When the Communists Take Over America!...Famous 1957 Anti-Communist Movie

Starring Jack Webb and Robert Conrad, this 1957 movie by the United States Armed Forces Information Agency is perhaps the best known anti-communist movie ever produced..enjoy!

[@sofiamuller9545]

''You've got a long wait!'' . . Awkward how that wait may be over now.

[@peterzuk1582]

Lol

[@classicalhollywood3254]

I guess I’m an enemy of the communist. I don’t respect communism at all Not 0.00001%

[@Robert.Martyr.deSaLem]

*ExPLain YourSeLf, MooLer9545*

[@seanhines7296]

You’re delusional

[@RuneTheFirst]

This is actually from 1962 and was titled "Red Nightmare". It was originally 28 minutes long but footage was added in for its 2009 reissue, bringing it to an hour.

[@boknowsbaseball]

The hour-long version is the real one. The 28-minute version was abridged for TV. The film was originally produced for the Department of Defense and this is the official cut that they own.

[@AlexKing-uh7tm]

I doubt that. If it was from 1962 i'd be in color.

[@cinematicsunproductions7748]

​@@AlexKing-uh7tmJust because it was made in 1962, that doesn't mean it would be in color. They used B&W until the mid to late 60s

[@flyingwombat59]

@@AlexKing-uh7tmreally? Most TVs were B&W in 1962.

[@stevensica89]

At 35:00 : "... the quota must be met and comrade commissar is not interested in excuses" Wait, is that an Amazon fulfilment warehouse?

[@mikejones9961]

no a Democrat vote stealing operation

[@sammyvictors2603]

That's not even communist, its hyper-capitalist.

[@mikejones9961]

@@sammyvictors2603 the communists have factories too. failure to meet quotas and you will be out in the cold digging taters and skinning beavers, dummy

[@SoullessAIMusic]

@@sammyvictors2603 what are you a dumb ass? LOL! You know what happens if you stop working in soviet Russia? A hell of a lot worse if you don't work at Amazon, at Amazon they just send you home. In Soviet Russia they send you to the forced labor camps.

[@Orville-dh3dl]

This is exactly were We the people are at today.

[@SeptemberAdam]

Yeah? And where is that? Hm? Where?

[@Calvaryscout]

but is hindus and islam that studied us, as well. And a hindu woman who told me i had too many rights and freedoms just being me.

[@garymathena2125]

BS, you have absolutely NO idea what Communism is, almost NONE of the people in this comments section have any idea what it is to live under Communism. I spent 3 years in West Berlin and saw Communism up close and personal. Be happy with the freedom you have, many around the Earth do have such freedom.

[@josephgerard5473]

@@SeptemberAdam Oh, for crying out loud, WAKE UP! Take a look at California, Minnesota, New York...then take a look at 19 towns here in the UK and ask yourself what happened and, more importantly, why it happened.

[@seanhines7296]

No

[@waverly2468]

RIP William Reynolds, who was on "The FBI" with Efrem Zimbalist Jr. The real FBI actually used to fight threats to the country like they do in the show.

[@davejensen8882]

Who would have thought back then they would be the enemy of the American people.

[@derrynelson4637]

And don’t Forget Dragnet

[@teller1290]

I retired from that once amazing organization after 20 yrs and a day, in 2016. My heart has been shattered since. We did great work and lived for it. And I knew the old timers that were near retirement when I came in in '96. Those guys were epic, many of them may as well have been from the '50s. The organization is now ruined. An organization doing that kind of work in a free society cannot afford to lose the trust of the public. Obama and Comey took care of that, destroying yet another vital U.S. institution. I don't even have my retirement "shadow box" hanging from the wall because of my embarrassment as to what's happened; easier than trying to go into a 30-min lecture to explain what happened and how we got here. No one wants to hear it and would consider me biased anyway. Proudest day of my life was when the FBI accepted me, and when I graduated. Then came indictments and catching bank robbers, fugitives, armored car heisters, prestige and working with great people...everything I'd hoped for in the job. All ruined now, along with so many U.S. institutions, from DOJ to DOD to Disney to... I'm glad God Almighty is in charge of the plan and not me.

[@swatguy6237]

Came n the Bu in 72…retired n 96. None of my former colleagues can believe how far the reputation has fallen in the last few years. Never would have believed it would be possible What we have done to ourselves….no foreign enemy could ever have done to us.

[@teller1290]

@@swatguy6237 that's how communism works. And we invited them in a long, long time ago. Then we graciously allowed them to masquerade behind the First Amendment for many decades and get teaching and publishing and directing positions to sway the country; to confuse and anger the country; to badmouth our founding and history. Now these fellow travelers are in even more powerful positions from which to wreak havoc. Ironic that Hoover had an organization that effectively hounded communists and his FBI by relentless communism. The red lie of "beggar thy neighbor" is just too easy for mortal, fallen man to resist. Also ironic is the fact that the agency that was responsible for stopping what has happened to the country is now merely a tool of usurpers.

