In my travels around Moscow and St. Petersburg, I saw at least ten statues of Lenin. I do not believe that all Russians see him as a villain, but rather a liberator from the Tsardom holding the Russian people down. One thing is for certain: Stalin is certainly viewed significantly less favorably than Lenin.
There is a statue of Lenin also in Italy, in Cavriago, a small town in Emilia Romagna. The inhabitants of the village after the October Revolution sent money to Russia to help the new government. After the Second World War the Soviet Union thanked them by sending the statue, which since then is in the main square, called "piazza Lenin".
@@mh-tw4kx That's extremely naive to think that considering with as much of an iron fist as he had somehow subordinates disobeying orders weren't viciously executed. Even if he didn't he still ordered the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. He was a baby killer
@M He’s saying the general Russian public didn’t view him this way, not that the way the Russian public view Lenin is correct. Decades of intense state-sponsored propaganda separate modern Russians from Lenin. Unlike the Nazis, the Soviet communists made a point of destroying and falsifying records/evidence, it’s part of the reason death tolls for things like the Ukrainian famine and gulags are so hard to pinpoint. The Russians never had a reconning after the collapse of the USSR, there were no Nuremberg trials, no museums or memorials or preserved gulags or mandatory history classes about those terrible years, if they had, Putin would have been unelectable because “former KGB agent” would rightly be as unattractive as “former SS agent.” The Lubyanka probably would have been torn down, or at least the post-USSR government wouldn’t want to be headquartered in such a horrible place. If they were all forced to read the Gulag Archipelago in school the way Americans are taught about slavery, they’d want nothing to do with Lenin, they’d either tear down the statues or leave them up the way the Germans leave the concentration camps, to serve as a reminder of their too-recent history and what they must never allow to happen again.
His statues even stand in the poorest town's near Mongolia where the populations are mostly ethnically Mongolian. He still has supporters in all former USSR states besides maybe the few in West Europe.
That is very one sided. I've seen his statues vandalized, knocked over, and even urinated on like it was a public toilet. People also support Hitler and think he was an alright guy. It doesn't mean everyone does.
@@StaticImage Depends on where you are. If you're talking about other former soviet-block countries, that's fair. They don't like soviets, and they tore down a bunch of statues. In Russia, however, it's a different. I've never heard about that nor seen that. A lot of Russians tend to idealise and romanticise the USSR. According to Levada Centre (an independent pollster in Moscow), 66% of Russians regret that the USSR was dissolved. This percentage has never been lower than 50% (except in 2012 when it was 49%)
Lenins brother attempted to assassinate Alexander III. The serfs were freed by Alexander II. Neither of these were Nicholas II and they occurred in different periods of time than implied.
Ouch. His brother was hanged for plotting the execution of Tsar Alexander III - not Nicky 2. This basic error makes me doubt the facts here -- so for the sake of fans, fact check your work. Thanks!
@@HaiderAli-it9pn yeah I was about to watch this but seeing the guy's face reminded me I saw another video that was wrong on every level. So I'll be looking for a different vid
IMO it got better when Stalin gave way to Khrushchev, and when Gorbachev came to power and started trying to 'modernize' Leninism. Probably also got better once the economic turmoil in the 1990s was over; just a shame that when given the chance at true democracy they ended up with the Medvedev/Putin power monopoly.
Grand Duke Dmitri: "Who will be in charge of Russia, while you're off fighting the Germans?" Czar Nicholas: "My German wife, and a homeless wizard, DUH!" -- Oversimplified.
Sorry to be one of those people noticed a mistake a 3:29. It was not Tsar Nicolas II that released the peasants but Tsar Alexander II his grandfather. He did so via the emancipation edict of 1861
@@scottplumer3668 Ohhhh....that makes sense!....so when he wrote 'back in the USSR' he was reminiscing and missing his famous brother. There is a lyric in that song that goes 'Come and keep your comrade warm' ...so he must have been talking about the cold weather there
@Jeffrey Herrera You say you want a revolution? Well you know... We all wanna change the world. But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao. You're not gonna make it with anyone anyhow. don't you know it's gonna be... Allright!
You kinda got it wrong. Lenins brother actually tried to assassinate Alexander III, and that he would spare Lenins brother if he repented and asked for forgiveness. But Lenins brother said “That would betray the revolution.” So he got hanged
20:56 "In 1991, the Soviet Union, it collapsed, and all of the statues of Lenin, they were torn down." False. The first time I was in Russia was 1999, two days in St Petersburg as part of a choir's tour of the Baltic. It was no longer Leningrad, but I saw at least 3 or 4 Lenin statues. I didn't see any statues of Stalin. The second time I was in Russia was 2005, and I spent 3 weeks in Moscow, Vladimir, Suzdal, Yaroslavl, Kazan, Tver, Novgorod, St Petersburg, Petrozavodsk, and Kizhi. During this trip, I saw dozens of statues of Lenin, I'm sure at least 30. I even saw a few statues of Stalin. If you are a Russian reading this, please reply with how many statues of Lenin are in your city/town. Cпасибо.
Um... you must have meant to say "Lenin in Hell". He was a monster every bit as demonic as Hitler. You did watch the video, right? It's not totally accurate, but it was definitely true that Lenin was the kind of man who was perfectly willing to have any number of people brutally murdered so long as he could get what he wanted, he allowed his secret police-the Cheka-to torture prisoners in the worst ways imaginable for fun, and thought he was almost perfect throughout the whole bloody, horrifying journey.
errrr dude I visited Saint Petersburg in July/2019 and you can literally guide yourself in the city by counting the monuments dedicated to Lenin. you don´t need a GPS or GLONASS just count his momuments. Russians may not be a big fan of him but they do recognize him as a very historical person and played a gigantic part on Russia´s history
I love even today how Western so-called Marxist-Leninists have no idea that: Karl Marx was a petty bigot, casual racist and anti-semite in his letter to Engels 30th of July, 1862. A womanising misogynist who had an affair with his maid behind his petit-Bourgeoisie wife's back, a secret son, had Engels often pay his rent, and also they had a laugh about a rival German socialist getting arrested for homosexual activity, appropriately, in *1869* How Trumpian of him! I like his dream, dream it myself. I just understand it will take a 98% automated international economy. He himself however was the kind of person the TRIGGERED, Virtue-Signalling, Lefty Thought Police *Tankies* would get *CANCELLED* today. Then we get onto Lovely Laudable Lenin. Man of the people. Who just like C21st Western Marxists today, insisted that anyone who doesn't 100% agree or obey is a Fascist Capitalist Enemy of the People's Revolution. When he himself starved peasant farmers with Forced Collectivisation, no understanding of logisticis, and then when some rose against the Bolsheviks in the Tambov Rebellion, this Man of The People murdered many with chemical weapons. Hooray the peasants got to learn to read at last! Reading Tankie propaganda that is. Stalin, oh my days, an ethnic-cleansing genocidal maniac, racist, sexist, homophobe who thought of Western homosexuals as 'Useful Idiots' Even Lenin didn't want him to have power. Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks. The mentally contaminated Western Ultra-Left Yuri Bezmenov is correct about vs Liberals, Welfarists, C21st Social Democrats and other reformist Socialists. Lefty Infighting vs Organised Turbo-Capitalists, the Far White and Extreme Theocrats. The perpetual side battle to Labour VS Capital that will go on perpetually until we reach Full Automation. "Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the great" - Sir Clement Attlee, amazing Social Democrat PM of the Labour Party, started the NHS, the process of freeing the colonies, improved the intelligence services and tried to meddle with Stalin in the Post WW2 era. He achieved more than emotionally and mentally unstable drunkard Marx and Crab-Bucket Mentality multiplied by Victim Mentality Marxists ever did or ever will. * chuckles in 95% BRITISH Socialism of the Chartists, Robert Owen, Sir Clement Attlee, 5% nasty highly intelligent thug Sir Winston Churchill *
@@aaronnilestoussaint5672 "Gassing peasant farmers angry at the not-Bourgeois Bolshevik Elites stealing their food is ok if Lenin orders it. Socialism!" - you & all the other Tankies. 😆😆 "The middle-class doesn't exist they're workers who have been co-opted by the Bourgeois so that makes it ok to genocide these people who don't exist like successful peasant farmers with a little food spare to trade" - you and all the other Tankies "Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx & Catherine the Great" - Sir Clement Attlee, one of a long line of British Socialists who did more good for Humanity, than: Randy bigot Karl Marx, and the Russian Soviet Empire. Trotsky was the only ok original Russian 'Communist' and Kruschev was the best ever Dictator of the USSR. Change my mind.
one big lie here. Every Russian city on this date 2019 with exception of moscow has a lenin square asmain square ( st petersburg it's secondary square at finland railway terminal) and every city's main street ( exception moscow and st pete's ) is named ulitsa lenin or lenin prospect . Thousands of statues of Lenin remain including in Moscow. check your facts . Google map will show it.
@@rojoskies81 The American civil war is probably something we don't get taught enough about in foreign countries, yet again not many Americans know what a Lenin is.
@@rojoskies81 You're seriously comparing the Confederates to Lenin? Afaik those confederates wanted to keep the slaves and we're very racist. Lenin and the Bolsheviks on the other hand provided more workers rights, women also got better rights, they didn't condemn homosexuals and blacks. Soviets enjoy better standard of living compared during the Tsarist regime.
There's so many inaccuracies and straight up lies in this video that I can't even begin to sum them up. But the one that struck me the most was the "bolsheviks-mensheviks" one. This was a party dispute about which tactics to follow. It was also a discussion within the whole of the 2nd internationale! With factions and tendencies all over the place. Kautsky, Plechanov, Lenin, Luxemburg, Liebknecht, Trotsky, the list goes on. They all chose sides on whether capitalism was able to surpass its inherent contradictions. That's the reason for the split. Not a stupid one time argument. Read a book before you make these vids please.
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Actually they are heavily biased towards mindless videos to promote raking in Google ad dollars for Google's benefit with channels and creators not fitting the "algorithim" written by naive Google employees aiming for constantly lower targets to market and kiss up to. Interrupted by occasional attempts by concerned, sometimes scholarly types to present more a more accurate picture to be targeted by trolls who cannot start a comment or grasp the idea that what they've heard and learned, increasingly from overrated, biased college instructors who still insist on being paid big bucks , is wrong. Ignoring those who lived during the period on both sides that actually lived through it
David Myrick yeah I hate that no one thinks critically, I went to college and was the only one concentrating on the research and I'M not even particularly Bright.
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan I hope you realize that Trump is 100% in bed with Israel, which is extremely pro-fascist and pro-capitalist. His administration has been Israel First since he stepped into office. Trump is not anti-establishment, rather Trump is apart of the establishment.
Trotzky led the Bolshevik forces in Petrograd that were stationed in defencive posts around the city to defend against general Kornilov's advancing army, that was coming to try to end the Provisonal government and take power. Trotzky was essential in the planning, organizing and tactics of the Bolshevik Red guard defence force. It was this Red guard defence force that later that year (in october) take power in Russia by marching upon the Winter palace, overthrowing the Provinsional government in a cout d'etat led and masterminded by Trotzky himself. so to answer your question, yes, Trotzky was a very important Bolshevik, arguably even more important than Lenin himself.
@soccer god Trotsky? Another embarrassing pustule in the rancid, mouldering of humanity's worst excrements. Anyone who considers that mprpn a hero is a confirmed loser. Bit like Trotsky.
