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Nazis are killing civilians. It was called the sardine method
Victims laid in layers like sardines in a jar an effective way to exterminate many people in a short time
But this film will not be about the Nazis
Hands tied behind the back an expertly aimed shot in the neck
And the fall into a huge mass grave
These people were not killed by the Nazis
They were killed by one of the Allies
the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union was killing people in this way for many years
Both before and after it joined the Allies
These victims had no memorials
They were buried in anonymous mass graves
The murderers power that killed them and the powers that collaborated with the murderer
Were never actually prepared to talk about them
the memory of millions of innocent victims
was erased
from history
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Youth throughout the world likes to make jokes using popular symbols of the past
While the Nazi swastika is considered to be a bad joke
Soviet symbols are not
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Communism after all was not Nazism. It was about equality and harmony. There was nothing wrong with the idea itself
Well, actually there was
There was something which made it different from the other utopias
Lenin believed in what he called the war of classes
Which meant that the ultimate harmony can only be reached after certain groups of people are killed
Initially when communists come to power and that doesn't matter where let it be in Russia in Poland in
Cuba in Nicaragua, it doesn't matter in China
Initially, they destroy about 10% of population and that's very specific
This is used not just to kill enemies. They're not enemies is to restructure the fabric of society
It's a social engineering
top intellectuals
Best workers best
Engineers, they would kill them all and then
They will try to restructure the new society
Hang at least 100 kulaks execute the hostages do it in such a way that people for hundreds of miles around
will see and tremble
Then
In 1917 the communists seized power Lenin now had a chance to apply Marxism to real life
Those who resisted were shot
There were terrible massacres
against resisting peasants and
again, nobody knows
Exactly how many people
Died but we're talking about
10 million or more
But even the most ruthless terror could not break popular resistance
particularly in the ethnic republics where communist terror was entwined with national oppression as
It was in Ukraine
On September the 11th 1932
Stalin wrote to his associate kaganovich
The situation in Ukraine is very bad. If we don't take steps now, we may lose Ukraine
Several meetings of Stalin's inner circle resulted in a plan of action
It was an horrific plan
in that
winter 32 to 33
all food supplies in the Ukraine were taken away a
huge cordon was
Created so that nobody could could leave
Initially people didn't die left over supplies of grain and vegetables kept them alive
But this was not part of Stalin's plan
So he ordered them covered it to confiscate all grain all food from the series by doing that
He knew he's condemning them to death
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Ukrainians were dying tortuously slowly
Children cried agonizingly for bread many lost their sense of fear
They went to the NKVD guarded fields to collect single ears of grain. They were shot on the spot
But
Most of the victims died slowly at home
Special NKVD units raided people's homes to collect the dead bodies
They received 200 grams of bread for every dead body. They delivered
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Not sure not to be a doctor as a nation
So you have to know what it's all about an approach. It's really they are the issues. We have them
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Ten years later the Nazis will exterminate millions of Jews
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They will take away their gold melt it down and deposit the bars in Swiss banks
We don't know what communists did with the gold confiscated from these people and was there any gold
What we do know is what communists did with the grain taken from them
It was exported to the West
millions upon millions of tons
Despite the famine the export of Ukrainian grain was increased to the maximum level
The Western media reported both on the scale and character of the famine genocide
Ukrainians were being exterminated in front of the whole world
But the world
Did nothing to help them
Seven million people were starved to death in the space of one
Mankind has never seen a more efficient extermination program
Than the one in Ukraine
during the winter of 1932
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You
Soviet society was the first communist society on earth
It was a huge social experiment
the agonizing death of seven million Ukrainians had a wider meaning in the distorted vision of
the communist architects
you have to
Make the revolution then establish the dictator the dictator ship of proletariat and then
the
the birth of the new man
Can be possible
The birth of the new man was the ultimate aim of Marxism
Breeding a new evolutionary form of human being who will think look and act differently
But communists were not alone in this endeavor
You
Hitler's National Socialism was also about creating a new man
Both systems you have an ideology which
Which has the ambition of?
Creating a new man that means that both
both systems
Don't agree with human nature as it is
They are in at war with nature with human nature
This is the root of totalitarianism
You find it both in the
Nazi Nazi it's a biology. It's an ideology
based on false biology and
communism is based on false sociology
but both systems are have an ambition of being scientific and
resting on the scientific basis
The main scientist of Nazism Alfred Rosenberg
Confessed to the Nuremberg tribunal that Hitler had misused the idea of National Socialism
Indeed the idea in the Nazi view wasn't so bad after all
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Future society
and without handicapped or Jews
nearly a paradise
For some reason National Socialism did not work out just as the soviet socialism didn't
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Both left thousands of mass graves millions of murdered people
Was it coincidence?
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Don't think many people know that
Only socialists publicly advocated genocide in the 19th 20th centuries. I think that's
That's a very little known fact and right and it seemed shocking
If you mention it, I've lectured on it here and in other universities, and it's always always greeted with a sense of shock
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first appeared in in January 1849 and
in Marx's journal
Neue Rheinische Zeitung
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wrote of the how the class war in Marxian terms
means that when
socialist revolution happens
the class war happens
There will be primitive societies in Europe
Two stages behind because they're not even capitalist yet and he had in mind the Basques and the Bretons
and the Scottish Highlanders and
the Serbs and
He calls them racial trash
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racial trash and they will have to be destroyed because being two stages behind
In the historical struggle. It will be impossible to bring them up to the point of being revolutionary
it's like about vulgarity and
dirty dirtiness of Slavic people you see and
He thinks for instance that Poland had no no Poland that has no
reason to to exist
Classes and the races too weak to master the new conditions of life must give way
They must perish in the revolutionary Holocaust
Karl Marx
Marx began it he was the ancestor of
of
modern political genocide, and I don't know that any
European thinker of the modern period before Marx and Engels ever
Publicly advocated racial extermination. I can't find anything earlier
So I presume it starts with them
The teachings of Marx and Engels were carefully studied by Lenin
The man who established the first Marxist country on earth
One year after Lenin's death in 1924 the New York Times published a small article
Which at the time went almost unnoticed?
