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00:00:02
“I can tell you all I want about him being a ghoul, how he was a ghoul,00:00:05
how he drank blood,00:00:07
how he sucked blood.”00:00:09
“Therefore, many Russian monastic people00:00:14
consider Joseph Stalin a saint today.”00:00:17
“A murderer? But of course!”00:00:19
“So these people I call mystical Stalinists... - Yeah, yeah, yeah...00:00:24
- They see Stalin as a carrier of light-bearing energy.”00:00:29
“Horrendous, terrible, cruel, powerful…00:00:32
Hmmm… mass murderer.”00:00:36
“I guess he was a man of faith after all.00:00:38
Did he fly over Moscow with an icon? I think probably.”00:00:43
“A good manager.”00:00:44
“This feeling of some leader with demands of a superpower.”00:00:52
“A ghoul, a vampire, a criminal, burning in hell and so on… for me, right?”00:00:55
“How dare you say that? My father fought under Stalin’s command... Wait a sec… ”00:00:59
“Dear… what are you doing?!00:01:01
Ooooh... Gentlemen! Stop it! What are you doing?”00:01:06
“That is not Stalin…”00:01:15
Probably no other figure in Russian history00:01:18
causes such acrimonious discussions and heated debates as that of Stalin.00:01:23
Mass media portrays him as the greatest villain on Earth,00:01:28
or a cartoon monster,00:01:30
or a strong ruler, tough but fair Father Czar.00:01:35
In the flow of political talk shows, a fierce hatred for Stalin00:01:39
meets an exalted idealization of his image.00:01:43
Behind this barrage of legends and facts,00:01:46
copiously peppered with gossip and untruth,00:01:48
many people find it hard to see his true historical role.00:01:52
Despite this apparent difficulty, it is easy.00:01:55
To do it, we don’t need to dig through the details of Stalin’s biography00:01:59
or analyze his personality in depth.00:02:01
We only need to throw away the lies,00:02:04
dismiss what is secondary and00:02:06
recognize what is truly important.00:02:08
It will then become clear what Stalin’s place in history is00:02:12
and why his deeds and achievements are besmirched somehow or idealized awkwardly.00:02:18
Most importantly, we will answer the question:00:02:20
“What does Stalin mean for our country and the world today?”00:02:29
In this video, we choose not to discuss Stalin's personal life.00:02:33
We do not talk about his principles00:02:35
or willpower.00:02:37
Nor do we not explore his abilities,00:02:39
phenomenal memory,00:02:40
erudition or enormous propensity for self-education.00:02:42
It’s outside of the scope of this video.00:02:45
This film has a different purpose.00:02:46
We want to remember the era in which Stalin lived,00:02:49
the ideas which he served,00:02:51
and the main milestones which he achieved in his political career,00:02:53
and – behind all of that – see the real takeaway from his achievements...00:02:58
Joseph Dzhugashvili was born in the last quarter of the 19th century00:03:02
when a time of great changes came to the Russian Empire.00:03:05
Serfdom had been abolished quite recently.00:03:08
The old way of life was breaking down.00:03:10
The hard work of factory and plant workers,00:03:12
heavy burden of taxes and duties,00:03:14
disempowerment and destitution of ordinary workers,00:03:16
as well as growing social tensions00:03:18
– such were the realities of the Czarist Russia.00:03:20
The situation was escalating quickly.00:03:22
When young Soso, the son of a shoemaker and a worker,00:03:25
began studying at the seminary,00:03:27
underground Marxist organizations were already working actively in Russia.00:03:31
15-year-old seminarian Dzhugashvili gets into one of these organizations00:03:35
and becomes interested in revolutionary ideas.00:03:38
Karl Marx discovered and formulated the general laws of the historical development of human society.00:03:43
He was the first to scientifically establish that everything that takes place in a society00:03:47
depends on the mode of production, distribution and exchange of material goods.00:03:51
It is the economic relationships that determine all aspects of a human life:00:03:56
politics, law, government and its institutions,00:03:59
culture, ideology, religion, arts, worldview, and morals.00:04:03
The emergence of private property led to the stratification of society00:04:06
into large groups of people – classes.00:04:10
A certain class structure corresponds to each mode of production.00:04:14
Some classes produce goods and services.00:04:16
Others appropriate most of what’s produced.00:04:19
Means of labor evolve, and so do people,00:04:22
and as productive forces of the society continue to develop,00:04:25
contradictions emerge between classes.00:04:27
As time goes by, the contradictions multiply and intensify;00:04:31
as a result, a new mode of production replaces the old one.00:04:34
At the same time, the ruling classes lose their power00:04:38
and leave the historical arena.00:04:40
They give way to new classes.00:04:42
The succession of socio-economic formations is logical.00:04:45
The slavery system exhausted its development potential00:04:48
and got replaced by a more progressive feudal system.00:04:52
Feudalism fell under the blows of capitalism.00:04:54
In the current historical moment, the proletariat –00:04:57
the class of employees – became the revolutionary class.00:05:00
The main driving force of the historical process nowadays00:05:03
is the class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie.00:05:07
The victory of the proletariat in this struggle is inevitable;00:05:09
it is predetermined by the contradictions of capitalism.00:05:12
The path to it lies through the socialist revolution.00:05:15
Only by taking power into their own hands,00:05:17
by destroying private property in the means of production00:05:20
