At Dnepropetrovsk the Stalin regime had made great efforts in construction. We were at first impressed as we approached the suburbs of the city, where we saw outlined the large masonry blocks of the proletarian housing erected by the Soviets. Their lines were modern. The buildings were huge and there were many of them. Undeniably, the Communist system had done something for the people. If the misery of the peasants was great, at least the worker seemed to have benefited from the new times.
Still, it was necessary to visit and examine the buildings. We lived for six months in the Donets coal basin. We had plenty of time to test the conclusions that we had reached at the time of our entrance into Dnepropetrovsk. The buildings, so impressive from a distance, were just a gigantic hoax, intended to fool sightseers shepherded by Intourist* and the viewers of documentary films.
Approaching those housing blocks you were sickened by the stench of mud and excrement which rose from the quagmires surrounding each of the buildings. Around them were neither sidewalks nor gravel nor paving stones. The Russian mud was everywhere, and everywhere the walls peeled and crumbled. The quality of the construction materials was of the lowest order. All the balconies had come loose, and already the cement stairways were worn and grooved, although the buildings were only a few years old.
Each floor had a certain number of apartments that were whitewashed and provided with a minuscule kitchen for the use of several families. The electric wires hung in clusters. The walls were made of mud and cracked as soon as you dared to pound a nail into them.
Generally there was no running water. The proletarian dwellers, not able to use the sanitary facilities, relieved themselves all around the buildings, converted as a result into a vast latrine. Cold weather froze the droppings which, with each thaw, caused a terrible stench. Altogether those apartments turned out to be more uncomfortable than the miserable isbas in which, on the richest soil in Europe, millions of Russian peasants vegetated in the midst of a sordid misery, only tattered clothes on their backs, eating from a common bowl, using spoons crudely carved from bits of wood.
Seventy-five percent of our soldiers were manual laborers. Many among them had been susceptible, once, to Soviet propaganda. They stood with their mouths agape when they saw in what conditions of decay and exhaustion the Russian proletariat existed. They shook their heads, having to look twice at the scene before believing it.
Hitler had tried a dangerous experiment. The hundreds of thousands of German workers mobilized and sent to the Eastern Front could have made dangerous comparisons if the Soviets had actually achieved great things for the working class.
On the contrary, every German thought back to the delightful workers’ housing in the Reich, to its comfort, to the family garden, to the clinics and maternity hospitals for the people, the leisure time, the paid vacations, the magnificent cruises to Scandinavia or to the Mediterranean. They remembered their wives, their children, happy, in good health, well clothed. Looking at the ragged Russian people, the miserable isbas, the workers’ apartments, gloomy and rickety, they drew clear conclusions.
Never had a workers’ group made such a study trip.
Four years later, the comparison worked in the opposite direction: after having looted the watches, the jewelry, the clothes from all of Eastern Europe, the Soviet soldier returned grumbling to the USSR, astonished at the comfort of the non-Communist countries and disgusted with his “paradise” of wooden spoons, tattered dresses, and muddy excrement stretching around his house-barracks.
Leon Degrelle, Campaign in Russia
The above excerpt is from the truly excellent Eastern Front memoir from Leon Degrelle called Campaign in Russia. I’ve always been fascinated with the Eastern Front, mostly because your average American has no clue that the Soviets were even involved in World War 2. Sadly, most Americans are only aware of Pearl Harbor and D-Day, maybe the Battle of Britain. But, that’s about it. The fact that the majority of Europe united to fight the most brutal war in modern history (approximately 30 million deaths) against communism largely falls on deaf ears in the US of A – not to mention the ghastly horrors of Soviet occupation during and after the war.
As such, the very real dangers of communism are lost on the vast majority of normie Americans, save for hardcore Boomers that recall the Cold War and members of the Dissident Right. The dirty little secret is that the mainstream, dirt bag, and fringe Left actually loves communism, be it South American radicals, Leninist, or the Chicoms. They hate capitalism, fascism, traditionalism, republicanism, Christianity and historical normalcy. In addition, they parrot the old bullshit that the Reds did: pining for the gulags, restricted freedoms, dumb central planning, disarmed and peasant citizenry, mass hypocrisy, thoughtcrime, and hatred for organized religion. Of course, the main difference between the Old Reds and the Woke Left is the latter’s manic obsession with race, genitals, and identity politics. The days of providing superficial platitudes and promises to the working class are now long gone.
Ultimately, communism, be it something as awful as Stalin’s five-year plan or the modern Left’s compulsion to have children sliced into transgender monsters, always leads to death and failure. The reason is rather simple – it is unnatural, abnormal, and, frankly, evil. Hierarchy and tradition is natural and normal, and they have always been hated by communists, both historical and present-day. This is why communism (or Marxism or whatever leftwing “ism”) is always in a state of revolutionary change – it is never static, set, or at peace with itself. It is an ideological and physical revolution against the past, present, and the people. This is why the Chinese Red Guards dug up the remains of Ming dynasty Wanli Emperor at the Ming tombs and American leftists cheered for Nathan Bedford Forrest’s grave desecration, and the same with sexual liberation, destroying historical monuments, burning churches, etc. The pattern repeats itself throughout history.
