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  • For an atheist nation like the USSR theres a lot of religious iconography in this clip

  • @cbohar84 In the Soviet cinema was forbidden to show the religious iconography only if the action of the story happened in the USSR. In the film, which is set, for example, in England, the use of Catholic elements was not forbidden. Plus, this cartoon at the western theme.

  • all good propaganda has an element of truth

  • This is not propaganda, this is truth.

  • I am talking from a media critical view not a political view but i must say that was a beautiful in a strange way.

  • Oh sorry Soviets for oging in Vietnamn....Oh how was Afghanistan by the way?

  • @Deleau777 Nice, nice. By the way, I heard you had it rough at Iran. How was it?

  • @MultiDarkness12 I think you mean Iraq and you. And you know...kicking ass killing terrorist. Though if it was a terrorist vs a communist id join the commununist.

  • @Deleau777 Well, you got a point there. Communism is just another (more restrictive, but internally peaceful) way of life. Terrorism is a new way of kill. And, if we meant about Cold War, MAD would have destroyed both Americans and Soviets.

  • no matter what, as history moves forwards, true communism will inevitably win.

  • woow tht was eerily beautiful and haunting .

    very interesting style .. just shows how pointless and tragic the vietnam conflict was.

    after all ," A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves". ~German Proverb

  • this was hauntingly beautiful...

  • As much as I agree with Communist ideology, this film was pretentious and boring.

  • was it called "intelectual montage" or something like that? A technique invented by Eisenstein...

  • i love shooting down jets with my anti aircraft machine guns.

  • Criticize USA of going to Vietnam

    advice_CCCP.jpg

    Invade Afganistan

  • I find the degree of religious imagery used in this, both Christian and Buddhist, amazing to see in a society that encouraged atheism. It's an interesting attempt to find common ground in the chaos of war.

  • @VanSisean Perhaps one purpose of this ad was critic to religion; like saying: "you trust in religion to give you peace and justice, but too often it is used to support or justify war". However it's not a disrespectful critic. The need to find a common ground for all ppl, is still enormous. We forget so often (and we're led to forget) that every soldier in a war starves and dies in a very similar way, be him from any nation. As all their national leaders get rich and build personal power

  • @lunacomputacion Arguably, religion and irreligion have both been used to justify massive and perhaps equal amounts of bloodshed. Christianity, Islam and the other Abrahamic faiths, Hinduism, Confucianism and even Buddhism and Taoism, among others, have been used in the justification of violence and the pursuit of empire. Likewise, the Communists in Russia, China and elsewhere killed millions in support of their cause.

  • @VanSisean Yes, it's not the cause but the act what matters. I think the film plays some game about that, very "a la russe"... the big brasses and warmongers are blessed by all religion symbols and ceremonies, but it's their victims who resemble the religious imagery. Not that I think that all Soviet material is as agreeable as this. The red army missile parades meant "something", too. And they had their own dose of witch hunt and red scare (in their case, "green" scare)

  • @joecantstandmenow yes comraide you are correct

  • the end is near for capitalism.

  • Interestingly this propaganda propagates true - USA fascist totalitarian regime till this day.

  • @mindaugs69 very true, this is going on in the middle east just now and nobody cant stop it.

  • beautiful...

  • Soviet hypocrites.

  • it saddens me this propagonda shows the brutality of the us to vietnam

  • @communism100 Why, 'cause it's embarrassing that the world allowed the fuckers to do this?

  • @canuckleful no because U.S. hates communism and masscres innocent civilians that are communist , this capitialist goverment (U.S) saddens and they say its for national security. only showing me that capitialist= man slaughter

  • @communism100 Indeed they do. Fuck the USA.

  • Holy hell....this is moving beyond words.

  • Im proud of my country you can protest and the gobermente does nothing ... thats freedom !!

  • @Jackerarg yes. power to the people. in soviet russia, there is no freedom... but they did do a good job to show us how the US war pigs profit out of wars...

  • Seriously, the first time I saw this I really had to cry...

