WEBVTT 00:00.760 --> 00:03.920 The 20th century was the bloodiest in history. 00:04.940 --> 00:10.580 250 million people died in wars, mass slaughter, and political murders. 00:11.360 --> 00:16.780 The ideology known as communism bears the greatest responsibility for this terrible savagery. 00:17.340 --> 00:21.420 This is an ideology that promises so-called equality and justice, 00:21.780 --> 00:25.840 but which brings with it only bloodshed, death, and fear. 00:25.840 --> 00:30.360 In this film, we shall be examining the bloody century of communism 00:30.360 --> 00:35.000 and seeing the terrible misery this ideology inflicted on humanity. 00:35.300 --> 00:39.820 It will be impossible for the world to avoid similar tragedies in the future 00:39.820 --> 00:42.020 unless it learns from the past. 00:55.840 --> 01:25.820 Thank you. 01:25.840 --> 01:55.820 Thank you. 01:55.840 --> 02:25.820 Thank you. 02:25.840 --> 02:55.820 Thank you. 02:55.840 --> 03:25.820 Thank you. 03:25.820 --> 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09:04.800 Thank you. 09:04.800 --> 09:05.800 Thank you. 09:05.800 --> 09:11.800 Thank you. 09:11.800 --> 09:16.700 The books of Marx and Darwin appeared together in communist posters of the time. 09:26.280 --> 09:34.120 The Franco-Prussian War of 1871 allowed for the first experiment in the revolution Marx had dreamed of. 09:41.800 --> 09:49.960 France was defeated and the imperial administration overthrown, leaving a power vacuum. 09:50.820 --> 09:52.600 The Marxists seized their opportunity. 09:53.440 --> 09:59.180 Together with other small socialist groups, they provoked an uprising in the capital, Paris, 09:59.520 --> 10:04.180 and established a commune, an administration based on communist principles. 10:05.060 --> 10:09.780 Under the new regime, Paris turned into a city of terror. 10:09.780 --> 10:14.220 Churches and government buildings were torn apart. 10:26.220 --> 10:29.180 Men of religion were shot by the communards. 10:29.180 --> 10:58.180 The commune was finally suppressed by government troops that entered Paris after lengthy fighting. 10:58.180 --> 11:04.520 The first experiment in communism had left 18,000 dead behind it. 11:04.520 --> 11:18.360 Yet how was it that Karl Marx's theories were able to spread so quickly? 11:18.360 --> 11:25.620 The answer to that question was provided by the famous German scientist Rudolf Virko. 11:26.540 --> 11:32.360 At a congress of naturalists, Virko took the floor to warn those biologists who supported Darwinism. 11:33.360 --> 11:41.140 Be careful of this theory, for this theory is very nearly related to the theory that caused so much dread in our neighboring country. 11:41.140 --> 11:46.140 Virko was right. 11:46.140 --> 11:52.140 Darwin's theory of evolution was of great importance in the spread of Marxism among Western intellectuals. 11:52.140 --> 11:59.140 The theory portrayed human beings as a species of animal, claimed that they would develop by means of conflict, 11:59.140 --> 12:03.140 and most important of all, denied the idea of creation. 12:04.140 --> 12:08.140 These three great errors formed the basis of Marxism. 12:09.140 --> 12:15.140 The first of the communist revolutions built on that foundation was to take place in Russia. 12:15.140 --> 12:39.140 The first of the communist revolutions built on that foundation was to take place in Russia. 12:39.140 --> 12:44.140 At the beginning of the 20th century, Russia was ruled by the Tsarist regime. 12:45.140 --> 12:51.140 However, revolutionary communist ideas were beginning to spread among an increasing number of workers. 12:55.140 --> 13:00.140 Part of the military apparatus had also come under the ideology's influence. 13:00.140 --> 13:12.140 The leader of the communist movement in Russia was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. 13:22.140 --> 13:26.140 The communist movement led by Lenin was known as the Bolsheviks. 13:26.140 --> 13:31.140 These believed that bloody revolution would be necessary for them to seize power. 