Comments by "Андрей Борцов" (@Mentol_) on "Knowledgia" channel.

  1. Poland killed 17 thousand Wehrmacht soldiers in 36 days (472 people a day). France and allies killed 46 thousand Axis soldiers in 43 days (1070 people a day).
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  2.  @cgabriel777  I am Russian. Stop spreading lies about the history of my country. If you want to understand the Bolsheviks, then instead of reading the books of the nationalists (Solzhenitsyn), read the works of the Bolsheviks themselves. Shock!
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  3.  @cgabriel777  In science, it is customary to use primary sources of information. For the Nazis, this is Hitler's book and his orders. For fascism, this is Mussolini's book. For Soviet communism, these are the works of Lenin-Stalin. If, in order to understand the policy of the Bolsheviks, you begin to read the opinion of their opponents (nationalists, liberals), then you see the interpretation of people who do not like this system, but you do not see the thoughts of the authors of the policy. What is a crime for Solzhenitsyn is not such for the Bolsheviks. For example, the Molotov-Ribentrop Pact. What did the USSR get? Non-aggression pact, economic treaty and sphere of influence in Europe. How is this bad from the point of view of Soviet interests? Or fighting religion. The Bolsheviks believed that religion had a bad effect on the critical thinking of a person. Therefore, the fight against religious propaganda makes your society healthier. But the nationalists believed that this was the destruction of Russian culture. However, the Bolsheviks divided culture into progressive and regressive - they supported the first and fought against the second. Do you see how things change when you use the right context? Or are you saying that the Soviet invasion of Europe was a crime. Now look what happened: Romania annexed Bessarabia in 1919, the USSR returned this region in 1940. Poland annexed part of Ukraine in 1921, and the USSR returned it in 1939. How is this bad for the USSR? Any state has its own national and geopolitical interests. But Solzhenitsyn was able to convince you that the defense of Soviet interests is a crime.
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  4.  @cgabriel777  The opinion of people who suffered from the policy of the Soviet government is also propaganda, only anti-Soviet. Using such a source of information, you will understand the position of the opponents of communism, and not its authors. If your goal is to study communism, then you will use the original source of information. But if your goal is to fight against communism, then you will continue to study the opinions of the victims.
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  5.  @cgabriel777  Open the Soviet constitution and you will see that freedom of religion was proclaimed in the USSR. But religious propaganda is prohibited because it negatively affects a person's thinking. Those dissatisfied with the policies of the Soviet government were a minority in the USSR, and Solzhenitsyn is trying to show that they were in the majority. This is manipulation. There is a lot of false information in his book. In reality, there is no division into normal Russians and communists - they are all Russian. You insult the history of my country when you say that the USSR had nothing to do with Russia. The civil war and the war against Germany were won by Soviet patriots. Industrialization, the atomic bomb, the eradication of illiteracy, the equal rights of women, the reduction of the working day, the reduction of class privileges, the separation of church and state, the collegial government of the state - all these are the achievements of Russians under the leadership of the Bolsheviks.
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  6.  @cgabriel777  1. You need to take statistics from Soviet documents, not from Solzhenitsyn's book. During the Great Terror (1937-1938), 4 million people were restricted in their rights. Of these, 682 thousand were sentenced to death. This is a statistical minority. The total population during this period is about 170 million people. 2. During the war with Germany, being a communist was considered very prestigious. Therefore, according to statistics, from 30 to 50% of all Soviet soldiers were members of various communist organizations. The activities of the NKVD did not differ from the activities of the soldiers. 3. You constantly say that the Bolsheviks were criminals. This is the point of view of Solzhenitsyn which you do not check for authenticity. Just look at what state Russia was in after the civil war and how could such a state win the war against Germany? Because the main policy of the Bolsheviks was aimed at the development of the state, and not at repression. Solzhenitsyn is deceiving you. Adequate people will not allow you to erase the Soviet period from Russian history.
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  7.  @roguestate6221  Which of the things I said is wrong?
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  8. Soviet casualties killed in all Rzhev operations amount to 392 thousand people. But if you add the wounded, there are 1.1 million. People confuse the wounded with the dead.
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  9. This is an old myth. In fact, after the Polish campaign, Germany had enough ammunition for a war in the west even without taking into account current production.
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  10.  @radomirratkovic4407  Show me a soviet order with the goal of capturing Europe.
