Socialism is good. I'd prefer not to have a repeat of the USSR's Totalism though. We should give libertarian socialism a go. Anarcho-Syndicalism, Council Communism, things like these.
Anti Fascist Action how would a stateless society actually work on a large scale? In this world of today where every single region, state or province in the world is reliant on resources from the exterior there must be a regulatory force behind it, whether it is a market or a government. The world is no longer self sufficient and with this large of a population it cannot become self sufficient. A barter system cannot work today simply because the nature of trade is too international. Yes a person could trade seeds for meat today but that person can't trade seeds for copper, lithium, steel, plastic, glass, aluminum and rubber to make a car and distribute that same car on an international scale
I'm actually not against currency, or governance for that matter so long as said government is directly re-callable at anytime and is not bought out by corporations. Only way to keep corporate interest out of politics is to get rid of corporations.
Godlike Fam socialism has only taken root in countries where people living in poverty have been pushed to socialism. Russia wasn’t impoverished after I️t became socialist, socialism dragged Russia out of an agrarian based society and into an industrial powerhouse that rivaled the United States. Also, keep in mind that in countries like Cuba and North Korea, there’s massive sanctions and embargo’s against them. And another thing, North Korea has had trouble with food because their agriculture was flooded and destroyed during the Korean War by their dams being bombed and also having a colder climate making I️t harder to produce food. Also, in Cuba, despite the sanctions, Cuba has developed vaccines for certain cancers and has a global health initiative.
+Madman F1 Yes, that was a surprising omission. This video made it seem like all the Bolsheviks had to do was take the Winter Palace to control the country. It wasn't that simple.
I do home schooling and you only have a week to 2 weeks to do a project then you move on so I had to do the history of Russia and France and this is perfect! It's so fast and gives me the information I need without spending hours reading notes and articles. Thank you so much!
I just got a whole lot happier after seeing you'd uploaded. Another excellent video, John! I've always said, none of us can expect you to just upload a new video every hour or whatever, and those that do can literally f**k off. You're a busy person, you can't always dedicate your time to UA-cam, and some people need to get that into their thick skulls. I am interested in your new book, and hopefully I'll be purchasing it soon. Although, knowing me I'll end up forgetting or something...but yeah, another great video. Good luck on your other endeavours!
Ruddy this is a great vid as usual, the drawings are so detailed I really appreciate all the work that must go into these :) also the typography of 'st Petersburg' at 3:15 is beautiful
It is so sad that people always forget the civil war simply saying it happened for years and millions died Others don't even mention it... No big deal?
The White Wolfe If you're believing Solzhenitsyn, then you're batshit insane. This guy literally had "liar"-LZHETS in his name and this stories are bullshit. Just look at census of population and you'll find out that it was growing whole time on millions with only exceptions of civil war and world war. And there is no demographic pit, unlike, say, Campuchia, where Pol Pot indead made genocide.
My dad told me that my great-grandfather was a Russian soldier during WW1 that fled to Serbia in 1918 to escape communism. With the USSR, he died in 1990. He died being 97 years old even tho he fought in two absolutely terrifying wars. I wish i had the chance to meet him
1:37 mistake, kind of a big one - This mass of people gathered there not to protest against the Tsar, but to meet him and explain him their problems, also having a list of ideas (such as lesser work hours). That's why (and also bcs sunday) everyone was dressed in their best and sang orthodox hymns. Btw, the Tsar was not even in the city at that time. So this whole shooting from the soldiers was just a huge mistake from the city's governor. Sad truth.
The part where you mentioned how Rasputins was dug up and burned, and then the body sat up for just a second was great, seeing as that actually happened, though it was due to retracting heat.
How accurate! You described with so much details. I'm Russian, I read articles about the revolution. You haven't missed anything important. You even properly wrote texts in foreign language. You're a good hisrorian I guess.
Lenin put an end to Russian involvement in World War I- Peace! Lenin nationalized land and distributed it among the peasents-land! Lenin collectivized bread and formed the foundations of it's full implementation in the 1930s to stop constant famines in the Russian Empire- Bread!
@@lastnamefirstname5295 only 1 famine happened in the USSR (Holodomor) and that's it. Meanwhile in the Russian Empire, there were constant famines because the nobility, and the rich peasents would hoard grain. Most other peasents then wouldn't have food so famine.
@@GeneralissimusStalin17 The easier, albeit less informative, way of putting it would have been to say, "Famine? Starving masses? Oh, that was Stalin."
@@spaghettimon3851 Fascism and Communism are just two sides of the same coin so stop glorifying one and demonizing the other cause they both suck, and Stalin was just a douchbag that just wanted to stay in power
Some notes. Petrograd Soviet had to work with Duma due to Duma having the legislative power (Emperor gave them the imperial seal) Also, the October Revplution becoming public was not actually done for publicity. Party officials that did NOT agree with doing it at that particular time, made it public.