13:38.140 --> 13:44.140 Despite the fact that they had been illegally organized for years, they had been unable to achieve their aim. 13:44.140 --> 13:58.140 The opportunity they were looking for came in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War. 13:58.140 --> 14:16.140 That war was the bloodiest conflict that mankind had ever known. 14:16.140 --> 14:22.140 One of the countries involved in that war, which cost the lives of 10 million people, was Russia. 14:23.140 --> 14:30.140 The Russians suffered defeat after defeat in the first three years of fighting and lost 2 million dead. 14:30.140 --> 14:45.140 The suffering inflicted by the war dragged Russia towards revolution. 14:45.140 --> 14:52.140 In February 1917, army units in the capital, Petrograd, rebelled and took over the city. 14:52.140 --> 15:09.140 Tsar Nicholas II, who was at the front encouraging his troops, set out for the city. 15:09.140 --> 15:21.140 His train was stopped by revolutionary troops, however, and the Tsar was arrested. 15:21.140 --> 15:27.140 All symbols of the Tsarist regime were destroyed by revolutionary soldiers. 15:27.140 --> 15:32.140 Supporters of the revolution rejoiced in the streets. 15:32.140 --> 15:35.140 Supporters of the revolution rejoiced in the streets. 15:35.140 --> 15:40.140 Most people hoped that the end of the Tsarist regime would bring happier times for Russia. 15:40.140 --> 15:44.140 But they were wrong. 15:44.140 --> 16:07.140 The Bolshevik contribution to the February 1917 revolution was actually quite minimal. 16:07.140 --> 16:12.140 They were poorly represented in the post-revolutionary parliament that was set up. 16:12.140 --> 16:17.140 The government passed into the hands of the pro-Western Kerensky, a Democrat. 16:17.140 --> 16:31.140 Lenin, then in exile, ordered his men to give the new government absolutely no support. 16:31.140 --> 16:35.140 He continued to organize the Bolsheviks for his own revolution. 16:35.140 --> 16:48.140 And in October 1917, he struck. 16:48.140 --> 16:53.140 Lenin's armed militants attacked the Winter Palace, the center of government. 16:53.140 --> 16:58.140 They killed those guards who resisted and carried out one of the easiest coups in history. 16:58.140 --> 17:17.140 Soviet propaganda films made years after the event would portray the coup as a huge popular uprising started by Lenin's fiery speeches. 17:17.140 --> 17:36.140 The fact was, though, that the number of people who attacked the palace was less than 100, and only five people died. 17:36.140 --> 17:44.140 Lenin started with a silent coup. 17:44.140 --> 17:48.140 Yet things were not to remain so. 17:48.140 --> 17:52.140 The Bolsheviks attacked those army units still loyal to the Tsar. 17:52.140 --> 18:15.140 A terrible civil war began that would last for three long years. 18:15.140 --> 18:20.140 The Bolsheviks established a Red Army to prosecute that war. 18:20.140 --> 18:26.140 Lenin's right-hand man, Leon Trotsky, was placed at its head. 18:26.140 --> 18:43.140 Red Army units and the secret police agencies set up by Lenin, known as the Cheka, had no compunction about using the most ruthless methods to deal with monarchists and other anti-communist groups. 18:43.140 --> 18:51.140 Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, and five children were executed by order of Lenin. 18:51.140 --> 19:08.140 Those cities which refused to support the Bolshevik regime were ruined. 19:08.140 --> 19:19.140 In telegrams to his militants, Lenin ordered that all those who opposed the communist regime should be shot. 19:19.140 --> 19:25.140 The Bolsheviks arrested tens of thousands of people for the crime of opposing the regime. 19:25.140 --> 19:28.140 Most of these were tortured and executed en masse. 19:28.140 --> 19:43.140 The famous Russian writer Maxim Gorky described examples of Bolshevik savagery. 19:43.140 --> 19:55.140 In Tambov province, communists were nailed with railway spikes by their left hand and left foot to trees a meter above the soil. 19:55.140 --> 20:00.140 And they watched the torments of these deliberately, oddly crucified people. 