It was about some newly established party in Germany
The National Socialist Labour Party of which Adolf Hitler is patron and father
Persists in believing that Lenin and Hitler can be compared
Who's speaking a certain dr. Goebbels?
On the speaker's assertion that Lenin was the greatest man
second only to Hitler and that the difference between communism and the Hitler faith was very slight a
faction war opened with whizzing beer glasses
Amazing
The future Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels was openly declaring that the difference between Lenin's communism and the Hitler faith
was very slight
As we read it didn't go down well with potential voters so the Nazis changed their tactics
Their early campaign posters quietly disappeared
They never again publicly stressed their resemblance to communists
In the inner circle however the Nazis and Hitler were more outspoken
Often said that that he had learnt a great deal from Marxism from reading Marx, I mean
The whole of national socialism is based upon it. He said meaning doctrinally based
People keep forgetting that Nazi regime in Germany was also socialist it was they officially were called
National Socialist Workers Party, so it's a branch of socialism the Soviets were
International socialist and those were in Germany national socialist, so it's the same thing in reality only slightly different
interpretation
You
Part of the left went to Hitler at least in France part of the socialist went to
became
advocates of
The popular British playwright Bernard Shaw supported Hitler in the mass media
The left supported Hitler not because he deceived them they knew Hitler would kill. He said he would in
fact
It was why they supported him
You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world
Who are more trouble than they are worth just put him there and say sir or madam now
Will you be kind enough to justify your existence?
If you can't justify your existence
If you're not pulling your weight in the social book if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more then
clearly
We cannot use the big organization of our society
For the purpose of keeping you alive because your life does not benefit us and it can't be a very much
Beneshaw believed in the in
masculine
By category not usually by racial category, but by category, you know the idol the unfit
Killing off the parasites within society was what Marxian socialism was about
Demanded in a London newspaper that the scientists should devise a humane
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Appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly
Deadly by all means but humane not cruel
After ten years such gas will be discovered it will be called
Cyclone B
The man who oversaw its practical application and of Eichmann will later testify that thanks to Cyclone B
People in Auschwitz died without pain
Cyclone B was a humane gas
Yes, Eichmann will use the very same words
It must be said though that Bernard Shaw as well as the left in general
Fundamentally opposed Nazism
Because Hitler had distorted Marxism beyond recognition
Gassing people based on their nationality was absolutely inexcusable
The selection should be based on class
Hitler got it all wrong
Absolutely different people needed to be killed
The only true Marxist country on earth was the Soviet Union
It exterminated strictly according to Marx's teaching the class enemies
In general the process was pretty similar to the extermination of the Jews
first the victims were ridiculed and
publicly humiliated and
Then they were killed
Millions of them
If the enemy does not give up it must be exterminated
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The shooting itself was carried out in prisons in the basements
There were special shooting chambers with concrete walls and with a runnel to channel blood
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Yes, people were killed by a bullet in the head
And
We know that usually they were killed by bunches of well
between
100 and sometimes well several hundreds
every one night
Then the corpses were loaded onto trucks driven out of towns and buried in nearby forests and parks
This is the Kivon a forest near Kiev
The elderly people will never forget the trucks which were driving here during the night
Blood was dripping from them on route
Only after 50 years the relatives were allowed to come here
They created this memorial when monuments are trees
Each tree in this forest is banded with a scarf in memory of the innocent victims
Who were brutally murdered and dumped into mass graves here?
Big even a boot oval Leningrad
Vinitsa Harkov
Mass graves littered the whole country
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Whole generation of children lost their parents and became homeless or so-called best prisonia
Millions of them were begging for bread in the streets of soviet cities
it was an embarrassing sight especially of foreign friends came to visit Moscow and
Stalin tackled this problem
Stalin
Authorized in the middle of the 30s because there was this problem of best prisonia he authorized
Children to be shot from the age of 12
People were being shot
Day and night throughout
The biggest country in the world Stalin even got to the point of killing people by random by quarters
Let's say hundred thousand in
Tambov district, okay, that's it whoever they grabbed and shot will be fulfilling quarter
They wouldn't care about names then after the quotas were fulfilled
The local authorities would report to stall into Central Committee and asked for additional quotas
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And the additional quota will be given and after fulfilling they would again ask for additional quota
And so it will go in circles. It was like like mincemeat machine, you know, it was just killing and killing and killing
Stalin
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That he must a be repressed. We've won our own
And I don't think the world certainly Europe has never seen
that sort of
Of murderous killing either in numbers or in or in or in nature
There was a man in Europe who was closely following the situation in Russia
Hitler
To kill millions of people in such a short time was truly remarkable
Holocaust was as yet only an idea in Hitler's head
I
Think
Hitler's distorted vision of the world began to take a real shape
He annexed Austria occupied Czechoslovakia
It became clear to everyone to avoid a global catastrophe
Hitler had to be stopped
But Stalin refused to join the anti-hitlerian coalition
Their idea was to destroy old order in Europe