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  11.  @boombap1176  1. I know that this is a series. To save time, I watched only those fragments that relate to the history of Russia. I have a lot of experience in the study of history, so I immediately see the main idea of ​​the film - to swap the Nazis and their victims. Some right-wingers in Russia use similar tactics. 2. Find the text of the Soviet constitution and read it. For example, let's take the constitution of 1936. Article #123 says that all citizens, regardless of nationality, should have equal rights. Article #124 says that in order to ensure freedom of conscience, the church is separated from the state, and a person retains the right to any faith, including anti-religious propaganda. Article #125 says that everyone has the right to freedom of speech, press and rallies. Of course, some articles were violated in the USSR. For example, during the Great Terror (1937-1938), an article was violated that said that only a court can establish a person's guilt. But special commissions of 3 people were created who violated this procedure. However, with regard to the equality of citizens, I do not remember that there were facts of the introduction of slavery. When they talk about the gulag, they forget to say that a person received freedom after the expiration of the sentence. 3. With regard to German plans for Europe, I recommend that you find the text of the following conferences between Hitler and the generals: - November 5, 1937 (also known as the Hossbach protocol). - May 23, 1939 - August 22, 1939 - November 23, 1939 - January 9, 1941. It is also necessary to remember that Hitler, for propaganda purposes, spoke one information to the public, and at closed meetings he spoke another (truth).
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  12.  @boombap1176  You don't understand the difference between left and right ideas. The left supports social progress, while the right supports traditions. It didn't start in 1917, but after the French Revolution (1789). The left supported the transformation of the monarchy into a republic, while the right saw it as a worldwide conspiracy to destroy traditional values. After the revolution in Russia, they simply said that this was a new stage in the conspiracy. The right sees religion as a good foundation for society, while the left (Bolsheviks) see religion as a relic of the old society that negatively affects the critical thinking of a person. The Bolsheviks set a goal to modernize society, so they supported anti-religious propaganda. They had a positive purpose to give society a scientific foundation, which they called Marxism.. But the nationalists interpreted their policies as a plot to destroy public morality. The right does not understand that public culture has progressive and regressive currents. The Bolsheviks supported the progressive and suppressed the regressive. Therefore, the interpretation of the right-wing in relation to the Bolsheviks is incorrect at the level of worldview.
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  13.  @boombap1176  The modern far left and the Bolsheviks are not the same. There were several periods in the USSR. During Lenin, women received equal social rights with men, abortions were allowed, and non-traditional orientation was considered part of the freedom of the individual. It was a revolutionary period. But it ended, and during Stalin's time, non-traditional orientation was considered a mental illness, and gays were treated in a psychiatric hospital. Abortions were allowed only for medical reasons. Prostitution was banned by law, as weel as pornography. In any case, this does not give the nationalists the right to create a fake reality of life in the USSR.
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  14.  @IblewuponyourfaceIII  Anthony Sutton is a economist, not a historian. He created a conspiracy theory.
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  15.  @boguslawgajdeczko6207  I rely on rational arguments. You rely on a conspiracy theory.
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  16.  @boombap1176  1. The theory of class struggle was discovered by the French in 1820. 2. You still have not provided any evidence that the Bolsheviks believed in Judaism. Not a single quote from Lenin, Stalin or Trotsky. You can't use a theory as fact until it's proven.
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  17. I am Russian. Why are you spreading false information about the history of my country? Why do you say that the fight against religion that oppresses critical thinking is bad? Why are you talking about fake medical experiments? Instead of reading right-wing literature on communism, open the work of the Bolsheviks themselves.
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  18.  @guyvert49  1. State control in Germany and Italy was aimed at preserving the hierarchical system. According to the compass, this is the "authoritarian right wing" idea. State control in the USSR was aimed at suppressing the exploiting class and the idea of the gradual withering away of the state. This is a left wing idea. 2. Open Hitler's book and you will see that he rejects Christian morality which says that inflicting pain is evil. For the Nazis, the struggle that creates pain is part of the laws of nature that they believe make their race stronger (good). Hitler's opinion here is the primary source. The opinion of liberals is secondary. 3. Lenin's idea of ​​the dictatorship of the proletariat is the primary source in relation to Soviet politics. He believes that society is divided into classes that have different interests. You cannot give complete freedom to all people because in this case the minority will exploit the majority. In order to change this, the rights of the minority (the exploiting class) must be restricted so that the majority are free from their economic exploitation. Most often, the restriction is just a formal one, but sometimes you can be placed in a prison. Thus, the prison system in the understanding of Lenin is part of a democratic system, and not part of slavery, as the liberals say.