[@melissamarsh2219]

There is no way a man with a job like he has today could live in a big house like that

[@georgestauber2636]

Gives you an idea of what we've lost.

[@Boppinabe]

Thank a Communist for that.

[@jgowin66]

@melissamarsh2219 Just my opinion, perhaps if we returned to the exact type of progressive tax structure we had in 1962, a man with that job COULD live in that house today.

[@jgowin66]

@@Boppinabe Could you explain why we should thank a communist?

[@frankpeter6851]

It's kind of a nervous system tick response, the way a parrot might say, "Polly wants cracker" ​@jgowin66

[@jimmyhd1969]

1962, the end of an era! America would radically change in the coming years!

[@Raydensheraj]

Yeah. It got better. In every way possible accept Trumpism.

[@The-Aviating-Gaming-Plane]

@@Raydensheraj I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or you being dead face serious

[@deeem2628]

​@Raydensheraj 🫵🤣 simpletons never cease to amuse me

[@Alphonium]

The date at the end of the film is MCMLXII which is 1962. It appears this is the 1962 public release of a 1957 military film with a new 'top and tail' for television broadcast.

[@ErectedGasCan]

Aaa that would explain some details that do not match the year, some car models have been noted in the comments, and also tiny detailing in tailoring.

[@MTknitter22]

true, details, editing all a bit muddled. The MESSAGE is crystal clear.

[@theharvster6589]

I forgot how good this is

[@Butterkin]

Utterly and unequivocally based and red-pilled.

[@thedefamationleague]

If only people paid attention. 2023 would be a very different place .

[@kewpified]

ya, it's way worse then they imagined.

[@thedefamationleague]

@@kewpified We should really start enforcing the Communist Control Act and use the indefinite detention provision of the NDAA to put the woke in Guantanamo Bay.

[@kewpified]

@@thedefamationleague I'll have to look into the Communist Control Act because I'm not familiar with it. I am wholly opposed to use any part of the Patriot Act as I feel it should be fully repealed. If treason or sedition is the charge, there must be a trial as defined in the Constitution.

[@thedefamationleague]

@@kewpified I am against the Patriot Act as well, but communism is an existential threat and since it is already a law, we may as well get some positive use out of it while it remains in place. The Communist Control Act being enforced again combined with the indefinite detention prevision of the NDAA could solve basically all the problems we currently face.

[@Kim-Yo-jong]

@@thedefamationleague Sounds kinda totalitarian comrade

[@randywestfall1679]

Hard to say this is a 1957 movie with all of the early 1960s cars.

[@juancarlosmontes]

You're so right. There ain't no way. The cars of 57 still had that big, well rounded look 100%. These cars are flat and boxxy. Even in 59 new cars were still round, albeit less round. The cars in the first scene here are not 50s cars. At. All.

[@pacather]

More like 1961. That's a 1962 Pontiac Safari station wagon parked in the street.

[@randywestfall1679]

@@pacather Usually Jack Webb was more attentive to detail.

[@Bobnothingmorenothingless]

Jimmy's scout uniform and the Air Force uniform in the film are definitely from the 50's though.

[@scottferrell4631]

@@pacather 1963 Ford Fairlane sedan drives by.

[@Superskunk1954]

Unfortunately we are today, facing the consequences of ignoring the messages portrayed in this movie.

[@mikejones9961]

Democrats learned well

[@kennethrohen5963]

Now, the threat is a GOP fascist dictatorship!

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

We can do better… I will work harder.

[@mikejones9961]

@@johnlynch-kv8mz doing what?

[@Raydensheraj]

@@mikejones9961 Oh no...Democrats are center right...uhhh....what for dangerous commies. You Russian stooges are ridiculous lol

[@redcypher1444]

Looking back on this 62 years later, this isn't far fetched from current reality at all in the U.S.

[@elio_fay]

Red Cypher144 No it’s fucking not, you just want the world to be like the Handmaid’s Tale.

[@jeffreykalb9752]

@@elio_fay Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

[@fredbazoo]

Yeah sure....Except it isn't Communists or even Socialists that will take over America....Its the Neoconservatives and Fascists Capitalists.....Cheers!

[@quagmiredavis4117]

@@jeffreykalb9752 well this is closer to living in California

[@misterx4088]

@@elio_fay go hell commie menace

[@randquadrozzi1280]

Jack webb was the perfect choice to be the spokesperson.

[@buckymaxwell3801]

The guy was a lot more talented than they gave him credit for. I drove all the way from New Mexico to Hollywood and made a stop at Sunset and Doheny just to take a picture in front of the apartment building he lived in.

[@ChadQuick270W]

This should be required viewing in high school. Sadly, that will never happen these days. Jack Webb was such a great narrator as well as actor, producer and director. 🇺🇸 forever.