And that was Stalin's big idea. Let Hitler be a bad guy. He will go and destroy all the order in Europe
There will be no parliaments not raid unions. No armies no governments and then studying will come as a liberator
Liberator millions of people will be sitting in concentration camps
Hoping for someone to liberate them and Stalin and the Red Army will come as a liberate. That was his plan
But
Hitler had neither the resources nor the secure rear borders to wage a large-scale war
So on August the 23rd 1939
Hitler and Stalin sign a pact which provides Germany with a secure eastern border and huge supplies of
Strategic resources to be provided in later economic agreements on August the 24th
The Nazi Foreign Minister Ribbentrop reports to Hitler on his visit to Moscow
Hitler rejoices
Now he has everything he needs to start the world war
September 1st 1939
Hitler attacks Poland from the West
Poland is desperately resisting the Nazis, but then on September the 17th
Poland is unexpectedly attacked from the East by the Soviet Union
The Luftwaffe bombers were attacking Polish cities and the Soviet radio transmitter in Minsk
guided them to their targets
The Red Army looked different then
It entered the Second World War side by side with the SS
Local populations sometimes could not tell the difference between the two so to be sure they addressed both
The
German army met the Red Army in the middle of Poland and then the two
Totalitarian monsters soviet in German divided the country between them
The soviet press depicted the whole thing as a fight against Polish fascism
The peace-loving Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were fighting
aggressive Polish fascism
What the world did not know was that both dictators had agreed on more than Poland
In a secret protocol signed in the Kremlin a week before the war started
Hitler and Stalin agreed on the division of Europe
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So never the code or the past let me know. So every matter it's on
By this secret protocol Hitler gave the green light for Stalin to occupy a number of European countries
the first on the list
was Finland
When the first bomber planes came to bomb Helsinki, you know
autumn November 39
Finn store that
those
Russian bomber planes were lost simply that they're bombing Helsinki by accident
Moscow labeled Finland a fascist regime and launched a massive
ground attack
It was a disaster Russians lost a third of a million dead frozen and wounded
Tiny Finland was miraculously holding back the world's largest army
But it was at an enormous cost
My father lost four of his brothers in that war four that's a lot in one family
That was the price we paid that we did not have a democratic society next to us
Finland's flag is still flying
Though she may pass through the belly of sorrow
Though she may lose her liberty and her land she fights on
Yet another air raid on Helsinki
This time the camera catches the horror these dastardly attacks bring into the lives of the children as they dash terror stricken to the shelter
People cowering against a wall for safety from aerial death. This is the mark of warfare against women and children
As the Russians retreat from the Arctic villages, even if they can't win they can still burn and destroy
For its brutal aggression against Finland the USSR was expelled from the League of Nations
The Kremlin's rhetoric about a fight against Finnish fascism was not taken seriously
Only three countries had previously been labeled as aggressors by the League
Militaristic Japan, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Now they were joined by the Soviet Union
In Europe the Soviet Union had only one ally left
Hitler launched his blitzkrieg in the west
Nazis occupied Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg
Norway was invaded with the direct help of the Soviet Union
Stalin provided the Nazis with a Soviet naval base near Murmansk, from which Hitler launched his attack on Norway
Stalin wrote to the Nazi foreign minister Ribbentrop
The friendship between Germany and the Soviet Union was sealed by blood
Apparently it meant the blood of the Soviet and Nazi victims
And friendship it was
Soviet and Nazi officers were meeting and discussing the progress of the war
This is December 1939
The progress was good and the prospects looked even better
There was reason to celebrate
The Soviet Union became the main supplier of resources for the Nazi war machine
Thousands of tons of oil, iron ore, construction materials
Even trainloads of Soviet grain were sent to the German army
Soviet citizens were starving
But their government was sending food to Hitler
The Soviet Union went even further
It persuaded the communist parties of Europe to sabotage the resistance movement and to support the Nazis
It is comforting to see a prison workers talking to German soldiers as friends in the street or at the corner cafe
Well done comrades and keep it up, even if it displeases the middle classes
The brotherhood of man will not remain forever a hope, it will become a living reality
That is the French communist party in July 1940
The communist party say today that they were resistant well before June 1941 when the Soviet Union was attacked
In fact, they were in fight with the Marichal Petain's government more than the Germans
In June 1940, Hitler crushed France
Stalin meanwhile occupied Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
The only country in Europe still resisting Hitler was Great Britain
If Great Britain goes down, the Axis powers will control the continents of Europe and Asia and Africa and Australasia and the high seas
And they will be in a position to bring enormous military and naval resources against this hemisphere
The US president Roosevelt regarded the Soviet Union as an Axis power
It was evident to everyone, Stalin was in the fascist camp
The Soviet premier Molotov went to Berlin to discuss the post-war world order
He arrived with a list of territories the USSR was interested in
While Hitler and Molotov were discussing it, the other Soviet comrades enjoyed the company of Goebbels
Who must have talked about the advantages of Nazism
Because it was the Soviet premier Molotov and not Goebbels who warned the West not to fight Nazi ideology
More than that, in his address to the Supreme Soviet in the Kremlin, Molotov declared that fighting Nazi ideology was actually a crime
It was published in all the largest Soviet newspapers
Later, that page will disappear from the public libraries of the USSR along with many other pro-Nazi statements of the Soviet government
But why was fighting Nazism a crime in the Soviet view?
