It's also a grievous sin

Brilliant observation fella. Except we can only cure it in our own self...and very, very few are honest about their progress.

Greed is entirely subjective so can never be classified objectively, therefore there is no cure

Communism breeds famine and living without. Forced submission by those greedy ones who rule and know what’s best for you. It’s destined to collapse with its deluded good intentions. A death spiral. Capitalism allows one to live and choose his destiny. When one is allowed to pursue one’s own happiness without government overreach. He wants what’s only best for his neighbor. For when his neighbor has a full tummy and succeeds, all the community prospers.

N. Lenin is one of the pseudonyms. Real name - Vladimir Ulyanov.

пшелвон, ruZz

@@eugene8524 здоровеньки булы, порося

Eugene, great job representing your fellow "okrainians" by telling your brothers to go away

You can see some bias sweep through. It paints the October Revolution as a coup by a minority even though by November (Gregorian calendar) 1917, the Bolsheviks made up the overwhelming majority in the urban and soldiers’ soviets. And the Soviet government itself was initially a coalition government between the Bolsheviks and the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, the latter of which had large influence in the peasants’ soviets. So between those two parties, the Soviet republic represented the vast majority of Russian working people. Hence, it was not a “coup” but a popular revolution. Also he says Lenin’s party crushed the free election; here he’s referring to the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly in 1918; the Bolsheviks were indeed in a minority there, but by that point the RSFSR had already been established and the Soviet government had popular support. The Mensheviks and SRs that dominated the assembly were not popular at all. The fact that there was no resistance to the dissolving of the assembly shows that it didn’t not represent the people as the video claims it did.

All I really have to say to prove my point is that in November 1917, Y.O. Martov (the leader of the Mensheviks) said “almost the entire proletariat supports Lenin.”

@@ryandepp7640 Wow, I'm really not that literate on the subject but thanks for trying to educate.

@@ryandepp7640 It was objectively a coup.

@@alextyy The Bolsheviks had won a majority in the urban soviets and in the soldiers’ soviets. The Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, which formed the other part of the Soviet coalition government, had a majority in the rural and peasants’ soviets, meaning the Soviet government represented the vast majority of Russian working people. Even the Mensheviks admitted that the Bolsheviks had gained power before they even made it official. How could the Soviet government had endured and emerged victorious out of 3 years of civil war, faced with 21 armies of foreign intervention, equipped with technology such as tanks and planes mostly unavailable to the Red Army, if the revolution was not popular? The Russian workers and peasants were willing to sacrifice much to defend their revolution, and not only this, but the Bolsheviks appealed to the workers of other countries. Many detachments of the armies of intervention mutinied and either defected to the Red Army (as is what happened with some British regiments at Archangel I believe) or refused to fight. In the Black Sea port in 1920 was a mutiny by French sailors, who refused to fight the Reds. Read the actual history of the revolution before you sound stupid.

"N. Lenin" was one of his multiple pen-names, his birth name was Vladimir Ulyanov - but yes, this if one of small mistakes.

Time stamp?

@@Bob31415 5:47

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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov=Nikolai Lenin

Mensheviks were the moderate Socialists, a former fraction of once unite Socialist Democratic party - other, radical fraction Bolsheviks than will be renamed Communists.

Not Nikolai but Vladimir

@@yuziklabetski4433 did you watch the video?)

I have seen a few other old documentaries films where Lenin is referred to as "Nickoli Lenin". At first I thought it was a mistake but many times back in the day that mistake was made. It makes me wonder if the world really knew him as Nickoli back then?

I believe it is this version: State Ural Russian folk choir, directed by L. Christiansyan, singing P. Titar kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bamJlKh2s7iyiYk.html

Oh shut up.

? After Stalin the USSR was a fairly decent place to live. Especially in the 60s. (This is from 1970, so it was likely filmed/the footage was likely gathered from the 60s.) They weren’t all always miserable.

@@hawks-wings не после Сталина, а благодаря Сталину.

Why is it irony? The Soviet Union was a golden age of Russia

@@nawumchik then perhaps it will be soviet russia again, one day.

Это псевдоним Ленина для печати, Н.Ленин, по имени отца.

It's Communist propaganda.Not common-ust prop-ta-ganda.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the Texas School Board

@@ronanrogers4127 sure it does. Those idiots in Texas are trying to burn books that talk about their awful history.

This wasn’t even filmed by the Soviet government.

@@stalins_comically_large_spoon It would have been permitted by the Soviet Government, and reviewed by the ministry of propoganda.

@@imaxdigital7052 I doubt this was even shown to the Soviet people. (Since they obviously didn’t frequently speak English.)

@@stalins_comically_large_spoon It was made either by a European or American production company for Western audiences. But anything filmed for commercial or educational purposes in the Soviet Union would have been done so under the permition of the ministry of propoganda, who would then review the final film before allowing it's release.

@@imaxdigital7052 so you really think they grabbed hundreds of actors and put them on beaches in Crimea, the streets of Moscow, etc… disrupting daily life for a simple film? Really? And it’s spelled “propaganda.”