[@SadisticSenpai61]

I agree! This is so utterly hilarious and amazing! I've never worked a single job in the US where there weren't quotas. And a whole hour lunch break under communism?! Sign me up! Also, what are they guarding at the end of the street? I really really want to know what's behind the camera! 😂

[@peterzuk1582]

Lol

[@AnthonyChinaski]

I really can’t tell if this is supposedly real or a parody. I don’t even want to Google it bc it’s just too hilarious for me to keep trying to figure it out. It’s like they were purposely ripping Capitalism the whole time with satire while comically depicting Communists as being “bad” bc they are mistakenly made to look like they’re implementing Capitalist features.

[@elizabethsealander247]

Yes most definitely!!!!!

[@michaelm8460]

Show kids the lifestyle capitalism took from them.

[@lindafrancine414]

Jack Webb's ending has a lot of truth. People will take liberty and property away if you don't stand up for it.

[@TedNebraski]

I wa born ni a communist country and I can confirm the communist way of doing things

[@josecortez5213]

I voted for Obama twice! But I would be the first person to fight against communism if it landed on our shores.!

[@AnthonyChinaski]

You mean like banks and a Western Liberal Democracy? Good call. There is no government to deny your Liberties in Communism. Private Property is owned by the workers of that property. Your Personal Property is yours and no one would would have the power or reason to take it when they already have their own.

[@robertpolanco1973]

@@josecortez5213 - Well, I find it outrageous that you only represent those who have been so mentally-poisoned by anti-Communism when you have seen too many American propaganda films on TV and in the movies as well. I seriously pity you indeed!

[@cacatr4495]

@@josecortez5213 Like many, you don't recognize that which you see. You don't know what you're looking at, you're unable to correctly identify it. This is true of most, and it's so sad. They're functionally "blind" as to what has been going on.

[@mcarlkv53]

There is no more Sunday school- wow, that’s sad and scary

[@AnthonyChinaski]

We don’t need to indoctrinate children anymore 😂 this isn’t the Bronze Age

[@helendarvall8059]

@@AnthonyChinaski Right. We've got schools for that.

[@stacybritton1118]

The. Nazis. Will. Block. The. Church

[@ThePhilosophicalOne]

​@@AnthonyChinaskiYou went to a government building 6 hours a day for 12 years.... How the f*** is that not indoctrination? 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@AnthonyChinaski]

@@ThePhilosophicalOne at least I don’t believe in fairy tales about magical wizard zombies that determine my afterlife destiny from that and instead learned/played mathematics, geography, language arts, football, physics, civics, music arts, chemistry, philosophy, stoicism and whatever else you think is “indoctrination”

[@lindafrancine414]

At 33:45, you get a picture of attitudes in a typical American university of today. "Do not think that your deviationist attitudes will not be reported."

[@claymonson9392]

Careful what you wish for millennials, you just may get it! This is how liberty dies....with thundering applause.

[@spikespa5208]

Padmé was right.

[@Raydensheraj]

Any educated individual would be more afraid from the real danger...which is Christian Nationalism and Trumpism.

[@idahoanmapping8434]

"There's one word you don't use. There's one word you're afraid of: AND THAT WORD IS FREEDOM!" Well that was epic.

[@proud2bpagan]

"They may take our lives,but they'll never take.....our Baskin Rooobins!!"

[@SuperCartiel]

Where did this quote come from?

[@JamesGoetzke]

I'm a disabled veteran and 61 on food stamps. I want to live in this town. Lol.

[@hurricanefury439]

Traitor

[@DanielUkaegbu-qw6cr]

Communist

[@salvadorvizcarra769]

@@hurricanefury439 I can't imagine a movie sponsored by the Pentagon, the CIA and the State Department that tells the truth about "Communism." That would be the same as the Roman Catholic Church telling the truth about Martin Luther.

[@kingofaesthetics9407]

​@@hurricanefury439That's not your call to make.

[@michellepeterson6320]

That's sad and exactly why we are in the mess we are in this country.

[@lindafrancine414]

29:16 No no no. It can't be. It's Nick. Why Nick, why did you turn commie? Wasn't the Barkely ranch good enough? What about Barbara Stanwyck; what will she think?

[@dennisbeers]

Very well done, thank you!

[@gonebamboo4116]

36:15 Precisely! The gospel of Jesus Christ is the beginning of liberty

[@Basedlocation]

Hogwash

[@michaelm8460]

Read Roman's. If your communist, it's God will

[@ygonzalez4134]

@@Basedlocation The gospel of Jesus Christ is the beginning of liberty

[@Cyberfender1]

@@Basedlocation That's what Jesus did for us. Hogwash( we are the hogs) And Hog forgiveness To change our spirits from death to life. Good word!

