Life Under Evil Communist Regimes

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  • @25xxfrostxx
    @25xxfrostxx Рік тому +329

    Back in the late 90's I worked with a man who lived through the Cambodian regime. He was a very reserved man and he very rarely talked about his time there but he did tell us once that when he was 18 his father was arrested on the suspicion of knowing how to read. Some soldiers came to the house and told the family that he had attempted to escape and was executed with a rifle. When the family went to collect the remains at the site of the execution, he quickly realized they hadn't used a rifle, they had used a grenade launcher.
    He had to multitask between gathering the remains himself and keeping his mother back so she couldn't see. The guy lived on nicotine and only slept two hours per night.

    • @socire72
      @socire72 Рік тому

      Khmer Rouge was funded by the CIA, don’t try and blame it on communism.

    • @Agent78j
      @Agent78j Рік тому +16

      Damn that’s horrible

    • @JoeRogansForehead
      @JoeRogansForehead Рік тому

      Based US supported khamer Rouge

    • @parzavaal5335
      @parzavaal5335 Рік тому +9

      Just knowing how to fucking read omg, the absolute lengths people will go to to remain in power is terrifying.

    • @mattkluth8325
      @mattkluth8325 Рік тому

      Hahahahaha😂 what an idiot​@@JoeRogansForehead

  • @Mesopotamianguy
    @Mesopotamianguy Рік тому +810

    My grandparents survived the Khmer Rouge. They told me a lot about their lives under the regime. It was a terrible and horrific experience. My grandpa was a high school teacher, he forced himself to burn and buried all his achievements to avoid getting "educated". He told me "It's hard to get 1 handful of rice. You are lucky. So don't be picky." I never waste a single grain of rice.
    Edit: I want to share my other grandparent's story (my mom's side). My grandpa was a District Governor. Lucky for him, he some how managed to survive and later become a Major General. My mom told me both of my grandparents survive the regime because they pretend to be normal farmers. Especially, my grandpa. He knew the intentions of the Khmer Rouge. He knew that only pretending to be "stupid" is the way to survive. And he did just that. Just before the day of liberation, he joined the other liberation force not the Vietnamese.
    Due to his heroic actions and my grandma's help. My grandpa was promoted to Major General and his task is to eliminate the remaining Khmer Rouge guerilla forces along Khmer-Thai border. He didn't see them as enemies but victims instead. Instead of holding a gun he carries a bag full of medical supplies and help the wounded Khmer Rouge soldiers. (I met one of his comrades.) He wasn't lying. My grandpa and my grandma lived years after the war ended. And yeah this is it. They died in peace. They are very happy to see our country in peace. I still remember the words my mom told be "Don't look with your eyes. Look with your hands. War never forgive a lazy person."
    I'm not very good at English. If there's a mistake, be sure to let me know. I'm happy to fix!
    THANK YOU FOR READING! ❤️

    • @chilli-boi
      @chilli-boi Рік тому +16

      Are u sure that u didnt miss a single grain of rice
      Also i hope ur grandpa has a long and great life

    • @Mesopotamianguy
      @Mesopotamianguy Рік тому +29

      @@chilli-boi Not really actually. My grandpa died almost a year now. But thank you for that.❤️

    • @Based1real
      @Based1real Рік тому +4

      damn

    • @olekcholewa8171
      @olekcholewa8171 Рік тому +8

      I hope your grandpa is well

    • @GrandDukeMushroom
      @GrandDukeMushroom Рік тому

      he died@@olekcholewa8171

  • @Magster104
    @Magster104 Рік тому +199

    I cant imagine surviving the Vietnam war only to invade Cambodia to see even worse horrors

    • @emberfist8347
      @emberfist8347 Рік тому +11

      Well most of the horrors were inflicted by the PAVN on others so it was them seeing the other side for once.

    • @RadiationEnthusiast282
      @RadiationEnthusiast282 Рік тому +1

      @@emberfist8347 bet

    • @hungyutube
      @hungyutube Рік тому +18

      According to the textbook I studied, they wrote that Pol Pot had harassed the Vietnamese border first, so the Vietnamese side used this excuse to attack.

    • @FoxMulder-FBI
      @FoxMulder-FBI 10 місяців тому

      Pol Pot was a CIA operative not a communist

  • @harrisonofcolorado8886
    @harrisonofcolorado8886 Рік тому +2414

    The fact that Cambodia, a communist country, was invaded by another communist country really shows how evil and insane the Khmer Rouge was.

    • @Elzilcho87
      @Elzilcho87 Рік тому

      Cambodia was bombed into the stone age by Nixon and Kissinger because they thought that the horror of Vietnam needed to be expanded into the surrounding countries, to “teach those savages what happens when they even consider having anything to do with Communism. They shouldn't be given a single moment of mercy.” No offence, but videos like this are borderline propaganda that skews the facts and constantly creates a pro-American narrative of history.

    • @OfficialJohnnySinsGaming
      @OfficialJohnnySinsGaming Рік тому +310

      As much as I'm on the side of the ideals of America in terms of politics, it was absolutely stupid of them to support the Khmer Rouge just because they were salty at getting back at Vietnam.

    • @YourPalHDee
      @YourPalHDee Рік тому +74

      Having the same socio-economic system doesn't make them allies though 😂

    • @socialcreditdepartment
      @socialcreditdepartment Рік тому

      Pol pot was just a fascist dictator backed my united states of terrorism

    • @DelanoDunn-y8j
      @DelanoDunn-y8j Рік тому +9

      ​@@YourPalHDeethat to aplícate with USA

  • @ShadowMark3_
    @ShadowMark3_ Рік тому +502

    Can't wait for people to notice Reznov, Mason and Sergei in the Vorkuta part

  • @danstarr9895
    @danstarr9895 Рік тому +61

    In the early 80s, when I was a kid, there were some Cambodian refugees in my neighborhood. I didn’t know anything about politics or Cambodia at that time. I do remember eating with them. They were extremely protective of their food. The hovered over their bowls.

  • @Wolf-wc1js
    @Wolf-wc1js Рік тому +2822

    The tankies are not gonna like this one

    • @CAProductions051
      @CAProductions051 Рік тому +455

      There’s going to be so much coping

    • @Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation
      @Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation Рік тому +1

      "NOOOO!! ALL HISTORICAL CONSENSUS AND EVIDENCE OF STALIN'S MASS MURDERS ARE ALL WESTERN IMPERIALIST PROPAGANDA!!!"

    • @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING
      @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING Рік тому +2

      ​@@CAProductions051 Can't wait for them pull out native american genocide numbers of 100 trillion, muh better healthcare and so on. These people are such a joke

    • @ramenbomberdeluxe4958
      @ramenbomberdeluxe4958 Рік тому +1

      Can confirm, as a socialist I can hear the red fascists going reeeeeee in the distance.

    • @rumblebird9888
      @rumblebird9888 Рік тому +733

      "B-but da good communism has never been tried before"

  • @ianvincibl3
    @ianvincibl3 10 місяців тому +5

    Thank you for the video, these atrocities have to be remembered.

  • @MONKECAVEMAN
    @MONKECAVEMAN Рік тому +55

    My grand mother is from Budapest hungry and she left in 1956 because a tank shot threw her window

  • @angbandsbane
    @angbandsbane Рік тому +419

    "Remember, comrades. Utopia is just over one more mountain of skulls."
    --Average college student, three or four mountains of skulls ago.

    • @laecard1778
      @laecard1778 Рік тому +26

      *Average communist
      Most college students aren’t communists, it’s a loud fringe movement not the large peoples movement they try to present themselves as

    • @NKVD.Officer
      @NKVD.Officer Рік тому

      "remember friends, a good life is just over one more 3rd world country to exploit"
      --Average capitalist three or four 3rd world countries exploited ago.

