@Eileen Belshaw I have a video about it on my channel if you're interested!

Right? All those commies working in the open for decades without repercussion. Shameful era in US history.

Carlos Santa María Pico when politics get going it really is like that.

Yes

@Richard C Why do you quote Ben Franklin? John Berry and the Hollywood Ten had a murderous hatred for freedom of thought and public liberty.

Funny enough, the guy who played that character ( Sterling Hayden ) was accused by HUAC ( House of Un-American Committee ) as being a sympathetic person toward communist " infiltration " as far back as 1947. He was " ousted " by Ronald Reagan, which is even stranger ( Reagan was head of the SAG-Screen Actors Guild-at that time ).

apparently not during those scary days in the 1950's. I remember reading one of Trumbow's books "Johnny Got His Gun" in the late 60's. It was even then declared anti war propaganda. That book changed me.

how did that change you Leslie?

The House was trying to determine if these men were working for the Soviets, a rival nation, to spread propaganda. Which is NOT part of the Bill of Rights.

Lori Quaresimo it's an issue of Jews and their foreign loyalty...

Why would you WANT to be with a party that undermines your own country???

Except unlike the Salem witchhunt, the HUAC weeded out _actual_ fifth column communists. Time has proven McCarthy more right than he was wrong.

our freedoms to be fascists?

fascists exist because the cosmic order of balance between dark and light demands that they will and will always exist.. that doesn't mean I won't sink into hate when I contemplate the Pol Pots and the Hitlers. I think I get where your coming from! Peace.

Yes, our freedom to be fascists. In my country, we welcome political discourse that includes all points of view, and all enjoy equal protection under our constitution. You have two options: 1) Work within the system to amend our constitution so that only ideologies of which you approve are legally permitted, or 2) Get out if you don't like our rules. You don't belong in a country that guarantees freedom. You want a country that can make it a crime to disagree with you. FREEDOM IS NOT FREE! We must face the risks that come with freedom or resign ourselves to lives as cowards under oppression.

Thank you!

Yes, we are happy that they were truly Un-American as we are, that's why their movies and the golden era was so good and we love it. F*** America!!😁🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

No fuck them. They were members of the communist party who received funding from the Soviet Union, a nation notorious for human rights violations

NO! FUCK YOU for saying such trash. Not to mention you being very delusional.

You are saying the US Communist party did not receive funding by the Soviet Union? Are you saying the Soviet Union did not use leftists and communist party members to spread propaganda trough Hollywood? Are you saying the Soviet Union was not one of the largest homicidal regimes in the History of the world? Debunk my claims dont just throw out ad hominem.

Personally, I don't think that the CPUSA received funding by the U.S.S.R. because there is NO evidence to support it. As for whether the U.S.S.R. "used" leftists and CPUSA members to "spread propaganda" throughout Hollywood, I think that is little to prove that anymore than the right-wing forces spreading anti-Communist propaganda farther and wider than Hollywood. As for the Soviet Union being "one of the largest homicidal regimes" in world history, that was because Stalin was a BAD Communist. If the Soviet Union had BETTER leaders, then it would have been a more benevolent socialist nation.

Robert Polanco There is no evidence to support the CPUSA received funding from the Soviet Union?Have you ever read a book? The CPUSA openly supported the Soviet Union. The fall of the SV crippled the CPUSA, seriously I dont know where you get the idea that the CPUSA did not recieve funding, it was not a conspiracy, it is pretty well known. The CPUSA was also involved in espionage for the USSR, so they did deserve to the attention from the US government, that is fucking treason

Hi Besma, where were you studying?

@@donsink - I think YOU are drinking the RIGHT-WING "Kool-Aid" for saying such drivel!

yo momma

@@raymondfrye5017 OK, "weasel out".

The easy answer is pressure from the studios if they wanted to continue to work.

of course they were this is propaganda protecting them

Some of the HUAC members were themselves current and/or former members of the Klan.

And the Rosenbergs have absolutely nothing -- zero, zilch -- to do with the Hollywood Ten, who were innocent of any crime.

@@mattnhormann That's a lie. The Hollywood Ten were all guilty of contempt of Congress, which was a crime.

@@nstix2009xitsn Yes, but for what? They had the 5th Amendment right _not to incriminate themselves_ and that right was violated.

@@mattnhormann Who violated it? Congress? No. Nobody violated their Fifth Amendment right, because they never invoked it.

​@@nstix2009xitsn When open-carrying a weapon, does one constantly and explicitly have to cite the 2nd amendment to enjoy the freedom to bear arms? Of course not. Similarly, one can exercise the right to remain silent under our Constitution without explicitly invoking the 5th amendment. Get some semblance of a clue.

I saw it on another video on the red scare. It was a good testimony

@@levongevorgyan6789 none of the Hollywood 10 were Communists at that point, they had all left the party. McCarthyism and this became a witch hunt. I doubt there were 60,000 Soviet spys in America, but that's how many people across the country were blacklisted

@@levongevorgyan6789 - YOU are so pathetic and even stupid! Shame on you for your lousy comments!

