As the following review from the Huffington Post shows, the film really hits where it hurts!

Political junkie that I am, I always enjoy watching films by Michael Moore and Dave Bossie and am grateful that I live in a country where robust political dialogue is not just tolerated but encouraged.

Citizens United's founder and president, Dave Bossie, came to Hollywood last night to give us a sneak peak at his latest film, Generation Zero. After watching it, two thoughts come to mind:

First, if you are a left-of-center baby boomer, this movie will infuriate you. For although Bossie and writer/director Stephen K. Bannon spread the blame around to many parties (and not just liberals) they take particular aim at baby boomers for creating a culture of indulgence and facilitating the idea that people who don't actually produce anything can nonetheless reap rewards as though they did.

Second, I will never look at an episode of Leave It To Beaver in quite the same way again, especially the June Cleaver character. Bossie and Bannon make the important but heretofore overlooked point that the American mom of the '50s, represented by Cleaver, had grown up in the Depression among great hardship. She had lost family members to war, watched parents lose their jobs, and when the war ended, she yearned for a sense of normalcy, serenity, and all that a white picket fence lifestyle offered.

But, according to the producers, that desire caused those moms to overindulge their children in the '50s culture of plenty, which in turn led to the culture of excess of the 60's generation -- and the throwing off of all societal norms, limits and prohibitions.

Go here for part 4,5,6,7

African "medicine murders" or muti-murders is a savage practice, in which the victims, especially children are deliberately tortured, skinned or mutilated alive because the agony and pain is thought to increase  the "ju-ju" of the harvested body-parts.
Needless to say, this is one part of indigeonous African culture, which the media is not particularly eager to let the public know about. It could after all dampen western appetite for more mass-immigration, and disturb both the anti-apartheit campaign and the carefully crafted image of the noble savage.
Therefore the practice has been allowed to grow in the shadow of "political correctness" for decades, and is now getting  making its way into Europe. However, some western newsreports have begun to break the silence. BBC could recently reveal that british authorities have managed to rescue some 400 Ugandan children, who were trafficked into the UK for use in blood rituals.
And even more disturbingly, a spokesman for the Ugandan Anti Human Sacrifice Taskforce has stated that the over-all increase "is directly linked to rising levels of development and prosperity, and an increasing belief that witchcraft can help people get rich quickly."  Polino Angela, a convert to Christianity and former witch-doctor, who himself butchered 20 people including his own son, says that he in Uganda "has persuaded 2,400 other witch-doctors to give up the trade since he himself repented in 1990." This should give some idea of just how widely the belief in the power of human sacrifice is held among tribal healers.

South Africa, where the below documentary was filmed, has had a "moratorium" on crime-statistics for  the past ten years and publication of recent figures is therefore banned from the public. But some alarming data were already available in 2001, where around 2,500 South-africans were caught in possesion of human body-parts many of which were traded through the  hospitals

African albinos are suffering particularly hard under these developments, because witch-doctors believe that albino body-parts are especially powerful for muti. The price of a full set of organs harvested from an albino is believed to be around 75.000 dollars. According to some estimates, around 10.000 albinos are currently fleeing certain parts of Africa(see embedded paper further below.) These prices has been interpreted by some investigators as an indication that Muti based on human sacrifice is accepted in some of the highest and wealthiest circles of African society.

Last month reports showed some characteristics of muti attacks on whites too, but I have been unable to determine whether or not whites are thought to have more or less ju-ju than blacks. 

Muti Murders in South Africa




Witch-doctors Reveal Extent of Human Sacrfice



Muti Traditional Healing ju-ju africa Human Sacrifice

Ed Bradley: You ever look at music, that you´ve written and looked back at it and said, "wow, that surprise me"?
Bob Dylan: I used to. I don´t do that anymore...
I don´t know how I got to write those songs..
Ed Bradley: What do you mean, "you don´t know how"?
Bob Dylan: Those early songs were almost magically written.

Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying

Bob Dyland: Well... try to sit down and write something like that!
There is a kind of magic to that... and it is not the "Siegfried and Roy" kind of magic.
It is a different kind of penetrating magic.
And I did it. I did it at one time.
Ed Bradley: You don´t think you could do it today?
Bob Dyland: No.
Ed Bradley:Does that disappoint you?
Dob Dylan: You can´t do something forever. I did it once... I can do other things now.
But I cannot do that.[...]
Ed Bradley: Why do you still do it, why are you still out there on tour?
Bob Dylan: Well, it goes back to that destiny thing... I bargained with it. I am holding up my end.
Ed Bradley: What was your bargain?
Bob Dylan:... To get where I am now.
Ed Bradley: Can I ask you, who you made the bargain with?
Bob Dylan:With... with, you know... with the chief commander.
Ed Bradley: On this earth?
Bob Dylan: On this earth and in a world we cannot see

(Excerpt from the 60 minutes interview with Bob Dylan turning creepy. His first after 20 years of silence)

Christian spiritual deciphering of crowleyan elements in "the music that sparked the revolution" is one of the more difficult topics to post on. It is often scorned upon, simply because no single fact or statistic will ever be able to make the patterns stand out with sufficient clarity. I have therefore decided to simply compile the best documentaries and sermons on the topic in one single reference post.

I think it is fair to say, that after just a few hours of viewing there is a good chance that whatever natural scepticism one might have, will eventualy turn into genuine interest. Before viewing the below films, it might be good to try and recap some of the peculiarities of the Christian concept of evil. It is somewhat more complex than than the current humanist one, according to which evil simply translates into "intolerance" or "not being nice".
As far as I can tell, Christians view evil as stemming from a number of rebellious angels, whom God deemed to an empty eternal life in the athmosphere of the earth.The most important of them being the archangel Lucifer, often found in the shape of a serpent, ram or dragon.
From this athmospheric presence, these genderless, unreproductive beings seek to deceive,tempt, posses and corrupt the humans. They take pleasure in destruction, mayem and murder, and try to weaken family and nations by leading people off the straight and narrow. If you invite these beings in by prayer, ritual, or weaken yourself through drug-abuse, selfishness and immorality, then they are thought capable of channeling their might through you. Giving you a sense of power and pleasure in reward for letting them use your body and soul as an instrument of their schemes and longing for worship.The core of this understanding of evil and its markers is, I believe, deceit. This understanding of deception as the first sign of evil, has of course made Christians wonderfully vigilant over the centuries, and I think its fair to say, that it is exacly this vigilance, which we find terribly  lacking in the gullible dechristianized West of today.

Now, to an Aristotelian like myself, who is more inclined to define evil as simply the hatred of virtue, the christian perspective is indeed a different way of thinking altogether. But especially after reviewing below films, I realised, that the Christian perspective is able to reveal certain fundamental aspects of the so-called "youth-rebellion", which undoubtedly has reigned-in the cultural madness of today.
The christian perspective shows to what extent this rebellion was in fact an anti-christian movement. And how this anti-christian undercurrent seems to run through and unify both the new-age religion, the psychedelia, the revolution, the drug-use and the sexual liberation. Beneath all this one finds the same deep-seething hatred and contempt of the christian faith, and nowhere is this more obvious than in the musical expression of our age..
Furthermore, it is truely surprising to learn, how many of the key-players of modern rock pop, and hip-hop more or les openly admit and reveal extensive use of different kinds of crowleyan magic, and new-age spiritual channeling techniques. This is th interesting point, because if both the christians and the musicians acknowledge this, the point about "it all being superstitions" becomes mute.
Enjoy the show!



The Sold Their Soul For Rock and Roll (4hours)




Hells Bells I Hells Bells 2 Truth behind Hip Hop I



Truth Behind Hip-Hop V Part II Part III

Money As Debt is a fast-paced and highly entertaining animated feature by artist & videographer, Paul Grignon. It explains today's magically perverse DEBT-MONEY SYSTEM in terms that are easy to understand.

Money As Debt II-Promises Unleashed explores the baffling, fraudulent and destructive arithmetic of the money system that holds us hostage to a forever growing DEBT... and how we might evolve beyond it into a new era. Bailouts, stimulus packages, debt piled upon debt...Where will it all end? How did we get into a situation where there has never been more material wealth & productivity and yet everyone is in debt to bankers? And now, all of a sudden, the bankers have no money and we the taxpayers, have to rescue them by going even further into debt

Check out his website: http://www.moneyasdebt.net/

Thanks to kirilk

"In 1996, in a documentary called "The MoneyMasters", we asked the question why is America going broke. It wasn't clear then that we were, but it is today. Now the question is how can we get out of this mess. Foreclosures are everywhere, unemployment is skyrocketing -- and this is only the beginning. America's economy is on a long, slippery slope from here on. The bubble ride of debt has come to an end.

