Up From The Memory Hole

KONSTANTIN KISIN- The Truth About Vladimir Lenin a Century After His Death

Vladimir Lenin massacred more than 1 million people for political or religious reasons, murdered up to 700,000 in the genocide of the Cossacks, more than 15,000 peasants in the Tambov rebellion, over 3,000 sailors and civilians in the Kronstadt rebellion, thousands of workers who dared to strike or could not work, almost 2 million who died in the Gulag concentration camps and upwards of 8 million from famine and disease.

37 Replies to “Up From The Memory Hole”

    1. And Marx freeloaded off Engels – so they’re all basically the same, (as with Bernie Sanders who was ousted from a commune because he wouldn’t work), they want everything for nothing…because “Equality, dontcha know?”

    2. Socialism comes in two varieties: marxist and national. They all use the same methology: identify a target group, kill them all, and steal everything they possess. The only difference is the target: marxists want to kill all the bourgeoisie; nationalists want to kill all the Jews.

      Otherwise the two are identical. It always ends in mass murder, as evidenced by Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Lenin, Mao Tse Dong, Fransisco Franco and Pol Pot. There are no socialist exceptions to this rule.

      1. cghCOLON
        “Socialism comes in two varieties: marxist and national. ”
        Socialism comes in two varieties: marxist and katholikism
        There fixed that fer yah!

  1. Massacres are a feature of socialism not a bug. Socialism by any other name is communism and is deadly either by a bullet or by starvation.

    1. ‘Progressive’ is the new weasel word for ‘Socialst’.
      If Socialists want to be referred to as ‘Progressive’, then Conservatives should be referred to as ‘Normal’.

  2. The vast majority of the masses will never know this. The media cartel will make sure of that. And more often than not, the masses will not believe it.
    How could such warm and fuzzy politicians do such a thing?
    They want to help the masses to get free stuff, ‘free’ health care, ‘free’ housing, ‘free’ groceries.
    …. until they can’t, simply can’t be done.
    Once the warm and fuzzy get the power, they have to kill those that don’t agree.
    Works every time.

      1. It was simply a matter of scope and time. They massacred everyone within reach, given sufficient time. There is no particular difference among these two as opposed to the mass murderer in our time called Pol Pot.

      2. Sure but I thought we were talking about the USSR. If we are expanding our search Mao might top the list. Hitler was a monster but he named his enemies and mostly only had them killed. Stalin killed anyone and everyone for anything as a policy to keep Russians and those under Russian control constantly terrified. Orwell had it right.

        “There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.
        If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever. ”
        ― George Orwell, 1984

        1. Thomas
          Hitler=20 million dead, of which 7million were jews, and Hitler also has a jooish heritage
          Mao potentially 80 million dead
          Pot Pol= 3-5 million dead
          Lenin, Marx +Trotski all Jews, and you can throw in the Zee basturd, plus his uncle SoreASS

  3. Today’s generation: “Maybe so…but he was still the most talented in The Beatles.”

    ( you see, because they disavow history and display ignorance like it’s Christmas lights)

    1. Young people also revered Che Guevara, all the while ignoring the fact that Che was an insane, psychotic murderer that even Fidel Castro found too dangerous to leave at home in Cuba. Hence he sent him off to start a revolution in Bolivia and then calmly tipped off the Bolivian army as to where he was. End of Che.

      1. John Lennon is hardly Che Guevara. He was commie-lite but he made a lot of people happy. He deserves some credit for that.

  4. And yet wankers still display the hammer and sickle nowadays like it’s a great ideology. It should be just as reviled as the swastika.

    1. The Soviet Union was an aggressor in World War 2, and was rewarded with control over half of Europe for almost 45 years as a result of their aggression.

      One might also add to the pyre all of the african countries that they exported the “revolution” to, when considering their crimes against humanity.

      1. Yes, Stalin invaded Finland in 1939 while part of the Non-Aggression Pact with Hitler.
        Patton was right.

        1. Also carved up Poland, with Hitler… and then retained everything east of the Curzon line, until it was transferred to Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania during the fall of the soviet union. Also, not brought up was the expulsion of 12 million people from this area.

    2. Good point P, and one I’ve long espoused.

      The hammer and sickle should carry the same level of revulsion here as anyone ignorant and malicious enough to wave a swastika. But for some reason, it’s been given a pass, perhaps because the Nazi flag is more associated with the systematic killing of jews than making the trains run on time whereas the western labor movements have used the red flag as banner for worker rights/solidarity, obfuscating its genocidal record.

      If the history and anti-human ideology of communism were properly taught in schools the last 50 years we probably wouldn’t find ourselves in the current mess we’re in.

