Posted on 03/12/2014 9:36:42 AM PDT by Voice of Reason88
If you want to know the back story of the Ukrainian revolution, The Soviet Story tells exactly what happened to Ukraine during the Soviet era - and a lot more.
It's the best educational film on the nature of communism, which should be shown to all high school students in America to immunize them against the lure of the “great” utopia. However, I doubt most teachers will do so in today's political climate.
This 2008 documentary tells the story of the anti-human ideology the way I see it myself. That was rather surprising, because in today's “progressive” media climate, such views are an anathema.
We definitely need a climate change!
That the author of this film and I share the same views is not a coincidence. EdvÄ«ns Šnore is a fellow ex-Soviet - a Latvian director who did a great job documenting the evils of communism with the support of some of his European colleagues.
The Soviet Story starts with a question I also raised many times: while the swastika is universally recognized as a symbol of evil and hate, why does the hammer-and-sickle emblem, which is just as bad, get a free pass? The answer apparently lies in the fact that there has never been a version of the Nuremberg Trial for communism, which still has a lot of sympathizers in high places of power around the world, including the United States.
When this film came out, one of our Cubists posted a trailer and a link to the DVD. Today the full movie can be seen online on YouTube and other video sites. While the English-language narrative is excellent, I was unable to find a version with English subtitles for occasional foreign-language segments, which make only about 5% of the movie. Those who would like to get the full 100% will have to buy the DVD, after all.
The Soviet Story (2008) - cu subtitrare in Română http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=oVZjyyAE-78
Both were on the left, despite what the national socialist left in this country would like to deny.
The one hour and 24 minute version was refusing to work today so I’ll start with part one and go on up.
By the way, I have BACKSTAGE AT THE KIROV which was produced by Armand Hammer. Of course the beauty of Russian ballet precedes communism but in the film the ballerinas are seen on stage, backstage, practicing in the studio, and on the wide streets of Leningrad but not in their apartments and not shopping. That would have been difficult to show without their situation looking quite poor compared to the West.
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Thanks, I’ll be checking this out tonight..
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Captions work, you just need to turn on the translate captions option.
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That reminds of an old soviet union joke: An American was showing his friend from the USSR his home. Going through the living room, dinning room, kitchen, bathrooms and bedrooms.
His soviet friend said that in Russia they have the very same thing – only it’s all one room.
Oh, I didn’t realize that – how do you do that?
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Oh, I didn’t realize that – how do you do that?
Click the “CC” button and then put in “Translate captions” and select English.
and if anyone misses the film you can watch it happen in realtime.
Thank You – you learn something new every day!
Yes, but we’re trying to stop the real life version - this is one movie that DOES NOT need a Sequel.
BTW, keep in mind that Putin is a former? Chekist – the same as the NKVD thugs mentioned in the film.
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at 1:03:00 in there is a officer that looks an AWFUL lot like Obama....
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One of the quotes I remember, paraphrasing: "In every country where socialism/communism is instituted, 10% of the population ends up getting killed, whether it's USSR, Poland, Nicaragua, Cuba or Venezuela" Current US population is 313.9 million (2012). That's 31.4 million Americans.
Why does America seem hell bent on rushing to socialism?
Why does America seem hell bent on rushing to socialism?
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