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excellent video, just one point, the bay of pigs invasion and much of the attempts on Castro's life came before the Cuban missile crisis which in many ways was initiated by a desire by the USSR to protect and consolidate the Cuban revoulution. That said, you arent wrong that the US reacted irrationally to the crisis, with serious proposals to go to nuclear war, invade, even launch fist strikes on USSR and Cuba considered.
👉 The Cuban missile crisis started when NATO/USA placed nuclear missiles in both Turkey and Italy. After USSR/Hrushchev's reaction, USA/Kennedy agreed to take them out.
@@thefinnishbolshevik2404 Why do you say that the US has been trying to surround Russia when the Baltic States and other countries applied to join NATO? And why would they surround Russia? What are they going to do invade it?
@@nikitakuznetsov8446 i really can not phantom or even dream how Lithuanian estonia &Latvia could surround russia. But perhaps russia wants to annex ukraine as more gas exploration show great Oil Mines?
@@nikitakuznetsov8446 Exactly. Russia chooses to follow the playbook of fascist Nazi Germany. Russia is currently the most fascist country ever in history. much moreso than nazi Germany
Or at least, They should have tried creating something with Russia and post-USSR states as members since, after the tragic collapse of the USSR, Russia was very pro-western, it might even reduce the US influence in Europe, still any kind of alliances would be probably used as a tool of imperialism anyway but at least this war could have been avoided.
Communists can't win so they have to tell their opponent not to do things that make them upset. Pathetic. The west will make any military defense alliances it sees fit. Cry harder.
The recent developments show just how devastating the fall of the USSR was not only to the ex Soviet states but also to the world.When the USSR was a key player in world affairs we saw the decolonization drive across Africa ending direct imperialism across the continent and even full defeat in the case of some countries like Algeria until 1964,Libya after 1969,Egypt during Nasser,Zimbabwe,Angola,Republic of Congo,Benin,Ethiopia,Seychelles,Somalia,Burkina Faso during Sankara and many more.Asia saw various socialist states pop up PRC,DPRK,Laos,Vietnam,and Cambodia(1979-1989),Mongolia and many socialist revolutions across the region like the massive communist movement in Indonesia and progressive president Sukarno,the progressive democratic socialist presidents of Myanmar whom even the military putchest had to act like ideas they cared for after the coup in the country in the 70’s.We saw progressive leaders in India,and Bangladesh Pakistan who carried out social democratic policies like bank nationalization ,protectionism and farmer protections,even Japan had a strong communist movement and even autocrats like Park Chung Hee implemented a Soviet like model to compete againts the DPRK who would even then surpass the South from 1971-1977.Latin America saw the thriump of the Cuban Revolution,Sandanistas,New Jewel Movement,Chilean Revolution.And progressive leaders like Velasco in Peru,Juan Peron in Argentina,Torrijos in Panamá,JJ in Bolivia,many Mexican presidents and many guerilla movements who sadly did not succeed.Europe and North America had to reform to safe the capitalist world order drafting Bretton Woods which had to weaken finance capital and promote internal reform and industrialization to keep up with East.UK saw the nationalization of healthcare,and many strategic industries,France saw the communist party win the most votes in a plurality and this allowed for pension,healthcare and work reforms and strategic nationalizations during the French 4th Republic,and during the 5th we saw the strong youth movement almost overthrow De Gaul and later the Socialist Party run on a radical platform and win but of course the party never delivered it.Sweden was social democratic like no other nation and can be called at that time a mixed economy or progressive state capitalist economy with good pensions,free healthcare,education,nationalization of huge amount of services and this was similar in Finland were the communist party was very powerful,in Italy the communist party almost won several elections and likely won at least once but we may never know as the CIA played a huge secret operation in Italy.And San Marino had a communist party in power until a coup ousted it.Not to mention of course DDR,Czechoslovakia,Romania,etc who were communist nations.Of course the social democratic system had its limits as capital reached a massive point of unprofitability.And sadly when it did in the 70’s and 80’s the USSR was riddled with incompetence and lack of direction that would have allowed the eastern bloc to surpass the west.Communist infighting did not make things better,Yugoslavia went its own way,Albania too,Romania,and China was openly hostile and did much more harm in foreign policy than good.Now after the dissolution of the USSR the consequences were worst felt in Russia,Ukraine,Yugoslavia the Stan countries,The Caucuses,Mongolia,Albania,Moldova,and all the other nations that did not quickly join the Eurozone and imperial bloc like Poland,the Balkans,Eastern Germany,Czechia,and Romania.Even then all nations felt inflation,unemployment,social deterioration,even Poland for its first 2 years,but because of its quick integration into Europe it did not see the same drastic decline in living standards and so masked the negative social effects of de-communization.The other countries that did not get this luxury mainly because there was much to be gained from it being a Neo colonial extractive state like Ukraine,Russia,etc however faced extreme hardship.They saw 50% of their economy wiped clean,lost of job security,crime,poverty,inflation,more death than births,hell on earth. The immidiate consequence world wide was the falling of the communist banner in much of the world,lost of direction by most parties and movements,and weakening of socialist states like DPRK,Cuba, Vietnam and Laos and long time for recovery these nations faced afterward,the final death nail of social democracy as a mainstream ideology and practice in capitalist nations,enshrining of neoliberalism.Now we are seeing the geopolitical effects,the geopolitical class war has turned into a feast of imperial proportions,the imperial nations feasting on the now weakened nation states of Latin America and Africa,and on the carcass of the old communist superpower.The subordination of the minimally socialist states to global capital markets,with maybe the exception of DPRK. And now the ecological crisis,what is the solution?It isn’t supporting Russia,the 20th century already showed us the solution,it is called revolution,the old banner of communism must not die,we must make sure the red flag flies once again,this time over all nations.