    • @Delta_3VIII
      @Delta_3VIII Рік тому +7

      ​You can't imagine how much i want that to be true

    • @sid2112
      @sid2112 Рік тому

      @@NKVD.Officer LOL exploited. Their own leaders did that, we simply traded with those guys. How they deal with themselves matters little to us. Our only hangup is when it screws with us, then we get pissy. Want to talk about exploitation? Russia tried to take over Europe after Hitler failed to do so. Look at what they did in their southern reaches. Look at what they did to eastern Europe. Look at what they did to Poland. Communism kills first world nations just as effectively as it does 2nd and 3rd world ones.

    • @egertroos-qh7hw
      @egertroos-qh7hw Рік тому

      ​@@laecard1778Arent they? These dimwits praise communism

  • @jvbiians2358
    @jvbiians2358 Рік тому +810

    It's truly insane how anyone can support such a regime

    • @yottadrive
      @yottadrive Рік тому +111

      ​@@weiss643 Even if you speak English natively, you wouldn't be able to justify such insanity.

    • @zillsburyy1
      @zillsburyy1 Рік тому +88

      tell that to california

    • @borntoclimb7116
      @borntoclimb7116 Рік тому +61

      Same with the Nazis or the imperial Japan

    • @LeonardGreenpaw
      @LeonardGreenpaw Рік тому

      Almost as insane as people believing this propaganda

    • @PartnershipsForYou
      @PartnershipsForYou Рік тому

      Right wingers love racism and fasicm. It’s their entire ideology

  • @hermocrasbreadlord9557
    @hermocrasbreadlord9557 Рік тому +168

    Never met someone who came from a communist country and liked it. Germany, Poland, Russia, Venezuela, and China, all came to the US. Most being teachers or people i work with, each either told me they flat out didnt like it or had horror stories. I have several grievances against the current system, but Communism will make everyone miss the old regime as the good ole days. Never take your freedoms for granted.

    • @KidMoe7735
      @KidMoe7735 Рік тому +12

      Im not trying to defend the soviet union but "According to the New Russia Barometer (NRB) polls by the Centre for the Study of Public Policy, 50% of Russian respondents reported a positive impression of the Soviet Union in 1991. This increased to about 75% of NRB respondents in 2000, dropping slightly to 71% in 2009." There's a lot of people who actually preferred the soviet times over what they got now, I dont know if this is more about soviet greatness or the current Russian decadence but is something that most be considered.

    • @bully_hunter_7772
      @bully_hunter_7772 Рік тому +35

      ​@@KidMoe7735Russia also had a 99% vote in the captured areas in Ukraine that said they would be happy to be a part of Russia. Definitely not screwed or bias numbers

    • @jackferraris634
      @jackferraris634 Рік тому

      None of those were communist countries because there is no such thing as a communist country

    • @socire72
      @socire72 Рік тому +10

      And to deny your claim, I’ve only met one person from a Warsaw Pact nation and they’re a communist, so there you go

    • @KRev1775
      @KRev1775 Рік тому +7

      @@KidMoe7735 Yeah that poll is of RUSSIANs.
      The only nation and people to largely benefit from the Soviet Union, was RUSSIA, it had a host of smaller nations (which it forcefully occupied) at its beck and call, of course Russians are going to think fondly of the USSR with this being the case... this was a time when their nation was at its strongest, when it was an undisputed world power, and had an economy to challenge its rivals.
      If you ask any of the nations who were forced to become part of the Soviet Union, like Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, and Ukraine, most of the people there, especially old timers who actually lived under the USSR, will tell you it was terrible.

  • @michaellynes3540
    @michaellynes3540 Рік тому +335

    0:06 “Life Under the Khmer Rouge”
    11:39 “The Vorkuta Gulag”
    17:49 “Kim Jong-il vs the Starving Masses of North Korea”
    27:34 “The Great Leap Forward”
    35:46 “The Real-Life Battle Royale”
    43:58 “The KGB”
    53:11 “Hungarian Uprising”
    55:45 “Day in the Life of Stalin”
    1:03:52 “The Kim Dynasty”
    1:11:45 “The Truth of Holodomor”
    1:20:07 “Perestroika & Glasnost”

  • @anamericancelt6534
    @anamericancelt6534 Рік тому +225

    Vietnamese commies being shocked must say a lot about the Khmer Rouge.

    • @Jessie_Helms
      @Jessie_Helms Рік тому +19

      Doesn’t that show that it isn’t an issue inherent to communism? If communists were fighting other communists who went insane?

    • @emberfist8347
      @emberfist8347 Рік тому +8

      @@Jessie_HelmsThat and there are rivalries that transcend the political ideology. It was for that reason Vietnam invaded Kampuchea (as it was called at the time) at all.

    • @tmq0311....
      @tmq0311.... Рік тому +23

      But what if USA support Khmer Rouge?
      Oh wait. *USA did support political to Khmer Rouge by embargo Vietnam just because they punch Khmers*
      Also i didn't see any embargo to China when they attacked Vietnam, sound like China and USA team-up against Vietnam

    • @roghider319
      @roghider319 Рік тому +14

      ​@@tmq0311....and they both failed as Cambodia got steamrolled

    • @IsmaelSantos-xv9qf
      @IsmaelSantos-xv9qf Рік тому +5

      @@Jessie_Helms Socialists fighting other socialists isn't a new thing.
      In Germany the National Socialists (Race/Ethno Socialists) fought both the german Communists (Class Socialists) and german Fascists (Syndicalist/Corporativist Socialism). Of course, many of the communists later joined the NatSocs (the militants and "officers" of Antifa in particular, many of the higher ups of the communist equivalent to the brownshirts became Gestapo officers). Ditto for the fascists.

  • @souptikdolui2449
    @souptikdolui2449 Рік тому +1400

    Communists when communism fails for the 47th time in a country:
    "This isn't real communism."

    • @aapotolonen3357
      @aapotolonen3357 Рік тому +141

      IKR. At this point they have tried any possible type of communism on this planet

    • @lillyie
      @lillyie Рік тому +153

      they have the same determination as nft bros.
      "this time is different bro, trust me it'll work this time!"

    • @psyxypher3881
      @psyxypher3881 Рік тому

      @@lillyie NFTs might actually work. As opposed to Communism which will never work.

    • @myjoue6850
      @myjoue6850 Рік тому

      But it actually not communism… it’s just capitalism but they get more powerful with dead body’s instead of money

    • @sambob8019
      @sambob8019 Рік тому

      Oh communism did work it did exactly what it was designed to do disintegrate society there's actually a whole spiritual aspect behind it so for places like Cambodia it did exactly what it was designed to do if you want the short sum up of it and a lot of people who follow that stuff don't even know about this is they pretty much want society the revert back to what it was like in the garden of Eden which is to say non at all. Tik history can go through it far better

  • @Ididitlikethis2079
    @Ididitlikethis2079 Рік тому +720

    For an evil dictator who starved and tortured millions of his own people, “Pol Pot” isn’t a particularly intimidating name.

    • @Gameprojordan
      @Gameprojordan Рік тому +65

      Neither is Mao Zedong

    • @Threxis
      @Threxis Рік тому +96

      His real name was Saloth Sar. Which is a bit more intimidating.

    • @SirToaster9330
      @SirToaster9330 Рік тому +65

      Maybe we should start giving dictators names like "Tiny Winkey" then they'll be less of them

    • @bunk95
      @bunk95 Рік тому +8

      All want Pol Pot.

    • @Bugfrrrrr
      @Bugfrrrrr Рік тому

      @@Gameprojordanshe put her mao on my zedong 😩😩

  • @Goc4ever
    @Goc4ever Рік тому +278

    It's rather ironic i've learned more history from channels like Simple History, Yarnhub and others than i did to school. Out of all Communist regimes the one of Khmer Rouge was the absolute worst of all and that says something that even the Vietnamese were understandably horrified.