Because mass killings and concentration camps were based on that ideology
Work makes you free, the Nazi camps. Work is an honor, the Soviet camps
If someone wanted to fight the ideology behind it, he would end up fighting the Soviet regime too
Molotov knew it
After all, he was the one who personally monitored the extermination of 7 million Ukrainians
Himmler monitored extermination of Jews
Both men agreed that for the common good, certain groups simply needed to be killed
Winston Churchill made no secret that to him, Nazi and communist ideologies were pretty similar
In his view, Nazism was a form of communist despotism
The hateful communist despotism, as Churchill called it in 1940, eventually won
With the help of the Allies
Here it is celebrated
The 60th anniversary of the great victory
An historical parade
No less historical than the first Soviet victory parade in World War II
Together with the Nazis
The commanders of Germany, Germany, Germany and Soviet forces in Europe
will take the formation of the Wehrmacht
The Soviets never emphasized that they were parading under the Nazi flag
Officially Moscow portrayed itself as an epic anti-fascist fighter
Many people believed it
Many Jews fled to the USSR to be protected from Hitler
And then Stalin did something unimaginable
He rounded them up and delivered them back to the Gestapo as a gesture of friendship
The Soviet Union was the only one
Take a look at this footage again
The Soviet officer greeting his SS colleagues
with a Nazi salute
The Nazi SS and the Soviet NKV, the Stalin security police
cooperated very closely
Archive documents revealed the enormous scale of this cooperation
Lists and lists of German communists and Jews
which Soviets were delivering to the Nazis
December 1937
April 1938
May 1938
November 1938
Most of these people perished in Nazi concentration camps
But the SS-NKVD partnership was not limited to the extradition of common enemies
The NKVD was training Gestapo
The Soviet machinery of terror had been operating for 20 years before the Nazis even started
Delegates of the German Gestapo-SS project, the Soviet Union,
understood how to fight with soldiers, how to fight with soldiers, how to fight in the garage, how to fight
The Soviet officers, in turn, went to Nazi-occupied Krakow to meet with their SS colleagues
The Jewish question was high on the meeting's agenda
Soviet officials coordinated the deportation of Jews personally with the SS-Pregadefuhrer Otto Wechter
One of the masterminds of the Holocaust
He moved the Jews to the Krakow ghetto
and later arranged their extermination in gas chambers
The fact that the Soviets collaborated with the SS is not denied by Russia anymore
What is still denied is that this collaboration was based on a written agreement
We believe that the standard of the SS-Pregadefuhrer Otto Wechter,
and the Soviet forces, as well as the organization of the Soviet forces,
will not have a problem with the SS-Pregadefuhrer Otto Wechter
What is still denied is that the Soviet forces will not have a problem with the SS-Pregadefuhrer Otto Wechter
The first SS-Pregadefuhrer Otto Wechter
Mamulov
Mamulov?
Mamulov is the name of Mamulov
Yes, the name of the document was written on the TV
This document was smuggled out of the presidential archive in Moscow by one of its workers
It was shown on Russian television
Later, this footage disappeared from the TV archive
Do you know what it is?
I don't know
No, I don't know
Well, let's see
Because it's in the news, it's in the news
Because it's in the news
It's 20 million people
Unlike the official Kremlin, the former Soviet officials who had access to the Central Committee,
now presidential archive, affirm the existence of such an agreement
Vladimir Karpov, former military intelligence colonel,
two times hero of the Soviet Union,
member of the Central Committee, the top Soviet leadership council
Convoys bringing in the entire Politburo and party bosses from every corner of the country
This man, Vladimir Karpov, said that so many problems had now mounted up
that the way things were run had to be changed
We spoke with Mr. Karpov in his Moscow apartment in Kuduzovsky Prospect 26,
the house of the former KGB chief Andropov and the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev
Well, there are many problems with the Stalinist regime, the Soviet regime
But it's not a political problem, it's not a political problem
For example, if the Soviet regime is a political problem, it's not a political problem
Then it's not a political problem
And it's not a prison, it's a prison
That's the fundamental nature of the Soviet regime
Any documents revealing it are usually declared fake
Like the secret protocol dividing Europe
Interestingly, in this case, the Kremlin's denial is supported by one Western historian
David Irving, more famous for his denial of the Holocaust
But why would he deny the authenticity of this agreement?
We can only guess
A quote from the document
He said that the Soviet regime is a political problem
It's not a political problem, it's not a political problem
It's a political problem, it's not a political problem
It's not a political problem, it's not a political problem
This is quite shocking
But what is more shocking is that in today's Russia
These actions of Stalin are still being justified at the highest level
The former defence minister of Russia, Igor Radionov
This is not a political problem, it's not a political problem
Radionov is just one of many in Russia today
who believe that helping Hitler to fight Jews in the 1930s
was actually a noble fight against fascism
Jewish fascism, as it is now called in Russia
In 1939, Stalin sacked his long-time foreign minister, Litvinov
And Litvinov was removed
The Soviet foreign ministry was surrounded by NKVD troops, tanks
And Stalin gave the order to clear out the synagogue
Which is not a very nice thing to say
You would expect this from Hitler
But Stalin equally was capable of such prejudice
The exiled communist leader Lev Trotsky
warned the world about Stalin's antisemitism
and about the fact that Stalin and Hitler were colluding
His outspokenness was becoming dangerous to the Kremlin
Trotsky was aware that his every speech could be the last
He knew that Stalin was after him
But even in his worst dreams, he could not imagine
that his death will be so agonizing
Stalin sent a secret agent to Mexico
He glided into Trotsky's house
and smashed him in the head with an alpine axe
Trotsky fought for his life for two days
and then died in horrible pain
In Stalin's time, critics of the Kremlin were not argued with
They were killed
The Soviet Union, like Nazi Germany, did not just commit criminal acts
It was a criminal enterprise in its very essence
To become a member of Stalin's Politburo, one had to take responsibility for murder
To be trusted, like in a criminal gang
The Soviet Union, like Nazi Germany, did not just commit criminal acts
To be trusted, like in a criminal gang
Stalin rarely signed execution orders alone
The other Politburo members also had to put their signatures on the death lists
Even those who later condemned Stalin were responsible for mass murder themselves
Comrades were united by common crimes
There was no way back for them
but to commit new crimes
In March 1940, in a forest near Katyn village
eight huge pits were dug
Heavy trucks brought in people
They were Polish army reservists
doctors, engineers, teachers
They were ordered to get out
No one was supposed to see what happened next
But the noise of trucks deep in the forest seemed unusual to the forester
He was locked in for 25 years in communicado under false name
They could have killed him, for some reason they didn't
I don't know why
So they just kept him in jail
And that's a very well-known documented fact
What did he see?