13 points I want to point out since I am a communist who is well studied on the USSR and the Russian Revolution. 1: Every communist and/or socialist will say that before a "communist utopia" is reached there is the transition phase which is socialism. Communism, a global classless, stateless society, is not able to be obtained in a situation where the capitalist imperialist hold some form of power, for pushing a nation to statelessness and classlessness would leave the region weak enough to be dominated by capitalist imperialists. The natural progression of society is to move from capitalism to a workers socialist state, to where state withers away in to communism once capitalism has collapsed globally. 2: Lenin never believed a communist revolution (the correct term is socialist revolution) would succeed by the strong leadership of one person or a few. Lenin believed and argued that the most advanced sections of the working class must become class conscious and take the duty of leading the working class to class consciousness and class war against the capitalist class who exploits them. Then, once a workers state is established, the working class must take position in local soviets, voting in representatives from among the working class, who will also sit upon the supreme soviet (congress) to deal with national issues. The subject of how the party worked was everyone had a single vote, and no one, not even the leader of the party, could overrule another and consolidate power for themselves. For more on the soviet government and electoral system I recommend the following video: ua-cam.com/video/9PoYzPfguJc/v-deo.html 3: Thing I need to add on regards to the Agricultural farmers and WWI; due to the war there was a wealthy class among the farmers called kulaks who bought 9/10ths of all the farm land in Russia. Why is this important? Because around 1927-28, the kulaks started hoarding food to cause a crisis in the USSR, which lead to collectivization in 1928 to take the farms and feed the people again, which caused a revolt by the kulaks who burned food supplies and killed livestock, ultimately leading to the famine of 1932-33. I know this isn't related to the video but none the less still important to add. 4: Lenin and his comrades (he had a group of revolutionary communists with him when they went back to Russia) was terrified to head back, expecting to be arrested at any time during the trip due to a large number of communist revolutionaries heading to a country that is on its last legs. 5: Lenin's main goal was to take Russia out of the war because it goes in line with the communist view of war. That being to maintain peace and diplomacy and to never go in to war unless on the grounds of self-defense (such as the example of WWII when the soviet's declared to fight off the Nazi invasion) 6: Trotsky was not a Bolshevik he was a Menshevik. The only reason he was involved with the soviets was due to his amazing military strategy, which is why he was made general of the Red Army for a short time, before he let his genocidal tendencies get the better of him, gained the name of a butcher, and was, as result, removed from his post. 7: The Bolsheviks grew in popularity due the the fact that they was well organized and doing a lot for the working people in Russia, the Mensheviks and revolutionary socialists was very unorganized, fighting among themselves, and doing little for the people of Russia. 8: The Mensheviks always fought with the Bolsheviks, even before the revolution the Menshevik, Leon Trotsky, slandered Lenin and the Bolshevik movement, in which Lenin returned the favor on multiple occasions within his collected works (Lenin's collected works is 45 volumes.) Of course with the popularity of the Bolsheviks and them rising to power, the Mensheviks would act sore and mad and complain of "power grab" when the opposite was the case. 9: Lenin and his movement had the majority support from the working people, if they didn't the revolution would have collapsed. Lenin was elected head of state (the status of leader.) 10: The Tsar, specifically Nicholas and his wife, was guilty of mass starvations, unethical treatment of the working class people, forcing workers in to a war, unloading shots in to protesters, etc. They deserved their execution. The children I disagree with deserved execution, however the way the entire event took place, it felt like it was done at a local level by a unregulated group rather than by the orders of Lenin. 11: In 1947 the countries who became part of the Soviet Union didn't get "absorbed", they joined by free will. Some of the nations joined after the Soviets came to fix the nations up due to the destruction of Nazi invasion. Ask a lot of the people from those nations and a good chunk will talk of how the Nazis came and destroyed everything in a brutal genocidal campaign, and then the soviets came and built schools, hospitals, etc. 12: The anti-Bolshevik forces was interested in re-establishing the monarchy, and was aided by over 7 capitalist countries around the globe. They went from city to city in Russia killing entire towns, repressing pro-communist civilians, etc. They was the fascists before Nazi Germany. There was even other sects during the revolution such as the anarchist faction who pretty much did the same thing the white army did, while fighting the white army as well. 13: The "early bloody years of the Soviet Union" was more so during the periods of the revolution and the civil war, after that the only other times it was bloody was during the revolts of the kulaks and the "great" purge, which was carried out under a corrupt NKVD officer called Yezov who targeted government officials. He was later arrested along with the purgers, tried, found guilty, and executed.
fun fact: animal farm is meant to be an analogy of the russian revolution and the beginning of the cold war. because of this, the cia funded the creation of the 1954 movie
0:07 the only problem is that the United States is not an empire was never one will never be one! A democracy republic is total different from an empire! The only thing The US has in common is that it’s big and powerful that’s it! Just want to make that clear!
Iamtherevolution It's called "christian communism". Apperently they belive that Jesus was a communist and the society he created was a communist society.
kok namm liberation theology a set of teachings which emphasizes freedom and socialism. "It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to pass into heaven" Jesus Christ
Most supporters of communism I have met always got 2 things wrong. 1) They think there is a fixed amount of wealth in the country, and the rich are unfairly taking up way more than their "fair share". When actually, basic economics says wealth does not have a fixed quantity, wealth can be created by producing value. So almost all rich people create most of their wealth through their businesses/jobs and are not taking up someone else's money. 2) They believe that a company's profits must be equally divided among the workers as they are the ones who do all the work. This is a total ignorance and completely disregard the amount of effort and skill needed for an entrepreneur to start and efficiently run a consistently profitable business. If the workers were smart enough to run the company themselves they would/could have started their own ventures. But no, these workers want a "safe" source of income where they are guranteed to get paid for working for a fixed amount of hours a week and want minimum risk. Hence they myst accept limited payment, while the entreprenur is rewarded with all the profits for building a business which provides value and creates jobs.