  • @expotl, it is avery powerful propaganda video for sure. Regardless of its Comunist origin its value as a true depiction of the mindless violence of the war in Vietnam is priceless.

  • Many people will just deem this video as "propaganda" But it really shows how much of a tragedy the Vietnam conflict was for both sides.

  • LeftEdit: I agree

    Sadly Soviet union didn't learn did the same thing too by attacking afghanistan later. :(

  • wow

    solidarity with oppressed nations

    the right for self determination

    its all in here

  • Genious, Genious !

  • Genius, genius propaganda!

  • 3:26 - 3:32 is it F-105? And Viet Cong shot them down by gun-machines? LOL!

  • @S4uryk

    And THAT'S the one thing you seize upon? Seriously?

  • Beautiful!

  • the american hawk the russian bear the swedish headgehog

    as the armys are called

  • Good thing America and Soviet Russia didn't invaded each other, we all know that would have been nuclear war. :o

  • Footage of police brutality against the progressive movement of the 60's put things into perspective for me :-)

  • So touching... man I almost cried watching this.

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  • My favorite part of the video is the playing of Ave Maria with police brutality to the peaceful protesters. Theirs no such thing as freedom of assembly in this country, our politicians say you have these freedoms but then when you go out in the streets to use these freedoms the politicians send out the fascist police to beat you up as if you did something wrong. Anyways great video. *Thumbs-up*

  • @FQBeast I don't know what country you're in, but protestors are protected by the Freedom of Speech in the United States- that is, until the protestors break the law by either pillaging personal property, harassing citizens, disrupting other people's business, etc, as they so often do. Americans enjoy as much freedom as possible- until it starts taking away from others.

  • @ludicrus32 So what harassment did the protesters at Kent state university commit when 4 innocent students were shot down by the national guards men? What harassment did black civil rights protesters commit when they were marching completely peacefully at Selma and brutally beaten up by national guards men?

    Yes you do have freedoms, until the government says otherwise. And they can say otherwise whenever possible.

  • @FQBeast In case you didn't notice, the protesters in this video were starting a riot, which goes back to what ludicrus32 said.

  • @FQBeast

    And you think they had that sort of freedom in the USSR? Do you practice to be this stupid, or does it just come naturally?

  • @Jacque118 I never said the Soviet Union gave people freedom you fucking moron, where the hell in my comment did I say that! Communism was a disaster and the Soviet Union perfected totalitarianism. But just because the United States was far better than the Soviet Union doesn't mean it was great. Franco was better than Hitler, but does that make Franco good? No, he was a Fascist dictator aswell. The government of the US gives you an illusion that you have true freedom. Capitalism is not freedom.

  • @FQBeast someday, the fat fucks of the american government will just have everyone who isn't closed-minded redneck shot, they're already attacking the internet with their goddanmed SOPA, i feel as if i'm being watched sometimes, someday the government's going to have the american people fucked in the ass! the fucking economy already failed because of ignorant hick george w. bush! someday, it'll go beyond incompetence, someday, they'll be just like nazi germany! damn the american government!

  • whats the song that plays in the background called?

  • Soviet propaganda with Ave Maria in the background? that's interesting!

  • 35 years.

  • it is art. I was so shocked when the GI shot the child!

  • @xxxToomy07 you're stupid!!

  • @GayGuyinTucson fuck you, shit-for-brains.

  • @xxxToomy07 You're still stupid. EAT MY FUCK!!

  • @GayGuyinTucson Go fuck your momma

  • @xxxToomy07 I fucked your Momma and she loved it!! You're still stupid!!

  • @GayGuyinTucson I thought you were gay?

  • @xxxToomy07 I made an exception for her.

  • @xxxToomy07 I changed for her.

  • @GayGuyinTucson lol okay then

  • @xxxToomy07 Nice fuckin' wiyh ya!! Have a good day.

  • vive revolution!

  • Surely we have seen Capitalism is purely mercantilistic and Communism is total control of the state. The US is shifting more and more towards that now.

