They don't necessarily have to be leftist or about leftist history, but preferably things without Western/Imperialist white-washing. I'm usually hesitant to go looking for history docs in the main stream (netflix, hulu, etc) since they're just propaganda half the time. I have a big interest in civilizations and sociology. Thanks chapos

      • citizen_of_industry [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Fuck. I have no idea how I missed that. Even if we took the most literal definition of colonizing , I guess the Philippine's didn't exist?

        I'm torn on whether I should delete it because I want people to know this story. All the English documentaries on this war are so shitty but some of the propaganda is more subtly presented than others. Maybe such an absurdly , over the top claim like that is better than smoother presentations? I'll post a "better" one if I can find one or delete it if anyone thinks that's for the best

        • blobjim [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I think it's a good documentary. The rest of the bit of it I watched was interesting. It isn't like it's an anti-socialist or colonialist documentary, despite them interviewing that one CIA guy.

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    4 years ago

    Soviet Storm is incredible

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CerdjvePsg&list=PLwGzY25TNHPC_SsXFcIH-ba0nWuNbHOM6

    Der Andre Leben (documentary on DDR and interviewing people who lived under it)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkk-HlEJn-I

    Finnish Bolshevik on the Moscow Trials

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBY_aDd5knE&t=3955s

    ProleKult - History is marching

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S-CwVJxxug

    Prolekult - A dying culture

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jLbq9VwOK8&t=848s

    Mario Sousa on Robert Conquest and his lies (I know I know, almost everyone knows Robert Conquest worked for an antiCommunist division of the British secret services whose sole purpose was to churn out lies about the Ussr but it's still fascinating to watch him dismantle Conquests utter bullshit and how the intelligence services mainstream propagandist 'historians' like Robert Conquest was back in the 70s 80s)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vcHuTskBz4&t=1s