Dem pesky workers wanting better future for their children and better life for themselves in a country created by their sweat and defended by their blood! How dare they! Jokes aside, you got some things "wrong" too, so don't call other people ignorant when they make mistakes, alright? Communism is the best idea and the best economic model ever created, I truly believe in that. The only flaw it has is a fatal one, though: it is completely fantastic utopia, as proven by many countries. If you want, we can discuss it further, but judging from your post I think you are already biased against other models than capitalism. Would be glad to find out I was wrong though.
Yes let us ignore fundamental ideas in economics like the finite amount of resources and infinite demand. While wealth certainly isn't a fixed value, there are only so many resources, and those resources have to be distributed in some manner. How those resources are distributed is the primary difference between the two economic systems. One relies on prices/demand, the other government decree. Second, the concern that many self described communists have is that administrators do not generate as much economic value as they would like you to believe. They want to live in a world were people are rewarded for the work they produce, which isn't counter the ideals of capitalism. Administrators and entrepreneurs do provide a service, which has economic value, but then we come to the issue that many of the worlds richest people make the majority of their money not by producing anything of value, but by charging money for access. I'm going to use the idea of Georgism, which was the idea that inspired the game "Monopoly" and which some of the the U.S. Founding Fathers believed in. *Does it make sense that someone can make money by renting out space on a piece of land?* Now, I recognize that being a landlord today comes with many tasks and responsibilities, but we're going to ignore those for a second. If you were to rent out a piece of land for someone to use, do you generate anything of value? The right to own property is protected by the government, so you don't need really to have a giant army to stake your claim and defend it against others who to try to take your land, so the government generates that value, not you. You are not making new land. If you don't generate any value, then why are you rewarded financially for it? The idea was that since the government is providing the service, the government should reap the financial reward, or the soldiers and police officers that work for it. This became the foundation of the modern property tax. The same argumentation can apply to lending money, stocks, commodities, bonds, etc. Do you generate economic value by doing something? Or are you just gating access to a resource that already existed? The debate over "paying a fair share" has to do with a similar argument. Who benefits more from the existence of roads and infrastructure? Some who can't afford a car, or someone who owns a private jet? Who benefits more, the multinational industry transporting goods across the world or the homeless and unemployed? While the poor do benefit from infrastructure, the people at the top benefit more from it, not just from directly using it, but because it's existent produces and sustains more productive methods of manufacturing and educated, productive employees. If the government should operate like a business (like I have heard from so many of my conservative neighbors), then shouldn't the people who use the stuff the government produces pay for it? But no, they say this hypocritically, because they want more from the government, screw everyone else. Doesn't matter that the only conservative state in the United States that pays more to the U.S. Federal Government than it receives is Texas. No conservative actually wants the government to work like a business because the conservatives are the ones who stand to lose from that deal.
You should have read Marx before posting this. You may start there and move on to the later communist thinkers and ideas. Please do not share your experience of talking with idiots who think that communism is about "devide everthing equally"
"communism is the best idea and the best economic model ever created." Taking peoples property, and "sharing it" is the best idea to you? Because in order to share the wealth, you have to take it from someone who is doing well. Which in reality doesn't make everyone wealthy, it makes everyone poor. Meanwhile in those evil capitalist nations you have poor people with smartphones. Communism promises you everything, but gives you bread lines. "but that's socialism! not real communism!" Yes. yes it is socialism. No example of real communism has ever been achieved, nor ever will. As for socialism it works, but so does fascism, feudalism, monarchies, and theocracy. Here's the thing nobody in their right mind wishes to live under any of those systems unless they were born into them. I don't remember any socialist states being champions of human rights at any point in history. The flaw with it is they always devolve into totalitarian dictatorships (every "communist" nation), or the state itself is so fragile they are invaded by someone else. (read on the Spanish civil war and that whole mess of a place in history) "What about democratic socialism!" Venezuela is exactly that, and heading towards full military dictatorship. No. "Scandinavia is socialist!" They are social democrats. They respect private property rights, with a strong enough capitalistic economy to support welfare programs. That isn't socialism. The mythos of communism, and it's little brother socialism is honestly too pervasive in any debate about it, thus nobody gets anywhere with it when the socialist refuse to learn the lessons the real world has shown us about their system. They may have valid criticism of capitalism, but until they come up with something better which works i don't care. -lastly if i don't respond for a while apologies i don't get to respond to people much on here. Be patient i will eventually. :P Anyway hope you guys have a nice day or whatever.
Until he started his "John Talks" videos, I'd forgotten that his Dublin City accent sat on top of an Ulster one. You can put the blame for how fast he talks on the latter accent, I'm thinking. City people speak faster, by and large.
