Cambodia was bombed into the stone age by Nixon and Kissinger because they thought that the horror of Vietnam needed to be expanded into the surrounding countries, to “teach those savages what happens when they even consider having anything to do with Communism. They shouldn't be given a single moment of mercy.” No offence, but videos like this are borderline propaganda that skews the facts and constantly creates a pro-American narrative of history.
As much as I'm on the side of the ideals of America in terms of politics, it was absolutely stupid of them to support the Khmer Rouge just because they were salty at getting back at Vietnam.
Back in the late 90's I worked with a man who lived through the Cambodian regime. He was a very reserved man and he very rarely talked about his time there but he did tell us once that when he was 18 his father was arrested on the suspicion of knowing how to read. Some soldiers came to the house and told the family that he had attempted to escape and was executed with a rifle. When the family went to collect the remains at the site of the execution, he quickly realized they hadn't used a rifle, they had used a grenade launcher. He had to multitask between gathering the remains himself and keeping his mother back so she couldn't see. The guy lived on nicotine and only slept two hours per night.
My grandparents survived the Khmer Rouge. They told me a lot about their lives under the regime. It was a terrible and horrific experience. My grandpa was a high school teacher, he forced himself to burn and buried all his achievements to avoid getting "educated". He told me "It's hard to get 1 handful of rice. You are lucky. So don't be picky." I never waste a single grain of rice. Edit: I want to share my other grandparent's story (my mom's side). My grandpa was a District Governor. Lucky for him, he some how managed to survive and later become a Major General. My mom told me both of my grandparents survive the regime because they pretend to be normal farmers. Especially, my grandpa. He knew the intentions of the Khmer Rouge. He knew that only pretending to be "stupid" is the way to survive. And he did just that. Just before the day of liberation, he joined the other liberation force not the Vietnamese. Due to his heroic actions and my grandma's help. My grandpa was promoted to Major General and his task is to eliminate the remaining Khmer Rouge guerilla forces along Khmer-Thai border. He didn't see them as enemies but victims instead. Instead of holding a gun he carries a bag full of medical supplies and help the wounded Khmer Rouge soldiers. (I met one of his comrades.) He wasn't lying. My grandpa and my grandma lived years after the war ended. And yeah this is it. They died in peace. They are very happy to see our country in peace. I still remember the words my mom told be "Don't look with your eyes. Look with your hands. War never forgive a lazy person." I'm not very good at English. If there's a mistake, be sure to let me know. I'm happy to fix! THANK YOU FOR READING! ❤️
@@CAProductions051 Can't wait for them pull out native american genocide numbers of 100 trillion, muh better healthcare and so on. These people are such a joke
Oh communism did work it did exactly what it was designed to do disintegrate society there's actually a whole spiritual aspect behind it so for places like Cambodia it did exactly what it was designed to do if you want the short sum up of it and a lot of people who follow that stuff don't even know about this is they pretty much want society the revert back to what it was like in the garden of Eden which is to say non at all. Tik history can go through it far better
*Average communist Most college students aren’t communists, it’s a loud fringe movement not the large peoples movement they try to present themselves as
"remember friends, a good life is just over one more 3rd world country to exploit" --Average capitalist three or four 3rd world countries exploited ago.
@@NKVD.Officer LOL exploited. Their own leaders did that, we simply traded with those guys. How they deal with themselves matters little to us. Our only hangup is when it screws with us, then we get pissy. Want to talk about exploitation? Russia tried to take over Europe after Hitler failed to do so. Look at what they did in their southern reaches. Look at what they did to eastern Europe. Look at what they did to Poland. Communism kills first world nations just as effectively as it does 2nd and 3rd world ones.
Never met someone who came from a communist country and liked it. Germany, Poland, Russia, Venezuela, and China, all came to the US. Most being teachers or people i work with, each either told me they flat out didnt like it or had horror stories. I have several grievances against the current system, but Communism will make everyone miss the old regime as the good ole days. Never take your freedoms for granted.
Im not trying to defend the soviet union but "According to the New Russia Barometer (NRB) polls by the Centre for the Study of Public Policy, 50% of Russian respondents reported a positive impression of the Soviet Union in 1991. This increased to about 75% of NRB respondents in 2000, dropping slightly to 71% in 2009." There's a lot of people who actually preferred the soviet times over what they got now, I dont know if this is more about soviet greatness or the current Russian decadence but is something that most be considered.
@@KidMoe7735Russia also had a 99% vote in the captured areas in Ukraine that said they would be happy to be a part of Russia. Definitely not screwed or bias numbers
@@KidMoe7735 Yeah that poll is of RUSSIANs. The only nation and people to largely benefit from the Soviet Union, was RUSSIA, it had a host of smaller nations (which it forcefully occupied) at its beck and call, of course Russians are going to think fondly of the USSR with this being the case... this was a time when their nation was at its strongest, when it was an undisputed world power, and had an economy to challenge its rivals. If you ask any of the nations who were forced to become part of the Soviet Union, like Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, and Ukraine, most of the people there, especially old timers who actually lived under the USSR, will tell you it was terrible.
Tankies: Capitalists will never exploit your labor again! Farmers: Yeah! So we can own our own land? Tankies: No Farmers: We can sell our produce at our own prices? Tankies: No Farmers: We can eat some of the produce we make? Tankies: No Farmers: Can we stop farming and leave? Tankies: NO! I SAID CAPITALISTS WILL NEVER EXPLOIT YOUR LABOR AGAIN!
What's hilarious is that it's always privileged white kids that have never lived under Communism. They complain about the most trivial things, they couldn't survive a day under a Communist regime.
it’s the other way around. Farmers own the land they work on instead of giant corporations or landlords, they can sell their produce at their own prices (which can’t happen at a meaningful scale in capitalist nations, FYI), and obviously can eat the food they make, (source: CIA study which found the USSR had more daily caloric intake and better quality nutrition). Also: Capitalist: Commies will never exploit your labour again! Workers: Yeah! So we can own the tools we work with? Capitalists: No Workers: So we can sell the products we make? Capitalists: No Workers: We can use the products we make? Capitalists: No Workers: So can we stop working and leave? Capitalists: I said commies will never exploit you again!
@@socire72 yeah. Tell that to the Ukrainians, Cambodians and Chinese. And I'm pretty sure farmers in capitalist countries, especially in Western countries do own their own land and equipment. And the successful ones are business men as well. And I'm pretty sure they can stop farming without getting shot at the back of the head.
According to the textbook I studied, they wrote that Pol Pot had harassed the Vietnamese border first, so the Vietnamese side used this excuse to attack.
@@Jessie_HelmsThat and there are rivalries that transcend the political ideology. It was for that reason Vietnam invaded Kampuchea (as it was called at the time) at all.
But what if USA support Khmer Rouge? Oh wait. *USA did support political to Khmer Rouge by embargo Vietnam just because they punch Khmers* Also i didn't see any embargo to China when they attacked Vietnam, sound like China and USA team-up against Vietnam
@@Jessie_Helms Socialists fighting other socialists isn't a new thing. In Germany the National Socialists (Race/Ethno Socialists) fought both the german Communists (Class Socialists) and german Fascists (Syndicalist/Corporativist Socialism). Of course, many of the communists later joined the NatSocs (the militants and "officers" of Antifa in particular, many of the higher ups of the communist equivalent to the brownshirts became Gestapo officers). Ditto for the fascists.
In the early 80s, when I was a kid, there were some Cambodian refugees in my neighborhood. I didn’t know anything about politics or Cambodia at that time. I do remember eating with them. They were extremely protective of their food. The hovered over their bowls.
I honestly came into this thinking: "Haha cope and seethe commies!" Now, fifty-odd-some minutes in, I'm just exhausted and depressed that this all happened and people still think this isn't objectively evil.
It's really insane huh? It totally shows that contrarians will just retain their bullshit opinion no matter what. The thing is though, many of those people would thrive in communism because they're lazy sycophants who would sell out their neighbours to the authorities in a second.
@nothanks9503 if by did well you mean cause massive amounts of famine and starvation from farmers having to surrender 90 percent of their crops over to the government then yes it did extremely well. You can polish a turd all you want it's still a turd.
@nothanks9503 at the beginning of agriculture everybody in some way was at least trying to farm something so in a sense food was a currency of trade but no one purposely decided "hey I'll share this with everyone." It was just the value of money then in a sense.
To all unironic tankies here: I sincerely hope there will be a chance to build a real communism simulator (unlike in your bs fantasies) where for once you can experience it for real. With worst wishes, A guy from post-communist nation.