will workers be able to end exploitation,00:05:23
to first build a socialist society00:05:24
and then a classless communist society.00:05:28
Marx did not just give a scientific explanation of social phenomena;00:05:31
for the first time in history, the oppressed class has received00:05:34
a clear and understandable political recipe to get rid of oppression.00:05:38
1898. Joseph Dzhugashvili joins the Tiflis branch of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP).00:05:44
He is engaged in propaganda and party journalism,00:05:47
sets up printing houses,00:05:48
organizes demonstrations, strikes and walkouts,00:05:50
forms combat units and party committees,00:05:53
raises money for party needs, obtains weapons,00:05:55
participates in the liquidation of provocateurs00:05:57
and organizes expropriations.00:05:59
By the time he gets acquainted with Lenin in 1905,00:06:02
he is an experienced and seasoned revolutionary.00:06:05
The clarity and certainty of Stalin’s political views00:06:08
can be traced back to his early works and articles:00:06:10
“The time has passed when it was boldly proclaimed that ‘Russia is united and indivisible.’00:06:15
Now every child knows that00:06:16
the ‘united and indivisible’ Russia does not exist,00:06:20
that it has long been divided into two opposite classes:00:06:22
the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.00:06:25
It’s no longer a mystery to anyone00:06:27
that the struggle between these two classes00:06:29
has become the axis around which our modern life revolves.00:06:33
The wealthy bourgeoisie is our irreconcilable enemy;00:06:36
its wealth rests on our poverty,00:06:38
its joy – on our grief.”00:06:41
The Russian Revolution of 1905 is defeated.00:06:44
In the following years of the reaction Stalin, together with Lenin,00:06:47
fights against the Menshevik liquidators and recallists00:06:50
seeking to destroy the working-class party from within.00:06:53
Lenin appreciates Stalin’s organizational skills.00:06:56
At Lenin’s suggestion in 1912,00:06:59
Stalin was elected in absentia to the Central Committee of the Party00:07:02
and put in charge of the Russian Bureau of the Central Committee.00:07:04
He directs the practical party work in Russia,00:07:06
edits the newspapers "Zvezda" (“Star”) and "Pravda" (“Truth”),00:07:09
and constantly writes articles for them.00:07:10
He gets arrested 8 times and placed in exile 7 times00:07:14
and escapes from there 6 times.00:07:16
April 1917. The monarchy falls.00:07:19
Lenin returns from emigration.00:07:21
Stalin supports Lenin's course of armed rebellion00:07:24
and works on its organization and preparation:00:07:27
“The revolution can't satisfy everyone and everything.00:07:30
It always satisfies the working masses with one end,00:07:33
while beating the overt and covert enemies of these masses with the other end.00:07:37
Therefore, one has to choose:00:07:38
either together with the workers and peasants for the revolution,00:07:42
or together with the capitalists and landlords against the revolution.”00:07:46
The power of the bourgeoisie is overthrown.00:07:48
Stalin becomes part of the first Soviet Government – the Council of People's Commissars.00:07:53
During the Civil War, he leads the Red Army military operations00:07:57
in the most dangerous and difficult areas.00:07:59
1922. At the suggestion of Lenin,00:08:03
Stalin is elected the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party.00:08:06
Since then, he is constantly re-elected and remains in office until his death.00:08:10
After Lenin’s death, all the initiatives00:08:12
of the first years of the Soviets are continued.00:08:14
The State Plan for Electrification of Russia is implemented,00:08:16
industrial production recovers and grows,00:08:19
science gains momentum,00:08:21
and illiteracy is eliminated at an accelerated pace.00:08:24
During his visit to the USSR, the Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore00:08:29
described the atmosphere of the young Soviet state as follows:00:08:32
“What is surprising is the amazing energy with which Russia00:08:35
is seeking to spread education throughout the country.00:08:39
And it's not just the number of people,00:08:42
but also the depth, the scope.00:08:44
And among the semi-civilized peoples of Central Asia,00:08:47
they are spreading education with the speed of a flood.00:08:50
There is no limit to their tireless energy00:08:53
directed at exposing those peoples to scientific advances.00:08:57
Theaters see large crowds of people,00:08:59
and the main visitors are peasants and workers.00:09:02
Nowhere they are insulted.00:09:04
In two or three institutions I have visited so far,00:09:07
I have noticed a spiritual renewal and a triumph of the newly found human dignity.00:09:13
Ordinary people have shaken off the burden of inequality,00:09:16
been able to straighten up and raise their heads.00:09:18
Now they stand in the world of men with their heads held high.00:09:22
Their minds are independent, and their hands are free.”00:09:25
Additionally, in the 20s the Party outlined a commitment00:09:28
to industrialization and complete collectivization.00:09:31
These objectives were interrelated.00:09:33
It was impossible to achieve one without the other.00:09:36
New construction sites, factories and plants needed millions of workers.00:09:40
Small peasant farms without modern equipment00:09:44
could not feed a huge country with a growing urban population.00:09:48
The country would not have been able to ensure its defense capability00:09:51
without a well-developed industry.00:09:53
The peace concluded after the first imperialist massacre was just a truce.00:09:56
