When I went to the United States in 1982 to study English, I saw this movie just a few month after I arrived at my University`s movie theater. I remember it was a very long movie with a intermission and also very difficult to understand for a new English student. But I still remember this song very much. Indeed, I sometimes hum it when I take a shower.
Yo fui comunista y deje de serlo gracias a Stalin, Castro y Chávez. En mi memoria solo quedaron los ideales de Marx, Lenin y el Ché, que como Cristo y Freud pasaron a ser los hombres más incomprendidos de la historia. El comunismo se asocia con sus verdugos, con esos tiranos que destruyeron las ideas originales del rescate de los pobres y de la liberación del ser humano. El comunismo regresará con otro nombre pero con la misma ideología original de la liberación de los hombres.
Then you don't understand socialism. The end result of the Russian Revolution was the crushing of individual liberty...the end result of the Russian Revolution was not socialism.
Russian Revolution allowed sexual freedom and banned punishments for homosexuality... and Stalin's takeover in PolitBureau cancelled prizes of Revolution.
Yes, there were some gains...but there was also censorship, groups like the Left-SRs and the Makhnovichna were banned, the Cheka (enough said), the Soviets effectively became rubber-stamping bodies, workplaces in non-central industries whose workers had voted to remain independant were forcibly nationalised (which because the Soviets had no real independant power, was - in that context - a return to corporate management rather than the progress of socialism). And during the Civil War, there
After was thw Civi war when SRs supported counterrevoutionaries. In years of civil war - Extraordinary Comission (CheKa) was very needed to fight enemy spies. Red terror was answer on "kontra's" Wight terror. Stalin's takeover took power from the Soviets, Stalin's politic stopped sociaism in Russia. If not him — WorldWide revolution would happen anyway — everyone could see how effective it was.
The SRs and most others would have bawked at the idea of dealing with the White Army had the Bolsheviks not made themselves seem the greater evil. There would have been no credible threat of counter-revolution had the Bolsheviks not alienated millions of people by their actions.
Left SRs - on the Constitutional Assambly they had majority - canceled all decreets of local self-governments - Soviets (were bolshewiks had majority) - about ending the war, giving earth to peasents and factory to workers. They began to fight vs. Soviets to take power and government chairs. So they betraded their people to get power. So boshewiks banned this Assambey.
Eternal Glory to Lenin! Now that the fascist McCain has been defeated by the American voters, the real struggle for socialism might take place in the USA. Long live communism! Adrien Alpendre (New Orleans)
Great scene with Lenin at 3:10, the book by John Reed explains that Lenin had just concluded a hours-long meeting with representatives of the peasant's party and they had agreed to join forces for the success of the Revolution. So that's what the people are cheering for.
When I went to the United States in 1982 to study English, I saw this movie just a few month after I arrived at my University`s movie theater. I remember it was a very long movie with a intermission and also very difficult to understand for a new English student. But I still remember this song very much. Indeed, I sometimes hum it when I take a shower.
densetsunopanda 6 months ago
Yo fui comunista y deje de serlo gracias a Stalin, Castro y Chávez. En mi memoria solo quedaron los ideales de Marx, Lenin y el Ché, que como Cristo y Freud pasaron a ser los hombres más incomprendidos de la historia. El comunismo se asocia con sus verdugos, con esos tiranos que destruyeron las ideas originales del rescate de los pobres y de la liberación del ser humano. El comunismo regresará con otro nombre pero con la misma ideología original de la liberación de los hombres.
ruizdechavez 6 months ago
Reminds me of Egypt :) and tomorrow it shall remind me of the world.
PrimericanIdol 9 months ago 2
@PrimericanIdol Con la violencia que tememos en México, esto puede pasar aquí también.
ruizdechavez 9 months ago
the Dream lives
Eric2221 2 years ago 3
Grande filme que vi há muitos anos e nunca esqueci!!!!!!
mfvnorocha 2 years ago
Sorry for my English and my bad keyboard! ;)
RSDRPtheGreat 2 years ago
Long Live Red Banner!
(Да здравствует Красного Знамени!)
perestroikaMoska 2 years ago
That was a great film. Sadly, the end result from socialism is the crushing of individual liberty.
BlueStateChronicle 2 years ago
Then you don't understand socialism. The end result of the Russian Revolution was the crushing of individual liberty...the end result of the Russian Revolution was not socialism.
Spartacus21C 2 years ago
Russian Revolution allowed sexual freedom and banned punishments for homosexuality... and Stalin's takeover in PolitBureau cancelled prizes of Revolution.
RSDRPtheGreat 2 years ago 2
Yes, there were some gains...but there was also censorship, groups like the Left-SRs and the Makhnovichna were banned, the Cheka (enough said), the Soviets effectively became rubber-stamping bodies, workplaces in non-central industries whose workers had voted to remain independant were forcibly nationalised (which because the Soviets had no real independant power, was - in that context - a return to corporate management rather than the progress of socialism). And during the Civil War, there
Spartacus21C 2 years ago
After was thw Civi war when SRs supported counterrevoutionaries. In years of civil war - Extraordinary Comission (CheKa) was very needed to fight enemy spies. Red terror was answer on "kontra's" Wight terror. Stalin's takeover took power from the Soviets, Stalin's politic stopped sociaism in Russia. If not him — WorldWide revolution would happen anyway — everyone could see how effective it was.
RSDRPtheGreat 2 years ago 5
The SRs and most others would have bawked at the idea of dealing with the White Army had the Bolsheviks not made themselves seem the greater evil. There would have been no credible threat of counter-revolution had the Bolsheviks not alienated millions of people by their actions.
Spartacus21C 2 years ago
And during the Civil War, there were cases of the Red Army massacring entire towns.
Admittedly none of this was much different to before the revolution...but that's the point.
Spartacus21C 2 years ago
Left SRs - on the Constitutional Assambly they had majority - canceled all decreets of local self-governments - Soviets (were bolshewiks had majority) - about ending the war, giving earth to peasents and factory to workers. They began to fight vs. Soviets to take power and government chairs. So they betraded their people to get power. So boshewiks banned this Assambey.
RSDRPtheGreat 2 years ago
Eternal Glory to Lenin! Now that the fascist McCain has been defeated by the American voters, the real struggle for socialism might take place in the USA. Long live communism! Adrien Alpendre (New Orleans)
Armenterosma 2 years ago
Get your dictionary out regarding fascism and then open your mind about BHObama.
tpsu129 2 years ago
Great scene with Lenin at 3:10, the book by John Reed explains that Lenin had just concluded a hours-long meeting with representatives of the peasant's party and they had agreed to join forces for the success of the Revolution. So that's what the people are cheering for.
Blackaeneas 2 years ago
da!
plslvmn 2 years ago
Thanks for the post!! I've never seen the movie but now will have to!
monoceros1222 3 years ago 3
It is a marvelous picture, is impossible to miss that piece of art.
Thanks for your comment.
ruizdechavez 3 years ago 3