Robert Conquest - Lies about Socialism, Stalin and the USSR

This presentation by Mario Sousa - less than an hour in duration - will change your view of history. “Most sane and educated people accept that there were serious human rights abuses in the Soviet Union, during the Stalin period.“ he says. The evidence is ’everywhere’ - everyone says so, and there’s no smoke without fire, after all. But what is the evidence? And where does it come from? Q: Can Lies become so well sold, that they are ’universally’ regarded as as facts? A: Almost, yes. When the popele selling the lies have very strong interest in peddling them, and powerful means of propagating them. Such is the nature of the dissemination of information in our modern world, that sometimes fires rage without any smoke reaching our senses - and at other times smoke is amplified and generated so that news of some incident or atrocitiy fills our minds, out of all proportion to the events which are being related. This is the art of mass media, and population contro