@@pizdrinkahPeople shouldn't be thrusted by what they say, they should be thrusted by what they do. Marx and Lenin wrote something, the commies did otherwise. There's two types of people who says "yOu DoN't KnOw WhAt CoMmUnIsM iS": Id10ts and liars.
0:06 “Life Under the Khmer Rouge” 11:39 “The Vorkuta Gulag” 17:49 “Kim Jong-il vs the Starving Masses of North Korea” 27:34 “The Great Leap Forward” 35:46 “The Real-Life Battle Royale” 43:58 “The KGB” 53:11 “Hungarian Uprising” 55:45 “Day in the Life of Stalin” 1:03:52 “The Kim Dynasty” 1:11:45 “The Truth of Holodomor” 1:20:07 “Perestroika & Glasnost”
@@ChesterWorthamAs in "Send in the tanks." It used to refer to any communist who vocally supported the brutal suppression of the Hungary revolution against the communist government, a puppet state of the Soviet Union. Nowadays it's an insult to any communist that supports harsh and unnecessarily violent methods of both instituting communist rule or maintaining it.
My wife is from Ukraine and she grew up during the closing years of the Soviet Union. She told me that she had nothing but disgust for the Bolsheviks. Particularly holdemor, the OMOH opening fire on unarmed civilians wanting independence. They tried to eliminate her language. Her culture and what’s even worse is Russia is now trying to do the same. She hates Russia to no end, and frankly don’t blame her. Modern day Russia is terrible, but communism under the Soviets was worse. No matter what. Communism is a terrible ideology.
Sounds like Guatemalans who lived under capitalist dictatorships, they hate the United States and the CIA with passion and nobody can blame them, the crimes that Kissinger did in Latin America to "save" them from communism are worse than any story you hear from eastern Europe
What’s worse is that there are those that deny that the Holodomor and the Great Purge even happened because it’s an affront to their communist ideology and agenda.
Communism is an ideology, and on paper it is interesting. If we think long term, when machines will replace most of us, in a post scarcity world. It could make sense again. Arguably, the world is socialist at this point even if people don't like the term. Most developed countries pay for unemployment, medicine and retirement, because it benefits society overall.
It's rather ironic i've learned more history from channels like Simple History, Yarnhub and others than i did to school. Out of all Communist regimes the one of Khmer Rouge was the absolute worst of all and that says something that even the Vietnamese were understandably horrified.
@@YourPalHDee It's true that more people died in Stalin's USSR and Mao's china, but the Khmer rouge killed a way higher percentage of their population. + Life in the Khmer Rouge was absolutely unbearable.
@@YourPalHDee Pol Pot killed a far higher percentage of Cambodia's population than Mao did to China's population, and Stalin did to the USSR's population. But yes, both Mao and Stalin killed more people each
I remember one person stated capitalism caused the great depression, but they forgot that communism resulted in the most horrifying genocides in all of human history
@@warriorpitbull1170 same thing with a different name. the history of capitalism shows it clearly to support corruption because it gets you the cash. it only changes once government regulation is enforced
@@NikolaiVolkovski Power leads to corruption.. Be it through capitalism, communism, feudalism, theocracy, anarchism or any other social/economic system.
In many former Eastern Bloc countries it's strictly forbidden to establish political parties referring to communism in their programms, as well as fascism and nazism. It's quite often done at constitutional level and there are many good reasons to do so.
Well, technically it is great ... as long as you have constant slave labor, otherwise it just eats the people in order to keep going. In other words, it does't work in real life.
It is a good concept BUT it is too easily broken by corruption. Theres no checks of balance, no way to ensure things are ran fairly. There are just too many flaws in communism
My great-grandmother sacrificed her life for my uncle and grandfather during the Great Leap Forward. My great grandfather fled the country because of his money, influence over locals, and avoiding execution. My great-grandmother was thinking of selling my uncle for food but my grandfather refused. My great grandmother starved, sacrificing her food to my uncle and grandfather. Thank you for helping expose the crimes of the Chinese Commies.
I mean literally, yes that is true. But the people that use these arguments instead of understanding with nuance are not communists, they’re usually American liberals who have been told they’re communist because the USA’s Overton window is so far to the right that there is literally no left. Bernie Sanders who is the most left wing politician is still a right wing capitalist. The last communist politician in the US was either MLK jr or Malcolm X. However in some cases it is literally true. The Khmer Rouge was a capitalist state funded by the CIA (this is public info btw, no conspiracy here), communist Vietnam even had to step in and liberate them. China is VERY arguable. Under Mao? Socialist, yes, but under Deng and Xi Jinping? It’s debatable, some may call it state capitalist. Communism is not achievable until the entire world becomes communist and after a few hundred years. What any ‘communist’ country of history is, is socialist. Most understand that socialism is a necessary transitionary period, but some (anarchists) believe that it all needs to happen instantly. It would make the job of socialist leaders a lot easier if they weren’t invaded, killed, sabotaged, or embargoed every single time… the USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, China, Burkina Faso, Libya, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Laos, and more.
It was. Communism a stateless,classless no monete society in wich all the MEANS OF PRODUCTION ARE OWNED BY PROLETARIAN. So Cambodia was Real Communism.
Ikr? I love how they say “under capitalism you work or starve” but under communism you work and starve or you work, someone accuses you of being an enemy of the revolutionary state and you are killed.
Both my parents are from the USSR. My mom and grandparents would tell me stories about how they used to live and man aw man it sucked, hard. Thank God I was born 11 years after the USSR collapsed and I left my native country at 4 years old. I'm very thankful for not living in the hellhole called Ruzzia.
My dear emigrated friend, I dare to suggest that your parents did not tell you even half of what was good in the Soviet Union, which YOU are unlikely to receive in modern Europe. I say this as a person who was born in Central Asia in the 90s and left there for Russia due to national aggravations. Your media won’t tell you even 10th of the information that is freely available, but you just have to find it.
@@simonstankevich2048brother he was fucking born there and his family lived the for decades I guarantee he has a good idea of what it was like and you insinuating he doesn’t is not only stupid but insulting
@@simonstankevich2048 lmao! this fuckin guy. you really think the soviet union (which IS NOT just ruzzia, by the way) was able to offer more to its captive citizens than modern europe? lay off the vodka, ivan, its clearly rotting your brain.
Communism is the very definition of failure Biggest problem with people who wants communism, is that they forget what communism does and gives; and this is what it will bring. Communism has caused nothing but pain and suffering for the entire world. Everywhere communism is implanted; the citizens of that nation suffer. All for the power of one tyrant. Many praise communism, but that’s because they don’t truly understand the price it has. The price they will make their people pay. - Communism is a form of religion as they communist parties practically makes the people worship them and the ideology (look at early Soviet Union with Stalin, and look at China with Mao and the current dictator of China).
Indeed. Communism, like all forms of Socialism, is a religion, a cult. TIKHistory's videos on the subject as well as James Lindsay's "The Negation of the Real" are spot on
@@YourPalHDee Every political system gets started by claiming to have the best interests of the population at heart, and every political system is capable of turning a country into a slave state serving a handful on top, and using an iron fist to keep people in line if given the opportunity to do so.
_casually ignores…_ •1/3 of GoFundme campaigns are for medical bills •Literally nowhere in the US is minimum wage a livable wage •The country is being gutted of civil, voting, and reproductive rights •The USA created many of the anti-socialist or anti-communist groups that destabilized the regions •The fact the most powerful and rich nation on earth trying to destroy you economically had a terrible effect on you •The king of Belgium running The Congo in a virtually unmatched depravity •the entire history of the British empire’s treatment of its subjects and the natives There are evil people who’ve used virtually every system of governance, belief, economics, etc… Pretending communism is _uniquely evil_ is just laughably naive.
And the horrors capitalism are good? Communism will always be the end point of society, because it is the natural progression past the evils of capitalism. Cope harder
@@trashcanthertrdman8459 LOL communism is tried all the time and every single time it fails. Why? Not because evil capitalists, but because the ideology is flawed. People are not ants. We are individuals. Any system that denies individualism is doomed to fail, because people won't do what you want them to just because you want them to. Communism would be great if we were a colony species. We are not a colony species.
@@raketny_hvost Capitalism works perfectly as long as corruption is held to account and punished accordingly. Without capitalism, you wouldn't be wearing the clothes you wear or keying words into a youtube video.
