EXCLUSIVE: REVIEW: GLENN BECK DOCUMENTARY, ‘THE REVOLUTIONARY HOLOCAUST’
C. Austin Burrell
Family Security Matters
February 3, 2010
Called "The Revolutionary Holocaust," it was technically and
professionally outstanding. It recorded over 4 million viewers,
the largest number ever recorded for a cable documentary in a
traditional news time slot. This documentary was intended to show
the monstrous human price of the liberal secular progressive movement
in the 20th century, stimulated by the works of Marx and Engels. It
was a staggering dismissal of the true control motives of liberal
secular progressives in the forms of the revolutions and governments
produced by Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Castro and Che and the 200 million
plus lives they took in unprecedented, wholesale murder to achieve
their political objectives.
The first effective point made in the presentation was that the word
liberal was co-opted by leftist radicals, in that the people who led
our revolution were self-described liberals in their time. Conversely,
the progressive movement that came out of the socialist thinking of
Marx and Engels needed credibility, and they took this word to their
breast to legitimize their existence.
In fact, as Beck demonstrated, beginning with Marx, progressives
were racist savages, whose face was first seen in this country with
President Wilson, a noted anti-Semite and race baiter who fully
believed in the extermination of "inferiors," without regard to race
or religious background. Wilson was the first truly offensive Eastern
Establishment Liberal who viciously opposed the right of women to vote,
among his offensive positions.
The true story of the agendas of hard left liberal secular progressives
was demonstrated by Lenin (who lived in Brooklyn under the name of
Leon Bronstein before returning to Russia) in the Russian Communist
Revolution of 1917. Some 40,000 active Communists successfully
mounted a revolution that took over a country of 100 million people
and stretched across eight time zones. How they did that is its own
story, but what they did after they seized control is the true story.
First under Lenin and then under the brutal dictator Stalin, the
Communists initiated programs of mass annihilation of anyone who stood
in their way, beginning with the slaughter of the White Russians, which
essentially wiped them out as a racial segment. The concentration on
the annihilation of White Russians extended into foreign countries,
with Stalin ordering the assassination of White Russians who had
escaped his net, the last of which was in 1952. He bragged of the
slaughter of 20 million White Russians later in his rule.
Next was Stalin’s collectivization of Russian farms, with a
particularly savage focus on the bread basket State of the Ukraine,
with its incredibly productive independent grain farmers, the
"Kulaks." In the year of 1932, to accelerate the collective farming
plan, Stalin simply chose starve to death 10 million Ukrainians to
death in an unprecedented slaughter to that date, so vicious it was
given a name, the "Holomador."
I heard these stories from children of Ukrainians lucky enough to
escape to the U.S., and from a second generation Ukrainian-Canadian
whose father lived through this nightmare as a child. This was the
same country whose nationals welcomed the arrival of German troops as
liberator in World War II, only to be slaughtered again in horrific
numbers, with some 5-8 million murdered.
In 1936, Stalin began the purges of the Russian military, killing
without mercy and all but wiping out the officer corps of the Russian
Army. In a little over two years, 5 million would die in Stalin’s
attempt to "freshen" and "cleanse" the Communist revolution. When he
was through, only one regimental commanding field grade officer was
said to have survived. But he didn’t stop there.
Stalin was an equal opportunity monster, killing anyone who blinked
at his political agenda and plans for a Soviet Socialist State. He
slaughtered millions of Armenians, his own fellow Georgians,
Turkestans, Poles, Kurds and millions more, some 60 million all told
before World War II started.
The commonalities between the German Nazis and the Russian Communists
were those of one mirroring the other. Both focused on racial slaughter
and discrimination. Goebbels and Molotov signed a mutual non-aggression
pact in 1938. At the same time, Hitler and Goebbels came together
with the need to distinguish their socialist agenda from that of
Stalin, settling on the persecution of Jews as a differentiating
factor. Shortly after signing this document, Germany and Russia invaded
Poland, splitting it down the middle and beginning the slaughter of
over 10 million Poles by the end of World War II.
To my mind, what we all must know is that this common theme of mass
genocides was shared by all socialist states in the nations controlled
by the Communists, Socialists, Nazis, and other Marxist-Lenin
revolutionaries. But an eerie proof of their common grounds pointed
out so effectively by Beck’s documentary came in their adaptation of
common symbols, political themes, posters, and colors, almost across
the board. German and Russian (and ultimately, Chinese) themes were
virtual mirrors of one another. There was a focus on their common
choice of Socialist Red Flags, on nearly identical posters supporting
their jingoism and racist attitudes, their uniforms, on political
speech themes on the superiority of socialism to capitalism, and much,
much more.
Between Hitler’s slaughter of the Jews, German Christians, and other
helpless minorities of his own and adjacent countries, Stalin’s
rolling murders of his own people down to his personal staff almost
every three years, and Mao’s Revolution, Great Leap Forward and 1967
Cultural Revolution, over 200 Million men, women and children were
murdered, starved, shot, hung, gassed and worked to death in the name
of Socialist Progressive Elitists.
There was more to this entire story, far more. The point of this
review was that I knew all of these stories for decades before this
ground-breaking piece of documentary film, and those stories have
never been so focused in concentrated form on the risks we face from
hard left liberal progressive socialist/communist elitists.
I thank my God that I was born and raised in the United States, rather
than any other country. Anyone who doesn’t feel that way should be
shown the door or offered other, less attractive options. Our country
was founded by a bunch of very bright, liberal, old white guys who
were both religious and terribly conscious of the role of history
in other experiments in governance means and methods. God bless them
and God bless all of us.
Make the time to see this documentary if you want this history
imprinted on your consciousness and that of your family. In a
democracy, every person, no matter how stupid or short-sighted, is
entitled to be as dumb and uninformed as he or she chooses. I beg
you choose not to be one of those uninformed.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor C. Austin Burrell is
a corporate finance generalist with over 30 years of Wall Street
and related experience. He was a senior derivatives specialist and
development stage company investment banker for more than 35 years
on Wall Street.He is a 1968 Graduate of the U.S. Military Academy
and a graduate of the Army’s Finance Officer Advanced Course.