He saw and covered a shooting
A big hole
and then covered the shootings through the back of the neck
Each of them, the people were tied up with hands behind
on their knees, on the edge of that hole
Shot and kicked into the hole
In March 1940, in a forest near Katyn village
A big hole
and then covered the shootings through the back of the neck
Each of them, the people were tied up with hands behind
on their knees, on the edge of that hole
Shot and covered the shootings through the back of the neck
and then covered the shootings through the back of the neck
Shot and kicked into the hole
The Katyn massacre was the first mass execution of this scale in World War II
Nazis will follow suit only later
Mass murder in Katyn unleashed the industrial killing
Which will soon turn World War II into the most bloody carnage in human history
After Katyn, the Soviets carried out massacres on a regular basis
Riga, Tartu, Lviv, Minsk
Relatives could not identify many of the corpses
Horrific torture had made them unrecognizable
The Soviet Union meanwhile had become an allied power
The Soviet officers who pulled out fingernails, cut tongues
and perforated the skulls of their victims with nails
were paid with Western aid
The British War Crimes Act gives them immunity from persecution in Britain
because war crimes by definition were committed only by the Germans
You ask, what is our aim?
I can answer in one word
Victory
Victory at all costs
The entire Western world has lived for 60 years on the assumption that all crimes were Nazi crimes
and it's very difficult to change it
Whether Europe will ever come to terms with this criminal part of its past is difficult to know
Mass killing is mass killing
There should be no distinction between one side and the other
And yet there is
The Soviet officers who shot more than 20,000 unarmed people were decorated
The most important thing is to wear a mask
If you have a mask, then it's not just a mask
You have to wear a mask
And if you are wearing a mask, then you have to wear a mask
You have to wear a mask
This is the most important thing
World War II left more than 27 million Soviet citizens dead.
The Communist Party always tried to decrease that number.
Why?
Because only a fraction of them were killed by the Germans.
You have to remember that when the Red Army marched,
behind the Red Army was a second army, the NKVD Army,
which had its own tanks, its own machine guns and so on,
were firing forwards so that nobody could move back.
Viktor Baturin, chairman of the Russian Military History Association,
tells the shocking story of how, after major battles,
special Soviet units raided battlefields
and tore the dog tags off the dead Soviet soldiers to make them unidentifiable.
No other country in the world has treated its war dead in this way.
Due to the appalling policies of the Soviet authorities,
more than a million Soviet citizens joined the Nazi side.
They were turned against their own people.
Those who refused were ruthlessly dealt with by the Nazi collaborators.
The Great Patriotic War was drawing to the close.
Stalin was at the height of his glory.
He knew quite well that nobody would ever judge the vanquisher of Hitler.
So, at the end of the war, he carried out some of his most horrible crimes.
Stalin exiled about a dozen of nations completely,
part and parcel, young and old, women and men,
even members of the Communist Party among them.
They were all exiled to Central Egypt, to Kazakhstan, Chechen, Syngush,
Kalmyks, Karachayevs, Crimean Tartars,
a dozen of nations completely wiped out.
The Soviet deportations, although on a much bigger scale,
were similar to deportations by the SS.
The descriptions are just horrific.
60, 70 people in a closed cattle truck with no sanitary provisions,
just a hole in the floor, packed so tightly that they had to stand up.
They couldn't sit down.
And when the train stopped, they would unload
hundreds of corpses of people who died on the way.
They would go to school, and they would go to school.
They would go to school.
They would have to get out from nowhere.
They would come to the PC motor theirs.
They would diver Violkapem.
And they would take away the food.
And they would always pay for it.
They were just there.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
In May 1945, the Allies defeated Hitler.
This horrible film footage was shown in the West.
A Nazi concentration camp after liberation.
But only a few understood what they were actually seeing.
The sight was being cleared for new inmates.
The Soviets did not destroy the Nazi camps.
They continued to use them after the war.
The agreement which Stalin made with the West
affected the whole of Europe for the next 50 years.
So, although you can say the crimes are of the same order,
the political outcome at the end of the Second World War
quite clearly was very different for those two dictatorships.
And it was also very different for the people of Western and Eastern Europe.
The Soviet Union transferred a lot of ethnic Russians
into the occupied Baltic countries.
It was a clear violation of the Geneva Convention
which forbids the transfer of civilians into the occupied countries.
For example, in 1945, it was a case of my grandparents' family
which were forced by Soviet officers at the gunpoint
out of their apartments.
Afterwards, the Soviet officers settled there with their families.
The Kremlin strategically orchestrated ethnic cleansing in the Baltics
so that the Russian settlers became a majority in all the largest Baltic cities.
Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians were loaded onto cattle trucks
and deported to Siberia.
The tiny Baltic nations were brought to the brink of extinction.
Deportations, executions and torture became the post-war reality for millions of people.
Concentration camps were scattered throughout both Europe and Siberia.
In many of them, horrific medical experiments were performed on humans.
In Butugichag camp in Magadan, the KGB used thousands of prisoners as guinea pigs
experimenting with the human brain.
Many of these prisoners were still alive during the experiments.
All of this happened after Nazism was defeated and memorials made to its victims.
The victims of the Soviet death camps were buried in numbered graves.
There is no memorial here.
Just a pile of the shoes of murdered victims.
Children's shoes among them.
Feeling complete impunity, the post-war KGB terrorized the population
letting loose their most beastly instincts.
My name is Gaya Mara.
I am the father of a woman named Leila Sinspelych.
She was born in Savacem, Stikloburka.
She was born in the city of Zivib.
She was born in the city of Ziv.
This was drawn by a KGB prison guard who had served for 33 years in the Soviet interior system.
He was depicting his routine everyday life.
Who were these men? Who were doing these atrocities?
Meet one of them. The notorious Yanis Tsintars.
A KGB interrogator in the Soviet-occupied Latvia.
He was particularly famous for his brutality towards women.
The victim's testimonies paint a horrific picture of his interrogations.
Female victims were beaten and tortured by several KGB officers continuously for 20 hours.
Not everyone could endure it.
The wife of Ernest Waltmann, Veronika, was beaten and tortured by Tsintars and his drunk colleagues for four days.
She finally committed suicide by hanging herself in the prison cell.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, Tsintars fled to Russia.