@@pacifactor I agree with you completely. I'd add that the average Western person also has it too good to question authority enough to make the break from the propaganda. Only if things here get bad enough will the Western "labor aristocracy" be put in a position similar to that of the developing world, which is where the conditions are stark enough to make leftism attractive. I'm a firm believer that the Freudian idea of the Oedipal Complex applies here as well. In general, people are conservative because people need to believe they are good. Scratch the surface, and you find that all people are full of deceit and sadism. People can't live with this contradiction, so it must be repressed. Worship of authority is the net result. I should say that my insight here comes from the early writings of a Marxist - psychoanalyst named Wilhelm Reich.
@@peternyc As an engineering student, it's frustrating to know that countless socialist scientific achievement might be loss because they are in contradition with the capitalist system and were therefore censored.
One small addition, Crimea is strategically extremely important as the black sea fleet is stationed there since the times of the Russian Empire, if Russia hadn't secured Crimea the Russian admiral in charge of the black sea would have been replaced by a NATO admiral and Russia would have lost the black sea and the access to the eastern Mediterranean including their base in Tartus/Syria, which would have been a tremendous shift of balance and would have made the russian Syria campaign impossible. Also, 80-85% of the crimeans are ethnic russians, the ukrainian language was never spoken in Crimea, they didn't even learn ukrainian at school despite having been part of the Ukraine for 20 years.
@@flintb6559 taking russian speaking -small- area- Crimea is one thing but the entire ukraine is a complex act that requires money and military unique capability?
The forcible breakup of the Warsaw pact and the destruction of the soviet Union was one of the greatest geo political disasters in world history. No-one wanted it. Gorbachev wanted the USSR reformed into a confederation. He wanted Russia integrated into a broader security alliance with the west. Putin wanted that too. He was rejected in potentially joining NATO, he was rebuffed in attempts to integrate further with the EU. This left him zero choice but to become increasingly antagonistic, nationalistic and militaristic. Meanwhile the US stage managed a coup in Ukraine, then were manipulating events to ensure the government was a puppet of theirs, violating the sovereignty of the country and risking Ukraines neutrality, in an act so criminally reckless and insane they must have known it would lead to this in the long term. The wrong side won the cold War. The collapse of communism as a living, practical power in the world has been nothing short of an apocalypse, economically, socially, politically, ecologically, morally - everything is now in utter decay thanks to Americas victory.
It was in Russia in the early 90s that the promises of bright lights and golden roads were made and bankers sent. The die was cast then. alea iacta est ..again.
@@emperoralvis6559 The US and its satellite states created Ratlines to recruit former Nazis for NASA and puppet West German government and NATO. Look up Adolf Heusinger Hans Speidel Kurt Waldheim Walter Hallstein and Warnher von Braun.
A Russian speaking here, living in the US - great analyses, comrade! When it started in the 2014 there was some pro-USSR Communist movement in the Donbass region but it was later crashed by I mind you both Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs. Like the Paris Commune in 1871. The only argument I may have is that the capitalism even in its imperial form is still more progressive than the fascism, like Great Britain and the US fighting Nazi Germany in the WW2. And Ukraine looks more and more like a fascist state. Although Russia is not that much behind unfortunately...
I would love to hear more about the communist movement in the Donbas and how it was crushed, though I imagine few of the source articles will be translated in English. Not a fun time to be Russian in America I imagine, take care comrade.
@@DinoCism Not fun time at all so thanks. The movement was random and sporadic, there was no organized force behind it. The Communist parties in both Russia and Ukraine are only communist in their names. When it all started it truly looked like Soviet people republics, they planned nationalization of plants, mines and factories that belong to oligarchs and then the people's government was replaced by Russia with more complacent one. It was not all bloody but some leaders were killed allegedly by Ukrainian special forces but who really knows. Try to find some materials on the Prizrak brigade, they reminded me those International brigades in Spain in 1936.
Stay safe my friend, there are enough ignorant people here in US. An average joe here will not know the difference between Ukraine or Russia. For safety pass off as an Ukranian. I am not racist, but most likely you are white, so you should not have much trouble here in US. Unfortunately after 9/11 several Indians were roughed up because these dumbos could not differentiate between, S.Arabia, Iran, Iraq and India.