    • @ericsuarez834
      @ericsuarez834 Рік тому +17

      Don't do that, actually read otherwise you'll be stuck on your own ignorance

    • @Goc4ever
      @Goc4ever Рік тому +13

      I'm not boasting about jack-squat, i simply expressed my opinion, no more, no less.

    • @YourPalHDee
      @YourPalHDee Рік тому +23

      I'm not sure the Khmer Rouge are the worst of the worst. Mao was absolutely dreadful. As were the Bolsheviks.

    • @santimarxer5784
      @santimarxer5784 Рік тому +17

      ​@@YourPalHDee It's true that more people died in Stalin's USSR and Mao's china, but the Khmer rouge killed a way higher percentage of their population. + Life in the Khmer Rouge was absolutely unbearable.

    • @Gameprojordan
      @Gameprojordan Рік тому +1

      ​​​​@@YourPalHDee Pol Pot killed a far higher percentage of Cambodia's population than Mao did to China's population, and Stalin did to the USSR's population. But yes, both Mao and Stalin killed more people each

  • @stevewhite4080
    @stevewhite4080 Рік тому +85

    My great-grandmother sacrificed her life for my uncle and grandfather during the Great Leap Forward. My great grandfather fled the country because of his money, influence over locals, and avoiding execution. My great-grandmother was thinking of selling my uncle for food but my grandfather refused. My great grandmother starved, sacrificing her food to my uncle and grandfather.
    Thank you for helping expose the crimes of the Chinese Commies.

  • @Oxygen_Addict
    @Oxygen_Addict Рік тому +698

    The title is gonna piss off some university students...

    • @lamarhoward8478
      @lamarhoward8478 Рік тому +78

      Right 😂😂

    • @nomad155
      @nomad155 Рік тому +16

      Honestly im more concerned about them tryna not be biased

    • @leonardticsay8046
      @leonardticsay8046 Рік тому +61

      There is a bias towards truth. That exists.

    • @ericsuarez834
      @ericsuarez834 Рік тому

      As long as it makes ignorant Americans happy that's all it matters

    • @danielz56037
      @danielz56037 Рік тому +59

      that's ok. some university students piss me off too.

  • @John-rn1nm
    @John-rn1nm Рік тому +327

    Tankies: Capitalists will never exploit your labor again!
    Farmers: Yeah! So we can own our own land?
    Tankies: No
    Farmers: We can sell our produce at our own prices?
    Tankies: No
    Farmers: We can eat some of the produce we make?
    Tankies: No
    Farmers: Can we stop farming and leave?
    Tankies: NO! I SAID CAPITALISTS WILL NEVER EXPLOIT YOUR LABOR AGAIN!

    • @Ace_Econ
      @Ace_Econ Рік тому +82

      I still can't understand why they think communism works

    • @zerocool5395
      @zerocool5395 Рік тому

      What's hilarious is that it's always privileged white kids that have never lived under Communism.
      They complain about the most trivial things, they couldn't survive a day under a Communist regime.

    • @AlexiaDehShark
      @AlexiaDehShark Рік тому

      ​@@Ace_EconPeople are idiotic

    • @socire72
      @socire72 Рік тому +10

      it’s the other way around. Farmers own the land they work on instead of giant corporations or landlords, they can sell their produce at their own prices (which can’t happen at a meaningful scale in capitalist nations, FYI), and obviously can eat the food they make, (source: CIA study which found the USSR had more daily caloric intake and better quality nutrition).
      Also:
      Capitalist: Commies will never exploit your labour again!
      Workers: Yeah! So we can own the tools we work with?
      Capitalists: No
      Workers: So we can sell the products we make?
      Capitalists: No
      Workers: We can use the products we make?
      Capitalists: No
      Workers: So can we stop working and leave?
      Capitalists: I said commies will never exploit you again!

    • @John-rn1nm
      @John-rn1nm Рік тому +66

      @@socire72 yeah. Tell that to the Ukrainians, Cambodians and Chinese.
      And I'm pretty sure farmers in capitalist countries, especially in Western countries do own their own land and equipment. And the successful ones are business men as well. And I'm pretty sure they can stop farming without getting shot at the back of the head.

  • @solidlightning6532
    @solidlightning6532 Рік тому +153

    "real socialism hasn't been tried yet."
    ~some college kid somewhere~

    • @solidlightning6532
      @solidlightning6532 Рік тому +35

      @nothanks9503 if by did well you mean cause massive amounts of famine and starvation from farmers having to surrender 90 percent of their crops over to the government then yes it did extremely well. You can polish a turd all you want it's still a turd.

    • @bennittotheburrito9606
      @bennittotheburrito9606 Рік тому +3

      Technically a true statement but we should probably keep it that way

    • @solidlightning6532
      @solidlightning6532 Рік тому +8

      @nothanks9503 at the beginning of agriculture everybody in some way was at least trying to farm something so in a sense food was a currency of trade but no one purposely decided "hey I'll share this with everyone." It was just the value of money then in a sense.

    • @solidlightning6532
      @solidlightning6532 Рік тому +2

      @nothanks9503 so did they have to or did they get the choice if they wanted to, also I doubt highly that people preferred beer over food.

    • @babyp1nk
      @babyp1nk Рік тому

      socialism ≠ communism

  • @Gloverfield
    @Gloverfield Рік тому +143

    Tankies when you show literally any other countries crimes: 😡
    Tankies when you show crimes of their ideology: 🤓

    • @ChesterWortham
      @ChesterWortham 10 місяців тому +3

      Wtf does tankies mean?

    • @Gloverfield
      @Gloverfield 10 місяців тому +16

      @@ChesterWortham Political insult for socialists/communists...

    • @FoxMulder-FBI
      @FoxMulder-FBI 10 місяців тому

      Pol Pot was a CIA operative not a communist

    • @moustachio05
      @moustachio05 9 місяців тому +15

      ​@@Gloverfield Not for Communists and Socialists but for Marxist-Leninists, Stalinists, Maoists etc.

    • @michaelmerritt7406
      @michaelmerritt7406 9 місяців тому +9

      ​@@ChesterWorthamAs in "Send in the tanks." It used to refer to any communist who vocally supported the brutal suppression of the Hungary revolution against the communist government, a puppet state of the Soviet Union. Nowadays it's an insult to any communist that supports harsh and unnecessarily violent methods of both instituting communist rule or maintaining it.

  • @majster5675
    @majster5675 Рік тому +221

    In many former Eastern Bloc countries it's strictly forbidden to establish political parties referring to communism in their programms, as well as fascism and nazism. It's quite often done at constitutional level and there are many good reasons to do so.

    • @Nephalem2002
      @Nephalem2002 Рік тому +40

      God I wish the West adapted the same policies….

    • @G59forlife.
      @G59forlife. Рік тому

      Can I get your number?

    • @ДокторЯдо
      @ДокторЯдо Рік тому +13

      Except in the very same countries fascist parties ARE allowed, if not de-jure, then de-facto. Anticommunism inevitably leads to fascism.

    • @hermocrasbreadlord9557
      @hermocrasbreadlord9557 Рік тому +37

      ​@@ДокторЯдоand communism inevitably leads to tyranny on par with Fascism.

    • @ДокторЯдо
      @ДокторЯдо Рік тому +1

      @@hermocrasbreadlord9557
      You're not really against the fascism, are you?

  • @masonicrat
    @masonicrat Рік тому +195

    I honestly came into this thinking: "Haha cope and seethe commies!" Now, fifty-odd-some minutes in, I'm just exhausted and depressed that this all happened and people still think this isn't objectively evil.

    • @YourPalHDee
      @YourPalHDee Рік тому

      It's really insane huh? It totally shows that contrarians will just retain their bullshit opinion no matter what.
      The thing is though, many of those people would thrive in communism because they're lazy sycophants who would sell out their neighbours to the authorities in a second.

