Hasan Piker said that "we must end the American empire" and if they don't manage the fall, it will end violently - while asserting "The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century."
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“Empires never die quietly, and we must end the American empire regardless."
"But we must manage the retreat of a superpower from the world stage."
"If we do not do this, then the American empire will come to an end in a much more violent way"
Piker was speaking at Yale University in favor of the resolution “End the American Empire.”
Piker quoted Vladimir Lenin (The red terror) - a Russian Marxist and Mao Zedong - a Chinese communist. Men responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people.
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He criticized U.S. bases, attacked ICE, capitalism, and Israel - comparing the Jews to the Nazis - and said
"The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century."
Fast Facts about the USSR:
🔷️Engineered Famine" The Holodomor (1932–1933) in Ukraine killed an estimated 3.5–4 million through deliberate grain seizures, blockades, and export of food while people starved.
🔷️The Kazakh famine (1930–1933) killed 1.3–1.5 million
🔷️Earlier War Communism policies under Lenin contributed to the 1921–22 famine that killed about 5 million.
🔷️The Gulag forced-labor camp system: From the 1930s through the 1950s, 18 million people passed through the camps.
🔷️1.5–1.7 million were klled inside from starvation, disease, overwork, and execution.
🔷️The camps extracted gold, timber, and other resources under lethal conditions and were a core tool of political repression.
🔷️The Great Purge / Great Terror (1936–1938): Official NKVD figures record 681,000–800,000 executions.
🔷️The total death toll was 700,000 to 1.2 million.
🔷️Quotas for arrests and shootings were set from Moscow.
Victims included:
🔸️Party officials,
🔸️Military officers,
🔸️Ethnic minorities (especially Poles),
🔸️Intellectuals, and
🔸️Ordinary citizens.
🔷️Mass deportations of entire peoples: Whole ethnic groups - Chechens, Crimean Tatars, Volga Germans, Ingush, and others - were rounded up, loaded onto cattle cars, and dumped in Central Asia or Siberia.
🔷️Hundreds of thousands died in transit or in special settlements.
🔷️Total political deportees across the Soviet period numbered in the millions.
🔷️The Red Terror and early Bolshevik repression (1917–1920s):
🔷️Summary executions, concentration camps, and class-based kllings by the Cheka.
🔷️The Red Terror deaths range from tens of thousands to over a million.
🔷️This established the template for later mass killing.
🔷️Total absence of basic freedoms:
🔷️No free speech, free press, independent courts, free elections, or right to emigrate.
🔷️The secret police (Cheka - NKVD - KGB) maintained ubiquitous surveillance, informants, show trials, and psychiatric abuse of dissidents.
🔷️Religion was systematically suppressed;
🔷️Churches, mosques, and synagogues were closed or destroyed, and clergy were imprisoned or executed.
🔷️Katyn massacre (1940): Soviet secret police mrdered 22,000 Polish officers, intellectuals, and prisoners of war and buried them in mass graves.
🔷️The USSR blamed the Nazis for decades and only admitted responsibility after the regime collapsed.
🔷️Economic and human cost of central planning:
🔷️Chronic shortages, low living standards for ordinary people, and repeated policy-driven disasters.
🔷️The system prioritized heavy industry, military power, and the party elite while ordinary citizens faced rationing, housing shortages, and low-quality goods for decades.
🔷️Export of the model and satellite repression:
🔷️The USSR imposed communist dictatorships across Eastern Europe after 1945, crushing uprisings in Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968), and elsewhere.
🔷️It backed or enabled mass kllings in client states and exported the same methods of one-party rule, secret police, and forced collectivization.
🔷️Over 62 million were k*lled across the entire period
Critics want to know why anyone would quote, or praise leaders of the USSR or mourn its collapse - with Republicans warning Democrats of the dangers of associating someone they describe as a communist.
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