesn't mean someone else wasn't earning off these things (the aristocrats, nobilty and so on). So that's why I'm surprised it's so hard for many people here to understand the problem.

[@HistoricalFanatics]

@@thejohnreview9650it doesn’t benefit you to blow up potential consumers, The reason it might look like capitalist countries form empires is due to the government stealing taxing the wealth Capitalism is the battery that everyone uses, taking it away because a violent person (the state) used that strong battery makes everyone suffer And the state would still be violent even if it’s powering with a weaker battery (socialism)

[@Abi_yee]

4:36 funny hoi4 sound

[@JustinianRomanov]

There’s also a few good books on the Tsar. I’d recommend: A Circle of Betrayal, Cowardice, and Deceit by Matthew Raphael Johnson Last Tsar Vol. 1-4 by S.S. Oldenburg Russia’s Last Orthodox Christian Monarch by Paul Gilbert

[@the_inquisitive_inquisitor]

Peter the Great was a pretty interesting guy.

[@constantinethegreat5907]

War is bad for bussiness, unless your the one supplying the weapons and giving loans to both sides.

[@mauretaniafan1133]

unfortunately that is a minority of a minority.

[@ryszakowy]

@@mauretaniafan1133 yeah a minority that has the most profits

[@edgar7456]

Which is who?

[@constantinethegreat5907]

@@edgar7456 the Rothschilds for one.

[@edgar7456]

@@constantinethegreat5907 so Jews...?

[@shadow9495]

The ironic thing is in trying to get rid of a supposed German-sympathetic state, Russia forced onto itself one of Germany’s worst ideologies

[@jojoslasthamon5120]

It’s even funnier and sad that Bolsheviks surrendered so many lands into the hands of those very Germans

[@andreascovano7742]

21:30 to be fair the brusilov offensive almost won the war. To say that ww1 russia was solely a meat grinder is a bit hyperlative. The galicia campaign, the caucasus campaign were both excellent. It was only against germany that russia significantly struggled.

[@elmascapo6588]

I would argue otherwise. The fact that the brusilov offensive didn't win the war was on itself a complete disaster. The amount of casualties the moskals took to just "cripple" the austro hungarian army is ridiculus and was one of the main factors of the febrero revolution

[@andreascovano7742]

@@elmascapo6588 who are moskals? I am Italian and do not know this term. Also no It was an almost complete success. The main problem was lack of cooperation by northern generals to occupy the germans attention. Austria was effectively done as a fighting force. THe main issue was the inability to follow up effectively (which was universal in that war). By all metrics of the time, it was the biggest success the Allies had up to that point.

[@elmascapo6588]

@@andreascovano7742 the goal was to kick Austria out of the war, they did not achieve that, at all. And worst of all, the german army was practically untouched by this offensive Moskal is a racial slur to describe the people of russia

[@andreascovano7742]

@@elmascapo6588 >the goal was to kick Austria out of the war, they did not achieve that, at all What do you mean? Austria was defacto done as a military power and had to be propped up everywhere by the germans. The offensive destroyed any viability the austrian army had and shredded it's forces in the east. Ah ok now I know what moskal means ty

[@elmascapo6588]

@@andreascovano7742 it didn't, the austrian army still existed. And even if it was devastated, it was not worth the cost, at all. The most conservative estimates put the casualties around half a million. Going as far as a million.

[@crackpot1206]

I haven't realized how generically senile Viki's videos were after being wrenched by clips of his infallible content

[@ACrustyCount]

So out of curiosity i strolled over to the original video to see what the comments section looked like and low and behold the comments are turned off. Its almost like they dont like differing opinions being voiced

[@lukachew32]

Thank you for this video. Far too many people are so misinformed about history because of the failure of our schools, which allows propagandists to create whatever narrative they want. Videos like the ones you make are really making a difference. Keep up the good work ❤

[@ryszakowy]

communists and left trash would say that accruate history lessons are nothing but propaganda and hateful lies but what do you call it when there's nothing positive to say about them?

[@bdz_4206]

3:17 "War is bad for business" -Lavader 2023

[@Bandog23]

Yes?

[@baseditalian03]

does vicky seriusly put the pedo pride flag in there too? he is proud of that? man the moment i saw those flags i understood vicky is not someone to be taken seriusly

[@ryszakowy]

left trash groomer claiming that communism is good... yeah it's strangely connected ALWAYS

[@watchman0062]

@@ryszakowy Wait, where is the pedo flag in her background?

[@FartSmella23]

@@watchman0062 first off it’s a he. He sounds nothing like a woman. Second the lgbt flags

[@baseditalian03]

@@watchman0062 yes, amongst the other pride flags

[@watchman0062]

@@baseditalian03 Which one is it?

[@Colenin.]

That guy sounds like he is imitating a woman.

[@loathecraft]

Because he is.

