Thank you for posting this documentary

Hierarchies are not the consequence of capitalism they are a naturally occurring distribution of the competant and incompetant within any value system. They are prone to corruption if left unchecked but the key feature of democratic capitalism is that it has means of correction within its design to correct for corruption (terms, voting, right to protest, etc). The unique feature here that exists in no other system is that transfer of power and correction for corruption happens peacefully and does not require the complete destruction or overthrow of the system in order to take place. We should not take that for granted

@BB-kt5eb

Жыл бұрын

Capitalism is fake freedom. Communism is real freedom.

@themarxistthinker2599

Ай бұрын

The communist society conceived in Marxist theory is based on the abolition of value and, consequently, of all superfluous social hierarchies. Social classes are not products of nature: you're not only a poor anthropologist, you're also a poor sociologist. You should try reading for a start.

Gorbachev had the map of the Sovietunion tattooed on his head.

Thanks for posting this.

Excellent documentary!

an excellent lesson, americans need all the knowledge they can get about this today

@donkeyslayer677

5 жыл бұрын

As an American, I am more concerned with the danger of Islam, then the danger of Communism.

@matthewtuckman4447

3 жыл бұрын

@@donkeyslayer677 i agree the Islamic extremists are worse than than the Communists. For instance the Mujahaden were worse than the Soviets in the 1980s

@BB-kt5eb

Жыл бұрын

Communism is not a threat. It’s a good thing that America would be blessed to have.

@matthewgabbard6415

5 ай бұрын

Apparently you need to revisit it as well if you the the U.S. is anywhere close to some Soviet style revolution. The U.S. has a Constitution that guarantees life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and enshrined within it is a Bill of Rights. Our military and police take an oath to protect the Constitution, not a party, or a man. Our Constitution works and has been tested by Civil War and the attempts by President Nixon to ignore Congress and the Supreme Court. In the end it survived and it will continue to do so. I'm sorry you don't have confidence in this country

@montrelouisebohon-harris7023

Ай бұрын

yess! I've been telling people for years that the Democrat Party were Democrats socialist and they were not just a Social Democrat or welfare State party but actually Democrat socialist totalitarians and pro-nazis and then look what we have . the more immigration we've had from the Middle East over the past 20 years along with Student Immigration attending colleges and terrible politicians and Republicans with no backbone, have allowed cultural Marxist groups like BLM and antifa on top of the Nazi movement and the radical islamist in America and it's disgusting ​@@donkeyslayer677

Communism: a few hats short of a party.

@BB-kt5eb

Жыл бұрын

No… Communism was literally heaven on earth for its people who lived in total luxury and never had to worry about losing their jobs or homes and always had plenty of everything they could ever need.

@Mboy245

5 ай бұрын

​@@BB-kt5eb Tell that to the 100s of millions murdered under Communism. Oh wait, you can't. Not saying that capitalism doesn't have any skeletons in the closet, but it has a lot less than Communism. People were far more miserable under communism than capitalism.

I wonder if it wasnt captured German scientists who put Sputnic into space.

the best part was when communism collapsed

@dr.jimnikol1020

8 жыл бұрын

+Spörde Spyrdenstein How do you know that. The vast majority of the people who lived in socialist country liked their lives.

@hgjhgjhgification

8 жыл бұрын

+Dr.JimNikol Especially the ones at the top, buying large houses and going on expensive vacations like Mr. Donald Trump.

@dr.jimnikol1020

8 жыл бұрын

zayuran KightSpider What did you hate and why?

@dr.jimnikol1020

8 жыл бұрын

***** It is sad otherwise intelligent people to make statements not supported with any proves. The middle DDR citizen was better than the relative one from BRD - the one from DDR had security (food, shelter, medicine) in their present and future.

@channelingusllcix3512

8 жыл бұрын

+Dr.JimNikol you got to be kidding me, don't you remember the dancing in the streets?

If it wasn’t for the support of the corporate capital It would’ve came to a halt at the get go and that’s the reason when stoped funding it .....it collapsed!

This is very good

3:47 communist corn is bigger than capitalist corn 😂. Considering that the Russian empire is at about the same latitude as Canada and Alaska, it's no surprise if plants become larger with their longer summer days.

Communism, what a joke xD

@gerechtror396

8 жыл бұрын

+Hatsimmale No real joke... it's an enslavement+genocide program. Read dawn666blaksun!

@memcore1312

8 жыл бұрын

+Gerecht Ror I see you guys everywhere lol.

