Posted on 09/14/2019 10:27:19 AM PDT by NRx
Stalin's first Five Year Plan.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtu.be ...
Equally eerie are the excesses which Stalin was driven to by the fundamental flaws of his plan which presage the excesses described by Democrat candidates as they promise to take away your hamburgers with your liberties.
The left does not change, whether it is the murderous terror of the French Revolution or the murderers of Pol Pot, the end is always in blood.
Environmentalists= watermelons: Green on the outside, red on the inside.
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When Hitler invaded Russia, Stalin order all of the military producing factories dismantled, and had them sent by rail, over 800 miles further into the interior to be rebuilt. Of course they ended up sending thousands, if not millions of people along as well to work in those factories. It was basically slave labor.
Stalin had discontinued the production of farm machinery during this time, so of course food production greatly suffered, and thousands of people starved to death, or died from disease. The other thing the Russians failed to realize was that they'd need vehicles to get needed supplies to the soldiers in the field. That's one of the reasons why Liberty ships were built to carry tanks, jeeps, trucks, etc., overseas for the war effort.
This series really opened my eyes when it came to our part in war production during WWII, and how the people of this country created a level of mass production never seen on the planet until that time...and will likely, never be seen again.
It’s also worth noting how much the Democrat party has changed in the past 30 years or so. When Jimmy Carter became president, I did not fear for the Republic. I did not fear for my freedoms.
Now, should Bernie or Warren or Beto get it, it’s Katie bar the door.
“Bernie or Warren or Beto get it, it’s Katie bar the door”
Before they can do anything serious, they have to disarm the populace. Everyone agrees there are hundreds of millions of firearms in private hands, and I would bet the gummit has a good handle on maybe half of them. Confiscating them will not happen overnight.
We should worry more about the Democrat’s Five Year plan, equally as damaging to the economy.
“...the eerily similar rationales advanced by today’s climate change warriors and the doomsday scenario which motivated Stalin to begin his murderous first five-year plan.”
Absolutely spot on.
Under a profit-motivated capitalist system, needs are identified & met over time by naturally evolving technological advances, and, in turn, prosperity for ever-increasing numbers of people evolves out of those technological advances.
Under tyrannical communism, what’s working now is evil because the communist overlords say it is, and must be immediately disallowed, in order to seize control of the means of production, shift gears & forcibly superimpose immediate utopian solutions on a future which ironically is made far worse by those solutions.
The communist plan is to kill the people in order to save them.
Disarmament of US will depend on which way our military goes and I am not so sure that they will follow the oath and go with US.
Exactly.
From the French Revolution onwards, the left has been all about killing; the death toll of leftism, from the French Revolution onwards, is probably about a billion people.
You might like this book: The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia, by Tim Tzouliadis. It’s very very good.
A history of the migration of thousands of Americans to Soviet Russia in the years prior to World War II recounts how Depression-era Americans from all walks of life pursued what they believed would be better opportunities in Russia only to be targeted, incarcerated, and executed by the Stalin regime.
There was a TV movie based on the book. John Savage played Dolgun and Willie Nelson had a supporting role. Very good movie that couldn’t get made today.
There was a TV movie based on the book. John Savage played Dolgun and Willie Nelson had a supporting role. Very good movie that couldn’t get made today.
Oh yes, I’ve read that one. I went through a Soviet gulag reading blitz a few years ago, don’t know why. My favorite of all the American’s persecuted in Russia stories is “Coming Out of the Ice,” by Victor Herman. I checked it out of the library about five times, it was a First Edition, in rather poor shape. I searched for it online as I wanted to own a copy but the cheapest one I found was $137. Then, the library copy disappeared from their catalog. Ah well. I finally found a copy online for $35 so I snapped it up. I wish it would be reprinted. It’s just that good.
Sometimes when I’m cooking I’ll look at some cooking catastrophe I’ve made and think, I wish I could go back to the Gulag and give it to those starving people, they’d love it.
The amount of stuff we and the British sent them is staggering. Everything from miles of gold braid for officers uniforms to battleships. Without us the Red Army would have been starving and barefoot, the rail system would have collapsed, and they wouldn’t have an air force.
Most of the economic accomplishments of the Stalin-Era were achieved on the backs of Slaves.
A little inconvenient fact, the Left doesn’t want people to know.
The program I watched said we sent them over 2,000 train engines alone, plus a massive amount of flat cars for transporting their stuff. This is the British series I watched:
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