    • @edwardbrito4010
      @edwardbrito4010 Рік тому

      I knew what I was in for have a knot in my stomach 20 minutes in knowing conditions are ripe for neo type of commieism.

    • @ntfoperative9432
      @ntfoperative9432 Рік тому

      They justify it by saying “ _that wasn’t REAL communism_ “

    • @parzavaal5335
      @parzavaal5335 Рік тому +6

      I just came for the comments but damn your comment makes me wanna watch the vid..

    • @FoxMulder-FBI
      @FoxMulder-FBI 10 місяців тому

      Pol Pot was a CIA operative not a communist

  • @kevinpeshek3387
    @kevinpeshek3387 Рік тому +112

    The fact that they put Reznov in the gulag is top tier genius

  • @gordonpeterson678
    @gordonpeterson678 9 місяців тому +29

    Imagine if fascists kept saying "It wasn't real nazism".

  • @thuledragon6663
    @thuledragon6663 Рік тому +182

    I feel like I am losing my mind when people tell me communism isn't horrible.

    • @williansnobre
      @williansnobre Рік тому

      Well, technically it is great ... as long as you have constant slave labor, otherwise it just eats the people in order to keep going. In other words, it does't work in real life.

    • @Joni_Tarvainen
      @Joni_Tarvainen Рік тому +28

      Just remember that each of those people think they would be oligarchy themselves.

    • @masonpyle5929
      @masonpyle5929 11 місяців тому

      People who say that all live in capitalist countries.

    • @xEvilRaptorx
      @xEvilRaptorx 11 місяців тому

      It is a good concept BUT it is too easily broken by corruption. Theres no checks of balance, no way to ensure things are ran fairly.
      There are just too many flaws in communism

    • @masonpyle5929
      @masonpyle5929 11 місяців тому +18

      People who say that obviously 1. don’t know history 2. never lived under a communist regime 3. Democrats or 4. College students.

  • @barricadedpurifier
    @barricadedpurifier Рік тому +105

    Thank you for doing this vid. Many folks are ignorant to the horrors of that system.

    • @MrNiceGuyHistory
      @MrNiceGuyHistory Рік тому +15

      The very sad truth..

    • @Jessie_Helms
      @Jessie_Helms Рік тому +1

      _casually ignores…_
      •1/3 of GoFundme campaigns are for medical bills
      •Literally nowhere in the US is minimum wage a livable wage
      •The country is being gutted of civil, voting, and reproductive rights
      •The USA created many of the anti-socialist or anti-communist groups that destabilized the regions
      •The fact the most powerful and rich nation on earth trying to destroy you economically had a terrible effect on you
      •The king of Belgium running The Congo in a virtually unmatched depravity
      •the entire history of the British empire’s treatment of its subjects and the natives
      There are evil people who’ve used virtually every system of governance, belief, economics, etc…
      Pretending communism is _uniquely evil_ is just laughably naive.

    • @trashcanthertrdman8459
      @trashcanthertrdman8459 Рік тому +1

      And the horrors capitalism are good? Communism will always be the end point of society, because it is the natural progression past the evils of capitalism. Cope harder

    • @sid2112
      @sid2112 Рік тому +1

      @@trashcanthertrdman8459 LOL communism is tried all the time and every single time it fails. Why? Not because evil capitalists, but because the ideology is flawed. People are not ants. We are individuals. Any system that denies individualism is doomed to fail, because people won't do what you want them to just because you want them to. Communism would be great if we were a colony species. We are not a colony species.

    • @yottadrive
      @yottadrive Рік тому +9

      Some people even knows, but they pretend they don't and some even justify it.

  • @adansalazar7838
    @adansalazar7838 Рік тому +110

    This could have been so helpful for one of my college assignments that happened month ago.

    • @agnosobosovo9775
      @agnosobosovo9775 Рік тому +10

      Tell me more. Please lol
      I'm actually interested in your story

    • @nervigeskind3131
      @nervigeskind3131 Рік тому +6

      Bro was gonna use an unimaginably biased youtube video for his college assignment 💀💀

    • @YourPalHDee
      @YourPalHDee Рік тому +13

      ​@@nervigeskind3131 "Unimaginably bias" 🙄🙄🙄
      You a fan of the Khmer Rouge? 😂 Good guys deep down

    • @Cipher71
      @Cipher71 Рік тому +3

      ​@@nervigeskind3131imagine clowning yourself so publicly 💀

    • @TheHigherVoltage
      @TheHigherVoltage Рік тому

      ​@@YourPalHDee Every political system gets started by claiming to have the best interests of the population at heart, and every political system is capable of turning a country into a slave state serving a handful on top, and using an iron fist to keep people in line if given the opportunity to do so.

  • @AOT_HxH95
    @AOT_HxH95 Рік тому +259

    "But this wasn't REAL communism." "Real communism hasn't been tried yet."

    • @socire72
      @socire72 Рік тому

      I mean literally, yes that is true. But the people that use these arguments instead of understanding with nuance are not communists, they’re usually American liberals who have been told they’re communist because the USA’s Overton window is so far to the right that there is literally no left. Bernie Sanders who is the most left wing politician is still a right wing capitalist. The last communist politician in the US was either MLK jr or Malcolm X.
      However in some cases it is literally true. The Khmer Rouge was a capitalist state funded by the CIA (this is public info btw, no conspiracy here), communist Vietnam even had to step in and liberate them.
      China is VERY arguable. Under Mao? Socialist, yes, but under Deng and Xi Jinping? It’s debatable, some may call it state capitalist.
      Communism is not achievable until the entire world becomes communist and after a few hundred years. What any ‘communist’ country of history is, is socialist. Most understand that socialism is a necessary transitionary period, but some (anarchists) believe that it all needs to happen instantly.
      It would make the job of socialist leaders a lot easier if they weren’t invaded, killed, sabotaged, or embargoed every single time… the USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, China, Burkina Faso, Libya, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Laos, and more.

    • @Johnny.Picklez
      @Johnny.Picklez Рік тому +18

      "but this wasn't REAL capitalism"
      "That's KRONIE capatalism!"

    • @AOT_HxH95
      @AOT_HxH95 Рік тому +45

      @@Johnny.Picklez Tankie.

    • @socire72
      @socire72 Рік тому +8

      @@AOT_HxH95 Coping cuz u don’t have an argument 🤣😂😂😂

    • @mutav2166
      @mutav2166 Рік тому

      It was.
      Communism a stateless,classless no monete society in wich all the MEANS OF PRODUCTION ARE OWNED BY PROLETARIAN.
      So Cambodia was Real Communism.

  • @introspection827
    @introspection827 10 місяців тому +12

    University undergrads are going to hate this one

  • @napoleonbonaparte9222
    @napoleonbonaparte9222 Рік тому +242

    I love how the tankies defense for communism is "but what about capitalism"😅

    • @remanscimitar
      @remanscimitar Рік тому +64

      "If we drop the Stalinism and Maoism, Capitalism has more blood on its hands."

    • @jaws3225
      @jaws3225 Рік тому +3

      Ikr? I love how they say “under capitalism you work or starve” but under communism you work and starve or you work, someone accuses you of being an enemy of the revolutionary state and you are killed.

    • @lunarsann5499
      @lunarsann5499 Рік тому +14

      wtf@@remanscimitar

    • @user-ve3jk4uc3o
      @user-ve3jk4uc3o Рік тому +1

      ​@@metaljunkie8393 the death toll for communism is 100 million

    • @gamejew123
      @gamejew123 Рік тому +39

      @@remanscimitar if you dropped the worlds largest country and the country with the largest population LOL

  • @bigbean4403
    @bigbean4403 Рік тому +257

    Putting the word "evil" next to communism is just saying the same thing twice

    • @psyxypher3881
      @psyxypher3881 Рік тому +4

      I think he meant to put a Semicolon after Evil.