It was only a matter of time before a new war started.00:09:59
The Bolsheviks understood that very well.00:10:01
“We are 50 to 100 years behind the developed countries.00:10:04
We must make up this gap in 10 years.00:10:06
Either we do it, or they will crush us.”00:10:09
Stalin said that in 1931.00:10:13
Hydroelectric stations, thousands of plants and factories;00:10:16
tens of thousands of collective and state farms with machine and tractor stations servicing them00:10:21
– 2 five-year plans brought all of it to the USSR.00:10:25
The French journalist and social activist Henri Barbusse wrote:00:10:29
“These are hard facts. The poorest of the European states,00:10:32
ignorant, numbed, beaten, hungry, bleeding and devastated,00:10:37
became the largest industrialized country in Europe and the second largest in the world,00:10:40
and in many respects the most cultured.00:10:43
Such unprecedented growth was achieved by the country alone:00:10:46
other countries were its enemies.00:10:48
External enemies were not the only ones creating obstacles during those years.00:10:51
Many traitors, renegades and saboteurs acted within the country.00:10:55
Collectivization essentially became the capstone of the socialist revolution in the countryside.00:10:59
Kulaks (well-off peasants) are now often portrayed00:11:01
exclusively as able owners who suffered at the hands of the Soviets for no reason.00:11:06
In reality, kulaks actively opposed the work of collective farms in 20s and 30s00:11:12
They frequently organized terrorist attacks and arsons,00:11:15
killed collective farm activists,00:11:16
policemen and Red Army soldiers.00:11:18
However, the inertia of the past and the machinations of class enemies were finally overcome.00:11:24
Yes, mistakes were made on the ground.00:11:26
It is hard to implement a project of that scale without a single mistake.00:11:30
However, without the industry and mechanized farming,00:11:33
the USSR had absolutely no future.00:11:37
The USSR became the first country in world history to construct a socialist system.00:11:41
It was achieved not only thanks to00:11:43
the great enthusiasm of the Soviet people.00:11:45
The living standards of workers kept growing steadily.00:11:48
In the Stalinist USSR, the one who worked well00:11:50
for the benefit of the society lived well.00:11:52
The Constitution of 1936 (one thousand nine hundred thirty six)00:11:55
legally finalized the conquests of the October Revolution00:11:57
and the main foundations of socialism...00:12:00
It did not just declare social rights,00:12:03
of which the working people could not even dream before.00:12:05
It guaranteed these rights to the citizens of the USSR in practice.00:12:08
Not a landlord, not a manufacturer, not a czar00:12:11
were now the masters of the country.00:12:13
A worker, a collective farmer,00:12:14
a doctor, an engineer and a teacher.00:12:16
When enemies invaded the Soviet country,00:12:18
they faced an incredible resistance from its new masters.00:12:22
Such courage, heroism, fortitude,00:12:25
sacrifice and selflessness at the front and in the rear00:12:28
had not been known to human history.00:12:29
The Soviet army won.00:12:30
The Soviet weapons won.00:12:32
The Soviet technology won.00:12:34
The Soviet industry won.00:12:36
The Soviet collective farms won.00:12:38
The Soviet science and education systems won.00:12:41
The spirit of the free Soviet people00:12:43
– the workers and warriors – won.00:12:44
The Communist Party won,00:12:47
and so did the Soviet diplomacy and the Soviet government,00:12:50
and so did the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.00:12:53
They all won, as the socialist system proved its complete superiority.00:12:57
That war was a class war,00:12:59
a war between socialism and capitalism.00:13:02
The world capitalist powers00:13:03
– England, France and the United States –00:13:06
were long preparing an invasion of the Soviet Union.00:13:08
American monopolies, industrial tycoons and bankers00:13:11
generously financed Germany's heavy and military industries,00:13:15
de facto arming the country.00:13:17
England and France provided a cover for Germany’s00:13:20
aggressive foreign and domestic policy in Europe.00:13:22
Western imperialists wanted the German fascists to do the work00:13:25
of destroying, looting and enslaving the USSR for them.00:13:29
Today the Soviet Union is presented as the instigator of World War II.00:13:33
But what do we do with the real history then?00:13:36
Cannot hide the annexation of Austria,00:13:38
cannot cover up the Munich Agreement and the Phoney War,00:13:40
when England and France left their vassal, Poland, to the mercy of fate.00:13:44
Direct support as well as a poorly concealed policy00:13:47
of indulgence and connivance pushed the fascist beast eastwards.00:13:51
However, the enemy made a calculation mistake.00:13:53
Not everything went according to plan.00:13:54
The British and American imperialists eventually00:13:58
even had to make an alliance with the country of the Soviets.00:14:01
Socialism turned out to be head and shoulders above capitalism.00:14:04
The result of the war was not only a complete and unconditional victory00:14:07
over Nazi Germany and its satellites,00:14:10
not only the defeat of militaristic Japan,00:14:13
but also the emergence of a block of socialist states on the world map.00:14:16
After the war, the Stalinist USSR00:14:18
performs another economic miracle.00:14:21
In five years, the national economy destroyed by Hitler's hordes was restored.00:14:26
The country, which lost tens of millions of inhabitants,00:14:29
without the Marshall Plan and foreign loans00:14:31
rose from the ruins.00:14:34
Yesterday's allies in the anti-Hitler coalition very soon again00:14:37