@BrettonFerguson

7 жыл бұрын

And yet so many young Westerns think communism is great. If you go to the game NationStates.net you will find TONS of young people who think communism is the greatest system on earth. Even that idolize Russian communism under Stalin. Of course you don't run into too many people who actually lived under communism that think its a great system. Most I have ever known go the exact opposite.

fantastic documentary

Gorbachev went to the right path, but the system was already doomed. If there's anyone to blame, is Brejnev and the gerontocracy he fostered along Andropov, Suslov, Gromyko and other fossilized bureaucrats who didn't want change at any costs. USSR was with the upper hand after Khruschev, the Era of Stagnation, the arms race and Afghanistan ruined everything. Thanks God the dissolution os USSR didn't cause a war of worldwide consequences. Gorbachev and his peaceful methods is the major responsible for that relatively peaceful transition.

Who is watching in 2017?

27:24 Enjoy a refrigerator but not readily available toilet paper, diapers, or feminine hygiene items.

Great video which reflects common knowledge of the events leading to the collapse of the USSR but the truth is stranger than fiction. For those who want to dig deeper i recommend Gorbachow's own memoirs and the contents of NKWD report presented by Lavrentiy Beria on the first communist party meeting afrer Stalin's death. The real truth about the "collapse" of USSR will surprise you. Nothing is as it seems

@williamcarnero9595

3 жыл бұрын

Where can the nkvd report be found? When searching for the 20th Congress of the party all that seems to be talked about is Khrushchevs speech

@BB-kt5eb

Жыл бұрын

The real truth is that the United States and NATO deliberately sabotaged the Soviet Union and the Soviet Bloc nations to destroy their economies and foment dissatisfaction from within. Were it not for this, communism would have been fully achieved in these nations and the United States and all of Western Europe would have adopted socialist governments in order to achieve the kind of luxury they lived in. Ultimately the United States was jealous of the luxury we lived in and they set out to destroy it.

Congratulations on another ridiculously presented video where you placed the sub-title comments directly over the person's identity ... so now I have no clue who all those people were who commented? If it isn't the music drowning out the audio it's the sub-titles overriding the identification of speakers? Put the person's identity in the upper left corner and leave it there while he speaks!

There is no reason why the Soviet Union could not have continued. It didn't have to remain communist and Gorbachev was actually trying to manage a transition to democracy and improve trade with the West. But his reforms - such as the vodka tax - were too radical for a lot of people and his "hands off" approach left his political opponents with too much room for manoeuvre. The police claimed they couldn't do their job. The revenue from client states - particularly in Eastern Europe - dried up. All that left the way open for the coup attempt in 1991, by conservative forces led by the paranoid head of the KGB, Vladimir Kryuchkov. While he was under house arrest, Gorbachev could do nothing to prevent the ascendency of Boris Yeltsin, the firebrand mayor of Moscow whom he probably regretted not firing when he had the chance. Yeltsin called a meeting of a bunch of nationalists from the assorted republics and they unilaterally agreed to go their separate ways. This was done without observation of due process (though whether that would have made any difference is open to debate). That might have been the worst possible result and we are seeing the effects today. By the time Gorbachev was freed, it was all over. So was his political career. Transition to democracy takes time. Transition to a free market economy takes time. There will always be resistance. But what ended the Soviet Union was not free market economics, freedom of speech or Western pressure. It was the speed at which these reforms were attempted.

@amath-dr7uk

7 жыл бұрын

Do you really believe that an intolerant and rotten system like this could survive in a world of market economies?..Revenue from client states? they were as bankrupt as the USSR..it was an artificially system..the USSR spent enormous amount of money on a useless third wold and its allies....all for nothing..

@thethirdman225

7 жыл бұрын

am1966ath Yes, there is some truth in that. On the other hand, what Western economy doesn't owe large amounts of money or use tariff protection for uncompetitive industries? None. The Soviet Union survived for 70 years and it survived WWII, while being far more greatly affected than any other Allied country. They lost _27 million_ people. Not 250,000, like the US. 1,700 of their towns were destroyed and 70,000 villages. They lost seven years' growth. You can't do that on credit.

@amath-dr7uk

7 жыл бұрын

TheThirdMan The USSR was a slave society..human life was not of any importance..just in the civil war of 1918 to 1922 some 10 million Russians or more died..who talks about that today? Russia in 1922 was completely wrecked..who talks about that or the millions who starved to death, fell victims to Red terror,executed or just vanished? no body is today interested in that..because it wasn t as heroic as WWII, you couldn t glorify cannibalism, firing squads or stealing the grain from the Peasentry so it was quietly forgotten..also forgotten that Lenins communism as an economic system didn t work at all..Lenin had to do some small market reforms to get the USSR going again.and its a difference between just surviving and prospering....

