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RMAF 2011 Show Report (Rocky Mountain Audio
Fest)
Show Coverage By Scott Faller
...And
Now To Veer Completely Off Course
Politically Incorrect?
You've got to be kidding me, right? I've read more than a
few comments posted by 'people' on the forums and quite honestly I can't
believe how uninformed, presumptuous and spineless the lot of you are. Just
what the heck is wrong with a manufacturer being proud of his product and
incorporating his beliefs and philosophy to what he sells? I say, more power
to you Klaus! Want to actually find out Klaus' philosophy behind this
sign? Read
this.
That said, the original shit disturber (the "mainstream
media") that posted their picture completely looked past one of the most
impudent things I've witnessed in years. Worse yet, I find it utterly amazing
that no one else at the show has mentioned this. As I walked around the show,
I began to see people with carry bags that were being given out by MIT, you
know, MIT the cable guys. As I looked at the advertisement they had plastered
on the side, I was actually mortified. What I saw [quite frankly], I couldn't
believe an educated person would possibly use to base an advertising campaign
around.
Well, here it is:
The under informed amongst you might be asking, "So,
what's the big deal? It's a bald guy with a goatee holding a cable."
Well my fine feathered friend, that's not just some guy, that's Lenin... as in
Vladimir Lenin... as in the Marxist-Communist Lenin…the same Lenin that
helped bring the world the Bolshevik Revolution... the same Lenin that with
the help of his unmensch Stalin in 1918 launched the Red Terror against his
own citizenry. For those unfamiliar with history (and obviously MIT is) here is a minor quote
brought to you directly from this evil bastard;
"Comrades! The
kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity... You
must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that
people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2)
Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. (4) Single out the hostages
per my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles
around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we
are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so...
Yours, Lenin. P.S. Find tougher people."
So let's cut to the chase here, shall we? Just how evil was
this man? What do you say we just some simple math, mass murderer style? For
simplicities sake, let's start with the scourge called Red Terror;
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Petrograd
800 alleged enemies had been shot and another 6,229 imprisoned.
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| In
the first two months of the Red Terror campaign there were between 10,000
and 15,000 summarily executed
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| In
Kharkov
there were between 2,000 and 3,000 execution followed by another
1,000-2,000
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| In
Rostov-on-Don, approximately 1,000 killed
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| In
Odessa
, 2,200 killed and subsequently another 1,500 to 3,000 killed
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| In
Kiev, at least 3,000 killed
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| In
Ekaterinodar, at least 3,000 killed
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| In
Armavir between 2,000 and 3,000 killed
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A quick tally gives us 23,500 people on the low side and
about 33,800 people on the high side that Lenin executed. The best part of
this is that suspects and hostages were executed on the basis of their
belonging to the "possessing classes" or in other words, if you owned too
much (more than about 10,000 rubles), you were dead. Nice <sarc>.
So let's move on to the Russian Civil war. In the
Crimea
, Béla Kun (with Lenin's approval) promised amnesty to the opposition if they
would surrender. Many surrendered then Lenin had 50,000 of the White prisoners
of war and civilians summarily executed. Gee, this guy is great isn't he? I'm
really liking the ad campaign now, aren't you?
Going back to the Red Terror, Berzin initiated the system of
taking and shooting hostages to stop desertions and other "acts of
disloyalty and sabotage". The Red Army practiced the terror tactics of
taking and executing hostages often in connection with desertions of
forcefully mobilized peasants (read: serve Lenin or die). It is believed that
more than 3 million deserters escaped from the Red Army in 1919 and 1920.
Around 500,000 deserters were arrested in 1919 and close to 800,000 in 1920 by
Cheka troops and special divisions created to combat desertions. Thousands of
these deserters were killed, and their families were taken hostage. This, all
in accordance to Lenin's instructions.
In September 1918, in only twelve provinces of
Russia
, 48,735 deserters and 7,325 bandits were arrested, 1,826 were killed and
2,230 were executed. A typical report from a Cheka department stated:
Yaroslavl
Province, 23 June 1919. The uprising of deserters in the Petropavlovskayavolost has
been put down. The families of the deserters have been taken as hostages. When
we started to shoot one person from each family, the Greens began to come out
of the woods and surrender. Thirty-four deserters were shot as an example.
Oh, and there's more! During the suppression of the Tambov Rebellion, estimates suggest that around
100,000 peasant rebels and their families were imprisoned or deported and
perhaps 15,000 executed.
This [little] campaign marked the beginning of the
Gulag. Some scholars have estimated that 70,000 were imprisoned by September
1921 (this number excludes those in several camps in regions that were in
revolt, such as Tambov). Conditions in these camps led to high mortality rates not taking into
account the "repeated massacres." The Cheka at the Kholmogory camp
adopted the practice of drowning bound prisoners in the nearby Dvina
River. Occasionally, entire prisons were "emptied" of inmates via mass shootings
prior to abandoning a town to White forces. These Soviet forced labor camp
systems (Gulag) housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to
political prisoners.
And then on 16 March 1919, Cheka stormed the Putilov
factory. More than 900 workers who went to a strike were arrested, of whom
more than 200 were executed without trial during the next few days.
You know, I'm really starting to like this guy.
