This blog post is long overdue. I've been a tad busy doing...other things the last few months. I recently came across this video on YouTube and thought it would make for an excellent post, especially since it applies so well to the previous articles I've put up. This video is about a former Soviet Citizen discussing Communism with an Occupier at an OWS Rally. I really don't believe there is a better expert on Communism than someone who has personally lived within a communist country, such as Russia. This former Soviet Citizen argues with an Occupier on the fundamentals of Communism and why any attempts a country makes to develop a successful communist (or socialist) system always fails. This video does a well job at illustrating just how blatantly unaware some of these Occupiers are of Communist history throughout Russia as well as other countries, like North Korea and Cuba. The video is about 13 minutes long and a great watch.
I will say, it takes a lot of guts to speak against a group such as this and I'm relieved to see the participants in this video were able to keep the discussion civil, for the most part. That doesn't always happen. Anyway, the video's author, Vladimir Jaffe, supplements this video with the following dialogue:
"My 2 cents on Socialism, Communism and Capitalism.
1. There have never existed Socialist or Communist countries.
2. Countries that do use these words in the names of the countries or claim to have such system are ALL in reality Totalitarian Dictatorships.
3. There remain only 2 such countries today: North Korea and Cuba. The list used to include USSR, China, Vietnam, Poland, DDR, Czechoslovakia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Cambodia, Laos, Mozambique, Angola and many more countries.
4. The best political litmus test to see what category the country belongs to is to see if its citizens can leave it freely: if you get a bullet in the back of your head trying (like crossing the Berlin Wall), it's a Totalitarian Dictatorship a.k.a. "Socialist" or "Communist".
5. Does capitalism fail in some countries? Yes! In what countries? Where the private property and intellectual property laws are lax and corruption is high.
6. Please check where your country belongs based on any of the 2 indexes that use different criteria: International Property Tax Index: http://www.internationalpropertyright... (top 3 in it are Finland, Sweden and Switzerland and the last 3 are Venezuela, Libya , Yemen but it excludes Cuba, North Korea) or Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedoms: http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking (top 3 here are Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia and the last 3 are Cuba, Zimbabwe and North Korea.)
7. So please, don't do disservice to the Scandinavian countries by calling them "Socialist"...
You can learn all you need to know about the "socialized" medicine in USSR here:
It took Russia decades to topple their regime followed by a very slow recovery and the same has yet to happen for North Korea, or Cuba. I could go on a whole new tangent here, but it would really just be a repeat of my last three articles. So, I'll leave it at that for now. Thank you Vladimir Jaffe for posting this video on YouTube and thanks to all my readers for reading/watching. God bless you all.
-JSR
Reference
Jaffe, V. (2013). Former Soviet Citizen Confronts Socialists at Occupy Wall Street.
YouTube. Retrieved from: http://youtu.be/jVe95s6gH1s.
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