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When the teacher leaves the classroom for 3 minutes
lol
WW5
Rudolf Goldenbaum and the TA is off
And you see this video и узнал всю историю за 9 класс :-)
more like 10
He protecc
He attacc
But most importantly
He takes the means of production bacc
*Rasputin wakes up*
Morgue workers: WHAT THE F-
Lol
Doom music intensifies
#NotMyTsar
Z1LL4 JR Meh ... Because of His name and of ThIs tHiNK
@@charlietheanteater3918 shit, how didnt i think of that joke
This made me imagine when twitter existed in 1905, it would probably be full with that tag
Hahahahahaha
61e for the win
*HEAVY BREATHING*
I almost thought that was my profile for a second
communist XD
communism AVV NUUUUUUU
Patryk Wójtowicz CHEEKI BREEKI BLYAT
rip 636566453667867834656743576346784gorilion people under gommunizim and ur idea of labour voucherz are nowt gommmunizim
*seizing the means of production intensifies*
"gomunizim iz where the guverment duz everting and humans do whatever they want becuz hooman nature"
This comment section is gonna be more bloody than the Russian revolution...
Von Patilda who's coming well I see Finns I see Polish I see Romanians I see Germans i see anti and pro communist
Yo that was good
6:36 LoL
Prepare for people saying propaganda saying shit about the revolution being a Zionist uprising.
@Shane Gallagher and if it was not for capitalism, youtube would not exist
Russia is staring to break down.
Lenin:
NOW THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR ME!
So everybody come revolt with me
Death-By-Snail [spencer] Communism wouldn't be
Without Lenin yeah that's me
@@luigi2183 yeah? You said my name?
Bruh the timing is great! Covering it in class right now. And just in time for the battlefield 1 dlc
LEARNING HISTORY BY BATTLEFIELD
Idk I just got it last weekend
same
I reccomend animal farm as a book to rad if you like the russian revolution, it is the same thing but played out by animals.
Well it is a great time to talk about the Russian Revolution. After all it is the 100 years anniversary.
So much goes into these videos and they are super impressive. I love history and your way of teaching it!
Surely there will be only educated arguments and polite discussion down here, right?
Олег Козлов haha fuck no just right wing loons throwing up Cold War era propaganda
Iamtherevolution or the left wing boys claiming communism is good
Socialism is good. I'd prefer not to have a repeat of the USSR's Totalism though. We should give libertarian socialism a go. Anarcho-Syndicalism, Council Communism, things like these.
Anti Fascist Action how would a stateless society actually work on a large scale? In this world of today where every single region, state or province in the world is reliant on resources from the exterior there must be a regulatory force behind it, whether it is a market or a government. The world is no longer self sufficient and with this large of a population it cannot become self sufficient. A barter system cannot work today simply because the nature of trade is too international. Yes a person could trade seeds for meat today but that person can't trade seeds for copper, lithium, steel, plastic, glass, aluminum and rubber to make a car and distribute that same car on an international scale
I'm actually not against currency, or governance for that matter so long as said government is directly re-callable at anytime and is not bought out by corporations. Only way to keep corporate interest out of politics is to get rid of corporations.
"When you cry over horrors of a revolution, shed some tears over horrors that caused it in the first place" (c)
Олег Козлов but capitalism is amazing in my country so it must be the same everywhere else because society conditioned me to believe that
A totalitarian monarchy? The very opposite of capitalsm?
oops a horible failure under the tsar... OH LOOK THE COMMIES GOT A CROP FALURE, KILL 'EM BOYS!
The tsar did nothing wrong
Godlike Fam socialism has only taken root in countries where people living in poverty have been pushed to socialism. Russia wasn’t impoverished after I️t became socialist, socialism dragged Russia out of an agrarian based society and into an industrial powerhouse that rivaled the United States. Also, keep in mind that in countries like Cuba and North Korea, there’s massive sanctions and embargo’s against them. And another thing, North Korea has had trouble with food because their agriculture was flooded and destroyed during the Korean War by their dams being bombed and also having a colder climate making I️t harder to produce food. Also, in Cuba, despite the sanctions, Cuba has developed vaccines for certain cancers and has a global health initiative.
Do a video on the Russian civil war
And Chinese Civil War!!!!
The_Great_ Fascist not at all.
He only talked about revolution and not about the civil war that followed it, killing MILLIONS of people.
+Madman F1
Yes, that was a surprising omission. This video made it seem like all the Bolsheviks had to do was take the Winter Palace to control the country. It wasn't that simple.
Madman F1 yee
I do home schooling and you only have a week to 2 weeks to do a project then you move on so I had to do the history of Russia and France and this is perfect! It's so fast and gives me the information I need without spending hours reading notes and articles. Thank you so much!
I just got a whole lot happier after seeing you'd uploaded. Another excellent video, John! I've always said, none of us can expect you to just upload a new video every hour or whatever, and those that do can literally f**k off. You're a busy person, you can't always dedicate your time to UA-cam, and some people need to get that into their thick skulls. I am interested in your new book, and hopefully I'll be purchasing it soon. Although, knowing me I'll end up forgetting or something...but yeah, another great video. Good luck on your other endeavours!
Ruddy this is a great vid as usual, the drawings are so detailed I really appreciate all the work that must go into these :) also the typography of 'st Petersburg' at 3:15 is beautiful
I don’t know why but I’m getting good feelings about this “Stalin” guy
🗡 sorry comrade but we cant have you going around saying that
to the gulags!
