Dear Comrades!

After viewing this trailer, Auntie is sure to need a whole 1.75 liter of Tobaritch vodka for before, during and right after the film. And perhaps a case for the nightmares the week or months after the show.

Ah, the many bloody virtues of old-school Communism.

Six Phases to Unfreedom

1. Laying the Groundwork
This is usually a generational or decades-long process, in which minds can be closed to reason and more influenced by emotion and propaganda.

2. Manufacturing Propaganda
Propaganda has always been with us, and always will be. But as people become less able to discern fact from fiction, propaganda feeds on itself more intensely. As emotions trump facts, propaganda tends to become more forceful and more focused on driving people to agitate for collectivist agendas. It takes a multitude of forms, but the Orwellian manipulation of language is always the key to thought reform.

3. Agitating the Masses
Once the groundwork has been laid and propaganda absorbed by enough people, agitation can proliferate. As Lenin made clear, agitation and propaganda go together and are absolutely essential to communist revolutions.

4. Consolidating the Takeover of Society’s Institutions
About 100 years ago, the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci introduced his theory of “cultural hegemony,” which cast cultural institutions as the enemy, claiming they were used to maintain power. So the key to achieving communism in the West was through destroying its culture, not through promoting socialist economic policies that had little appeal in the West. This would require a “long march through the institutions” of society, destroying them from within so communism could fill the vacuum.

5. Forcing Conformity ( We are here)
This is perhaps the most unsettling phase, when otherwise discerning people who have been duped by the rhetoric of social justice finally awaken to the deceit within the agitprop. This is the stage in which you are told to conform and convert—or else.

6. The ‘Final Solutions’ Phase
It happens in what Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov identified as the “normalization” stage, after subversion of a nation is complete. It’s as though they can’t do anything but eliminate their perceived enemies because they just don’t know how to do anything else. The body count in the Soviet gulag state, including reigns of terrors and purges intended to rid the country of counter-revolutionaries, was in the tens of millions.

https://thefederalist.com/2017/11/06/bolshevik-revolution-reveals-six-phases-freedom-communist-misery/

Characteristics of the regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), Pinochet (Chile) and such:

Powerful and Continuing Nationalism under the guise of patriotism
-Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. “Fascism is a form of authoritarian civic nationalism which stresses absolute loyalty and obedience to the state, whose purpose is to serve the interests of its nation alone.”

Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause, manifest Xenophobia
-The people are rallied into a unifying nationalistic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

Obsession with National Security
-Fear and jingoism is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
-Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.

Supremacy of the Military
-The military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding,and the domestic agenda is neglected, mostly due in part to “military industrial complex”.

Corporate Power is Protected
-The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

Obsession with Crime and Punishment
-Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. They are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of nationalism.

Controlled Mass Media
-the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is rampant. Privately-owned tech companies assist the government.

Religion and Government are Intertwined
-Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders. Religious leaders are implicit.

Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
-governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability, thus making them immune from the very laws they are supposedly upholding.

Labor Power is Suppressed
-Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.

I’ve had this posted on my Steam profile page since 2009. Glad to see nothing’s changed.