    All forms of 'government' is corrupt.

    Conformity is the enemy of freedom and the jailer of growth" - John F Kenndy.

  • Has everyone lost sight of the fact that it was the North Vietnamese , backed by this same Soviet Union that started the war in the first place and were inflicting this same kind of genocide on the people of South Vietnam ? The Soviets were financing and supplying the very war they were decrying in this film . Talk about being two-faced !!!

  • yes, that is true, but this is the Russian propaganda which didn't show the truth, but showed what they wanted the people to think

  • No they didn't, the supposed North Vietnamese attack on the US navy has been irrefutably proven to be a false flag attack. The US are sure good at those to stir up national pride.

    "CMON, LETS GET THE FUCK MOTIVATED BEHIND THIS, CMON!'

  • @chuckiejay Well, the world is not black and white.

  • This reminds me of something my father would have shown me when I was younger.

  • This is Cold War, all sides commited crimes, genocide and instigate war around the world.

    Americans, Russians, Communists, Capitalists, Fascists... all of them drained blood in name of "Freedom" "Democracy" and "Revolution"

  • those commies are demonizers i can tell you. The Soviet union mad this only for the name of Stalin. Back in the cold war, Russia remained a Stalinist State. Stalin caused a genocide two times as worse as Hitler.

  • @CoreyStudios2000

    Not true. The soviets went through a wide de-Stalinization campaign, in which they burned Stalin´s pictures in public and renamed Stalingrad to Volgograd, in addition to other things.

    I don´t see this much different from the propaganda the Americans used against USSR.

  • I didn't realy understand why there was religious stuff in a soviet propoganda video. what happend to "religion is the opiet of the masses"?

  • @1945redarmy

    The majority of Russians were Orthodox Christians despite the communist rule, and they knew how to use religious imagery in their propaganda. Obviously this also destroys any concept of USA being a Christian country and therefore maybe favourable in Russian Christians´ eyes.

    I would also like to add that the makers of these films were probably not communists themselves. The reality was that an artist had to make pro-Soviet stuff, so they could as well try being creative.

  • its funny how they use our own footage against us.

    well done, though. the art was really cool.

  • I wouldn't consider this propaganda.

  • It actually has a lot of honesty in it. Especially showing how people on both sides don't want to be there yet we still were.

  • long live revolution!!!

  • As much as I disagree with Communist ideology, the Russians had some genious propaganda. Interesting film.

  • @HufflepuffTheGreat Stalin never attempted Communism, in fact his actions were motivated by paranoia and hatred for the people

    my point is, these propaganda is not communist at all or socialist

    but i got to respect the USSR becuase without them, we'd be talking German right now

  • and if it weren't for the Americans we would be speaking Russian.

    Und was ist falsch mit nur deutsch sprechen?

    (just laugh at the past, because right now your making history, cause that is what we call it once the days have passed... so you doing your part to make it a interesting read for future bored students?)

  • @DerUfo the past repeats itself, one must learn from the past to know the future

    btw yesterday was lenin's birthday

  • Hitler actually... Stalin is December 21

  • @DerUfo hitler's is 4/20, i said lenin's which is 4/22

  • @HufflepuffTheGreat well its worked with china for all these years and once castro is finally dead i think only china and nam would remain

  • @HufflepuffTheGreat how can you disagree with the ideology when its only wants justcice and that noone is better than the other 1 how can you disagree with that when capatalism is like a pyramid of much you are better than other

  • I suspect that South Vietnam's GDP took a big hit when it went communist...just like Cuba's did...

    communism was a failed economic model...look at North Korea and Cuba today...

  • @EdwardRommel

    thats because capitalsm exist. and because of free trade.

    the only threaving communsit union is china. the way commusim should be run.