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  19. Stalin, May 4, 1935: “We must finally understand that of all the valuable capital available in the world, the most valuable and most decisive capital is people, cadres. We must understand that under our current conditions, cadres decide everything. We will have good and numerous cadres in industry, agriculture, transport, the army, our country will be invincible. If we will not have such personnel - we will limp on both legs. "
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  20. This is a conspiracy theory.
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  21. The aim of the Western policy of appeasing Germany was to prevent a war. But in the USSR, this was perceived as pushing Germany into a war against him. But the documents do not prove this.
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  22. You are not providing any arguments.
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  23. > The Soviets are equally complicit in starting WWII fake. > and have the blood of 50 million lives on their hands Proof? Of course not.
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  24. You do not understand what world war is. World war is a coalition conflict. None of the coalitions declared war on the USSR in 1939. Thus, the USSR was outside the war and could not be its initiator. This war was between Germany on the one hand and Poland and the west on the other. And the Soviet operation in the east was a separate war that was not part of the world war. And what about 50 million people killed by Stalin?
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  25. USSR opposed fascism in Spain (1936) and Japanese imperialism in China. This was unchanged until the conclusion of the Munich Agreement (1938). After this event, the Soviet government began to trust the West less and could already choose between it and Germany. Germany was able to offer better conditions than the west, so the USSR entered into an agreement (but not an alliance) with it. The official status was friendly neutrality. The USSR did not help Germany because trade is a two-way exchange, not a one-way aid. When neutral Sweden trades with Germany, it does not help her. USSR invaded Poland for a cause independent of Germany. Germany planned to create a puppet Ukrainian state on the territory of eastern Poland and occupy the Baltic states. The USSR prevented this. A joint war against Poland shows the hostility of the two states, does not prove a military alliance between them. The reason for Poland’s defeat was the lack of military coordination with France. If the French army launched a major offensive in the west, the USSR could abstain from its operation.
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  26. For the USSR, the operation in Poland is the return of territories that Poland annexed in 1921. This also prevents Germany from gaining all of Poland. Therefore, one cannot say that this is a joint operation, because there is not even a joint military plan (the secret protocol contains spheres of political influence, and not a military plan). The killing of Polish officers is an operation against the military and class enemies of the USSR. For the USSR, crime is not murder, but inaction. Yes, this is brutal, but state interests are always more important.
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  27. Losers.
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  28. Here is a brief list of the achievements of the two revolutions of 1917: - The peasants were given more land. - The working day is reduced from 10.5 hours to 8 hours. - Improvement of the health care system. - The policy of eliminating illiteracy of the population. - Equality of men and women is presented. - Elimination of class privileges. - Separation of church from state. - Cessation of economic exploitation of man by man.
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  29. If communism is always weakness and poverty, then the USSR should have lost the war to the Hitler's European Union. Try again.
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  30. 1. During feudalism, the first capitalist revolutions also ended in failure. 2. The Berlin Wall was created to facilitate border controls, and not to keep people locked. 3. Western civilization has a long history of colonialism (today financial and political monopolies). Now we have the illusion of democracy: no matter which party you vote for, you will get control of the bourgeoisie under you and commercial ideology instead of the lack of ideology. 4. What you just said is an attempt to gain the moral superiority of some countries over others. This is a form of dominance which means a lack of democracy.
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  31.  @wildec2  Why is the spread of communism evil and capitalism not? Why is North Korea being isolated is bad for you, and foreign politicians who talk about destroying it is good? Don't you see any propaganda here?
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  32.  @wildec2  1. When the USSR liberated part of China and Korea from the Japanese army, is this aggression for you? It’s strange. Is it "bad" to act in your geopolitical interests and expand your zone of influence? But for whom, for the West or for the USSR? For some reason, you forbid any nation other than the Western one to protect their interests. 2. When socialism in Europe was destroyed, the United States did not begin to conduct peace negotiations with the new Russia, but simply moved its military bases and cultural influence to the east. If you do not condemn it, then this is a double standard. 3. Nuclear weapons are a guarantee of your safety. Do you forbid Korea to have security, but do you mind the security of other nations? This is double standards again. Is the nation that does not submit to the political dictatorship of the United States creates a problem for you? But these are your problems, not theirs. 4. You say that in North Korea there is an ideology of national exclusivity. But how did you know about this if this country is isolated? From the western press (lol)? But when an American president says that the United States is an exclusive and free nation, then you don't judge it, right?