The Kremlin refuses to extradite him, calling him an honorable veteran.
With the hands of these KGB veterans, the Soviet Union terrorized and tortured innocent people.
They were the ones who guarded death camps, where millions were exterminated and thousands used in horrific medical experiments.
Many of these death camp veterans are still alive.
Unlike their SS colleagues, they are proud of what they did.
They are proud of the Soviet Union, which let them do it.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Soviet Union attacked the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union attacked the Soviet Union.
I think that's it.
The power of the Soviet Union is obliged to carry out a real investigation of all the crimes and the character of their system.
And I think up to now they are not ready and not able to do it.
Under Gorbachev and Yeltsin, the crimes of the Soviet Union were at least not advertised.
Under President Putin we see a very different approach.
The idea that Russia continues, in a sense, in the footsteps of the Soviet Union
and any attack on the Soviet Union is an attack on modern Russia.
The Russian identity has been shaped up by the sense of being part of a big empire.
When they lost the empire, they couldn't remain the same.
The Russian national identity was a big part of the Soviet Union.
It was the size of the Soviet Union that led to the new Nazis.
It is what was the most popular of the Germanic fascism.
The former Russian defence minister, Radionov, again.
And the next speaker is Mr. Rogozin of Russia.
Mr. Rogozin, you have the floor.
Mr. Rogozin led the Russian delegation in the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe,
where he repeatedly voiced his concern about the rebirth of fascism in Europe.
At home, his agenda was a little different.
The pre-election clip of his party.
Let's rid Moscow of trash.
Do you think it will go any further?
I don't think it will.
The Russian army is not going to fight for it.
The Soviet Union is going to fight for it.
And it is going to be a war of Russia.
The Nazi salute in the parliament of Russia.
If you think it can't go any further, you would be wrong.
The Russian army is not going to fight for it.
The whole thing was turned into farce, questioning the genuineness of the video.
Unfortunately, the murders captured on these videos turn out to be genuine.
Hundreds of them every year, all over Russia.
And the grief of the loved ones is also unspeakably genuine.
Turning human tragedy into a farce has become a norm in Russia.
Ridiculing the Ukrainian famine or the Jewish Holocaust is the norm.
Because killing can be justified, especially if it cleanses society.
The killers become heroes.
Mass murderers are decorated veterans.
Young people are taught that the crimes these people have committed against humanity are heroic deeds.
It is no surprise that these crimes are replicated.
Europe now has the opportunity to condemn these crimes and to demand the extradition of those who committed them.
Yet Europe hesitates. Why?
Unfortunately, Europe continues to ignore Soviet crimes, mass murders, while millions of the victims are neglected by Europe.
There is an equal right for all the victims to see those who committed crimes, to see them tried and sentenced.
But this is not how the world works.
For example, in the case of Katyn, it's now known very well the names and addresses of many of the Soviet officers who perpetrated those crimes, who shot people in cold blood.
Yet if there was ever an investigation, those murderers should come to Great Britain because they'll be safe, because in this country it's not regarded as a war crime.
And the other Soviet crimes are not regarded as crimes either.
Their victims are quietly passing away, receiving no comfort, no justice.
In the European Union, that is reserved for other victims.
Looking at this grey monument in the very centre of Europe, one can't help thinking that it stands here because, deep in their hearts, many Europeans still believe in what these two men so persistently maintained.
That when inferior nations are being killed, it cannot be seen as a crime, because it makes way for the more advanced nations to build a better life.
While this idea is alive, and while the spectre of these two men is haunting Europe, it will be very hard for its various nations to be truly united.
Sanktus Andos
There was a man in Europe who was closely following the situation in Russia, Hitler. To kill millions of people in such a short time was truly remarkable. Holocaust was as yet only an idea in Hitler's head.
Hitler, take her!
We are Germany, we are Germany, we are Germany, and we are Germany!
Sanktus Andos
The idea was to destroy old order in Europe, and that was Stalin's big idea. Let Hitler be a bad guy. He will go and destroy all the order in Europe. There will be no parliaments, no trade unions, no armies, no governments, and then Stalin will come as a liberator.
Millions of people will be sitting in concentration camps, hoping for someone to liberate them, and Stalin and the Red Army will come as a liberator. That was his plan.
But Hitler had neither the resources nor the secure rear borders to wage a large-scale war. So, on August 23, 1939, Hitler and Stalin sign a pact, which provides Germany with a secure eastern border and huge supplies of strategic resources, to be provided in later economic agreements.
On August 24, the Nazi Foreign Minister Ribbentrop reports to Hitler on his visit to Moscow. Hitler rejoices. Now he has everything he needs to start the World War.
September 1, 1939. Hitler attacks Poland from the West. Poland is desperately resisting the Nazis. But then, on September 17, Poland is unexpectedly attacked from the East by the Soviet Union.
A radio transmitter in Minsk guided them to their targets.
The Red Army looked different then.
It entered the Second World War, side by side, with the SS.
Local populations sometimes could not tell the difference between the two. So, to be sure, they addressed both.
The German army met the Red Army in the middle of Poland. And then the two totalitarian monsters, the Soviets and Germans, divided the country between them.
The Soviet press depicted the whole thing as a fight against Polish Fascism. The peace-loving Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were fighting aggressive Polish Fascism.
What the world did not know was that both dictators had agreed on more than Poland. In a secret protocol, signed in the Kremlin a week before the war started, Hitler and Stalin agreed on the division of Europe.
In the end, this project, which was built by the Soviet Union, did not end. And, when it did not end, it did not end.
In the end, it did not end, but it did not end.
We did not know it, because we thought it was aggressive. We did not know that the Communist Party did not know it. So, we did not know it.
By this secret protocol, Hitler gave the green light for Stalin to occupy a number of European countries. The first on the list was Finland.