[@stanzer38]

Of course he is.

[@nouvellelune8699]

Don't fundamentally misunderstand what being transgender is challenge HARD,IMPOSSIBLE

[@Taschip]

​@@nouvellelune8699 Mental Illness challenge

[@ryszakowy]

@@nouvellelune8699 child predator trying to shield himself from responsibility by bringing up lgbtrash ideology

[@huzu310]

Ngl Lavader has very good points

[@helmuthvonmoltke4621]

The title of the video is more correct: When a Communist...

[@ryszakowy]

when a mentally incapable man...

[@pnz6ausfj779]

Czarist>communist

[@markzepp481]

It’s crazy how this channel doesn’t have a million subs already the amount of high quality work that goes into these videos is unmatched please keep it up and don’t ever change 🤍 One suggestion tho maybe a better Audio mic sometimes I can hear mic static a bit but it’s not a problem

[@joaovitorreginattodasilva8840]

It's hard for modern college graduates and dropouts to realize just how bloodthirsty people were back then, I mean yes, there were elements of territorial and economic interest, but the war happened primarily because the people WANTED it to happen, there were celebrations all around when it was declared, just read any historical document about the pre-war period. Young men of all walks of life were salivating at the prospect of marching to the other side of the continent to "righteously" murder their fellow men. The war only became unpopular when they realised they were losing.

[@localdude3702]

A monarchist in 2023... What a time to be alive...

[@comraderobespierre]

right actually insane lmao

[@localdude3702]

@@comraderobespierre Imagine larping as a monarchist, llike bruh this ain't the 1500s anymore hahaha

[@seas1829]

@@localdude3702 Acting like Communism hasnt been dead for 30 years...

[@zonger5537]

@@seas1829 you believe the USSR was the only socialist country or something? You even know what it is or do you just think of "hurr durr red flag bad hurr durr"

[@seas1829]

@@zonger5537 Communism is dead. Unless youre saying China is communist, most leftists dont even claim them tho lmao.

[@polpot5471]

Viki will never be a woman

[@lanzarotebello]

When I heard Viki's voice I legit first thought it was Lavader trying to make his voice sound female

[@juliobalmaseda7527]

"Your explanation is indoctrination but my indoctrination is explanation!"

[@ekpyrosis1]

As a russian, dude, i thank you. I hear soviet/communist bullshit from every corner (from the random people on the streets to the government officials) in my homeland. And then, browsing the web, i hear it from europeans/americans,, which is just upsetting. Someone has to clear this mess up, you're doing god's work.

[@OperatorMax1993]

As a Georgian dude, I'm glad there's people who stand against this madness. I know that Russians have done terrible things to us but that is in the past now and I've let go of it. As we have bigger enemies to face with that being these "communists" It's absolutely hilarious that these people believe in communism but continue to benefit from capitalism or corporatism

[@thejohnreview9650]

​@@OperatorMax1993 If you were born under a slave system, would you also consider slavery cool, so as not to be hilarious?

[@Indianmf]

May god bless you and your country!

[@IzaakCha7]

13:17 this image right here is how these people envision the working classes and masses they claim to represent and understand, and yet it is those same classes that will often be the first to react with disgust to these ideas the tankies and breadtubers assume they will rally behind.

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

99k views 9 months Viki1999

[@jeff5534]

It’s such a redundant argument saying that capitalists started WW1 so they could make money. If that was true then why was the 1st World War and not the 8th? WW1 was the result of the UK’s inability to keep the peace in Europe anymore, Germany had caught up and decided to challenge the UK and France for supremacy. It’s the kind of argument that comes from a pre-elementary understanding of capitalist economics

[@afansmajlovic]

LETS GO NEW VIDEO!

[@arnenesbye2420]

Why is there only one source used? The source migth be good and it uses a lot of sources itself, but Historians are always affected by some biases and how they use the same sources may vary. I think using more sources would show a lot more nuance, and I think it would only strengthen your arguments.

[@edgar7456]

Yeah, as a history student, I agree it would be way better with multiple sources (which he gave for some arguments though) but it's already a great step up better than Vikipedia just giving baseless claim over baseless claim

[@martyr_lightsilver1833]

Because he is an idiot.