Former President Yanukovich was NOT Pro-Russian. He had same disputes with Russia about gas prices and tried to make a neutral politics, between interests of EU and Russia. This policy makes a situation, when nobody was happy about it. Thats why Russia did not bringed back Yanukovich back in 2014 - because he lost support even on the East of Ukraine. Thats why East of Ukraine said "Thats enough, if this state can't hear our voicesm we join Russia", and "democratic Ukraine answered by violence
Being neutral and not being ostensibly pro-West means being pro-Russia or pro-China or pro-anything that isn't Western for the West. Except for Switzerland, of course, but that's because they get to stash their cash there, no questions asked.
@@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1 Maybe, but this channel usually using classic Marxist-Leninists definitions and method of dialectical materialism, and usually do not using same narrative, as mainstream western media. And it would be better not to use classic western misconceptions about Yanukovich. Besides, nobody even mentionig events of the first "maidan revolution" in 2004, wich turned wheels of this bloody machine on.
Well,any state is going to feel obligated to crush a separatist movement.ook at Spain and Catalonia. The US wouldn't just let my state withdraw from the Union. I hate violence but understand Ukraines reaction, also why they would see those statelets as Russian puppets.
@@Goran1138 >Thats why East of Ukraine said "Thats enough, if this state can't hear our voicesm we join Russia" You are ignoring the fact that ethnic Russians were not the majority in the Ukrainian East. Only Crimea had an ethnically Russian majority, while other regions of Ukraine had a Ukrainian majority. Stop spreding anti-ukrainian misinformaton. Pro-russian irredentist movement was not democratic and relied on a non-significant percentage of the population of Ukraine. And if Russia had not supplied weapons to the rebels in the Donbass, had not sent its mercenaries and militants the war would have ended in 2014 and whole Donbass regions would reinteagrted into Ukraine. It`s Russia country you shoild blame for the escalation.
@@ontheline3077 I love the fact they spent all that time and money and effort to be dicks towards Russian speaking Russian leaning people and it was all undone in a spilt second. Hahahaha
Excellent video, comrade. I would like to write Russian subtitles for it, so we can share it with other Slav communists. Is there a way to do it in RU-vid itself?
This has helped work out some kinks I had in my own position, I appreciate it. I really hope peace is restored soon, especially with the veiled threat of nuclear force.
Thank you for an adequate, non-warmongering commentary. I am an ethnic russian living in Estonia, and what i have to say is that primarily ordinary people like ourselves will suffer from actions of all sides. For example we are sitting here with few amounts of baking soda and stoned salt, because the majority of those products were shipped from Belarus and Russia. I won't even talk about cutting of freedom of information( pulling out the translations of Russian or Russian affiliated TV channels from cable networks and later blocking access to those channels on RU-vid). Probably the thoughest thing is that intelligence security services and NATO cybersecurity center are monitoring phone calls, and Twitter and Facebook feeds of the entire Estonian population, especially of Russian-speaking ones. Greetings to you from Tallinn, your southern neighbour.
Good point. My advice: You should live in the country permanently if and only if you speak its language extremely well, otherwise it is a pain in the neck, i.e, you will feel like an alien, like a lone wolf among cheetahs or the other way round like a cheetah among wolves. I cannot even fathom somebody blocking my native tongue. It's insane and it is *not tolerable.* Hold on and stay strong out there or relocate to a better, less nationalistic country if possible.
Finbol, I've been thinking of revolutionary defeatism lately, what are your thoughts on this ? Also could you imaging the number of "interventions" in modern day Russian civil war?
"Insofar as the bourgeoisie of the oppressed nation fights the oppressor, we are always, in every case, and more strongly than anyone else, in favour, for we are the staunchest and the most consistent enemies of oppression. But insofar as the bourgeoisie of the oppressed nation stands for its own bourgeois nationalism, we stand against. We fight against the privileges and violence of the oppressor nation, and do not in any way condone strivings for privileges on the part of the oppressed nation." -Lenin, Right of Nations to Self-Determination
Of course party bureaucrats are never considered to be "bourgeoisie" or communist regimes "oppressive". Otherwise all tankie narrative about the Prague Spring and similar occurrences goes flying straight out of the window.
@@fluiddynamics3591 Prague Spring was just an attempt of the Czechoslovak Party Elite to start undoing Socialism, while allying themselves with Western Germany. Supporters of Prague Spring in Greece split the Communist Party in half while we had a CIA-backed military Junta and the people needed for the Communist Party to resist united. Alexis Tsipras is what "Prague Spring" led to. An open CIA plant and lover of Fascism. PS: Oh, and Gorbachev, Merkel and perhaps even Putin.
I have a question for you. Do you consider Finland an imperialist nation? I never hear much about Finland's foreign policies. I know they are capitalist, so i 'assume' they are an imperialist nation, but I dunno the specifics.
The USSR was a socialist country. A socialist economy is not compatible with imperialism. However, modern Russia is not a socialist country. The motives of the USSR could not be the same as the motives of capitalist Russia. Capitalist countries are always motivated only by profit. The USSR was a socialist country attacked by an imperialist Germany. Russia is an imperialist country which is waging war on Ukraine, which is a puppet of US imperialism. The situation is entirely different. The USSR supported peace in every possible way before WW2. The imperialists supported war. We should also support peace and oppose an imperialist WW3.