This video misses out sooo much tho. Lenin tried to prevent Stalin from taking power, he wanted all his statues tore down, claiming that these things were false idols and that icons such as these dampened the desire to change. He didn't want people to see the revolution as something that succeeded but as an on going process. 1st the violent tearing out of old ideals and power bases followed by the slow building of a new nation and idealolgy. He even wanted his own body to be cremated for these reasons (not that Stalin cared what he wanted). Also he never saw Russia as being fully communist under his rule, that was the whole point of Lennism, he saw his philosophy and rule as a stop gap on the way to true communism. He believed, same as Marx did, that communism could only be achieved through the proletariat. The idea was that the lower classes would educate themselves and , guided by the Bolsheviks, one day form their own government. There's so much more to delve into here. Don't get me wrong I love the channel but you simply can't do a 20 min video on Lenin and the Russian revolution and paint a clear picture there's so many characters, philosophers, poor management (seriously the Tsar was just terrible at ruling a country), then the impact of WW1, the civil war, the building of the trans Siberian railway, foreign interference, the 4 Dumas etc. And it just ends up being a "communism bad" "boo russia" video.
In fact , Lenin was not against Stalin as head of the Council of People 's Commissars . Lenin quarreled with Stalin because he was in conflict with his wife, but in Lenin's will, Stalin was one of the candidates for this post and was chosen by vote. Speaking of the video, yes, it was quite fun, he even says that Lenin became the head of the USSR immediately after the revolution, although the USSR was formed five years later
@@xelaredna6841 But he didn't make any critical argument at all... Which parts are inaccurate? Which parts are speculation? Suggesting he actually explain what he means by that with his own video is a perfectly valid response to a vague and unhelpful comment.
The brazen lies in this video are countless. I wonder where the author got half the facts, did he come up with them himself or did he just copy propaganda? For example, who told him that the Lenin monuments were demolished? Every city in Russia has at least one monument to him, and the people have great respect for him. Recently a poll came out where 60% of respondents had a positive view of his figure and 20% were neutral.
No matter how you debate this man, he started 70 years of sickening terror. Over 100 million people murdered and over 1 billion displaced. An evil monster. Period.
The source of the hundred million deaths comes from the book The Black Book of Communism. A book that half its writers and coauthors denounce. As it has been proven that the main writer inflated the numbers. The American CIA has said many years ago that the numbers were inflated for properganda reasons. This is public knowledge and you can find this out by googling any of the points above.
He tends to be less critical of information about Russia I noticed. Compare his Ivan video to his Bloody Mary one, where he decides Ivan was definitely a terrible person despite the mistranslation of his name, but the British Queen was just a bit misunderstood during all her mass murders and religious purges. He repeats post-hoc propaganda about Rasputin as if it were fact. I'm not Russian nor have any connection to Russia, but I've read enough about the Tudors, Peter the Great and the Romanovs to notice the different treatment.
@@bosman5803 Trotsky said that Lenin knew and approved of the executions. Trotsky asked, "The children too?", and Lenin replied that all of the Romanovs needed to be eliminated.
*They are churning out way too many of these "Biographics" videos and not doing proper research. Many people who have written comments prior to this one have rightly pointed out its many inaccuracies.*
just checked the sources it's quite the joke, one biased book, one biased article - a video that doesn't exist anymore and 3 wikipedia articles... the whole part about the february revolution was pretty dodgy that's what made me wonder.
@@ivannovak4711 cringe is world today. lenin had dream that marx envisioned, only few people in history seen world as equal as lenin or trotsky, sadly capitalism and western culture infected with cancer all around world and even great ussr fell.
ruby T Because it ignores a lot of the good that Lenin did such as the decrees, the NEP, The decriminalisation of homosexuality and increasing women’s rights. It also features blatantly wrong information such as claiming it was Nicolas II who ended serfdom.
David A. Simon I agree with you. Although I hold some respect for Putin in bringing back the tune of the Soviet anthem and still allowing Russian people to celebrate and feel nostalgic for their Soviet past. I visited Leningrad during workers day in May, and saw a huge parade of people waving Soviet flags and holding portraits of Stalin ect. It was really cool to see. However I agree Putin is nowhere near the leader that Lenin was in terms of their individual personalities and values. Putin probably only ‘supports’ his people’s nostalgia for the Soviet period to stay on their good side, as on my trip most of the locals I spoke to were very against Putin and his leadership in general.
David A. Simon True. One Woman I spoke to in Russia called Putin ‘the creepy guy’. A lot of nostalgia for the Soviet past also comes from Putin’s failures to create a fair Government that everybody is happy with.
@@mysteriousmuffin6017 Was bound to happen when you had the US and EU cashing in on the privatization orgy along with structuring the Russian economy in a way that keeps it subservient to both powers as well. Nothing bad enough could ever be done to Gorbechev and Yeltsin that would come anywhere close to providing justice to the Russian people.
To be fair, the Russian Empire in 1914 although lagging behind the west, was catching up and quickly. One of the reasons the German Empire entered WW1 was because they thought they would not be able to defeat Russia later.
Communists have ALWAYS been evil, period. They murdered a family, and even killed a sick little boy who probably wasn't even going to survive to adulthood anyway. And today, there are violent groups like "Antifa" who want Communism again. So, honestly, who gives a damn if it's "biased." Communists are evil, end of story. There's your documentary.
@@ct92404 Hey man, thanks for your reply. I have to say that I strongly disagree. It is true that many manifestations of communism throughout history have been very oppressive and violent. This fact tells a lot about humans but little about the ideology itself. If you compare communism and the liberal market in vitro, you will see how the first has human rights as its core value and the latter has some very serious intrinsic flaws, which are always present, however well the system is implemented and followed. Severe wealth inequalitites, exploitation of the weaker countries, economic crises, all that are structural parts of the free market. Ideologically it comes down to this (for me): do we try to implement a left wing planned economy which opens up the path of true progress (true progress can only be achieved when we actively and safely plan our own future), or do we keep on with the gambling of the liberal market which inevitably leads to financial bubble bursts and extreme poverty? You also talk of violence. Thing is, the groups you are refering to have realized that violence is necessary as a means of self defense against the systematized, institutionalized and legalized brute force and extreme violence that right wing goverments impose upon the majority of the people. Maybe their kind of violence is not as evident as lighting up a trash can or beating up a cop, but it is much, much, much more painful and destructive.
@@SomeOne-db7xs Antifa doesn't use violence for "self-defense," they use it to try to CENSOR anyone who says things they don't like. I don't know where you live, but the Antifa groups here in the US claim that they are fighting "Nazis" and say things like "punch a Nazi" ...but the problem is that they can identify ANYONE as a "Nazi." If anyone expresses views that are against SJW politics (like political correctness or transgenderism ideology), Antifa thugs brand them a "Nazi" and violently attack them. They riot, set fires, and attack innocent people just to block a person from giving a public talk. Antifa thugs have attacked innocent bystanders. During the riots they started in Berkley, California, a group of Antifa thugs beat up a 17 year old kid who was just a bystander. He had to be hospitalized. They beat up another person with a bike lock and nearly killed him. Antifa are domestic terrorists, and coincidentally they also are pushing for Communism. People who have a victim mentality and think there is some kind of "systematic oppression" working against them are prone to following extreme ideologies...which inevitably leads to violence. You talk about human nature - well, human nature is that most normal people aren't comfortable with extremes. Normal people generally have a "live and let live" philosophy. But communism is an extreme ideology, and so therefore the only way you will implement it is with violence and oppression. First, you have a "revolution" to overthrow the present government, but then inevitably you have to make sure everyone is following the same ideology, so you have to control them. The Soviet Union was infamous with how they controlled media and spied on their people. It got to the point where they were trying to bug EVERYONE'S phones. But they couldn't keep up with listening to all the tapes. This is what Communism always leads to - violence and oppressing people with fear and control.
@@ct92404 I agree with you on some points, pity we're discussing through youtube and not over a few beers :) I completely agree on the fact that many leftist movements misinterpret the self defense doctrine of violence and go overboard. I am completely against blind violence, censorship and misinformation.Same goes for many right wing movements that border on the extreme right. Yes, there are such groups, but they do not characterize the ideology nor the means of implementing it; they are clumsy ways of dealing with the social/political suffocation they are experiencing. I do not believe that we should judge a whole system of ideas based on the way that a few people have chosen to understand it. Same goes for communist China. What they are doing has actually nothing to do with Marxist ideals. About the victim mentality. Well, I do not think there is such a mentality regarding the matters we are discussing, I do think there are actual victims though. I mean yeah ok, we live in the so called advanced world but what about third world countries being continuously exploited by the big guys? Do they have a victim mentality or are they actual victims? What about Venezuela? You live in the states so i suppose you do believe that you guys actually want to restore democracy there, as you thought you did with Chile in '73 or the freedom you brought to Iraq. However, the truth is far from this. Mainstream media do project a completely distorted image of what is happening. In short, yes, there are victims of the free market and their suffering is true and ongoing. In the same sense, we can also be victims of manipulation and misinformation by being consciously misled, as is current state of things. You talk about systematic oppression like it's something imaginary, when it is - and has always been in the civilized world - all around us. Regarding human nature. You misuderstood, or maybe I did not express myself clearly. I am not talking about human nature; this would mean that I suggest humans being born with such behaviors. I am talking about social construct; about what people have come to be like. Nobody is born violent or deceitful, yet many of us end up this way through social stimuli. Being violent and oppressive is not hard coded in our system, it's a reflex, a reaction, a development. The live and let live you are talking about would be a wonderful state of things; "live" is happening, "let live" not so much. Look at Venezuela again. How is the State's claims a "let live" policy? Seems like whenever a nation wants to be left alone and stand in its own feet, not participating in the global deceit that's been goig on, it's immediately being subjugated in the name of Democracy. Well, democracy is the new Christianity, seems to me. Lastly, concerning the control. Here, we need to take into account the fact that whenever a nation tries to become communistic then the whole world turns against it and shuts it off, proclaiming it an enemy of freedom and mobilizing propaganda to have everybody thinking the same. It is natural that this is a huge hit and greatly affects the way which such a nation would deal with its people, namely resorting to such propaganda and censorship policies itself. Now, of course I am condemning such actions but what i want to point out is that what the Soviets, for example, did was a counter attack against capitalism, in an effort to preserve their ideals. It went awfully wrong, it got completely derailed (they also had a devastated economy and a famine to work with but ok). All in all, I do think that if a communistic nation was not regarded as the devil itself - hence fought to death -, it would not have to resort in extreme control policies so as to defend its ideals and only then it would be able to actually implement communism, not having to deal with the capitalist world suffocation.
@@SymphonyBrahms LOL. I was in Russia 12 years ago. In St. Petersburg most buildings are limited to six stories height b/c of the swamp base and fact that Catherine the Great wanted a Parisian look - Paris also had a 6 story limit at that time. My group toured St. Petersburg before we visited the palaces. When we drove by the former KGB building the guide quipped that "it's been said that if you stand on the roof, you can see all the way to Siberia". I noted a question you had (or so I thought) about responsibility for the Royal Family's assassination. It's harder to come by that than other information about Bolshevik times. Trotsky did write of this in his diary and you can read his short passage via Google "Execution of the Romanov Family". There is also one video (only one so far) that I found on RUclips with deeper history, impressive Russian covert researchers and some reasonable answers. It's Nicholas and Alexandra by HRH Prince Michael of Kent A&E Biography Part 2. Yes, ultimate culprits include Lenin and I don't know how there can be any doubt of that. Why these things are not better known? I think one of the prime reasons is that Russians are a wonderful people and want to be proud of their country, and well ......... they've been shielded. I think that's part of the answer. Best regards!
killing innocent people ! , the upper class has just as much of a right to live as any other social class , if you think otherwise , than your an insane braindead communist
@@dragoncrown2029 People who take 90% of the profit of their workers and cause workers to live in poverty are not innocent. There no different then feudal lords.