@@raketny_hvostladys and gentlemen, that comment was written on an invention that was made under a Capitalist system... 😂 Sorry but despite all its problems, so far capitalism is the best system we had so far and most of its problems are far worse under Bullshit like Communism in example Problem number one CORRUPTION. Furthermore i can't remember the last time we had massive famines in the west, under communism on the other hand... Well so far Vietnam is the only red country i know of that isn't widely known for things like the Holodomor or the great leap forward 🤣
As a Polish man who's family was victimised by communists and been hearing the communist for years at the university and streets of UK, thank you for that video. I hope people will know more.
I talked to someone who grew up in east berlin. They talked about the political indoctrination, the lack of food variety, and how it generally just sucked. Then they talked about how much better life got when the berlin wall fell. Don't take it from me, take it from someone who actually lived under communism. It sucked.
@ericsuarez834, I've been to Haiti, actually. Doesnt seem like the conditions there are great, but it is a beautiful country. I did speak to someone there, but it was more haggling then casual conversation.
The celebrations when the Berlin Wall fell were some of the biggest and most enthusiastic in history. For a while there, Germans on both sides were the happiest people in the world. I wish the same for Koreans.
@@reliantncc1864 my parents and relatives were not celebrating, they were gathering their East German marks to quickly exchange them 1:1 for D-Mark and then they moved to Austria in 1993. They knew and understood that Germany was fcked at that moment. We have seen that there is nothing to celebrate. At all.
@@gustaftheone9279Yes because capitalism made the iPhone. It wasn’t the hundreds of workers and engineers, no no no, it was big daddy Steve Jobs. All him. He actually manufactured every single iPhone himself, it wasn’t the workers, they didn’t help at all. Also I have no heating because it’s too expensive, i can only use it if it’s really cold.
My great-great grandpa miraculosly survived Holodomor in Kuban (today Russia, but at that time mostly Ukrainian region culturally and nationally). In 1930 he had a fight with a member of the Communist Party, and because of it was sent to a concentration camp near Astrakhan. In 1932 the Holodomor has started, and it killed the whole family of my great-great grandpa, but he himself survived, because he worked on the Volga river, which was full of fish.
every kid in the USA needs to watch this. Even normally at work in a free society people rat each other out for little things. Jjust think what wound happen
There are 2 tourist attraction locations in cambodia thats related to the whole khmer rogue thing. 1 S21 can be visited some stuff are still left there for viewing. 2 a ''museum'' is built to display the skeletons of the dead from that era expect to step on random human bone that isnt in display.
"It had been hoped that by stealing everyone's property, fruits of their labor and forcibly making them work on communal (state owned) land in colonies of total strangers that production and efficiency would increase" Stupider words have never been said.
If communism is such a utopia. Then I would rather suffer in "exploitive" capitalism. Got my own house, never starved, never was harassed by the "State", and got to vote for the leaders in that government of America. I do feel very concerned about those statements made by Klaus Schwab of the WEF.
Klaus Schwab is just another capitalist, we don’t have to worry really. The west is still a capitalist liberal powerhouse which it’s been for the last century.
Then I am fortunate to be born in America. From American parents and generations of Americans in my family tree. Sure there is not perfection in America, nor in American history. Even is America is only 90% perfect. It's 100% acceptable to me. Sure beats living in North Korea. You can forget about glorifying red China. Living in Afghanistan is completely unacceptable. Rather live in America than anywhere in Europe too.
@@whomagoose6897 absolutely, we aren’t perfect and we should never claim to be. We have poverty, violence, every problem countries have. But we do our citizens well, at least much better than others.
@@boad8270communism was first used in russia, happened in russia and so on if, to you, lenin isn't a real communist, then i dont know what to tell you
College kids in America be like "But this isn't REAL socialism. This is all fake news by conservatives. I studied liberal arts for one semester and I am an expert in political science"
As an american I think it is important to pay attention and see what our near future is going to look like. Especially since the american public has decided to accept and embrace our move to communism
Communists helped my country be independent. Capitalists murdered half my country’s population in a genocides. I’ll figure out which one is evil myself, thank you.
finally someone mentioned this cruel system that took more lifes in the most horrible ways than nazis. Only gulag took from 1918-56 50-100 milions humans lifes, sentence more than 5 years= death
I mean... the good old austrian painter had only 4 years to do his things and still managed to pull out a more than decent score. Give him some credit: I am sure that in 40 years he would have dne much better than our beloved papa Stalin
@@Divano-qw2sb Holodomor 5-8 milions lifes, operation polish 200k casualites, mass exiles and the only numbers of Poles was 400k and this is tip of the iceberg and its prewar crimes
As a refugee from communist Cuba, I can't thank you enough for this video. Castro interned almost all LGTB's Cubans in concentration camps in the eastern province of Camaguey, where many died from hard labor, and that was just the top of a terrible iceberg.
@@amadeusagripino6862honestly just let them go, the fact that they’ve plastered his face on everything and are selling it goes against everything he stood for
Castro has apologised for that and asked for forgiveness. Which is far more than the British did for Alan Turing, the war hero murdered by the British government. Now Cuba has the most progressive family code in the world, voted for by the citizens of Cuba.
@@socire72 as a actual Cuban whose family and friends are in death camps right now for protesting a few years ago the artificial starvation the rich communist elites maintain with a bleeding iron fist, in no way you are a tool of the illiterate cult of communism.
My uncle was deployed to Korea. In the middle of his unit engaging the enemy, one of the guys in his group pulled a pin on a grenade, and his idea of throwing was to let it roll back in his hand and past his fingers so it landed in the foxhole with the rest of the men. My uncle saw this and ordered everyone out of the foxhole, pushing the last guy out, meaning he was the one that took the brunt of the blast. Luckily he lived, although he had a back full of shrapnel, as well as missing most of his left foot. But, after that incident, he was discharged and got to recuperate stateside, so I guess that was something.
15:09 I’ve watched this channel for years and decided to watch this compilation tonight. I just loved the little add in for Vorkuta Reznov and Sergei from Call of Duty Black Ops. Loved the little add in Simple History
I had an old internet friend from HS turn tankie on me and get extremely offended when I made the same exact statement to him. Needless to say we are no longer friends.
For all the Western "trendies" who champion communism... this is the reality of it. We need more superb videos like this to show what it was like for people who lived under the most evil of all political doctrines. Every story is important. Every young person in the West needs educating on the horrors and dangers of communism.
yep communism suckssss my dad was in china during the famine and he got nothing his family nearly died they legit got a bowl of rice max a day no meat at all for anyone
@@socire72 Don't even try that bullshit because Communism has killed more people than smallpox. I'm old enough to remember before the Wall came down & what a grocery store looked like in the Soviet Union when there was 1 kind of bread & vodka on the shelves. Besides you will NEVER EVER find one person who fled a communist country who will say their quality of life was better living under communism !
@@socire72 "Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us." - Based JFK
0:07- The Khmer Rouge (Cambodia) 11:29- The Vorkuta Gulag (Russia) 17:50- Kim Jong Il (North Korea) 27:35- The Great Leap Forward (China) 35:46- The Nazino Island Tragedy (Russia) 43:58- The KGB (Russia) 53:12- Hungarian Uprising of 1956 (Hungary) 55:45- A Day in the Life of Josef Stalin (Russia) 1:03:52- The Kim Dynasty (North Korea) 1:11:46- Holodomor (Ukraine) 1:20:08- Perestroika and Glasnost (Russia)
@@socire72 Pol Pot was literally funded and supported by Mao. The Americans only later funded them for strategic reasons against vietnam. Cambodia was still marxist.
“There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.” - Oswald Spengler.
As someone who wasnt taught this in world history back in high school, i truly appreciated this video. I had no idea that Cambodia suffered like this. And the fact that Pol Pot never faced justice for these atrocious acts is just truly sickening. I really pray for the souls who didnt survive the genocide. Hopefully they finally are resting in peace.
You know, I often heard from some Communists in the comments: "They say the Khmer Rouge is not communism." It's very funny, considering that they literally did everything according to the doctrine of the Communists. In my subjective opinion, to consider that the Reds are not communists is like saying, "Protestants are not Christians."
The Khmer rouge story is almost an exact copy of my mothers experience. For all you westerners, it's time to wake up from the illusion of "that wasnt real communism"
@@jessieneace Pol Pot's ideas to throw the entire country into the stone age by any means necessary were indeed terrible. It's just weird that he thought it has anything to do with communism.