@@thefinnishbolshevik2404 as a Russian I am strongly agree will most your statements, but not with last part of your video. Yeah, Ukraine now is a NATO proxy and a Nazi regime, but how Russia should deal with it, even Russia is not socialist country? Did you see how fast sanctions were implemented for Russia? It means that all countries calculated economic effects for all parts of their economy, they discussed this in their own countries and came to an agreement, and then these countries agreed these sanctions with each other. That's a lot of calculations and a lot of negotiations. They can't be made in a couple of days. It means, that sanctions were prepared before Russia invaded Ukraine. Ukraine was pumped with NATO weapons and money, pumped with Nazi ideology and anti russian hatred (along with anti magyar, anti roma, etc. hatred). That was an investments. How were these investments planned to be recouped? Along with sanctions, ready to execute? In my opinion Ukraine was planned to attack Russia or Russian citizen in Donbass or Krim. That's why sanctions were ready to implement. Because Russia HAVE TO answer on such attacks. That's why I think that those, who stand for peace now - stand for Nazi regime in Ukraine, NATO base near Russian, more civilians killed in Donbass (for now it's approximately 14 000 killed in Donbass during these 8 years). There is no other options to end civil war in Donbass or end of rule of Nazi in Ukraine or to prevent Ukraine becoming a NATO (proxy) base other than military actions. Russia tried negotiations for 8 years, while people were killed in Donbass.
And to add more colors into the picture: I live in Bashkortostan republic (part of Russia), where native language is Bashkir language, I am tatar (so I am not Russian by nationality, but culturally), there are four Ukraine schools in Bashkortostan, my daughter sings Polish songs, because she loves to sing and there is a Polish chorus in here school. Russia is a multicultural country, where hundreds of nations live in peace.
@@emild579 I agree with you,russia is not socialist country but in the ukrainian case it is defending against the aggressor,which is not the ukraine but NATO and the west in general.Russian bourgeoise would be happy doing laisser fair laisser passe business with the western "partners" as they repeatingly call them,but that is not enough for USA-EU-NATO.They want to tear them apart,sort of what happened in yugoslavia.Ukraine acts willingly as a proxie.
@@sofialodkina6186 always simply supporting one capitalist or another, one imperialist or another is not a communist position but khvostism, tailism, serving as the tail of some capitalist. A friend of mine just told me that communists in Ukraine are forming secret groups and self-defense units. Are communists in Russia supposed to simply support Putin and forget communism?
Very interesting and informative. You presented things I'd not heard before. I don't agree with everything you shared, but I love learning all points of interest. Thanks for sharing this.
Note how immediately following the end of the Russian Civil War the Soviet Union made sure to regain lost territories like Ukraine, Georgia etc, since they were absolutely strategically important in having natural barriers to form the Union's borders. East of the Carpathian mountains Ukraine is basically just plains (and swamps to the north of Kiev), so it's the perfect wedge in the European plain for an Army Group South 2.0 to cut across east to cut off the Caucasus or push north towards Moscow.
The question is not russia or the usa The Q for us :who among the political contenders does the proletariat under threat of extermination temporarily utilize for its own ends,for its very survival? In Donbass the answer is clear.
Very good video, I have nothing to add on the most part. But one thing really bothers me in analysis of Russia as an imperialist power, I've seen it throughout communist and marxist online spaces last few days and it's almost like the labelling (or not) of Russia as imperialist country provides the ultimate guideline of which side should principled comrades take in this war. Your take is also constructed in this way, and I can't say I agree. There is that issue of definition of imperialism, where by "widely used common sense" one imperialism is just domination of big capital coming from a large nation-state imposed on parts of the globe, and there's Lenin's one, where imperialism describes the ultimate phase of capitalism, in which financial capital becomes dominant, divide of the globe into pools for resource and labour extraction takes place, just like creation of monopoly, extra-profits, unrestricted penetration by foreign capital into subjugated nations and their brutal exploitation etc. Russia is imperialist by first definition and not really imperialist by second definition. The existence of this confusion is why I believe it is of utmost necessity that we restrain ourselves in using the word imperialist/imperialism as some kind of moral characterisation or judgement, and recognise that imperialist stage is a logical and natural consequence of capitalism as an economic system. I would say that Russia is not yet imperialist, but it definitely wants to be. A lot of factors will need to align (especially after de facto complete breakage in the ties between Russia, USA and European Union) in the next decade or two to bring Russia such power, and we can't predict the future. Also, we should take some newer theories like world-system theory of Immanuel Wallerstein when discussing position of Russia in the global economy. According to its GDP per capita, living standard and not very known, but important economic measures like net-labour transfers and labour terms of trade, Russia is (just like China) a global semi-periphery in the world system, but with a strong, independent and largely stable political structure. Russia's economy or Russian capital isn't a threat to US global dominance by itself, even Soviet Union economically speaking wasn't ever a threat to USA's economic dominance or influence. It is its geopolitical strategy, its political independence, control of natural resources, possibility of making economic and military alliances on which USA can't influence, physical size, relationship with China, influence on regions such as West and Central Asia which are a threat to US global dominance and a barrier to penetration of US capital. I think we can now say that USA made a grand mistake when they didn't allow Russia into NATO, because they'd truly have won this game. Contradictions inside US ruling class and the inertia of military industrial complex couldn't permit the dissolution of Cold war institutions, which needed a new enemy, and they created one. But this is for another topic.