Yeah...it's all the red flags...
Alejandro Diaz MW😨
stfu
It is so sad that people always forget the civil war simply saying it happened for years and millions died Others don't even mention it... No big deal?
Riad al-Assad /MappingArm/ The Russian Civil War is another huge topic worthy for its own video as he mentioned.
Of course he didn't talk about that, that would be a whole other video!
The White Wolfe
Solzhenitsyn? found someone to lead the example, he lied, but the west kept him in the destruction of Russia (USSR) ....
The White Wolfe
If you're believing Solzhenitsyn, then you're batshit insane. This guy literally had "liar"-LZHETS in his name and this stories are bullshit. Just look at census of population and you'll find out that it was growing whole time on millions with only exceptions of civil war and world war. And there is no demographic pit, unlike, say, Campuchia, where Pol Pot indead made genocide.
@ludwig amadeus
I'm too buzy to argue with some noname from internet, champ.
So go fight windmills somewhere else)
Never knew Lennon had such a big part on Russian histroy
Great Artist and Teacher ! ☺
Thanks ! It was fun with learning 😉
Ra Ra Rasputin!
Bag him up and bury him
Great video Ruddy! Definitely worth the wait.
We must seize the memes of production
Robbing others of what they have for personal gain and then call capitalists ‘greedy’.
Lol
USSR memes are dumb lol
@@jeffheller4180 lol, you just described capitalism.
My dad told me that my great-grandfather was a Russian soldier during WW1 that fled to Serbia in 1918 to escape communism. With the USSR, he died in 1990. He died being 97 years old even tho he fought in two absolutely terrifying wars. I wish i had the chance to meet him
1:37 mistake, kind of a big one - This mass of people gathered there not to protest against the Tsar, but to meet him and explain him their problems, also having a list of ideas (such as lesser work hours). That's why (and also bcs sunday) everyone was dressed in their best and sang orthodox hymns. Btw, the Tsar was not even in the city at that time. So this whole shooting from the soldiers was just a huge mistake from the city's governor.
Sad truth.
I love your videos. Always great to see another one posted!
Who here is early just because they are on UA-cam 24/7, without the bell. Where are those people at lol
Beniciothegamer Super Smash bros and more! me mah mate
Yea
Beniciothegamer Super Smash bros and more!
Heya
Beniciothegamer Super Smash bros and more! Me
Ey b0ss
The part where you mentioned how Rasputins was dug up and burned, and then the body sat up for just a second was great, seeing as that actually happened, though it was due to retracting heat.
How accurate! You described with so much details. I'm Russian, I read articles about the revolution. You haven't missed anything important. You even properly wrote texts in foreign language. You're a good hisrorian I guess.
Why'd you say "I guess"?
this channel deserves so many more subscribers
4:00 you can't have such video without Ruddy making an Irish reference in a video about something not Irish
Fliyo MB
The Soviets WERE influenced by the Irish.
Revolutions often only occur because they see other ppl doing the same that's why following the end off ww1 there were a series of revolutions
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SO LONG
1:11 I got the joke Lenin and McCartney. I guess you can say instead of going Solo they went...Yoko.
LET'S ALL GET UP AND DANCE TOO A SONG THAT WAS A HIT BEFORE YOU'RE MOTHER WAS BORN
I have been waiting for so long for another one of these videos.
Great Job
I have literally never clicked a video faster
A Mir I have never realized how quickly something would turn into a shit storm
wowzers, Big John! this was VERY EPIC!!!
Oh I remember these good old days
These videos are really useful for my history classes. Thanks.
Can you do the Invasion of England in 1066, please!
Brilliantly done John! Watched it with the kids. Keep up the good work :)
1:57 Russia became a constitutional monarchy in 1906,not 1905.
6:38 LOL THIS IS BEAUTIFUL
All workers of the world unite!
bottom text
I prefer Lenin...
FINALY! I’ve been waiting for this video for ever
The Vietnam war would be a nice video?
By the way the vid was fantastic
Dude .. fantastic work , thank you so much for doing this video
Never have clicked on a video so fast.
Wow! Awesome Video!!
Peace! Land! Bread!
"YAY!"
(In theory.)
"Awwww...."
Lenin put an end to Russian involvement in World War I- Peace!
Lenin nationalized land and distributed it among the peasents-land!
Lenin collectivized bread and formed the foundations of it's full implementation in the 1930s to stop constant famines in the Russian Empire- Bread!
@@GeneralissimusStalin17 i wonder why the soviets have the stereotype of starving their people
@@lastnamefirstname5295 only 1 famine happened in the USSR (Holodomor) and that's it. Meanwhile in the Russian Empire, there were constant famines because the nobility, and the rich peasents would hoard grain. Most other peasents then wouldn't have food so famine.
@@GeneralissimusStalin17 Me when I get sent to a gulag for farming too good, this is a certified kulak moment
@@GeneralissimusStalin17 The easier, albeit less informative, way of putting it would have been to say, "Famine? Starving masses? Oh, that was Stalin."