"2 million Cambodian soldiers in exchange for 50 million Vietnamese people" the head of the Pol Pot regime once said. Vietnamese soldiers sacrificed their lives to free the Cambodian people from Pol Pot's rule, but the Cambodian people later did not appreciate what we gave them. They went on social networks and cursed the Vietnamese people, the people who liberated them. I'm sorry that my uncle had to sacrifice himself for ungrateful Cambodians. I know not all Cambodians are like that, but now it has become a big problem in the awareness of the next generation of Cambodians
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The fact that Cambodia, a communist country, was invaded by another communist country really shows how evil and insane the Khmer Rouge was.
Cambodia was bombed into the stone age by Nixon and Kissinger because they thought that the horror of Vietnam needed to be expanded into the surrounding countries, to “teach those savages what happens when they even consider having anything to do with Communism. They shouldn't be given a single moment of mercy.” No offence, but videos like this are borderline propaganda that skews the facts and constantly creates a pro-American narrative of history.
As much as I'm on the side of the ideals of America in terms of politics, it was absolutely stupid of them to support the Khmer Rouge just because they were salty at getting back at Vietnam.
Having the same socio-economic system doesn't make them allies though 😂
Pol pot was just a fascist dictator backed my united states of terrorism
@@YourPalHDeethat to aplícate with USA
Back in the late 90's I worked with a man who lived through the Cambodian regime. He was a very reserved man and he very rarely talked about his time there but he did tell us once that when he was 18 his father was arrested on the suspicion of knowing how to read. Some soldiers came to the house and told the family that he had attempted to escape and was executed with a rifle. When the family went to collect the remains at the site of the execution, he quickly realized they hadn't used a rifle, they had used a grenade launcher.
He had to multitask between gathering the remains himself and keeping his mother back so she couldn't see. The guy lived on nicotine and only slept two hours per night.
Khmer Rouge was funded by the CIA, don’t try and blame it on communism.
Damn that’s horrible
Based US supported khamer Rouge
Just knowing how to fucking read omg, the absolute lengths people will go to to remain in power is terrifying.
Hahahahaha😂 what an idiot@@JoeRogansForehead
My grandparents survived the Khmer Rouge. They told me a lot about their lives under the regime. It was a terrible and horrific experience. My grandpa was a high school teacher, he forced himself to burn and buried all his achievements to avoid getting "educated". He told me "It's hard to get 1 handful of rice. You are lucky. So don't be picky." I never waste a single grain of rice.
Edit: I want to share my other grandparent's story (my mom's side). My grandpa was a District Governor. Lucky for him, he some how managed to survive and later become a Major General. My mom told me both of my grandparents survive the regime because they pretend to be normal farmers. Especially, my grandpa. He knew the intentions of the Khmer Rouge. He knew that only pretending to be "stupid" is the way to survive. And he did just that. Just before the day of liberation, he joined the other liberation force not the Vietnamese.
Due to his heroic actions and my grandma's help. My grandpa was promoted to Major General and his task is to eliminate the remaining Khmer Rouge guerilla forces along Khmer-Thai border. He didn't see them as enemies but victims instead. Instead of holding a gun he carries a bag full of medical supplies and help the wounded Khmer Rouge soldiers. (I met one of his comrades.) He wasn't lying. My grandpa and my grandma lived years after the war ended. And yeah this is it. They died in peace. They are very happy to see our country in peace. I still remember the words my mom told be "Don't look with your eyes. Look with your hands. War never forgive a lazy person."
I'm not very good at English. If there's a mistake, be sure to let me know. I'm happy to fix!
THANK YOU FOR READING! ❤️
Are u sure that u didnt miss a single grain of rice
Also i hope ur grandpa has a long and great life
@@chilli-boi Not really actually. My grandpa died almost a year now. But thank you for that.❤️
damn
I hope your grandpa is well
he died@@olekcholewa8171
The tankies are not gonna like this one
There’s going to be so much coping
"NOOOO!! ALL HISTORICAL CONSENSUS AND EVIDENCE OF STALIN'S MASS MURDERS ARE ALL WESTERN IMPERIALIST PROPAGANDA!!!"
@@CAProductions051 Can't wait for them pull out native american genocide numbers of 100 trillion, muh better healthcare and so on. These people are such a joke
Can confirm, as a socialist I can hear the red fascists going reeeeeee in the distance.
"B-but da good communism has never been tried before"
Communists when communism fails for the 47th time in a country:
"This isn't real communism."
IKR. At this point they have tried any possible type of communism on this planet
they have the same determination as nft bros.
"this time is different bro, trust me it'll work this time!"
@@lillyie NFTs might actually work. As opposed to Communism which will never work.
But it actually not communism… it’s just capitalism but they get more powerful with dead body’s instead of money
Oh communism did work it did exactly what it was designed to do disintegrate society there's actually a whole spiritual aspect behind it so for places like Cambodia it did exactly what it was designed to do if you want the short sum up of it and a lot of people who follow that stuff don't even know about this is they pretty much want society the revert back to what it was like in the garden of Eden which is to say non at all. Tik history can go through it far better
It's truly insane how anyone can support such a regime
@@weiss643 Even if you speak English natively, you wouldn't be able to justify such insanity.
tell that to california
Same with the Nazis or the imperial Japan
Almost as insane as people believing this propaganda
Right wingers love racism and fasicm. It’s their entire ideology
"Remember, comrades. Utopia is just over one more mountain of skulls."
--Average college student, three or four mountains of skulls ago.
*Average communist
Most college students aren’t communists, it’s a loud fringe movement not the large peoples movement they try to present themselves as
"remember friends, a good life is just over one more 3rd world country to exploit"
--Average capitalist three or four 3rd world countries exploited ago.
You can't imagine how much i want that to be true
@@NKVD.Officer LOL exploited. Their own leaders did that, we simply traded with those guys. How they deal with themselves matters little to us. Our only hangup is when it screws with us, then we get pissy. Want to talk about exploitation? Russia tried to take over Europe after Hitler failed to do so. Look at what they did in their southern reaches. Look at what they did to eastern Europe. Look at what they did to Poland. Communism kills first world nations just as effectively as it does 2nd and 3rd world ones.
@@laecard1778Arent they? These dimwits praise communism
Can't wait for people to notice Reznov, Mason and Sergei in the Vorkuta part
I remember it when it came out
"Every journey begins with a single step... this - *IS STEP ONE!*
16:40
@@ibracky9897
SECURE THE KEYS
@@ibracky9897 SECURE THE KEYS!!!!
Never met someone who came from a communist country and liked it. Germany, Poland, Russia, Venezuela, and China, all came to the US. Most being teachers or people i work with, each either told me they flat out didnt like it or had horror stories. I have several grievances against the current system, but Communism will make everyone miss the old regime as the good ole days. Never take your freedoms for granted.
Im not trying to defend the soviet union but "According to the New Russia Barometer (NRB) polls by the Centre for the Study of Public Policy, 50% of Russian respondents reported a positive impression of the Soviet Union in 1991. This increased to about 75% of NRB respondents in 2000, dropping slightly to 71% in 2009." There's a lot of people who actually preferred the soviet times over what they got now, I dont know if this is more about soviet greatness or the current Russian decadence but is something that most be considered.
@@KidMoe7735Russia also had a 99% vote in the captured areas in Ukraine that said they would be happy to be a part of Russia. Definitely not screwed or bias numbers
None of those were communist countries because there is no such thing as a communist country
And to deny your claim, I’ve only met one person from a Warsaw Pact nation and they’re a communist, so there you go
@@KidMoe7735 Yeah that poll is of RUSSIANs.
The only nation and people to largely benefit from the Soviet Union, was RUSSIA, it had a host of smaller nations (which it forcefully occupied) at its beck and call, of course Russians are going to think fondly of the USSR with this being the case... this was a time when their nation was at its strongest, when it was an undisputed world power, and had an economy to challenge its rivals.
If you ask any of the nations who were forced to become part of the Soviet Union, like Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, and Ukraine, most of the people there, especially old timers who actually lived under the USSR, will tell you it was terrible.
For an evil dictator who starved and tortured millions of his own people, “Pol Pot” isn’t a particularly intimidating name.
Neither is Mao Zedong
His real name was Saloth Sar. Which is a bit more intimidating.
Maybe we should start giving dictators names like "Tiny Winkey" then they'll be less of them
All want Pol Pot.
@@Gameprojordanshe put her mao on my zedong 😩😩
Tankies: Capitalists will never exploit your labor again!
Farmers: Yeah! So we can own our own land?
Tankies: No
Farmers: We can sell our produce at our own prices?