thanks for your take, it's definitely informative! keep up the good work. Do you (or anyone else here) know how far exactly the American backing/orchestration of the coup in 2014 goes? I know about the Nuland call and such but did they fan the flames by funding protest groups the way they did in Hong Kong too?
It's incredibly refreshing to see someone (from the "west", too) being so insightful, ant not resort to "Russia bad, Ukraine good". I really hope that this situation will resolve itself ASAP, but it looks like Zelensky's government is more concerned making itself a martyr, and Russia definitely won't be making any compromises. There really is no way world is getting a better place, huh? Welp, at least my compulsory military service has already ended, and I don't live in Russia or Ukraine, I guess.
To be honest the Russia has been victimizing itself for last 100 years for stupid bullshit over and over again. Didnt Putin even refer Russia as martyrs if nuclear war starts and they die in it?
Funniest is, that "Ukraine good" position just showed up recently and mostly after 24th February. Before that, even after 2014, Ukraine was known to be one of most corrupt nation's in Europe, haven for oligarchs and right wing extremist proving ground.
Yanukovych was pretty neutral and wanted to join the EU, but they game him a ultimatum for joining, only first as a "partner state" and with economic austerity, he declined, and the protests started, the right and far-right then took advantage of this.
The Nazi Azov Battalion openly flies swastika flags. Do an online search, you can find tons of pictures of it. The Ukrainian regime officially "banned" such symbols in order to market their own image to the West, but the ban isn't enforced, it doesn't exist in practice. Only communist symbols are banned.
@@kawadashogo8258 Typical of the oligarchy. Having progressive laws but not actually enforcing them. That way they can stay ambiguous with their statement saying that they hate communist and facists equally while actually only suppressing one side.
Here’s just something I’m curios about, but I’m working to begin a Marxist-Leninist vanguard party over here in the USA. I’m planning to call it the American Vanguard Party. Do you have any advise on how to get started or should I not start it at all?
It’s revisionist bullshit dude. The Russian invasion of Crimea was in the middle of the Revolution of Dignity, the very revolution FB was referencing. Ukraine has a history of being subjected to human rights abuses and genocide from Russia, not a stretch to believe that so called “nazis” were appearing at the time when Russia was stealing their land and sponsoring separatist movements in the east to prevent them from joining NATO.
thank you for this analysis, my brain hurts after seeing all the American left from both "MLs" and "anarchist" just soying over the war like blood thirsty ghouls
Hey, I see you are good with resurching staff. Can you teach me? Where do you go fist when you don't know anything about a subject? Where do you go next? I do wikipedia and fallow the links, but I don't know wich should I trust and I don't understand everything? How do you deal with this? Can you do a video on how you go about resurching your next few projects?
What saddened me (although didn't surprise me) is the stark contrast in coverage and portrayal of the Ukrainian refugees by the media and receiving countries compared to the type of vile and hateful rhetoric we heard and saw about people fleeing very similar circumstances from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan etc.
Thank you for sharing this video. The end was particularly important for me. As a Brazilian recently living in Finland, I find myself very very scared about Finland's plans to join NATO and I don't understand Finnish well enough to know what's been discussed on the news. I also don't have any Finnish friends who can explain to me why 62% of the Finnish population support a NATO membership. To me particularly, joining NATO sounds unreasonable, it looks like the trigger to a third world war. Do you think I am exaggerating? Again, I do not know much about Finnish history or culture to understand the reasons behind this decision. On the one hand, yes, I understand that being neighbors with an imperialist power has put a lot of strain on Finland; on the other hand, joining NATO NOW sounds to me like testing Putin's power, which is so risky. I follow the news on the matter on BBC or DW, but I wish I could get access to this information from within the country. Do you feel scared too? Do you think Russia would really attack Finland? Do you think this could be the beginning of a real world war? I would appreciate immensely if you could comment on this. Kiitos paljon!