    • @F.RO.H
      @F.RO.H Рік тому +11

      calling something evil in politics is just childish

    • @ethandixon6580
      @ethandixon6580 Рік тому

      @@F.RO.Hcope harder tankie!

    • @thereseemstobeenanerror1219
      @thereseemstobeenanerror1219 Рік тому +35

      ​​​@@F.RO.H
      Can you really look at all of this and with a straight face say that It wasn't evil.

    • @F.RO.H
      @F.RO.H Рік тому +3

      @@ethandixon6580 define tankie bb

  • @W.Stryker
    @W.Stryker Рік тому +206

    My wife is from Ukraine and she grew up during the closing years of the Soviet Union. She told me that she had nothing but disgust for the Bolsheviks. Particularly holdemor, the OMOH opening fire on unarmed civilians wanting independence.
    They tried to eliminate her language. Her culture and what’s even worse is Russia is now trying to do the same. She hates Russia to no end, and frankly don’t blame her. Modern day Russia is terrible, but communism under the Soviets was worse. No matter what. Communism is a terrible ideology.

    • @ericsuarez834
      @ericsuarez834 Рік тому +1

      Sounds like Guatemalans who lived under capitalist dictatorships, they hate the United States and the CIA with passion and nobody can blame them, the crimes that Kissinger did in Latin America to "save" them from communism are worse than any story you hear from eastern Europe

    • @barricadedpurifier
      @barricadedpurifier Рік тому +2

      What’s worse is that there are those that deny that the Holodomor and the Great Purge even happened because it’s an affront to their communist ideology and agenda.

    • @SlavicUnionGaming
      @SlavicUnionGaming Рік тому

      as a Slavic Nationalist im heavely against Slavs marrying outsiders like you

    • @B0tch0
      @B0tch0 Рік тому +10

      Communism is an ideology, and on paper it is interesting. If we think long term, when machines will replace most of us, in a post scarcity world. It could make sense again. Arguably, the world is socialist at this point even if people don't like the term. Most developed countries pay for unemployment, medicine and retirement, because it benefits society overall.

    • @mekingtiger9095
      @mekingtiger9095 Рік тому +1

      ​@@B0tch0 Imma leave a comment here just to see where future answers to your comment will lead to...

  • @gesasaint3501
    @gesasaint3501 Рік тому +55

    This should be streaming in every single US University.

    • @andydufresnefromshawshank5866
      @andydufresnefromshawshank5866 11 місяців тому

      Agreed 💯 I don’t want 50 million people going around dying just saw that our “leader” can get what he wants as a “perfect utopia”

  • @Circassiangurl2002
    @Circassiangurl2002 Рік тому +90

    Both my parents are from the USSR. My mom and grandparents would tell me stories about how they used to live and man aw man it sucked, hard. Thank God I was born 11 years after the USSR collapsed and I left my native country at 4 years old. I'm very thankful for not living in the hellhole called Ruzzia.

    • @simonstankevich2048
      @simonstankevich2048 Рік тому +12

      My dear emigrated friend, I dare to suggest that your parents did not tell you even half of what was good in the Soviet Union, which YOU are unlikely to receive in modern Europe. I say this as a person who was born in Central Asia in the 90s and left there for Russia due to national aggravations. Your media won’t tell you even 10th of the information that is freely available, but you just have to find it.

    • @indigo478
      @indigo478 Рік тому +25

      @@simonstankevich2048brother he was fucking born there and his family lived the for decades I guarantee he has a good idea of what it was like and you insinuating he doesn’t is not only stupid but insulting

    • @Circassiangurl2002
      @Circassiangurl2002 Рік тому +12

      @@indigo478 I'm a girl but thanks for defending me.

    • @norestfortheliving
      @norestfortheliving Рік тому

      ​@@indigo478it's a Russian bot, they flood any video that refutes their propaganda

    • @Mr..Malice
      @Mr..Malice Рік тому

      @@simonstankevich2048 lmao! this fuckin guy. you really think the soviet union (which IS NOT just ruzzia, by the way) was able to offer more to its captive citizens than modern europe? lay off the vodka, ivan, its clearly rotting your brain.

  • @SirToaster9330
    @SirToaster9330 Рік тому +208

    I remember one person stated capitalism caused the great depression, but they forgot that communism resulted in the most horrifying genocides in all of human history

    • @knightlord368
      @knightlord368 Рік тому +9

      Change it dictators who coused it

    • @warriorpitbull1170
      @warriorpitbull1170 Рік тому +54

      Capitalism didn't cause the depression, corruption did.

    • @kertagin1
      @kertagin1 Рік тому

      @@warriorpitbull1170 same thing with a different name. the history of capitalism shows it clearly to support corruption because it gets you the cash. it only changes once government regulation is enforced

    • @NikolaiVolkovski
      @NikolaiVolkovski Рік тому +27

      @@warriorpitbull1170capitalism always leads to corruption

    • @MrNiceGuyHistory
      @MrNiceGuyHistory Рік тому +72

      @@NikolaiVolkovski Power leads to corruption.. Be it through capitalism, communism, feudalism, theocracy, anarchism or any other social/economic system.

  • @blampfno
    @blampfno Рік тому +141

    It functions as intended, just not as advertised.

    • @patrickgjorven7832
      @patrickgjorven7832 Рік тому +20

      Ain't that the truth.

    • @raketny_hvost
      @raketny_hvost Рік тому +2

      Just like capitalism

    • @warriorpitbull1170
      @warriorpitbull1170 Рік тому +40

      @@raketny_hvost Capitalism works perfectly as long as corruption is held to account and punished accordingly. Without capitalism, you wouldn't be wearing the clothes you wear or keying words into a youtube video.

    • @Delta_3VIII
      @Delta_3VIII Рік тому +28

      ​@@raketny_hvostladys and gentlemen, that comment was written on an invention that was made under a Capitalist system... 😂
      Sorry but despite all its problems, so far capitalism is the best system we had so far and most of its problems are far worse under Bullshit like Communism in example Problem number one CORRUPTION. Furthermore i can't remember the last time we had massive famines in the west, under communism on the other hand... Well so far Vietnam is the only red country i know of that isn't widely known for things like the Holodomor or the great leap forward 🤣

    • @raketny_hvost
      @raketny_hvost Рік тому

      @@warriorpitbull1170 >perfectly
      I got it. I just found ancient cave with market fans of 60s lmao. Didn't know I'll find such a treasure😁

  • @ЄвгенійОстроверхов

    To all unironic tankies here:
    I sincerely hope there will be a chance to build a real communism simulator (unlike in your bs fantasies) where for once you can experience it for real.
    With worst wishes,
    A guy from post-communist nation.

    • @YourPalHDee
      @YourPalHDee Рік тому +4

      They're unbearable, eh?
      "I did a semester in University, so I know exactly how Communism works"

    • @cristopher_azerbaijao
      @cristopher_azerbaijao Рік тому +7

      bro u don't know what gomunism iz

    • @pizdrinkah
      @pizdrinkah Рік тому +23

      what no reading does to an mf

    • @yottadrive
      @yottadrive Рік тому

      ​​@@pizdrinkahPeople shouldn't be thrusted by what they say, they should be thrusted by what they do. Marx and Lenin wrote something, the commies did otherwise. There's two types of people who says "yOu DoN't KnOw WhAt CoMmUnIsM iS": Id10ts and liars.

    • @Grundrisse
      @Grundrisse Рік тому +10

      @@pizdrinkah Reading is authoritarian.

  • @kbflatt8295
    @kbflatt8295 Рік тому +29

    When a collage student proceeds to respond with "Real communism hasn't been tried yet".
    Then we get to spam the clown emoji.

