2017 Personality 13: Existentialism via Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag
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- In this lecture, I explore the dreadful socio-political consequences of the individual inauthentic life: the degeneration of society into nihilism or totalitarianism, often of the most murderous sort, employing as an example the work/death camps of the Soviet Union.
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Mind blowing that a full semester of lectures by one of the worlds great thinkers, which students pay thousands for in tuition, is available for free right here with the push of a button.
Worlds greatest thinkers? Not really
I said great not greatest. Check the difference genius and maybe read a post properly before you post your snarky reply
@@johnkarford6430 Well I can see it's definitely not you John!
I can't say any better, bravo to you for that.
Alejandro Canada bro
Imagine being born in the west with the privilege of having all this information and still being a Marxist apologist.
It is beyond comprehension.
And that defines what socialism truly is: pure, unadulterated, pathological entitlement.
In that scenario, you are looking at a person with an absence of morality and just generally an absence of a SPINE
@@AshleyJOsborne Socialism/stalinism, not Marx. Anyway: It's not incomprehensible. The large majority in simple cultures like the USA ,Iran , arab nations, Venezuela, West Africa etc easily support communists, alt-Right, religion, Trump etc. They are just never developed. You will never have big support for neither Trump nor socialism in f ex Liechtenstein, Luxemburg , Switzerland, Duchy of Monaco. That has to do with the IQ of the public and the formal system of the country. A partisan duopoly, or communism, religion will of course have retarding effects onto the public.
Amazing
I am a former communist sympathizer from India...I was deceived by the Marxist-Leninist propaganda...but fortunately I happened to see Mr.Peterson's videos...and I got saved by it....keep educating us Sir......
I live in China and something happened to the Western expats here, they no longer speak like Western or expats..... it's completely silent and lonely
Something happened here aswell...
@@hufficag please elaborate, that's intriguing.
im glad to hear that; I think more Indians especially Indian youth need to see this lecture 🌀🌀
@@JohnSmith-tz4on They're scared of censorship, they say very little, they don't feel confident, they say democracy is bad, they're in favour of coercive measures.
When I was 22 I met a lovely Rumanian woman and we started dating. One day I was wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt which sparked a vicious reaction from her side. She told me about her experience with communism under Ceausescu. She bought the Gulag Archipelago books and gave them to me as a present. I started reading and couldn’t stop anymore, finished the books within a week or so. Changed my life. I can’t recommend it enough. A true masterpiece that everyone in the West should read. A real eye opener
Wow!
Can you imagine that Che Guevara is celebrated as a revolutionary here among communist (in name only 😂) parties in India? Disgusting. Clearly very few people know world history and it's the failure of our education system.
What did you do with the shirt?
I'm an English teacher in Britain and these lectures have turbo charged my lessons. I've taught Orwell's 'Animal Farm' to Y8s (12 - 13 yr olds) with the knowledge Dr Peterson has given me. They were silent as I explained the connection between the novel and Stalin's regime in the 1900's, and engaged in some of the most intense reading I've ever taught. When they were given opportunity to discuss the ideas raised by Orwell, they were insightful, critical and, thankfully, annoyed that they'd never been told this information before.
Our History curriculum allows teachers to choose a topic. None of them choose 'Tsardom and Communism'. They go for 'Democracy and Dictatorship' (Hitler). This results in leftist teachers ignoring the reality of Marxist thought.
smartypants great comment!
your children are lucky to have you, take a look in to alan
wilson and barem blacketts work...the hidden history of britain, the academia world will not go near them, for fear of what they will come across...we've been lied to for over 300 years about who we are and where we come from
@@parrogakaparadise9477 Thanks mate. Most people tell me I'm 'not allowed to share my political views with students' (which I never do) I simply present historical facts and encourage analytical reading and critical thinking. The same people not accept anti-capitalist views from educators but promote them!
We'll sort 'em tho.
Stay safe
@@keengro3740 Thanks for the pointer. Any ammunition against the 'progressives' is greatly appreciated.
@@smartypants7954 immanuel vilikovsky's ages in chaos is a good starter.and i wish you well my friend
as a russian im especially glad for this lecture to your western students.
"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while for many people in the West, it is still a living lion." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
This is why I and many other people are looking to Russia (and Poland) as the gatekeepers of Western civilization and Christendom for the foreseeable future.
I wish that was true. Eastern Europe is still full of would-be communists.
then why do you still praise stalin, wave soviet flags and march in ww2 era soviet uniforms? why do you still lie about pact with hitler and invasion on poland and baltics, why do you lie about katyn and about war with polish underground in 44-50s?
The fake fascist right in America won't let go if Marxism. To them their are legions of commies all over the place. Never mind that their beloved corporations always seem to be at the forefront of the most insane PC policies. Nope labor unions full of culturally conservative workers are the enemy. The fake right in America is just a corporate financed joke. The Old Left was destroyed by the corporate financed freak New left and the "right" in America ignores that.
RedGunBullets Probably because Russia has felt the negative effects of communism, whereas those in the West - who have never really felt the effects of it - still romanticize it and are arrogant enough to assume that they are able to achieve a utopian Marxist society.
I read The Gulag Archipelago some time ago and it is the bleakest, darkest book I have ever read. The fact that it is non-fiction is horrifying. The fact that there are adults who don't know this work is terrifying.
Thank you for the spelling of the book 📖
Same, I read it audiobook, soon after JP recommended it. Wow, he was not wrong. Equally as grim as watching a documentary on the holocaust.
@@tensevo i suspect audiobook doesnt do it justice but its not exactly the easiest book to sit down with
The asteroid impact of totalitarian propaganda is always worst in the middle. Solzhenitsyn was never kept from us here in Norway, at least. In fact the First Circle is one of the first books I can remember reading. I think I was about 12 or 13.
Yes, you almost feel the constant freezing, hunger pains, stress, loss of hope.
My grandfather was born in one of those soviet labor camps, he wouldnt talk about it much, atleast to us kids but from what I was told it was really bad, he didn't leave until he was 15 when him, his siblings and his parents were able to get a boat to America. His experience in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot is a whole other story, received medals for saving people andgot scars from agent orange all over his back in the process. He had a crazy life but didn't let it break him as it would most people. He literally did the American dream, after Vietnam he got out the military, became a master electrician, got married to my grandmother, bought property with over 300 acres, built his own house himself on it and became a citizen in 2008. Rip gramps, you definitely deserve it. See ya on the otherside.
Amazing. You should write a book about him. The radicals want to say the US is so bad but people all over the world (mostly black and brown people) are risking their lives to get here.
Wow! Kudos, congratulations to your grandfather! So glad he escaped the Gulag, and made an amazing life for himself! He is now a strong example for us!
Go Grandpa!
May he be resting in peace.