I think the best choice for Finland is to stay out of NATO and to stay out of all imperialist blocs. The struggle is between the bloc led by the US and the bloc of Russia. An imperialist war is inevitable sooner or later, but NATO cannot defend Finland. If Finland joins NATO, it will become a target for Russia. Finland would be on the frontline and Russia would even benefit from that strategically, because it could attack other NATO powers through Finland without having to go around Finland (like in the case if Finland was neutral). The reason I say that NATO cannot defend Finland is that, even if NATO won the war, Finland would still be destroyed by the war. Russian bombers would bomb Finland, they would shoot missiles here, Russian troops would enter into Finland and fight in Finnish cities. It would devastate the whole country. So when people say "we should join NATO because NATO will defend us and win against Russia" they are simply being delusional. According to Marxist theory, war will always happen as long as imperialism exists. But it is still possible to stop or limit certain wars. It is still possible to keep Finland out of this war, and it is possible to prevent a world war. If you live in Finland, support communism or oppose NATO, let's keep in touch. You can comment on youtube, email me at thefinnishbolshevik@gmail.com or talk to me on my discord server discord.gg/88JwkF5UhK
@@thefinnishbolshevik2404Russia would invade anyway, as they always have, were we in an alliance with other foreign powers or not. Let me remind you, that NATO has the best airforce out of any military bloc in world. That was even recognized by the Soviet Union itself, who put a lot of focus on the development of anti-aircraft systems, since they knew they couldn't properly counter the NATO air weapon. If Russia invades when we're in NATO, yes there'll be a war, but at least NATO will have our back, unless the American soldiers magically disappear immediately after the war starts. If Americans won't send more troops to protect us, they'll send them to protect themselves, and since they are here already, they will protect us too in practice.
hi finnish bolshevik, can you address a question: i know you say that russia is also imperialist, but i thought that definition only applied to capitalist countries that are using endless war (in addition to other means--finance capitalism, etc) and the military industrial complex to achieve their goals of world domination (and allied countries would fall into that category by extension and their use of the empire or rather the empire's use of them). and would this definition (assuming it's correct) eliminate russia as an imperialist nation? or am i being too literal? even though russia is capitalist, don't they more or less align with countries that are not considered part of the 'empire' club--like syria, iran, iraq, china, etc? i'm probably not being nuanced enough, or just trying to decide which side is "wrong" and which is "right."
Russia is wrong here as they bring the situation closer to WW3. Ukraine is anti-Russian, i.e., most of its population. Ironically most Ukrainians speak Russian much better than Ukrainian language which is tangential here. What's important, is that they are strongly against Russians, especially Putin. It means this war will lead to a lot of destruction and casualties, even if Russia rightfully claims denazification. What are Nazis? They are extreme nationalists, racists, etc. Most of Ukrainians are not like that. Whatever. This war just creates more chaos and a lot of casualties. Russians won't even find those Nazies they are looking for. They are less than 1% of population in Ukraine. Russians are trying to win a Pyrrhic victory which is not worth it while NATO countries are adding more fuel to the fire. Total insanity. Stupid politicians run by some puppeteers from behind the scene. Those puppeteers think they have everything under control; they think they have everything figured out... Well, they don't.
Since you dare to prudently challenge the dirty manichean narrative of Ukraine being an "absolutely undisputable good side", I even feel unsure if it can be adequate to share this video with majority of english speaking people, because I'm pretty sure that they will immediately label me as a malevolent pro-Putin propagandist despite my systematically negative attitude towards the current inner and outer politics of Russian Federation.
Your (and KKE’s) analysis is wrong in one key aspect. Lenin criticised Kautsky and those who he termed “social-chauvinists” because they betrayed the explicit agreements (specifically Stuttgart declaration of 1907 and Basel 2012 AFAIR) to NOT support their bourgeoisie in case of a large war, but instead to use such a war to create a socialist revolution. Lenin acknowledged that Marx himself had in the past supported one or the others capitalist side in wars when the conditions for the revolution weren’t there and this or that war was the least worst outcome for the world proletariat. There is NO viable possibility of a socialist revolution today and there are NO strong socialist or communist parties who could use such conditions towards revolutions inside their states and NO such agreements. Therefore, this is NOT an imperialist war from the RF side, like the one analysed by Lenin. The defensive side (from NATO belligerence) is the primary goal for RF, resources of Donbass secondary, and the people are a very-very distant third (I agree with this point). Nonetheless, for the people of the South-East of Ukraine it is unequivocally better to be with RF than as slaves of NATO. I disagree that we can choose a viable third option, socialism, as it is currently utopian. A proper materialist analysis would start with the viable alternatives, not a utopian one.
Lenin never said that the social-chauvinists were wrong only because they betrayed an explicit manifesto. That is completely formalistic. Today, there is no realistic possibility to turn the imperialist war into civil war, which is why nobody was calling for an armed uprising by the workers. However, we must still oppose imperialism. The realistic and correct thing to do is anti-imperialist propaganda and organizing, even if we are not ready for civil war yet. The correct thing which all even remotely principled communists have done is to expose the social-fascist NATO supporters and the revisionist and rightist Russia supporters.
I just got banned on Facebook for posting this information. There was a woman Ukraine soldier holding a cat. And of course she had that fascist symbol on her uniform. So Facebook gives me a two-month suspension for posted images of a terrorist group. 😃
Good job! I like that you focused on some details, like that fact thay the Warsaw pact happened after NATO and not the other way around, and the changes within Ukraine that made ethnic Russians feel unsafe.