@@kittenmastermind660 Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik regime , Bolshevik soldiers killed 100 000 people , they spread their Red terror among the Russian people , so that everyone would understand that , resistance against the Bolshevik party would lead to death , the Bolsheviks were Brutal dictators ! ( much worse than Tzar Nicholas ever was ) , and btw the Bolsheviks killed Tzar Nicholas and his family in a basement ! , they murdered his wife , son and daughters ( you support disgusting cowardly men who murdered innocent women and children to gain / secure power for their Bolshevik party ) , only the worst kind of human would support the Bolsheviks , i seems to me that you are one of the worst !
@@dragoncrown2029 Do research on communism. If you did you would find out that many communists hate the USSR and China. The RUclipsr Vaush is a good entry point for people to learn about socialism. Socialism is when the workers control the business where they work. Socialism can be a market economy, a command economy, or a mixed economy. Communist is a stateless classless and moneyless society. If you did research before opening your mouth you would know this. Also don't complain about dicators if you think the Russian royal family or any nobility is innocent. Nobility can only maintain there power by the use of violence and exploiting others this is true for all members of all ruling classes. Form Stalin to Obama. Communism is anti dictator and this is why many people do not think the USSR and China are communist. Not that my saying any of this will process with you, it just going to go right over your head.
@@kittenmastermind660 So you think that murdering the Tsar's innocent children was ok. You have a heart of stone. Children Children. Shame on you, you devil.
@Eugene We know that the U.S government deliberately spread lies and anti communist propaganda during the Cold War of course the Soviets did the same to the west, but you'd be a damn fool to believe every western account of the USSR
@Eugene This documentary is framed in a way to demonize Lenin, it doesn't rake into account the historical circumstances in which Lenin was forced to operate
@Eugene The majority of Russians hated the Tsar, who sent troops to war with no weapons, food, or other necessities and then had protestors massacred. Not to mention jewish pogroms that occured, do you know anything about pre Soviet Russia? Revolutions lile this do not appear from thin air, the conditions must be in place
To anyone who actually wanted a better take on lenin, watch "History vs Lenin" on Ted-Ed RUclips channel.. In 4 minutes, that video gives a better view. I'm usually never disappointed by this channel. But this time, you definitely failed.
really sore knee The thing is this video is exclusively bad about Lenin. Not once is one of his many achievements mentioned or credited. Not to mention the many examples of blatantly wrong facts.
@Lobo You do know that a lot of our current economic system comes from Marx's theories right? Also the fact that Marx and Lenin were "rich" (which is false, Marx had to live under a small allowance that his friend Engels gave him) only makes their ideals more credible, like, it's a rich person advocating for economic equality and whatnot, they just sound more believable.
@@ThomasHarding1990 Not really. Trump may not be a good guy, but you can't say that he is intolerant to any other opinions because he puts up with the media when a man like Lenin (or Hitler) would have had them all killed or enslaved.
The craziest thing about this video is when he essentially said “ this is history and it is, however RUclips doesn’t like it because children. So they don’t pay you.”
Don't request, *DEMAND* watch this. Hey Simon, do a video on Patrick Stewart. And here is $500 so you can get that done. Thanks mate. See now he *HAS* to do it. As soon as someone sends him $500.
You kind of simplified things too much and got quite a few things wrong. Serfdom wasn't abolished by Nicholas II but by his grandfather Alexander II. It is also unclear as to who actually ordered the firing upon demonstrators on Bloody Sunday, yet there isn't evidence to demonstrate that Nicholas II gave the order, and if we look at his personality as a ruler, this conclusion does not fit.
@Chris Oh so sorry. That was Stalins collectivist nonsense. I do apologize. Lenin was still an evil person. Anyone that defends either of these two people are either ignorant or evil themselves.
Lenin was not panicking because the revolution started without him. He and most of bolchevik leaders agreed that they had to be in exile to avoid been killed by the tzar.
In Moscow I went to the Lenin Mausoleum where his body lies embalsed. Statues of Lenin are still around in the former Soviet Union. In East Ukraine, as well as the unregignized state of Transnistria Lenin statues are all over the place!
There is a statue of Lenin also in Italy, in Cavriago, a small town in Emilia Romagna. The inhabitants of the village after the October Revolution sent money to Russia to help the new government. After the Second World War the Soviet Union thanked them by sending the statue, which since then is in the main square, called "piazza Lenin".
"anti-leninist" oh dear me what a crime. Please bud, he wasn't exactly a great person. Trying to make a positive spin on him is like trying to say Mussolini made the trains run on time.
I like some of Lenin’s ideas but the fact is he wasn’t a good person. Stalin and the Soviet’s used him as a symbol which means they had to erase his past to paint him as a saint. To be fair, Lenin never achieved his revolution because until the end of his life, Stalin and the soviets pushed for their own interests while prosecuting the children of the revolution. Lenin wasn’t happy with the results of the revolution, wasn’t what he expected.... millions died.
@@arbynChief617 you realize Leninism is a political ideology. A way of thinking how the communist party should be organized. Being a Leninist doesn't mean you like Lenin as a person. The person in the comment was pointing out how this video is just full of bias and lies. And that's true. You wouldn't lie about a historical figure because you don't like his character. Of course we all know Simon wants to appeal to google and let ads flow in his channel. But you? You justify being lied to. You like being lied to. Get a grip
This is easily the most infuriatingly inaccurate video I’ve seen on this channel. Loved every video on this channel I saw before this one but the falsehoods present here are so egregious it’s basically historical revisionism
Where did you get the part that you said " people needed to start dying as the worse things become the better it would be. He knew people needed to start dying before people get angry for a revolution. "
"He wanted the people to be angry" "He made up a variety of different pen names, so it seems like multiple intellectuals" Lenin was nothing but a troll.
One fact that I think is incorrect in this video is that the Tsar did not order his soldiers to shoot the people during Bloody Sunday, but I think he was away for holiday. The soldiers got confused and anxious about what to do, so the attacked people instead.
Moses Ramirez Who in his inner circle did he kill? He killed opposition that was in open rebellion. By that logic, Lincoln deserves to also be called a mass murderer because after all he killed those who opposed him. See, part of the reason Lenin gets criticized is that we know what came afterward. Lenin was a man with faults. Yet, unlike Stalin, did not seek total control, and held no official position. He was an idealist who believed what he believed. But, he was also willing to change to adapt to the situation, ala NEP.
@@bensagal-morris8072 It sounds like you have wholly swallowed all the "pro Lenin" revised history that the Soviet Union pushed after his death...Hitler only killed during war too so i guess by your logic he was a decent man with only a few faults too and you admire him too??
I normally love your videos but I personally found this video to needlessly polemic and biased against Lenin. Please read more around the subject and reconsider his legacy.
@@modigrey Maybe not directly but his ideas and the forcing of said ideas down the throats of the Russian poor and working class put Russia on a collision course for mass genocide.
Wait, wasnt it Nochlaii's grandfather Alexander 2 who released serfs from serfdom? Also, his parents DID have to climb into the nobility status. They were not aristocrats. They had worked their way up which is why the rest of the bourgeois actually treated the family like pariahs. That was part of the reason why Lenin was radicalized. A He had left because Tsar's secret police was still keeping an eye on him. lso, Lenin did attend the meetings of the communists and marxists held all over Europe. He wasn't twiddling his thumbs in Europe. Also, his April Theses was actually pretty correct in predicting what was going to happen, the other Bolsheviks could not see it yet. When they saw the events unfold, they joined in pretty quick. Russian people "loved the Romanovs"? The same people who had been revolting against the incompetent czar and his "traitor German" Tsarina who they believed had "illicit affairs" with a madman named Rasputin? The same Czar who had been losing battle after battle and killing peasants by sending them into war without supplies, starving them and asking them to remove the boots and rifles of the first dead body of their fellow soldier in front of them? The same Czar who kept killing his own people in his country? Nope, they did not "Love him" egghead. They wanted him gone. It was only after the news of the Romanov Execution spread, that people could not believe that the innocent children of the Czar had also been murdered in cold blood. Man, you are the biggest idiot in the realm of history or you are just malicious. So, the deaths of the children were not confirmed or even made public untile 1919 and a woman tried to kill Lenin for that in 1918? Wow! Oh and no, it was not "Capitalism". Socialism is Capitalism by the gvt. Capitalism is just as bad as socialism - sometimes worse - ask any of the colonies that capitalist imperialists brutally crushed in the name of rule. This was democratic socialism or social democracy. Wait wait wait - do Socialism actually caused really bad conditions in Russia until Lenin practised a teeny weeny thing that you wrngly called capitalism. But his ideas led to Russia making more progress than the whole western world because of his ideas and reforms so much so that SU defeated USA in the space race? Yeah, SU defeated USA in space race - just putting a man first on the moon (after doing a coup to take out Russia's rocket expert) does not make USA a winner. Sadly, even today, Russia's Soyuz spacecraft to ISS is way better than the mosntrosity calles the Space shuttle that we have. The cognitive dissonance on that one is monumental. Wait, so no one was listening to him so he had to escape but then he decides to come back and every person needed for the coup is ready to listen to him, already lined up and organized and are willing to risk it all in a coup? Did you get high and tumble down the stairs 5 times before hitting your head on a stone before recording this video? How does any of that even make sense? Man, this video has a lot of mistakes. I know you hate Lenin and I am not a fan of him either, but you cannot just revise history and twist facts to make it seem that everything about him was inflated and he did not matter or he was a nobody. This is exactly what the west does - try and minimize anyone in disagreement. But it is a classic case of projection.
Yeah this video is just a total joke full of factual inaccuracies, outright falsehoods, and very obvious bias. I was watching a lot of their biographics videos, but I’m done after seeing this blatant propaganda piece.
how did Lenin get the support he needed for a coup, you ask? Well, its because when he returned to russia, it was right after Alexander Kerensky had just dissolved the duma, and cancelled the upcoming elections. So the kerensky's opposing revolutionaries, along with the monarchists asked the bolsheviks to assist in overthrewing the kerensky government, all these factions underestimated Lenin's persistance, and the bolsheviks were able to use the instability to seize power, the monarchists didn't like that, and many of the worker's councils in the west of Russia revolted and joined Lenin, pushing the monarchists out to siberia, starting the Russian Civil war.
The monarchists certainly weren't a fan of Kerensky, who somewhat spontaneously decided that Russia shall from now on be a Republic, either. Truth be told however, they weren't much of a relevant force and while they of course also later opposed the Bolsheviks, much of the resistance against the Bolsheviks also came from Liberals, Anarchists and many other types of Socialists. Other far-left groups, after all, had many reasons to be mad at the Bolsheviks as well. Many more moderate Socialists disapproved of how the Bolsheviks had ended the war early and thought that the massive amounts of land they gave up were overall hurtful to the revolutionary cause. Many also opposed the very bureaucratic type of rule Lenin intiated and especially Anarchists were of course shocked at the establishment of, for example, a secret police force. The Civil War rather boiled to "Bolsheviks vs everyone opposed to them" and not "Bolsheviks vs monarchists".