👍 🌿 💜 🇺🇸
Not to sound cheesy man but that is a story vey much like my grandfathers. What was it about that great generation. Most of them saw absolute hell and served during ww11 or in your case Vietnam. I glad he died knowing what a great service he gave to this country and that he was a citizen. Now all you have to do is illegally jump the freaking border which is a shame because people like you pa did everything in his power to become America. God bless him
Your grandad was a badass. Damn it makes me feel like a pampered, whiny pussy hearing stories like his.
Beautiful story.
I have paid thousands of dollars to get a degree from a university and this ~2 hour video has trumped every lecture or class i have ever taken.
LOL legit. having a degree is essentially useless in my mind. i care about what you believe and what you LEARNED!
Only 80/20 could be successful. This is one of those people. (Nah I’m playing. But realize that you can’t get the best of the best from college if you don’t go to the most prestigious. There’s thousands of colleges)
Ouch! 😒
@Yozhik Shut up you leftist commie “intellectual”. Get back to work
Suckaaaaaa!
I can't believe these kids got such an incredible lecture. I graduated college this year, and not 1 course in 5 years was this profound. What a shame there aren't more men like Peterson.
quite the opposite. Many profs just want to exploit and wear away at you, while simultaneously never replying to any emails. Profs are fucking trash lmao
Beyond there not being more like Petersen, they drive people like him out of higher education. They dont want the graduates thinking for themselves like Petersen promotes.
@Rex Racer Another great Solzhenitsyn book: 200 years together.
@@jayburris6252 ppl
During my college days a professor like this would have been highly appreciated and esteemed. But today there is a very selfish remnant on college campuses that scream him down and will not listen or allow others to listen. If even one person would have tried to carry on like this during my days at the University that person would have been disciplined severely!
“The French seem particularly opaque to reason.” That is your quote of the day. Thank you Jordan.
Now the Americans past them
i will be using this for humor for moths to come. je suis encore entrain de rire
the french supported gencde @@framestomind7548
Guys as Russian I recommend you to read these books about those times:
• Andrei Platonov - The Foundation Pit
• Mikhail Sholokhov - Podnyataya Tselina, ( Virgin Soil Upturned (1935); Harvest on the Don)
Just read descriptions of these books, I am sure you will get more info
• and of course Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Thank you
All great grandparents on my mother side were dekulakalized so I hope you will learn something new
I love Platonov and Solzhenitsyn. But I will say the Vasily Grossman is an even more powerful writer than even those two.
My grand grandfather was also a kulak
Thank you!
and mine
The fact that these authors were never once mentioned in any of my schooling is just... dangerous. Thank you Dr P.
I had the joy of reading some of mr S's works while flying over Sibera.
@@MW-ty5zw I'm reading the first volume of Archipelago, and I can not call it enjoyable, inspite of the brilliant style and dark humour of the author.
Sad to say, I've graduated high-school, have a diploma on psychology and am now entering my 3rd year of a psychology degree, and Peterson is the only reason I know that any of those book exists, and is why I now own many of them today.
That's astounding. I had to discover these writers on my own as I'm not and never had been a university student. I actually thought that I was reading the things that I was missing because I never went to university. I assumed that's what you'd be talking about in those hallowed halls. Not as hallowed as I thought.
ALWAYS CONSIDER YOUR 'TEACHERS', ANYONE NOT CAUSING QUESTIONS ARE TO BE DISREGARDED!
My great-grandma, who was a young teenager during the bolshevik revolution and lived to the 1970s, was very bitter at the Soviets all her life. They were a poor peasant family and struggled for a long time, but through hard work were able to save to buy a cow, and things were finally looking up. Shortly after, the bolsheviks came, labelled them "kulaks", and took the cow away - back to destitution with you for the common good. Real people, real story, just a couple handshakes away. My respect to JP for recognizing and warning the world about the evil of Marxism. (But that wasn't real socialism!!1 - Yeah, it was. Collective guilt, collective farms, central planning and all.)
Happened to the family of my grandmother too. They took away a cow, a horse and a however small supply of grain that her father had. Shortly thereafter he hanged himself, and my grandmother, while still being a child, ended up in an orphanage, as she had no other choice. Later in her life, several years after WWII, she met my future grandfather who had previously been charged with article 58 (political prisoner) and spent some years on Kolyma, in gold mines in permafrost. Luckily, both my grandma & grandpa lived long after Soviet Union collapsed.
The kulaks died in the millions when the Soviets stole their wheat and sold it to the Germans, and left them to starve. The kulaks were GENOCIDED and the world NEVER KNEW, because there was an iron curtain -- no speech except the government's story. Take a step back and look at the fact-checkers and being taken down from social media as punishment and tell me it is not the same thing.
The problem is that while those "peregibi na mestah" were not just "na mestah", but still were "peregibi" and they not represent overall picture of what happened in USSR. "Raskulachivanie" the way it gone was a fuck up. A big one. But it was a fuckup not a targeted policy to rob and maginalise piesantry. The target was to raise agriculture productivity, to take this grain to sell it and to industrialise country so it will withstand capitalistic world pressuree. And it worked as GPW proved. Success stories numbers around USSR were otherwealmly larger than a tyranical one, like Your family or my wife famile went througth. It is wrong to shrink USSR history only to atrocities and fuckups. And If You still live in Russia, You can see Yourselth, that we can have same shit now same way easy as they had it in 193x. Without socialism as structure of power or ideology. Abuse of power and wrong legislatin is more than enought to have such shit. This is also part on pair with 110mlns victims where Peterson being tricked by Solzhenitzin & Co to persue a scape goat. But at least he smart enought to do it carefully. This is exactly why he can`t draw the line when left became radical murderouce left.
There were bunch of factors that led to atrosities in USSR and Communistic ideoilogy is like a minor part of them. Also scale of those atrocities is exaggarated greatly.
Here is simple experiment. You have You family meet repression. And I sure You have those who was a member of Red Army in GPW. Compare those numbers. Take Your friends families too to made a biggest possible but persanaly verifiable representation. And have a proportion. And take a knowledge that about 45mln people went throught Red Army during GPW. here You will get very coarse number of repressed. I think You allredy know it will be way far from Solzhenitzin 110mln dead. It is still Alot and unforgivable, but it change overall picture. A scale of it at least.
@Slicem F Your eulogy on tyrant and mass murderer Stalin is hard to bear. e.g. millions of Russians died from starvation due to the experiments the utterly uneducated Stalin did with the "inventions" of charlatan and scientific dilletante Lissenko Трофим Денисович Лысенко. You seem to have missed the official De-Stalinization in the USSR.
AND: Some whitewashers of Communism maintain something like "most people that are anti-socialism don’t even know what socialism is because they are being brainwashed by capitalism in this country."
