Added: Jul 26, 2008
From: artorwar
Duration: 9:30
An animated anti-communist film produced by the US in 1948, this is funny stuff and the quality of the animation considering it was produced by a collge is absolutly awesome.Enjoy
Channel: Film
Tags: america capitalism cartoon communism congress democracy freedom government politics president propaganda russia usa
Rating: 3.96 (806 ratings) Views: 139309' favoriteCount='1206 Comments: 2331
heimlich1017 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - yes but both claim they are better than the other, and condemn the other for doing these atrocities. They're both extremely hypocritical.
CapitalismOwnz Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Both might be hypocritical as you say but I'd much rather live in a Capitalist country like the US where I live now than living in a communist country like where I used to live, Cuba.
Achilles1389 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Trotsky reproduced a postcard widely circulated in the months following therevolution. The postcard depicted the six leaders of the revolution. Shown are Lenin (who was at least one-quarter Jewish, spoke Yiddish in his home, and was married to a Jewess)Trotsky (real Jewish name: Lev Bronstein);Zinoviev(real Jewish name: Hirsch Apfelbaum)Lunacharsky (a Gentile);Kamenev (real Jewish name: Rosenfeld); and Sverdlov (Jewish)
Nocturnuz Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Exactly!
JJMonty91 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Hmmmm you can tell this is outdated............ China is growing rapidly and will become the USA of the 1940's by now
Commie2008 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - What they don't tell you is that the average Soviet citizen (under Stalin) had more free-time than any other worker of any other nation. They don't tell you that the USSR rose by about 16.5% during the Great Depression. The average annual growth of the Soviet economy under Stalin was about 14%. After WW2, the 'great' United States worked with Nazi war criminals (who should have been killed/imprisoned) to get information about the Soviet Union.
norskikkesant Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - lol you didnt need to know that to know its outdated :P
fremenchips Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - yes, and all that money was the rolled back into 5 year plans that didn't make a single thing for the average citizen (the famous kitchen debate ring a bell moron) only guns, tanks and corruption, on the brighter side though their parades always a lot cooler then ours
fremenchips Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - yes and all that money was rolled back into more 5 year plans that didn't improve the lot of any but those on the top, (every heard of the kitchen debate?) instead heavy industry and the military eat up all the budget and for those who didn't like it there was always the gulag, it's no wonder the USSR fall apart FROM THE INSIDE, people who still think communism has any answers are either stupid 13 year olds or worse.
Commie2008 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Priority was placed on the ability of the citizens to have free time. They could buy things produced by the mass-expanding Soviet economy. They could participate in choir, sports, etc. This, as a result, caused them a higher standard of living. So don't say that the average man didn't receive positive things from socialism. In fact, workers who exceeded their quotas were given special incentives for their work.
Commie2008 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - As for the military, look where that got them: 85% of German soldiers were killed/captured by the Soviets. The USSR was the decisive victor of WW2.
Commie2008 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Less than 1/3 of the gulag prisoners were innocent. The rest were arrested for anti-government actions, murder, robbery, etc. The gulags were not death camps. When people did die in them, they normally died from food shortages (which were caused by weather, bad harvests and capitalist harassment of the USSR). Stalin did not engineer a famine to kill Ukrainians (the Holodomor). It is debated whether this "Holodomor" was even a genocide.
Commie2008 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Yes, there was a famine in Ukraine, but the death toll was only 1-2 thousand. This real famine was caused by economic failures. These were largely due to the reaction of the Kulaks to the Soviet government. The Kulaks were a class of wealthy farmers that used the peasants' underpaid work for their own profit. They were hated amongst the peasants during the Czarist regime.
Commie2008 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - After the revolution, Lenin let them have their land as long as there was some redistribution. Lenin's mercifulness proved devastating for the government after some years. The Kulaks refused Soviet demands for economic development, they even raised prices. The peasants' situation improved only little after the revolution. In 1928 Stalin tried to terminate that exploitation.
Commie2008 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - So, the famine was not caused on-purpose by Stalin as anti-Soviet propaganda would have you believe. Many pictures of supposed Holodomor victims were actually pictures of the Volga Famine's victims. Trotskyists and Nazis helped to fabricate this "Holodomor" for propaganda purposes.
MokomaSusi Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - "Less than 1/3 of the gulag prisoners were innocent. "And what is your source?
russianboyKGB Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - heh no wonder they hate us they watched bullshit like this
hulksjedi Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Pro-communist stop thinking on communism when they buy their first car. When you understand that, in a communist regime, you own nothing, you have nothing; not even your own life or freedom, you understand what is what in this endless debate. There are a few communist countries left, I recommend everyone who wants to try; travel there, burn your passport and live there for 4 or 5 years. Or forever. THEN you can talk about communism, how capitalism is "bad" for the world, hugging trees, etc...
samuelpdog Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - thank you that comie dude should go to romania or to china and see how it feels to have some dork with dorky glasses to order the army to shoot you and have tanks role in at you. or go to tibet and get pilleged.
samuelpdog Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - how about the fact that when asked pressing q. the chinese amdassador in an interveiw started yelling and getting angry
artorwar Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Yeah, never heard a Western politician do that have we? One need only look at the attitude of any politician to see that non-cooperation is generally a mandate of the post. Not that I am biased either way, but you can't really prove anything with your example.
bartabf Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - "no more private property = no more you" - what a splendid ideal! :-)
zosoo7 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Communism can only work if all citizens have a willing heart. Otherwise, there will be unrest and uprisings for freedom and there surely will be.Consider also that our government was founded with capitalism as it's economic system. The federal government is even bound by the constitution, not having power to take property from the people. But of course, we forgot about our constitution--it's just a piece of paper that protects us from the government.
zosoo7 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - "If the people of the USSR had rights as in America, but were still under communism, i really think it could've worked"This is an oxymoron. Communism can only work by taking away people's right to property.Also, democracy as I see it is mob rule. As Jefferson says: 51% taking away the rights of the other 49%. And to go on a tangent, people in America seem to think we are in a democracy, but we are in a constitutional republic.
heimlich1017 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - yes. i absolutely agree with the last three sentences. Patriotism blinded the Soviet people, and the Americans too, as illustrated here