Tsar Nicoluas II Did NOT order the shootings on Bloody Sunday. He wasn't at home and an officer did that on his own and the Tsar actually got angry about what he had done.
Russian populace: 'You're too bloodthirsty! The nobility isn't that bad!' Narrator: 'They would later come to realize that maybe Vladimir had a point.'
so upsetting to see Simon have such a negative slant against Lenin, clearly forming an opinion without reading any of his or other communist leaders writings from the time. Lenin was a great hero to many in the working class and the USSR, although it had it's faults and shortcomings as any other country, was a beacon of hope to workers who dream to be freed from the toils of capitalism. Love from the USA.
Alright, but why did you not point out how Winston Churchill used British Indians in World War 2 for his own gain? And how the British promised India independence if they took part in the second World War as soldiers but the British did not fulfill this promise. Overall, a good video. However, you have a tendency to immortalize Western heroes and denounce non-Western ones.
Ok, all I want to say is this video is very biased, making Lenin sound like an evil but ludicrous person. No, I am not a communist and I don't want ardent Lenin haters storming the replies section with curses and bringing in dislikes, but I do feel that Lenin's observation of the working class and his speeches were really good, although his solutions to those problems were probably shite. Contrary to what you said, he actually had a lot of support. Once in power, he turned backward Russia into a really educated society (and the USSR that made America piss in their pants and think twice for decades). Sadly though, he also heartlessly massacred his opponents, forcibly "Russified" conquered lands (which happened under the Tsardom anyway), and freedom of speech during his reign was questionable. In my opinion, it is necessary to provide the audience with both sides of the argument, so that the information is presented from a neutral point of view and the audience can form their own opinion. But I get the fact Simon doesn't lean on that side of the political spectrum, judging by his videos on Visual Politik EN and other channels, so he tends to be a little biased. For those looking for a more neutral perspective on/judgment of Lenin, check the TedED video called "History vs Lenin", a really good concept, framed like a court argument. Lenin/Che Guevara were revolutionaries who really believed in what they did. If someone was really evil, it was Stalin/Hitler/Kim Jong Il. Even Lenin realised Stalin's hunger for power and tried to give Trotsky the position before his early death.
"he decided farmers could keep their crops and sell the excess -- you know, capitalism" Being able to keep what you need of what you've made yourself, and selling what you don't need is part of a market. Capitalism is when you let billionaires own everything because of unlimited growth.
*I think that most of Simon Whistler's videos are excellent--as far as videos go--but this one "misses the train" on several counts. If you are really interested in Lenin and what happened to the Russian Empire/Soviet Union in the 19th and 20th centuries, please read a book about it. There are dozens of them, even among those written in English alone, that give a much more interesting and accurate account of Lenin and what formed his life's course. Mr. Whistler's video is riddled with inaccuracies, as has been pointed out by many of those who contributed comments to this particular video.*
There is a statue of Lenin also in Italy, in Cavriago, a small town in Emilia Romagna. The inhabitants of the village after the October Revolution sent money to Russia to help the new government. After the Second World War the Soviet Union thanked them by sending the statue, which since then is in the main square, called "piazza Lenin".
Fun fact: Lenin was a hero because the way he treated his people, he supported the LGBT rights, and defended Judaism for his country, although it's not know whether he did order the execution of the Romanov family, after his death he wishes to be buried next to his mother, before his death he never wanted Stalin to succeed him.
Only leader whose body was preserved for decades.
Egyptian kings: Are we a joke to you?
@Ethan Wallick who tf is linkon. I think you mean Lincoln.
Technically, he was only preserved for decades.
Those Egyptian kings were preserved centuries, even longer
@@InvadeleYogurt millennia.
@@timothyhouse1622 And that's why I said "even longer"
Mao Zedong: *Tries to cough but can't because he is dead*
Nicholas : Who would try to overthrow the Russian Empire and start a socialist revolution 3 A.M. ?
Lenin : *OH BOY 3 A.M.*
I love that meme
If that happened today: OMG REVOLUTION AT THE RUSSIAN PALACE ****AT 3AM**** (WOULD NOT BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED) (NOT CLICKBAIT)
@@randomgames4063 me 2
@@randomgames4063 Me also
Trotsky did
In my travels around Moscow and St. Petersburg, I saw at least ten statues of Lenin. I do not believe that all Russians see him as a villain, but rather a liberator from the Tsardom holding the Russian people down. One thing is for certain: Stalin is certainly viewed significantly less favorably than Lenin.
There is a statue of Lenin also in Italy, in Cavriago, a small town in Emilia Romagna. The inhabitants of the village after the October Revolution sent money to Russia to help the new government. After the Second World War the Soviet Union thanked them by sending the statue, which since then is in the main square, called "piazza Lenin".
@M lenin didn't give the order, it was the communist party Yekaterinburg branch that killed him
@@mh-tw4kx That's extremely naive to think that considering with as much of an iron fist as he had somehow subordinates disobeying orders weren't viciously executed. Even if he didn't he still ordered the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. He was a baby killer
@M He’s saying the general Russian public didn’t view him this way, not that the way the Russian public view Lenin is correct. Decades of intense state-sponsored propaganda separate modern Russians from Lenin. Unlike the Nazis, the Soviet communists made a point of destroying and falsifying records/evidence, it’s part of the reason death tolls for things like the Ukrainian famine and gulags are so hard to pinpoint. The Russians never had a reconning after the collapse of the USSR, there were no Nuremberg trials, no museums or memorials or preserved gulags or mandatory history classes about those terrible years, if they had, Putin would have been unelectable because “former KGB agent” would rightly be as unattractive as “former SS agent.” The Lubyanka probably would have been torn down, or at least the post-USSR government wouldn’t want to be headquartered in such a horrible place. If they were all forced to read the Gulag Archipelago in school the way Americans are taught about slavery, they’d want nothing to do with Lenin, they’d either tear down the statues or leave them up the way the Germans leave the concentration camps, to serve as a reminder of their too-recent history and what they must never allow to happen again.
@@idlehands1864 laughs is Syria Iraq Afghanistan and Libya with 69 others
Lenin isn't really remembered as a villain in Russia, and Lenin's statues are still standing in Moscow
Give it time.
That's scary
His statues even stand in the poorest town's near Mongolia where the populations are mostly ethnically Mongolian. He still has supporters in all former USSR states besides maybe the few in West Europe.
That is very one sided. I've seen his statues vandalized, knocked over, and even urinated on like it was a public toilet. People also support Hitler and think he was an alright guy. It doesn't mean everyone does.
@@StaticImage Depends on where you are. If you're talking about other former soviet-block countries, that's fair. They don't like soviets, and they tore down a bunch of statues. In Russia, however, it's a different. I've never heard about that nor seen that. A lot of Russians tend to idealise and romanticise the USSR.
According to Levada Centre (an independent pollster in Moscow), 66% of Russians regret that the USSR was dissolved. This percentage has never been lower than 50% (except in 2012 when it was 49%)
Lenins brother attempted to assassinate Alexander III. The serfs were freed by Alexander II. Neither of these were Nicholas II and they occurred in different periods of time than implied.
Cool
@@toneohm215 yeah massive error on the creators part.
There’s a lot of mistakes in this video
😮😮😮😮 OH wow
Ouch. His brother was hanged for plotting the execution of Tsar Alexander III - not Nicky 2. This basic error makes me doubt the facts here -- so for the sake of fans, fact check your work. Thanks!
No, you are wrong. Must be A Mendela effect.
@@greggutierrez6339 Yeah, i'm pretty sure that Alexander III was Tsar in 1887 when Lenin's brother was hung.
This guy's videos are always filled with huge errors.
He makes videos about Canada that aren’t true
@@HaiderAli-it9pn yeah I was about to watch this but seeing the guy's face reminded me I saw another video that was wrong on every level. So I'll be looking for a different vid
I usually don't pick up on stuff like this... But, to say that "no one liked Lenin" or that "the people loved the Romanovs" is quite f*cked up.
Yea, I mean This is all pretty Anti-Lenin and Bias...
The Romanovs loved the Romanovs and probably no others did!
Lenin was a horrible person. Long Live the Romanovs!
@@stevebrindle1724 that is not true
Cecilia Age of Aquarius They are all dead, and nobody in modern day Russia cares for them. Lenin is still seen as a hero by many Russians.
Ngl; Stalin was a looker when he was a young man.
All of Russian history can be summed up with this phrase, "and then it got worse."
That photo is actually retouched. He had facial scars from the pox, I believe
"Young Stalin had a great haircut... And then it got worse"
@@grantmclean4744 папа
Because that's all atheist socialism ever does is get worse & ultimately leads to mass murder & horrendous dictatorships.
IMO it got better when Stalin gave way to Khrushchev, and when Gorbachev came to power and started trying to 'modernize' Leninism. Probably also got better once the economic turmoil in the 1990s was over; just a shame that when given the chance at true democracy they ended up with the Medvedev/Putin power monopoly.
Grand Duke Dmitri: "Who will be in charge of Russia, while you're off fighting the Germans?"
Czar Nicholas: "My German wife, and a homeless wizard, DUH!" -- Oversimplified.
Sorry to be one of those people noticed a mistake a 3:29. It was not Tsar Nicolas II that released the peasants but Tsar Alexander II his grandfather. He did so via the emancipation edict of 1861
Yes I was just about to say that.
don't be sorry, we learn even more from people like you!
They also say Lenin's brother was trying to assassinate Nicholas the second, when he was trying to assassinate Alexander III.
he should reupload ngl
Thanks for noticing that.
Wow...he did all that AND he was in the Beatles???
No, that was his brother Ivan Lenin. He changed his name to John to have a broader appeal.
@@scottplumer3668 Ohhhh....that makes sense!....so when he wrote 'back in the USSR' he was reminiscing and missing his famous brother. There is a lyric in that song that goes 'Come and keep your comrade warm' ...so he must have been talking about the cold weather there
Jeffrey Herrera soviet anthem plays
@Jeffrey Herrera You say you want a revolution? Well you know... We all wanna change the world. But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao. You're not gonna make it with anyone anyhow. don't you know it's gonna be... Allright!
The Beatles one is Lennon, the Russian communist is Lenin, both sound alike, but are different. Though John Lennon may have been a communist.
Who's talking about me?
Dad?
A guy in RUclips is called Vladimir lemon should i start a revolution at his house?
Vladimir lenin you are our hero let start the new revolution again.
@@donaldyeung9658 papa revive the ussr
i love u
You kinda got it wrong. Lenins brother actually tried to assassinate Alexander III, and that he would spare Lenins brother if he repented and asked for forgiveness. But Lenins brother said “That would betray the revolution.” So he got hanged
Yes true I to know of this story about the death of Lenin’s brother
Damn who's the dumbass then :(
他是一個瘋子
20:56 "In 1991, the Soviet Union, it collapsed, and all of the statues of Lenin, they were torn down."
False. The first time I was in Russia was 1999, two days in St Petersburg as part of a choir's tour of the Baltic. It was no longer Leningrad, but I saw at least 3 or 4 Lenin statues. I didn't see any statues of Stalin.