declare the Soviet Union their main enemy00:14:40
and begin to make new aggressive plans.00:14:43
However, the Soviet science, industry and intelligence00:14:45
rise to the challenge here too.00:14:47
The USSR becomes a nuclear superpower,00:14:49
with a strong ground force, powerful navy,00:14:53
the 2nd and in many respects the 1st economy on the planet.00:14:56
All these factors together made the USSR00:14:59
the core of the new civilization.00:15:01
The popularity of communist ideas grows all over the world.00:15:04
Even the capitalists of the main imperialist power on the plant have to fight it.00:15:09
Just 4 years after Stalin’s death,00:15:12
the first artificial Earth satellite would be launched.00:15:14
And in 8 years, the 1st Soviet man would fly into space.00:15:18
Was Stalin’s contribution to the achievements of the Soviet state great?00:15:22
Undoubtedly.00:15:23
It is only in the fantasies of anti-Stalinists00:15:25
that a country’s success is possible despite its leader.00:15:28
Was everything that the Soviet people have achieved00:15:31
the merit of Stalin alone, the result of his decisions only?00:15:34
Of course, not.00:15:36
In a conversation with the German writer Emil Ludwig,00:15:38
Joseph Vissarionovich spoke about how decisions of utmost importance for the state were made.00:15:43
Among the seventy members of the Central Committee of the Party00:15:46
were the best industrialists and cooperators, the best suppliers and military men,00:15:50
propagandists and agitators, the best specialists in agriculture and national issues:00:15:55
“Everyone has an opportunity to correct someone’s sole opinion, proposal.00:16:00
Everyone has an opportunity to contribute their experience.00:16:03
If this were not the case,00:16:04
if decisions were made single-handedly,00:16:06
we would have made grave mistakes in our work.”00:16:09
The success of that time was made possible00:16:11
by the thousands of qualified specialists and managers.00:16:15
Those professionals were trained by the Soviet education system,00:16:17
forged in production, labor and service.00:16:20
The children of workers and peasants received access to free education.00:16:23
Not in word, but in deed,00:16:25
they could now realize their human potential.00:16:28
“It is not socioeconomic status, national origin, or gender,00:16:32
but rather personal abilities and personal work of every citizen that determine their position in the society.”00:16:38
In the socialist society, social relationships have changed.00:16:42
They became truly fraternal and friendly.00:16:45
There were no more noblemen,00:16:47
no more high and mighty contempt and exploitation.00:16:49
Every person knew that they would never be left without work and housing.00:16:53
They knew that if something were to happen to them,00:16:54
they would receive any medical help they could get00:16:56
without having to pay for it.00:16:58
People's attitude towards work has changed.00:17:00
What was created by workers and peasants no longer00:17:02
went to supporting the luxury lifestyles of the wealthy.00:17:04
A palace was no longer built for a rich man,00:17:06
but for schoolchildren and pioneers.00:17:08
The society's resources were spent on education,00:17:11
children's leisure and recreation, social needs,00:17:12
health resorts and health centers for workers,00:17:16
and things raising the population’s cultural level.00:17:19
People saw and felt it.00:17:21
The social and economic base formed at that time continued to work later00:17:25
at the time when the Perestroika activists were actively destroying the country altogether.00:17:27
Even in the late USSR it was unthinkable00:17:30
to lose housing because of debts.00:17:32
And the idea of paying for medical services was perceived as savagery00:17:35
and barbarism from another capitalist reality.00:17:38
“It’s hard for me to imagine what “personal freedom”00:17:41
an unemployed person can have when00:17:44
he or she walks around hungry and cannot find a job.00:17:46
True freedom exists only where exploitation has been destroyed,00:17:51
where there is no oppression of some people by others,00:17:53
where there is no unemployment and poverty,00:17:56
and where one does not tremble with fear of losing00:17:57
his or her job, home, and daily bread tomorrow.” (I.V. Stalin)00:18:02
No matter how much they lie about the USSR,00:18:04
it had real social freedom.00:18:08
There was creativity, creation, selflessness,00:18:11
friendship of peoples, and true care about the person of labor.00:18:14
No other country in the world in all of history could boast a similarly00:18:18
fast pace of development of the economy and fundamental and applied sciences.00:18:23
Nowhere was there such a large-scale introduction of00:18:26
scientific achievements into manufacturing as in the Soviet Union prior to 1953.00:18:31
Everything that many people nostalgically remember00:18:34
when talking about the USSR was not a godsend or someone’s sole achievement.00:18:39
The successes and victories of the Soviet state are00:18:42
practically implemented ideas of scientific socialism.00:18:46
And Stalin was not just a statesman,00:18:48
but also a Marxist theorist.00:18:50
Even his early works became00:18:52
a significant contribution to the development of Marxist-Leninist science.00:18:57
Later he discovered and formulated the basic economic law of modern capitalism (imperialism)00:19:02
[to provide the maximum of capitalistic profit through exploitation, devastation and impoverishment of the majority of a given country, through enslaving and systematically robbing other countries, especially the underdeveloped ones, finally through wars and militarization of the national economy used to ensure the highest profits]00:19:05
