Hitting the classic lib highlights, molotov-ribbentrop, winter war, gulags, comparing party officials to french ancien regime.
The weirdest one is where he talks about the german hunger plan but then still blames the famines on the soviet scorched earth retreat.
I can't find a single result for the Leningrad official he claims to quote about how great the party is eating.
Does anyone know the name Nikolai Ribovsky? I have a gut feeling this guy is straight out of some hitlerite sebag montefiore type shit.
https://www.rferl.org/a/legacy-issue-comedy-on-siege-of-leningrad-attracts-the-spotlight/29554769.html
the only references i find to Nikolai Ribkovsky (u forgot the first k) and Leningrad are from Radio Free Europe
so you're close enough on that 'hitlerite sebag montefiore' thing
goddammit come on i though this youtuber was cool
Oh it was the video that misspelled the name in that case, the quote is at about 20:36 and writes it as Ribovsky.
yeah i see it
sad, my brother liked this guy, and i thought he would at least be cool
Not surprised it's RFE, but I initially understood it as a joke. It definitely reads like something Stalin would say in response to a ridiculous Nazi propaganda claim like "the party members are eating like kings while the workers starve!"
Overall I'm glad he kept it mostly balanced and avoided the blatant Nazi rhetoric taught in most American schools. Even explaining the tiered ration system in a way that made it clear it was a logical decision instead of some evil communist declaration.
But damn dude, using that RFE quote after saying "even the US president abided by rations" is a bit stupid.
Ironically most of the comments, that I read earlier anyway, were just talking about how they or their grandparents are from former Soviet Union and they grew up with this food.
Yeah, I was very surprised by the comments and people explicitly calling out Nazi propaganda being parroted as history.
Seems like most commenters getting traction actually have family from the USSR and are just happy that he told the story without going to aggressive with anti-communist talking points.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