Here is my personal definition: Socialism/Communism is what Stalin did to 8 million of his fellow citizens, the Kulaks. They were allegedly too wealthy exploitative farmers. First, they were expropriated and then killed. It was the bitter irony that, as a consequence, for many decades to come, the USSR, that alleged workers' paradise, year after year, had to import millions of tons of grain from the alleged class enemy, the capitalist USA, to keep their own people alive. Socialism/Communism is what Mao did to about 40 million of his Chinese fellow citizens during his alleged cultural revolution. BTW Today's so-called Communist People's Republic of China is as capitalist as can be (as Mr. Trump). In the name of Socialism/Communism Pol Pot and his Red Khmer butchered about 4 million Cambodians. Socialism/Communism is what the self-proclaimed alleged liberators of the oppressed and exploited masses in the name of Karl Marx and Lenin did to and made of, exempla gratia, East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, and (almost) Poland. Wherever the masses did not wish that very special variety of "liberation" and "freedom", Russian tanks quashed them: 1953 in East Berlin and East Germany, 1956 in Hungary (the Hungarian Prime Minister Imre Nagy was executed), 1968 in Czechoslovakia, in the early 1980s almost in Poland. Wherever Socialists were in power, they left behind ruined national economies, contaminated environments, and mass poverty. Recent examples: The most honorable gentlemen Robert Mugabe (Simbabwe) and Hugo Chavez and his successor Nicolas Maduro (Venezuela). Cuba, thanks to the massimo lider Castro et al. is a nice museum of old buildings and American vintage cars - but only for those who travel there as brain-washed and/or ignorant and ethically indifferent tourists who can leave any time if they wish to do so. Young Cubans drown when trying to reach Florida with inflated truck tyres.
And as to Stalin: To this very day, ignorant individuals lacking human empathy also avoid the harsh historic facts about the ca. 8 million Russians who starved to death due to Stalin's stupid reckless experiments in agriculture (an ignorant variant of Lamarckism), the Moscow show trials in the late 1930s (later copied in Hitler's Third Reich), the millions deported to and tortured to death in the GULAG etc. etc. Russian historians, as early as in the 1990s, spoke of about 20 million victims of Stalin's regime of terror; recently, French historians put that number at 27 million. The red fascism is nothing to romanticize. Even the Russians started the official De-Stalinization in 1954. BTW Stalin's daughter emigrated to the USA, of all countries.
sofuckingannoying excellent comment! Thank you
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Jordan Peterson is an international treasure. May God bless and heal him.
Amen
I see many here share the same opinion.
Yes, there is something wrong with this guy.
But maybe he is just put here to attract our attention.
Which god?
HE IS BACK
@@chrispbacon3042 come on now no jokes
I once asked a communist if she knew what the Gulag Archipelago was, in response she said: "It's where people who bring up the Gulag Archipelago go to"
The ideology is unreal
That's actually a pretty valid response.
Oziel Esparza wow that is shocking. But on a humorous note it reminds me. What was God doing before he created the world? Creating hell for people who ask questions like that.
Scary but true.
holy shit😅
Oziel Esparza a fascinating and potent variety of the manifestation of evil can be conceptualized as a world in which chaos stamps out order. The Soviet Union under Stalin was the most potent manifestation of this flavor of evil in history, whether in actuality or human imagination. The sheer horror that the western academics still venture to discuss Marxism in anything but broken horror is appalling, and Peterson seems to head a small minority who have their heads screwed on straight.
What I would have paid to sit in lectures like this instead of my "cultural awareness" classes in college that accomplished nothing but further radicalizing young naïve students. One of the things that really stuck with me after reading part 1 of the Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn described this ability to very quickly judge whether someone was genuine or not. From my memory (or perhaps the way I interpreted it) he speaks of this as a lantern that shines; illuminates the trustworthy). It is a remarkable feat his book ever escaped Soviet Russia, and he accredits much of this to his trusting of the that inner lantern. This sentiment really struck me, and I believe the essence of his book shines a light on the immense power of the limitless human spirit. Despite the unfathomable suffering and loneliness, the human spirit persevered and was able to find its way into good company. It is up to us to keep this spirit alive. Thanks you Jordan for sharing his work and putting it eloquently.
I didn’t start listening to Dr Peterson until after I had left the radical left….now I know what that bad feeling was that I had between 2019-2020. We’re not the crazy ones, they are. The radical left started out as a righteous movement for universal human rights, but has now turned into a creepy social policing of thought and word, always scanning for something to be offended by.
If the radical left try pulling this Gulag shit in the United States (outside of hellholes like Portland or San Francisco where they live of course), then whatever goons they send are going to get shot right in the face. The right, the center, and the moderate left are united against these social tyrants; we are armed (unlike Europe) and there are millions and millions of us.
I'm so glad you saw through the propaganda and have rejoined the sane peoples of the world. Cheers 🍻
@@41tl lol…I lived in San Francisco. I was excluded from polite society for saying “Christmas is a European holiday” out loud. I’m not joking.
@@41tl here's hoping
@@41tl lol millions of armed minions against the tyrants....what a joke
Well the radical left actually started put by literally beheading itself in France.
"If you live a pathological life, you pathologize your society, and if enough people do that then it's Hell." - Jordan B Peterson
This man is on the right side of history.
Powerful words indeed....thank you Mr. Peterson.
Time Stamp?
He states this at the end. The last 10 minutes of this lecture is a big chunk of truth that so many in our society pretend is rubbish. But it’s truth and it’s brilliant!
When he said, "you can predict absolutely everything they're going to say, once you know the algorithmic substructure of their political ideology which is usually predicated on about five or six axioms, you can use the axioms to automatically generate speech content"...I felt that
unironically, I did
Very true. My former best friend and his wife abandoned our friendship because I didn't align with their political ideology. When I had a conversation with her about critical race theory, I could predict everything she was going to say. She then cut me off from social media, I guess because she didn't expect I knew exactly how critical race theory worked. Oh well, I moved with life.
@@quaker1874 explain theory to me please
1984 is a blueprint and newspeak is real.
@@ericvega3597 I recommend reading Cynical Theories by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose for a more extensive definition. It’s very complex and is intended to be.
This particular lecture has an aura of greatness surrounding it. Possibly the most impressive dissection of a literary work that I've ever seen. I hope those students realize how lucky they were.
There are parallels growing here between the events that precipitated the Gulag Archipelago, and the present marginalizing of people regarding the imminent imposition of a certain mandated system.
Terrifying times ahead of us.
Would you say it has gotten better or worse since posting this comment?
Fast forward to 2021 - Peterson saw this coming - now we have presidential inaugural speech referencing peoples skin/race/group as a primary identifier by which to identify individuals.
How this debasement of our values is not obvious baffles me.
The reason it is not more obvious is because the Left has been grooming our society for decades from elementary school through university, with help from MSM, big tech, social media, Hollywood, etc. It actually amazes me more that there are still a few of us awake enough to to see through it.
He warned us during the Ontario C16 debate
Scary isn't it?. Scares the hell out of me and I live in the UK......
And now they will begin to eat their own. Andy Cuomo and Gavin Newsom are the first under fire from the left. At the same time, some institutions are referring to Asians as white (because they were too successful), so they don't get minority privileges. 'Whiteness' is now separated from the caucasian race so that even black political enemies can be swiftly defeated by the left.
