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Will the movie Bitter Harvest do justice to the evils of Communism?
Canada Free Press ^ | 03/04/17 | Matthew Vadum

Posted on 03/04/2017 8:34:48 AM PST by Sean_Anthony

Communist persecution and the deliberate famine Stalin engineered in Ukraine: In only a few years, some 6-7 million Ukrainians perished in what they call the Holodomor.

Over the years we have been overwhelmed with extraordinary movies and documentaries about the Holocaust and the various atrocities of Nazi Germany. These horrific crimes against humanity deserve to be examined over and over again so they are never repeated.

But we see so little about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) which killed more people than Hitler did, rivaled the repressive state apparatus of Nazi Germany, and easily outlasted the so-called Thousand-Year Reich. There have been plenty of movies about what Communism did to human beings but there has never been a Schindler’s List (1993) — at least not in English — for the victims of Communism. Schindler’s List, for anyone who has never seen it, is a masterpiece. It is a powerful, deeply moving, widely embraced account of the suffering of Jews in the Krakow Ghetto and then in the death camps.


TOPICS: History; Politics; Society; TV/Movies
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1 posted on 03/04/2017 8:34:48 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
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To: Sean_Anthony
Looks like a good one.

Stalin - the Butcher of the Ukraine.

2 posted on 03/04/2017 8:40:02 AM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

You don’t think for one minute, Ayers, Obama, Jarrett, Schumer, Pelosi, Hillary and the other deep state commies wouldn’t do the same thing if they could?


3 posted on 03/04/2017 8:47:59 AM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

“From each according to what he has, to me according to what I want.”

This is how socialism/communism always turns out.


4 posted on 03/04/2017 8:48:48 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

“From each according to what he has, to me according to what I want.”

It was never anything but gangster theft.


5 posted on 03/04/2017 9:07:46 AM PST by Regulator
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To: Art in Idaho

Given a chance, any lefty would emulate Pol Pot.


6 posted on 03/04/2017 9:49:07 AM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Sean_Anthony
There had always been internal Communist party rumors that Stalin's wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, committed suicide after informing Stalin of the horrors she had seen during a trip to the Ukraine.
She had assumed he knew nothing about what was happening there until he yelled at her and informed her to keep her nose out of business that didn't concern her.
Strange thing about her suicide: On or about November 7, 1932, the 15th anniversary of the Revolution, Nadezhda Alliluveya went upstairs to bed, and when the housekeeper came to wake her up in the morning, she found the lady of the house dead, shot through the right temple, a pistol lying on the bed beside her.
But Nadezhsda Alliluveya was left-handed. Try shooting yourself through the right temple with your left hand. And there were no powder marks on her temple. And she’d left a letter: There is no getting away from him, it said. The doctor who did the autopsy reported she was shot from a distance of 4 meters. That doctor was subsequently executed.
Sometimes it's hard to know what to believe.
7 posted on 03/04/2017 10:10:46 AM PST by Larry381 (credo quia absurdum)
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To: Dalberg-Acton
Given a chance, any lefty would emulate Pol Pot.

Yes, that's the scary part. Godless power mongers. America, beware the Left and beware Sharia.

8 posted on 03/04/2017 10:23:25 AM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

The trailer I saw showed only Stalin. Truth is, the famine started under Lenin in about 1921. Problem is, the Left in the West still loves Lenin.


9 posted on 03/04/2017 10:40:59 AM PST by InABunkerUnderSF (Proudly deplorable since 2016)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Some tried to publicise the red crimes, look for “The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression “

IIRC Kruschev had a hand in the Holodomor.


10 posted on 03/04/2017 10:54:35 AM PST by 1066AD
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To: Art in Idaho

Agenda 21 and global warming = Stalinism dressed up in a new overcoat.


11 posted on 03/04/2017 11:43:28 AM PST by mumblypeg (Make America Macho Again.)
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To: Art in Idaho

Oh, yes, they totally would if they could.

One of the reasons they love gun control so much.


12 posted on 03/04/2017 12:08:32 PM PST by correctthought (Oh goody, another lefty riot.)
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To: Sean_Anthony
Several other movies of note regarding the terror under Soviet communism:

"Burnt by the Sun" and

"East - West"

Both are outstanding sub-titled foreign language films.

13 posted on 03/04/2017 12:52:16 PM PST by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: Art in Idaho

Bill Ayers figured he needs to kill 25 million Americans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2pMkkXIDrM


14 posted on 03/06/2017 12:49:36 PM PST by Krosan
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To: Krosan
Bill Ayers figured he needs to kill 25 million Americans.

Bill Ayers and his buddies Obama and Hillary. I have No Doubt they would do it if they could. Good grief, she almost got elected.

I Thank God every day Trump was elected President. Pray for him and continue to prepare. My gut tells me we're just getting started.

15 posted on 03/06/2017 2:22:11 PM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Sean_Anthony
Bitter Harvest Trailer here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SDY4jfN74A&feature=youtu.be

16 posted on 03/06/2017 2:26:27 PM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

I just saw the movie Bitter Harvest. I think it is a Hollywood production. As such, it is the first Hollywood anti-communist movie I have seen. As far as I can tell, it is the only anti-communist movie to have come out of Hollywood. I’ve looked for a movie like this for a long time.

It is a very good movie. I recommend that you all see it, both for the movie itself, and for the choice of topic.


17 posted on 07/29/2017 8:28:12 PM PDT by ChessExpert (NAFTA - Not A Free Trade Agreement)
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