"Blind support of Stalin." Literally _none_ of them held that position. At most, half of them attended meetings of the CPUSA (Communist Party USA) a handful of times.

So they were guilty , but not that guilty lol

@@imannonymous7707 Guilty of what? Belonging to a political party?

Anti social RIGHTard U$ FAKEStream dumbed down dim Ted. So dim IT thinks IT's BRIGHT. Bwah! Hahahahahahaahaha. LMFAO. Totalitarian Commies, so called 'Soviets' NEVER FAKE claimed to be a FREE DEMOCRACY. Like the LYING U$/UK Fa$cists STILL DO - DOH!!

@edward stevens - I think your comment is pathetic and delusional as ever based on your alarmist assumptions about Communism and "The Hollywood Ten." How low can you go with comments like yours?

@Michael M - Well, I DO NOT accept what you said because NOT ALL Communists were Stalinists and it was also because there were Communists that learned about Stalin having been a BAD Communist who had ruined the Soviet Union by his so-called "policies" which turned out to be serious MISTAKES in the end. After all, it was Nikita Khrushchev and others in the Soviet Union that had DENOUNCED Stalin for what he did in NOT having followed the direction of the country based on the philosophy of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin as well. I also want to add that IF someone like Leon Trotsky had been the leader of the U.S.S.R., things would have turned out much differently in order to build socialism in the right direction. Furthermore, I NEVER forgave people like Edward Dmytryk for claiming to have "seen the light" because of the alleged "truth" about the so-called "Communist conspiracy" in the United States anyway.

@@robertpolanco1973 In the 30s and 40s, up to the death of Stalin in 53, to be a member of the CPUSA was to be a Stalinist. You signed on for Stalinism and were subject to party discipline enforced by agents of Stalin. If you failed to break with the CPUSA you were serving the interests of Stalin and Stalinism during that period. Those who decided to join the Trotskyite opposition, or like independent Marxists such as Jay Lovestone and many others, who broke with the CPUSA you were not subject to Stalinist discipline. The Hollywood 10 refused to break with Stalinism and were by definition agents of Stalin. Someone like Dmytryk finally realized he was subject to that discipline and wisely broke with the H10. The likes of Trumbo and the others adopted a cynical line to promote the Stalinist line during the hearings. Even naive, non communist liberals like Bogart and Bacall finally realized what the 10 and the CP legal team were up to and backed away from them. Stalinists like Trumbo loathed and vilified Trotskyites and did their best to smash them.

@@michaelm6948 Well, I really DO NOT accept your explanation and I find it unfortunate that you got some sort of information that is even very hard to believe because the CPUSA did NOT remain a Stalinist party after Stalin died in 1953! After all, political parties change over time anyway and I also want to point out that Stalin was a BAD Communist who failed to follow the path set by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin as well. His policies in the Soviet Union should be regarded as MISTAKES that were condemned by other Soviet leaders such as Nikita Khrushchev, too.

@@robertpolanco1973 The issue at hand concerns the era of the Hollywood 10 and the CPUSA in 1947. As my comments clearly state the CPUSA was a Stalinist party and promoted those hideous ends during this period. Your hypotheses about alternative universes involving a non existent humanistic communism have no relevance to the reality of Communism in the 30s and 40s. These communists, who remained loyal to the Stalinist CPUSA, were in fact the worst of the worst, because they had been enlightened to the nature of Soviet communism from the experiences of the imposed Ukraine famine in 1932, the Soviet purge trials of 1938, the Stalinist wiping out of the anti Stalinist POUM anarchists and other Marxists in the Republican side in Spain. And to top it off the Nazi Soviet Pact in 1939. So,to remain a member of the CPUSA during this period was an act of incredible moral degeneracy. And many tens of thousands abandoned the Communist parties at that time. However, they were not the Hollywood 10, who were enthusiastic Stalinists.

@@michaelm6948 Well, EXCUSE ME for having to deal with your pathetic assessment of the old CPUSA of the past, and therefore, it is unfortunate that you only pointing out about whether "The Hollywood Ten" had been Stalinists that only happened IN THE PAST! As for your rejection of what you think were my "hypotheses," I seriously DO NOT accept what you stated when I really meant about what Stalin did were serious MISTAKES in being so-called "policies" in the Soviet Union anyway! After all, I truly believed what Khrushchev stated in his so-called "secret speech" in 1956 about Stalinist crimes and such. Other than that, the CPUSA did NOT remain a "Stalinist" organization AFTER the Khrushchev "secret speech" of 1956, and therefore, the attitudes of party members that also remained had changed, too, in spite of others that had left the party. So while I had been aware of Stalin's crimes that you mentioned from when he was around as dictator of the Soviet Union, it was only FROM THE PAST. I might even also add that IF Leon Trotsky had been the Soviet leader, I am sure that he would NOT have committed the same MISTAKES as what Stalin did anyway!

...for exercising their 5th Amendment rights -- which is _not_ contempt of congress. They were sent away on Mickey Mouse charges by a kangaroo court.