@@bill6114 I can't unsee what I've seen.
Every time I read about the left “eating their own”, I remember reading Solzhenitsyn talking about running into fellow prisoners in the gulag who were once government snitches and even prosecutors.
The game was so tight where those in power ordered : get them before they have a chance to even think about it ! it is not that those in prison were good people but the first come was first served ,no second chances as no one trusted anyone .
@@rovidius2006 That's exactly what Orwell wrote about in "1984"
Lol very much looking forward to that part.
Mad
I find it reassuring. When they come for me for my internet post history people like The Young Turks and AoC won't be far behind. If I'm lucky I'll get to shank them in the prison yard.
I just want to say I appreciate you posting your lectures online. I spend a vast majority of my free time studying and reading to better understand the world around me. I appreciate deeply the level of understanding I walk away from your videos with. If you ever indeed set up your own online university I will be a student immediately.
The fact these videos are cataloged seems to confirm he has already begun his online institution, amazing work
What scares me is the amount of comments and replies asking “did you even read Marx? It’s not that bad” etc… like what part of Marx sounding good yet being impossible to properly implement, do you people not understand?
The fatal flaws of the communist manifesto are human nature itself.
1. Government would have to seize the means of production and willingly hand it over to the people to be collectively owned. When does government ever relinquish power once it's gained? "Collective" as realistically implemented in communist nations simply meant it was owned by the ruling regime and managed by a government beaurocrat.
2. Every citizen would have to work for the good of the society without then incentive of profit or extra pay for working harder or being innovative. People are inherently lazy and need an incentive to get their best, or in some cases, any effort out of them. As implemented in communist countries, the children of the political elite may get to choose their careers. For most workers it was decided to them, and they were forced to work under threat of prison or even death. They did just enough work to stay out of trouble and get their government bread.
3. There will never be a such thing as a classless society. In the west the elite are the wealthy families. In communist states, the elite are the families of those in high standing with the party. The Soviets, Chi-Coms, Cubans, and even North Koreans have/had a class of political elites that enjoyed luxuries even while their citizens starved.
@xXFaZe_AuSsIeXx Very well said
I think the thing is Marx has legitimate criticisms of capitalist society and while Soviet style socialism is no utopia we have to admit capitalism or whatever you want to call our current economic system is no utopia either, and as long as that's the case there's going to be dissatisfaction and desire to change or augment the system.
I believe Marx's diagnosis is correct but his prescription is a failure.
Just listened to this in 2020 for free. I live a blessed life.
I felt exactly the same! Free education. And a better lecture than I ever had in school.
Unfortunately these lectures will be censored in the near future and considered hate speech.
Jordan Peterson is a real American hero
@@billybowbob2071 at least we can listen to them in a women's bathroom.... 🥳
This just gives me total chills down my backbone when thinking about current events
And it's only going to worse
why do you think they tried to cancel him?
Yep. As soon as Harris takes office....
IT SHOULD
History repeats itself because people are too lazy, too ignorant, too busy, or don’t want to dwell on previous atrocities.
Im so grateful that information like this is free and only a click away.
In the last four years this has become more important than ever. Thank god for Jordan.
More education in less than 2 hours than 4 years of high school.
....or indeed a three year university humanities course.
...and in the end they applaud clapping their hands like normal human beings, not knocking on the table, like drones, to not trigger anybody
It is interesting how level of education declined since i was in high school (polish school) in 1990s and now. My nephew has maybe one fourth that what i had and they learn so different, for example on history in high school we used to learn about all human history since prehistory to modern including detailed history of specific countries of europe and the world and of some less important countries. now they learn only fraction of world history and to some degree detailed polish history. the education looks even way worse on the west i was shocked to discover how poor is the education in the high school in britain, even on universities i have degree from british uni in history and lack of general knowledge of professors is at least worrying... they are good in what they specialise as for example medieval castles but everything else for them is a foggy mystery. the fall of education in our western civilisation i link to the roman proverb "stupider society is easier to control"... if you are more interesting in education take a look on the one before WWII level of gymnasium (present secondary or high school) in that days we could compare to good uni from present.
OHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
you mustve gone to a very bad high school
The irony of stalking, filming, following and screaming at someone then accusing them of harassing you.
I wish I was that guy. It would've ended that day. This is a woman that has never been verbally put in her place even once in her life and I would have made such a public example of her she think twice about leaving the house every time the rest of her life
Such a person is thankfully rare. I thought I had to be worried.
I do, but only because such people are now protected by American law, not because they are common.
as it´s said in sports: "the refferie doesn´t see the action he only sees the retaliation, when you punish someone for what they did to you". she was baiting him into an action, that she could show as an violent act towards feminism. this is the best advertisment for bodycams you can think of. film your whole day that you can show that you are not guilty of doing what you are being accused of. guilty until proven innocent.
I haven't watched the whole vid... But this thread makes no since...
Sad...just not giving an opportunity for anything of reason to happen..just a bully..
“Let your credo be this: let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.” - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
The best way to combat the justification of evil through ideology in the guise of the greater good is with the truth.
Beautiful quote
Something Peterson failed to do siding with neozionists. Peterson, why won’t you discuss 200 years together by Solzhenitsyn? Why you side with netanyahoo in genocide of Palestinian Christians and Muslims?
this man is truly a gift to this world and for the last almost year i’ve tried my best to just absorb all the knowledge and help he gives.
And this is why I love Peterson: he quickly and confidently destroyed the great lies my high school still actively teaches.
@vachief Stalin Was NOT jewish. He wasn't Russian Either. He was a Georgian. I think you have confused him with his henchman,Lavrenty Beria . He was the man who sent millions to their deaths in the gulags. Beria was born a jew .
@faboulous_finn keep searching...
@vachief *comes to video about the evils of collectivism, immediately engages in collectivist finger-pointing*
@@Mercmad stalin was half jewish.
@Ataakaari stalin did attend a monastery, for a short while, but then decided to drop out. i wouldn't say he started his career as a priest. that's not true. that dude, it's pretty obvious never went anywhere near the priesthood.
It’s shocking that these kind of lectures feel “dangerous” in academia.
It's stimulating free thought and therefore dangerous to their propaganda
@@0321Katie for sure legacy media has a narrative now and will not tolerate any deviation
@@jakebarnes28 Why the quotes around academia? He actually was in academia, but hasn't been for a few years.
Pray for them as Christ told us to do.
It's because they don't want you to discover Solzhenitsyn's other book
I can listen to this man for hours.
I read the book in jail and quoted him during a parole board meeting. It got approved, always look back but keep moving forward
I read Man’s Search For Meaning while my son was in jail, wrongly convicted. It saved my sanity.
Can you imagine having a professor like this every damn day for a semester? Just one of his lectures remains with me longer than any in my 4 year degree (plus every summer term).
We would be a wise group of students :-) just awesome.
