Posted on 10/19/2009 8:29:41 PM PDT by .454Puma
By far, the best movie I have ever seen about the savagery and ruthlessness of Communism, an ideology which indeed puts Nazism and Fascism to shame.
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It would be good to put the title somewhere. Is it “Soviet Story”?
Yes it was aired on PBS over the weekend and my husband and I saw it. We couldn’t believe that PBS aired it. We ordered two copies of it and they came in today. We plan to share it with all our friends. Excellent movie and tool to teach people just how all of the different evil movements came to life!
Another movie is called, “Chekist”, which was made in Russia just before the fall of the Soviet Union, very dark and not for the squeamish.
I heard of a movie called something like Bitter Harvest about the starvation in Ukraine. The person who told me about it said it was repressed. Anyone ever hear of it?
Also, I read, a long time ago, that movies about communism would not be produced but movies about nazism would never stop being produced.
Also Andrzej Wajda’s “Katyn” which is finally available here on DVD.
The German film about East Germany “The Lives of Others” is outstanding. Not as brutal but shows how communism/socialism steals people souls and is incredibly inhumane.
What’s really scary to me is how “wonderful” the Soviet constitution sounded under Stalin and how it compares to what Obama is trying to implement...
CHAPTER X
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF CITIZENS
ARTICLE 118. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to work, that is, are guaranteed the right to employment and payment for their work in accordance With its quantity and quality.
The right to work is ensured by the socialist organization of the national economy, the steady growth of the productive forces of Soviet society, the elimination of the possibility of economic crises, and the abolition of unemployment.
ARTICLE 119. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to rest and leisure. The right to rest and leisure is ensured by the reduction of the working day to seven hours for the overwhelming majority of the workers, the institution of annual vacations with full pay for workers and employees and the provision of a wide network of sanatoria, rest homes and clubs for the accommodation of the working people.
ARTICLE 120. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to maintenance in old age and also in case of sickness or loss of capacity to work. This right is ensured by the extensive development of social insurance of workers and employees at state expense, free medical service for the working people and the provision of a wide network of health resorts for the use of the working people.
ARTICLE 121. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to education. This right is ensured by universal, compulsory elementary education; by education, including higher education, being free of charge; by the system of state stipends for the overwhelming majority of students in the universities and colleges; by instruction in schools being conducted in the native Language, and by the organization in the factories, state farms, machine and tractor stations and collective farms of free vocational, technical and agronomic training for the working people.
ARTICLE 122. Women in the U.S.S.R. are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social and political life. The possibility of exercising these rights is ensured to women by granting them an equal right with men to work, payment for work, rest and leisure, social insurance and education, and by state protection of the interests of mother and child, prematernity and maternity leave with full pay, and the provision of a wide network of maternity homes, nurseries and kindergartens.
ARTICLE 123. Equality of rights of citizens of the U.S.S.R., irrespective of their nationality or race, in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social and political life, is an indefeasible law. Any direct or indirect restriction of the rights of, or, conversely, any establishment of direct or indirect privileges for, citizens on account of their race or nationality, as well as any advocacy of racial or national exclusiveness or hatred and contempt, is punishable by law.
ARTICLE 124. In order to ensure to citizens freedom of conscience, the church in the U.S.S.R. is separated from the state, and the school from the church. Freedom of religious worship and freedom of anti-religious propaganda is recognized for all citizens.
ARTICLE 125. In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed by law:
a. freedom of speech;
b. freedom of the press;
c. freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings;
d. freedom of street processions and demonstrations.
These civil rights are ensured by placing at the disposal of the working people and their organizations printing presses, stocks of paper, public buildings, the streets, communications facilities and other material requisites for the exercise of these rights.
ARTICLE 126. In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to develop the organizational initiative and political activity of the masses of the people, citizens of the U.S.S.R. are ensured the right to unite in public organizations—trade unions, cooperative associations, youth organizations,’ sport and defense organizations, cultural, technical and scientific societies; and the most active and politically most conscious citizens in the ranks of the working class and other sections of the working people unite in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), which is the vanguard of the working people in their struggle to strengthen and develop the socialist system and is the leading core of all organizations of the working people, both public and state.
ARTICLE 127. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed inviolability of the person. No person may be placed under arrest except by decision of a court or with the sanction of a procurator.
ARTICLE 128. The inviolability of the homes of citizens and privacy of correspondence are protected by law.
ARTICLE 129. The U.S.S.R. affords the right of asylum to foreign citizens persecuted for defending the interests of the working people, or for their scientific activities, or for their struggle for national liberation.
ARTICLE 130. It is the duty of every citizen of the U.S.S.R. to abide by the Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, to observe the laws, to maintain labor discipline, honestly to perform public duties, and to respect the rules of socialist intercourse.
ARTICLE 131. It is the duty of every citizen of the U.S.S.R. to safeguard and strengthen public, socialist property as the sacred and inviolable foundation of the Soviet system, as the source of the wealth and might of the country, as the source of the prosperous and cultured life of all the working people.
Persons committing offenses against public, socialist property are enemies of the people.
ARTICLE 132. Universal military service is law. Military service in the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army is an honorable duty of the citizens of the U.S.S.R.
ARTICLE 133. To defend the fatherland is the sacred duty of every citizen of the U.S.S.R. Treason to the country—violation of the oath of allegiance, desertion to the enemy, impairing the military power of the state, espionage is punishable with all the severity of the law as the most heinous of crimes.
The title is The Soviet Story. I watch one clip of it so far. A very powerful documentary.
The evil of communism aka socialism
This is what central planners do all the time. Price control. They demand the capitalist to sell their food without a profit, thus eventually no capitalist will sell their food. Result, food shortage, starvation, millions die.
This is the same approach they’re using with the health care reform
That is my favorite movie of this decade.
Also, “Goodbye, Lenin!” is a great film, has funny moments, and moments that will bring a tear as well.
“The Inner Circle” is good too.
Man those are funny.
Another good one is Animal Farm. This is probably the first movie I ever seen when I was young that illustrate why communism aka socialism is evil
No equivalent of our 2nd Amendment. I wonder why.
You may be thinking of Robert Conquest’s book “The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine”. Never made into a movie as far as I know, although it may be cited in some documentaries.
It started off showing scenes of life in a happy, bustling town that was nestled against the boarder of a totalarian regime. Then overnight for some the reason the river that served as the border changed course, and brought the town within the regime's borders. Morning found the town occupied by military guards and political operatives that proceeded to transform it and the lives into a totalitarian/communistic hell.
Although the details are now vague, this film made a significant and lasting impression on me as to how quicly one’s freedoms can be snuffed out, and way of life can change for the worse literally overnight. Increasingly relevant in light of recent events.
If anyone here knows its real title it would be greatly appreciated as I'd like to obtain it, but haven't been successful in my searches so far.
The Founders were wise beyond their years.
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