Erased from memory? Not quite. There are still many families who remember the stories of how many escaped the Soviets and landed in Israel, New York, and Brazil. My Grandmother's cousin, Benjamin (Benny) was sent to the Gulag. He managed to escape and walked from Siberia to Poland over a period of three years (many horrendous stories to be told about that). He had friends in Warsaw and worked there for two years saving every penny. With false I.D. (we think) he made it to the USA. Took up his trade (tailor) became a citizen and got married. I was 20 when my fiancée and the family traveled to New York to attend his wedding. The stories he could tell, but never did. He only lived another ten years, but for him it was ten years in heaven.

my family left Russia between 1890 and 1900. seeing this makes me very grateful of their decision. I know of many who were just as fortunate as my self and many, many more that I do not know who were just as fortunate.
this video should appear on pbs so all of the liberals can see the end result that is building from those they have put in power over the years culminating at this point in time with thus far with the worst of them.
Ayn Rand has educated us to see what has been going on but far to few understand the warning. Fortunately what she wrote still exists and I like to think has a growing audience but is it to late?
I think yes!

Riveting video. I will never understand how millions of people can be exterminated. Are some men just evil? It is beyond my comprehension.
It is also ironic to see the extent of anti-semitism in the USSR, since Lenin, Marx, Trotsky, Engels, Brezhnev and Khrushchev were all Jews.
It is easy to see why Rand loved America.

Thank you for posting this.

I hold the order takers far more responsible than the order givers. Imagine if there were no order takers? The people who took the the grain, the dead and chose to murder because they were so ordered by the government, are the truly guilty ones.

Once upon a time I "understood" that people had to make a living so I never held customer reps, supervisors, management, etc responsible for their employers actions.

Now I do.

Companies can't exist without a workforce. Imagine how successful an HMO would be with MDs, RNs on down to customer reps working for them?

How can evil exist without those people who insist they had no choice? They had choices. Even if someone is holding a gun to your head, you are making a choice.

People, by virtue of continuing to work for companies that make profits via deliberate, harmful actions, are aligning themselves with the company and its philosophy. They become part of the problem. They are the ones who hide behind "I'm sorry that happened. I understand your frustration but it is company policy." As if that makes everything OK.

If you think it is OK for people to make a living supporting harmful companies...why is it not okay when a person chooses to follow orders when to refuse means facing certain death? Being put to death is a bit more troublesome to the individual than figuring out an alternative means to making a living, so why should that person be condemned?

What is the difference between "I have to follow company policy" and "I was following orders"? One is but a stepping stone to the other.

We are taught to obey authority. We are taught that we must do what we don't like in order to survive. I'm amazed, and frightened, by the degree to which people accept what they are told without question.

We are conditioned to "take orders" with no thought toward discernment.

Great video. I wonder if it actually broadcast anywhere. It ought to be on the history channel 2 or 3 times a year. Mostly stuff I already knew, some just in passing, but putting it all together and in chronological order really makes the horror of it all sink in. I really hadn't realized that the link between the USSR and Germany was that extensive.

For Rand's take on Socialism, Fascism and the then current American political climate see her essay The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus.

I always liked Glenn Beck's portrayal of the government spectrum, which went from Anarchy at one end to Totalitarian at the other, from total individual freedom to no individual freedom. Any form of totalitarianism is lumped at the one end, meaning Fascism, Socialism, Communism all only slightly different flavors of the same dish. Sadly, the attraction of the "Great Leader" who needs all power to solve all problems is like a narcotic to a dissatisfied mass.

Thanks for posting this Dale. I had read of these things but never seen footage about it.

The communist sympathizers here in the US made sure that the USSR got the critical info they needed. Otherwise they would have taken years longer developing nuclear weapons and ICBMs.

Of course we made sure to grab all the Nazi scientists we could as well. Werner Von Braun for instance.

Both France and GB had a very strong core of socialists and communist sympathizers, both in and out of the government. They also had Nazi sympathizers, but those were being quickly discredited by 1939. Besides, both France and GB were convinced that victory over Germany will be a walk in the park; of, course, they did not have such illusions regarding the USSR, with its size and an apparent economic self-sufficiency.
As to the aid provided by the US and UK to the USSR, it could be summarized as: Most of wheeled transport used by the Soviets during the war (trucks, jeeps, Katyusha platforms), much of the high-protein army rations, most of the high octane aviation fuel (the USSR had plenty of oil, but lacked high octane refineries). There were important shipments (from the US/UK perspective) of tanks and aircraft, but those were insignificant overall on the Eastern front – AirCobras did OK, the tanks were poor compared to Russian models. The transfer of technology was very significant – both legal and clandestine. A number of Russian aircraft were either licensed copies of US models (Li-2/DC-3) or stolen copies (TU-4/B-29) and, of course, the atomic bomb design was steadily fed to Moscow throughout the war by both legal Lend-Lease transfers and by spies. No doubt that radio technology was also acquired from the West, as Russian electronics industry was primitive prior to 1941. With the fall of Italy, the Soviets took possession of some of the Italian fleet, with its technology.

And what do ISIS/ISIL and Bernie Sanders have in common?

Watch the video and draw your own conclusions.

Great history lesson, obscured by the west's focus on Hitler's Nazis.

Something I find bizarre is how the Obama/Hillary/Warren escape the correlation to the Nazi's and this view of the Soviet Union. Somehow they stride as liberators, and the power they take away from the people is supported by the handouts they offer.

Politicians make war, not “the people.” Whatever a particular politician believes will keep it (I say “it” so as not to be sexist or prefer once species of animal over another, thus keeping me politically correct) in power. Seen from this perspective, i.e., “what keeps me in power,” most wars become quite clear. Ron Paul dramatically makes this point in his latest book.

While I can agree with yes, both sides of the same coin, I have little time for videos that run 1:25, which leaves me cold..

The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi) is just the German version of Socialism while the The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Communist) is the Russian version of Socialism. Europe essentially evolved from Serfdom to Socialism without any stage of Liberty except for 19th century England. To a European, the Nazi's were far right wing because they allowed some forms of private enterprise and the Communist did not. Libertarian-ism does not fit into the political picture for Europeans.