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  33.  @wildec2  1. North Korea and communists from other countries considered the South Korean government to be under American influence / occupation. Thus, the war against the south is a war for the liberation of all of Korea from foreign domination. If for the USSR this can be considered an expansion, then for North Korea it is a war of independence. This is by no means an analogue of German aggression (lol). 2. I have the same attitude to North and South Korea, but you consider the south as a democracy and the north as an empire of evil (propaganda). For this reason, I consider my position more objective than yours. If you are looking for the truth, you should not create privilege for one country by demonizing another.
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  34.  @wildec2  Why don't you just leave North Korea alone? The aggression comes from you, not from her.
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  35.  @wildec2  You really sound like a victim of massive propaganda. North Korea starts war first? These are their internal affairs (the union of their nation into one state), not yours. Is she building nuclear weapons to defend her independence? This is their internal policy, not yours. You have no moral right to say that their weapons or economy should be destroyed because if you do that, you become a barbarian like a Nazi. You say that propaganda in North Korea inspires people that they are exceptional, but you think that you have the moral right to decide whether the sovereign state should be preserved or not. You are deeply ill my friend.
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  36.  @wildec2  Where did you get the information that North Korea threatens other countries if this country is closed? From Western media? If so, do you still believe that you are not a victim of propaganda? You probably think that you live in a democratic country in which there is no propaganda? Have you ever read the original speech of the leader of North Korea? How can one country threaten several countries that are superior to it militarily and economically? Have you ever thought about it?
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  37.  @wildec2  I asked where did you get the information that the leader of North Korea is threatening to use weapons against other countries and you did not answer. Until you prove your thesis with the help of original sources, then you will not have the moral right to consider your opinion as real. This is the basic logic.
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  38.  @wildec2  In normal dialogue, each side is responsible for what they say. If a mistake is made, then the person apologizes for the misinformation and the discussion continues. You did not provide the original (North Korean) source of information that confirms your words about the armed threats to the address of other countries. Instead, you start to say over and over again that this regime is one of the worst in history. But a person who is looking for the truth never uses those words that he cannot prove - this is unscientific. I try to be neutral in this situation and not defend either side, but I want to make sure that your words are true, and they not an interpretation of the yellow press that you mistook for the words of the North Korean leader.
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  39.  @wildec2  > paying any attention to news reports of the crazy threats This is the main reason why you are so negative towards this country. There is media from your country between North Korea and you that distort information. How did I know this? Because you were not able to show me the original text of the speech of the leader of North Korea. The researcher is always looking for the primary source of information and if he does not find it, then such information is unreliable.
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  40.  @wildec2  You could not show the original sources of information, but you keep thinking that you know everything about North Korea? Then you are either a child or an idiot. If you were normal, you would delete all your posts on this forum because the information in them is unreliable. Instead, you save your ego and say that this conversation is not interesting to you, but you have already written more than 20 posts on this forum. Thus, you showed that you are a liar in addition to being an idiot.
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  41. How can you take care of the lives of your people in a war of total destruction?
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  42.  @scorpioferrous7621  Hitler at a meeting with the generals said that he originally planned to invade France, and Poland would remain an ally. But later he received information that Poland could stab in the back and decided to destroy Poland first. It's documented.
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  43. > Soviets persecuted and murdered Holocaust survivors in the Rootless Cosmopolitan Campaign lol, this is fake. Cosmopolitanism is also not related to the Holocaust. > and continued to use Auschwitz as a concentration camp for their political prisoners. Also not true. The USSR took equipment from German camps to improve living conditions in Soviet labor camps. > World War II would never have happened if Stalin had not allied with Hitler in 1939. Fake. There is a documented speech by Hitler in May 1939 where he says that war with Poland is inevitable. The position of the USSR was not the cause of the conflict between Germany and the west.
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  44. 1. The fight against cosmopolitanism does not mean anti-Semitism. Use the search: "Stalin about anti-Semitism." 2. Use as a concentration camp does not mean use as a death camp. 3. The text of the secret protocols does not contain the goal of creating a military alliance. Negotiations on the entry of the USSR into the Axis bloc failed in November 1940. The USSR and Germany invaded Poland for various reasons.
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  45. Totalitarianism was created by Mussolini only for Italy. Germany and the USSR had no relation to him.
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  46. This is a tabloid myth. The Russian opposition passed through the territory of Germany in exchange for the Germans interned from Russia.
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  47. Why do you think that in a war of total destruction there should be liberal humanism?
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  48. Romania annexed Bessarabia in 1918. The USSR returned in 1940. What is the problem?
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  49. So says Romania, but not the USSR. The USSR relies on its own opinion, not on the Romanian one. Do you have a problem with this?
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  50. Why do you think that the USSR did not have the goal of national reunification? The USSR is a union of several different republics, and not a Russian national state.
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