20:00.140 --> 20:14.140 They would open a prisoner's belly, take out the small intestine, and nailing it to a tree or telegraph pole, they drove the man around the tree with blows, watching the intestine unwinding through the wound. 20:14.140 --> 20:21.140 Stripping a captured officer naked, they tore strips of skin from his shoulders in the form of shoulder straps. 20:21.140 --> 20:27.140 A terrible fear fell over Russia, but the communist savagery had only just begun. 20:27.140 --> 20:48.140 The war has only just begun. 20:48.140 --> 21:07.140 When the Bolsheviks came to power, most of the population of Russia lived in the villages, enjoying a pretty miserable standard of living. 21:07.140 --> 21:13.140 Most peasants were only just able to feed their families with what they produced. 21:13.140 --> 21:22.140 The freezing Russian winters made productive agriculture an impossibility. 21:22.140 --> 21:32.140 A decision taken by Lenin in 1918 inflicted an even worse disaster on millions of peasants, who were already living in poverty. 21:32.140 --> 21:46.140 Private property was forbidden, and the peasants' goods were to be confiscated by the state. 21:46.140 --> 21:59.140 Lenin carried out that policy by means of another right-hand man, Felix Zarzynski, the head of the Cheka, well known for his ruthlessness. 21:59.140 --> 22:10.140 Cheka officers descended on villages all over Russia, and began rounding up peasants, crops and livestock at gunpoint. 22:10.140 --> 22:16.140 A quota to be handed over by every peasant and given to the Bolsheviks was drawn up. 22:16.140 --> 22:22.140 In order to meet that quota, most of them had to give up all that they possessed. 22:22.140 --> 22:27.140 Peasants who protested were silenced by the most savage means. 22:27.140 --> 22:35.140 On 14 February 1922, one inspector who visited the Omsk region wrote, 22:35.140 --> 22:47.140 Abuses of position by the requisitioning detachments, frankly speaking, have now reached unbelievable levels. 22:47.140 --> 22:53.140 Systematically, the peasants who are arrested are all locked up in big, unheated barns. 22:53.140 --> 22:56.140 They are then whipped and threatened with execution. 22:56.140 --> 23:04.140 Those who have not filled the whole of their quota are bound and forced to run naked all along the main street of the village, 23:04.140 --> 23:06.140 and then locked up in another unheated hangar. 23:06.140 --> 23:20.140 Lenin was enraged when he realized that the quota set for the villages would not be met. 23:20.140 --> 23:26.140 In 1920, he inflicted a fearful punishment on some regions that had resisted the requisitions. 23:26.140 --> 23:40.140 Not only would these peasants' crops be seized, but also all the seeds they possessed. 23:40.140 --> 23:45.140 Confiscating the seeds meant that the peasants would be unable to produce a new crop. 23:45.140 --> 23:51.140 In other words, they would have nothing to eat. 23:51.140 --> 23:54.140 Then the famine began. 23:54.140 --> 23:59.140 Twenty-nine million people within the borders of Russia battled with starvation. 23:59.140 --> 24:08.140 In 1921 and 1922, five million starved agonizingly to death. 24:12.140 --> 24:16.140 Lenin watched what was happening with enormous pleasure. 24:16.140 --> 24:24.140 In his view, the famine was most useful. 24:24.140 --> 24:29.140 He calculated that it would help to destroy people's belief in God and religion, 24:29.140 --> 24:32.140 and make them bow their heads to Communism. 24:32.140 --> 24:45.140 In the black book of Communism that sent shockwaves around the world, 24:45.140 --> 24:49.140 that devilish idea of Lenin's is discussed thus. 24:49.140 --> 25:02.140 As one of his friends later recalled, Vladimir Ilyik Ulyanov had the courage to come out and say openly that famine would have numerous positive results. 25:02.140 --> 25:09.140 Famine, he explained, would bring about the next stage more rapidly and usher in Socialism, 25:09.140 --> 25:12.140 the stage that necessarily followed Capitalism. 