Eric Hmm? Nope........Seek Out Books, for yourself, then imagine opening your independent opinions. Developing learning and not just teaching! Written History is someone’s opinion, and like bottoms we all have one of those. Wisdom is not your right given just from sitting in a lecture.
@@1SpudderR I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, but it must have sounded really awesome when you said it to the other college dorm kids in a haze of pot smoke.
Eric Hmm? You will not develop your own independent opinion “Stuck in a lecture hall with a single lecturer indoctrination!” That is what forms one/lop sided attitudes. And “pot” smoke? I believe chimneys smoke, perhaps that is why you could not reason out my logic!
@@1SpudderR That's so deep. You're a dizzying intellect. Please be gentle with us mortals.
I'm 150 pages into the gulag archipelago and Professor Peterson articulated my thoughts perfectly. It is beyond reprehensible that atrocities of this scale are not taught in our education system.
Interesting how absurd it all was. You could literaly be charged and arested for ANYTHING at ANYTIME!
I like Solzhenysn' dark humor though, he has a way of making you kek even though he's perfectly describing a completly genocidal system.
I remember at one point, he talked about the various reasons you could be sent to the gulag.
I couldn't belive this; you could actualy be arested for "suspicion of espionage" or even "contacts leading to suspicion of espionage". That just got me man. Its almost comical. CONTACTS LEADING TO SUSPICION > of espionage. Its like you don't even care at this point, lets just send em all to the gulag and be done with it.
+Nikola Djordjevic do you mind explaining what those quotations mean? I'm not big on reading so my vocab is pretty shit.
charlie saville Do you mean “contacts leading to suspicion of espionage?”
If so, they’re accusing someone of talking to people that leads them to believe that it might be possible that the person could be a spy. Maybe.
They’re not even trying to pretend legitimacy at that point.
I cheated and bought the abridged version (communism/lenonism for western dummies). Now I feel guilty.
Nikola Djordjevic the pernicious deadliness of conceptualizing the world and your fellow humans through a Marxist lens lies in the reality that one can see the oppressor in every single sentient creature. In the Soviet Union the overwhelming occupation of the state was the business of wiping out the oppressors, who inevitably came to be defined as anyone not yet worked to death by Stalin. Hitlers Germany was the deadliest regime in memorable history, yet at the very least one can claim that there were some grains of happiness or at the very least, meaning, for some people within his deadly dystopian dictatorship. This is more than can be said for the SU; it’s safe to say that the number of souls that experienced anything except misery in the Soviet Union can be counted on one hand. I say this as a JEWISH man. Ironic, is it not?
I'm 35. I found jordan peterson 4 years ago. When I was going thru a tough time. I was homeless, jobless with no hope or direction. Since then I've found my passion. I started with Nothing at the bottom. But I started living right and stayed constant with my goals. Now im at the top of my field and climbing every day for more. Just have to have a clear head, have definitive goals, and Chase them constantly
I am not a graduate but I enjoy listening to Peterson's lectures so much, on many levels.. always something new to learn, he is a structured thinker and it looks that he likes poetry. And of course this helped/helps me a lot to get some order and a direction in my own messed-up path.
It is CHILLING how many parallels can be made to our current situations. How can people not see this coming?
They arent educated about this... they know nothing of the warning signs whatsoever
What are you talking about exactly? What is coming?
I did. I have plenty ammo.
What's coming?
I believe socialism has been alive and well in America for 70 years and part of socialism is not talking about the failure of socialism.
This describes exactly the road we are heading down today.
That's exactly why I'm watching this!
@@lewisest2528 same here..
My family ran away from communism... they are all saying its happening here. They are trying to run away before its too late but it could already be too late. This is so fuxking sad, canada was such an amazing country and its all gone to shit with thid pos pm trudeau. Cant stand his fake smiles & acting, but i have to give him credit because hes a great puppet for the elite...
@@elliott7706 Im Canadian too and I see it, its horrible but there are tons of Canadians right to fight back. Where is your family from?
And now we are further down the road and at a fork. What will wee choose? I'm not encouraged
Of all of Peterson's lectures I've watched so far, this was the most profound. Very powerful.
Imagine how powerfully you could orient and shape your intellect to unfathomable heights if you just listened to this person. So much of critical and invaluable knowledge presented so eloquently for absolutely no cost.
It doesn’t get better than this.
Tearing the public education system to pieces even before reaching the ten minute mark speaks volumes and he is 100% correct.
He is essentially deprogramig kids. Work worthy of worldwide recognition - heck - a Nobel Peace Prize (shame this prize doesn't mean anything anymore).
Forget the Nobel, should be a Jordan B Peterson Prize.
The Soviets thought that the Nobel Peace Prize didn't mean anything either- so they invented the Lenin Peace Prize to reward informants and murderers. The Nobel prizes are Western gems.
Obama got a noble peace prize and whent on to drop 26,000 bombs on 7 countries. That prize means jack Shit
@@Zeriel00 it would have been racist if he didn't
If you respect this man's words , put your own last name down and add prize behind it . Isn't that enough !
I have listened to this a number of times and I'm still amazed at how clear he explains everything!! Thank you for keeping this free, and it will be needed far into the future!!
I appreciate Peterson, immensely. And I appreciate Solzhenitsyn’s work beyond words.
Now, we can understand why this man became 'the boogeyman' for those in charge of Canada's University system. Very rare man in deed. We are lucky to learn from him.
He's a man of focus, commitment and sheer fucking will.
@@LordBurningStuff
That's true. I don't know why i said that. Must have just watched a history documentary or something.
my hoser !
Peterson is the only teacher who gets applauded after a school lecture
I noticed that as well. My daughter is in law school and I'm completing my Masters Degree. Never seen professors applauded. I believe this is because Peterson's students understood that Jordan is one of the most intelligent people in the world.
And deservedly so. I was riveted by this lecture. I need to buy the books now. it was just upsetting and fascinating. The man is just amazing. His level of knowledge is is just mind-blowing. I could listen to him all day (although some of what he teaches goes over the top of my head!) The world needs more educators like him. Bravo sir.
I applaud when I hear him debate far left pundits as well. He is amazingly insightful
German profs are almost always applauded.
@@Kalenz1234 north american professors generally aren't, which was the point but interesting to know that bit of German culture.
It's one if the great lecture along with On Piaget and existentialism. The profound depth of knowledge, perspective and contemplation about the Marxist, communist radical ideology and it's detrimental effect on the prevailing culture; in simply one word magnificent.
I try to absorb what you teach by giving it some vicariously empathetic consideration, and my take away is always: I'm very fortunate to learn of these things second hand. Learning from history is important, so thank you for helping to share it.
This should be mandatory in school. I never learned so much about history and socialism..
Now only if those that claim socialism has not down side and is the best outcome for all people. Funny how those that are predominantly well off and billionaires fundamental to the funding and fascism tactics of publicly posted information on their platforms.
Claming as Marxist do that the truth is not and stifles pure truth. Even protecting those that claim socialism. It is a war against all living persons on earth today. We must stand for truth and right in all time and all places. Calling this socialists out to stand for their actions and the lawlessness they are guilty of.