[@jonathaslopes8038]

Turns out this is basically where capitalism went.

[@mariocooldude9092]

Hello comrade

[@davidfogarty2220]

A fascinating document of the times and America's perception of the 'red scare'. The 'red nightmare' sequence was almost like a Twilight Zone episode, with Jack Webb standing in for Rod Serling. Not quite sure that 'blue collar' worker Mr Donovan would be living in such a grand house though. Was this shown at the cinema for the general public or just for servicemen? It's just the final 10 minutes of the film the voice over talks a lot about the military, together with plenty of footage of the country's firepower.

[@MTknitter22]

We need to share this with those we care about, don’t we? Here in 2021, our America is supporting the CCP Olympics, who would have EVER thought? This is a GEM, more meaningful right now than even back in 1949.

[@robertstoddard3626]

Not America,! the traitors of america are !

[@ARKH76]

I put it on my Facebook!

[@cacatr4495]

The film was released to the public in 1962, originally a 1957 military film.

[@tahaghassemi2381]

Lol at the 17 year old outraged that she can't get married immediately

[@warrenroy5376]

Welcome to 2021 America! This film is way too close to what is happening right now!

[@truth7294]

Absolutely!

[@YowzaBowzaWowza]

Joe McCarthy was right.

[@taffykins2745]

Even worse now in 2023.

[@chiefsoc5713]

⁠@@YowzaBowzaWowza Go to hell

[@MrLandslide84]

Yep, still worse some more.@@taffykins2745

[@BebeesHuman]

The submarine at 52:56 is Nautilus..The bombing run shown at 54:36 is near Barstow California. I can see Elephant Rock.

[@nassmatic]

Dear Communists, please don't take away our hot dogs.

[@sowhatandisaidhi2235]

no hot dogs for capitalists 😈😈😈

[@derrynelson4637]

😂😂😂😂😂 which ones the National Hebrew or Nathan’s or Sabrett’s type of Hotdogs? But Communist will prefer you to Have None. They would Prefer you to buy the Trump Brand. The MAGA Dog it’s just an Empty Hot dog with no Meat in its Bun . You just imagine the Biggest and Best Tastiest Hot Dog that supposedly Eat and Taste.

[@Moosemoose1]

Tell ya what, we keep hot dogs, but get rid of Twinkies - fair?

[@Hanakowasright]

hot dogs are cheap and easy to produce, why would they take away hotdogs? Its the better, more expensive food that wouldn't get produced

[@JohnSanJuan-zp1ed]

My Papi got arrested by Communists in Cuba 1961.

[@Bill23799]

It's only a propaganda film if you lose. If you win it was a motivational and inspirational Patriotic film.

[@WEBALON12]

I’m so proud of our freedom to eat hotdogs and watch baseball.

[@salmansadeq1167]

Yeah, I shiver to think that Americans would have to endure No Knock Raids by police into their homes.

[@MikeS-um1nm]

Enjoy it while we still can! Even our own Countrymen are imbecilic enough to be fighting FOR this NIGHTMARE!!

[@craigkinder5773]

Salman Sadeq they don’t.. if you don’t involve yourself with scum drug dealers.

[@sowhatandisaidhi2235]

@@craigkinder5773 youre lack of knowledge of what happened is showing ;)

[@malvolio01]

@@salmansadeq1167 Like Trump?

[@babythebabyslings]

Oh my , his kid looks so much like little Sean Astin!!! :D I had to look it up, but he wasn't even born yet :D

[@bigdeagle1331]

That’s the little boy from Andy Griffith show! I want my bike back!

[@supermstudios4941]

A lathe operator lived in a nice house like that in the 1950s?

[@manifestman132]

Has a nice suit too. Maybe his union is good.

[@RJStockton]

It used to be like that.

[@salmansadeq1167]

@@manifestman132 Why did they keep trying to get him into union meetings? You'd think they'd be anti union?

[@ErectedGasCan]

@@salmansadeq1167 Probably a union suit.

[@davidhenson5876]

The same folks who claim to encourage his union then, have spent the last few decades stamping it out...now that the “red scare” isn’t as urgent 😳. Also gotta love how the local kids do a little speed work at an active duty Air Force base🤔 lol

[@jamescrosby5893]

I'm 66 I remember when my dad worked one job and paid all the bills

[@Robert.Martyr.deSaLem]

*I Work, ONE Job & I Pay ALL the BiLLs!!!! So Wut's your Point????*

[@tonyfrederickson6692]

@@Robert.Martyr.deSaLem POINT he was married with children,paying the morgage,utiliities,food,car,etc.with a average to below average wages.

[@damemeboi4206]

this nightmare has become a reality in China, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, North korea and so on

[@TheKangaroo1111]

And Seattle

[@Weazla-]

I hope you understand by now that this was wrong

[@mrpieceofwork]

I would happily move to any of those countries if I was able to, barring current day Russia. Free housing, food and healthcare are not part of any nightmare I'm aware of.

