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.

neilvokey Waiting for this film to end was painful, but I felt I needed to in order to prove my point. The film is titled 'The Soviet Story' when the entire argument is shaped around the totalitarian regime of Stalin. Instead of merely stating the factual evidence behind the atrocities in Stalinist Russia, 'The Soviet Story' tries to tie in his dictatorship with Communist ideology in its entirety, and even demonize the modern Russian state. Clearly the director had little sense of his story's antagonist.Using written quotes from Marx and Lenin, the audience learns in 'The Soviet Story' about the Marxist belief that violence and death will occur in revolutionary uprisings, sweeping away masses of people as part of the process. While the film tried to make these ideas sound ghastly, one only has to turn to the modern western democracy to find its roots in the bloody French Revolution. Weren't entire sects of a society wiped out in that instance? Revolutionary tactics are not exclusive to Communism.The film goes on to say with a negative tone that the Soviet state was content to wipe out entire nations to further the progress of it's superior nation. However this is implying that imperialism is also unique only to Soviet Russia. Did the European colonial powers not exploit and exterminate native nations around the world for hundreds of years? Once again, the totalitarian regime of Stalin and his predecessors did not commit their heinous crimes in the name of socialism, but rather, in the name of power.While 'The Soviet Story' is a great example of government manipulation, political oppression, and megalomaniacs, it does not justify it's own doomed thesis that the entire Soviet State was founded on oppression. The short scene on fate of Trotsky (who was a Leninist) is enough to prove it was Stalin, not Lenin who was the true villain. I have only taken a high school history class, yet I have learned that Lenin was strongly opposed to Stalin being his predecessor.

ej-43 The Soviets and the Chinese Communists killed about 100 million of their own peoples. There is not the slightest historical doubt about this. The fact that some imbecile here says this is propaganda and "why bother" since the USSR disintegrated 20 years ago merely amplifies one of the film's points -- that the history is being whitewashed. We continue to hear, almost daily, about Hitler this, Hitler that, Hitler the other thing ... and he was a freakin' pantywaist compared to the Soviets and Chicoms. It matters, particularly since the so-called intellectual left in the West was complicit, starting with Walter Duranty and his phony reporting for the NYT. It's a reminder that today's fathead libs don't want. I am also quite down on the GOP, so don't lump me with them. I am a libertarian, actually, and find nothing to respect in either major political party in the U.S. today. However, it's the left that bears the greatest complicity in the murder of millions, by providing cover for the killers. Screw 'em.

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.