  5. The slander of collectivism masks both the intent and the outcome of events.. Voters are supposed to be informed, not outraged.. I stopped voting a few elections ago.. My 15 minutes that you can’t have..

    Stop pretending and get on with it..

  6. time and again when situation indicates and sometime anyway, l point out the enormous difference between communism and facism, here it is:
    the main human target of communism is its OWN PEOPLE.
    stalin? check
    mao? check
    pol pot? check
    kim jong unhinged? check

    facism: adolph? jews, communists and allies, NOT his fan club in ze fadderland.
    benito? initially the ethiopians, then the allies
    franco? somewhat ‘both’ in that the ‘own people’ were the communists and republicans.

    clearly the sociopaths are the commies. the murderous psychos are the facists.
    (adherents of the profit straddle the fence on this, seems NO ONE is safe around them,
    shiite vs sunni: check. jihad jihad jihad: check

    skill testing Q: whut in gawds name prepossesses post secondary students for instance to support and promote such a deadly ideology?
    A: its been covered, mostly willful ignorance.

    1. Fascism and National socialism are two very different things. Mussolini’s Italy had no hatred or repression of Jews. Fascism had no racist element unlike the two socialisms. (Marx was violently anti-Semitic along with his hatred of most working people.) In fact, Italy was a safe haven for Jews fleeing Germany in the 1930s. Fascism is indeed a totalitarian ideology, but it arose out of the trade union movement. The socialisms did not.

      As to your question, post secondary students see the world for the first time not as children. They are unhappy with what they see and want to change it. Change usually means coercion, and that makes the assorted socialisms attractive to them. The fact that they are post-secondary still means that they are frequently too stupid for words and driven insane by hormones.

      1. Politically, very much the same. It’s all collectivist whether you call it fascism, communism, international socialism or national socialism. The Jew hatred was just Hitler’s pet thing. Every dictator gets to pick his special enemies.

  7. Quoted in Niall Ferguson’s ‘The War Of The World’:

    “There are two breeds of Bolshevism…..there is nothing to choose between the philosophies of Moscow and Berlin.”

    Duff Cooper, British politician, First Lord of the Admiralty – August 23, 1939.

  8. I was SURE somebody would’ve mentioned the famous limerick:

    “There once was a marxist named Lenin
    Who did two or three million men in;
    That’s a lot to have done-in
    But where he did one in
    His follower, Stalin, did ten in.”

    But then, Glorious Sowiet Chunion had these leadership problems even after both of them moved to the mausoleum in Red Square. The joke is told:

    Stalin is visibly declining, and everybody knows he ain’t long for this world. One day he calls Comrade Khrushchev into his office: “Comrade Khrushchev, I will soon die and it is rumoured that you hold the Party’s favour to replace me as General Secretary. I have therefore prepared two sealed letters for you, labelled “Envelope #1” and “Envelope #2″; take them and keep them safe.” He hands-over two sealed envelopes, and continues; “In the event that Glorious Sowiet Chunion ever suffers a deep economic crisis, open Envelope #1 and do as it directs. Then if such an economic crisis again hits our nation, open Envelope #2.”

    So Khrushchev takes the envelopes and locks them away in his personal safe, and forgets about them; and in due course, he is proclaimed General Secretary of the CPSU and begins his reign over the USSR. And all goes well for the first couple of years, but then into the ‘Fifties a deep economic malaise descends on the USSR. Nothing works, everything takes much longer than the economists forecasted, the people are grumbling and discontented – and starving; not a good combination, and the future is in serious doubt. Then Khrushchev remembers the two envelopes, and he hurries to his personal safe, draws out Envelope #1 and opens it. The letter inside reads, “Blame everything on me. Signed, J. Stalin.”

    So Khrushchev rises to his feet in the annual Party Congress, and denounces Great Former Comrade Stalin. The audience is stunned – nobody had dared speak a harsh word about Uncle Joe for so long, they’d all forgotten such a thing was possible! Heads turn, people start mumbling in hushed whispers, eyes are opened everywhere, and in fairly short order the malaise crushing everybody has dissipated and Sowiet Chunion is once again on the path to workers’ prosperity and historical inevitability. Envelope #1 worked!

    Then in the early ‘Sixties, economic doom and depression settles on the USSR once again, and once again the workers and peasants are starting to openly doubt their – and their Party’s – future; but this time Khrushchev knows what to do. He goes to his personal safe and draws out Envelope #2, opens it and reads it.

    The letter in Envelope #2 reads, “Prepare two envelopes for your successor.”

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