Communism**
Neither did I. I also never learned about the Constitution.
It should be, but it's not. What does that tell us about this ideology? It infests all government systems and the human brain as well, for only one reason. To get rid of any criticism of socialism. That's why socialism indoctrinated people who were forced to be in it (socialist states built walls to keep people in, not out) but felt as if they were doing good, not being imprisoned by the state. All freedoms were taken away without having people notice. At that point, the job of the state is to remove all criticism of it as much as possible.
@@promo242 Communism****
Socialism encompasses all social law/practices. Public libraries, police, fire departments, national healthcare, civil rights, cracking down on monopolies, etc etc etc
What you all are talking about is Communism. Communism is an Authoritarian form of socialism where the social laws are taken so far that that government in power uses unrelenting force to make sure their people fall in line (as described in the video)
American Socialists (implemented social law)- Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, JFK, MLK, John Brown, Obama
American Communists-... none, literally fucking none...
Those kids in that room aren't at a lecture, they're at a life lesson. I hope they realised it.
God, that was deep. I cried when he was reading the Gulag Archipelago. I'm thankful for the possibility of having this lecture.
Last week a co-worker spent hours attempting to convince me that Stalin was the Greatest Historical Figure. Attempted to say the genocide of the Kulaks was justified. And completely dismissed Solzhenitsyn. Never have I met a better example of Ideological Possession.
That’s insane
Whenever I feel down, I just remember, I am not in the Gulag. So this is still a good day.
Feel the same. People I've known don't understand why I volontarily research these atrocities. This is the reason.
@@Phoenix-Brah Julius Bucher I don't know why, but it makes me forget about my troubles. At a very bad time, I always say:
"You know what, you have eaten 3 times today, and you have a bed and a roof to sleep in and its not minus seventy degrees and you don't have the fear of death every other moment so everything is great. Couldn't be bad if you tried."
For me, it's a great source of empowerment.
lets not fall to the bigotry of low expectations though
If that is enough for most people then we are doomed.
We must not be satisfied so easily
Ya gulags suck.
It's so wholesome and amazing how Peterson calls his students "you guys" like he's not speaking to them from a place of authority or complacency. He's not speaking like a condesceinding parent (as most teachers do), he's speaking to them like his equals or his friends. Like he's briefing them, like they're on the same team and they're working together, not like he's trying to train them. As most teachers do...
This is what you get when sharing ideas, rather than dogmatic ideology
It sounds crazy but I get the sense Jordan Peterson is in a way, well ahead of his time, and under-appreciated. He will certainly be regarded as one of the most important and influential public figures of the early 21st century.
@@Sam-go3mb I believe he is an exceptionally popular lecturer at his university. unsurprisingly.
This is how one speaks with someone whom you regard. It allows for free thought and inner consideration.
Well said, Dr. Peterson. If one lives virtuously, as even the Founding Fathers of the U.S. have talked repeatedly, one can be truly happy and have a purpose, otherwise it is just Hell and there is no meaning and the only option to have a sense of control is tyranny or authoritarianism. One of these days, I will find and read the Gulag Archipelago and other works.
I haven’t had a lecture anywhere near as impactful as this in my entire degree program. I am grateful it is up for all to hear. I only wish more people had the desire to listen.
I hope parents of kids who will be sending their offspring to colleges don’t think Jordan Peterson represents typical college professors. If that were true we wouldn’t be having the ridiculous behavior of this current culture of insanity. Stay healthy Jordan and live long. Mankind needs you.
Certainly balance is needed. He also has an agenda. But it's a far healthier one at the moment than the craziness prevailing in that country right now.
Cannot believe Peterson showing "Humungous" in his class. Dr. Peterson, thank you.
Only part that sucked is Ethan Klein being involved in any of it, I hate that guy
Ervin Abrahamian why ? Lmao
@@lilithbloom8312 He's dumb and proud of it. He's a waste of skin, did you see what happened with Steven Crowder just a couple days ago? I disliked Ethan long before this but his latest antic just put the cherry on top for me. He agreed to debate Steven about some statements he had made where he said "Just do what the CDC says, they're scientists, you don't even have to think about it bro," (always the mark of a genius when they advise their audience not to think, lol) and he got on a Zoom call with Steven, everything was cordial and then out of nowhere his camera cuts out and somebody else comes to take his place to debate. Of course, Steven Crowder did not take the bait and in fact called it before it even happened. Next day, Ethans out there acting like he won the debate and Crowder ran away when in fact Ethan ran away and hid behind somebody else, only to claim a false victory the next day. Complete lack of integrity, morals and class, Ethan is trash.
@@Ervinabrahamian typical jew what can you do?
@@Hsaelt how do you have the stomach to say a slur like that in today's climate? Genuinely curious.
This does not get old. So relevant. One of my favorite lectures.
Wow. You Tube popped this into my feed and 2 hours later and way past my bedtime my mind is blown, and I am left me with a heavy heavy feeling of sadness for the unimaginable suffering, torture and death that happened to so many millions of innocent Russian and Ukrainian people less then 100 years ago,. But also an overwhelming sense of gratitude for the freedoms I have been blessed with. And a sense of urgency and responsibility to hold myself accountable and work harder to overcome my fears and reach my potential. Thank you Dr. Peterson for speaking the TRUTH ! 🇺🇸 🙏🇨🇦
Props to my philosophy professor, who agreed on this when I brought it up: I explained Stalin to a classmate who didn't even know who he was, and told him more died under Stalin than Hitler. He was shocked. A college student had never heard of a worse totalitarian than Hitler and he hadn't even heard the name of Stalin. This bs goes deep, my friends.
But you know since he was not against the Jews who kinda run the world so nothing is said about Stalin. Makes me sick how you can't believe anything
Stalin hated Jews. If your classmate didn't know about Stalin, it had nothing to do with Jews, and everything to do with teachers being commies.
Chairman mao killed more than Hitler and Stalin combined
Wow... so sad
My “reply to all” of sorts: I have nothing against Jewish people whatsoever- I have a lot against totalitarianism and against suppression of history for agendas.
I don’t claim that their teachers were commies or that Jews are running the world (though they’re doing quite well), but rather I think that their teachers were weak-minded leftwingers with an agenda to serve an evil they do not understand. And that’s incredibly common. If you refer to that as commies, go ahead, but I don’t want to tack them all into a political group unnecessarily. They’re more likely dull people who were mislead, than agents of the underground communists, or as I like to call them “Communists”. Or “Communistity” if you prefer.
And yeah Mao was worse still, I didn’t get that far in the rant with my classmate before we had to move on.
I'm just happy this was watched by over two million times. There is some hope.
🙏🏻
Just be aware, there’s also the probability that the leftist lunatics have watched this via college to “analyze” the mind of whatever “ist” they feel is relevant that week -\_/-
@@unvoicingreaper66 this might be a possibility - one reason more to to educate oneself. Pray for wisdom. We can't change others but keep our own hearts clean. My fundament is to believe in the word of christ.