and the basic economic law of socialism.00:19:07
[to ensure maximum satisfaction of the ever-growing material and cultural needs of the entire society through continuous growth and improvement of socialist production on the basis of higher technology]00:19:12
Based on Lenin’s theory of imperialism, Stalin provided an analysis00:19:15
of the struggle of two systems – capitalism and socialism.00:19:19
[We can defeat our capitalists, we can build socialism and we can make it happen, but that does not mean that we can guarantee the country of the dictatorship of the proletariat against dangers from outside, against the dangers of intervention and the associated restoration, restoration of the old orders. We don’t live on an island. We live in a capitalist environment.]00:19:23
“A brief course on the history of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)”00:19:25
– an encyclopedia of basic knowledge of Marxism-Leninism, the history of the USSR and the Bolshevik Party,00:19:30
was written in 1938 with his contributions.00:19:33
Stalin became the founder of a new science,00:19:36
which in turn became an important section of Marxism,00:19:38
– the political economy of socialism.00:19:40
Joseph Vissarionovich placed a lot of weight on theory:00:19:44
“We need our professionals to have a solid grasp of Marxist economics.00:19:49
The first, the older generation of Bolsheviks were well-versed in theory.00:19:52
We used to study “Capital,” take notes, debate,00:19:56
and test each other. That was our strength.00:19:58
It helped us a lot.00:19:59
The second generation is less prepared.00:20:01
People were occupied by practical work and construction.00:20:04
They learned Marxism from brochures00:20:06
The third generation was brought up on feuilletons and newspaper articles.00:20:09
They have no deep knowledge.00:20:11
They need to be given food that is digestible.00:20:14
Most of them were educated by studying not Marx’ and Lenin’s works, but their quotations.00:20:18
If things go on like this, people can degenerate.00:20:21
In America, people reason: dollar is the key to everything,00:20:24
why do we need theory, why science?00:20:25
That is how they can reason here:00:20:27
why do we need “Capital” when building socialism?00:20:30
That is the threat of degeneration; that is death.00:20:32
To avoid this even in little things,00:20:34
we need to raise the level of economic knowledge...”00:20:37
“The transition from capitalism to communism,” wrote Lenin,00:20:40
“is an entire historical era.00:20:43
Until it is over, exploiters inevitably have hope for restoration,00:20:48
and this hope turns into attempts at restoration.00:20:51
The overthrown exploiters, who did not expect to be overthrown,00:20:55
did not believe in it, did not allow the thought of it,00:20:58
with tenfold energy, with mad passion, with hatred, increased a hundred times,00:21:02
rush into battle for the return of the “paradise lost.”00:21:06
That is precisely what happened in our country.00:21:09
After Stalin’s death, counter-revolutionary forces came to power.00:21:13
It was not possible to quickly destroy socialism.00:21:17
That giant train had gained too much speed.00:21:20
It took decades of persistent revision of Marxism,00:21:23
sabotage and wrecking of the economy, science and culture00:21:27
to disorient the Soviet people00:21:29
and prepare them for the restoration of capitalism.00:21:32
There are no ifs in history.00:21:35
We will not speculate about whether Stalin could have prepared in advance00:21:38
and prevented the impending disaster.00:21:41
Many now easily judge what happened.00:21:44
Such “judges” and “critics” forget that00:21:46
the Soviet state from the moment of its existence constantly faced the threat of destruction.00:21:51
The Soviet state was created not in ideal conditions,00:21:54
but in a hostile environment on the territory of a weakened country.00:21:57
The Bolsheviks inherited not only the damage of two wars,00:22:01
but also the underdevelopment accumulated since the Tsarist times.00:22:03
Most importantly, socialism was built for the first time in history.00:22:07
Human civilization had had no such previous experience at all.00:22:11
To date, the USSR remains the main achievement00:22:13
of the proletariat in its centuries-old class struggle.00:22:16
That is why, by the way, bourgeois propagandists throw mud at the Soviet Union.00:22:20
Not because of its failures, on the contrary,00:22:22
because it accomplished too much.00:22:25
It was both a huge success and00:22:27
a painful historical lesson for workers around the world.00:22:33
Any social and political gains00:22:36
can be lost easily if class vigilance wanes.00:22:39
No one, not even the most prominent politician and statesman,00:22:44
can lead the working people to well-being alone.00:22:47
This is a cause for the entire working class,00:22:48
a cause for every class-conscious worker.00:22:51
Despite the defeat of the Soviet Union,00:22:53
the victory of capitalism is temporary.00:22:55
The class struggle continues.00:22:57
Socialism is not an invention of philosophers00:22:59
or an abstract book idea.00:23:01
It is an objective vital necessity for all humanity,00:23:05
and its inevitable future.00:23:07
Lenin’s words about the October Revolution00:23:09
can be safely attributed to the whole Soviet experience:00:23:12
“We started this work. When, in what time,00:23:15
what nation’s proletariat will see it through00:23:18
– these questions are irrelevant.00:23:20
What is essential is that the ice is broken,00:23:22
the way is paved, and the direction is shown.”00:23:25
A hundred years is not a long time for history.00:23:27