When the first bomber planes came to bomb Helsinki on the autumn of November 1939, Finn thought that those Russian bomber planes were lost, simply that they were bombing Helsinki by accident.
Moscow labeled Finland a fascist regime and launched a massive ground attack.
It was a disaster. Russians lost a third of a million dead, frozen and wounded.
Tiny Finland was miraculously holding back the world's largest army. But it was at an enormous cost.
My father lost four of his brothers in that war. Four. That's a lot in one family. That was the price we paid, that we did not have a democratic society next to us.
Finland's flag is still flying.
Adolf Eichmann will later testify that, thanks to Cyclone B, people in Auschwitz died without pain.
Cyclone B was a humane gas. Yes, Eichmann will use the very same words.
It must be said, though, that Bernard Shaw, as well as the left in general, fundamentally opposed Nazism.
Because Hitler had distorted Marxism beyond recognition, gassing people based on their nationality was absolutely inexcusable.
The selection should be based on class. Hitler got it all wrong. Absolutely different people needed to be killed.
The only true Marxist country on earth was the Soviet Union. It exterminated strictly according to Marxist teaching, the class enemies.
In general, the process was pretty similar to the extermination of the Jews. First, the victims were ridiculed and publicly humiliated.
And then they were killed. Millions of them.
The war started.
The war started in the middle of the night. The people did not know what could go on.
We did not know what could go on. We did not know what could go on.
The enemy was notvered.
If the enemy does not give up, it must be exterminated.
The shooting itself was carried out in prisons.
In the basements there were special shooting chambers,
with concrete walls and with a runnel to channel blood.
Yes, people were killed by a bullet in the head.
We know that usually they were killed by bunches of, well,
between 100 and sometimes, well, several hundreds every night.
Then the corpses were loaded onto trucks,
driven out of towns and buried in nearby forests and parks.
This is Bekevena Forest near Kiev.
The elderly people will never forget the trucks,
which were driving here during the night.
Blood was dripping from them en route.
Only after 50 years the relatives were allowed to come here.
They created this memorial when monuments are trees.
Each tree in this forest is banded with a scarf in memory of the innocent victims,
who were brutally murdered and dumped into mass graves here.
Bekevena, Butovo, Leningrad, Venitsa, Kharkov.
Mass graves littered the whole country.
A whole generation of children lost their parents and became homeless,
or so-called Besprizorniya.
Millions of them were begging for bread in the streets of Soviet cities.
It was an embarrassing sight, especially if foreign friends came to visit Moscow.
And Stalin tackled this problem.
Stalin authorized in the middle of the 30s,
because there was this problem of Besprizorniya.
He authorized children to be shot from the age of 12.
People were being shot day and night throughout the biggest country in the world.
Stalin even got to the point of killing people by random, by quarters.
Let's say 100,000 in Tambov district.
Okay, that's it. Whoever they grabbed and shot will be fulfilling quota.
They wouldn't care about names.
Then after the quotas were fulfilled,
the local authorities would report to Stalin, to Central Committee,
and ask for additional quotas.
An additional quota will be given.
And after fulfilling, they would again ask for additional quotas.
And so it will go in circles.
It was like a mincemeat machine.
It was just killing and killing and killing.
And so it was like a mincemeat machine.
And the results of the 80,000s-700,000s
were by far the highest in the world.
The highest in the world.
And I don't think the world, certainly Europe, has never seen it.
It first appeared in January 1849 in Marx's journal Neue Rheinische Zeitung.
Engels wrote of how the class war in Marxian terms means that when the socialist revolution happens,
the class war happens, there will be primitive societies in Europe two stages behind because they're not even capitalist yet.
And he had in mind the Basques and the Bretons and the Scottish Highlanders and the Serbs and he calls them racial trash.
Upfeller, racial trash. And they will have to be destroyed because being two stages behind in the historical struggle,
it will be impossible to bring them up to the point of being revolutionary.
He speaks about vulgarity and dirtiness of Slavic people, you see.
And he thinks, for instance, that Poland has no reason to exist.
The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.
They must perish in the revolutionary holocaust.
Karl Marx
Marx began it. He was the ancestor of modern political genocide.
And I don't know that any European thinker of the modern period before Marx and Engels ever publicly advocated racial extermination.
I can't find anything earlier. So I presume it starts with them.
The teachings of Marx and Engels were carefully studied by Lenin, the man who established the first Marxist country on earth.
One year after Lenin's death in 1924, the New York Times published a small article, which at the time went almost unnoticed.
It was about some newly established party in Germany.
The National Socialist Labour Party, of which Adolf Hitler is patron and father, persists in believing that Lenin and Hitler can be compared.
Who's speaking? A certain Dr. Goebbels.
On the speaker's assertion that Lenin was the greatest man, second only to Hitler,
and that the difference between communism and the Hitler faith was very slight,
a faction war opened with whizzing beer glasses.
Amazing.
The future Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels was openly declaring that the difference between Lenin's communism and the Hitler faith was very slight.
As we read, it didn't go down well with potential voters.
So the Nazis changed their tactics.
Their early campaign posters quietly disappeared.
They never again publicly stressed their resemblance to communists.
In the inner circle, however, the Nazis and Hitler were more outspoken.
Hitler often said that he had learned a great deal from Marxism, from reading Marx, I mean.
The whole of National Socialism is based upon it, he said, meaning doctrinally based.
People keep forgetting that Nazi regime in Germany was also socialist.
They officially were called National Socialist Workers Party.
So it's a branch of socialism.
The Soviets were international socialists and those were, in Germany, national socialists.
So it's the same thing in reality, only slightly different interpretation.
Part of the left went to Hitler, at least in France, part of the socialists became advocates of Hitler.
The popular British playwright Bernard Shaw supported Hitler in the mass media.
The left supported Hitler not because he deceived them.
They knew Hitler would kill, he said he would.
In fact, it was why they supported him.
You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth.
Just put him there and say, sir or madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence?
