Easy. First that i remembered is when Conquest wrote that in 1939 in USSR 9 million people were in prison, while in reality there was only about 1.3 million
@@БаццкоБудённый Stalin caused the death of 1/3 of Kazakhs. That alone should tell you that the communist party is one of the biggest evils of history. If Hitler killed 7 million or 2 million Jews, it is almost equally as bad. The numbers, whether right or wrong are so substantial that it baffles the mind. Whether North-Korea has 2 million political prisoners on gulags right now (2020) or 1 million is completely irrelevant. The regime of Stalin's USSR was horrendous, despotic unspeakable and terrible beyond imagination.
PresidentialWinner Rapid industrialization and failing to control a famine is not the moral equivalent of the systematic murder and attempted genocide of an entire ethnic-religious minority. If it was, Churchill would be added to the list of 20th century terrors with his 3-4 million British Indians killed. Stalin was evil enough. You don’t need to out-Hitler him to hold him in contempt.
@@PresidentialWinner The regime of stalin was horrendous , despotic , unspeakable and terrible beyond imagination..... And yet stalin defeated Hitler and saved the world from total annihilation or slavery by Hitler !
Funny that there are no Russian names among Conquest's asinine detractors on this forum. After having spent a lifetime in the arts, and having met many, many Russians during that time, I can tell you that every one of them who lived through Stalin's or Khruschev's time affirmed what Conquest has said. The Soviet economy was dismal. The poorer people froze or starved. The Secret Police were everywhere. People simply vanished and were never seen again. Dissidents were summarily executed in public. The spectre of the gulag was in everyone's mind and brought about a kind of terror that stayed with them for decades, even after emigrating to the West. All of them said the same thing: They would NEVER go back to Russia under any circumstances.
The bulk of the soviet people revered stalin , only the traitors to socialism feared him and the betrayal of socialism in 1991 and the open loot by the new oligarchs that followed proved that stalin's policies had been right after all.
To all the trolls below, you do know mass graves were found all over the old Soviet Union, right? Conquest estimated 700,000 "legal" executions during the Purge back in 1968 and guess what? The Russian archives confirmed 681,692 during that time. You can't explain where 9-10 million people went from 1932-1939. That is, AFTER collectivization, but BEFORE WW2. Conquest did a remarkable service back when these crimes were relatively unknown. His work was exceptional given the limits of the time. He probably overestimated deaths in the Gulag before the archives opened, but surely this isn't why the trolls are angry. It's because of how much he was right on. Even with great warnings from Orwell, they've still fallen for the Pravda nonsense. Such weak minds to fall for Stalin's falsified history. I suppose they think Russia invented the plane and they're looking over their shoulder for evil "burgeois nationalists"!
bluecliff03 "Communism" is a diverse ideology, but I wouldn't expect you generalising idiots to know any better. Also, nobody's squirming. This man was a confirmed liar, as he once admitted.
And I am aware that certainly not all Communists are Stalinists or Maoists(you probably are though) but as far as any of it is based on Marx, it will be disastrous as it goes against human nature and Marx was so inept economically, it's am insult to great economists like Mises and the science of economics to even consider Marx an economist in any wsy, shape or form. I read the Communist manifesto and it's absolute nonsense. As Mises said, it's much like National Socialism, except with Marx, you substitute class for race. No consideration is given to the individual.
Vladimir Putin is not even close to Stalin, he is the Best Ruler the Russians ever had! He in universally loved by the People, who have freedom and Prosperity, compared to America, Putin's Russia is God's Favorite Nation.
Take what this guy says with a grain of salt. In one of his documentaries he tells of how rosey things were in russia before the revolution. Yeah right.
You do realize mass graves were found all over the old Soviet Union, right? Conquest estimated 700,000 "legal" executions during the Purge back in 1968 and guess what? The Russian archives confirmed 681,692 during that time. You can't explain where 9-10 million people went from 1932-1939. That is, AFTER collectivization, but BEFORE WW2.
You do realize mass graves were found all over the old Soviet Union, right? Conquest estimated 700,000 "legal" executions during the Purge back in 1968 and guess what? The Russian archives confirmed 681,692 during that time. You can't explain where 9-10 million people went from 1932-1939. That is, AFTER collectivization, but BEFORE WW2.
This video is messed up. It stops playing at around 7 min before the intro is even over.
But if I grab the progress bar, in the small window the video carries on- but it's frozen otherwise. Why does it work for some and not for others?
The only argument I see in the comments against Robert Conquest is that he was a 'liar', with no examples of what he 'lied' about.
Easy. First that i remembered is when Conquest wrote that in 1939 in USSR 9 million people were in prison, while in reality there was only about 1.3 million
@@БаццкоБудённый Stalin caused the death of 1/3 of Kazakhs. That alone should tell you that the communist party is one of the biggest evils of history. If Hitler killed 7 million or 2 million Jews, it is almost equally as bad. The numbers, whether right or wrong are so substantial that it baffles the mind. Whether North-Korea has 2 million political prisoners on gulags right now (2020) or 1 million is completely irrelevant. The regime of Stalin's USSR was horrendous, despotic unspeakable and terrible beyond imagination.
PresidentialWinner Rapid industrialization and failing to control a famine is not the moral equivalent of the systematic murder and attempted genocide of an entire ethnic-religious minority. If it was, Churchill would be added to the list of 20th century terrors with his 3-4 million British Indians killed.
