The Soviet Story is a documentary film about socialist terror and Soviet-German collaboration in developing the theoretical basis and practical measures for mass murder of unheard proportions.

Of thousands of films, books, and plays on the communist experience, this one stands out above all the rest — a touching monument to millions of innocent victims and a horrific charge against a bloodthirsty socialist theory that in various disguises killed almost two hundred million people in the 20th century and continues its murderous trail into the 21st.

The film was written and directed by young Latvian producer Edvīns Šnore and sponsored by the Union for Europe of the Nations, a political group of the European Parliament with Danish, Irish, Italian, Baltic and Polish members.

In its synopsis Šnore writes: 

This is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told.

The film argues that there were close philosophical, political, and military relations between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union before and during the early stages of World War II. It highlights the Great Famine: the infamous “holodomor” which wiped out seven million Ukrainians, the Great Purge in Moscow and elsewhere in the USSR with over eleven million murdered, as well as the Katyn massacre of tens of thousands of Polish officers.

The film sheds the light on Gestapo-NKVD collaboration in extermination of Jews and German opposition, Soviet mass deportations, and inhuman medical experiments in the GULAG.

The Economist praises the film by saying:

"Soviet Story" is the most powerful antidote yet to the sanitisation of the past. The film is gripping, audacious and uncompromising. The main aim of the film is to show the close connections—philosophical, political and organisational—between the Nazi and Soviet systems… Those who keep a soft spot for Marxism may flinch to hear that the sage of Highgate referred to backward societies as Völkerabfälle (racial trash) who must “perish in the revolutionary holocaust.” Or that the Nazi party in its early days idolised Lenin (Josef Goebbels said he was second only to Adolf Hitler in greatness).

This is a revelation for some. Austrian economists, however, wrote about Nazism and communism as two forms of the same socialist tyranny for a long time. Ludwig Von Mises analyzed “two patterns for the realization of socialism" when he wrote:

The first pattern (we may call it the Lenin or the Russian pattern) is purely bureaucratic. All plants, shops and farms are formally nationalized (verstaatlicht); they are departments of the government operated by civil servants. Every unit of the apparatus of production stands in the same relation to the superior central organization, as does a local post office to the office of the postmaster general. The second pattern (we may call it the Hindenburg or German pattern) nominally and seemingly preserves private ownership of markets, prices, wages, and interest rates. There are, however, no longer entrepreneurs, but only shop managers (Betriebsfuhrer in the terminology of the Nazi legislation).

Both systems, as Von Mises pointed out, were inevitably doomed to result in “barbarism,” as they promptly did.

The film features interviews with western and Russian historians such as Norman Davies and George Watson from Cambridge, Boris Sokolov, famous Russian writer Viktor Suvorov, Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, members of the European Parliament and the participants, as well as the victims of Soviet and Nazi terror.

Eminent British literary historian George Watson of Cambridge University proved in his research that Karl Marx is "the ancestor of the modern political genocide." Marx used the term "racial trash" (Völkerabfälle) in relation to a number of some European ethnicities who were left behind by economic progress and should be “disposed of.”

As former Soviet dissident (now a dissident again under the Putin regime) Vladimir Bukovsky explains: “When Communists come to power, it does not matter where, let it be in Russia, in Poland, in Cuba, in Nicaragua, in China, initially they destroy about ten percent of the population” in order to restructure the fabric of society. Then the “real work” begins with destruction of the designated target groups: priests, peasants, intellectuals, entrepreneurs, certain ethnicities – Ukrainians, Chechens, Jews, Crimean Tatars and others.

The making of the film is very timely as the Putin regime in Russia increasingly embraces its Stalinist roots. Writing in The Epoch Times, Joe Bendel mentioned that Latvian film producer Edvīns Šnore was burned in effigy by Neo-Soviet Russians for his in-depth survey of Soviet crimes against humanity:

It is an ominous badge of honor. The film that you are not supposed to see in Putin’s Russia is “The Soviet Story” and tells us how the ultimate government inevitably becomes the ultimate evil.

Indeed, anyone who criticizes the authoritarian Left is attacked, and not only in Russia. Even today the liberal media has continued to try to demonize The John Birch Society, and label it as “ultraconservative and extreme right-wing.” Historical evidence, however, fully vindicates the cause of liberty for which John Birch gave his life and Robert Welch and his associates dedicated their lives. They saw the ultimate evil while most of the public and their leaders were still myopic.

You can either watch The Soviet Story for free on YouTube or order a copy from http://www.sovietstory.com/. The Soviet Story is a must see for any friend of liberty. 

Yuri Maltsev is professor of economics at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Before coming to the United States, Dr. Maltsev was a member of a senior team of Soviet economists that worked on President Gorbachev's reforms package of perestroika. Professor Maltsev has taught at the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, Moscow State University, Russia, Lithuania International University in Klaipeda and Baltic Management Institute in Vilnius, Lithuania, University of Caen in Cherbourg, France and University of San Diego, California. He is on the advisory boards of Foundation for Economic Education in New York; Heartland Institute in Chicago; and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.
 

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Pat Henry said:

Two sides of the same coin of destruction To see this is not just history, but this false dichotomy between fascism and socialism/communism is today's news as well, please get "Overview of America" by John McManus at ShopJBS.org Then you may wonder why thinking men would do things so obviously destructive. The answer lies in the spiritual roots, their real commitments. Please buy ($5) and read Marx and Satan by Richard Wurmbrand, from vombooks, dirct link here: https://www2.vombooks.com/qry/qe_store.taf?_function=detail&_peid=1068&_id=A7535CC748&_code=P&_nc=d105c792a5fbf745fa447e1ef196ba19

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Thomas Paine said:

Atheism and Communism are partners As the NWO moves closer to total victory, the push now by mass media is to discredit religion, and in particular christianity. See the Henry Kissinger interview by Charlie Rose on Youtube. Kissinger states: "on one side is globalization (NWO), and on the other side is religion". They know they must destroy religion as Christians and Jews believe in God above the state, and also believe the 10 commandments (ie: thow shalt not kill). The NWO wants to kill at will, and the weak atheist will ride along and not resist. "The world and the heavens will pass away, but my words will never pass away"-Son of God.

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