25:12.140 --> 25:21.140 Famine would also destroy faith, not only in the Tsar, but in God too. 25:21.140 --> 25:30.140 This is what Lenin wrote to the members of the Politburo on March 19, 1922. 25:30.140 --> 25:32.140 The present moment favors us. 25:32.140 --> 25:39.140 With the help of all those starving people who are starting to eat each other, who are dying by the millions, 25:39.140 --> 25:42.140 and whose bodies litter the roadside all over the country, 25:42.140 --> 25:51.140 it is now and only now that we can and therefore must confiscate all church property with all the ruthless energy we can muster. 25:51.140 --> 26:03.140 Our only hope is the despair engendered in the masses by the famine, which will cause them to look at us in a favorable light or, at the very least, with indifference. 26:03.140 --> 26:12.140 These communications in the Soviet archives have revealed that Lenin deliberately brought about that dreadful famine which cost five million lives. 26:12.140 --> 26:23.140 That is the same conclusion arrived at by the historian Richard Pipes, who spent years researching the archives in his book, The Unknown Lenin. 26:23.140 --> 26:29.140 In his view, for humankind at large, Lenin had nothing but scorn. 26:29.140 --> 26:34.140 Individual human beings held for Lenin almost no interest. 26:34.140 --> 27:02.140 And he treated the working class much as a metal worker treated iron ore. 27:02.140 --> 27:17.140 The reason why Lenin and the other Bolsheviks were so utterly ruthless was the dialectical materialist philosophy they so believed in. 27:17.140 --> 27:29.140 This philosophy regarded human beings as a kind of animal and maintained that violence and conflict were necessary for the development of mankind. 27:29.140 --> 27:36.140 Not only did Lenin regard human beings as a species of animal, he also employed animal methods to train them. 27:36.140 --> 27:51.140 In October 1919, he paid a personal visit to the Russian scientists Ivan Pavlov, famous for his conditioned reflex experiments on animal. 27:51.140 --> 27:58.140 Lenin wanted to impose these conditioned reflex methods on the whole of Russian society. 27:58.140 --> 28:00.140 Pavlov was astounded. 28:00.140 --> 28:06.140 I want the masses of Russia to follow a communistic pattern of thinking and reacting, Lenin explained. 28:06.140 --> 28:08.140 Pavlov was astounded. 28:08.140 --> 28:14.140 It seemed that Lenin wanted him to do for humans what he had already done for dogs. 28:14.140 --> 28:19.140 Do you mean that you would like to standardize the population of Russia? 28:19.140 --> 28:22.140 Make them all behave in the same way, he asked? 28:22.140 --> 28:24.140 Exactly, replied Lenin. 28:24.140 --> 28:26.140 Man can be corrected. 28:26.140 --> 28:29.140 Man can be made what we want him to be. 28:29.140 --> 28:40.140 The so-called scientific basis for that philosophy that regarded human beings as a species of animal was Darwin's theory of evolution. 28:40.140 --> 28:47.140 The theory of evolution was the most important ideological inspiration behind the communist movement in Russia. 28:47.140 --> 28:59.140 Darwin's origin of species was translated into Russian at the end of the 19th century and was responsible for thousands of young Russians turning to atheism and communism. 28:59.140 --> 29:14.140 Russian communism was so tied to Darwinism that Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov, widely regarded as the founder of the movement, clearly stated that he regarded Marxism as Darwinism in its application to social science. 29:14.140 --> 29:29.140 Plekhanov's student Lenin indeed applied Darwinism to society and mercilessly slaughtered whole societies he regarded as herds of animals. 29:29.140 --> 29:43.140 The truth is that human beings are not a species of animal, but are honorable beings created by humans. 