Most Hollywood Jews, then, were Isolationist-don't-rock-the-boat types. Goebbel's propaganda against Hollywood made Jews fearful they would be identified and persecuted as in Europe. So they kept quiet while sending money to "Republican" (Anti monarchy) Forces in Spain and Anti Nazi-forces elsewhere.

No: Ring Lardner Jr., Dalton Trumbo, and Adrian Scott were not Jewish.

@@mattnhormann She's Christian's

@mollesjohn - Well, what Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot did in separate periods of time were BAD Communists that had made serious MISTAKES when they were leading their countries in a SUPPOSED attempt to build socialism or Communism. They had failed in following the direction that was established by the writings of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin. As for your comment, I think your it is sad and pathetic as ever!

I find it amusing that you would say that. Sometimes I had to deal with internet trolls on KZfaq almost everyday. It's sad but it's unfortunately true.

Because _all ten_ were sentenced to one-year prison sentences -- a violation of their 1st, and -- arguably -- their 5th Amendment rights. Also, CPUSA had absolutely zero sway in Hollywood. Most studio heads in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s were, in fact, arch-conservatives. Louis B. Mayer, head of MGM, kept an autographed picture of Benito Mussolini behind his desk, while Harry Cohn -- also an admirer of the Italian fascist -- produced a newsreel extolling the virtues of Italian fascism. (Source: www.google.com/books/edition/Hearst_Over_Hollywood/KW7ago9Wo3MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=louis+b+mayer+mussolini+picture&pg=PA266&printsec=frontcover)

+tazlynn1958 There was a communist party in the United States into the 1930's. And what if they were communists? I doubt they were. They were men of principal. And so I am clear there may be communists who are men of principal. We are brainwashed in this country and really know nothing about communism except the fear mongering we get from government.

+Craig Holman idk when I saw what mao and Stalin did to their own people I was turned off by communism. It's just another religion.

+Nostradamus What Mao and Stalin did wasn't communism. They called it that, but it was really just a fascist dictatorship. Communism is still a good idea, its just really hard to implement well.

William Stevens I like the idea myself. My personal fear is that to achieve this goal, very inhumane practices will be done.

+William Stevens "Communism is still a good idea, its just really hard to implement well." Because it defies natural law and subjugates the individual to the collective. Without the believe that the individual is sovereign and shall not be aggressed against for whatever reason, then there will be tyranny and oppression.

@August Ryckman - Like how low can you go with comments like yours? SHAME ON YOU!

@@robertpolanco1973 🎻

@@parranoya100 You know what, Ryckman, UP YOURS, JACKASS!

@Glenn Martel - You are so pathetic to think that "The Hollywood Ten" deserved prison time just because they were entitled to believe in any political ideology and philosophy! Shame on you for such an ignorant comment like yours!

@E K - Personally, I find your comment very pathetic and contemptible as well. In other words, I DO NOT believe and accept your right-wing delusional assumption about Communism or socialism in past history!

@@robertpolanco1973 So? Of course you don’t accept my views if you’re a socialist. Socialist regimes don’t tolerate dissent, and thus are unsustainable when confronted by constructive criticism. Socialist statist regimes require police state tyranny and control of all media. By the way, I’m not Right Wing. I’m a _classical liberal._ I believe in personal liberties that Marxian socialism are totally contrary to. Yes, I’ve read Marx, from his sometimes times falsely credited writings, to his editorial writings for Engels’ equally shit rag, _Neue Rheinische Zeitung._ I’ve read lots of that dystopian trash from other far Left writers too, including Hegel and other charlatan theorists who push autocratic views. Marx was a disciple of Hegel, and applied it to a governance regime socialism. I know about Marx’s terrible family life too. He was a disgrace of a person. Communists kill and jail people who disagree with them, if they have power to do so, Yes, communists. The goal of statist socialism is communism. Don’t even try to gaslight me. The Lefties don’t even define Nazis correctly, another far Left ideology I equally despise for its criminal nature joined at the hip with (neo-)Marxists. Nazis are not fascists. That’s just a fact, easily identified by anyone who’s ever read Giovanni Gentile’s [djen-TEE-lay] works, since he co-invented fascism. Nazis call themselves National Socialists, which they are. Fascist history grew directly out of communists. Mussolini, seeing low Italian public interest in joining Bolshevism of his party while he was chief editor of the Italian communist party, introduced ultranationalism. This triggered his expulsion from the Italian communist party. Next he teamed with Gentile to form the first state fascist government. Hitler despised fascism, and Nazis don’t tolerate political trade unions that are required of fascism, along with actualism-which has the effect of negating reality for the sake of ideology. The German Labor Front (DAF) wasn’t a labor union. It was created for two sole purposes: 1. Militarily train men outside Versailles Treaty 2. Nazify every aspect of Germans through workplace bureaucratic planning, reaching as far as regulating German individual recreation, and issuing/overseeing ration cards. The VW Käfer/Beetle prototypes grew out of the DAF program.

No, they literally were not.

Bear River lmao I think you’re just a fragile small minded conservative

@Bear River - That comment of yours is so pathetic and very ignorant as ever! SHAME ON PEOPLE LIKE YOU FOR BELIEVING SUCH NONSENSE!