"What can government do? The sad answer is -- under the current monetary system -- nothing. It's not going to get better until the root of the problem is understood and addressed. There isn't enough stimulus money in the entire world to get us out of this hole.

"Why? Debt. The national debt is just like our consumer debt -- it's the interest that's killing us.

"Though most people don't realize it the government can't just issue it's own money anymore. It used to be that way. The King could just issue stuff called money. Abraham Lincoln did it to win the Civil War.

"No, today, in our crazy money system, the government has to borrow our money into existence and then pay interest on it. That's why they call it the National Debt. All our money is created out of debt. Politicians who focus on reducing the National Debt as an answer probably don't know what the National Debt really is. To reduce the National Debt would be to reduce our money -- and there's already too little of that.

"No, you have to go deeper. You have to get at the root of this problem or we're never going to fix this. The solution isn't new or radical. America used to do it. Politicians used to fight with big bankers over it. It's all in our history -- now sadly -- in the distant past.

"But why can't we just do it again? Why can't we just issue our own money, debt free? That, my friends, is the answer. Talk about reform! That's the only reform that will make a huge difference to everyone's life -- even worldwide.

"The solution is the secret that's been hidden from us for just over 100 years -- ever since the time when author L. Frank Baum wrote "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."

http://still2012.com/

Thanks to DrDissent - Film runs for around 200 minutes

THE MONEY MASTERS is a NON-FICTION, historical documentary that traces
the origins of the political power structure. The modern political power
 structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of
gold and other forms of money. The development of fractional reserve
banking practices in the 17th century brought to a cunning
sophistication the secret techniques initially used by goldsmiths
fraudulently to accumulate wealth. With the formation of the
privately-owned Bank of England in 1694, the yoke of economic slavery to
 a privately-owned "central" bank was first forced upon the backs of an
entire nation, not removed but only made heavier with the passing of the
 three centuries to our day. Nation after nation has fallen prey to this
 cabal of international central bankers.

http://still2012.com/

This is the famous documentary about the Auschwitz concentration camp, in which David Cole argues, that the physical evidence speaks against a claim of homicidal gas-chambers, designed and used for mass extermination in Auschwitz.
In the interview with the leader of the Auschwitz museum, Dr. Franciszek Piper, Cole is confirmed in his suspicion that the Zyklon-B insertion holes currently shown in Auschwitz, were in fact added after the war as part of a communist propaganda effort. A fact which today is generally accepted also by  historians, who support the claim of mass-exterminations through use of the poisonous delousing product Zyklon-B.
Due to the ensuing controversy the film landed Cole in the "Donahue Show" where he sought to correct a number of myths regarding the Nazi concentration camps (i.e. the hair- and lamp-shade myths, the "human soup" myth among others). He also informed a somewhat surprised audience, that the official death toll for the Auschwitz concentration camp alone, had already been lowered by three million and that the number of concentration camps thought to have been engaged in mass-extermination by gassing had dropped from the initial 22 to 6, curiously leaving all camps, still assumed to have had gas-chambers, behind the iron curtain of the postwar period, and thus uninspected by western scientists. (this version has added commentaries, clean version is currently not avaiable it seems)

David Coles blunt nature and impressive "chutzpah" of course got him into trouble after this appearance. The canadian Jewish Defense League went as far as to publish death threats and offer rewards for his home address.

"What is a David Cole? Is it a sickness? Is it a mental disease?
Is Cole merely a human parasite who clings to his ardent Nazi supporters and friends who back his ideas whole-heartedly?
After all, this Cole mania that the media have played on, don't you think it's time that we flush this rotten, sick individual down the toilet, where the rest of the waste lies?
One less David Cole in the world will certainly not end Jew-hatred, but it will have removed a dangerous parasitic, disease-ridden bacteria from infecting society (...)

Just as we must get rid of this monster, Cole, we must also get rid of the word "revisionism" from our vocabulary. This awful word and Cole, too, must be eliminated altogether. There is no argument. There needs to be no more debates, only the elimination of the Holocaust deniers."

David Cole later renounced any and all holocaust-revisionism in a short letter, and to my knowledge nobody ever heard from him since.

