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