If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social growth,
if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more,
then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive
because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
Bernard Shaw believed in mass killing by category, not usually by racial category, but by category, you know, the idle, the unfit.
Killing off the parasites within society was what Marxian socialism was about.
It demanded in a London newspaper that the scientists should devise a humane gas.
I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly.
Deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.
After ten years, such gas will be discovered.
It will be called Cyclone B.
The man who oversaw its practical application
But most of the victims died slowly at home.
Special NKVD units raided people's homes to collect the dead bodies.
They received 200 grams of bread for every dead body they delivered.
I did not know what to do.
Scandalized water.
I had no idea what to do.
Many were buried alive.
They were buried alive.
Ten years later the Nazis will exterminate millions of Jews.
They will take away their gold, melt it down and deposit the bars in Swiss banks.
We don't know what communists did with the gold confiscated from these people.
And was there any gold?
What we do know is what communists did with the grain taken from them.
It was exported to the West.
Millions upon millions of tons.
Despite the famine, the export of Ukrainian grain was increased to the maximum level.
The Western media reported both on the scale and character of the famine genocide.
Ukrainians were being exterminated in front of the whole world.
But the world did nothing to help them.
Seven million people were starved to death in the space of one year.
Mankind has never seen a more efficient extermination program than the one in Ukraine during the winter of 1932 and 1933.
Soviet society was the first communist society on earth.
It was a huge social experiment.
The agonizing death of seven million Ukrainians had a wider meaning.
In the distorted vision of the communist architects.
You have to make the revolution, then establish the dictatorship of proletariat and then the birth of the new man can be possible.
The birth of the new man was the ultimate aim of Marxism.
Breeding a new evolutionary form of human being who will think, look and act differently.
But communists were not alone in this endeavor.
Hitler's National Socialism was also about creating a new man.
In both systems you have an ideology which has the ambition of creating a new man.
That means that both systems don't agree with human nature as it is.
They are at war with nature, with human nature.
This is the root of totalitarianism.
You find it both in the Nazis.
In the Nazis it is an ideology based on false biology and communism is based on false sociology.
But both systems have an ambition of being scientific and resting on a scientific basis.
The main scientist of Nazism, Alfred Rosenberg confessed to the Nuremberg tribunal that Hitler had misused the idea of National Socialism.
Indeed the idea in the Nazi view wasn't so bad after all.
Healthy, beautiful, long and happy people.
A future society and without handicapped or Jews.
Nearly a paradise.
For some reason National Socialism did not work out, just as the Soviet Socialism didn't.
Both left thousands of mass graves.
Millions of murdered people.
Was it coincidence?
I don't think many people know that only socialists publicly advocated genocide in the 19th, 20th centuries.
I think that's a very little known fact and it seems shocking.
I've lectured on it here and in other universities and it's always greeted with a sense of shock.
World War II.
Nazis are killing civilians.
It was called the Sardine method.
Victims laid in layers like sardines in a jar.
An effective way to exterminate many people in a short time.
But this film will not be about the Nazis.
Hands tied behind the back.
An expertly aimed shot in the neck.
And the fall into a huge mass grave.
These people were not killed by the Nazis.
They were killed by one of the Allies.
The Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union was killing people in this way for many years.
Both before and after it joined the Allies.
These victims had no memorials.
They were buried in anonymous mass graves.
The murderer's power that killed them and the powers that collaborated with the murderer were never actually prepared to talk about them.
The memory of millions of innocent victims was erased from history.
Youth throughout the world likes to make jokes using popular symbols of the past.
While the Nazi swastika is considered to be a bad joke, Soviet symbols are not.
Communism, after all, was not Nazism.
It was about equality and harmony.
There was nothing wrong with the idea itself.
Well, actually, there was.
There was something which made it different from the other utopias.
Lenin believed in what he called the war of classes.
Which meant that the ultimate harmony can only be reached after certain groups of people are killed.
Initially, when communists come to power, and that doesn't matter where.
Let it be in Russia, in Poland, in Cuba, in Nicaragua.
It doesn't matter. In China.
Initially, they destroy about 10% of the population.
And that's very specific.
This is used not just to kill enemies.
They're not enemies.
It's to restructure the fabric of society.
It's a social engineering.
Top intellectuals, best workers, best engineers, they will kill them all.
And then they will try to restructure the new society.
Hang at least 100 kulaks.
Execute the hostages.
Do it in such a way that people for hundreds of miles around will see and tremble.
Lenin.
In 1917, the communists seized power.
Lenin now had a chance to apply Marxism to real life.
Those who resisted were shot.
There were terrible massacres against resisting peasants.
And again, nobody knows exactly how many people died,
but we're talking about 10 million or more.
But even the most ruthless terror could not break popular resistance.
Particularly in the ethnic republics,
where communist terror was entwined with national oppression.
As it was in Ukraine.
On September 11, 1932, Stalin wrote to his associate, Kaganovich.
The situation in Ukraine is very bad.
If we don't take steps now, we may lose Ukraine.
Several meetings of Stalin's inner circle resulted in a plan of action.
It was an horrific plan.
In that winter, 1932-33, all food supplies in the Ukraine were taken away.
A huge cordon was created so that nobody could leave.
Initially, people didn't die.
Leftover supplies of grain and vegetables kept them alive.
But this was not part of Stalin's plan.
So he ordered in Kavada to confiscate all grain, all food, from the series.
By doing that, he knew he was condemning them to death.
He had no idea what he was doing.
When I was a child, I was a Christian.
I lived in the city of Zapretil and lived in the city of Zagit.
I lived in the city of Minyat and I worked in the city of Zagit.
And then, the hunger began.
In the end, it was not possible for people to live in the city of Zagit.
It was a very difficult and difficult time.
And it was not a difficult time for people to live in the city of Zagit.
So, it was a very difficult time.
They guarded fields to collect single ears of grain.
They were shot on the spot.