    • @zangrygrapes4571
      @zangrygrapes4571 Рік тому +7

      or this emoji 🤓

    • @ScorpioBornIn69
      @ScorpioBornIn69 8 місяців тому

      That college student is to go to N. Korea for a month and see for him/herself that the regime there is *real communism.*

  • @AhmedHussain-yg9lb
    @AhmedHussain-yg9lb Рік тому +8

    As a Godzilla fan, hearing the GOAT og 1954 roar at 25:01 is AWESOME
    great vid as well btw

  • @articoolmix9250
    @articoolmix9250 Місяць тому +4

    My great-great grandpa miraculosly survived Holodomor in Kuban (today Russia, but at that time mostly Ukrainian region culturally and nationally). In 1930 he had a fight with a member of the Communist Party, and because of it was sent to a concentration camp near Astrakhan. In 1932 the Holodomor has started, and it killed the whole family of my great-great grandpa, but he himself survived, because he worked on the Volga river, which was full of fish.

  • @destructor3152
    @destructor3152 Рік тому +37

    My former neighbor lost all of her family to the khmer rouge. She eventually had kids.

  • @blackmetalfollower666offic9
    @blackmetalfollower666offic9 10 місяців тому +19

    As a Polish man who's family was victimised by communists and been hearing the communist for years at the university and streets of UK, thank you for that video. I hope people will know more.

  • @Z0nor
    @Z0nor 5 місяців тому +11

    The Tankies coping is fucking insane.

  • @bluesheep2021
    @bluesheep2021 Рік тому +136

    Evil is just redundant here.

  • @Gaster_021
    @Gaster_021 Рік тому +71

    Communism is the very definition of failure
    Biggest problem with people who wants communism, is that they forget what communism does and gives; and this is what it will bring.
    Communism has caused nothing but pain and suffering for the entire world. Everywhere communism is implanted; the citizens of that nation suffer. All for the power of one tyrant. Many praise communism, but that’s because they don’t truly understand the price it has. The price they will make their people pay.
    - Communism is a form of religion as they communist parties practically makes the people worship them and the ideology (look at early Soviet Union with Stalin, and look at China with Mao and the current dictator of China).

    • @amadeusagripino6862
      @amadeusagripino6862 Рік тому

      Communism is the ideology of the envious

    • @jubjub15
      @jubjub15 Рік тому +8

      Communism is just a shortcut to absolute power like an Absolute Monarchy. Look at Pol Pot he behaved no differently than a king

    • @brokehobo1909
      @brokehobo1909 Рік тому

      religion killed more people than communism has ever existed

    • @borkistanon4194
      @borkistanon4194 Рік тому +1

      ​@@jubjub15he made Tamerlane look like a saint

    • @IsmaelSantos-xv9qf
      @IsmaelSantos-xv9qf Рік тому +5

      Indeed. Communism, like all forms of Socialism, is a religion, a cult.
      TIKHistory's videos on the subject as well as James Lindsay's "The Negation of the Real" are spot on

  • @jmogler
    @jmogler Рік тому +10

    "It had been hoped that by stealing everyone's property, fruits of their labor and forcibly making them work on communal (state owned) land in colonies of total strangers that production and efficiency would increase"
    Stupider words have never been said.

  • @gkr2189
    @gkr2189 3 місяці тому +5

    I felt a million tankers cry out in terror before being suddenly silenced...

  • @Kimberly-xi5fc
    @Kimberly-xi5fc 9 місяців тому +5

    My uncle was deployed to Korea. In the middle of his unit engaging the enemy, one of the guys in his group pulled a pin on a grenade, and his idea of throwing was to let it roll back in his hand and past his fingers so it landed in the foxhole with the rest of the men. My uncle saw this and ordered everyone out of the foxhole, pushing the last guy out, meaning he was the one that took the brunt of the blast. Luckily he lived, although he had a back full of shrapnel, as well as missing most of his left foot. But, after that incident, he was discharged and got to recuperate stateside, so I guess that was something.

  • @gamingmoth4542
    @gamingmoth4542 9 місяців тому +14

    "But but but... That wasn't REAL communism. Real communism is the fictional utopia vision I have in my head."

    • @danielethell2951
      @danielethell2951 2 місяці тому +1

      If only communism was utopian, but it’s NOT. And you’d actually know that if you read some theory. Try ‘Socialism: Utopian & Scientific’ by Engels

    • @gamingmoth4542
      @gamingmoth4542 Місяць тому +2

      @@danielethell2951 I don't support communism. I'm being sarcastic.

  • @figo3554
    @figo3554 Рік тому +57

    I talked to someone who grew up in east berlin. They talked about the political indoctrination, the lack of food variety, and how it generally just sucked. Then they talked about how much better life got when the berlin wall fell. Don't take it from me, take it from someone who actually lived under communism. It sucked.

    • @ericsuarez834
      @ericsuarez834 Рік тому

      Have you ever spoken with someone from Haiti?

    • @figo3554
      @figo3554 Рік тому +12

      ​@ericsuarez834, I've been to Haiti, actually. Doesnt seem like the conditions there are great, but it is a beautiful country. I did speak to someone there, but it was more haggling then casual conversation.

    • @reliantncc1864
      @reliantncc1864 Рік тому +2

      The celebrations when the Berlin Wall fell were some of the biggest and most enthusiastic in history. For a while there, Germans on both sides were the happiest people in the world. I wish the same for Koreans.

    • @grundgesetzart.1463
      @grundgesetzart.1463 Рік тому +1

      Yes I guess they like the muslim invasion and munching Döner much better now...lol.

    • @grundgesetzart.1463
      @grundgesetzart.1463 Рік тому

      @@reliantncc1864 my parents and relatives were not celebrating, they were gathering their East German marks to quickly exchange them 1:1 for D-Mark and then they moved to Austria in 1993. They knew and understood that Germany was fcked at that moment. We have seen that there is nothing to celebrate. At all.

  • @thejudge2778
    @thejudge2778 Рік тому +1

    What is Pike armor

  • @justsam1176
    @justsam1176 Рік тому +9

    There are 2 tourist attraction locations in cambodia thats related to the whole khmer rogue thing. 1 S21 can be visited some stuff are still left there for viewing. 2 a ''museum'' is built to display the skeletons of the dead from that era expect to step on random human bone that isnt in display.

    • @MrBannystar
      @MrBannystar 10 місяців тому

      I've visited both, truly horrifying, and they don't hold back with the details.

  • @jakiscossack8719
    @jakiscossack8719 Рік тому +39

    you forgot to mentioned the soviets prewar and war crimes in whole eastern, central, south and west europe. They also carried out ethnic cleansing

    • @aliakber775
      @aliakber775 Рік тому +2

      He pretty much explains popular infamous cases

  • @BlueSlimett
    @BlueSlimett Рік тому +39

    i dont see the dislikes but i can feel it

    • @gustaftheone9279
      @gustaftheone9279 Рік тому +3

      😂😂

    • @gustaftheone9279
      @gustaftheone9279 Рік тому +28

      They’re all literally shaking in anger while texting on their iPhones, in a safe warm environment. It’s just all so inhumane

    • @amadeusagripino6862
      @amadeusagripino6862 Рік тому +19

      As of now, 318 dislikes to 4.3k likes. It seems redditors didn't caught up yet.

    • @socire72
      @socire72 Рік тому

      @@gustaftheone9279Yes because capitalism made the iPhone. It wasn’t the hundreds of workers and engineers, no no no, it was big daddy Steve Jobs. All him. He actually manufactured every single iPhone himself, it wasn’t the workers, they didn’t help at all. Also I have no heating because it’s too expensive, i can only use it if it’s really cold.

  • @BioChemistryWizard
    @BioChemistryWizard Рік тому +20

    “There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.” - Oswald Spengler.