It’s the advocates for this cult of failure that are also the same. They are the losers, the rejects of life that promote communism – physically weak and usually repulsive in appearance, bloodthirsty for power, insane with jealousy, malicious, cruel, and exceptionally mendacious. They’re successful on the battlefield due to mass conscription and untold amounts of cannon fodder (i.e., the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front). Communists are able to transform liberal democracies because they’re adept at lying and unethical behaviors, and those systems of government are extremely susceptible to subversion. However, in the end, communism always fails and communists themselves are the lowest dregs of humanity.
All this brings me to a different sort of creature that promotes communism, the nightmarish chimera that artificially blends Nationalism and Bolshevism – the Nazbol. Make no mistake, they are just as abnormal and repugnant as your crusty, Molotov-throwing black block antifa. However, by combining cosmetic, skin-deep elements of the Left and Right (cringe Red/Brown alliance), some are effective at peeling away genuine, albeit usually stupid, rightwingers to their sphere of e-celebrity grifting and/or glowop patsies. They also provide cover for the heinous crimes of historical communism – such as genocide, the economic failures of communism, bread lines, the grim realities of living under the Soviets, mass surveillance state, etc.
Take for instance these two strange characters discussing and defending the misconceptions of “real” communism and the merits of Nazbol. Out of the gate, I’m taken aback that the host, going by the name Alt-Right Tankie (eyeroll), has his room adorned with Nazbol, East German, and other esoteric flags. Despite being a Canadian, and having a Canadian accent, nothing suggests that the man is a nationalist for his home country. As is typical of communists of various stripes, the ideology becomes the identity – it consumes all identities. He is joined by a man hated by the Far Left and considered fairly contentious in Dissident Right circles, one Eric Striker. Now, I don’t typically pick fights with folks on the Right, and Striker has done some very good work exposing the Left, but I can’t ignore extremely ignorant commentary, at best, or sycophantic Soviet safeguarding, at worse.
As of this date, the linked podcast is several years old. It runs for about an hour and a half. I struggled to get through it in its entirety. However, several items deserve being mentioned as a retort (and these should act as red flags for any of you would-be dissidents reading this that stumble across a Nazbol) – (1) the Soviet Union was an evil empire, whether it was run by Jews and/or atheistic Whites, (2) any man that scoffs at bread lines is not a serious person and clearly isn’t a father or a husband, (3) East Germany was a tyrannical hellscape and was nothing like Old Prussia, (4) the Soviet economic planning was an unmitigated disaster (recommend a Western Nazbol or commie speak with someone who actually lived under the system), and (5) Stalin pivoted to a more cursory quasi-nationalism as a war time decision (it’s called The Great Patriotic War for a reason), not out of the goodness of his black heart. Any other parsing or nuance to defend the Soviet Union, Nazbol ideology, communism, or Stalin is wrong, purposefully or otherwise.
At the end of the day, communism is failure and death. It must be destroyed, it cannot be defended. Whether it be bizarrely misguided Nazbols, Red academics, leftist media hounds, neoliberal plutocrats, or slummy antifa mobs, they’re all ideological animals aligned against the Western Tradition, Christendom, our people, and our lands. End of story.
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I have heard the term Nazbol before, but I never bothered to look into it because, like you, I also precieve the elemental silliness in regards to the whole ideology becomes identity phenomenon and was not at all interested in it. The absolute silliness of combining Bolshvism with the defence of a desperate people that developed it to fight off Bolshvism requires a level of fundamental cluelessness that makes anything they would produce unworthy of examination. It is a mistake to consider anything they have to say.
That phenomenon is actually what I have come to recognize as being one of the only very few defining characteristics of Yankess and Canadians, their ongoing identity crisis in the face of what they themselves unleashed onto us, and the world. I speak of it often, now exclusively on Gab, when I am seeing the angst in people I know to be Yankees etc. simply by their German themed avatars coupled with their single minded and one dimensional understanding in regards to the “white race”. I know very well the underlying angst that they feel stems from their lack of an identity as a people, and their longing for it. Their ideology is in fact the coping mechanism they cling to in the face of their collective existential crisis. They hold up swastikas, like a primitive human would hold up some curde primeval mud totem to ward off evil.
When you said that the person you were listening to was Canadian, it was an instantly familiar scenario to me, and not at all surprising. Just as the eventual Pagan LARPing develops in them to supplant the real spiritual underpinnings required to serve as the foundation for the identity they subconsciously know they lack, are demonstrableand predictable. To them, our collective spiritual understanding as a people is crudely reduced to a box called “religion”. They blindly, ignorantly believe that it is something to be picked and chosen from among others out of their shallow spritual understanding of wisdom places in the box they create and label “religions”. If that was not the case, the adoption of an foreign ideology to supplant their identity would be unnecessary. To them, Christianity is just one of many “religions” on an buffet line, interchangeable and made malleable to suit their primitive ideology, never understanding that National Socialism, the ideology they are trying to co-op, was in fact a production of a people, intertwined and empowered by their true identity, which was that of an honorable and Christian people, artifical societal Boleshviek corruption notwithstanding. If Germans were not a true people, with an underlying solidarity rooted in a collective soul, then National Socialism would not have produced the same astounding results.
