Comments by "josh fritz" (@joshfritz5345) on "Bite-sized Philosophy" channel.

  1. You're sounding suspiciously like a Holocaust denier. While it is true that Communist states have killed more people via ethnic cleansing than Facist states have, it is a terrible thing to refuse to recognize the millions who have perished under the German and Italian Facist states of the 30s and 40s.
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  2.  @Olegstuff21986  Not long ago, I spoke to a Nazi apologist. I noticed two things. First, he acknowledged the holocaust, but tried to downplay it (the number of people affected, justifying that it was for the good of Germany, etc.) and also sew doubts that the worst cases of it happened (concentration camps were real but death camps were never actually found and were a made up conspiracy.) I'm seeing a very similar pattern with you, trying to justify imprisoning and killing those going against doctrine by saying that the previous government had done the same and that it was necessary for the good of Russia. What about the Holodomor? The great Soviet famine of 1932? This famine afflicted Ukraine almost exclusively, while the wealthy elite (which under idealist socialist doctrine shouldn't exist) partied in Moscow. Estimates put the number of dead somewhere between 7-10 million people. Farmers were forced to ship their food elsewhere for little to no compensation while they and their neighbors starved to death. Some were killed for withholding grain to eat themselves rather than surrendering it to the Soviet machine. Publishing anything good about Stalin being forbidden in the west? No, no it's not. You could buy a copy of the communist manifesto if you wanted to. You wouldn't be able to do that in a non-free society that did not support communism, free speech or free access to information. In communist China today, people are arrested for speaking out against communism, or criticizing the actions of party officals. You cannot be arrested in a free society for saying that you think your governor or president is an incompetent buffoon. The USSR absolutely did colonize nearby countries. They invaded Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Finland, the Ukraine and others, in some cases multiple times. You can't just deny that a country has used military force to invade it's neighbors just because you're a huge fanboy of communist dictatorships. And no, you cannot say it was justified to fight facism, Poland and Finland were never facist states, nor were most of the other countries the USSR invaded and very few of them sided with Nazi Germany. Poland was invaded by Germany, while Finland never fought for the axis at all, only to defend itself from an invading USSR. Several of these countries the USSR tried to invade actually actively sheltered jews attempting to escape the holocaust, only to be subject to Soviet atrocoties, and in many cases, scorched earth policies.
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  3.  @Olegstuff21986  There are books out there claiming to refute the existance of gravity, complete with evidence that may appear convincing to those unaffiliated with the subject matter. Not all claims are equally reputable, and it's common practice for invalid claims to cite equally invalid sources for the sake of appearing legitimate.
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  4.  @Olegstuff21986  How so? Both were horrible people who cared nothing of killing millions of their own people in the name of a terrible socitial ideal.
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  5.  @Olegstuff21986  The Soviet Union's accomplishments? Like mass imprisonment and killing of its own people for failing to adhere to communist doctorine? The mass starvation resulting from dead farmers being replaced with clueless party members? Gulags where millions of Russians were enslaved and worked to the bone and died for holding the wrong system of beliefs? The invasion and colonization of nearby independent nations? The destruction of independant thought, the criminalization of free speech, the installation of a corrupt upper class of politician to rule over all of the rest? That doesn't sound very 'for the people' to me. If anything, I'd say it sounds a bit classist, tortolatarian, perhaps even authoritarian. You know, like the Nazis were.
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  6.  @Olegstuff21986  No thanks, I'm good. I have no interest in reading propaganda.
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  7.  @Olegstuff21986  Wealthy Elites? I mean communist party officals. They never had to worry about hunger, unlike their subjects. You can't just pretend that the famines were completely accidental, and that no one realized that the formerly independent state of Ukraine that the Soviet Union invaded and seized control of is not starving. And if the government apparatus really was so unbelievably incompetent, blind and deaf that it didn't realize millions of people in this region were dying of hunger, that paints a pretty bad picture of the system. For perspective, this famine, created as a direct result of the damage done by the communist takeover (burned fields, siezed land and ineffective doctrine enforced by party officals with no experience with farming, comparable to Mao's 'great leap forward',) killed through hunger nearly as many people as were killed during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany.
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  8.  @Darth_Vader258  Yes. That's pretty much a given for world leaders who initiated genocide.
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  9. I don't agree with everything Jordan Peterson says, but in this case, I think he hit the nail pretty square on the head. Communism is a very dangerous system that has allowed a lot of evil people to cause a lot of death and destruction, yet now, there are people praising past dictators and their actions.
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