Tankies: No
Farmers: We can eat some of the produce we make?
Tankies: No
Farmers: Can we stop farming and leave?
Tankies: NO! I SAID CAPITALISTS WILL NEVER EXPLOIT YOUR LABOR AGAIN!
I still can't understand why they think communism works
What's hilarious is that it's always privileged white kids that have never lived under Communism.
They complain about the most trivial things, they couldn't survive a day under a Communist regime.
@@Ace_EconPeople are idiotic
it’s the other way around. Farmers own the land they work on instead of giant corporations or landlords, they can sell their produce at their own prices (which can’t happen at a meaningful scale in capitalist nations, FYI), and obviously can eat the food they make, (source: CIA study which found the USSR had more daily caloric intake and better quality nutrition).
Also:
Capitalist: Commies will never exploit your labour again!
Workers: Yeah! So we can own the tools we work with?
Capitalists: No
Workers: So we can sell the products we make?
Capitalists: No
Workers: We can use the products we make?
Capitalists: No
Workers: So can we stop working and leave?
Capitalists: I said commies will never exploit you again!
@@socire72 yeah. Tell that to the Ukrainians, Cambodians and Chinese.
And I'm pretty sure farmers in capitalist countries, especially in Western countries do own their own land and equipment. And the successful ones are business men as well. And I'm pretty sure they can stop farming without getting shot at the back of the head.
I cant imagine surviving the Vietnam war only to invade Cambodia to see even worse horrors
Well most of the horrors were inflicted by the PAVN on others so it was them seeing the other side for once.
@@emberfist8347 bet
According to the textbook I studied, they wrote that Pol Pot had harassed the Vietnamese border first, so the Vietnamese side used this excuse to attack.
Pol Pot was a CIA operative not a communist
Vietnamese commies being shocked must say a lot about the Khmer Rouge.
Doesn’t that show that it isn’t an issue inherent to communism? If communists were fighting other communists who went insane?
@@Jessie_HelmsThat and there are rivalries that transcend the political ideology. It was for that reason Vietnam invaded Kampuchea (as it was called at the time) at all.
But what if USA support Khmer Rouge?
Oh wait. *USA did support political to Khmer Rouge by embargo Vietnam just because they punch Khmers*
Also i didn't see any embargo to China when they attacked Vietnam, sound like China and USA team-up against Vietnam
@@tmq0311....and they both failed as Cambodia got steamrolled
@@Jessie_Helms Socialists fighting other socialists isn't a new thing.
In Germany the National Socialists (Race/Ethno Socialists) fought both the german Communists (Class Socialists) and german Fascists (Syndicalist/Corporativist Socialism). Of course, many of the communists later joined the NatSocs (the militants and "officers" of Antifa in particular, many of the higher ups of the communist equivalent to the brownshirts became Gestapo officers). Ditto for the fascists.
The title is gonna piss off some university students...
Right 😂😂
Honestly im more concerned about them tryna not be biased
There is a bias towards truth. That exists.
As long as it makes ignorant Americans happy that's all it matters
that's ok. some university students piss me off too.
In the early 80s, when I was a kid, there were some Cambodian refugees in my neighborhood. I didn’t know anything about politics or Cambodia at that time. I do remember eating with them. They were extremely protective of their food. The hovered over their bowls.
I honestly came into this thinking: "Haha cope and seethe commies!" Now, fifty-odd-some minutes in, I'm just exhausted and depressed that this all happened and people still think this isn't objectively evil.
It's really insane huh? It totally shows that contrarians will just retain their bullshit opinion no matter what.
The thing is though, many of those people would thrive in communism because they're lazy sycophants who would sell out their neighbours to the authorities in a second.
I knew what I was in for have a knot in my stomach 20 minutes in knowing conditions are ripe for neo type of commieism.
They justify it by saying “ _that wasn’t REAL communism_ “
I just came for the comments but damn your comment makes me wanna watch the vid..
Pol Pot was a CIA operative not a communist
Thank you for the video, these atrocities have to be remembered.
"real socialism hasn't been tried yet."
~some college kid somewhere~
@nothanks9503 if by did well you mean cause massive amounts of famine and starvation from farmers having to surrender 90 percent of their crops over to the government then yes it did extremely well. You can polish a turd all you want it's still a turd.
Technically a true statement but we should probably keep it that way
@nothanks9503 at the beginning of agriculture everybody in some way was at least trying to farm something so in a sense food was a currency of trade but no one purposely decided "hey I'll share this with everyone." It was just the value of money then in a sense.
@nothanks9503 so did they have to or did they get the choice if they wanted to, also I doubt highly that people preferred beer over food.
socialism ≠ communism
To all unironic tankies here:
I sincerely hope there will be a chance to build a real communism simulator (unlike in your bs fantasies) where for once you can experience it for real.
With worst wishes,
A guy from post-communist nation.
They're unbearable, eh?
"I did a semester in University, so I know exactly how Communism works"
bro u don't know what gomunism iz
what no reading does to an mf
@@pizdrinkahPeople shouldn't be thrusted by what they say, they should be thrusted by what they do. Marx and Lenin wrote something, the commies did otherwise. There's two types of people who says "yOu DoN't KnOw WhAt CoMmUnIsM iS": Id10ts and liars.
@@pizdrinkah Reading is authoritarian.
0:06 “Life Under the Khmer Rouge”
11:39 “The Vorkuta Gulag”
17:49 “Kim Jong-il vs the Starving Masses of North Korea”
27:34 “The Great Leap Forward”
35:46 “The Real-Life Battle Royale”
43:58 “The KGB”
53:11 “Hungarian Uprising”
55:45 “Day in the Life of Stalin”
1:03:52 “The Kim Dynasty”
1:11:45 “The Truth of Holodomor”
1:20:07 “Perestroika & Glasnost”
Thanks man
11:39: "Every journey begins with a single step. This is *Step One!"*
@@BaxterAndLunala “Secure the keys!”
@@michaellynes3540"And now we take Vorkuta!"
*"Uraaaa!!!!"*
"What is Step Two?"
@@BaxterAndLunala “Ascend from darkness!”
Tankies when you show literally any other countries crimes: 😡
Tankies when you show crimes of their ideology: 🤓
Wtf does tankies mean?
@@ChesterWortham Political insult for socialists/communists...
Pol Pot was a CIA operative not a communist
@@Gloverfield Not for Communists and Socialists but for Marxist-Leninists, Stalinists, Maoists etc.
@@ChesterWorthamAs in "Send in the tanks." It used to refer to any communist who vocally supported the brutal suppression of the Hungary revolution against the communist government, a puppet state of the Soviet Union. Nowadays it's an insult to any communist that supports harsh and unnecessarily violent methods of both instituting communist rule or maintaining it.
My wife is from Ukraine and she grew up during the closing years of the Soviet Union. She told me that she had nothing but disgust for the Bolsheviks. Particularly holdemor, the OMOH opening fire on unarmed civilians wanting independence.
They tried to eliminate her language. Her culture and what’s even worse is Russia is now trying to do the same. She hates Russia to no end, and frankly don’t blame her. Modern day Russia is terrible, but communism under the Soviets was worse. No matter what. Communism is a terrible ideology.
Sounds like Guatemalans who lived under capitalist dictatorships, they hate the United States and the CIA with passion and nobody can blame them, the crimes that Kissinger did in Latin America to "save" them from communism are worse than any story you hear from eastern Europe
What’s worse is that there are those that deny that the Holodomor and the Great Purge even happened because it’s an affront to their communist ideology and agenda.
as a Slavic Nationalist im heavely against Slavs marrying outsiders like you
Communism is an ideology, and on paper it is interesting. If we think long term, when machines will replace most of us, in a post scarcity world. It could make sense again. Arguably, the world is socialist at this point even if people don't like the term. Most developed countries pay for unemployment, medicine and retirement, because it benefits society overall.
@@B0tch0 Imma leave a comment here just to see where future answers to your comment will lead to...
It's rather ironic i've learned more history from channels like Simple History, Yarnhub and others than i did to school. Out of all Communist regimes the one of Khmer Rouge was the absolute worst of all and that says something that even the Vietnamese were understandably horrified.
Don't do that, actually read otherwise you'll be stuck on your own ignorance
I'm not boasting about jack-squat, i simply expressed my opinion, no more, no less.
I'm not sure the Khmer Rouge are the worst of the worst. Mao was absolutely dreadful. As were the Bolsheviks.