Capitalism, by the way, did not win immediately either.00:23:31
The post-Soviet bourgeoisie constantly claims that socialism is ineffective.00:23:35
At the same time, everything that still drives, flies, and shoots00:23:39
in modern Russia is primarily the legacy of that “backward” era.00:23:42
The peaceful atom and the space industry,00:23:44
the remnants of the once great aerospace manufacturing,00:23:47
arms industry and a nuclear shield are all from there.00:23:50
What achievements can Russian capitalists boast of?00:23:53
“Breakthroughs” of effective managers fleeing abroad with everything they stole?00:23:57
Or "explosive growth" of worn-out pipes?00:23:59
Or maybe twenty million people in poverty00:24:02
and a record number of dollar billionaires?00:24:04
“Successful businessmen,” whose entire “success”00:24:07
is based on the appropriation of Soviet enterprises?00:24:10
Shattered industries?00:24:12
Destroyed farms?00:24:13
Degradation of all areas of life?00:24:15
Increasingly inaccessible health care00:24:18
and paid education?00:24:19
Constantly rising prices, tariffs and taxes?00:24:22
An increase in the retirement age?00:24:24
Trillions in offshore accounts?00:24:26
By the way, who can even distinguish which part of our country00:24:29
belongs to the “native” domestic bourgeois,00:24:32
and which one belongs to foreign bourgeois?00:24:33
They try to scare us with repressions.00:24:35
At the same time, during Stalin’s time in power,00:24:38
despite the immense losses suffered by the country in the Great Patriotic War,00:24:41
the population of the USSR increased significantly.00:24:43
On the other hand, in the era of bourgeois freedom and democracy,00:24:46
the population keeps declining.00:24:47
Only from 1993 to 2006, 11 million more people died than were born in Russia.00:24:54
There are no calls to repent for these victims of capitalist repressions.00:24:59
The anti-state propaganda intellectuals and human rights defenders00:25:02
do not shed tears for those victims at the Wall of Grief [monument in Moscow].00:25:04
No memorial dedicated to the victims of privatization and00:25:06
Gaidar’s “reforms” has been opened in the Yeltsin Center.00:25:09
TV propagandists talk about the power and grandeur00:25:12
of today’s Russia day and night, stirring up ultra-patriotic,00:25:15
if not chauvinistic moods among the audience.00:25:18
However, this virtual reality is more and more clearly at odds00:25:21
with the truth of life in a poor, dying out and degraded country.00:25:25
We are constantly reminded of the powerful defense system of the modern Russian state.00:25:29
How are such miracles possible00:25:32
when science is defeated and00:25:33
mechanical engineering, electronics and other important industries are shattered?00:25:38
Moreover, whom are we to “defend” ourselves from,00:25:40
if the so-called “potential enemies” quietly get what they want?00:25:44
Russia has long become a place of profit-making00:25:46
for imperialists from different countries.00:25:48
This Capitalist International does not care about the welfare of the local population,00:25:53
nor does it care about the problems of workers in any other country.00:25:56
No wonder the post-Soviet bourgeoisie continuously recites00:25:59
terrible malarkey about Stalinist repressions to the people they robbed.00:26:03
They need to justify the destruction and looting of the country somehow.00:26:07
The legend about millions of innocent victims fits this purpose perfectly.00:26:12
Except it is getting harder and harder to deceive people.00:26:15
Many already understand that Khrushchev counterrevolutionaries,00:26:19
Trotskyites, Western and post-Soviet nationalist bourgeoisie initiated the slander of Stalin.00:26:24
Seeing the recent development,00:26:26
people increasingly begin to look back at Soviet history,00:26:29
searching there for answers to today’s questions.00:26:31
Capitalists, however, are not letting their guard down.00:26:33
The misinformation and deception machine is doing everything00:26:35
so that no one could calmly and soberly comprehend00:26:37
the historical experience of their country.00:26:40
We are prompted to hate or simply forget the Soviet era and Stalin.00:26:44
“Stalin is dead!00:26:46
Dead as a politician,00:26:48
as a state model00:26:49
and as a slogan.00:26:51
Stalin is the past.00:26:54
Not the future,00:26:56
and there is no request for Stalin in the present” (Kiselev, Russian TV journalist).00:26:59
No request?00:27:01
Dead as a politician?00:27:02
This is the irrelevant past, which should be put away00:27:05
into the closet of the past, says the capitalist propaganda.00:27:08
Then why do they keep stirring up a hatred for Stalin?00:27:12
There is a single main reason.00:27:14
Since the Manifesto of the Communist Party was written in 1848,00:27:18
the path to the world’s first socialist superpower00:27:21
was paved in just one century.00:27:23
Thanks to Marxism, the spontaneous and inconsistent struggle of workers00:27:26
for their rights gained a clear purpose,00:27:28
became organized, and led to the victory of the socialist revolution00:27:33
and the first proletarian state on the planet.00:27:37
The country proved its viability and power in the most difficult war with Nazi Germany,00:27:42
which relied on the human and material resources of capitalist Europe.00:27:47
The Soviet Union became a guideline00:27:49
and a symbol of hope for workers all over the world.00:27:52
The fact that Marxism works was proved in practice.00:27:55
Humankind discovered and developed a vaccine against capitalism through much suffering.00:27:59
For capitalists, it is deadly.00:28:02
These cardinal chapters of history00:28:05