  • @rommel, sociological and historical factors account for cuba's condition; china is communist and is on the rise; north korea is not truly communist, it's just a crappy dictatorship disguised in communism. --- their GDPs took a hit, but the poor no longer had a lot of the problems that they do in other countries (eg, dying of starvation or lack of health care), and the country's resources were able to be nationalized so that they went to the country rather than OTHER countries' corporations

  • @qwecjc China is not very much planned economy anymore.

  • so true

  • KOLKOLKOL

    Rawr to those who get it XD

  • if this comment had a point of view, it would be raged at

    probably still will...

  • Discuss about politic in a vid is immaturity

  • Heh, nice brainwash... you will not know what the commies until your country - and you - will not live under their rule.

    As well as socialists btw. In this world, the best political solution is that where nobody gets too much power. Not capitalists, nor goverment. And also, too much power for goverment is far more dangerous than more power to the capitalists..

  • Dumbass...

  • the bush admin. did 9/11. it is scientifically proven

  • This video made me cry...

  • We shouldn't have been in Korea, we shouldn't have been in Vietnam, we shouldn't have been in Kuwait, we shouldn't be in Iraq, and we shouldn't be in Afghanistan, but the soviets shouldn't have been in Afghanistan either.

  • and the russians shouldn't have been in Georgia and the Americans shouldn't have military bases worldwide to act lyk a police of the world...

  • we shouldn't have to be the worlds police force, but we are. War is an ugly thing, but sometimes it is necessary. Are we in the Middle East for oil, perhaps. But the point is, we are making a difference in peoples lives.

  • Don't ever give ME that "war is necessary" thing ok?

    WAR is something people did 2000 years ago. It is not necessary, ever. There is always a better way, we just dont see it..

  • no russia was protecting south ossetia from georgia but of cource nato and america where quick to point out that russia was trying to be mr. big and evil.

  • Russia was in no way protecting south ossetia, Russia was protecting its own sef-interest.

  • @Denmarkforever1 and its people, it lives manny russians in south ossetia

  • they where trying to expand there empire.

    korea maybey

    kuwait- mabey

    all the other yeah we shouldn't be in. 9/11 was horribal but we invaded with out proper intalligence and without the nessecery will to get rid of the al quada and the talibian. but now most are in pakistan, india, saudi arabia, iran, and eygept maybey.

  • @sharingundragon

    'maybey' you should go back to school

  • dumbass

    I won't trust you withgov't info if you can't spell for shit

  • @Codemonkey0001

    and you can't make a structerd sentence

    at all. you should have said dumbass i woulden't trust you with (space)

    goverement information if you can't spell for shit. (which of cource you probley shorten up the words gov and info because you can not spell them without looking theme up. but you are right i woulden't trust me with goverment information at all nothing is more powerfull then someone with that knowledge. so yes i very well am a "dumbass" just a smarter one then you

  • @sharingundragon

    which of cource you will retaliate with something right there by causeing another pointless internet war with no clear gain in it. (so like iraq)

  • ...so your still a dumbass...

  • @Codemonkey0001

    define dumbass.

  • unintelligent ass

  • @Codemonkey0001

    so an unitelligent donkey.

    oh well theres no scence even trying

    have fun in your life of meh.

  • you mean sense

  • @Belfadin Hehe, what about Europe?

  • Lol, Kasparov is a good chess player, but as a man, he is a bastard and liar :D

  • You think that in USSR people didn't know English? lol

  • A very interesting video, but I think that the director missed an opportunity with the child's ghost. She just kind of walked around, but I kept thinking she would haunt the soldier that shot her. Oh well, the best art that came from Soviet Russia was the classical music anyways.

  • the message of the video is peace, well it propagates a message of peace, but if the little girl haunted the soldier, one it would provide a killer with a conscious, and two it would take away her innocence, the depiction changes.

  • I love the beautifully paranoid comments for this video. "well no doubt dubious americans of all types write on there" will pass down into Internet Legend.