The second time I was in Russia was 2005, and I spent 3 weeks in Moscow, Vladimir, Suzdal, Yaroslavl, Kazan, Tver, Novgorod, St Petersburg, Petrozavodsk, and Kizhi. During this trip, I saw dozens of statues of Lenin, I'm sure at least 30. I even saw a few statues of Stalin.
If you are a Russian reading this, please reply with how many statues of Lenin are in your city/town. Cпасибо.
A lot. Most importantly, no one really sees him as a villain in Russia.
In America there's a Lenin statue
On private property
Ironic,is it not?
Yeah, Russia is full of Lenin statues, still in 2019. I am Russian. Its hard to find a city without monument of him.
Actually, St. Petersburg in in Leningrad Oblast still, they changed the name of the city, not the province.
Kildare Aleksander All evils they’ve done with the world ? That’s cute. Tell me more about USA-France-England coalition.
Gorbachev: ends Soviet Union
Lenin in the afterlife: *bruh*
Please come back 😭
@@eoin8450 yes please
@@eoin8450 😂😂 I love kids
Um... you must have meant to say "Lenin in Hell". He was a monster every bit as demonic as Hitler. You did watch the video, right? It's not totally accurate, but it was definitely true that Lenin was the kind of man who was perfectly willing to have any number of people brutally murdered so long as he could get what he wanted, he allowed his secret police-the Cheka-to torture prisoners in the worst ways imaginable for fun, and thought he was almost perfect throughout the whole bloody, horrifying journey.
@@warrioroflight6872 Thank you, someone who understands
Nicholas the 2nd never freed the serfs, that was Alexander the 2nd
Next, could we do Leon Trotsky? Complete the communism trio lmao
Poor old Trotsky, made it all the way to the Americas before Stalin got an icepick in him.
Jak Lawrence real true my guys now in my community make Leon Trotsky assassination a meme ( sorry I'm Vietnamese my grammar is not good)
I thought they did one on Trotsky already?
Well holy crap. They didn't. My head is telling me lies.
Hopefully it is not filled with as many mistakes or overlooking the actual facts.
errrr dude I visited Saint Petersburg in July/2019 and you can literally guide yourself in the city by counting the monuments dedicated to Lenin. you don´t need a GPS or GLONASS just count his momuments. Russians may not be a big fan of him but they do recognize him as a very historical person and played a gigantic part on Russia´s history
I love even today how Western so-called Marxist-Leninists have no idea that:
Karl Marx was a petty bigot, casual racist and anti-semite in his letter to Engels 30th of July, 1862. A womanising misogynist who had an affair with his maid behind his petit-Bourgeoisie wife's back, a secret son, had Engels often pay his rent, and also they had a laugh about a rival German socialist getting arrested for homosexual activity, appropriately, in *1869* How Trumpian of him!
I like his dream, dream it myself. I just understand it will take a 98% automated international economy. He himself however was the kind of person the TRIGGERED, Virtue-Signalling, Lefty Thought Police *Tankies* would get *CANCELLED* today.
Then we get onto Lovely Laudable Lenin. Man of the people. Who just like C21st Western Marxists today, insisted that anyone who doesn't 100% agree or obey is a Fascist Capitalist Enemy of the People's Revolution.
When he himself starved peasant farmers with Forced Collectivisation, no understanding of logisticis, and then when some rose against the Bolsheviks in the Tambov Rebellion, this Man of The People murdered many with chemical weapons. Hooray the peasants got to learn to read at last! Reading Tankie propaganda that is.
Stalin, oh my days, an ethnic-cleansing genocidal maniac, racist, sexist, homophobe who thought of Western homosexuals as 'Useful Idiots' Even Lenin didn't want him to have power.
Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks.
The mentally contaminated Western Ultra-Left Yuri Bezmenov is correct about vs Liberals, Welfarists, C21st Social Democrats and other reformist Socialists.
Lefty Infighting vs Organised Turbo-Capitalists, the Far White and Extreme Theocrats.
The perpetual side battle to Labour VS Capital that will go on perpetually until we reach Full Automation.
"Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the great" - Sir Clement Attlee, amazing Social Democrat PM of the Labour Party, started the NHS, the process of freeing the colonies, improved the intelligence services and tried to meddle with Stalin in the Post WW2 era.
He achieved more than emotionally and mentally unstable drunkard Marx and Crab-Bucket Mentality multiplied by Victim Mentality Marxists ever did or ever will.
* chuckles in 95% BRITISH Socialism of the Chartists, Robert Owen, Sir Clement Attlee, 5% nasty highly intelligent thug Sir Winston Churchill *
I am Russian and Lenin will always be a hero to me.
No one sees him in a bad light he literally is a hero
@@aaronnilestoussaint5672 "Gassing peasant farmers angry at the not-Bourgeois Bolshevik Elites stealing their food is ok if Lenin orders it. Socialism!" - you & all the other Tankies. 😆😆
"The middle-class doesn't exist they're workers who have been co-opted by the Bourgeois so that makes it ok to genocide these people who don't exist like successful peasant farmers with a little food spare to trade" - you and all the other Tankies
"Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx & Catherine the Great" - Sir Clement Attlee, one of a long line of British Socialists who did more good for Humanity, than:
Randy bigot Karl Marx, and the Russian Soviet Empire.
Trotsky was the only ok original Russian 'Communist' and Kruschev was the best ever Dictator of the USSR. Change my mind.
Lenin was genius and he fought for rights poor people’s
one big lie here. Every Russian city on this date 2019 with exception of moscow has a lenin square asmain square ( st petersburg it's secondary square at finland railway terminal) and every city's main street ( exception moscow and st pete's ) is named ulitsa lenin or lenin prospect . Thousands of statues of Lenin remain including in Moscow. check your facts . Google map will show it.
kinda like the confederates? except we have whiney ass people trying to remove them cause they dont like to do their history also
There are also 5 busts of his punk ass in America
@@matty7006 Where?
@@rojoskies81 The American civil war is probably something we don't get taught enough about in foreign countries, yet again not many Americans know what a Lenin is.
@@rojoskies81 You're seriously comparing the Confederates to Lenin? Afaik those confederates wanted to keep the slaves and we're very racist. Lenin and the Bolsheviks on the other hand provided more workers rights, women also got better rights, they didn't condemn homosexuals and blacks. Soviets enjoy better standard of living compared during the Tsarist regime.
By the way, it was Alexander II, Nicholas II's grandfather, who ended Serfdom in Russia. He did so in 1861.
Yep, they play it fast and loose with the facts.
Parts of Baltic provinces abolished them around 1819.
although formally slavery was abolished in 1861 they make peasants owe a big debt to landowner so they still had to work for landowners.
de jure not de facto
exploitation of capitalism still existed in russia, and is still argued to be even worse than the previous serfdom policies
There's so many inaccuracies and straight up lies in this video that I can't even begin to sum them up. But the one that struck me the most was the "bolsheviks-mensheviks" one. This was a party dispute about which tactics to follow. It was also a discussion within the whole of the 2nd internationale! With factions and tendencies all over the place. Kautsky, Plechanov, Lenin, Luxemburg, Liebknecht, Trotsky, the list goes on. They all chose sides on whether capitalism was able to surpass its inherent contradictions. That's the reason for the split. Not a stupid one time argument. Read a book before you make these vids please.
Oversimplified actually presents more facts then this guy
Give oversimplified 's Russian revolution video a watch, funny while still being accurate and self aware
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Kautsky and Luxemburg were not members of the RSDLP buddy. Seems like you don't know much about it either.
@@thechekist2044 he referred to the second international
This video is full of inaccuracies. Way too many to list in a RUclips comment. It makes me wonder how inaccurate all of the other videos are.
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Actually they are heavily biased towards mindless videos to promote raking in Google ad dollars for Google's benefit with channels and creators not fitting the "algorithim" written by naive Google employees aiming for constantly lower targets to market and kiss up to. Interrupted by occasional attempts by concerned, sometimes scholarly types to present more a more accurate picture to be targeted by trolls who cannot start a comment or grasp the idea that what they've heard and learned, increasingly from overrated, biased college instructors who still insist on being paid big bucks , is wrong. Ignoring those who lived during the period on both sides that actually lived through it
David Myrick
yeah I hate that no one thinks critically, I went to college and was the only one concentrating on the research and I'M not even particularly Bright.
I mentioned a few. Really embarrssingly sloppy and misleading stuff.
Lots of inaccuracies! It is hard to get the real facts. I won't be checking out the other videos on other subjects.
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan I hope you realize that Trump is 100% in bed with Israel, which is extremely pro-fascist and pro-capitalist. His administration has been Israel First since he stepped into office. Trump is not anti-establishment, rather Trump is apart of the establishment.
Do a video about yourself Simon Whistler
He isn't Tim Pool
He already did, he is hitler living in Uk. Wops...
Not another bald man.
Do one on Jason Genova
Mahinda Githaiga Oh can I do it
0:55 - Chapter 1 - Early life
3:25 - Chapter 2 - Sparks that ignited a revolution
7:35 - Mid roll ads
9:10 - Chapter 3 - The bolshevik revolution
15:20 - Chapter 4 - Lenin's violent reign
19:35 - Chapter 5 - Death & legacy
Early life check:
"His mother was descended from a wealthy Jewish family..."
Every. Single. Time.
I think you might’ve understated Trotsky’s importance in October 1917.
Vance Wallace this is just a bad rundown biography really .. too many points left out that /could/ be objectively important
As do I!
I mean he didnt even point out the dates of each revolution.
Trotzky led the Bolshevik forces in Petrograd that were stationed in defencive posts around the city to defend against general Kornilov's advancing army, that was coming to try to end the Provisonal government and take power. Trotzky was essential in the planning, organizing and tactics of the Bolshevik Red guard defence force. It was this Red guard defence force that later that year (in october) take power in Russia by marching upon the Winter palace, overthrowing the Provinsional government in a cout d'etat led and masterminded by Trotzky himself.
so to answer your question, yes, Trotzky was a very important Bolshevik, arguably even more important than Lenin himself.
@soccer god Trotsky? Another embarrassing pustule in the rancid, mouldering of humanity's worst excrements.
Anyone who considers that mprpn a hero is a confirmed loser. Bit like Trotsky.
This video misses out sooo much tho. Lenin tried to prevent Stalin from taking power, he wanted all his statues tore down, claiming that these things were false idols and that icons such as these dampened the desire to change. He didn't want people to see the revolution as something that succeeded but as an on going process. 1st the violent tearing out of old ideals and power bases followed by the slow building of a new nation and idealolgy. He even wanted his own body to be cremated for these reasons (not that Stalin cared what he wanted). Also he never saw Russia as being fully communist under his rule, that was the whole point of Lennism, he saw his philosophy and rule as a stop gap on the way to true communism. He believed, same as Marx did, that communism could only be achieved through the proletariat. The idea was that the lower classes would educate themselves and , guided by the Bolsheviks, one day form their own government. There's so much more to delve into here. Don't get me wrong I love the channel but you simply can't do a 20 min video on Lenin and the Russian revolution and paint a clear picture there's so many characters, philosophers, poor management (seriously the Tsar was just terrible at ruling a country), then the impact of WW1, the civil war, the building of the trans Siberian railway, foreign interference, the 4 Dumas etc. And it just ends up being a "communism bad" "boo russia" video.
That's because "Communism bad" "boo Russia".
SOURCE!