are inextricably linked to the name of Stalin.00:28:07
The greatest successes of the Soviet statehood00:28:09
came at a time when the country was headed by Joseph Vissarionovich.00:28:13
Therefore, all the power of bourgeois propaganda aimed primarily00:28:16
at denigrating Stalin and discrediting his achievements.00:28:20
Abroad, this campaign began in his lifetime.00:28:24
In our country, it broke out during Khrushchev’s rule,00:28:27
intensified during Perestroika,00:28:29
and has not eased its pressure at all today.00:28:33
Anti-Stalinist myths often repeat the texts00:28:36
of Nazi leaflets word for word.00:28:38
In their lies, anti-Communists do not shy away from any absurdity.00:28:42
Victims of so-called repressions include traitors,00:28:45
state criminals and common criminal offenders.00:28:49
When it comes to the numbers,00:28:51
they provide fantastic numbers of political prisoners and convicts...00:28:54
“We won, but not the way we should have!”00:28:56
“There were successes, but at what cost?”00:28:58
The bourgeois lies about Stalin can be dismantled endlessly.00:29:01
But does it make sense when you understand the reasons00:29:04
why they are replicated on an industrial scale?00:29:07
The ruling class fears a new organized attempt00:29:10
to build socialism.00:29:12
Even decades after the destruction of the USSR,00:29:15
which fell as a result of betrayal and counterrevolution.00:29:18
They fear because it is through practical experience that00:29:21
the proletariat has proved its ability to build a society00:29:24
in which human exploitation is eliminated00:29:27
and where there is no room for masters.00:29:30
For the first time in history, the oppressed class has infringed00:29:33
upon the sacred cow of private property,00:29:34
presented the bill to the oppressors and parasites of all kinds.00:29:37
Isn’t it ironic when means of production and assets00:29:40
are expropriated not in favor of another capitalist,00:29:43
but in favor of another class, a class that should toil away without complaining for a collective bourgeois.00:29:47
That is why the howling about the so-called repressions is rising.00:29:51
Whoever heard of workers taking power into their own hands00:29:54
and taking charge of their own lives?00:29:56
Capitalists would be throwing mud at any other leader00:29:59
of the Soviet state with similar results.00:30:03
It is not about an individual.00:30:05
The Russian ruling class itself proves it with its information policy.00:30:09
Simultaneously with this line of vilification of Stalin,00:30:12
the recent years have seen another line of action.00:30:14
His political figure is sterilized,00:30:16
freed from the communist ideology,00:30:18
and then used for the needs of the bourgeois state patriotism.00:30:22
Stalin is portrayed as an “effective manager,”00:30:25
who allegedly followed the czars in building a great empire.00:30:29
The new Russian bourgeoisie is privatizing not only Soviet enterprises,00:30:33
but also the achievements of that era.00:30:35
The history of the Great Patriotic War demonstrates this especially well.00:30:39
They are even implementing a market rebranding00:30:41
by gradually replacing Soviet symbols with new prints.00:30:44
They are actively diluting the meaning and class context of those events.00:30:48
Modern propaganda is trying to convince us00:30:51
that to defend a socialist homeland is the same as00:30:53
to be cannon fodder of capital in massacres arranged by the bourgeois00:30:56
for the sake of their enrichment.00:30:59
The image of Stalin as the leader of some abstract classless Fatherland00:31:04
is safe and useful to the bourgeoisie.00:31:06
One can even recall his “firm hand”00:31:09
to justify the pressure on his political opponents00:31:12
allegedly in the interests of national security.00:31:14
However, the firm hand of the bourgeoisie is Hitler, Mussolini, and Pinochet,00:31:18
who strangled the working movement,00:31:21
whereas Stalin’s “firm hand” protected workers from parasites.00:31:25
The military might of the Soviet Union was created not to dominate the world00:31:28
for the purpose of robbing and exploiting weak countries,00:31:31
but to protect against aggression by a hostile capitalist environment.00:31:36
Stalin described it best himself:00:31:39
“The cause to which I dedicate my life00:31:41
is to elevate another class, namely the working class.00:31:46
My objective is not to strengthen some “national” State,00:31:50
but to strengthen a socialist00:31:53
and therefore international State,00:31:55
because any strengthening of that State contributes to the strengthening00:31:59
of the entire international working class.00:32:01
If every step in my work were not aimed at strengthening00:32:06
and improving the position of the working class,00:32:08
I would consider my life pointless."00:32:10
In terms of bourgeois law, Lenin, Stalin,00:32:13
and other Bolsheviks will always be criminals.00:32:16
Just like Spartacus, who broke the laws of the Roman Empire,00:32:19
was a criminal for slave owners.00:32:22
Stepan Razin was a criminal under feudal law.00:32:25
The ruling class writes the laws.00:32:28
But the truth is that the capitalist system itself00:32:31
is criminal and anti-human.00:32:33
When one class owns practically all means of production00:32:37
and the other owns nothing but its own workforce,00:32:39
the relationship between them00:32:41
is the relationship between the exploiter and the exploited.00:32:44
Capitalism sentences hundreds of millions of people00:32:47
to pennies in wages, poverty, unemployment, hunger,00:32:49
and death in wars unleashed in the interests of money bags.00:32:53
It also creates conditions00:32:55