  • war war no change

  • Russia had a DAMN GOOD REASON TO GO TO WAR IN WW2 THEY STOPPED THE HEARTLESS SOULS OF THE TIME: THE NAZIS. I SALUTE TO RUSSIA FROM AN AMERICAN. but that defeats the purpose of my last comment but it was for a good reason to save Germany from it self. BURN IN HELL HITLER

  • That is funny considering Hitler and stalin formed a alliance and both invaded Poland.

  • Although Hitler and Stalin signed a non aggression pact they were never in an actual alliance. Also Hitler and Stalin did not jointly invade Poland if that is what you are saying. Hitler invaded Poland and Stalin did nothing because they had the non aggression pact. Stalin did later invade Poland to defeat the Nazis but that was after the war had started.

  • Sorry: read something about Katyn

    read: Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty.

    Stalin invaded Poland two weeks after Nazis to grab the land which they (Molotov+Ribbentrop) agreed on.

  • And I suppose he got out of Poland after the war ended?

  • He did not pull out of Poland because Stalin was a ruthless dictator bent on creating an empire. However he did not jointly invade Poland and was not allied with Hitler.

  • I guess your right they did divide up Poland, (not really a joint invasion but oh well) however they were NOT allies due to the fact that when England and France declared war on Germany, the USSR did not declare war on England and France

  • @SocialistBob No, Hitler and Molotov signed a non aggression pact.

  • @SocialistBob Stalin did invade in 1940 the part of Poland that wasn't still occupied by the nazis. The final attack against Hitler, through Poland, is a different story.

  • we had no businesses in Vietnam and what happened?....... we gave up we lost too many men there is no point of war just senseless onslaught of people and in fucked up ways. and i was NOT in any war whatsoever. it was

    entering the cold war and i was glad the us and USSR didn't go to war it would be worse than the other wars bombing. AND WHAT HAPPENED?!!!!!! WE SETTLED OUR DIFFERENCES AND THE WAR WAS PREVENTED WAR MAKES ME SICK!!!!!!

  • goddam america and their stupid pointless wars for profit! well many vietnamese were catholic even tho those were usually in favor of the americans. buttt stilll, annd great part at the end with the brutal violence against US protesters, its funy how the west always focuses on the same exact things that occurd in east.

  • North Vietnam attacked South Vietnam first. Why people forget about this?

  • cause its not true! LOL! why dont u look up all the stuff that happend after they won their indipendence and the french left.

  • Quote from Wikipedia: "In January 1959, the North's Central Committee issued a secret resolution authorizing an "armed struggle". This authorized the southern communists to begin large-scale operations against the South Vietnamese military. North Vietnam supplied troops and supplies in earnest, and the infiltration of men and weapons from the north began along the Ho Chi Minh Trail."

  • wiki in english! LOL! hahahahahha! well no doubt dubious americans of all types write on there. anyhow soo if u must know because well this is no longer confidential for cccp, communists were all over country and north viet namese mearly acted as the cccp did in corea or as the americans did in somalia. most pple dont know americans purposefuly aided fascists militarist anti-french groups in the begining who made terrorist attacks against the french and civilians blamed them on coms.

  • English please? Also try not to use wikipedia as a source because it can be changed and such.

  • What do you mean by "English please?"? Wikipedia uses different sources. Of course it can be changed, but the fact that Norh Vietnam started military action against South Vietnam cannot be changed. You can argue that it was ok, that they had right to do so, but you cannot deny that they started the action.

  • thx I said English please because it was a little confusing about what you said. You put it much clearer now.

  • Beautiful animation and very well made. I don't know much about the history or the message of this video, but anyway I like the style of this movie. ;-)

  • The message is that the world we live in is one big lie. They contrast the tranquility of Maria (a reference to the significance of Christianity in the US), and the way the soldiers just go fight a meaningless war...

    The soldiers go to fight, believing that they have Maria's blessing and that they are doing a good thing. But in fact, they are just slaughtering innocents...

    No wonder most Vietnam veterans went insane after they returned...

  • ...along with the CIA distributed white powdered bonus.

  • The USSR didn't despise religion, they had Christianity, and, Orthodox (most common)...