I've watched it 3 times. Lol. I always watch Jordan's lectures multiple times to make sure I comprehend it properly. Kinda like when I read the bible.
Only 6998 million who haven't.
Thank you for the wonderful lecture. It makes sense to me. It helped me organize the learnings and observations I gathred throughout my life into a cohesive narrative. It really quenched my thirst for a philosophy that existed since I decided to move away from the religion that I was born into.
I’ve watched this lecture multiple time and I am still stunned by the impact of the concepts that Dr Peterson offers. This should be a mandatory class in all colleges.
UPDATE: "GULAG Archipelago" is no longer studied at Russian schools, they removed it from the program in 2019. What a shame.
Still,a lot of Solzhenitzins works are in the program (One Day Of Ivan Denisovich,Matryonin Dvor etc). I think that they decided to delete Gulag because it was to exhausting to read. And i mean in the age of 17 you will not understand that book fully...
Figures
Probably cause none of the students read these massive books, not because of anything special, just the lazy nature of students
Because it’s an ideological book. In fact, it’s not really valuable
@@kirliberty9256 incorrect
In Estonia (and I assume in rest of the former Soviet Union) we learn all about the atrocities that were done to our peoples by the communists. This knowledge has to be taught in the West also.
Thank you professor Peterson for talking about this.
They don't teach us this in Slovenia despite the country being part of yugo's communist regime and having several known mass graves full of victims "removed" by communists. It has to come down from the parents.
I didn't learn this at school in germany either, but we were blasted with WW2 and the things the nazis did for years
In France in 9th grade, we are taught about the gulags, dekulakization, cult of personality under Stalin, Animal Farm is to be read and 1984's extracts from the movie can eventually be watched, and in high-school it's the PRC we get to study.
The only thing is that it is forbidden to push political agendas in public schools (which is good IMO, even though some people from the far left are poking the limits of this restriction), so we did not get in depth about marxism, but the totalitarian ideological regimes in general are openly talked about
Tore Inimene also teach how and what the West has done and is doing to the wider world
In Lithuania, my grandma (dad's side) experienced gulags first hand and had nearly all of her properties confiscated when she came back. Her stories were so tragic, death at every corner. It's mind-boggling when I hear people speak good things about communism.
Peterson is a refreshing truth teller, which is in short supply these days
Very profound and eye opening lecture. Society needs more people like him.
I've read most of Solzhenitsyn's works Idk why but that line "To that flame and you, girl, I promise:the whole wide world will read about you." always stands out as one of his most moving statements
I read a bit of the Gulag archipelago, my favorite line was during the time he was talking about the camp and how he mentioned those that survived the camp. They had to give it all up, and move on from all the materialistic things just to keep themselves sane, to even accept that those they loved were gone and their life was just the past.
i can pick a favourite paragraph from war and peace (the freemason speaking to pierre about god, _the watchmaker argument_ incase anyone cares)
but trying to pick a single paragraph from the gulag archipelago is akin to pulling teeth, or picking a favourite beatles' song.. theres are simply too many
not say A.S is a greater writer than tolstoy, but the subject is certainly more pertinent for our current time in the west
@@puppetmaster8514 It is interesting in that this is a journey we all take. We get old, lose our bodies through disease or inability to move the way we did when younger, lose friends and family to death. In the end there is only a spiritual place we move into if we do not despair.
As someone who ACTUALLY HAS been sexually harassed, I can assure you, that screaming banshee was NOT sexually harassed in the video. The guy thought he was being funny; I will concede he seems to be rather a foolish fellow, but he did nothing wrong. The one doing the harassing was the banshee.
Exactly, he was just being an idiot, and in all honesty a useful idiot for her agenda.
yes, he was a bit silly, but she was full-bore psychotic. Most people would just shrug off his response, but she had to go berserk.
@@LouciousDark Why was he being an idiot? she invaded his space, she has zero fuckin right to know his name. I would have told her to fuck off
Find the complete video, which has hugh speaking to and thanking the police department for getting his daughter off the street, while this psycho and her cronies made inappropriate remarks.
@@LouciousDark how was he being an idiot though? He didn't owe her his name. She was spoiling for a fight, she was baying for blood from the start. Its very aggressive to demand a person's name like that. It means "tell me who you are I'm going to invade your personal life and punish you". She had no right AT ALL.
I have been listening to Jordan peterson since he first started posting bc I had been looking for some side literature on the gulag archipelago and It was Jordan that basically was able to help me reorganize my life and thought process. If only I had found him several months before I probably would never been in the situation I found myself in, which ended with serving several years in prison. But thanks to the work of Dr peterson I made it through far better mentally than I was prior to my incarceration. I read close to 100 books a year for several years and taught myself things like origami and the piano. But reading the Gulag Archipelago while imprisoned was life altering, it took several weeks to finish all three books and I still have them to this day bc by chance Amazon sent me the original paper back first edition, it took several weeks simply bc its a heavy read. I had to digest it and reread passages. It changed my life; especially when realizing that the way the system in America isn't much different except that instead of taking some pride in work they shackle you into a mental prison and I saw many ppl succumb to it and come out destroyed and soulless. I came out with a sense of drive and ambition that has driven me to success. Within 2 years had a house, 4 raises and promotions in my job, a loving partner who respects me bc of my competence and drive to build us a better life. Jordan peterson and Alexzandr have truly changed my life...
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I never tire of his lectures. Attaching the bible to Milton to Stalin, to so many other literary, historical, and faith based references to reveal such commonality and ancient knowledge that we have so readily at our disposal but fail to connect those dots -- so elegant.
I feel blessed to be able to hear JP's lectures via CZcams. He is truthfully a mind to behold.
Yeah I agree. He’s amazing.
We better enjoy it while we still can before they get censored 😅
You said it. Never ceases amaze me.
His channel will be deleted soon, it's being discussed.
Sloth where are they trying to go with this.
"You'll own nothing; and be happier for it." -Klaus Schwab on The Great Reset
".. no i own it " - Eugene Krabs
Says a multi billionaire
He should probably tour with the message because people obviously do not believe me when I tell them. At this point I have to wonder if they would applaud him behind their masks. They are all obviously oxygen deprived and teetering towards irreparable brain damage.
Why is it about Germans and control?
Big Western capitalists corporations together with the far left to take control the world slavering everyone else that doesn't comply with the their agenda.
It`s so powerfull when Jordan speaks, that it sometimes make me shed a tear.
I love watching Jordan’s lectures with my morning coffee
I just discovered Jordan Peterson a couple of weeks ago stumbling through CZcams. I'm very grateful that I did.
Keep going.
Welcome to the cool club.
I read the book The Gulag archipelago, its a master piece. It really brought me to the point of extreme tears. Never think that you are good and that you don't have the potential for evil, the book taught me that we all do, and there are few exceptions to this. Once group thinking gets applied we can do just about any evil if we don't stand up to it and even offer our lives to make the point that communism and Marxism can never ever work.