[@helendarvall8059]

@@mrpieceofwork "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin

[@mrpieceofwork]

@@helendarvall8059 lol I'm not safe here in the US, nor do I have any liberty. Further, BF there was part of a class of white men who colonized lands, enslaved a People, and committed genocide of another People. Hardly a voice to take seriously on the matters of the well being.of People, nor their supposed freedoms.

[@hailtothejew1944]

"That pta meeting was a hush hush government meeting to determine the future of the nation.", oh sweet Lordt help us, that scares the Jesus out of me. *National Teachers Union has entered the chat* *14,000 school districts have entered the chat* *Department of Education has entered the chat*

[@GuyFierisShirt]

The Reds won, big surprise.

[@farhadmalekafzali2872]

The Berlin Wall was built in 1961!

[@huemanexperience1738]

Watch Amerika, with the "k". Chris Christopherson is the leading male actor. Done back in the 80's. There's like 7-8 episodes to watch. We are already Russia occupied in the beginning of the movie. Scarey sh*t and we're almost there in 23. Edit: his name might be spelled Kris instead of Chris. Shoot, it's been a minute since I've seen or heard of the man.

[@roberthansen2008]

These old documentary films are really need to watch. I actually do know one or two old people that use words like this even today. It's really kind of frightening to hear stuff like that. Words like imperialism and all the words mentioned here. Well no wonder they're crazy.

[@benjaminheim735]

how is imperialism some kind of crazy word? Are you that ill read?

[@γιουργια]

@@benjaminheim735 he is American, so he doesn't read at all 😂

[@tahaghassemi2381]

Wow, you're really easy to brainwash.

[@elizabethsealander247]

jusr because someone has white hair doesn't mean that don't know what he or she is talking about. If you ignore you are the Smuck!

[@briang.7206]

The man telling him to work thru his lunch to meet the quota was Robert Conrad. He later would be James West Secret Service agent in the Wild Wild West.

[@ErectedGasCan]

That major, looked like he was just about to pass out from the scotch he had been downing all morning. This flick made me miss times i never lived in.

[@spikespa5208]

The major at 8:32...." You may not believe it, but my name's Granny Goose."

[@JCinerea]

47:33 "Daddy, I'm pregnant." That's where my mind went😅

[@sunrise8263]

This was playing in the delivery room when Obama was born ... wherever it was.

[@ezekielglenn5009]

Moscow is the where! In Soviet Russia we manufacture future u.s. presidents.

[@_vallee_5190]

You don't get the irony that this is so baffilingly stupid since when has anyone stated seriously in the history of ever: "We need to destroy 'Bourgeoisie' Freedoms".

[@TheCanine2]

@@_vallee_5190 Since the Communist Manifesto, which said, "Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie, in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society," and about a thousand other similar statements. And wiki summarizes Stalin: "Joseph Stalin argued that the further the country would move forward in constructing socialism, the more acute forms of struggle will be used by the doomed remnants of exploiter classes in their last desperate efforts and therefore POLITICAL REPRESSION WAS NECESSARY to prevent them from succeeding in their presumed goal of destroying the Soviet Union."

[@_vallee_5190]

@@TheCanine2 Communism fundamentally is a democratic ideology Marx is referring to monarchies in Marx's time monarchies where standard, governments not Democracies this is what is meant when referring to society. In the 1800s life was utterly horrible there where no freedoms while Marx lived. Your lack of knowledge meant you are genuinely attempting to defend a society in which child labor was standard and labor rights where non-existent. I don't agree with Joseph Stalin, yes Joseph Stalin believed in a dictatorship however Joseph Stalin never implemented Communistic or even Socialistic policies, irregardless of what he said, if societies are judged by what they call themselves then North Korea is a democratic peoples republic. The vast majority of Communists, Socialists and Anarchists agree that Democracy is needed. If you would like a list of Communist Societies that work and still exist: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anarchist_communities#Mass_societies

[@jeremyheintz1479]

@@_vallee_5190 stfu commie

[@SadisticSenpai61]

Damn! This is a great comedy! I love how they supposedly don't have the freedom to choose their own occupation, except the daughter volunteered to work on a farm (farms definitely need mechanics). And ofc his daughter would never leave of her own free will... Except ofc when she's actually trying to leave to marry her high school sweetheart. BTW, depending on the state they were in, she may have had to wait 1-4 years to marry without parental permission. So yeah, getting dad's permission was kinda important and dad wasn't actually being unreasonable in not wanting them to marry so quickly. And the quotas! There was absolutely no context as to what they normally produced in a day, so there's no way to know if it was unreasonable or not. Also, I've never worked anywhere in the US where there weren't quotas, nor have I ever gotten a full hour lunch break. So... Communism came out looking pretty good in 2021. 😂 I did like the part about the state boarding school being unreasonable compared to... The state public school the kids presumably attended before. Esp considering there's plenty of countries where private boarding schools have been fairly normal for well off families for at least a century when this movie was made. Sure, they're not normal in the US, but the US is more the exception in that regard.