[@Sigmagnat650]

I was fortunate enough to have a professor for a Russian history class that went leagues out of his way to debunk anything and everything that had even the most tenuous pro-Bolshevik stance with regard to the Union's founding and progression. The impression he conveyed was that the average peasant saw right through most of it and realized the revolution was nothing more than a power-grab by a sub-set of the intelligentsia that had a fractious coalition of urbanites and (heavy) industrial workers behind it. To your points on war and capitalism, it's worth checking out the book "The Pursuit of Power" by William H. McNeill. Ostensibly it presents a theory about the rise of the West and how it came to dominate global economics/politics. Realistically, it's a plea for calmer tempers during the later stages of the Cold War. However, when you connect the dots between what the book set out to do in theory and what it wound up being in practice, an interesting idea is presented. Once fully-industrialized warfare matured, the the costs of a war for profit began to exponentially outweigh the benefits. This leaves one with a few options. People perpetuating war for profit are engaging in warfare that is not fully-industrialized (still possible to some extent). Or, the people doing this are irrational actors but are only free to engage in this behavior when either the international system permits it (through inaction or apathy) OR their domestic system cannot rein in the ruler's excesses. Yet, both of these explanations are probably missing the point entirely- most people engaging in fully-industrialized warfare do so out of a set of preferences and motivations that either exceed or ignore the search for "profit" (e.g., outsiders are misreading war goals). There is always the option that accruing profit over a longer time horizon is possible through war, but that's an uncertainty that still falls within the 3 prior explanations to a large degree.

[@cornbreadisbetterthanpizza6866]

Hearing someone criticize Tsar Nicholas for conscription who also supports communism is funny. Where'd Stalin, Mao and Ho Chi Mihn get their troops I wonder?

[@Puritan1985]

Why do so many political commentators sound like Muppets?

[@swedenballimfrombrazil8616]

Greetings to anyone watching this wonderful content. I watched 5 minutes of one of Viki's videos and could not resist the urge to leave. Can someone explain what happened to him?

[@sponge5196]

From what I know, he was accused of being a pedo and he then deleted his channel afterwards.

[@slashgigawon]

@@sponge5196 typical tranny behavior

[@swedenballimfrombrazil8616]

@anthroimperzia3927 Me neither

[@LtLuigi25]

Please do the video on how the Russian Cadets and SRs got Russia into the War, claimed they could win it, then utterly failed at actually governing.

[@jojoslasthamon5120]

I honestly believe that Duma shouldn’t have existed at that point. The circumstances might have demanded it, but ultimately, without thorough education at the time it was one of the key nails in the imperial coffin.

[@texastacoss]

2:19, does bro realize that a racialist movement's flag is literally represented there whilst she is bashing social constructs that divide society. Okay??

[@SleightlyPersonal]

Why does the Commie sounds like a South Park Canadian?

[@shoot2kill647]

As a Russian, you're absolutely correct, you can easily confirm the info he talks about it through Russian history books or Wiki. The only shortage of bread that there was since the beginning, was white bread, white bread was sent to the soldiers, black bread was never in shortage.

[@meinhausbrennt1426]

adding to your point why war is bad for buisniess, there is the fact that consumers will be less able to afford products because war tends to lead to inflation especially when it comes to food but also other products and with less consumption buisnisses will shrink and producers of luxury goods can even cease to exist

[@5nhyfiery]

2 patrons only!? and 1 channel member how underrated maybe i should waste my money

[@StartsWithACee]

keep licking lavender's boot, maybe he'll notice you

[@ognjengrkovic8269]

The thumbnail is really fitting. You, a monarchist, standing together with Nicholas II, and Viki standing with Lenin speaking modern communist bullcrap.

[@moremoarkh9175]

bro destroyed him in 7000 languages

[@dvirnevo6669]

Chad small youtuber start beefing with a channel that have 10 times there subscriber count

[@lbgamer6166]

Progressive taxation is evil

[@mcbabwe4977]

This video is really good and really shows how many opposed the Bolsheviks and some even were monarchists and their reasons, which is excellent! It's broad expansion of all classes is good too, however it felt so immerssive that you almost forget that there was also some people that also supported the bolsheviks roughly equal in number, I think it could work to add some nods to that to help maintain objectiveness.

[@kyosokutai]

Finding it kind of uncanny how even today, there are ultra-nationalist warhawks in Russia that thinks Putin is not doing enough to win the, as of writing, Special Military Operation, history does not repeat but it sure does rhyme. (Or get direct to video sequels)

[@jimmynuetronrblx8628]

Person is talking about how it is all the capitalists fault, meanwhile we just gonna ignore all the ethnic tensions the USSR had

[@just_hris]

Bro, don't take lgbt radicals seriously.

[@chunkykong1976]

even better than your ability to refute this person is the ability to understand what they’re saying. “indoctrinized” isn’t even a word, english is not my first language but even i know that.

[@yaujj65]

To be honest, I am more surprised that Russia is quite warmongering even after the losses. The Austrian in me would see Russia as a tenacious and dangerous enemy. The normal me would say that too much blood for dominance.

[@Spektr-pj1is]

Author of this video mistaken February revolution as proletariat one, he might be shocked to know about a second one in October, which in fact was proletariat.

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewicz0]

Не забудемъ, не простимъ!

[@vorkutaofficer1788]

Ah but do the communists still exist?

[@whateverwhatever4026]

Only in their imaginations.

[@Aetherblade-z4o]

Finally a bastion in a sea of red