@thethirdman225

7 жыл бұрын

am1966ath _".just in the civil war of 1918 to 1922 some 10 million Russians or more died"_ Yes: it was a civil war and a very large one at that. What's your point? _"who talks about that today?"_ I do. I was hoping you would bring it up. Look at the base they started from. Then tell me it was all the fault of the revolutionaries. _"who talks about that or the millions who starved to death, fell victims to Red terror,executed or just vanished?"_ In the civil war 10 million died. 7 million of them starved or died of disease, 1.7 were killed by whites and 1.3 million were killed by reds. Who talks about that? Who talks about why the reds won, despite the opposition of the whites who were supported by 15 other nations, including the United States and Great Britain? I'm not glorifying it. I'm just not blind to the reality of what happened. _"also forgotten that Lenins communism as an economic system didn t work at all."_ NEP? Actually, it did work. What didn't work was Stalin's collectivisation. They were not the same thing.

@thethirdman225

7 жыл бұрын

am1966ath _"the USSR spent enormous amount of money on a useless third wold and its allies....all for nothing.."_ This is just 20/20 hindsight. How was anyone to know that the revolution would not spread? _WE_ think it wouldn't have because the idea is of little value to us. _WE_ think we've got it right but it's a totally different matter for exploited 3rd world countries who might have valuable resources to share. The Soviet Union started from a lower and smaller industrial and economic base. It _had_ to develop trade routes. What other choices did they have?

German audio, English dubbing, ?Romanian subtitles.

All I can do now is too keep the dream alive

@RKWWWW

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, you keep checking on the garbage heap of history and tell us how fast it's rusting.

@jonfranks6902

Жыл бұрын

And ask yourself why ppl always try to flee from this horrible useless system.

@BB-kt5eb

Жыл бұрын

@@jonfranks6902 That’s a lie. People were always trying to flee the horrors of capitalism to sneak into communist nations where literally everyone lived in total freedom and luxury.

Worst thing that ever happened the Berlin Wall coming down look at the mess now with the refugee Riss and the former Eastern Block countries peoples al coming to West to work what a mess .

to add.better to be a dog with flees then a dead lion ai greece?

1991 was the disaster for the Developing countries, particularly countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Cuba, India and many others. Either they were destroyed or had to surrender to the Western Capitalism with the result of extreme sufferings or millions of death and destruction.

it was the comunist system and the history of its colapse, that got me int politics.

@montypython4ever

5 жыл бұрын

because i am a social democrat, i love gorbatjev, for realicing that forced socialism does not work. social democracy is what the prague spring was all about.

One power centre of communism collapsed. The monster lives though. It's like the last chapter of animal farm. The commissars and the bosses are getting together.

The voice over is hilariously bad: "Real Potilik", "Gdainsk", etc.

Sounds like some of the kids these days.

You can't hear clear

Communism still has future!

@numberjackfiutro7412

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, in the trash bin of history!

@phbrinsden

5 жыл бұрын

Gilmer. Lopez. No. It doesn’t. It’s a system that can only exist under force and repression of liberties. It’s been tried on a huge scale and is proven to be incompatible with humanity. It is non viable on any level.

Because "We are all greedy and selfish." *we do need to stop capitalism, which does enable it.*

@edgar0001

9 жыл бұрын

E Kam For many Capitalism even *requires* being selfish. That some even in capitalism are good humans, shows that this is not *the human nature*.

@edgar0001

9 жыл бұрын

E Kam Any human is rises up in a family, which is actually a tiny communist society: Not money but love is guiding the internal behavior. ... if the capitalsit environment allows this.

@chantolapvp1816

8 жыл бұрын

+E Kam = тупоумный

@danieltiger8789

6 жыл бұрын

Thats because i love my family i dont know the people down the street, i dont owe them anything from my Labour.

Communism did cause (largely) unnecessary democide on a colossal scale, particularly in China and Russia, whose traditions did not include long-serving democratic government. Democide is genocide of unarmed civilians by its government. Usually of distinctive ethnic types within a nation state, or with communism in particular, class enemies, or both. It is not inclusive of civil war struggles between armed combatants or international warfare or invasions battle casualties. Air warfare casualties of civilians for example, is largely excluded from this definition. The Russians and the Chinese between them killed or starved at least 70 million people (of their own nationalities) between them. More than the deaths caused by WW2 (inclusive of democide during this conflict) which was about 60 million.