As mentioned in the film, what initially seems to have sparked Cole´s sceptical interest in the Holocaust, was the so-called Leuchter report, prepared by the american gas-chamber expert Fred Leuchter, which contained the first forensic investigation of the alledged Auschwitz gas-chambers for the defense, in the trial against Ernst Zündel. These findings were further substantiated in the Rudolf Report.

WARNING: Below material is illegal in Germany, and its publication, electronic or otherwise, can and have lead to state-prosecution and jailtime. - Do not forward carelessly, especially on facebook 

 The Leutcher Reports - Fred A. Leutcher (2003)


The Rudolf Report - Expert Report on Chemical and Technical Aspects of The ‘Gas Chambers’ of Auswitz - Germ...

Another excellent Channel 4 documentary about the corrupt political elite of the UK Since resigning in June 2007, Tony Blair has financially enriched himself more than any previous ex-prime minister. Reporter Peter Oborne reveals some of the sources of his new-found wealth, much of which comes from the Middle East. On the day Tony Blair resigned as Prime Minister, he was appointed the official representative Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East. By January 2009 he had set up Tony Blair Associates - his international consultancy - which handles multi-million-pound contracts in the Middle East. It is so secretive we don't know all the locations in which they do business. Dispatches shows that at the same time as Blair is visiting Middle East leaders in his Quartet role he is receiving vast sums from some of them. If Blair represented the UK government, the EU, the IMF, the UN or the World Bank, this would not be permitted. He would also have to declare his financial interests and be absolutely transparent about his financial dealings. But no such stringent rules govern the Quartet envoy. However, he could opt to abide by the rules and principles of public life. They were introduced by John Major, and Tony Blair endorsed and strengthened them for all holders of public office - but chooses not to himself. thanks to steen for the link and marcchabotyt for the upload

The EU has been sold to Britain as our best hope for the future . . . But behind the scenes, has another, more unsettling agenda been unfolding? The European Economic Community (EEC) began for Britain as a free-trade agreement in 1972. Today's European Union is well on its way to becoming a federal superstate, complete with one currency, one legal system, one military, one police force â even its own national anthem. In this shocking new documentary featuring EU insiders and commentators, independent author Phillip Day covers the history and goals of the European Union, as well as the disturbing, irrevocable implications this new government has for every British citizen. Whether the viewer is for or against Britain's participation, this film asks the troubling questions the mainstream media has refused to confront.

Thanks to anonymoustruther

Documentary exposing the dangers of the New Age Movement; Yoga, Meditation, Eastern Mysticism, Kundalini, PsychologiaI Therapy, Self-Help, Mind Control and much more...

It explores its birth, its invasion, and its effect on western society. It explores the pagan roots of eastern mysticism, meditation, yoga, and more. Shows how it was conceived in the early 1960's at a planning session by Hindu gurus in India as a means of converting Americans to Eastern mysticism. The seemingly innocuous devices used range from yoga meditation to a belief in reincarnation. We are given an extraordinary inside glimpse into an eerie world of cult mentality and mindless obedience, and we see how an outright attack against traditional American beliefs has been successfully launched, not only from Hindu missionaries, but from unsuspecting Americans who have accepted the surface manifestations of this religion as trendy and fun. Many of these concepts, amazingly. have found their way into American churches which, themselves, are the very target of the attack. The film covers the chilling parallels between the belief structure in today's New Age subculture and that in Hitler's Third Reich two generations ago.

Contains notable appearances of Sheela Silverstein, who was not just believed to have been extorting millionaires after taping their sexually deprived acts in her camp, but also orchestrated the 1984 bio-terror attack which poisoned 750 locals outside in the the neighboring town of the Rajneeshpuram camp

Introduction

 - Part I

 - Part II

Eugene Terreblanche last interview with South African Broadcast Coorporation -former member of South Africa's Herstigte Nasionale Party who founded the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) during the apartheid era. During the 1980s and early 1990s, he became known for threatening civil war to maintain white rule in South Africa. On 3 April 2010 he was hacked to death on is farm, falling victim to the huge wave of brutal black killings of white farmers in South Africa.


I have embedded below, a speech by the recently elected mayor of Johannesburg Amos Masondo, who seem less than convincing in his ability to reverse the city´s slide into anarchy

One of the VERY few unfiltered accounts of the revolutions in Rhodesia and South Africa - Highly recommended! - I took the liberty of transcribing the full speech of this Afrikaner Broadcasting film for reference.