National Socialism was developed as a response to Communism and can be very useful in regards to combating it, but it was a people’s response to it and will never serve as the basis of an identity for anyone. It was an response, not a foundation, who they were already existed and that is what allowed them to develop something to combat outside influence. Without the very basic understanding of who you collectively are, on a deeply spiritual level, of which the flesh and it’s productions are merely trailing indications of, how then can you hope to develop something that’s entirety of purpose is to remove and defend against the things that are not you? You cannot.
That is not even what National Socialism was to Germans, it stemmed from their response to external stimuli, it was not the definition of them as a people, it was a political ideology that was in line with and leveraged by their identity as a people, but not their identity. It will never serve as an identity in and of itself, especially not to such ignoble and honorless peoples such as Yankees and Canadians, who lack any of the shared collective spiritual understandings required to develop an ideology to defend themselves from the cultural assaults of Bolshvism, such as God and honor. Frankly they are just scared, fear coupled with greed and arrogance has always been the only truly identifiable metrics by which to measure their collective identities.
Frankly, the collective soul searching and suffering that would be required for them to develop as a people is the last thing they would ever do without the true humility that can only come from standing naked before God, individually and collectively. Their absoulte arrogance, the only truly foundationaly identifiable characteristic of them as a people, precludes them from attaining the only thing that could save them, or at least allow them to die as men.
No sir, my advice to you would be to not spend too much time on them, unless you are the type of person who finds enjoyment in staring into the windows of an asylum. Ultimately you cannot give them what they require, their identity must come from within, which in turn leads them to the spritually without and only when they have become humbled by their absolute inadequacy, that humility is what in turn allows them to meet God and thus lay the foundation of a true identity, one that is germane to what they obsessively refer to as “white”. The identity and gentientics of “White” are merely the worldly manafinstations of what we were collectively within, which came from outside of us, from God, our father. I know it’s somewhat redundant, but it is simply the process by which you have a Canadian in Canada fighting for Canadians, wrapped in German ideology, German understandings and German trappings. Their identity, and Northerners on the whole, was not up to the task of producing something with the fundamental worth that would allow them to survive in the face of Bolshvism, so they are trying to steal one that did. An identity comprised mostly of servilty and greed wrapped in impenetrable arrogance rarely will produce something of worth.
My naive hope of that ever happening for them, to get collectively saved, despite the Herculan efforts of Southerners, of God granting them the insight that would then allow for the understanding required for them to leave our home, on their own, is long gone now. I now realize again, as I did as a child and first saw them on the whole, that the natural order of their destruction must be allowed to play out. It is the only hope for the South, for them and for the world, prolonging it, as I think we all can see now, is in fact an act of evil. Yankees and Canadians, when considered through the lens of the requirements needed to have a strong, true and real identity…. well the only term that comes to mind is “prison saved”. Their arrogance must be utterly shattered, they must hit the bottom to see the light above, collectively. Maybe then they will find the strength to humble themselves before God. Our primary concerns as Southerners now should be much like Russia’s statements about the Ukraine, but really Europe on the whole. Which to be as blunt as a Russian, to keeping as much excrement from their explosion off of Russia as possible.
Collectives are merely shadows on the wall that is God’s green earth, comprised entirely of the individuals within a People, a trick of sun and shadow, and just as an debased and low person cannot hope to be saved until they themselves realize what they are, so to is it with a people, a tribe. The true and real understanding required to attain that level of humility can only come from standing naked before God. The same we know to be true of lost individuals is the same truth for lost collectives, that is to say tribes or People’s. The Yankees, Canadians, England, the axis of evil and betryaers of the West for the last three centuries at least, must be allowed to suffer the consequences of their actions. Their actions are merely reflections of their identity, which is just a shadow cast by their collective soul. Watching them try and reverse engineer an identity from the German’s National Socialism is just as sad as it was watching them try and do the same from our Constitution. It will never produce the results they want and watching them try is mightily depressing to me now. A sad carachuire of the real thing, a greasy mega-Church preacher praying for gold, instead of John in rags at the riverbank, filled with truth. They are trying to eat a picture of food believing it will provide to them the same nourishment as the real thing. That is what you are seeing when watching your Canadian Nazbol, I don’t know how you have the heart to endure it.
Instead of watching that sadness unfold, let us give thanks to all of our dead kin for not leaving us to the same sorry fate of those who hate us, who fought for and passed down our collective soul to us so that we do not suffer the Northern crisis of identity now. Instead of dwelling on foreign ideologys, let us redouble our efforts to ensure the stunning beauty of our collective soul remains intact, along with our will to fight for it and our long suffering people, our Identity Dixie.
I have not invested the time to study Nazi and communist history in any appreciable depth and probably never will. But from where I am now, natsoc looks to be just a watered down version of communism in my book. Capitalism isn’t killing us, genocide is. The ever increasing socialism just makes it worse.
National Socialism was developed as a defence against Communism and is the only ideology to ever have rooted it out once it has taken hold. They could not be more different, they are polar opposites.