@shiverarts8284

2 жыл бұрын

The united states did that all the same with it's indigenous people. Us Navajo were put in uranium labor camps, forced to serve in the military and use our code to win the war, and you guys forced our children into education boarding schools. You did everything that china did to it's indigenous people, but we're able to mask it up better. This is an absolute overlook of the real distinctions and problems in capitalism. I actually say that it causes worse overarching problems, putting the whole world in danger. It endangers all indigenous people of the world. We need a new revolution

@exposedbhauturma130

Жыл бұрын

@@shiverarts8284 I think that the genocide of Native Americans goes far beyond capitalism. The Natives had a stable civilisation before Europeans got there, but the Europeans brought with them diseases from the old world that completely wrecked those civilisations. Because of losing around 80% of their population to diseases, Native Americans were living in a post apocalyptic world and had to adapt. This adaptation, however, forced the belief amongst Europeans that Native Americans were utter savages and had to be either civilised or gotten rid of. This image, however, was taken advantage of to expand the United States. Plus natives taking the side of The British in 1812 didn't help either. I understand that capitalism still causes significant problems for natives, like the oil pipelines polluting native land and many other problems, but the major cause for the oppression of native Americans wasn't capitalism. This, however, is not the case for the Indians, the Chinese, and the Africans, who were clearly exploited solely for cheap goods.

@shiverarts8284

Жыл бұрын

@@exposedbhauturma130 tbh we really don't care about fighting with the United States... That's up to the warriors and leaders/chiefs (Navaho only had 2, then dismantled them after a while, going back to just leaders) we the people had no interest in militaristic means to arm ourselves. We used peace, trade, and prosperity to earn our place. I sell jewelry and understand it's properties, but I also understand it's bigger context in mainstream.

@shiverarts8284

Жыл бұрын

@@exposedbhauturma130 for example, Navaho people cannot pick up rocks... This is a sacred tradition, that's just commonly known. This helped protect us from some uranium in the environment, but we were still forced into mining uranium

@exposedbhauturma130

Жыл бұрын

@@shiverarts8284 when was this uranium mined?

Lenin was no better than Stalin!! He was just as oppressive and murderous as Stalin!

@shauncameron8390

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Lenin just had the luck of dying before his reign of terror could truly run its course.

The collapse? Didn't Red China salvage the US economy in 2008?

Surely we can point to atrocities under communism. We can also point to atrocities under capitalism. So perhaps it is not economic systems that are to blame for atrocities, since they also happened before either communism or capitalism were "invented." Perhaps we should look to that fraction of humans who are power mad, whatever their label.

@EASYTIGER10

8 жыл бұрын

+Je' Czaja Correct. Brutal, exploitative humans exist and have for millennia, whatever the political system they grew up in. Communism - with it's state control over the people - simply gives those people more opportunity to exploit more people, as peasant and serf based systems did in centuries past and extremist religious states do today.. Sadly, these people will continue to be born, and there's nothing we can do about this. We need to focus on creating political systems that don't allow them to flourish. And for all it's faults, and whether right or left leaning, this is something the post WWII Western world seems to have largely achieved.

@johnnyscifi

8 жыл бұрын

Totally!!!

@am5790

6 жыл бұрын

Power = corruption

@j50wells

6 жыл бұрын

Spoken by a communist who will not spit out the blue pill. There's never been a system that didn't commit evil. What we do to decide whether a system is good or bad is that we look at the idea behind that movement. One movement offers you freedom. One movement wants complete tyranny over everything you own, everything you do, where you live, and what you say. Now let me ask, which one is the evil and which is the good? Just look at the murder rates. Capitalism murdered (not in self-defense or in an all out war) roughly 1-2 million people. Communism murdered 100 million people. Dude, you're still the typical Communist who lies to himself and everyone else.

@BB-kt5eb

Жыл бұрын

There were no atrocities under communism. Every bit of that was made up by NATO fascists who wanted to scare people away before they could find out about the luxury people under communism lived in. Everyone loved it.

You can embellish it all you want....but the fact is tha communism fell and it was soundly rejected by all....

Ukrain and Bialorus languages brothers for Polish and Czech. And Russian language is sooo differ. I from Russia and dont Understand Ukrainuan and Bialorus languages.

He!he!he! 23:12 - that's GIORGIO NAPOLITANO - former president of the italian republic that is known as a "EURO-COMMUNIST"... :D :DQueote: "WHY DO WE HAVE TO STICK TO COMMUNISM, WHEN ALL OUR GOALS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ACHIEVED WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION"?? XD:D:D

There was no Communism, which means abolition of all state boundaries to create an unified human society. There was Socialism in the USSR and East European countries. It still exist in Vietnam and Cuba.