Nicely done bro 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Do the Mexican revolution next
Lucio Gonzalez viva zapata
Iamtherevolution viva mèxico
That revolution accomplished nothing and Zapata was an idiot. Mexico would've been better with profirio Diaz
Dude,this was the best episode i've seen from you...
TIME FOR A "YOU UPLOADED PARTY"
Thank you John, good video!
0:12 Actually, Russia was only the largest *contiguous* state in the world, still smaller then the British Empire
Зато Россия не была колониальной империей, все народы всегда были равноправны, и не было рабства! Вся империя была метрополией.
i have to learn this for me exams on tuesday & this is very helpful! thanks a lot :D
IT'S FINALLY HERE! HUZZAH!
Love your vids. Little to no biases, funny quotes, and good art. You're one of the few I have notifs on for. :D
I missed your accent
Like you don't know his accent???
Steven Sheridan I do know his accent. Doesnt mean i cant miss it
Dublin City on top of Cavan or Monaghan, I forget which. Marvellous for this Irish-American with forebears from Ulster to hear, 😅
I just handed in my history essay on the Russian Revolution, decided to browse UA-cam moments after and found THIS JUST UPLOADED!!!!
"Timing's a bitch, eh?" 😅
Wait, why am I awake?
6:40
Russian Person: Oh no
Rasputin: *I don't die!*
That Stalin guy seems pretty smart. I bet he’ll do a great job with the Soviet Union.
He did he industrialized the country and WW2 and saved the word from fascism. Long live Comrade Joesph Stalin! 🇨🇺❤🚩☭
@@spaghettimon3851 Fascism and Communism are just two sides of the same coin so stop glorifying one and demonizing the other cause they both suck, and Stalin was just a douchbag that just wanted to stay in power
@@spaghettimon3851 oh god, don't even get me started on stalin's shit
@@mil4023 The kulaks deserved it!
@@mil4023 I would be interested to know what foreigners know about the rulers of my country, well, you can tell me...
Your back!!
Please Do The Falkland War
Jon David Avendano Blanca why the Falkland war
Because Argentina And UK Is Fighting For The Island...
Just watch history oversimplified
Jon David Avendano Blanca the war was in the 70s
Atleast We Could Try It...
I just learnt your channel... Its Awesome !
Amazing timing! I've been teaching myself on communism lately and this has attributed quite nicely. Thanks John.
Great job these are so great.
Hey John, quick suggestion.
SPEAK A LITTLE SLOW!
Quick suggestion.
*SET SPEED TO 0.75x!!!*
I remember when this was uploaded. Crazy its 2 years old!
Glory to 100 year of october revolution!
Thanks for this video, I'm using this for my library research report.
BTW
Its never researched in the library
Seize the means of production.
...and now it is happening here...
Great video
Das good
STFU
Leon Trotsky how painful was that icepick
Leon Trotsky we all know who pople think of when pople think communism
Alexander Pavlovich Romanov if you can’t spell tsar then you shouldn’t say that
fivemissiles OHHHHHHH I DIDN'T EVEAN NOTICE LOL
Great video, as always. :)
UA-cam Drama I sleep
John Ruddy Uploads a Video REAL SHIT
Ruddy continues to upload regularly: ASCENDED
Some notes. Petrograd Soviet had to work with Duma due to Duma having the legislative power (Emperor gave them the imperial seal)
Also, the October Revplution becoming public was not actually done for publicity. Party officials that did NOT agree with doing it at that particular time, made it public.
It has been 100 years since the revolution
Thanks, this was really helpful and understandable
13 points I want to point out since I am a communist who is well studied on the USSR and the Russian Revolution.
1: Every communist and/or socialist will say that before a "communist utopia" is reached there is the transition phase which is socialism. Communism, a global classless, stateless society, is not able to be obtained in a situation where the capitalist imperialist hold some form of power, for pushing a nation to statelessness and classlessness would leave the region weak enough to be dominated by capitalist imperialists. The natural progression of society is to move from capitalism to a workers socialist state, to where state withers away in to communism once capitalism has collapsed globally.
2: Lenin never believed a communist revolution (the correct term is socialist revolution) would succeed by the strong leadership of one person or a few. Lenin believed and argued that the most advanced sections of the working class must become class conscious and take the duty of leading the working class to class consciousness and class war against the capitalist class who exploits them. Then, once a workers state is established, the working class must take position in local soviets, voting in representatives from among the working class, who will also sit upon the supreme soviet (congress) to deal with national issues. The subject of how the party worked was everyone had a single vote, and no one, not even the leader of the party, could overrule another and consolidate power for themselves.
For more on the soviet government and electoral system I recommend the following video:
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3: Thing I need to add on regards to the Agricultural farmers and WWI; due to the war there was a wealthy class among the farmers called kulaks who bought 9/10ths of all the farm land in Russia. Why is this important? Because around 1927-28, the kulaks started hoarding food to cause a crisis in the USSR, which lead to collectivization in 1928 to take the farms and feed the people again, which caused a revolt by the kulaks who burned food supplies and killed livestock, ultimately leading to the famine of 1932-33. I know this isn't related to the video but none the less still important to add.
4: Lenin and his comrades (he had a group of revolutionary communists with him when they went back to Russia) was terrified to head back, expecting to be arrested at any time during the trip due to a large number of communist revolutionaries heading to a country that is on its last legs.
