Soviet Story

[Black Sheep]

has anyone seen this?

http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/28771192

Jesus christ i watched the 1st 5mins and it is the definition of anti-communism

Even the most hardcore anti-stalinist will be disgusted.

[Tablo]

Ewwwww, that was not pleasant. I can't keep watching. :(

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Skipped to the end. Marx and Engels advocated social Darwinism, the trampling of 'inferior nations' and we will never be united until communism is truly dead.

Is it me or was that film slightly overflowing with bullshit...?

[Tablo]

All these anti-communist of films seem to be loaded with that kind of nonsense.

[Rafiq]

I wish I can unwatch that.

[Red Commissar]

Yeah, the "Soviet Story" falls into the category of those "zomg Communism is evils!111!" type things. In Eastern Europe, particularly in Poland and the Baltic states, there's been a movement to equate the Communist repression on the level with the Nazi regime, if not greater, to the point of calling it genocide, one that has been embraced by European states and the world in general it seems.

The documentary recycles common anti-Communist trash-

-The Bolsheviks interrupted "good" reform in Russia
-VIOLENT REVOLUTION
-The "engineered" famine
-Focus on the Soviet and German "collaboration" in the non-aggression pact

It also mostly plays on the stances that a lot of the viewers might have coming into it. Such as

-ZOMG STALIN AND HITLER KILLED A LOT OF PEOPLE
-INDIVIDUALISM WAS STAMPED OUT!!11!
-TOTALITARIANISM
-*insert stupid quote*
-It was the national SOCIALIST party!
-NO FREE MARKET!!!11!
-GULAGS!

This is part of an attempt to try and tie Nazism, fascism, and Marxism into the same grouping by virtue of their supposed similarities in state repression. This is not unique to this video and has been a common tactic by those on the "right" to discredit their opponents views. Part of this was their claim that Nazi Germany and the USSR were close in the 1930s, and elevating the Non-Aggression Pact to the level of a full-blown alliance to oppress Eastern Europe and the rest of the free world.

It's a disgusting form of historical revisionism coupled with nationalism, a potent form of propaganda. It's worth mentioning that the release of this "documentary" in May of 2008 closely coincided with Lithuanian parliamentary elections that year in October to aid the right-wing nationalist populist groups to shore up support for themselves.

I think it is amusing thought that the documentary spends some time talking about the Jewish influence on the Bolsheviks, but some how this doesn't phase them that the same group would go on and make their "alliance" with Nazi's.

[rednordman]

I do love movies like this to help reinforce how much of a 'bad person' i am.:rolleyes:

[Red Future]

Lithuania and Latvia celebrate the "defense" ? of their states by Nazi Battalions in ww2