  • @davidlangham5335
    @davidlangham5335 Рік тому +22

    every kid in the USA needs to watch this. Even normally at work in a free society people rat each other out for little things. Jjust think what wound happen

  • @Swagmaster07
    @Swagmaster07 Рік тому +13

    Respect to Vietnam for stoping Pol Pot

  • @williammorris3303
    @williammorris3303 11 місяців тому +6

    As an american I think it is important to pay attention and see what our near future is going to look like. Especially since the american public has decided to accept and embrace our move to communism

  • @LeonP-my6ic
    @LeonP-my6ic 10 місяців тому +11

    10 million Ukrainians alone were murdered by Stalin through starvation.

  • @MonsterHunter267
    @MonsterHunter267 5 місяців тому +3

    PLEASE show this in all colleges and universities.

  • @antoniomoreira5921
    @antoniomoreira5921 Рік тому +48

    I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's "On the Soviet abomination of humanity": that really opens your mind

  • @MasterChees117
    @MasterChees117 Рік тому +16

    “B-But Comm’uwu’nism had never been tried before”
    -Tankie

  • @WideMouth
    @WideMouth Рік тому +12

    “Evil communist” is redundant.

  • @zee7056
    @zee7056 Рік тому +62

    The tankies won't like this one.

    • @ericsuarez834
      @ericsuarez834 Рік тому

      Nobody cares anymore, gringos are not very smart so what's the point on debate?

    • @SwfanredLotr
      @SwfanredLotr Рік тому +1

      Neither their hero writer Grover Furr

  • @user-mz6sh4uo7u
    @user-mz6sh4uo7u 10 місяців тому +4

    this is why "sci-fi" movies like the hunger games scare me, cuz like jokes they gotta be based off some kind of truth

  • @Justaguy0111
    @Justaguy0111 Рік тому +46

    redditors wont be happy you called their favorite people evil.

  • @schlirf
    @schlirf Рік тому +25

    Watched two of those regimes while patrolling the Grenz with the 1/1 CAV and 11th ACR.

    • @spearsblog
      @spearsblog Рік тому +5

      I am in the 1 CAV too you are the legend sir thank you for your service

  • @quocnampham9575
    @quocnampham9575 Рік тому +5

    "2 million Cambodian soldiers in exchange for 50 million Vietnamese people" the head of the Pol Pot regime once said. Vietnamese soldiers sacrificed their lives to free the Cambodian people from Pol Pot's rule, but the Cambodian people later did not appreciate what we gave them. They went on social networks and cursed the Vietnamese people, the people who liberated them. I'm sorry that my uncle had to sacrifice himself for ungrateful Cambodians. I know not all Cambodians are like that, but now it has become a big problem in the awareness of the next generation of Cambodians

  • @j.robertsergertson4513
    @j.robertsergertson4513 Рік тому +55

    And in The united States of America ,gen Z college kids cheer and loudly proclaim how Awesome communism is

    • @YourPalHDee
      @YourPalHDee Рік тому +2

      Yeah, the useful idiots are only ever 2 generations away at most.

    • @fitriroslan403
      @fitriroslan403 Рік тому +3

      Communism is awesome

    • @j.robertsergertson4513
      @j.robertsergertson4513 Рік тому +19

      @@fitriroslan403 okay Groomer .then move to Venezuela or China !

    • @fitriroslan403
      @fitriroslan403 Рік тому +2

      @@j.robertsergertson4513 Communism is awesome

    • @j.robertsergertson4513
      @j.robertsergertson4513 Рік тому +13

      @@fitriroslan403 heard you the first time Groomer ,did you book your trip china yet ?

  • @opoxious1592
    @opoxious1592 9 місяців тому +8

    And imagine all those woke people who admire this ideoligy today.

  • @HelmetOfHonor
    @HelmetOfHonor Рік тому +10

    "But that wasn't true Communism." A socialist's biased argument

  • @evanatorextreme1065
    @evanatorextreme1065 Рік тому +5

    0:07- The Khmer Rouge (Cambodia)
    11:29- The Vorkuta Gulag (Russia)
    17:50- Kim Jong Il (North Korea)
    27:35- The Great Leap Forward (China)
    35:46- The Nazino Island Tragedy (Russia)
    43:58- The KGB (Russia)
    53:12- Hungarian Uprising of 1956 (Hungary)
    55:45- A Day in the Life of Josef Stalin (Russia)
    1:03:52- The Kim Dynasty (North Korea)
    1:11:46- Holodomor (Ukraine)
    1:20:08- Perestroika and Glasnost (Russia)

    • @socire72
      @socire72 Рік тому +1

      *USSR not Russia. Also Cambodia wtf? They weren’t communist, the CIA literally funded them

    • @RaRd8z
      @RaRd8z Рік тому +3

      @@socire72 Pol Pot was literally funded and supported by Mao. The Americans only later funded them for strategic reasons against vietnam. Cambodia was still marxist.

  • @kagemaru259
    @kagemaru259 Рік тому +23

    And there are seriously people here that think America should be Communist…

    • @S0me0ne353
      @S0me0ne353 Рік тому +1

      socialist, possibly marxist. But not stalinism, maoism or anything of that line.

    • @MikeJProto
      @MikeJProto Рік тому +10

      @@S0me0ne353 Socialism and Marxism both lead directly to Stalinism and Maoism.

    • @S0me0ne353
      @S0me0ne353 Рік тому

      @@MikeJProto no? they are 4 different political systems...

    • @stefthorman8548
      @stefthorman8548 Рік тому

      like how cocaine and opium are different substances@@S0me0ne353

    • @IsmaelSantos-xv9qf
      @IsmaelSantos-xv9qf Рік тому

      @@S0me0ne353 You have no idea.
      The Woke Cult is Maoist in nature, at least the militant ("activist") arm.

  • @xXUltimate_GopnikXx
    @xXUltimate_GopnikXx Рік тому +6

    I like how they Added Reznov to the Vorkuta scene's

  • @feet1914
    @feet1914 Рік тому +8

    no way there are still people supporting and very liked communism/socialism countries like real crazy

    • @amadeusagripino6862
      @amadeusagripino6862 Рік тому +7

      There is, and you know why? Because these people are envious, wrathful and, above all, want to have power over their neighbours and everyone else.

    • @socire72
      @socire72 Рік тому +1

      @@amadeusagripino6862Isn’t that what capitalism is?

    • @amadeusagripino6862
      @amadeusagripino6862 Рік тому +5

      @@socire72 pal, you think I'll answer seriously to someone who uses a photo of that P.O.S. Marx as avatar?

  • @MikeJProto
    @MikeJProto Рік тому +8

    "bUt iT wAsn'T _rEaL_ cOmMuniSm!!1!11!"

  • @veritassyfer1185
    @veritassyfer1185 11 місяців тому +11

    College kids in America be like "But this isn't REAL socialism. This is all fake news by conservatives. I studied liberal arts for one semester and I am an expert in political science"

  • @bruhism173
    @bruhism173 Рік тому +24

    The Khmer was literally just insane

  • @carlosvalerochavez3045
    @carlosvalerochavez3045 5 місяців тому +7

    I will always see the hammer and sickle the same way i see the swastika.

    • @JH4RPshorts
      @JH4RPshorts 5 місяців тому +5

      I had an old internet friend from HS turn tankie on me and get extremely offended when I made the same exact statement to him. Needless to say we are no longer friends.

  • @mr.histor1996
    @mr.histor1996 Рік тому +46

    "Evil Communist" seems redundant.

    • @ComicToonProductions
      @ComicToonProductions Рік тому +5

      It's a channel run by capitalistic writers we assume.

    • @aidan1R
      @aidan1R Рік тому +34

      ​@@ComicToonProductionscry about it.

