Watch This Movie With Your Teens“Mr. Jones” is the kind of story young people in their formative years need to see.
By John Zmirak
August 21, 2022
Mr. Jones” is a movie I bought, and put off watching. I knew it would be sobering, and I’d already heard the story: The Soviet government under Stalin pillaged Ukraine, stealing the private farms of productive peasants and forcing them into miserable, termite colony-modeled collective farms. Then the Party seized all the grain they’d raised in that immensely productive region, and sold it to fund Stalin’s project of building massive factories.
Stalin knew that Russia was ill-suited for Marxism (as Marx himself had scoffed). The proletarian revolution was supposed to happen in an industrialized society, not an agrarian one. This according to the simplistic, paint-by-numbers scheme which Marx used to analyze the whole history of the human race, and also predict its future.
So instead of adapting his theory of governance to suit the hundred million concrete human beings he ruled, Stalin decided to carve them up to match his theory. He would shock-industrialize a country so large it has 11 separate time zones, and force it to become a military power. So Stalin ordered the Party to seize all the food that was grown in Ukraine, and sell it to buy machinery. He caused an intentional famine, which killed between six and 12 million people.
And the New York Times reporter who was assigned to Ukraine, Walter Duranty, lied about it.
Indeed, he led a campaign of deception and discredited truthful reporters who filed honest stories about this massive crime of genocide. Duranty did this because he was sympathetic to Communism and cosseted by Stalin. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his false reporting, which the Pulitzer Committee has still not revoked, and the New York Times has not returned.
This is the kind of story young people in their formative years need to see. They ought to develop the proper skepticism toward establishment media, and the requisite hatred and contempt for communism. They must learn to see that virtue is beautiful, even when it ends in suffering, while sin is cheap and repugnant, even when wicked people seem to prosper. There is no more important lesson any young person could learn.
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Source:
https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/21/watch-this-movie-with-your-teens/