@@YourPalHDee It's true that more people died in Stalin's USSR and Mao's china, but the Khmer rouge killed a way higher percentage of their population. + Life in the Khmer Rouge was absolutely unbearable.
@@YourPalHDee Pol Pot killed a far higher percentage of Cambodia's population than Mao did to China's population, and Stalin did to the USSR's population. But yes, both Mao and Stalin killed more people each
I remember one person stated capitalism caused the great depression, but they forgot that communism resulted in the most horrifying genocides in all of human history
Change it dictators who coused it
Capitalism didn't cause the depression, corruption did.
@@warriorpitbull1170 same thing with a different name. the history of capitalism shows it clearly to support corruption because it gets you the cash. it only changes once government regulation is enforced
@@warriorpitbull1170capitalism always leads to corruption
@@NikolaiVolkovski Power leads to corruption.. Be it through capitalism, communism, feudalism, theocracy, anarchism or any other social/economic system.
My grand mother is from Budapest hungry and she left in 1956 because a tank shot threw her window
In many former Eastern Bloc countries it's strictly forbidden to establish political parties referring to communism in their programms, as well as fascism and nazism. It's quite often done at constitutional level and there are many good reasons to do so.
God I wish the West adapted the same policies….
Can I get your number?
Except in the very same countries fascist parties ARE allowed, if not de-jure, then de-facto. Anticommunism inevitably leads to fascism.
@@ДокторЯдоand communism inevitably leads to tyranny on par with Fascism.
@@hermocrasbreadlord9557
You're not really against the fascism, are you?
Putting the word "evil" next to communism is just saying the same thing twice
I think he meant to put a Semicolon after Evil.
calling something evil in politics is just childish
@@F.RO.Hcope harder tankie!
@@F.RO.H
Can you really look at all of this and with a straight face say that It wasn't evil.
@@ethandixon6580 define tankie bb
I feel like I am losing my mind when people tell me communism isn't horrible.
Well, technically it is great ... as long as you have constant slave labor, otherwise it just eats the people in order to keep going. In other words, it does't work in real life.
Just remember that each of those people think they would be oligarchy themselves.
People who say that all live in capitalist countries.
It is a good concept BUT it is too easily broken by corruption. Theres no checks of balance, no way to ensure things are ran fairly.
There are just too many flaws in communism
People who say that obviously 1. don’t know history 2. never lived under a communist regime 3. Democrats or 4. College students.
My great-grandmother sacrificed her life for my uncle and grandfather during the Great Leap Forward. My great grandfather fled the country because of his money, influence over locals, and avoiding execution. My great-grandmother was thinking of selling my uncle for food but my grandfather refused. My great grandmother starved, sacrificing her food to my uncle and grandfather.
Thank you for helping expose the crimes of the Chinese Commies.
"But this wasn't REAL communism." "Real communism hasn't been tried yet."
I mean literally, yes that is true. But the people that use these arguments instead of understanding with nuance are not communists, they’re usually American liberals who have been told they’re communist because the USA’s Overton window is so far to the right that there is literally no left. Bernie Sanders who is the most left wing politician is still a right wing capitalist. The last communist politician in the US was either MLK jr or Malcolm X.
However in some cases it is literally true. The Khmer Rouge was a capitalist state funded by the CIA (this is public info btw, no conspiracy here), communist Vietnam even had to step in and liberate them.
China is VERY arguable. Under Mao? Socialist, yes, but under Deng and Xi Jinping? It’s debatable, some may call it state capitalist.
Communism is not achievable until the entire world becomes communist and after a few hundred years. What any ‘communist’ country of history is, is socialist. Most understand that socialism is a necessary transitionary period, but some (anarchists) believe that it all needs to happen instantly.
It would make the job of socialist leaders a lot easier if they weren’t invaded, killed, sabotaged, or embargoed every single time… the USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, China, Burkina Faso, Libya, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Laos, and more.
"but this wasn't REAL capitalism"
"That's KRONIE capatalism!"
@@Johnny.Picklez Tankie.
@@AOT_HxH95 Coping cuz u don’t have an argument 🤣😂😂😂
It was.
Communism a stateless,classless no monete society in wich all the MEANS OF PRODUCTION ARE OWNED BY PROLETARIAN.
So Cambodia was Real Communism.
I love how the tankies defense for communism is "but what about capitalism"😅
"If we drop the Stalinism and Maoism, Capitalism has more blood on its hands."
Ikr? I love how they say “under capitalism you work or starve” but under communism you work and starve or you work, someone accuses you of being an enemy of the revolutionary state and you are killed.
wtf@@remanscimitar
@@metaljunkie8393 the death toll for communism is 100 million
@@remanscimitar if you dropped the worlds largest country and the country with the largest population LOL
Both my parents are from the USSR. My mom and grandparents would tell me stories about how they used to live and man aw man it sucked, hard. Thank God I was born 11 years after the USSR collapsed and I left my native country at 4 years old. I'm very thankful for not living in the hellhole called Ruzzia.
My dear emigrated friend, I dare to suggest that your parents did not tell you even half of what was good in the Soviet Union, which YOU are unlikely to receive in modern Europe. I say this as a person who was born in Central Asia in the 90s and left there for Russia due to national aggravations. Your media won’t tell you even 10th of the information that is freely available, but you just have to find it.
@@simonstankevich2048brother he was fucking born there and his family lived the for decades I guarantee he has a good idea of what it was like and you insinuating he doesn’t is not only stupid but insulting
@@indigo478 I'm a girl but thanks for defending me.
@@indigo478it's a Russian bot, they flood any video that refutes their propaganda
@@simonstankevich2048 lmao! this fuckin guy. you really think the soviet union (which IS NOT just ruzzia, by the way) was able to offer more to its captive citizens than modern europe? lay off the vodka, ivan, its clearly rotting your brain.
Imagine if fascists kept saying "It wasn't real nazism".
Communism is the very definition of failure
Biggest problem with people who wants communism, is that they forget what communism does and gives; and this is what it will bring.
Communism has caused nothing but pain and suffering for the entire world. Everywhere communism is implanted; the citizens of that nation suffer. All for the power of one tyrant. Many praise communism, but that’s because they don’t truly understand the price it has. The price they will make their people pay.
- Communism is a form of religion as they communist parties practically makes the people worship them and the ideology (look at early Soviet Union with Stalin, and look at China with Mao and the current dictator of China).
Communism is the ideology of the envious
Communism is just a shortcut to absolute power like an Absolute Monarchy. Look at Pol Pot he behaved no differently than a king
religion killed more people than communism has ever existed
@@jubjub15he made Tamerlane look like a saint
Indeed. Communism, like all forms of Socialism, is a religion, a cult.
TIKHistory's videos on the subject as well as James Lindsay's "The Negation of the Real" are spot on
The fact that they put Reznov in the gulag is top tier genius
And mason
This should be streaming in every single US University.
Agreed 💯 I don’t want 50 million people going around dying just saw that our “leader” can get what he wants as a “perfect utopia”
This could have been so helpful for one of my college assignments that happened month ago.
Tell me more. Please lol
I'm actually interested in your story
Bro was gonna use an unimaginably biased youtube video for his college assignment 💀💀
@@nervigeskind3131 "Unimaginably bias" 🙄🙄🙄
You a fan of the Khmer Rouge? 😂 Good guys deep down
@@nervigeskind3131imagine clowning yourself so publicly 💀
@@YourPalHDee Every political system gets started by claiming to have the best interests of the population at heart, and every political system is capable of turning a country into a slave state serving a handful on top, and using an iron fist to keep people in line if given the opportunity to do so.
Thank you for doing this vid. Many folks are ignorant to the horrors of that system.
The very sad truth..
_casually ignores…_
•1/3 of GoFundme campaigns are for medical bills
•Literally nowhere in the US is minimum wage a livable wage
•The country is being gutted of civil, voting, and reproductive rights
•The USA created many of the anti-socialist or anti-communist groups that destabilized the regions
•The fact the most powerful and rich nation on earth trying to destroy you economically had a terrible effect on you
•The king of Belgium running The Congo in a virtually unmatched depravity
•the entire history of the British empire’s treatment of its subjects and the natives
There are evil people who’ve used virtually every system of governance, belief, economics, etc…
Pretending communism is _uniquely evil_ is just laughably naive.
And the horrors capitalism are good? Communism will always be the end point of society, because it is the natural progression past the evils of capitalism. Cope harder
@@trashcanthertrdman8459 LOL communism is tried all the time and every single time it fails. Why? Not because evil capitalists, but because the ideology is flawed. People are not ants. We are individuals. Any system that denies individualism is doomed to fail, because people won't do what you want them to just because you want them to. Communism would be great if we were a colony species. We are not a colony species.