Revolution and Betrayal in South Africa and Rhodesia

South Africa like the rest of black Africa has a very very complex racial break-down. South Africa has some 10 – 11 different tribes, they have different languages, they have different cultures. When they were migrating south, some 300 years ago, many of these tribes were actually fighting and killing each other off.
The Zulus, which was the largest of these tribes, when they migrated south some 300 years ago, (about the time when the whites were landing at Cape Town, and about the time when americans were landing in James Town) we saw the Zulus wipe out around a 150 separate tribes.
A second tribe is the Whites, two-thirds of those are Afrikaaners of dutch back-ground, and about a third of English back-ground.

The situation in our black township has become critical. Black civic leaders are brutally murdered. Black businessmen has their business premises burned to the grown. Their delivery vehicles destroyed, their families terrorised in the most horrendous manner. 

“Together hand in hand with our sticks and matches - with our “necklaces” - we shall liberate this country”. 

“Under communist rule South-Africa will become a land of milk and honey. In our country, the struggle of the oppressed masses as lead by the South African communist party – of which he was a leader at that time – and as inspired by its policy. We communist party members are the most advanced revolutionaries in modern history, and are the contemporary fighting and driving force in changing society and the world”.

”The people of South Africa lead by the communist party will destroy capitalist society, and build in its place Socialism. A transition from capitalism to socialism and the liberation of the working class, cannot be affected by slow changes, or by reforms - as reactionaries and liberals often advise – but by revolution. I must therefore be a revolutionary, and not a reformist” 

Farmers in South Africa are being murdered at the rate of 313/100,000, and they often suffer violent deaths after being tortured for hours. Farm killings have increased since Julius Malema - leader of the ANC Youth League - has started singing the banned song "Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer".

Thanks again to GoodFightLads

Stasi, official name Ministerium für Staatsicherheit (German: "Ministry for State Security"), secret police agency of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany). The Stasi was one of the most hated and feared institutions of the East German communist government.

The Stasi developed out of the internal security and police apparatus established in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany after World War II. The law establishing the ministry, whose forerunner was the Kommissariat 5 (modeled along the lines of the Soviet KGB), was passed by the East German legislature on February 8, 1950.

During Germany's partition East Germany's Ministry of State Security (MfS) was one of the largest intelligence and security services in the world. Known as the Stasi by East Germans, it used some 90,000 regular employees—and nearly double that number of informers—to surveil the country's 17 million people.

College Conspiracy debunks many myths, including the belief that Americans with college degrees earn $1 million more in lifetime income compared to high school graduates without a college degree.

The most important basic fact that most Americans don’t understand about 4-year colleges is that most Americans spend 6 years attending them before graduating. With U.S. tuition inflation for private colleges averaging 5.15% over the past half a decade, assuming this same rate of tuition inflation continues, a college with tuition of $30,000 today will have tuition of $38,563 in the sixth year a student attends it.

In College Conspiracy, NIA analyzes the total cost to attend college by factoring in not just rapidly rising tuition expenses, but also the interest payments on student loans, and the lost income that college students would have earned if they worked at an average entry-level job that doesn’t require a college degree.
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Thanks to ScepticStream for this, occasionally balanced documentary about the ban on religiously compatible theorizing in public school. The "Wedge Strategy" document mentioned in the film is embedded below. - It´s a good read

The highly anticipated, comic and controversial feature documentary, "Flock of Dodos: the evolution-intelligent design circus," is the first feature film to take an even-handed look at the intelligent design vs. evolution clash that appeared on the covers of Time and Newsweek in 2005. Filmmaker, scientist, surfer and evolutionary biologist Dr. Randy Olson explores the controversy over the teaching of evolution and the recently developed alternative, intelligent design. Olson, a native of Kansas, visits his home state and the community of Dover, Pennsylvania, which attempted to introduce intelligent design in science classes. Olson draws on basic aspects of evolution as metaphors, including the extinct dodo, which he suggests symbolizes what happens to those unable to change with their environment.

Featured are seven top advocates for intelligent design, including Dr. Michael Behe, author of "Darwin's Black Box," fourteen evolution Ph.D.'s, a poker game among eight evolutionists, a rabbit eating its own poop, and a flock of animated dodos playing poker, dancing, and helping the audience answer the question, "who really is the 'flock of dodos?'"