    Now there is more and these pictures predate the USSR. These pictures show our part of our past, and can't be forgotten.

  • yeah but it wasnt the choice of the communists they set up a group in the 20s called the militant godless to attempt to reduce religion as its according to Marx the opiate of the people. Although the real reason the U.S.S.R. or the F.S.R.D.R. as it originally was called was because of the alignment of religion to the tsarist regime and hence the whites and hence the capitalist powers. these two factors lead to frequent purges and attacks on the church starting before party purges.

  • I strongly disagree with Karl Marx, but he was a product of its time. The robber barons, the abuses against workers during the height of the industrial revolution, the collusion between church and capital. You can see why he had some crazy ideas.

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  • In USA, under the patriot act, or terror act, anyone can be taken by the secret forces, without judicial proceedings and tortured in a foreign country. What right is that? Americans pay the black tax, a tax that funds secret policies, etc. If you ask me, these are clear signs of a nationalism, all powered and run by the economic giants, who intelligently hide amongst the shadows of the government while the government take the heat and the public never know who the real 'rulers' are.

  • This is actually very touching and beautiful.

    The only difference between Soviets and USA is that Soviets were honest: ''join us or be destroyed''

    American rights are nothing more then a illusion.

  • right on

  • What is the tie in with such Catholic imagery and communism. The communists were atheist, am I right?

  • Yes, the Soviet Union was officially atheist, so the religious imagery is likely meant to be ironic, considering the brutality of the film.

  • No religion. I have read in National Geogrphic,that most Russians are getting baptised now,most of them,adults,who lived in Soviet Rule.

  • No no no, Us soldiers weren't shooting the vietnamese children....

    They were raping them.

  • It's things like this that really make youtube a great innovation for all of mankind.

    kudos to the person for posting this.

    i consider myself very pro-american and completey disagree with the message of this video, but its great to see it nonetheless.

  • Why? You think Vietnam was nothing other than a profiteer war?

  • "You think Vietnam was nothing other than a profiteer war? "

    Great usual black and white response from a stupid close-minded left wing loud-mouth.

    Like in Korea, the Communist dictatorship in the North was trying to invade the South.

    In the context of fighting Communism, the USA was absolutely right and justified in standing up for the South.

  • lol.. first of all I'm a Ron Paul supporter. I don't believe sending Americans away to die in wars for no real reason.

    The north won, and what have the consequences been? NOTHING.

    Nothing has happened. Stop justifying it. You can't. Did you fight in the war?

    No, You're a 21 y/o canadian MORON who supports Israel!?! FUCK Israel.

  • Ron Paul, the darling of left-wingers, parading as a Republican. Don't make me laugh.

    Yes, I support Israel, as most other mature non-crazy left wing people that have any idea about politics. Given the freaks that support the Arab Islamists and dictatorships surrounding it, it makes all the more sense.

  • So you support the attack on the us liberty conducted by the Israel government?

  • What a stupid question.

    I don't support the 'attack' on the us liberty and nor does anyone else given the simple fact that it was an accident.

    It took place during the 6th day war, when Israeli planes mistook the ship for an Egyptian vessle and opened fire, sadly killing several US sailors.

  • Accident right.

    As much of an accident the attack on pearl harbor.

    I wasn't aware that us ships did not carry national flags.

  • You can think what you want.

    To me it makes zero sense why Israel, the USA's number one ally in the region, would attack its ships.

  • Because if they didn't ,i wouldn't have a purpose in my life and would have to get a real job instead of being on you tube 24 seven.

  • stop making excuses. The purpose of invasion was to stop the spread of communism in South East Asia...

    There was no other purpose...

  • No the reall purpose of the Vietnamese invasion was MONEY. America WANTED to go to war. War means MONEY! Thats really why the nations even go to war,Greed. Some day it will kill us all.

  • its not only america, Everyone goes to war for money(Its NOT okay though)

    Im sick of the system based on greed!

  • The reason we were in Vietnam was because we were trying to help the French out. We got stuck with other peoples problems...