[@christianfreedom-seeker934]

Nice try commie.

[@christianfreedom-seeker934]

"Damn! This is a great comedy!" No, no it's not.... "I love how they supposedly don't have the freedom to choose their own occupation, except the daughter volunteered to work on a farm (farms definitely need mechanics). And ofc his daughter would never leave of her own free will... Except ofc when she's actually trying to leave to marry her high school sweetheart." Did you know that NOTHING was free in the Soviet Bloc? Not even thought? Your own FAMILY would and DID report you for free thinking! "And the quotas! There was absolutely no context as to what they normally produced in a day, so there's no way to know if it was unreasonable or not. Also, I've never worked anywhere in the US where there weren't quotas, nor have I ever gotten a full hour lunch break. So... Communism came out looking pretty good in 2021. 😂" There is PLENTY of information left over from the old USSR available on the Internet. Quotas were State Mandated and Enforced. People suffered real consequences for not producing "their quota" they were SHOT and later on, were simply sentenced to slave labor in a gulag. "I did like the part about the state boarding school being unreasonable compared to... The state public school the kids presumably attended before. Esp considering there's plenty of countries where private boarding schools have been fairly normal for well off families for at least a century when this movie was made. Sure, they're not normal in the US, but the US is more the exception in that regard." Boarding Schools in the USA EVEN TODAY are a GREAST DEAL FREER than your average boarding school in the remaining Soviet Bloc. (Red China, Cuba, Venezuela) WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!!!!

[@danopticon]

@@christianfreedom-seeker934 - Contrary to what you’ve written, China and Venezuela were never part of the Soviet bloc. Someone’s fed you some bad data. If you’re interested in learning actual history-whether about the Russian Empire through 1917, the USSR, the Kuomintang through 1949, the People’s Republic of China, the Kuomintang in Taiwan, or Venezuela before or after Chavez-I’d happily recommend some good books, although the most accurate Venezuelan histories are in Spanish.

[@katanah3195]

Yeah, I love this old Red Scare junk, the "Soviet America" subtype is my favourite, it's always funny and makes communism look wonderful, especially for younger people. I don't exactly collect Cold War scare reels... but I do save copies of the "commie America" ones because they're just so good, they hold up in a way the rest of this dreck doesn't quite.

[@Wisdom-Nuggets-Tid-Bits]

You "LOVE" that people dont have the freedom to choose their jobs?????!!! You LOVE communism!!

[@goofyahhytboy]

This is the most important movie of 2021

[@peterzuk1582]

Lol

[@1rjbrjb]

Well, we were between Dragnets, this was something to do. By 1962 Mort Sahl, rest his soul, was guest-hosting the Tonight Show. Beatniks swarmed Greenwich Village. Folk singers lurked in town squares and at bus stations. It was a little late to be this heavy-handed about Communism. In 1962 a script like this was already out of step; by 1967 it wouldn't be produced outside the John Birch Society. That much said, I agree with the sentiments. And yes, skilled workers who belonged to strong unions could afford big houses. Though Mort was funny, the breakdown of anticommunism in America was a tragedy and this video is a gem.

[@Cha-y412]

The 57 fuel injected Corvette is pretty cool.

[@cindys1819]

The real trick with those small blocks was a 3/4 or full race cam and a good supercharger like a Latham. These small blocks would put out 400+Hp

[@JPOGers]

We need more movies like this

[@dungeon_masster.]

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[@sowhatandisaidhi2235]

wait you want more propoganda?

[@JPOGers]

@@sowhatandisaidhi2235 No, I mean movies like this

[@MutualistSoc]

@@sowhatandisaidhi2235 Americans love their proganda so much, they will even pay for it.

[@YowzaBowzaWowza]

@@sowhatandisaidhi2235 : We’ve had enough Liberal lies and Leftist propaganda.

[@thomasthomas2418]

Robert Conrad at 5:12

[@yevgeniyzharinov7473]

Is that the guy from Dragnet?

[@Robert.Martyr.deSaLem]

*Duuuuuhhhhhh*

[@invinoveritas6859]

Nothing on God's green earth disgusted me than communism.You make mine FREEDOM Murphy !!

[@stevensica89]

I wonder if Bill Clinton and George Bush watched the part about obtaining a deferment? It looks like Philip Carey playing the major.

[@paraguaymike5159]

The major reminded me of Phil Hartmann from Saturday Night Live

[@pmcdriver]

at minute 4, a brand new corvette with fuel injection! Just imagine that brand new, with hundreds more new ones at the dealership...