Really I actually want to see if this is real, to put Lenin is a better light
@@Sandy-qr2ff it's so much a singular source as more I spent 2 years studying the Russian Revolution as part of my history A level.
@@lukecollins2485 thanks
In fact , Lenin was not against Stalin as head of the Council of People 's Commissars . Lenin quarreled with Stalin because he was in conflict with his wife, but in Lenin's will, Stalin was one of the candidates for this post and was chosen by vote. Speaking of the video, yes, it was quite fun, he even says that Lenin became the head of the USSR immediately after the revolution, although the USSR was formed five years later
Thank you Simon! However, serfdom was abolished not by Nicolas II (whose photo you showed), but by his grandfather, Emperor Alexander II in 1861.
I am sorry, but you history of Lenin is quite inaccurate. And too much speculation.
Well why don't you produce a video and enlighten us all
@@boomerhgt "let's see you do better" is not a valid response to criticism.
@@xelaredna6841 But he didn't make any critical argument at all... Which parts are inaccurate? Which parts are speculation? Suggesting he actually explain what he means by that with his own video is a perfectly valid response to a vague and unhelpful comment.
@@bluesrocker91 There are way too many for a youtube comment.A lot of guesses too.
@@bluesrocker91 for starters, Lenin's brother didn't try to kill TSAR Nicholas II. Nicholas wasn't tsar in 1887, his father was still very much alive.
Vladimir Lenin, otherwise known as Vlad the Lad
Vlad the Chad
The original incel
Vlad the Bad
Vladimir and Vladislav(vlad) are two completely separate names, like John and James. Short form for "Vladimir" is "Vova" , Slavic analog of Bob
Vlad mAh Man 😎
The brazen lies in this video are countless. I wonder where the author got half the facts, did he come up with them himself or did he just copy propaganda? For example, who told him that the Lenin monuments were demolished? Every city in Russia has at least one monument to him, and the people have great respect for him. Recently a poll came out where 60% of respondents had a positive view of his figure and 20% were neutral.
Agreed the Romanovs were not executed on lenins order but by drunk soldiers paranoid about the white armies advance
No matter how you debate this man, he started 70 years of sickening terror. Over 100 million people murdered and over 1 billion displaced. An evil monster. Period.
The source of the hundred million deaths comes from the book
The Black Book of Communism.
A book that half its writers and coauthors denounce.
As it has been proven that the main writer inflated the numbers.
The American CIA has said many years ago that the numbers were inflated for properganda reasons.
This is public knowledge and you can find this out by googling any of the points above.
He tends to be less critical of information about Russia I noticed. Compare his Ivan video to his Bloody Mary one, where he decides Ivan was definitely a terrible person despite the mistranslation of his name, but the British Queen was just a bit misunderstood during all her mass murders and religious purges. He repeats post-hoc propaganda about Rasputin as if it were fact. I'm not Russian nor have any connection to Russia, but I've read enough about the Tudors, Peter the Great and the Romanovs to notice the different treatment.
@@bosman5803 Trotsky said that Lenin knew and approved of the executions. Trotsky asked, "The children too?", and Lenin replied that all of the Romanovs needed to be eliminated.
*They are churning out way too many of these "Biographics" videos and not doing proper research. Many people who have written comments prior to this one have rightly pointed out its many inaccuracies.*
just checked the sources it's quite the joke, one biased book, one biased article - a video that doesn't exist anymore and 3 wikipedia articles... the whole part about the february revolution was pretty dodgy that's what made me wonder.
Stay Mad Tankie
I think one statement that everyone will agree on. Russia has a very interesting history....God bless you all
Thank you for everything you gave us Lenin.
Cringe
@@ivannovak4711 cringe is world today. lenin had dream that marx envisioned, only few people in history seen world as equal as lenin or trotsky, sadly capitalism and western culture infected with cancer all around world and even great ussr fell.
@@NostalgicMem0ries no
This is quite possibly the shittiest and most historically inaccurate explanation of the Russian Revolution I have ever heard or seen.
how so?
ruby T Because it ignores a lot of the good that Lenin did such as the decrees, the NEP, The decriminalisation of homosexuality and increasing women’s rights. It also features blatantly wrong information such as claiming it was Nicolas II who ended serfdom.
David A. Simon I agree with you. Although I hold some respect for Putin in bringing back the tune of the Soviet anthem and still allowing Russian people to celebrate and feel nostalgic for their Soviet past.
I visited Leningrad during workers day in May, and saw a huge parade of people waving Soviet flags and holding portraits of Stalin ect. It was really cool to see.
However I agree Putin is nowhere near the leader that Lenin was in terms of their individual personalities and values. Putin probably only ‘supports’ his people’s nostalgia for the Soviet period to stay on their good side, as on my trip most of the locals I spoke to were very against Putin and his leadership in general.
David A. Simon True. One Woman I spoke to in Russia called Putin ‘the creepy guy’. A lot of nostalgia for the Soviet past also comes from Putin’s failures to create a fair Government that everybody is happy with.
@@mysteriousmuffin6017 Was bound to happen when you had the US and EU cashing in on the privatization orgy along with structuring the Russian economy in a way that keeps it subservient to both powers as well. Nothing bad enough could ever be done to Gorbechev and Yeltsin that would come anywhere close to providing justice to the Russian people.
The cooko clock sound over Rasputin's face was gold.
Seek and destroy
I'm not convinced this is accurate
Then you have a shred of common sense!
Yeah, Simon is making some stretches on the facts here, weirdly enough trying to rehabilitate the Tsar at the same time.
This is way more biased against Lenin geuss that's what happens when a brit covers him
I agree, Alexander Ulyanov did not try to kill Tsar Nicholas II, it was Alexander III. Tsar Nicholas II did not rule until 9 more years in 1896
This is what happens when you get your info from biased sources.
To be fair, the Russian Empire in 1914 although lagging behind the west, was catching up and quickly. One of the reasons the German Empire entered WW1 was because they thought they would not be able to defeat Russia later.
A pity, this one was articulated rather biasedly.
Communists have ALWAYS been evil, period. They murdered a family, and even killed a sick little boy who probably wasn't even going to survive to adulthood anyway. And today, there are violent groups like "Antifa" who want Communism again. So, honestly, who gives a damn if it's "biased." Communists are evil, end of story. There's your documentary.
@@ct92404 Hey man, thanks for your reply. I have to say that I strongly disagree. It is true that many manifestations of communism throughout history have been very oppressive and violent. This fact tells a lot about humans but little about the ideology itself. If you compare communism and the liberal market in vitro, you will see how the first has human rights as its core value and the latter has some very serious intrinsic flaws, which are always present, however well the system is implemented and followed. Severe wealth inequalitites, exploitation of the weaker countries, economic crises, all that are structural parts of the free market. Ideologically it comes down to this (for me): do we try to implement a left wing planned economy which opens up the path of true progress (true progress can only be achieved when we actively and safely plan our own future), or do we keep on with the gambling of the liberal market which inevitably leads to financial bubble bursts and extreme poverty? You also talk of violence. Thing is, the groups you are refering to have realized that violence is necessary as a means of self defense against the systematized, institutionalized and legalized brute force and extreme violence that right wing goverments impose upon the majority of the people. Maybe their kind of violence is not as evident as lighting up a trash can or beating up a cop, but it is much, much, much more painful and destructive.
@@SomeOne-db7xs Antifa doesn't use violence for "self-defense," they use it to try to CENSOR anyone who says things they don't like. I don't know where you live, but the Antifa groups here in the US claim that they are fighting "Nazis" and say things like "punch a Nazi" ...but the problem is that they can identify ANYONE as a "Nazi." If anyone expresses views that are against SJW politics (like political correctness or transgenderism ideology), Antifa thugs brand them a "Nazi" and violently attack them. They riot, set fires, and attack innocent people just to block a person from giving a public talk. Antifa thugs have attacked innocent bystanders. During the riots they started in Berkley, California, a group of Antifa thugs beat up a 17 year old kid who was just a bystander. He had to be hospitalized. They beat up another person with a bike lock and nearly killed him. Antifa are domestic terrorists, and coincidentally they also are pushing for Communism.
People who have a victim mentality and think there is some kind of "systematic oppression" working against them are prone to following extreme ideologies...which inevitably leads to violence. You talk about human nature - well, human nature is that most normal people aren't comfortable with extremes. Normal people generally have a "live and let live" philosophy. But communism is an extreme ideology, and so therefore the only way you will implement it is with violence and oppression. First, you have a "revolution" to overthrow the present government, but then inevitably you have to make sure everyone is following the same ideology, so you have to control them. The Soviet Union was infamous with how they controlled media and spied on their people. It got to the point where they were trying to bug EVERYONE'S phones. But they couldn't keep up with listening to all the tapes. This is what Communism always leads to - violence and oppressing people with fear and control.
@@ct92404 I agree with you on some points, pity we're discussing through youtube and not over a few beers :) I completely agree on the fact that many leftist movements misinterpret the self defense doctrine of violence and go overboard. I am completely against blind violence, censorship and misinformation.Same goes for many right wing movements that border on the extreme right. Yes, there are such groups, but they do not characterize the ideology nor the means of implementing it; they are clumsy ways of dealing with the social/political suffocation they are experiencing. I do not believe that we should judge a whole system of ideas based on the way that a few people have chosen to understand it. Same goes for communist China. What they are doing has actually nothing to do with Marxist ideals.
About the victim mentality. Well, I do not think there is such a mentality regarding the matters we are discussing, I do think there are actual victims though. I mean yeah ok, we live in the so called advanced world but what about third world countries being continuously exploited by the big guys? Do they have a victim mentality or are they actual victims? What about Venezuela? You live in the states so i suppose you do believe that you guys actually want to restore democracy there, as you thought you did with Chile in '73 or the freedom you brought to Iraq. However, the truth is far from this. Mainstream media do project a completely distorted image of what is happening. In short, yes, there are victims of the free market and their suffering is true and ongoing. In the same sense, we can also be victims of manipulation and misinformation by being consciously misled, as is current state of things. You talk about systematic oppression like it's something imaginary, when it is - and has always been in the civilized world - all around us.
Regarding human nature. You misuderstood, or maybe I did not express myself clearly. I am not talking about human nature; this would mean that I suggest humans being born with such behaviors. I am talking about social construct; about what people have come to be like. Nobody is born violent or deceitful, yet many of us end up this way through social stimuli. Being violent and oppressive is not hard coded in our system, it's a reflex, a reaction, a development. The live and let live you are talking about would be a wonderful state of things; "live" is happening, "let live" not so much. Look at Venezuela again. How is the State's claims a "let live" policy? Seems like whenever a nation wants to be left alone and stand in its own feet, not participating in the global deceit that's been goig on, it's immediately being subjugated in the name of Democracy. Well, democracy is the new Christianity, seems to me.
Lastly, concerning the control. Here, we need to take into account the fact that whenever a nation tries to become communistic then the whole world turns against it and shuts it off, proclaiming it an enemy of freedom and mobilizing propaganda to have everybody thinking the same. It is natural that this is a huge hit and greatly affects the way which such a nation would deal with its people, namely resorting to such propaganda and censorship policies itself. Now, of course I am condemning such actions but what i want to point out is that what the Soviets, for example, did was a counter attack against capitalism, in an effort to preserve their ideals. It went awfully wrong, it got completely derailed (they also had a devastated economy and a famine to work with but ok). All in all, I do think that if a communistic nation was not regarded as the devil itself - hence fought to death -, it would not have to resort in extreme control policies so as to defend its ideals and only then it would be able to actually implement communism, not having to deal with the capitalist world suffocation.