Does anyone have a good source, or even jst an explanation, as to why Russia didn't intervene to stop the absorption of the Baltic States? Every time the arguments made that they can't possibly allow NATO into States on their border I understand the logic, but the inconsistencies of Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania jst confuses me. Was Russia jst preoccupied w some other geopolitical issue at the time or is it bc they have kaliningrad that they feel that if they've still got that access to the Baltic Sea their still ok, or what?
Because in 2004 Russia was still weak after Yeltsin. It's economy was poor, army was falling apart. Putin was putting his country back together back then and had no time or leverage to deal with Nato expansion at the time.
You should provide full quote for context: ________________________________________________________________ Question: Has there been any reply from the Central Government? Answer: No. But it is said that there are also people in the Kuomintang who disapprove of these measures. As everybody knows, an army that participates in the common fight against Japan is a friendly army, not an "alien army", and similarly, a political party that participates in the common fight against Japan is a friendly party, not an "alien party". There are many parties and groups taking part in the War of Resistance and, while they vary in strength, they are fighting in the same cause; surely they must all unite and must in no circumstances "restrict" one another. Which party is an alien party? The party of the traitors headed by Wang Ching-wei, the running dog of Japan, because it has nothing in common politically with the anti-Japanese parties; that is the kind of party which should be restricted. Between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party there is common political ground, namely, resistance to Japanese aggression. Therefore, the problem is to concentrate all our strength on opposing and checking Japan and Wang Ching-wei, and not on opposing and checking the Communist Party. This is the only basis for formulating correct slogans. Wang Ching-wei has three slogans: "Oppose Chiang Kai-shek," "Oppose the Communist Party", and "Be friends with Japan". Wang Ching-wei is the common enemy of the Kuomintang, the Communist Party and the entire people. But the Communist Party is not the enemy of the Kuomintang, nor is the Kuomintang the enemy of the Communist Party; they should unite and help each other rather than oppose or "restrict" each other. The slogans on our side must be different from Wang Ching-wei's, they must be the opposite of his and never be confused with them. If he says, "Oppose Chiang Kai-shek", everyone should support Chiang Kai-shek; if he says, "Oppose the Communist Party", everyone should unite with the Communist Party; and if he says, "Be friends with Japan", everyone should resist Japan. We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports. In articles nowadays people often quote the saying, "Do not sadden your friends and gladden your enemies." It comes from a letter which Chu Fou, a general under Liu Hsiu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, wrote to Peng Chung, the prefect of Yuyang. In context it reads, "Whatever you do, you must be sure that you do not sadden your friends and gladden your enemies." Chu Pou's words express a clear-cut political principle which we must never forget. [INTERVIEW WITH THREE CORRESPONDENTS FROM THE CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY, THE SAO TANG PAO AND THE HSIN MIN PAO] ______________________________________________________________________
The warshaw pact was formed formaly in 53 but actualy it existed before that already. So the year of 53 is not importend. But funny how the ussr moved most of its army into defence positions while britain advocated for a whole attack on the union directly after the war
The conclusion is a bit too much based on ideology rather than pragmatism. I think it's good that Luhansk and Donetsk are finally independent (at least recognized by some countries) and the civil war that was going on in eastern Ukraine needs to end and a solution for both sides needs to be found
@@thefinnishbolshevik2404 But I still believe this could be an indication that Germany is attempting to join hands with France to create their own sphere of influence which could be a good thing. It's means that the Imperialist western powers are showing division within themselves. I don't think it's possible in the near future but it could be a sign that they are attempting to do it. But that's just my speculation.
People are still thankful of Russia for ending the genocide, people were saying "it took you long enough". They should've done it sooner, and for the right reason
Do you ever plan on covering the active PPWs in India or the Philippines? I think they need more awareness online, I don't ever see them brought up in left wing circles that aren't MLM online.
@@RonnyRotfront the governments in India and the Philippines have murdered tens of thousands of people in the name of anti-communism, and I rarely see people talking about it. I guess dengists never talk about the fascist government in the Philippines because duterte has _kind of_ favorable views towards the PRC.
I am a Marxist from Russia and I strongly disagree with the current popular opinion among the Left that we should remain neutral in this conflict. I believe that in this conflict we must support Russia, even though it is indeed an imperialist power. It is true that the Russian bourgeoisie does not care about the suffering of people in the Donbass and the rest of the Ukraine. But this conflict somehow reminds me of the civil war in the USA, the bourgeoisie of the North was forced to set the official goal of the war as the abolition of slavery. In the same way, to achieve its real goal, which is to prevent Ukraine from becoming a NATO foothold, Russia has to fight Fascism and Nazism, not only in Ukraine, but even in Russia itself (many Russian far-rights are now fighting on the Ukrainian side!). I assure you Ukraine is now stricken by Nazism and any dissenter is an easy prey for neo-Nazis and the police have nothing to do with it. And the Security Service of Ukraine simply uses the "services" of these ultra-rightists to eliminate opponents of the authorities. The infamous "Peacemaker" website exists without hindrance, which is nothing more than an open database with the names and addresses of "enemies of the Ukrainian nation", being on these lists is actually a condemnation and makes people immediately flee the country or hide in fear. It has quite a few "ELIMINATED" marks next to the names of the victims. I ask you to help or at least do not interfere with my country to rid Ukraine of this ongoing terror that has been going on for eight long years. P.S. I hope my understanding of English and google translate will be enough to convey the meaning to you.