In the city of Astrakhan, the strikers and Red Army soldiers who joined them were loaded onto barges,
stones tied around their neck and then thrown into the Volga
River. Between 2,000 and 4,000 were either shot or drowned.
Oh, and here's an interesting little tidbit of information.
The repression also singled out and claimed the lives of
some 600 to 1,000 bourgeoisie. Gee, don't know who or what bourgeois is? Well
let me help. The Marxist version of bourgeois is the "social class", you know,
as in class warfare. These people were the capitalists of Russia. These are people like the factory owners, large farmers, anyone who owned
tooling or production facilities, you know the guys whom employ masses of
people and provide a living for a community.
Here comes some serious irony. When you take an
interpretation of the domestic
Bourgeois culture, it focused on the central cultural space of the sitting
room. Gee, we don't have sitting rooms anymore but as audiophiles we have
listening rooms? Hmmmm. The material
Bourgeois culture has focused high-quality luxury items... another hmmmm. Naw,
never mind. These aren't the droids you are looking for. Move along.
Many pogroms (no that isn't a misspelling) accompanied the
post-1917 period of the Russian Civil War. An estimated 70,000 to 250,000
civilian Jews were killed throughout the former Russian Empire. The number of
Jewish orphans exceeded 300,000. Figure out what a pogrom is yet?
And the most evil
of evils has yet to be described. The Cheka interrogators utilized torture methods which according to historian
Orlando Figes, "was matched only by the Spanish Inquisition."
| At
Odessa
the Cheka tied White officers to planks and slowly fed them into furnaces
or tanks of boiling water;
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| In
Kharkiv, scalpings and hand-flayings were commonplace: the skin was peeled
off victims' hands to produce "gloves";
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| The
Voronezh Cheka rolled naked people around in barrels studded internally
with nails;
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| Victims
were crucified or stoned to death at Dnipropetrovsk;
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| The
Cheka at Kremenchuk impaled members of the clergy and buried rebelling
peasants alive;
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| In
Orel, water was poured on naked prisoners bound in the winter streets until
they became living ice statues;
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| In
Kiev, Chinese Cheka detachments placed rats in iron tubes sealed at one end
with wire netting and the other placed against the body of a prisoner,
with the tubes being heated until the rats gnawed through the victim's
body in an effort to escape.
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Oh and there's more! The Cheka organized a "Day of
Red Terror" where they set out to execute 300 people in one day.
According to the Chekist Karl Lander, the Cheka in Kislovodsk, "for lack
of a better idea," killed all the patients in the hospital. Gee, I guess they were bored.
And then there was this; Members of the clergy were
subjected to particularly brutal abuse. According to documents cited by the
late Alexander Yakovlev, then head of the Presidential Committee for the
Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression, priests, monks and nuns
were crucified, thrown into cauldrons of boiling tar, scalped, strangled or
given Communion with melted lead and drowned in holes in the ice. An estimated
3,000 were put to death in 1918 alone. Then to top it all off the Russian famine of 1921, also
known as Povolzhye famine, the Lenin reign of terror killed an estimated 10
million people. The Bolsheviks, the Whites, the Anarchists and the seceding
nationalists had provisioned themselves by the ancient method of "living
off the land". This is where they seized food from those who grew it,
gave it to their armies and supporters, and denied it to their enemies thus
starving millions.
Do I need to go on? I could. So to the final tally of the mass murderer math is somewhere north of 11
Million people. Yep, this is definitely the guy I want to build an ad campaign
around. And don't even get me started on Stalin. As I mentioned earlier,
Stalin was Lenin's unmensch. Just look up Holodomor. I wouldn't have numerous
extended family members if they hadn't been able to escape from the
Ukraine
back then. Lenin and Stalin are the true
face of evil.
Let me end it here with a quote from Lenin; "The enemies of
the workers are the capitalists of all countries." Need I say any more?
Here endeth the history lesson for today.
Have we become so ignorant of history as a nation that we
allow something like this to go without a word? Is it our educational system
that is to blame? Did anybody pay attention in school or did you all fry your
collective brains in the 70's. My God in Heaven what the hell has happened to
this country? You've all become a bunch of agnostic, immoral, overtly
politically correct pansies... the lot of you. YOU are the problem with this
country because you say nothing. Silence implies consent.
And for my final bit of commentary, MIT, if you don't
retract and apologize for this (IMO) unforgivable mistake, what do you say you
just go with it. Offer up a full line of Evil Dictator cables. You could start
with the "little" evil bastards like Che Guevara. Heck, he only killed just
under 20,000 people. Then you could work your way up the evil ladder and hit
guys like Pol Pot, Lenin, Stalin, and then [maybe] the top of the line
offering could be Mao? Just a thought... or not. If it were me, I'd be
hunting down that David Hidalgo looking fucker that works for you and show him
the door.
Most of the facts and figures stated above come from (yes)
Wikipedia but are footnoted and being sourced from many
reliable sources;
Suggested reading (for those of you who can)
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (both
supremely evil bastards)
The Black Book of Communism by numerous European academics
There is a wealth of knowledge and information at your
fingertips if you just look.. or not. If not, be prepared. Everything you
think is sacred and safe is about to come crashing down around you, the
uninformed.
Click here for the main RMAF 2011 show
coverage.
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