Some people even knows, but they pretend they don't and some even justify it.
University undergrads are going to hate this one
It functions as intended, just not as advertised.
Ain't that the truth.
Just like capitalism
@@raketny_hvost Capitalism works perfectly as long as corruption is held to account and punished accordingly. Without capitalism, you wouldn't be wearing the clothes you wear or keying words into a youtube video.
@@raketny_hvostladys and gentlemen, that comment was written on an invention that was made under a Capitalist system... 😂
Sorry but despite all its problems, so far capitalism is the best system we had so far and most of its problems are far worse under Bullshit like Communism in example Problem number one CORRUPTION. Furthermore i can't remember the last time we had massive famines in the west, under communism on the other hand... Well so far Vietnam is the only red country i know of that isn't widely known for things like the Holodomor or the great leap forward 🤣
@@warriorpitbull1170 >perfectly
I got it. I just found ancient cave with market fans of 60s lmao. Didn't know I'll find such a treasure😁
When a collage student proceeds to respond with "Real communism hasn't been tried yet".
Then we get to spam the clown emoji.
or this emoji 🤓
That college student is to go to N. Korea for a month and see for him/herself that the regime there is *real communism.*
As a Polish man who's family was victimised by communists and been hearing the communist for years at the university and streets of UK, thank you for that video. I hope people will know more.
I talked to someone who grew up in east berlin. They talked about the political indoctrination, the lack of food variety, and how it generally just sucked. Then they talked about how much better life got when the berlin wall fell. Don't take it from me, take it from someone who actually lived under communism. It sucked.
Have you ever spoken with someone from Haiti?
@ericsuarez834, I've been to Haiti, actually. Doesnt seem like the conditions there are great, but it is a beautiful country. I did speak to someone there, but it was more haggling then casual conversation.
The celebrations when the Berlin Wall fell were some of the biggest and most enthusiastic in history. For a while there, Germans on both sides were the happiest people in the world. I wish the same for Koreans.
Yes I guess they like the muslim invasion and munching Döner much better now...lol.
@@reliantncc1864 my parents and relatives were not celebrating, they were gathering their East German marks to quickly exchange them 1:1 for D-Mark and then they moved to Austria in 1993. They knew and understood that Germany was fcked at that moment. We have seen that there is nothing to celebrate. At all.
As a Godzilla fan, hearing the GOAT og 1954 roar at 25:01 is AWESOME
great vid as well btw
"But but but... That wasn't REAL communism. Real communism is the fictional utopia vision I have in my head."
If only communism was utopian, but it’s NOT. And you’d actually know that if you read some theory. Try ‘Socialism: Utopian & Scientific’ by Engels
@@danielethell2951 I don't support communism. I'm being sarcastic.
i dont see the dislikes but i can feel it
😂😂
They’re all literally shaking in anger while texting on their iPhones, in a safe warm environment. It’s just all so inhumane
As of now, 318 dislikes to 4.3k likes. It seems redditors didn't caught up yet.
@@gustaftheone9279Yes because capitalism made the iPhone. It wasn’t the hundreds of workers and engineers, no no no, it was big daddy Steve Jobs. All him. He actually manufactured every single iPhone himself, it wasn’t the workers, they didn’t help at all. Also I have no heating because it’s too expensive, i can only use it if it’s really cold.
And in The united States of America ,gen Z college kids cheer and loudly proclaim how Awesome communism is
Yeah, the useful idiots are only ever 2 generations away at most.
Communism is awesome
@@fitriroslan403 okay Groomer .then move to Venezuela or China !
@@j.robertsergertson4513 Communism is awesome
@@fitriroslan403 heard you the first time Groomer ,did you book your trip china yet ?
The Tankies coping is fucking insane.
Evil is just redundant here.
communism is evil
Amen
My great-great grandpa miraculosly survived Holodomor in Kuban (today Russia, but at that time mostly Ukrainian region culturally and nationally). In 1930 he had a fight with a member of the Communist Party, and because of it was sent to a concentration camp near Astrakhan. In 1932 the Holodomor has started, and it killed the whole family of my great-great grandpa, but he himself survived, because he worked on the Volga river, which was full of fish.
every kid in the USA needs to watch this. Even normally at work in a free society people rat each other out for little things. Jjust think what wound happen
My former neighbor lost all of her family to the khmer rouge. She eventually had kids.
I felt a million tankers cry out in terror before being suddenly silenced...
And there are seriously people here that think America should be Communist…
socialist, possibly marxist. But not stalinism, maoism or anything of that line.
@@S0me0ne353 Socialism and Marxism both lead directly to Stalinism and Maoism.
@@MikeJProto no? they are 4 different political systems...
like how cocaine and opium are different substances@@S0me0ne353
@@S0me0ne353 You have no idea.
The Woke Cult is Maoist in nature, at least the militant ("activist") arm.
redditors wont be happy you called their favorite people evil.
There are 2 tourist attraction locations in cambodia thats related to the whole khmer rogue thing. 1 S21 can be visited some stuff are still left there for viewing. 2 a ''museum'' is built to display the skeletons of the dead from that era expect to step on random human bone that isnt in display.
I've visited both, truly horrifying, and they don't hold back with the details.
you forgot to mentioned the soviets prewar and war crimes in whole eastern, central, south and west europe. They also carried out ethnic cleansing
He pretty much explains popular infamous cases
"It had been hoped that by stealing everyone's property, fruits of their labor and forcibly making them work on communal (state owned) land in colonies of total strangers that production and efficiency would increase"
Stupider words have never been said.
If communism is such a utopia. Then I would rather suffer in "exploitive" capitalism. Got my own house, never starved, never was harassed by the "State", and got to vote for the leaders in that government of America. I do feel very concerned about those statements made by Klaus Schwab of the WEF.
>Never harassed by the state.
That just happens under all governments. You're lucky, frankly.
Klaus Schwab is just another capitalist, we don’t have to worry really. The west is still a capitalist liberal powerhouse which it’s been for the last century.
Then I am fortunate to be born in America. From American parents and generations of Americans in my family tree. Sure there is not perfection in America, nor in American history. Even is America is only 90% perfect. It's 100% acceptable to me. Sure beats living in North Korea. You can forget about glorifying red China. Living in Afghanistan is completely unacceptable. Rather live in America than anywhere in Europe too.
@@whomagoose6897 I'm not disagreeing with that. But you're extra lucky to never have had the state harass you.
I hope it stays that way.
@@whomagoose6897 absolutely, we aren’t perfect and we should never claim to be. We have poverty, violence, every problem countries have. But we do our citizens well, at least much better than others.
Oh boy, prepare for Reddit and the Breadtubers to soon come here and go "it wasn't real communism xd".
Who cares, gringos eat propaganda like a fat kid eats candy they wouldn't understand even if you try to explain them
well by definition it was not
@@boad8270communism was first used in russia, happened in russia and so on
if, to you, lenin isn't a real communist, then i dont know what to tell you
@@boad8270 Here comes the first, lulz
@@king_vasuki2692 Marx was a bum
The tankies won't like this one.
Nobody cares anymore, gringos are not very smart so what's the point on debate?
Neither their hero writer Grover Furr
PLEASE show this in all colleges and universities.
College kids in America be like "But this isn't REAL socialism. This is all fake news by conservatives. I studied liberal arts for one semester and I am an expert in political science"
As an american I think it is important to pay attention and see what our near future is going to look like. Especially since the american public has decided to accept and embrace our move to communism
10 million Ukrainians alone were murdered by Stalin through starvation.
Saying "evil" and "communist" in the same phrase is like saying "wet water".
Copium is strong in you😂
@@АлександрЛюбавин-э9ъ delusion is strong in you
Communists helped my country be independent. Capitalists murdered half my country’s population in a genocides. I’ll figure out which one is evil myself, thank you.
that's you@@АлександрЛюбавин-э9ъ
@@АлександрЛюбавин-э9ъ how is that cope? he literally just stated an objective fact
I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's "On the Soviet abomination of humanity": that really opens your mind
I recommend Goebbels and some American fantasy films. Really opens mind
@@raketny_hvost
Tankie.
@@fredrickmarsiello4395 ok, elfie, and?