@@ct92404 yeah and the tsar murdered and enslaved his own people hmm
100 years today since he passed.
"In Soviet Russia, you not go to party - Party come for YOU!"
This meme is unoriginal
But still gives a warm fuzzy.
"And give you long vacation in Siberia".
@@SymphonyBrahms LOL. I was in Russia 12 years ago. In St. Petersburg most buildings are limited to six stories height b/c of the swamp base and fact that Catherine the Great wanted a Parisian look - Paris also had a 6 story limit at that time. My group toured St. Petersburg before we visited the palaces. When we drove by the former KGB building the guide quipped that "it's been said that if you stand on the roof, you can see all the way to Siberia". I noted a question you had (or so I thought) about responsibility for the Royal Family's assassination. It's harder to come by that than other information about Bolshevik times. Trotsky did write of this in his diary and you can read his short passage via Google "Execution of the Romanov Family". There is also one video (only one so far) that I found on RUclips with deeper history, impressive Russian covert researchers and some reasonable answers. It's Nicholas and Alexandra by HRH Prince Michael of Kent A&E Biography Part 2. Yes, ultimate culprits include Lenin and I don't know how there can be any doubt of that. Why these things are not better known? I think one of the prime reasons is that Russians are a wonderful people and want to be proud of their country, and well ......... they've been shielded. I think that's part of the answer. Best regards!
"He told tenants to kill their landlords and encouraged violence toward the upper classes"
What is the problem?
killing innocent people ! , the upper class has just as much of a right to live as any other social class , if you think otherwise , than your an insane braindead communist
@@dragoncrown2029 People who take 90% of the profit of their workers and cause workers to live in poverty are not innocent. There no different then feudal lords.
@@kittenmastermind660 Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik regime , Bolshevik soldiers killed 100 000 people , they spread their Red terror among the Russian people , so that everyone would understand that , resistance against the Bolshevik party would lead to death , the Bolsheviks were Brutal dictators ! ( much worse than Tzar Nicholas ever was ) , and btw the Bolsheviks killed Tzar Nicholas and his family in a basement ! , they murdered his wife , son and daughters ( you support disgusting cowardly men who murdered innocent women and children to gain / secure power for their Bolshevik party ) , only the worst kind of human would support the Bolsheviks , i seems to me that you are one of the worst !
@@dragoncrown2029 Do research on communism. If you did you would find out that many communists hate the USSR and China. The RUclipsr Vaush is a good entry point for people to learn about socialism.
Socialism is when the workers control the business where they work. Socialism can be a market economy, a command economy, or a mixed economy. Communist is a stateless classless and moneyless society. If you did research before opening your mouth you would know this.
Also don't complain about dicators if you think the Russian royal family or any nobility is innocent. Nobility can only maintain there power by the use of violence and exploiting others this is true for all members of all ruling classes. Form Stalin to Obama. Communism is anti dictator and this is why many people do not think the USSR and China are communist.
Not that my saying any of this will process with you, it just going to go right over your head.
@@kittenmastermind660 So you think that murdering the Tsar's innocent children was ok. You have a heart of stone. Children Children. Shame on you, you devil.
They were called Bolsheviks because at the time when the name was coined they were the majority. This is full of untruths.
Way too westernized version of a biography
Dimitris Metalleidis then you make one
Dimitris Metalleidis yer mum
@Eugene We know that the U.S government deliberately spread lies and anti communist propaganda during the Cold War of course the Soviets did the same to the west, but you'd be a damn fool to believe every western account of the USSR
@Eugene This documentary is framed in a way to demonize Lenin, it doesn't rake into account the historical circumstances in which Lenin was forced to operate
@Eugene The majority of Russians hated the Tsar, who sent troops to war with no weapons, food, or other necessities and then had protestors massacred. Not to mention jewish pogroms that occured, do you know anything about pre Soviet Russia? Revolutions lile this do not appear from thin air, the conditions must be in place
To anyone who actually wanted a better take on lenin, watch "History vs Lenin" on Ted-Ed RUclips channel..
In 4 minutes, that video gives a better view.
I'm usually never disappointed by this channel. But this time, you definitely failed.
really sore knee The thing is this video is exclusively bad about Lenin. Not once is one of his many achievements mentioned or credited. Not to mention the many examples of blatantly wrong facts.
@@mysteriousmuffin6017 Ya even the bad things abt him were completely made up.
@Lobo nonsense.Both stalin and marx are grt ppl.
@@Justme-fz1ng Marx is fine, but Stalin is comparable to Hitler.
@Lobo You do know that a lot of our current economic system comes from Marx's theories right?
Also the fact that Marx and Lenin were "rich" (which is false, Marx had to live under a small allowance that his friend Engels gave him) only makes their ideals more credible, like, it's a rich person advocating for economic equality and whatnot, they just sound more believable.
6:38 I like how he didn’t even attempt to say Lenin’s girlfriend’s name 😂
"He had absolutely no patience for people who did not agree with him %100"
Sounds familiar.
Hahaha Trump 🙈
@@ThomasHarding1990 he made fun of the orange man guys look how funny he is
@@ThomasHarding1990
Not really. Trump may not be a good guy, but you can't say that he is intolerant to any other opinions because he puts up with the media when a man like Lenin (or Hitler) would have had them all killed or enslaved.
@@warrioroflight6872 puts up. Firstly Lenin wouldn't have had them all killed but Trump definitely does not put up with the media
Must be looking in the mirror
The craziest thing about this video is when he essentially said “ this is history and it is, however RUclips doesn’t like it because children. So they don’t pay you.”
Vladimir Lenin is not Sir Patrick Stewart, which I have been requesting FOREVER!
@@mistermiasma ok so that show has a Biographics in it about Sir Patrick Stewart?
I'd like to see that as well good idea
Don't request, *DEMAND* watch this.
Hey Simon, do a video on Patrick Stewart. And here is $500 so you can get that done. Thanks mate.
See now he *HAS* to do it. As soon as someone sends him $500.
Not another bald man.
Just not enough interest from our supporters. Celebs do terrible for us. Especially nice celebs. Sorry.
Wait a second.... Vladimir Lenin looks like a white Jamie Foxx!
i m deaaaaad HHHHHHHHHH
@@charlesscott27 hh
What has been seen, ca not be unseen.
Philosopher: "Can one man change the world forever?"
Lenin: "Da, comrade."
**international intensifies**
Im a socialist and I like how the last part of your name is in Arabic
@@SnorlaxFriend M'aiq is from a game called Skyrim and has nothing to do with Arabic...
Oh my god, so sorry, I speak Arabic but I don't know all the words. I got it confused with another word from Arabic
@@SnorlaxFriend aight pal
HELL MARCH INTENSIFIES
I missed the point where he left the Beatles because of Yoko.
I know, and for some reason he completely mixed up St Petersburg with Liverpool...
You kind of simplified things too much and got quite a few things wrong. Serfdom wasn't abolished by Nicholas II but by his grandfather Alexander II. It is also unclear as to who actually ordered the firing upon demonstrators on Bloody Sunday, yet there isn't evidence to demonstrate that Nicholas II gave the order, and if we look at his personality as a ruler, this conclusion does not fit.
"Lenin did nothing about this."
Lenin didn't prevent a large-scale famine by himself, what a monster.
Hey a communist
Because he caused it.
@@johnhatchel9681 … he wasn’t in charge of anything then. Most intelligent anti-communist.
@Chris Oh so sorry. That was Stalins collectivist nonsense. I do apologize. Lenin was still an evil person. Anyone that defends either of these two people are either ignorant or evil themselves.
Lenin’s brother, Alexander, never tried to assassinate Nicholas the 2nd
Lenin was not panicking because the revolution started without him. He and most of bolchevik leaders agreed that they had to be in exile to avoid been killed by the tzar.
It's a shame that train didn't derail off the tracks into a steep ravine.
Rebels come from all kinds of backgrounds, Che was quite well off, and he's the most famous revolutionary of our time. (At least his t shirt is).
Biographics - Can you please do a very accurate detailed biography video of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918 - 2013)?
That one did nothing for his people
They'll only call him a terrorist if this video is anything to judge by
'Who did I leave in charge of giving out jobs?'
'That would be Stalin, sir'.
Alexander Ulyanov tried to kill Czar Alexander III with a bomb, not Nicholas II. Nicholas was still a prince at that time.
Serfdom was abolished in 1861 by Alexander II the grandfather of Nicolas 2
Thanks for creating a biography about me.
I have communist propaganda on my wall
@@dylantrashmint8379 The only thing that can stop a bad communist is a good communist
Yes comrade
He could do another one about you, Stalin, and Hitler, and call it "Three Disgusting Murderers".
@@SymphonyBrahms 🙁 not quite the name I was looking for.
So many mistakes...
Command_Unit let’s see your work if you can do better
@@rsears78 I do not have to be a cow to say that milk is rotten
@@ЕгорКравец-т3е then point out where the milk is rotten.
drunkensailor112 There are many. But, you know, it does not really matter for foreigners
Can you please explain where the mistakes are? At least mention one.
In Moscow I went to the Lenin Mausoleum where his body lies embalsed. Statues of Lenin are still around in the former Soviet Union. In East Ukraine, as well as the unregignized state of Transnistria Lenin statues are all over the place!
So Lenin was a pampered rich kid lecturing the working man on how to live his life?
There is a statue of Lenin in Rue des Plantaporets, in Geneva; I believe it is where he lived for a while.
There is a statue of Lenin also in Italy, in Cavriago, a small town in Emilia Romagna. The inhabitants of the village after the October Revolution sent money to Russia to help the new government. After the Second World War the Soviet Union thanked them by sending the statue, which since then is in the main square, called "piazza Lenin".
Can you do Abraham Lincoln please , I love your videos
You are a complete anti-leninist.And trying hard to make a negative impact about him in each line.Pls check and learn history little more deeply.
"anti-leninist" oh dear me what a crime. Please bud, he wasn't exactly a great person. Trying to make a positive spin on him is like trying to say Mussolini made the trains run on time.
YOU'RE DELUSIONAL
I like some of Lenin’s ideas but the fact is he wasn’t a good person. Stalin and the Soviet’s used him as a symbol which means they had to erase his past to paint him as a saint. To be fair, Lenin never achieved his revolution because until the end of his life, Stalin and the soviets pushed for their own interests while prosecuting the children of the revolution. Lenin wasn’t happy with the results of the revolution, wasn’t what he expected.... millions died.
Which thing was untrue?
@@arbynChief617 you realize Leninism is a political ideology. A way of thinking how the communist party should be organized. Being a Leninist doesn't mean you like Lenin as a person. The person in the comment was pointing out how this video is just full of bias and lies. And that's true. You wouldn't lie about a historical figure because you don't like his character. Of course we all know Simon wants to appeal to google and let ads flow in his channel. But you? You justify being lied to. You like being lied to. Get a grip
Lenin calling people his enemy for not agreeing with him sounds very familiar today.
This video tries to paint Lenin as a joke. He wasn't.
Lenin’s statues were absolutely not all torn down in Russia.
This is easily the most infuriatingly inaccurate video I’ve seen on this channel. Loved every video on this channel I saw before this one but the falsehoods present here are so egregious it’s basically historical revisionism
Seethe more leftoid
@@elemperadordemexico good one
'You're out of your element Donny!'