29:43.140 --> 29:46.140 created by God in possession of a soul. 29:46.140 --> 29:58.140 The reason for their existence on earth is not, as communists and Darwinists would assert, conflict, war and bloodshed, but for them to display a morality that is pleasing to God. 29:58.140 --> 30:07.140 Only when man has understood this concept, in other words, only when he lives by true religion, will he find peace and happiness. 30:07.140 --> 30:14.140 The end of Lenin, who denied that fact, is a terrible warning. 30:14.140 --> 30:31.140 From 1922 on, an increasingly serious sickness slowly began to paralyze him. 30:31.140 --> 30:44.140 He spent most of 1923 in a wheelchair, suffering from terrible headaches. 30:44.140 --> 30:56.140 In March 1923, he had a stroke and was thenceforth unable to speak normally. 30:56.140 --> 31:00.140 In the final months of his life, those who saw Lenin were terrified. 31:00.140 --> 31:09.140 His face had taken on a peculiar expression and he was half mad. 31:09.140 --> 31:19.140 The final photograph taken of him shortly before his death was utterly ghastly. 31:19.140 --> 31:26.140 God speaks of the fate of such cruel people in the Koran. 31:26.140 --> 31:32.140 Then the final fate of those who did evil will be the worst because they denied God's signs and mocked at them. 31:32.140 --> 31:50.140 Lenin died on January 21st, 1924. 31:50.140 --> 31:55.140 The Bolsheviks organized a huge funeral ceremony for Lenin. 31:55.140 --> 32:16.140 The leaders of the Communist Party decided to have his body, which had a tremendous importance for them, in bond. 32:16.140 --> 32:31.140 Among those bearing Lenin's coffin was the next dictator of Soviet Russia, Joseph Stalin. 32:31.140 --> 32:45.140 Stalin would rule Soviet Russia for nearly 30 years and establish a regime of such bloodshed and terror that would even surpass that of Lenin. 32:45.140 --> 32:58.140 All the historical facts we have so far considered have an important moral for mankind. 32:58.140 --> 33:03.140 False ideas can lead to disasters for people and societies. 33:03.140 --> 33:10.140 Communism is one such false idea and it inflicted dreadful suffering on the world during the 20th century. 33:10.140 --> 33:17.140 One of the fundamental errors of communism is that it believes conflict to be an unchanging law of nature. 33:17.140 --> 33:22.140 The so-called scientific justification for this view is found in the theory of evolution, 33:22.140 --> 33:29.140 which says that the differences between people necessarily lead to war, fighting and conflict. 33:29.140 --> 33:39.140 According to this view, called dialectics, every class, every nation and every society is obliged to fight every other one and this is a law of nature. 33:39.140 --> 33:48.140 That view stamped its mark all over the 20th century and is the common inspiration behind both the communist savagery we have seen in this film 33:48.140 --> 33:53.140 and also behind that of fascism which appears to be the complete opposite of communism. 33:53.140 --> 34:01.140 It is only possible for mankind to escape this cycle of violence by coming to know the purpose behind its existence. 34:01.140 --> 34:10.140 Human beings are not a species of animal that emerge by chance and live only to fight as Darwinists, communists and fascists believe. 34:10.140 --> 34:17.140 Human beings are noble beings created by God and possessing his soul. 34:17.140 --> 34:24.140 And the purpose of man is to learn and to live by that pleasing morality that God has taught him. 34:24.140 --> 34:34.140 In the next section, we shall continue to examine the disasters that communist ideology, which rejects that truth, has inflicted on humanity. 34:34.140 --> 34:39.140 The bloody history of communism, part two. 34:39.140 --> 34:44.140 Stalin's regime of fear, death camps and secret murders. 34:44.140 --> 34:47.140 The Soviet Russian genocide of Muslims. 34:47.140 --> 34:51.140 Stalin's scientists killed for refusing to accept the theory of evolution. 34:55.140 --> 34:59.140 Do not miss the bloody history of communism, part two. 35:04.140 --> 35:09.140 It's a brilliant and personal embrace, Stunden Muse and Augustus. 35:30.140 --> 35:32.140 .