If I were cynical I would say that they had to confess to a psychiatrist (because the Brezhnev era was famous for putting dissidents into psychiatric prison-hospitals). But to be honest I don't know enough about the post-Stalinist Soviet Union to tell.
He's a German for sure. Can't you tell by that accent of his? I don't know why, but I find that a German accent, or just plain listening to the spoken German language to be quite compelling.
@@group_23 That's not half as strong as some accents from the northern part of England. At least, you can be understood, and very easily, I must add. Hope the channel starts to catch on. I'm going to subscribe myself.
excellent job! this reminds me of when C Hitchens would debate religious types, they'd always argue that the 100m killed during the soviet era was committed under an atheist regime. he'd argue back (grossly simplified by me here) that the soviets were really using religious techniques and beliefs systems to run their society - and atheism had nothing to do with it.
With what I just heard, that's an almost "impossible to ignore" kind of link from the need for a "confession of class awareness" when applying to join the party, all the way to a "confession of learning a lesson from the Marxist-Leninist book, before execution" and the overwhelming compulsion on the part of your inquisitor to have it "written all down," as though one were to enter the Marxist Utopia only through a "blood atonement."
They enshrined Marx as an idol to be worshiped, and built a sprawling Orthodoxy to adopt as the State religion. You don't have to believe in god to be zealous, and likewise zealousness can turn even the most positive ideals into a bloodbath.