5: Lenin's main goal was to take Russia out of the war because it goes in line with the communist view of war. That being to maintain peace and diplomacy and to never go in to war unless on the grounds of self-defense (such as the example of WWII when the soviet's declared to fight off the Nazi invasion)
6: Trotsky was not a Bolshevik he was a Menshevik. The only reason he was involved with the soviets was due to his amazing military strategy, which is why he was made general of the Red Army for a short time, before he let his genocidal tendencies get the better of him, gained the name of a butcher, and was, as result, removed from his post.
7: The Bolsheviks grew in popularity due the the fact that they was well organized and doing a lot for the working people in Russia, the Mensheviks and revolutionary socialists was very unorganized, fighting among themselves, and doing little for the people of Russia.
8: The Mensheviks always fought with the Bolsheviks, even before the revolution the Menshevik, Leon Trotsky, slandered Lenin and the Bolshevik movement, in which Lenin returned the favor on multiple occasions within his collected works (Lenin's collected works is 45 volumes.) Of course with the popularity of the Bolsheviks and them rising to power, the Mensheviks would act sore and mad and complain of "power grab" when the opposite was the case.
9: Lenin and his movement had the majority support from the working people, if they didn't the revolution would have collapsed. Lenin was elected head of state (the status of leader.)
10: The Tsar, specifically Nicholas and his wife, was guilty of mass starvations, unethical treatment of the working class people, forcing workers in to a war, unloading shots in to protesters, etc. They deserved their execution. The children I disagree with deserved execution, however the way the entire event took place, it felt like it was done at a local level by a unregulated group rather than by the orders of Lenin.
11: In 1947 the countries who became part of the Soviet Union didn't get "absorbed", they joined by free will. Some of the nations joined after the Soviets came to fix the nations up due to the destruction of Nazi invasion. Ask a lot of the people from those nations and a good chunk will talk of how the Nazis came and destroyed everything in a brutal genocidal campaign, and then the soviets came and built schools, hospitals, etc.
12: The anti-Bolshevik forces was interested in re-establishing the monarchy, and was aided by over 7 capitalist countries around the globe. They went from city to city in Russia killing entire towns, repressing pro-communist civilians, etc. They was the fascists before Nazi Germany. There was even other sects during the revolution such as the anarchist faction who pretty much did the same thing the white army did, while fighting the white army as well.
13: The "early bloody years of the Soviet Union" was more so during the periods of the revolution and the civil war, after that the only other times it was bloody was during the revolts of the kulaks and the "great" purge, which was carried out under a corrupt NKVD officer called Yezov who targeted government officials. He was later arrested along with the purgers, tried, found guilty, and executed.
The Angry Marxist-Leninist that why I never go to College or University
11. Baltic States, Karelia, Eastern Poland, Bessarabia were invaded and taken by USSR were they not?
Make these more often please I love them
*Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.*
ayooo its meeeee manny
No wonder why is only 11 minutes long he talks as fast as James Charles
This is actually really obejective, and that's rare with this topic, thank you!
fun fact: animal farm is meant to be an analogy of the russian revolution and the beginning of the cold war. because of this, the cia funded the creation of the 1954 movie
Armadillo Productions All Animals are crested equal. Some are more equal than others...
You have an awesome voice. Keep up the awesome work
0:07 the only problem is that the United States is not an empire was never one will never be one! A democracy republic is total different from an empire! The only thing The US has in common is that it’s big and powerful that’s it! Just want to make that clear!
Big and powerful and has over 800 military bases in over 70 countries. Yep, definitely not an empire.
The Angry Marxist-Leninist true but there’s a difference!
The Angry Marxist-Leninist The US doesn't own that land, they rent it out from countries. So not really an empire.
Awesome vid!
YOU POSTED :D!!!!
*Insert anti communist joke.
kok namm lol you have the flag of liberation theology what a weird flag for your picture
Iamtherevolution It's called "christian communism". Apperently they belive that Jesus was a communist and the society he created was a communist society.
kok namm liberation theology a set of teachings which emphasizes freedom and socialism. "It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to pass into heaven" Jesus Christ
Papa Farage I believe every man is entitled to what they make I'm a communist against exploitation and for a more free world
Communism doesn't prohibit religion, who gave you that stupid idea?
Needed this for class. Thanks
Most supporters of communism I have met always got 2 things wrong.
1) They think there is a fixed amount of wealth in the country, and the rich are unfairly taking up way more than their "fair share".
When actually, basic economics says wealth does not have a fixed quantity, wealth can be created by producing value. So almost all rich people create most of their wealth through their businesses/jobs and are not taking up someone else's money.
2) They believe that a company's profits must be equally divided among the workers as they are the ones who do all the work.
This is a total ignorance and completely disregard the amount of effort and skill needed for an entrepreneur to start and efficiently run a consistently profitable business. If the workers were smart enough to run the company themselves they would/could have started their own ventures. But no, these workers want a "safe" source of income where they are guranteed to get paid for working for a fixed amount of hours a week and want minimum risk. Hence they myst accept limited payment, while the entreprenur is rewarded with all the profits for building a business which provides value and creates jobs.
