What is Communism? (1963)

[Music] you are looking at film clips from worldwide news re the title reads communist riots in Tokyo Japan a long way off you think this communist mob is in Venezuela right in our own backyard attacking an American citizen and his wife a kangaroo court in Havana condemning hundreds to the firing squad because they incurred the displeasure of Castro and his crowd this is happening 90 M from our Mainland less than 10 minutes by jet bomber less than 5 minutes by rocket missile and where do you think this is It's communist inspired student rioting in sancisco USA look at those faces the face of Communism in America is it not high time we ask ourselves ladies and gentlemen Mr Herbert a filb what is communism I've been on the inside of Communism I still have contacts from this knowledge I tell you as simply and seriously as I know how communism is a lying dirty shrewd Godless murderous determined as J gooa says a criminal conspiracy I'm choosing these words deliberately as I travel around I still have people say why are you so hard on Communists they're just another political party like any other and a poor minority at that and so misunderstood well we don't want them misunderstood and that's why we're making this film and that's why I say they are lying dirty shrewd Godless murderous determined and it is not an American political party like any other it's an outlawed organization taking its orders and instructions from another government to do everything impossible to destroy our government it's an international criminal conspiracy in years to come if democracy Falls historians are going to look back on this time in which we are now living and they're going to say how could any free and intelligent people living in a country like America let a gang of vicious Outsiders come in and take over well of course the only answer would be that most Americans didn't realize or couldn't be leave until it was too late that Communists are what they are that's why I want to analyze those three six nine words and if you'll follow me I'll guarantee that 10 minutes from now a lot of you are going to have a new understanding of Communism now let's see if that isn't so we start with lying people wonder how can the Communist look you in the eye and tell one barefaced lie after another with a straight face the way giko did with President Kennedy on Cuba well the explanation is simple lying doesn't mean the same thing to a real communist that it means to you and me for 9 years I walk streets like this to meet with other party members down dark hallways behind closed doors constantly changing meetings to avoid suspicion in musty attics or moldy basement rooms like this we were taught by our communist leaders and ordered to believe that truth is anything that will promote communism therefore nothing is a lie if it helps the party so the Communists use the lie as a weapon a shield and a tool when you keep that in mind at last you begin to understand them when a smiling kushev says the Russians in Uber are technicians and farm helpers well you can suspect there are soldiers too and when he says only defensive weapons were sent well you can suspect there are also InterContinental missiles and bombers and when he says now they removed them all what do you think since it is their sworn duty to tell us whatever will best serve their cause we should always suspect they are lying lying is what one of their best tools for playing dirty dirty mean despicable ruthless slander blackmail Corruption of character to stock and trade they recognize no such things as human dignity or any rights of the individual class hatred and open class Warfare are their specialty if they can get a few people killed well so much the better as some were killed in this communist incited race riot at this they are not only dirty but they are oh so shrewd give them credit they know Americans better than most Americans know Communists they are shrewd with words how many Americans would volunteer for the Communist Army yet many enlisted when it was called the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and went off to fight and die with the Communist in the Spanish Civil War when in 1943 for tactical reasons the Communist Party eliminated the young communist League it instantly became the American Youth for democracy they don't say give us the right to operate subversively in our midst they say defend the Bill of Rights they don't call their campaign against our internal Security Act by that name they used the citizens committee for constitutional Liberties and the American Committee for the protection of foreign bond there's the American League for peace and democracy and so on well that last mouthful combines a number of words our people like peace democracy even the American League but this is only a drop in the bucket the Communists are Past Masters at getting other people to do their dirty work for them they take over organization after organization in America in just two steps infiltration and agitation there is what they work at day and night this is what accounts for much of their success you want a shocker well in that list up there in place of those thinly veiled Kami fronts let's substitute some other names respectable names that have been infiltrated to a greater or lesser degree I hope you are more than shocked I hope you are aroused because we have it on no less Authority than just gooa that Communists and fellow Travelers have penetrated every category up there and more well you think uh a few maybe but it doesn't take many it has been tragically proven time and again that one dedicated communist in a key spot such as Alia H in the state department or Harry Dexter white in the treasury Department or in any position to influence Command Decisions can wreck our hopes Slaughter our soldiers and weaken our nation but we must hurry on I've said these fellows are lying dirty shrewd and I say they are Godless to me this is perhaps the most frightening word of all because it accounts for every other bad word that describes them when the Reds tear down their churches or turn them into common warehouses when they torture kill their priests ministers and rabbis we are horrified yes but why are we surprised what do you expect of a people who say the church is our enemy and must be destroyed no one can be a true communist and hold any religious convictions I say to you it is bad to be irreligious but it is far worse to be anti-religious it is reprehensible to be immoral but it is horrifying to be unmoral to them any wrong they do is right well these are some of the more frightening facts we must understand if we are going to understand communism and we better understand it my grandmother used to say what you don't know won't hurt you but today what you don't know can kill you and I mean that literally the Communists are murderers of course they don't call it that what are they casually shooting individuals who get in their way or as in the ctin forest massacre in 1940 maliciously executing 15,000 polish officers and intellectuals in the words of an official United States Congressional committee the committee unanimously agrees that its investigation proves conclusively and irrevocably the Soviets nkvd the people's commissariat of internal affairs committed this massacre a calculated plot to eliminate all polish leaders who subsequently would have opposed the soviet's plan for communize Poland this was plotted shortly after the Soviet treacherous invasion of Poland in the fall of 1939 I will not prolong these Cru some scenes taken from this official hearing and report of the United States Congressional committee but while you're recoiling from this site save a little shutter for yourself why because this is part of what is planned for you yes the kindness have plans for you as soon as they're in power they will arrest many of you seize your property if you're important enough they will shoot you along with all Community leaders the rest of you will be regimented and some of you forced into slave labor this is the planned plotted tested program they are determined to execute in this country as they already have and many others don't think for a minute their program is on a take it or leave it basis when you see where the Reds have grabbed a new slice of territory here or a whole nation there well don't tranquilize yourself with the thought that this will satisfy them every move they make every piece of ground they gobble up every labor union every government agency every local organization they infiltrate in this country is just one more step towards their main goal which is America and you occasionally they get their setbacks but don't let a few defeats raise your hopes any even the setbacks are part of their overall strategy two steps forward one step back cuber is a classic illustration remember this news photo Castro and kushev hugging each other we thought it a little ridiculous at the time rather disgusting and let it go at that the next thing we know the Russians put missiles and bombers on the island then we suddenly come to life and say wait a minute back up there so they take one step back they make a show of removal but see what they still gain in the maneuver we think we won a victory so we relax and they end up with who knows how many missiles and bases and military personnel established 90 Mi off our Coast well that's the story of our experience with the Communist when we get mad enough to call a halt or something they back up and say okay don't get excited let's coexist so we relax again we give them a chance to consolidate their gains and then they come in with a new sneak punch what it all boils down to is just what J gooa said it's the greatest danger we face in the world today I promised you 10 minutes ago that by this time you would have a new understanding of Communism too long we have been thinking of Communists as misguided but human beings with Humane feelings and responses what we have just shown you exposes them for what they really are lying dirty shrewd Godless determined and international criminal conspiracy this is the true nature of the enemy this is communism