@shauncameron8390

5 жыл бұрын

Unified human society under the threat of gulags and AK-47 shots to the head for non-compliance.

The idea of equality came long before communism. All of the founders of modern religions spoke about it, Buddah, the Jewish prophets, Zoroaster, Jesus, Muhammad, all spoke about the equality bettwen people. Not just them, but learned men since time immemorial, so the absolute insult to any rational person is to hear communists saying that Karl Marx invented the idea of equality

@88kjk75

5 жыл бұрын

@Random Person equality of outcome, a concept I disagree with, was first disscused by Aristotel.

@FiasaPower

2 жыл бұрын

You're absolutely right.

@joanhuffman2166

11 ай бұрын

Hunter-gatherer societies have mechanisms that enforce equality. The cost is that individuals who stand out, especially those who are more productive, are plundered by all the other members of the group. Soon, no one tries to do much more than any other. Anyone who stands out is cut down.

Interesting! One of the interviewed said Gorbachev didn't have vision of what communism could become. I think it's the wrong question, it should've been a statement to the effect of "Communism could not reform itself for if it were to do so, it would ultimately collapse." Nothing Gorbachev did or didn't do would've made a difference. It was a system beyond repair. Once he admitted to it, it was over.

@matthewtuckman4447

2 жыл бұрын

Leaders since Krushchev damaged it

@urhunn7778

2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewtuckman4447 The damage started with Lenin...

@matthewtuckman4447

2 жыл бұрын

@@urhunn7778 why

@urhunn7778

2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewtuckman4447 Because he tried to implement a dictatorship of the proletariat based on the teachings of Marx.

@matthewtuckman4447

2 жыл бұрын

@@urhunn7778 yes but it was other Leaders to such as Gorbachev which is the straw that broke the camels back

Just because communism is evil, doesn't mean capitalism is good.

@duruarute5445

2 жыл бұрын

But it is

@Strongnurgling

2 жыл бұрын

@@duruarute5445 dude capatlsim is way worst

@duruarute5445

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strongnurgling so bad that all the countries that changed regime after the fall of the soviets changed to a capitalist system, so bad that it managed to bring a destoyed germany after ww2 to a economic powerhouse of europe, so bad that it brought the best standarts of life the 3rd world has ever seen. So it is as you say, its pretty bad

@Strongnurgling

2 жыл бұрын

@@duruarute5445Iike the part they want It back like east germany etc

@duruarute5445

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strongnurgling no they fucking don't

Better fucking dead than red

@dirtypagan4602

7 жыл бұрын

Ironic how your profile picture is Albert Einstein, seeing as how he was a socialist.

@zacharyl3751

7 жыл бұрын

***** He also added the cosmological constant. People make mistakes.

@dirtypagan4602

7 жыл бұрын

Zachary Later Yeah, like capitalism.

@zacharyl3751

7 жыл бұрын

***** I'm not really sure you could call the natural process of supply and demand a "mistake". People give things to get things; it's nature.

@dirtypagan4602

7 жыл бұрын

Zachary Later nice meme

Communist was over. Move on.

@dirtypagan4602

7 жыл бұрын

Communism will win.

@Hannibal953able

7 жыл бұрын

dirtypagan Communism has been sent to the graveyard of history. To hell with Communism.

Näinhän sen voi kiteyttää.

WITH SOVIET UNION FOREVER AND NEVER OTHERWISE !

Not enough credit is given to Ronald Reagan and his predecessors in the US. It was not him alone and certainly Gorbachev allowed things to happen. Let's not forget President Reagan's willingness to stand his ground.

Who shit on his head?

näinhän sen voi kiteyttää

no matter what this ddr and ussr ex small time functionaries say here gorbachov was a great politician and even a greater man . ussr had to go the system was not viable any more . Neither is the obama capitalism nowadays and it will have the same fa te as gorbachov's perestroika system . Just watch for the next ten years

The analysis is a total rubbish. Until 1986 there was no problem in the USSR or in the East European countries. It was destroyed by Gorbachev and Yeltsin. otherwise it would have stayed for ever. Kruschev was interested to have peaceful coexistence with the Capitalist countries. Brezhnev wanted to expand socialism all over the world by supporting newly created socialist countries like Angola, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Cuba, and others by sending Soviet arms, weapons and soldiers.

@pierina1705

5 жыл бұрын

Are you crazy?

History channel bs

Except Communism is global by definition therefore has never existed. THE USSR were autocrats.

@shauncameron8390

5 жыл бұрын

Is that only because Soviet Imperialism lost out to American Imperialism?