Katyn Disc 3/3 Bought with a bunch of Bananas
http://www.stalinsociety.org.uk/katyn.html
The key role of anti-Stalin propaganda in anti-communist propaganda in general is clear. The ultimate aim is to shake the confidence of the working class to press on with its historic mission and overturn the rotten and outmoded system of capitalist production. But it is becoming increasingly far-fetched and hollow.
Due to the workings of the monopoly capitalist system, which super-exploits the third world, certain nations (Honduras, Guatemala, etc, - http://www.mayaparadise.com/ufc1e.htm ignore the final 3 paragraphs!), are given over almost entirely to production of consumer crops (tropical fruit, coffee, etc.). They produce for a pittance, in order to satisfy the appetites of western consumers and make monopoly corporations (eg united fruit corporation, reborn as Chiquita) fabulous profits in the process.
The eastern block countries, which refused to enslave other nations, in the face of the imperialists virtual monopoly, often could not access these cash-crops in great quantities. And yet, they had all that they needed. They ate well, had cheap and good quality housing, free childcare, creche and public dining facilities, universal free education and healthcare, full employment and high material and cultural standards of life - without exploiting workers or other nations. Beggary, prostitution, drug dealing all these wonders of capitalism were unknown.
Such was the ideological disarming of the population by Khruhschevite revisionism, however, that coupled with the incessant propaganda of western imperialism, such shortages became source of grievance you cant even get bananas! Speak to West Germans about East Germany and this is even today one of the first examples of communist failure that they will blurt out, little realizing the full racist and pro-imperialist implications that underpin such reasoning.
CIA agents, during the counter-revolution, drove truckloads of bananas into the streets of Berlin and gave them away, to delirious crowds. Only now, can the populace really appreciate how cheaply they were brought; how cheaply they sold the gains so bitterly fought for and fiercely defended by previous generations of Workers to live as masters of their own destiny, free of exploitative relations, secure in their future and their children's futures.
The hard lessons of anti-revisionist politics are being learned, and communism as well as Stalin himself is rising in popularity throughout Eastern Europe and the world, to levels not seen since the 1950s. This is precisely why such anti-soviet lies, originating with the German NAZI imperialists continue to be peddled today by their natural successors, the US and UK imperialists, who fear above all things, that the working class and exploited nations will resume their world-historic mission, and settle accounts with the monopoly-capitalists once and for all.
@kozjevime That's BS. Name me one such situation.
The famine was a result of the civil war, which itself was a result of imperialist intervention.
RFXCGZZ 1 year ago
@MrFiatlux2004 Go to Russia. 75% of people in Russia and 80%+ in other former Soviet republics agree that it is worse now than it was even in 1991.
RFXCGZZ 1 year ago
wvprogressive 1933
Really, did you meet people who say socialism was far better in Poland? Well, I visit Poland on a regurarly basis and I didn't meet them. But anyway, what is the meaning of this statement? I watch people on this video who are denying the existence of GULAG deathcamps! Or say that the cleansing of soviet army before WWII was necessary to defeat Stalin! Well, does that proof that Polish want in majority socialism back as before 1989? Idiot fool.
MrFiatlux2004 1 year ago
If you have a computer with internet access and live in Poland, chances are high that you are reactionary troll.
I have met people from Poland who say that socialism was far better.
wvprogressive1933 2 years ago
@WielkiZielonyMelon The gentleman is Gypsy fom Romania. They are no fond of work but love freebies whatever they are.
He does not care for Great Holocaust of Slavs during bolshevik rule of Ulyanov - "Lenin" and Dzugashvilli - "Stalin".
On the other side, USA is the greatest producer of rubbish, mental and physical and polutes Europe.
kozjevime 2 years ago
@mirungee007 The gentleman is Gypsy fom Romania. They are no fond of work but love freebies whatever they are.
He does not care for Great Holocaust of Slavs during bolshevik rule of Ulyanov - "Lenin" and Dzugashvilli - "Stalin".
On the other side, USA is the greatest producer of rubbish, mental and physical and polutes Europe.
kozjevime 2 years ago
You know they are pretty funny. Living in some old ugly apartment, probably haven't achieved anything but they are still whining that communism is the only answer. And they have a portrait of Hitler on the wall. Oh wait, that's Stalin, but actually that's no difference [;
To be honest I do not care about those sick people, that never encountered communism in their life.
I am more saddened by Slavs who worship Stalin and Lenin, and communism in general, that killed so many Slavs |:
WielkiZielonyMelon 2 years ago
That woman is a stuppid cow delicatly saying and that guy?I would say:fuck you asshole and get communism in your country and stay away from Poland!!!
Melon-the number of killed Poles in WWII,including German and Russian victims is 12.3 million people i.e. 1/3 of the whole Polish population!!!It was Comuna when they kept on telling us and the rest of the world that 5.5 millions Poles died,what a lie it was.
mirungee007 2 years ago
Communism had everything? So why criticism wasn't allowed? Why free speech wasn't allowed? Oh wait, I forgot, WE DO NOT KNOW HOW WONDERFUL IS!
Stalin a hero? The same hero as Hitler.
because of communist policies, you killed 5 mln Poles during WWII. Poles died on Syberia, in lagry. Poles died in Katyn, Ostaszkow Starobielsk, Charkow. You tied our hands at the back and put a bullet in the head.
My, my, I wonder why nobody wants this crappy communist utopia in Poland right now [:
WielkiZielonyMelon 2 years ago
And why does working class must restore socialism in countries in Poland? Because what?
What is this, seriously? Has this lady been do communist Poland? Has she seen how thievery this totalitarian utopia was?
This is a typical speech of a person that says "It will be much better if you have communism in your country (but I will just stay back in place where communism is not present)"
or
"There has to be communism in your country, but I will be the leader (and I will exploit you )"
WielkiZielonyMelon 2 years ago