Dem pesky workers wanting better future for their children and better life for themselves in a country created by their sweat and defended by their blood! How dare they!
Jokes aside, you got some things "wrong" too, so don't call other people ignorant when they make mistakes, alright?
Communism is the best idea and the best economic model ever created, I truly believe in that. The only flaw it has is a fatal one, though: it is completely fantastic utopia, as proven by many countries.
If you want, we can discuss it further, but judging from your post I think you are already biased against other models than capitalism. Would be glad to find out I was wrong though.
Yes let us ignore fundamental ideas in economics like the finite amount of resources and infinite demand. While wealth certainly isn't a fixed value, there are only so many resources, and those resources have to be distributed in some manner. How those resources are distributed is the primary difference between the two economic systems. One relies on prices/demand, the other government decree.
Second, the concern that many self described communists have is that administrators do not generate as much economic value as they would like you to believe. They want to live in a world were people are rewarded for the work they produce, which isn't counter the ideals of capitalism. Administrators and entrepreneurs do provide a service, which has economic value, but then we come to the issue that many of the worlds richest people make the majority of their money not by producing anything of value, but by charging money for access. I'm going to use the idea of Georgism, which was the idea that inspired the game "Monopoly" and which some of the the U.S. Founding Fathers believed in.
*Does it make sense that someone can make money by renting out space on a piece of land?*
Now, I recognize that being a landlord today comes with many tasks and responsibilities, but we're going to ignore those for a second. If you were to rent out a piece of land for someone to use, do you generate anything of value? The right to own property is protected by the government, so you don't need really to have a giant army to stake your claim and defend it against others who to try to take your land, so the government generates that value, not you. You are not making new land. If you don't generate any value, then why are you rewarded financially for it?
The idea was that since the government is providing the service, the government should reap the financial reward, or the soldiers and police officers that work for it. This became the foundation of the modern property tax.
The same argumentation can apply to lending money, stocks, commodities, bonds, etc. Do you generate economic value by doing something? Or are you just gating access to a resource that already existed?
The debate over "paying a fair share" has to do with a similar argument. Who benefits more from the existence of roads and infrastructure? Some who can't afford a car, or someone who owns a private jet? Who benefits more, the multinational industry transporting goods across the world or the homeless and unemployed? While the poor do benefit from infrastructure, the people at the top benefit more from it, not just from directly using it, but because it's existent produces and sustains more productive methods of manufacturing and educated, productive employees. If the government should operate like a business (like I have heard from so many of my conservative neighbors), then shouldn't the people who use the stuff the government produces pay for it? But no, they say this hypocritically, because they want more from the government, screw everyone else. Doesn't matter that the only conservative state in the United States that pays more to the U.S. Federal Government than it receives is Texas. No conservative actually wants the government to work like a business because the conservatives are the ones who stand to lose from that deal.
Lol wtf are you on about you just said, the rich get their wealth from producing value? who the fuck do you think produces that value????
You should have read Marx before posting this. You may start there and move on to the later communist thinkers and ideas. Please do not share your experience of talking with idiots who think that communism is about "devide everthing equally"
"communism is the best idea and the best economic model ever created." Taking peoples property, and "sharing it" is the best idea to you? Because in order to share the wealth, you have to take it from someone who is doing well. Which in reality doesn't make everyone wealthy, it makes everyone poor. Meanwhile in those evil capitalist nations you have poor people with smartphones. Communism promises you everything, but gives you bread lines.
"but that's socialism! not real communism!" Yes. yes it is socialism. No example of real communism has ever been achieved, nor ever will. As for socialism it works, but so does fascism, feudalism, monarchies, and theocracy. Here's the thing nobody in their right mind wishes to live under any of those systems unless they were born into them.
I don't remember any socialist states being champions of human rights at any point in history. The flaw with it is they always devolve into totalitarian dictatorships (every "communist" nation), or the state itself is so fragile they are invaded by someone else. (read on the Spanish civil war and that whole mess of a place in history)
"What about democratic socialism!" Venezuela is exactly that, and heading towards full military dictatorship. No.
"Scandinavia is socialist!" They are social democrats. They respect private property rights, with a strong enough capitalistic economy to support welfare programs. That isn't socialism.
The mythos of communism, and it's little brother socialism is honestly too pervasive in any debate about it, thus nobody gets anywhere with it when the socialist refuse to learn the lessons the real world has shown us about their system. They may have valid criticism of capitalism, but until they come up with something better which works i don't care.
-lastly if i don't respond for a while apologies i don't get to respond to people much on here. Be patient i will eventually. :P Anyway hope you guys have a nice day or whatever.
Calling it a communist utopia ignores the fact that Marx opposed utopian socialism, he formed scientific socialism.
Only took 5 decades
GabEgg oh come on, he uploads more often than that. 😋
You mentioned Finlan, thanks! Awesome video! :)
Iranian Revolution PLZ!!
Awesome of ya to add Yuri from RA2/Yuri's Revenge @ 9:53. Love your work.
nobody:
narrator: *speaking at 100 mph*
Until he started his "John Talks" videos, I'd forgotten that his Dublin City accent sat on top of an Ulster one.
You can put the blame for how fast he talks on the latter accent, I'm thinking. City people speak faster, by and large.