@@jojodio9851 I'm just sad that many people who call themselves leftists do not understand that when it comes to fighting such a misanthropic ideology like Nazism, you can't just be for "peace", even if the other side is not perfect in some way. I remember Odessa, then for the first time I got drunk to unconsciousness, although I had already quit for 10 years. Some old people just collected signatures in support of the regional status of the Russian language (before that, the new government canceled it) , old Soviet songs were sung on the square, mothers walked with their children. When the Nazis came there, they tried to hide in the building and they were burned alive, those who survived were thrown into prison. They even killed several of their provocateurs from those who climbed onto the roof through the back entrance (on one video you can clearly hear someone begging for mercy: I am ours, I was a provocateur!). The next day, the survivors were released from prison due to the demands of the townspeople. Some people even managed to give interviews, I survived 2 or 3. Judging by what I heard, there were much more victims, including children. And at night, angry Nazis came to the police building and the police chief gave them the addresses of these people! No need to explain what happened next. None of the perpetrators was ever punished. The official version says that people set themselves on fire due to negligence. I really hope that Russia will bring the matter to the very end.
@@jojodio9851 yep. I'm Brazilian and I'm actually surprised most mainstream leftist personalities are pro-Russia, even social-democrats - hell, even some LIBERALS
During the war When Indian students in Ukraine were leaving kiev Our Women were spit on by the azov soldier They grabbed them by their hair threw them off the train at the station This is how they treated foreigners
Wait, when you go through Russia "invading" Crimea, forgot to mention the history of Crimea and their referendum of independence and annexation to Russia (as to come back being russian...). Also the reason of intervention is as they had to do it before Ukranian joining NATO, as Ukraine don't recognise Crimea being russian they would attempt to invade Crimea hoping for NATO help.. well in that scenario all NATO countries would be forced to be at war with Russia, it would mean world war. By intervening now they delaying this catastrophic events, to bring back democracy to Ukrainian people that are now unable to fight their neonazi government. Hope there is peace, we know Russia is imperialistic too, but we have to look at this issue with all the information and watch for anti NATO and bring an united front against nazism
The history of Crimea is that it was a peninsula full of Tatars before Stalin forcibly removed them from there and filled it with Russians. "Ukranian neonazi government". There are nazi paramilitary organizations in Ukraine, their government is a whole different thing. But if you don't want crazy nationalist organizations to spawn in countries, here's a brilliant idea: don't invade/interfere with their affairs. It's the same with Islamic groups in the middle east.
@@fluiddynamics3591 US imperialist inherence supported a coup in 2014 supported by far right organisations and neonazi militias, Azov became officially part of the national guard, neonazi commemorations are being held by government, even Zelenski gave honours to a neonazi, the government even recognised Bandera as an official hero. So now that there are crazy nazi organisations supported by the government because US inherence, we can't look the other way, because allowing Nazis there will spread them to Europe (also they are already all over Europe) and it will be us who will have to face them in our towns. Better remove them now
@@danielortiz9779 It’s funny because the far-right was defending people from the Berkut violence while leftoids were cheering children being clubbed. I don’t even like the far-right but you only create your own enemies.
Russia has imperialist ambitions and does have a monopoly-stage capitalism, but she is far from having the advanced infrastructure and propaganda apparatus of the United States. Besides, Russia is completely cornered. Russia can hardly engage in significant imperialism under these conditions. The primary imperialist power remains by a tremendously large margin, the United States. In fact, it is so predominant that it contains within its Empire smaller imperialist partners with their own colonies and imperialist spheres of influence (especially France and Britain). Besides, to compete with the West, it is strategically advantageous for Russia to follow the Chinese approach of international business partnership as it avoids unecessary military entanglements, political and diplomatic crises that the undeniably imperialist model of America and her Western henchmen generates in increasing frequency, intensity and complexity.
You confuse imperialism with mercantalist countries. PRC is a mercantalist socialist country that heavily depends on trade not colonies. Russia is a capitalist mercantalist country united in national interest by the threat that US imperialism presents to them. Hence the progressive international alliance against US imperialism. US imperialism is the greatest threat in the world today to the liberation and improvement of the living of the people. So in WWII this is called communist would call WWII an inter-imperialist war??? FFS His analysis is not a marxist analysis.
@@paulmcgrory5165 ur so illiterate, china has its market outlets across the world, china threatens its neighbours, china expands to the west with its FDI and NGOs, China even expands in Russian Siberia (meanwhile propagating irredentist ideology), it is authoritarian and it violates the rights of minorities, plus the marxist ideology is replaced by shovinistic Chinese nationalism. If you like corporativism, capitalist mercantilism that means you are not a socialist or marxist.
@@maelradek Your anti-PRC rant which is wrong on every count just indicates i am wasting my time trying to engage with a CIA/ NED dupe or operative See ya in Kiev champ at the Russian army victory parade lol