Where did you get the part that you said " people needed to start dying as the worse things become the better it would be. He knew people needed to start dying before people get angry for a revolution. "
"He wanted the people to be angry" "He made up a variety of different pen names, so it seems like multiple intellectuals" Lenin was nothing but a troll.
Who else made up names and call in to radio stations? Lmao 🤣
Dude Lenin is awesome
Lenin was a monster and a murderer.
This guy's outwardly biased lecture makes me think Lenin did practically everything right except execute Kaplan.
Lenin's Bolshevik regime killed 100 000 people , he did most things wrong
One fact that I think is incorrect in this video is that the Tsar did not order his soldiers to shoot the people during Bloody Sunday, but I think he was away for holiday. The soldiers got confused and anxious about what to do, so the attacked people instead.
Adios ..
Do one on Benito Juarez from Mexico
Lenin killed during a time of war. Stalin killed during peace. That is what separates them, and why I admire Lenin, and despise Stalin.
Ben Sagal-Morris wtf? Lenin threw away most of his ideals when he got to power, no need to admire a man who killed those who opposed him.
Moses Ramirez Who in his inner circle did he kill? He killed opposition that was in open rebellion. By that logic, Lincoln deserves to also be called a mass murderer because after all he killed those who opposed him. See, part of the reason Lenin gets criticized is that we know what came afterward. Lenin was a man with faults. Yet, unlike Stalin, did not seek total control, and held no official position. He was an idealist who believed what he believed. But, he was also willing to change to adapt to the situation, ala NEP.
@@bensagal-morris8072 It sounds like you have wholly swallowed all the "pro Lenin" revised history that the Soviet Union pushed after his death...Hitler only killed during war too so i guess by your logic he was a decent man with only a few faults too and you admire him too??
Lenin murdered innocent children. Do you like that?
This, is a very untrue depiction. He says that no one liked his ideas but yet he had an approval rating of 80%.
wrong ! , in november 1917 Lenin's Bolshevik pary had 24% of the votes , the socialist revolutionary party had 40%
ok but lenin had a great fashion sense ngl
I normally love your videos but I personally found this video to needlessly polemic and biased against Lenin. Please read more around the subject and reconsider his legacy.
He was responsible for the needless deaths of millions of people, what more needs to be said?
@@kodyeldridge5847 no, he wasn't, read some history.
@@modigrey Maybe not directly but his ideas and the forcing of said ideas down the throats of the Russian poor and working class put Russia on a collision course for mass genocide.
His legacy was the murder of many people. Only a Lenin apologist won't accept that fact.
RIP Comrade
Wait, wasnt it Nochlaii's grandfather Alexander 2 who released serfs from serfdom? Also, his parents DID have to climb into the nobility status. They were not aristocrats. They had worked their way up which is why the rest of the bourgeois actually treated the family like pariahs. That was part of the reason why Lenin was radicalized. A He had left because Tsar's secret police was still keeping an eye on him. lso, Lenin did attend the meetings of the communists and marxists held all over Europe. He wasn't twiddling his thumbs in Europe. Also, his April Theses was actually pretty correct in predicting what was going to happen, the other Bolsheviks could not see it yet. When they saw the events unfold, they joined in pretty quick.
Russian people "loved the Romanovs"? The same people who had been revolting against the incompetent czar and his "traitor German" Tsarina who they believed had "illicit affairs" with a madman named Rasputin? The same Czar who had been losing battle after battle and killing peasants by sending them into war without supplies, starving them and asking them to remove the boots and rifles of the first dead body of their fellow soldier in front of them? The same Czar who kept killing his own people in his country? Nope, they did not "Love him" egghead. They wanted him gone. It was only after the news of the Romanov Execution spread, that people could not believe that the innocent children of the Czar had also been murdered in cold blood. Man, you are the biggest idiot in the realm of history or you are just malicious. So, the deaths of the children were not confirmed or even made public untile 1919 and a woman tried to kill Lenin for that in 1918? Wow! Oh and no, it was not "Capitalism". Socialism is Capitalism by the gvt. Capitalism is just as bad as socialism - sometimes worse - ask any of the colonies that capitalist imperialists brutally crushed in the name of rule. This was democratic socialism or social democracy.
Wait wait wait - do Socialism actually caused really bad conditions in Russia until Lenin practised a teeny weeny thing that you wrngly called capitalism. But his ideas led to Russia making more progress than the whole western world because of his ideas and reforms so much so that SU defeated USA in the space race? Yeah, SU defeated USA in space race - just putting a man first on the moon (after doing a coup to take out Russia's rocket expert) does not make USA a winner. Sadly, even today, Russia's Soyuz spacecraft to ISS is way better than the mosntrosity calles the Space shuttle that we have. The cognitive dissonance on that one is monumental.
Wait, so no one was listening to him so he had to escape but then he decides to come back and every person needed for the coup is ready to listen to him, already lined up and organized and are willing to risk it all in a coup? Did you get high and tumble down the stairs 5 times before hitting your head on a stone before recording this video? How does any of that even make sense? Man, this video has a lot of mistakes. I know you hate Lenin and I am not a fan of him either, but you cannot just revise history and twist facts to make it seem that everything about him was inflated and he did not matter or he was a nobody. This is exactly what the west does - try and minimize anyone in disagreement. But it is a classic case of projection.
Yeah this video is just a total joke full of factual inaccuracies, outright falsehoods, and very obvious bias. I was watching a lot of their biographics videos, but I’m done after seeing this blatant propaganda piece.
Lenin was a disgusting murderer.
What a weird looking dude. Beard says mid-30s, face says 18 months, hairline says late 60s.
Actually I been to Russia and there are statues of Lenin everywhere. But no statues of Stalin
how did Lenin get the support he needed for a coup, you ask? Well, its because when he returned to russia, it was right after Alexander Kerensky had just dissolved the duma, and cancelled the upcoming elections. So the kerensky's opposing revolutionaries, along with the monarchists asked the bolsheviks to assist in overthrewing the kerensky government, all these factions underestimated Lenin's persistance, and the bolsheviks were able to use the instability to seize power, the monarchists didn't like that, and many of the worker's councils in the west of Russia revolted and joined Lenin, pushing the monarchists out to siberia, starting the Russian Civil war.
The monarchists certainly weren't a fan of Kerensky, who somewhat spontaneously decided that Russia shall from now on be a Republic, either. Truth be told however, they weren't much of a relevant force and while they of course also later opposed the Bolsheviks, much of the resistance against the Bolsheviks also came from Liberals, Anarchists and many other types of Socialists.
Other far-left groups, after all, had many reasons to be mad at the Bolsheviks as well. Many more moderate Socialists disapproved of how the Bolsheviks had ended the war early and thought that the massive amounts of land they gave up were overall hurtful to the revolutionary cause. Many also opposed the very bureaucratic type of rule Lenin intiated and especially Anarchists were of course shocked at the establishment of, for example, a secret police force. The Civil War rather boiled to "Bolsheviks vs everyone opposed to them" and not "Bolsheviks vs monarchists".
Tsar Nicoluas II Did NOT order the shootings on Bloody Sunday. He wasn't at home and an officer did that on his own and the Tsar actually got angry about what he had done.
The condensed biography I have been searching for.
Russian populace: 'You're too bloodthirsty! The nobility isn't that bad!'
Narrator: 'They would later come to realize that maybe Vladimir had a point.'
Vlad the Murderer. He was worse than the nobility.
Our leader Vladimir Lenin
so upsetting to see Simon have such a negative slant against Lenin, clearly forming an opinion without reading any of his or other communist leaders writings from the time. Lenin was a great hero to many in the working class and the USSR, although it had it's faults and shortcomings as any other country, was a beacon of hope to workers who dream to be freed from the toils of capitalism. Love from the USA.
It's an odd choice to call serfs rebelling against the tyranny of Tsardom, terrorists.
Alright, but why did you not point out how Winston Churchill used British Indians in World War 2 for his own gain? And how the British promised India independence if they took part in the second World War as soldiers but the British did not fulfill this promise.
Overall, a good video. However, you have a tendency to immortalize Western heroes and denounce non-Western ones.
Ok, all I want to say is this video is very biased, making Lenin sound like an evil but ludicrous person. No, I am not a communist and I don't want ardent Lenin haters storming the replies section with curses and bringing in dislikes, but I do feel that Lenin's observation of the working class and his speeches were really good, although his solutions to those problems were probably shite. Contrary to what you said, he actually had a lot of support. Once in power, he turned backward Russia into a really educated society (and the USSR that made America piss in their pants and think twice for decades). Sadly though, he also heartlessly massacred his opponents, forcibly "Russified" conquered lands (which happened under the Tsardom anyway), and freedom of speech during his reign was questionable. In my opinion, it is necessary to provide the audience with both sides of the argument, so that the information is presented from a neutral point of view and the audience can form their own opinion. But I get the fact Simon doesn't lean on that side of the political spectrum, judging by his videos on Visual Politik EN and other channels, so he tends to be a little biased. For those looking for a more neutral perspective on/judgment of Lenin, check the TedED video called "History vs Lenin", a really good concept, framed like a court argument. Lenin/Che Guevara were revolutionaries who really believed in what they did. If someone was really evil, it was Stalin/Hitler/Kim Jong Il. Even Lenin realised Stalin's hunger for power and tried to give Trotsky the position before his early death.
Thank you for protecting me
He was a great man. His violent tactics were just that - tactics. This video is so biased to capitalism it's laughable. Thx for your comment, I agree.
@@rhodamackenzie1105 probably because capitalism actually works.
@@aaronwoodruff3908 Only for less than 5% of the population. I don't call that working.
@@rhodamackenzie1105 He was a disgusting murderer.
"he decided farmers could keep their crops and sell the excess -- you know, capitalism" Being able to keep what you need of what you've made yourself, and selling what you don't need is part of a market. Capitalism is when you let billionaires own everything because of unlimited growth.
And the man who has the best dorrito mustache.
*I think that most of Simon Whistler's videos are excellent--as far as videos go--but this one "misses the train" on several counts. If you are really interested in Lenin and what happened to the Russian Empire/Soviet Union in the 19th and 20th centuries, please read a book about it. There are dozens of them, even among those written in English alone, that give a much more interesting and accurate account of Lenin and what formed his life's course. Mr. Whistler's video is riddled with inaccuracies, as has been pointed out by many of those who contributed comments to this particular video.*
What are these books?
This kind of lies you call "inaccuracies"?
20:59 not true at all, in Russia there are still plenty of Lenin statues, many in the main squares of major cities.
There is a statue of Lenin also in Italy, in Cavriago, a small town in Emilia Romagna. The inhabitants of the village after the October Revolution sent money to Russia to help the new government. After the Second World War the Soviet Union thanked them by sending the statue, which since then is in the main square, called "piazza Lenin".
Fun fact: Lenin was a hero because the way he treated his people, he supported the LGBT rights, and defended Judaism for his country, although it's not know whether he did order the execution of the Romanov family, after his death he wishes to be buried next to his mother, before his death he never wanted Stalin to succeed him.
Yes. True fact.
Fun fact; Vladimir Illaynovich Lenin was the real name of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Flat out wrong. I assume this is an attempt at spitting on his name? Well you didnt even write it correctly. Not Илаинович, Ильич.