@@fredrickmarsiello4395argument 100
@@raketny_hvost hur dur every1 I dun liek is a gnawtzee reeeeeeeeeee
What is Pike armor
finally someone mentioned this cruel system that took more lifes in the most horrible ways than nazis. Only gulag took from 1918-56 50-100 milions humans lifes, sentence more than 5 years= death
I don't think it should be presented as some sort of competition like this
Meh Kissinger alone killed more in Latin America to save them from communism so that's not impressive at all
I mean... the good old austrian painter had only 4 years to do his things and still managed to pull out a more than decent score. Give him some credit: I am sure that in 40 years he would have dne much better than our beloved papa Stalin
@@lepastresgentil9467 just western pepoles thinks that communism was pretty good
@@Divano-qw2sb Holodomor 5-8 milions lifes, operation polish 200k casualites, mass exiles and the only numbers of Poles was 400k and this is tip of the iceberg and its prewar crimes
I like how they Added Reznov to the Vorkuta scene's
“B-But Comm’uwu’nism had never been tried before”
-Tankie
Wow the bo1 reference took me back
As a refugee from communist Cuba, I can't thank you enough for this video. Castro interned almost all LGTB's Cubans in concentration camps in the eastern province of Camaguey, where many died from hard labor, and that was just the top of a terrible iceberg.
And nowdays we see all the rainbow crowd cheering on Che Guevara and all
@@amadeusagripino6862honestly just let them go, the fact that they’ve plastered his face on everything and are selling it goes against everything he stood for
Castro has apologised for that and asked for forgiveness. Which is far more than the British did for Alan Turing, the war hero murdered by the British government. Now Cuba has the most progressive family code in the world, voted for by the citizens of Cuba.
@@socire72 as a actual Cuban whose family and friends are in death camps right now for protesting a few years ago the artificial starvation the rich communist elites maintain with a bleeding iron fist, in no way you are a tool of the illiterate cult of communism.
@@ntfoperative9432 they wouldn't survive communism for three weeks.
My uncle was deployed to Korea. In the middle of his unit engaging the enemy, one of the guys in his group pulled a pin on a grenade, and his idea of throwing was to let it roll back in his hand and past his fingers so it landed in the foxhole with the rest of the men. My uncle saw this and ordered everyone out of the foxhole, pushing the last guy out, meaning he was the one that took the brunt of the blast. Luckily he lived, although he had a back full of shrapnel, as well as missing most of his left foot. But, after that incident, he was discharged and got to recuperate stateside, so I guess that was something.
Respect to Vietnam for stoping Pol Pot
24:03 Party music goes hard. Supreme leader had some good taste
15:09 I’ve watched this channel for years and decided to watch this compilation tonight. I just loved the little add in for Vorkuta Reznov and Sergei from Call of Duty Black Ops. Loved the little add in Simple History
I will always see the hammer and sickle the same way i see the swastika.
I had an old internet friend from HS turn tankie on me and get extremely offended when I made the same exact statement to him. Needless to say we are no longer friends.
To all those socialist/communists out there: still think socialism is cool?
Absolutely, who likes to sleep in a tent ?
Yes.
Socialism is the future
@Babo49_49you are so dumb lmao
@@ericsuarez834commies
"iT wAsn'T _rEaL_ cOmmUniSm!!11!"
"b-b-but capitalism!1!11"
"prOpagAnda!11!"
what are some other generic 'arguments' from the useful idiots?
'Hasan told me so!'
“The numbers are all exaggerated”
@@sharky7002 Which is hilarious because the biggest numbers in several cases came from the declassified archives or logs of the regimes themselves.
"propoganda!!!. only a million died from the great leap forward, not 60 million!!" (this is an actual argument i once heard heard from tankies btw)
@@zangrygrapes4571 damn, thats just sad
keep up the good work!
For all the Western "trendies" who champion communism... this is the reality of it. We need more superb videos like this to show what it was like for people who lived under the most evil of all political doctrines. Every story is important. Every young person in the West needs educating on the horrors and dangers of communism.
yep communism suckssss my dad was in china during the famine and he got nothing his family nearly died they legit got a bowl of rice max a day no meat at all for anyone
love the reznov illustration during the vorkuta bit.
"Evil Communist" seems redundant.
It's a channel run by capitalistic writers we assume.
@@ComicToonProductionscry about it.
@@ComicToonProductions cry
@ComicToonProductions
"Nooooo, there was a mistake, I was supposed to create cartoons that glorify communism!"
"Stfu now dig the hole"
@@bushsbakedbaby1374 "communism is when you dig holes" -Carl Marks
Watched two of those regimes while patrolling the Grenz with the 1/1 CAV and 11th ACR.
I am in the 1 CAV too you are the legend sir thank you for your service
I love the Simple History animation of the call of duty black ops 1 escape from vorkuda
no way there are still people supporting and very liked communism/socialism countries like real crazy
There is, and you know why? Because these people are envious, wrathful and, above all, want to have power over their neighbours and everyone else.
@@amadeusagripino6862Isn’t that what capitalism is?
@@socire72 pal, you think I'll answer seriously to someone who uses a photo of that P.O.S. Marx as avatar?
"Communism is without a doubt the most heinous personification of evil mankind has ever confronted"
“In the Soviet Union we may not have the same luxuries of the western nations, but everyone had food on their table and roof above their head.”
@@socire72 Don't even try that bullshit because Communism has killed more people than smallpox. I'm old enough to remember before the Wall came down & what a grocery store looked like in the Soviet Union when there was 1 kind of bread & vodka on the shelves. Besides you will NEVER EVER find one person who fled a communist country who will say their quality of life was better living under communism !
is that an joke? @@socire72
@@socire72 "Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us." - Based JFK
@@socire72 Keep coping bro.
"But that wasn't true Communism." A socialist's biased argument
The Khmer was literally just insane
Absolutely.
And imagine all those woke people who admire this ideoligy today.
“BuT iT wAsN’t ReAl CoMmUnIsM!”
0:07- The Khmer Rouge (Cambodia)
11:29- The Vorkuta Gulag (Russia)
17:50- Kim Jong Il (North Korea)
27:35- The Great Leap Forward (China)
35:46- The Nazino Island Tragedy (Russia)
43:58- The KGB (Russia)
53:12- Hungarian Uprising of 1956 (Hungary)
55:45- A Day in the Life of Josef Stalin (Russia)
1:03:52- The Kim Dynasty (North Korea)
1:11:46- Holodomor (Ukraine)
1:20:08- Perestroika and Glasnost (Russia)
*USSR not Russia. Also Cambodia wtf? They weren’t communist, the CIA literally funded them
@@socire72 Pol Pot was literally funded and supported by Mao. The Americans only later funded them for strategic reasons against vietnam. Cambodia was still marxist.
“There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.” - Oswald Spengler.
“Evil communist” is redundant.
As someone who wasnt taught this in world history back in high school, i truly appreciated this video. I had no idea that Cambodia suffered like this. And the fact that Pol Pot never faced justice for these atrocious acts is just truly sickening. I really pray for the souls who didnt survive the genocide. Hopefully they finally are resting in peace.
You know, I often heard from some Communists in the comments: "They say the Khmer Rouge is not communism."
It's very funny, considering that they literally did everything according to the doctrine of the Communists.
In my subjective opinion, to consider that the Reds are not communists is like saying, "Protestants are not Christians."
Good analogy
When was the last time the CIA funded and supported a communist movement?
Pol Pot was a CIA agent
The Khmer rouge story is almost an exact copy of my mothers experience. For all you westerners, it's time to wake up from the illusion of "that wasnt real communism"
Same with my old roommate. He would tell me how his parents where before they fled to usa trying to get away from such an evil regime
It was so "real" that CIA supported it however they could.
Here comes some crazy person going to deny what your mom and my roommate parents went through. Anything to defend their terrible ideas.
@@jessieneace
Pol Pot's ideas to throw the entire country into the stone age by any means necessary were indeed terrible. It's just weird that he thought it has anything to do with communism.
@@jessieneacenever met a commie defending the khmer rouge tbh but I guess with the internet it’s possible
Thank you for this video.
Excellent content.
"2 million Cambodian soldiers in exchange for 50 million Vietnamese people" the head of the Pol Pot regime once said. Vietnamese soldiers sacrificed their lives to free the Cambodian people from Pol Pot's rule, but the Cambodian people later did not appreciate what we gave them. They went on social networks and cursed the Vietnamese people, the people who liberated them. I'm sorry that my uncle had to sacrifice himself for ungrateful Cambodians. I know not all Cambodians are like that, but now it has become a big problem in the awareness of the next generation of Cambodians