Stalin was evil enough. You don’t need to out-Hitler him to hold him in contempt.
@@PresidentialWinner The regime of stalin was horrendous , despotic , unspeakable and terrible beyond imagination..... And yet stalin defeated Hitler and saved the world from total annihilation or slavery by Hitler !
@@PresidentialWinnerwhere is the evidence that stalin caused 1/3 of kazakhs to be killed, unsubstantiated and absurd, a claim is not fact
Wish there were more videos. Probably the most important scholar on Stalin.
Funny that there are no Russian names among Conquest's asinine detractors on this forum. After having spent a lifetime in the arts, and having met many, many Russians during that time, I can tell you that every one of them who lived through Stalin's or Khruschev's time affirmed what Conquest has said. The Soviet economy was dismal. The poorer people froze or starved. The Secret Police were everywhere. People simply vanished and were never seen again. Dissidents were summarily executed in public. The spectre of the gulag was in everyone's mind and brought about a kind of terror that stayed with them for decades, even after emigrating to the West. All of them said the same thing: They would NEVER go back to Russia under any circumstances.
The bulk of the soviet people revered stalin , only the traitors to socialism feared him and the betrayal of socialism in 1991 and the open loot by the new oligarchs that followed proved that stalin's policies had been right after all.
And the truth was even worse than that...
Ends Do Not justify the means
To all the trolls below, you do know mass graves were found all over the old Soviet Union, right? Conquest estimated 700,000 "legal" executions during the Purge back in 1968 and guess what? The Russian archives confirmed 681,692 during that time. You can't explain where 9-10 million people went from 1932-1939. That is, AFTER collectivization, but BEFORE WW2. Conquest did a remarkable service back when these crimes were relatively unknown. His work was exceptional given the limits of the time. He probably overestimated deaths in the Gulag before the archives opened, but surely this isn't why the trolls are angry. It's because of how much he was right on. Even with great warnings from Orwell, they've still fallen for the Pravda nonsense. Such weak minds to fall for Stalin's falsified history. I suppose they think Russia invented the plane and they're looking over their shoulder for evil "burgeois nationalists"!
You spammed this comment here already 5 times, calm down already.
Yeah but nobody answered. Just "Conquest is a liar". It's an answer for children
you were a great man dr conquest. rest in peace after your heroic work of helping destroy the evil empire.
may he rest in peace
*piss
bluecliff03 "Communism" is a diverse ideology, but I wouldn't expect you generalising idiots to know any better. Also, nobody's squirming. This man was a confirmed liar, as he once admitted.
bluecliff03 yeah poor mr quinn is chasing the light that failed.
And I am aware that certainly not all Communists are Stalinists or Maoists(you probably are though) but as far as any of it is based on Marx, it will be disastrous as it goes against human nature and Marx was so inept economically, it's am insult to great economists like Mises and the science of economics to even consider Marx an economist in any wsy, shape or form. I read the Communist manifesto and it's absolute nonsense. As Mises said, it's much like National Socialism, except with Marx, you substitute class for race. No consideration is given to the individual.
so where is Robert Conquest?
Does this actually play or does everyone only get the 7 min intro?
This one works, and looks like the same presentation: ua-cam.com/video/l-8_CCvOrek/v-deo.html
Insightful if not dated now but is it, with Putin on the move?
Vladimir Putin is not even close to Stalin, he is the Best Ruler the Russians ever had! He in universally loved by the People, who have freedom and Prosperity, compared to America, Putin's Russia is God's Favorite Nation.
is this video broken?
This one works: ua-cam.com/video/l-8_CCvOrek/v-deo.html
Hero,Good man,R.I.P
First the Communists went after Anarchists, and other ‘soft’ Socialists. ‘Ends justify the means’- Conquest was great
Frank Shifreen because it's not like the anarchists weren't butchering clergy every other day. They had their own concentration camps
@Frank Shifreen been watching right wing Prager-U and Corporate White Supremacy lies. This did nor happen, it is total American Propaganda.
Disappointing that this video gives us false advertising--hardly a talk by Mr. Conquest at all. Voted down.
Take what this guy says with a grain of salt. In one of his documentaries he tells of how rosey things were in russia before the revolution. Yeah right.
Eso lo dice un tío que vendería a su madre por unos dólares, como tu amigo William Hearst
17:25 Back to John Locke
Tucker Carlson is the modern day cheerleader for the falsification narrative of Russian intelligentsia
Ding dong, the liar is dead!
He has spoken so much lies he does not even know what truth is anymore
You do realize mass graves were found all over the old Soviet Union, right? Conquest estimated 700,000 "legal" executions during the Purge back in 1968 and guess what? The Russian archives confirmed 681,692 during that time. You can't explain where 9-10 million people went from 1932-1939. That is, AFTER collectivization, but BEFORE WW2.
Untrue. Noam Chomsky still breathes.
he is a liar
Lies lies lies
You do realize mass graves were found all over the old Soviet Union, right? Conquest estimated 700,000 "legal" executions during the Purge back in 1968 and guess what? The Russian archives confirmed 681,692 during that time. You can't explain where 9-10 million people went from 1932-1939. That is, AFTER collectivization, but BEFORE WW2.