in which the oppressed are forced to fight for their rights.00:32:58
One can demonize Lenin and Stalin as much as one wants,00:33:01
but no one has done more for the revolution than kings, landlords and capitalists.00:33:06
The modern bourgeoisie is doing the same thing,00:33:09
turning the lives of workers all over the world into hell.00:33:12
History is made primarily by classes, not by individuals,00:33:16
even the most outstanding ones.00:33:18
The Stalin we know has not emerged from nothing.00:33:22
He was shaped by a revolutionary movement,00:33:24
in the Bolshevik Party, which fought for the interests00:33:27
of the working class and all honest workers.00:33:29
Bourgeois propaganda can continue to portray Stalin00:33:32
as a mythical villain or a lone hero,00:33:35
to incite a hatred for him00:33:37
or a passive faith in a fabulous savior.00:33:39
Despite these decorations, people will still discover the real Stalin.00:33:44
Stalin the revolutionary, Marxism theorist and00:33:47
leader of the world’s first socialist state.00:33:50
A man who from a young age to the last days of his life00:33:54
was faithful to the communist idea.00:33:57
His name still arouses the hatred of capitalists from different countries.00:34:00
Because for them there is nothing more terrible and dangerous00:34:03
than the steel will of the proletariat,00:34:05
who is aware of its class interests00:34:07
and armed with the theory of class struggle.00:34:09
Stalin is a harbinger of their future00:34:11
imminent and final defeat.00:34:14
Stalin’s USSR is a harbinger of a new world,00:34:17
where the oppression of humanity will be ended forever.00:34:26
[Stalin: Previously, the bourgeoisie could afford to play the liberal00:34:31
and defended a bourgeois-democratic freedom.00:34:35
That is how it created its own popularity among people.00:34:40
Now liberalism vanished as if it never existed.00:34:44
The so-called personal freedom no longer exists.00:34:48
Only those who own capital00:34:51
can have their personal rights recognized.00:34:55
All other citizens are considered raw human resources00:35:01
suitable only for exploitation.00:35:04
The principle of equality between people and nations has been trampled down.00:35:09
It has been replaced by the principle of the full rights of the exploitative minority00:35:15
and the disempowerment of the exploited majority of citizens.00:35:20
The banner of the bourgeois-democratic freedom has been thrown overboard.00:35:24
I think you as the representatives of communist democrats00:35:27
will have to raise that banner back up00:35:30
and carry it forward if you want to unite the majority of people around you.00:35:34
There is no one else to raise it.]Description:
Probably no other historical figure causes the same heated discussions as that of J.V. Stalin. TV shows about him are broadcast live and recorded; his biography becomes the topic of serious analytical programs and talk shows like "Let them talk." "Russia" and "First", Ren TV and NTV, History, Discovery and National Geographic shoot documentaries, which feature Stalin one way or another. He cannot be avoided when the USSR, socialism, Soviet history or World War II are discussed. Discussions about Stalin have been going on in the Internet for a long time. They involve beginners and popular bloggers. Parfyonov and Puchkov, "Namedny" and "Politprosvet" - in the World Wide Web, opinions about Stalin's era also differ radically. Say "Stalin!", and on the one hand you will hear an outrage: "Dictator! Gulag! Repressions!" On the other hand, they begin to reminisce with delight the great successes of the Soviet Union: "From plow to nuclear bomb in a quarter of a century! Industrialization and collectivization! Great science! Victory Day! Yalta Conference! The status of the world superpower!" However, this heated clash of conflicting opinions, a whirlwind of interesting facts, jokes and anecdotes, as well as historical and military films most often do not touch on one key point. What, which ideas did the man who for a long time headed the Soviet Union and the Communist Party serve? In the movie "The Real Stalin" we invite the viewer to think about that. "The task to which I dedicate my life is to elevate another class, namely the working class. This task is not the strengthening of any "national" state, but the strengthening of the state of socialism... If every step in my work were not aimed at strengthening and improving the status of the working class, I would consider my life pointless." I.V. Stalin. You can help bring this film into YouTube's trends! It's all in your hands! (Read below to know how to do it!) 0. Before we get to that, a favor. Click on the bell so you can get all the channel notifications and quickly watch our next work. 1. Watch the video to the end here on Youtube, evaluate it with a like/dislike, subscribe to the channel, if not subscribed, leave a comment - positive or negative, and respond to the comments that speak to you most. 2. Share the film in all social networks: if you have a YouTube channel - in its YouTube community, in instagram put a link to the video in your profile, into stories and in a post, in VK share with those friends who you think will not reject it, and send it through personal messages. Send the video to groups to which you have signed up, on FB, Odnoklassniki, offer it to groups and on your personal page. 3. Distribute the video to WhatsApp instant messengers, Weber, telegrams. Subscribe to our social networks: https://www.instagram.com/dumai_sam_i_sei4as/. https://vk.com/dumai_sam_i_sei4as https://ok.ru/dumaisam.sei4as https://t.me/dumai_sam_i_sei4as https://www.facebook.com/groups/dumaisamisei4as
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