Imagine walking out of that lecture...
Mind blown.
In the world...
And your friends and relatives weren't there!
Thank Jordan it's on CZcams to share!!!🥰
No doubt the lecture is great. But the last 20 mins are pure GOLD!! May you always be blessed Dr Jordan 🙏
This lecture is so astonishing. A life time of education never taught me a single thing about these things happening in the Sovjetunion. We did however get lots of praise for socialism.
@danimalcollective1
That would have been a great class.
@danimalcollective1
I was a teenager during the Vietnam era. Although I'm Canadian, I spent a bit of time in the US, in 1970-2. It was quite the time. Everyone should have had a class like that.
I have a friend who grew up in China during the Mao era. She told me things about that life that would make you sit in sheer dread. Multiple times Party officials would show up at school and take all the kids to a type of arena to witness public executions. She was around 9 or 10 years old. There were party officials watching the kids to make sure they didn't turn their heads or close their eyes. She told me she learned to look right through it so she wouldn't have to see it. Apparently, that never stopped the nightmares, though.
We are so lucky, here in North America, and I'm afraid that we're going to throw it all away. I see my grandkids and I worry for them. I can only hope that this new fascination with socialism runs its course and goes away.
To learn the Soviet history by reading the Soljenitsyn book is the most stupid thing you may ever imagine!)))
@@user-lr4dy1op3i why is that? What are your sources?
@@marcopolo9146 Many of them.
Look for researches of Victor ZEMSKOV (doctor of history sciences) who REALLY worked with documents in KGB archives. He had found the exact number of people condemned and executed during period since 1924 till 1953. The number is about 862 000. Not dozens of millons or even a hundred of millions according to Soljenitsyn's words. Just to compare: in Russia almost the same number of people died in car accidents during last 30 years.
Zemskov's estimation is admitted by all professional historians in the world (and in the USA). Professionals refer on Zemskov in their study of the Soviet history all the time.
Concerning the details of horrors described by Soljenitsyn in "Archipelago Gulag" - they are laughable for anyone who ever interested how a penalty system works. For example: it is impossible to kill anyone in jail and just get rid of the body (as many times discribed by Soljenitsyn). In this case jail administration wouldn't be able to prove to supreme penulty autorities that the convic hasn't escaped. Soviet burocracy registered everything, and nobody could be careless about mass convict disappearence.
Francly speaking, I can follow this book page by page and show a lot of false statements and manipulations made by Soljenitsyn. He is 100% liar.
But Putin loves him very much: government constantly builds monuments and memorial centres for Soljenitsyn himself and his imaginery hundred million victim of Soviet regime.
P.S. by the way, GULAG is the abbreviation for Glavnoe Upravlenie LAGerey ( Главное управление лагерей) that could be translated as Chief Department of Penalty Camps. Exactly the same organisation as the system of Federal jails in USA.
In 1938 in USSR were about 2.2 millon of convicts (maximum rate of the "horrible repressions" moment). Please, compare it with prisoners number in USA (not say a word about people on probatoin and on parole).
I couldn’t figure out why CZcams kept putting this in my recommendations. I love JBP, but why this video? Then I watched it… this is the most profound reputation of ideology that I think has ever been put together. Worth watching a dozen more times.
I mean, I suspect it's impossible to do away with ideology altogether in the most general sense. To a degree we need it. To a degree it's useful and serves a purpose. Up until the point where it becomes stagnant and limiting dogma. That's the delineating mark. Social justice ideologies of the radical intersectional feminist variety are still relatively fresh and being newly explored and advocated for with serious intent lately for the first time ever... it's an experiment for the history books, but to me it seems like an experiment with minimal risk and danger (since it's pretty moderate in its methodology and fundamentally nonviolent) and a vast amount of possible gain, including potential revolutionary transformations of the human condition to higher levels of existence, civilization, spirituality, and consciousness itself.
@@kirklandau2826 I know some of these words
Round 3 around here 🇧🇷
Accord
You mean 'repudiation'?
After I read GULAG I understood even more my grandmothers and her mothers way of life and how they were used to living.
She told me a lot about the stories of working from young age in these communes and rarely having to eat. How they were accustomed to wearing shoes that to this day have made their fingers crooked.
My grand-grand mothers notebook is full of poetry about burdening yourself with hardships and living with it. Improving future generations and so on.
They raised me till I was 4 and I remember many of the lessons about reading, writing and counting and things like alcohol and smoking.
My best friend's family fled Russia in 1944 and they were close relatives of Czarist officers. I don't know how they survived.
Profound and terrifying. I cant think of a better way to spend an evening than to glean intelligent thought knowledge and wisdom from one of the greatest men of our time.
It kills me that what he’s talking about is happening right before our eyes
So true and I understand truly now how bad things in the past have happened.
Awful isn't it
The Democratic Communist Party
If Trump's staff carried out all of his orders, we would have gulags, concentration camps and gas chambers today.
@@bobleonard99 your name would be Bob🤦🏻♂️
I've never had a single class in college where we finished a lecture with applause. A truly great orator!
He actually deserves it. This thing is very rare, but it is great to witness it
I just finished reading Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle and listened again to his Harvard speech. These brought me to this video. I'll be listening to more; they sound like a voice of reason.
Your lecture just blew me away, Professor . Hats off to you , Sir.
This man, Jordan, he speaks with such passion...it always to me, feels he is doing his best not to weep when he talks. He bears such a burden for us. Thank you Jordan.
He struggled with pills for quite a while, and I think his passionate and emotional nature definitely played a role.
Listening to this in 2021. I'm terrified for us. It's like I'm screaming to everyone in the darkness that this is coming. No one listens & most people are cheering it on. My heart is sick. If they only knew the evil they are cultivating. Our ancestors are crying out to us from their graves.
Absolutely!
You are not alone in that thinking. Most of the greatest generation is leaving us. They were too humble. We need them now.
@@delicatelace8830 yes 👏🏻
this describes exactly how I feel. I've tried talking to my close friends and family, but very few of them take me seriously, and I'm generally considered to be "that guy with the crazy doomsday beliefs". The few who do see what I'm trying to say, brush me off because they "don't want to dwell on negative things". nobody seems to want to stand up for what is right, and that is exactly how we got Nazi Germany and the Gulags of the USSR.
@@evanhuizenga8626 sadly this is true for many of us
I'm thankful for a world where Jordan Peterson exists. Thank you for sharing your gifts with the world. Listening to Jordan Peterson speak can be compared to listening to favorite music or to folding clean laundry with your mom in the living room while watching favorite television programs. It's like being home, somewhere comforting and familiar. God gave us Billy Graham, Martin Luther King Jr., and Jordan Peterson. Thank you, Jordan, for being who you are. I hope to assimilate what I hear from you into who I am becoming. 💛
Jordan thank you for everything! You have really changed the path of my life over the last couple of years