[@danc.2457]

58 Corvette , 283/283 !!!

[@YowzaBowzaWowza]

America’s “Golden Age”.

[@williamharris9525]

I find it amazing that when Mr. Donovan is being held in the small room, his execution that he makes a statement saying “that one day they’ll be enough holes in the iron curtain for people to flee to freedom” That actually really did happen in 1989 November to be precise, when the iron curtain began to fall. I was up on the border between West Germany and Czechoslovakia on duty when it happened

[@warmotion864]

I understand all, but I prefer that this "tyranny" lasted very, very long. At least we will have a free medicine, education, no inequality and no bloodshed of former Soviet people. Soviet Union balanced the entire Cold War, and with it disappeared, United States turned into "evil communists" which was they described. And freedom is different construct, but in United States political language, a "freedom" means "United States controlled country".

[@JCinerea]

​@@warmotion864 Texan and American here. Number one, there is nothing, be it love or money or anything else, that is free this side of the dirt. Never expect a handout. Number two, a lot of us Americans are very aware of the disgusting things that our government has done to other countries and we often speak out against that.

[@warmotion864]

@@JCinerea I know that in USSR all of these goods wasn't be free, it was sponsored from people's taxes, which was spent on the people needs, unlike modern Russia. And second: ordinary person and government are different things. I wish you a good luck and for America too: it's will be bad in the United States will fell in chaos or event in the civil war. We already experienced this in 1990s and we don't want to the American nation to suffer the same experience. Believe me, these times was very, very bad for us.

[@lookbovine]

0:38 Apple pie invented in Britain.

[@bigalphadog5209]

Thank you an it taste great their too.

[@michaelhewitt258]

I saw this In Junior High School 🏫🎒 8th Grade

[@jlane99]

We fought the wrong enemy

[@jamesstuart3346]

We may laugh at this today, but the Soviets in those times actively exported communism around the world

[@deeem2628]

Yeah, the 'soviets' are responsible 😂

[@deeem2628]

Is it painful living life as a simpleton?

[@libertyspike8890]

The way you talk you'd think that PTA meeting was some kinda hush hush meeting to determine the future of the whole nation. Hearing that now makes you wanna go back and tell them Yeah, that's exactly what it is.

[@GabrielW386]

Crt on the table

[@douglasschultz9808]

A real powerful scene in the tv show “The Americans” was when one of the American citizens the communist spies turned was relocated to the USSR is grocery shopping in Russia and all the shelves are empty and she has a real culture shock.

[@mrwascaly42]

These were warnings that are unfortunately coming true.

[@mrwascaly42]

Rich Yes! They have been at it for decades. Communists almost all of which are Zionists.

[@mrwascaly42]

Rich Joe McCarthy was right all along and it shows more than ever today. The people that I have met that grew up under Communism in places like Cuba and Hungary told me that Communism is Hell on Earth. They love the Capitalist system.

[@DOOMJESUS]

Rich, the only good communist is a dead communist.

[@oldi184]

If you are a communist. You may be a communist.

[@zilet7844]

@@mrwascaly42 wtf? You didn't know about the poll in Russia about bringing back the USSR?

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

12:44 could you imagine losing your freedom over a tv show.

[@franek.97]

Il have see these movie before but shortet. Its intrasting to wath it from Polish perspectiwe (we have live under comunist over 40 years) and for me its great. But biggest anti comunist valiue is that the main character is factory worker but he live in nice house whit nice furniture got a car and can be memember of aney kind of union or do aney kind of activiti thats he want to do. Bigest anti comunist argument is that comunism make pepole extremly poor and whitout aney posibility of change.

[@MrBullethead63]

With Robert Conrad as “Pete”!

[@roberthansen2008]

I like this.

[@expertbrody9914]

Communism best capabilist pig

[@damemeboi4206]

@@expertbrody9914 tell that to all of the starving and dead north koreans and russians who are constantly being persecuted by delusional communists who not only are trying to play God but can't even admit it

[@ErectedGasCan]

@@damemeboi4206 The 1950s Departement Of Defence would be proud of your stong stance!

[@YowzaBowzaWowza]

@@expertbrody9914 : Nice try Comrade. Go F yourself.

[@expertbrody9914]

@@YowzaBowzaWowza capabilist

[@davef.2329]

Little did he know just how true his foreboding would become.

[@echofoxtrot2.051]

This is how I felt knowing Biden got into office. Like crap, here come the Warsaw Ghettos.

[@AnthonyChinaski]

This is one of the best comedies I’ve ever seen. The sound effects are hilarious, the acting is top notch and the script was written by a comedy genius before their time. Peak satire

[@kronsteen9093]

37:41 Since when was Alexander Graham Bell an American, he was Scottish!

[@davefrompa5334]

He became an American citizen when he came to America.

[@martyshannon7542]

I recognize 3 of the actors halfway through the movie.

