Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

erode233 So ej- 43 likes to think that the communist workers states of the glorious USSR and China killed 100 million people when this is nothing but a US and UK as well as Nazi disinformation campaign to discredit the power of the workers over the rich.Now.One million people over the usual 2.5 % average death rate died in Ukraine during a famine in 1933,this was also exacerbated by rich kulaks murdering over half draft animals and attacking and destroying collective farms,murdering the workers and setting fire to stores and fields of crops.These were the same rich kulaks who murdered thousands of Soviet tax collectors in the 1920's.William Hearst US media magnate and good friend of Hitler followed the Nazi lie that there was Soviet policy to starve people when the Soviets were doing everything they could to feed the people.R.Conquest the writer of "Harvest of sorrow " is the British liar who spread stories about their being 3- 5 million dead in UA in 33. He got this (like all the rest of his lies) from methodology that is proved to be ridiculous, he even increased the number to 12 -15 million when Reagan recruited him.He makes figures up out of thin air to make communism look bad,he also worked as an anti-communist liar before this in a British secret service organization who were an anti-communist unit spreading lies about the uSSR for the UK,until the unit were rumbled by the Guardian newspaper in 1978. As for the gulags Conquest did the same just like that other crackpot fantasist and anti-commie Solzhenitsyn who stated 60 million died in the gulags!! People die in prisons but there is only evidence of 150,000 approx !Totaling over 33 years ! Now lets face the biggest amount of deaths which occurred in China during Mao's idiotic great leap forward the Chinese government have admitted that perhaps up to 20 million died from that famine in China.Now considering the UK allowed between 17.5 -25 million Indians to starve to death in 3 separate famines at the end of the 19th century as well as 3 million indians in 1943. What does ej-43 have to say about this ? Or capitalisms 2 world wars that murdered 100 million ? Not to mention the many more tens of millions murdered by capitalist European colonialism. What of the US genocide of 5 -12 million native American Indians and the 50 countries the US has committed genocide,invasion,bombings or regime change in since 1945 ? Capitalist is dripping in blood from start to finish,capitalism is perpetual war, communism is for the masses and for peace.

Chilla Black the narration by a guy called Jon Strickland is excellent. It is one of the best narratives I have heard in a documentary of any kind. Poignant, direct and unbiased. The script is well put together and in many cases resembles a lecture or essay in its form, breaking down areas into sub texts and making comparisons between far left and far right socialism. The documentary does not really sum up or offer a conclusion but as a piece of academic research, the Director has clearly put the work in to make this as accurate as possible. The DVD also contains a statement from the guy, which adds to the authenticity. Pros: well researched and a clear argument. Cons: not enough focus on key points such as the post 1917 with Lenin and the assassination of Trotsky. More recent times including the break up of the USSR in 1991 are also loosely covered. However as a documentary surrounding the 1930's and WWII years, this is as good as any of The World at War programmes.

Zvesda Supported by a fringe, neo-fascist faction of the European Parliament, which includes pro-Nazi glorifiers, xenophobes, and anti-Semites of the Fatherland and Freedom (Latvia), Lega Nord (Italy), and the Law and Justice Party (Poland), this propaganda piece with lies and innuendo seeks to generate hatred towards Russia and blacken the image of progressive forces throughout the world.There is nothing new with the approach of this film. Desperate attempts to blacken the Russian Government and equate it to Nazi Germany is part of the old Cold War propaganda struggle waged by the United States Government and neo-fascist organizations like the John Birch Society. This is ironic given the fact that this film has received the enthusiastic support of the crypto-Nazis of Latvia's For Fatherland and Freedom party. Especially disturbing about the revisionism of this film is the denial of the Holocaust by seeking to shift blame from the actual criminals to Russia.To start, this piece of pseudo-history does not include contributions from any respected, qualified scholars specializing in Russian history or political science from institutions of higher education. One contributor to the film, George Watson, fabricates and misinterprets quotations from Marx and Engels. Watson, it should be noted, is not a professor of history, political science, or any field relating to the film's subject. And while this film presents itself to be some kind of groundbreaking investigation of Russian history, it is curious how not a professor of history from Russia is found in this film. Rather, the documentary features a freak show composed of degenerates from radical right-wing parties, such as Kristovskis of the the aforementioned For Fatherland and Freedom party of Lavia.Concerning the invented quotations of Marx and Engels, it is claimed in this film that Engels called Slavs "dirty" and opposed the existence of Poland. But this is a a falsification of history because Marx and Engels had long been some of the most passionate supporters of Polish independence, particularly the 1863 uprising. The film makes the outrageous claim that Marx and Engels called for a "revolutionary holocaust" against specific peoples. But Engels did not call for the destruction of what he called counter-revolutionary nations, but only predicted that such people would experience setbacks as they struggled with the progressive nations. In 1890, Engels would write positively on these backwards nations, believing in their right to self-determination: "Magyars, Romanians, Serbs, Bulgars, Albanians, Greeks, and Turks will then finally be in a position to...manage their own internal affairs according to their own judgment." It should be noted, however, that Marxism is not some kind of immutable dogma; Marx and Engels regularly revised their work and acknowledged their errors and mistakes that they previously made.The film makes the spurious claim that a famine throughout Russia and elsewhere in the Soviet Union constituted a genocide against Ukraine that killed 7 million. But as scholars have noted, the famine was in no way limited to the Ukraine, but affected much of the country. To talk about a "Ukrainian Golodomor" is a misrepresentation of history. Contrary to what the film and its sources claim, the death toll was nowhere near 7 million. Professor Wheatcroft, for example, estimated that the death toll amounted to an estimated 4 to 5 million throughout the USSR, including 1.5 million in Ukraine. And as Tauger proves in his research, the famine to a large extent resulted from natural disasters. In particular, Extremely dry weather had the effect of reducing crops while extremely wet and humid weather later on led to infestations. And rather than desiring the famine, the Soviet Government took measures to provide relief to those areas affected by the famine.Other monstrously false claims made in this film include the lies that Russia refused to enter into an anti-fascist alliance with the Western Powers, Gestapo staff trained the NKVD, Russia's extradition of Jews to the Gestapo, and Russia's involvement in the extermination of Jews, which I do not have the space to go into detail about.Rather than wasting your time with this pathetic excuse for a propaganda film, a better choice would be to go to college and study the work of respected scholars to learn the truth.

naurimas-1 Watching this documentary will provide many interesting insights into history of the Soviet Union as well as the Nazi Germany through analysis of the documents, ideas of historians, memories of witnesses.Firstly, it should be noted that the documentary focuses on the critical discussion of mass killings, concentration practiced by the Soviet secret state. It is shown while citing K. Marx and Fr. Engels why the soviet leaders (Lenin, later Stalin) killed people, set up concentration camps seeking to establish their own authority.Secondly, the makers of the documentary revealed how the Nazi government used experience, some ideological ideas of K. Marx, and shocking experience of Lenin, NKVD to set up killing machine of Jews and other people of Germany.Thirdly, there has been shown how the Soviet officials and the Nazi government collaborated before World War II in order to improve killing machine mechanism and annex territories of free states in Europe. Later, the shocking crimes of the Soviet state has been shown in the Baltic countries.Finally, the film-makers have revealed shocking legacy dealing with justification of the communism crimes in some social groups of politicians in Russia.In conclusion, watching this documentary will form critical approach towards similarities of Communism and Nazism.