    • @tomasolavarria7504
      @tomasolavarria7504 Рік тому +28

      @@ComicToonProductions cry

    • @bushsbakedbaby1374
      @bushsbakedbaby1374 Рік тому +29

      ​@ComicToonProductions
      "Nooooo, there was a mistake, I was supposed to create cartoons that glorify communism!"
      "Stfu now dig the hole"

    • @TheStrongestKyle1
      @TheStrongestKyle1 Рік тому +2

      @@bushsbakedbaby1374 "communism is when you dig holes" -Carl Marks

  • @crookedtoothcustoms6316
    @crookedtoothcustoms6316 Рік тому +8

    With all the talk of communism in the U.S. now makes me wonder if Russia was attempting to play the long game over decades

  • @Demolitiondude
    @Demolitiondude Рік тому +15

    Why communism sucks, extended cut.

  • @familygash7500
    @familygash7500 Рік тому +27

    27:35 *MAO:* Yeah, that's one fine looking Great Leap Forward. : )
    27:39 *ALSO, MAO:* WHY DOESN'T *MINE* LOOK LIKE THAT?! > : (
    *PROCEEDS TO ANGRILY GO BERSERK*

    • @IceGamez
      @IceGamez Рік тому +4

      Similar to the simpsons when Homer was assembling the bbq pit 🤣🤣🤣

  • @JunAe-Ri
    @JunAe-Ri 4 місяці тому +1

    As someone who wasnt taught this in world history back in high school, i truly appreciated this video. I had no idea that Cambodia suffered like this. And the fact that Pol Pot never faced justice for these atrocious acts is just truly sickening. I really pray for the souls who didnt survive the genocide. Hopefully they finally are resting in peace.

  • @yottadrive
    @yottadrive Рік тому +48

    Saying "evil" and "communist" in the same phrase is like saying "wet water".

    • @АлександрЛюбавин-э9ъ
      @АлександрЛюбавин-э9ъ Рік тому +2

      Copium is strong in you😂

    • @ur_tiger469
      @ur_tiger469 Рік тому

      @@АлександрЛюбавин-э9ъ delusion is strong in you

    • @socire72
      @socire72 Рік тому

      Communists helped my country be independent. Capitalists murdered half my country’s population in a genocides. I’ll figure out which one is evil myself, thank you.

    • @stefthorman8548
      @stefthorman8548 Рік тому

      that's you@@АлександрЛюбавин-э9ъ

    • @grbbsc
      @grbbsc Рік тому +10

      @@АлександрЛюбавин-э9ъ how is that cope? he literally just stated an objective fact

  • @BacchusAdoneus
    @BacchusAdoneus Рік тому +10

    For all the Western "trendies" who champion communism... this is the reality of it. We need more superb videos like this to show what it was like for people who lived under the most evil of all political doctrines. Every story is important. Every young person in the West needs educating on the horrors and dangers of communism.

    • @aperson696
      @aperson696 5 місяців тому

      yep communism suckssss my dad was in china during the famine and he got nothing his family nearly died they legit got a bowl of rice max a day no meat at all for anyone

  • @The_JagerMeister
    @The_JagerMeister 10 місяців тому

    15:09 I’ve watched this channel for years and decided to watch this compilation tonight. I just loved the little add in for Vorkuta Reznov and Sergei from Call of Duty Black Ops. Loved the little add in Simple History

  • @alandaniel8098
    @alandaniel8098 Рік тому +7

    keep up the good work!

  • @Based1real
    @Based1real Рік тому +6

    24:03 Party music goes hard. Supreme leader had some good taste

  • @strongback6550
    @strongback6550 Рік тому +7

    When world becomes communist, I am going to recite slam poetry to children in a quaint all-vegans state paid coffee and pastry shop.
    What do you mean the party has decided that I need to mine Bauxite by hand 14 hours a day for aluminum factories?
    There must be some mistake. I am an expressive dance artist, not a laborer.

  • @AbstractAimOfficial
    @AbstractAimOfficial Рік тому +4

    I love the Simple History animation of the call of duty black ops 1 escape from vorkuda

  • @FunnyStripes
    @FunnyStripes Рік тому +86

    Oh boy, prepare for Reddit and the Breadtubers to soon come here and go "it wasn't real communism xd".

    • @ericsuarez834
      @ericsuarez834 Рік тому

      Who cares, gringos eat propaganda like a fat kid eats candy they wouldn't understand even if you try to explain them

    • @boad8270
      @boad8270 Рік тому +1

      well by definition it was not

    • @theman-wq5on
      @theman-wq5on Рік тому +22

      ​@@boad8270communism was first used in russia, happened in russia and so on
      if, to you, lenin isn't a real communist, then i dont know what to tell you

    • @FunnyStripes
      @FunnyStripes Рік тому +8

      @@boad8270 Here comes the first, lulz

    • @amadeusagripino6862
      @amadeusagripino6862 Рік тому

      ​@@king_vasuki2692 Marx was a bum

  • @tonysuthechineseguy
    @tonysuthechineseguy 9 місяців тому +2

    My late grand father from my mother's side joined the CCP when he was 14 and was in the army during ww2,civil war and korean war as a field medic. He became a heart surgeon after the war and was always looked after by the party. When he visited me in Canada he told me Canada is more communist then China in its social welfare. I think to this day i still think socialism is a good concept just impossible to realize in real life.

  • @based_onwhat
    @based_onwhat Рік тому +44

    "iT wAsn'T _rEaL_ cOmmUniSm!!11!"
    "b-b-but capitalism!1!11"
    "prOpagAnda!11!"
    what are some other generic 'arguments' from the useful idiots?

    • @MikeJProto
      @MikeJProto Рік тому +18

      'Hasan told me so!'

    • @sharky7002
      @sharky7002 Рік тому +18

      “The numbers are all exaggerated”

    • @IsmaelSantos-xv9qf
      @IsmaelSantos-xv9qf Рік тому +8

      @@sharky7002 Which is hilarious because the biggest numbers in several cases came from the declassified archives or logs of the regimes themselves.

    • @zangrygrapes4571
      @zangrygrapes4571 Рік тому +11

      "propoganda!!!. only a million died from the great leap forward, not 60 million!!" (this is an actual argument i once heard heard from tankies btw)

    • @cherryxbomba4729
      @cherryxbomba4729 11 місяців тому +3

      @@zangrygrapes4571 damn, thats just sad

  • @2serveand2protect
    @2serveand2protect Рік тому +6

    I was born under that wretched regime in Poland. When Jaruzelski introduced his martial law in winter '81-'82 I was barely seven, and the sight of paramilitary "police" squads on vodka and amphetamines, beating innocent people to death and CRUSHING HUNGRY PEOPLE WHO HAD ENOUGH OF THEIR LIES WITH ARMOURED TRUCKS - THAT I still do remember like it was yesterday.
    3 kms from my old home in Katowice still stands a coalmine, named "Wujek". When you're there today you'll notice a monument - three tall crosses - erected in the memory of all the coal miners who went on strike there, because THEY HAD ENOUGH!...and were MOWED DOWN BY MACHINE GUNFIRE. The "almighty party" was shooting COALMINERS in the self-proclaimed "paradise of peasants and workers" - AIN'T THAT IRONIC??
    PS. BTW! After half my family died under that regime I was lucky to escape for a while - I came to the "Democratic" and "sophisticated" West - where people who never spent one minute of their lives under communism would "SCHOOL" ME (ME out of all!) about how "MARX WAS GREAT" and "COMMUNISM was "GREAT" and even STALIN was "great"! NONE of them even knew the meaning of the word "HUNGER" ...and daddy would always bring them to shool in a nice, new Mercedes or even Porsche. These were (AND ARE!) the "Western communists" - supposedly "smart" people - some of them even educated in Universities!

  • @ReconPro
    @ReconPro Рік тому +15

    I thought the thumbnail was McDonalds!

  • @LioneMessiGOAT
    @LioneMessiGOAT Рік тому +5

    Wow the bo1 reference took me back

  • @loadge
    @loadge Рік тому +8

    Excellent content.