[@davemorgan6013]

Hotdogs are one of our freedoms?

[@sowhatandisaidhi2235]

not for long 😈

[@thedude9079]

Having food is.

[@billhuber2964]

Working on a lathe w/o safety glasses.

[@warrenroy5376]

As I watched this and look at the way things are happening right NOW in this once great country I cannot help but wonder why WE(I am pointing at myself as well as others) allowed this country to get in this condition it is in now? It seems like the warnings have been around us for years! But we have ignored them. Took no heed! I remember as a young man in my 20's back hearing different preachers warn us about what is going to happen.. One pastor of mine in particular gave a warning about an event or so that is coming! I heard it as a 27 year old man in 1987! As I look back I really wonder how many really took heed! I believe we are seeing things many warned us about in the 1)50's and 60's are coming pass right now.!

[@peterzuk1582]

Lol

[@warrenroy5376]

@@CatinthehatOct1989 The loss of freedom in general. Freedom of worship. Freedom of speech. And you are right about the health care industry and what is happening to businesses both big and small. I believe I was in a hurry when I wrote this and forgot to tell what this preacher predicted. He predicted another Civil War coming to this nation! But the loss of freedom such as freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, etc. Freedom in general.

[@warrenroy5376]

Interesting. I just replied to R.M. P. But where is it?

[@warrenroy5376]

Concerning what I was referring to. Freedom in General being taken away. What is guaranteed us in the US Constitution.

[@warrenroy5376]

It is up now!

[@Kim-Yo-jong]

Thanks for sharing the movie comrade or should I say our movie?

[@subninja8069]

its said its happing again.

[@luiscardenas1800]

What’s the Instagram Marty1 is referencing?

[@kennethmorgan6516]

This 1962 whatever you want to call it, became a comic relief cult film, but with a different name: “The Commies Are Coming, The Commies Are Coming”.

[@katanah3195]

I'm not surprised. This is the unique kind of anti communist propaganda made in 50s-60s America that was meant to malign the Soviets and indeed communism itself, but ended up simply depicting a humorous or desirable "Soviet America". There's a fair bit more of it out there, and even more anti commie propaganda of the era that doesn't portray communism taking place in America but still makes it look good or is too ridiculous to be taken seriously for either side.

[@elrenosso]

Love the acting and dynamic from Mr. and Miss. Donovan.

[@robinpower8546]

"The Russians are coming....the Russians are coming. ...." 😲 Leaping glasnost,, Batman!

[@lrgroene]

But did he ever go to that PTA meeting?

[@hannahramirez5448]

This world needs more JAFs.

[@danielsalinas6683]

What is that if you dont mind me asking?

[@raz8752]

Does anyone know if this is public domain or not?

[@rourkebar1062]

Comment section here I come

[@leveller3905]

Comrades! This entertained me greatly.

[@sammyvictors2603]

Sally has a "special interest in her father"??? Sounds like she has an Electra Complex lol

[@buckymaxwell3801]

When Jack Kelly knocks the telephone off the table at the Soviet Inventions Museum, he says: "this wasn't made by a Russian, it was made by Alexander Graham Bell, an American". Bell was Scottish, but the point was made. lol

[@1rjbrjb]

He did hold American citizenship and he made his money here. Canada has as good a claim to him.

[@filipmac5577]

Slowly it is happening again in California!

[@johnmartin2470]

Thank goodness

[@firebird0u812]

@@johnmartin2470 Shut your commie mouth.......

[@adrianshephard378]

@@johnmartin2470 yes poverty, homelessness, mass taxation, thank goodness for those wonderful inventions...

[@michaelm8460]

Linda is Pat Woodell. She is better know as Bobbie Jo Brady, citizen of Hooterville, near Petticoat Junction.❤❤❤

[@caleb-ct5vi]

The streets and buildings look to beautiful to be communist society. Good movie though, more people need to see this and we must play it in all churches and schools.

[@elizabethsealander247]

do it now!!! I sure am

[@alvindimes4729]

Wasn't that the fella in the original TV series The Wild Wild West? 🙄

[@KrispyCrem3]

Today 17 year olds are announcing they're having gender-reassignment surgery. That's progress.

[@WEBALON12]

I hear they are doing a remake of this film

[@robertpolanco1973]

@WEBALON12 - Really? You must be joking as ever! But then again, this film IS nothing but pure right-wing propaganda!

[@misterx4088]

@@robertpolanco1973 you're living proof that dimwits can type

[@robertpolanco1973]

@@misterx4088 Well, you goddamn jerkoff, people like you are such living proof that right-wing nutjobs are still a major-league menace in this country! So UP YOURS, Mister Nutball!

[@chieromancer]

Just think. If communism had been allowed to take over, we have a leader like Putin. Oh, wait...

[@donaldfeger91]

I remember seeing this over the years but it won't happen here?!