The Discovery Institute's Wedge Document

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Documentary about the use of evolutionary biology as a tool for persecution of christians.
I remember following the "creationism vs. evolution" debacle back in the 90s when it was hot. However it quickly became obvious to me that this was simply a disguised political issue, with little if anything to do with science. There is absolutely nothing keeping one from being an evolutionist when it comes to the development of the different species, while maintaining a creationist view of genetics and "the beginning of life". Even the most fundamental concept within genetic research, that of "genetic information" seems to entail "intelligence" at some level or other. Needless to say, Galileo Galileo, Newton and Maxwell were all creationists along with countless other great scientists, dwarfing anything the atheist crowd can muster. This leaves little doubt that holding the view of intelligent design in no way obstructs the mathematization of nature.

Anyway, not being a christian, I found it hard to see the relevance of the debate back then, except for an uncanny feeling of not understanding what all the fuzz was about.
Today I have little doubt that all the fuzz was about the left feeling entitled to indoctrination of christian children, in order to make sure they wouldn´t become evil republicans and pro-lifers when they grow up. Having successfully enforced public schooling on all citizens, the left of course wanted to ensure that the gullible children stick with the program, and continue the obligatory course "Christians-are-crazy", which had worked so well for decades - along with all the other classes in "Treason" "Sex-before-Marriage" "Cultural self-hate" "Hate Whitey" etc...

Ben Stein does a brilliant job at interviewing both evolutionists and creationists, and makes it obvious just how nifty the expulsion of accomplished scientists and curious journalists works out in the real world. "Fire one - educate 50" seems to be the strategy. And as we have seen with regard to another socialist science scheme - The great Global Warming Racket - boy does it work!

Highly recommended!



(Note: This film is part of the series on Christian Persecution - Click to view the materials in this series)

Part I


Part II


Part III

Thanks to BritishNeoCon for these uploads
Interesting series of films, showing how the stupid UK hippies now running things, finally get to do what they like the most - Creating mad social experiments and then getting paid for trying to "heal" the problems they themselves have caused

Can´t you just feel it... All these wonderfully interesting and diverse emotions now enriching Oldham? All right there, for the former hippies, now parading as the "creative class" to enjoy and "understand".

Try and close your eyes occasionally and just listen to the BBC script, completely devoid of guilt of course, but at the same time using a language which make it sound like a show from national geographic, with the producers setting up situations and intrigues to see how the different animals might behave.

Apparently BBC´s obsession with the "race-drug", to which it is highly addicted, got so out of hand that the school had to drop the film project and ban BBC from filming on their site.

Once upon a time in a land far far away
millions of people lived under a very different political system
Now lost in the mist of time. It was called communism

The communists said everything would be bigger and better under communism and they were right. The queus were longer the party conferences were larger. There were ten times as many secret policemen. And there was not just one Germany there were two!

But there was one thing that was better under communism than everything else, and that was he jokes...the communist jokes!

George Orwell wrote that in a repressive political system every joke is a "tiny revolution." Jokes were an essential part of the communist experience because the monopoly of state power meant that any act of non-conformity, down to a simple turn of phrase, could be construed as a form of dissent. By the same token, a joke about any facet of life became a joke about communism. Hammer & Tickle recounts a humorous history of the Soviet Union and its satellite states through the jokes that flourished under the oppressive regimes in Russia and Eastern Europe. Jokes, the film contends, were a language of truth under Communism; a language that allowed people to navigate the disconnect between propaganda and reality and provided a means of resisting the system despite the absence of free speech. Using animated sequences, manipulated archival footage, and sketches to resurrect the jokes, the film offers an ironic take on the history of Communism while simultaneously investigating the social and political impact of jokes under Soviet rule. Interviews with Solidarity leader and former Polish president Lech Walesa, hard-line Polish leader General Jaroszelski, German actor Peter Sodann, German satirist and author Ernst Roehl, East German newspaper editor and Politburo member Guenter Schabowski, and academics Christie Davies and Roy Medvedev address the role that jokes played in challenging and weakening the Communist system from the inside even as joke-tellers faced censure or time in the Gulag for voicing their humor. Light and irreverent in its tone, Hammer & Tickle is really about the ultimate seriousness of joking and the use of the power of laughter to overcome hardship. This history of humor under the Soviet regime offers a direct, incontrovertible way to understand what it was like living in a Communist society, and is also proof that the human spirit can never be broken. imbd summary