“Goodbye Lenin” – Nostalgia for Socialism With a White Face

With many racially aware, White Americans bemoaning the sorry state of National Review, Rush Limblob, Conservative Inc. etc, some are looking for White alternatives with a more populist, Left outlook. Some White people are even looking back with nostalgia to the virtually all White countries/societies of the Soviet bloc – not in the terrible Jew Bolshevik years of the 1920s-40s, but to the Soviet East bloc countries of the 1970s – 1989.

Good Bye, Lenin! (link to the movie trailer) is a 2003 German tragicomedy film, directed by Wolfgang Becker. It is a comedy about the fall of Communism in Socialist East Germany and the lingering nostalgia for an East Germany that no longer existed after the fall of the Berlin wall.

I travelled to East/West divided Berlin in 1985 and had a few very pleasant days on the Socialist Eastern side. I found East German people (now called “Ossies”) to be very nice, solid White people. Socialist East Germany wasn’t nearly as prosperous as West Germany – but nobody was starving, people had work and I saw few or no non Whites. Instead of having icons of the Judeo Christian Jews St. Peter and St. Paul – there were some posters of Jewish Communist Karl Marx and Tatar, part Jewish Communist Vladimir Lenin. That’s was life – something White East Germans learned to put up with, as a way of getting by.

The movie “Goodbye Lenin” is beautiful, romantic, very funny. It shows regular White formerly Socialist East German people being loyal to their families, loyal to their White neighbors, loyal to their White community. Yeah, it was the Socialist DDR – German Democratic Republic”, but it was “their” Socialist German Republic and it was very White. The “Ossies” were and are a unique White people – get to know them. I highly recommend this film.

24 Comments

  1. “some are looking for White alternatives with a more populist, Left outlook.”

    Guilty as charged. Pat Buchanan is the last mainstream conservative to leave the building. Hometown conservatives suck eggs. It would be great to find some other alternative with left wing whites before we all end up killing each other, which is the way it’s going. If the left would agree to close the damn border and start deporting I might make some economic concessions. But to throw money at the State when it’s a wide open door is insanity. There is nowhere left to turn.

  2. ” ‘Judeo Christian’ Jews St. Peter and St. Paul”? They weren’t that confused.

  3. What a stupid article. The author glorifies the eastern bloc countries because they were all white? This is pretty retarded. Nobody was starving, everybody worked. Well then, East Germany sounds like paradise!

  4. I worked with a guy from East Germany shortly after the wall came down and he told me one of the things that freaked him out when he went into West German bars were the people dancing alone.

  5. “East Germany sounds like paradise!”

    Nor is present, unified Germany. If Germany would be Germanic, again, that would be paradise.

  6. “Instead of having icons of the Judeo Christian Jews St. Peter and St. Paul – there were some posters of Jewish Communist Karl Marx and Tatar, part Jewish Communist Vladimir Lenin. ”

    Mosin points out the idiocy of most Westerners. ALL of the Apostles of the Chosen Band, except for Judas of Kerioth (who was, most likely an Edomite- he acted and did unto Christ what the modern Edomites -i.e., Khazarian Jews- do and did.) were from Gallilee- known even in Scripture as Gallilee of the GENTILES.

    Iconic representations of the Saints are historically passed down in Orthodoxy. That means the first icons were faithful representations of how the Saints actually looked. St. Peter’s icon clearly shows a snub nosed, high Aryan forehead, that looks remarkably like most Celts I know. One of the oldest images of St. Peter is here:

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Petersinai.jpg/220px-Petersinai.jpg

    NONE of the Apostles were ‘jews’ as they are defined today. Adamites, yes. Israelites, yes. Fair of face and ruddy of skin, most assuredly. But they weren’t JEWS, dammit.

  7. Excellent article, Mr. Ryan.

    In a couple of his speeches, I heard the late, great Jonathan Bowden make similar points. In one, he points out that while life in the Eastern Bloc countries wasn’t great, it did have the effect of “preserving” those countries, sort of freezing them in time, compared to the West, where modernism relentlessly rushes forward. While they were socialist in name, and the ideology did have its own effect on the traditions of those societies, the “frozen in time” aspect helped those societies keep a purer link to their own unique identities, whereas Western Europe has always struggled with the influence of the US and the world culture of corporate globalization that it exports.

  8. Jerry is very much correct. As bad as Communism was, the Soviet Bloc avoided having to go through the neo-Marxist revolution that sweep through the West in the 1960s. This is why most eastern European countries don’t have explicitly ethnonationalist political parties like western Europe does because everyone from center-left to the far right in the eastern Europe views nationalism as basic common sense. If you go up to a mainstream politician from western Europe and tell him you want to flood his country with a bunch of third world immigrants he’s not really going to have any solid arguments against you even assuming he doesn’t think it’s a fantastic idea, but if you do the same thing to a mainstream politician from eastern Europe and tell them the same thing they’re going tell you that you are insane.

  9. Goodbye Lenin should have won the Oscar. Instead, the Academy chose to immortalize the story of despair and suicide in The Lives Of Others. These movies are like night and day and Goodbye Lenin shines because it IS about love and loyalty.
    I was living in Germany at the time the Berlin wall fell and I can attest the movie being spot on in it’s storyline.
    I wouldn’t go so far as to say that loyalty had much to do with what went on there but the “Ossies” didn’t have much to divide them. The East Germans (many are Saxon) still resent the West and to a large degree I believe nationality and culture play a role in that animosity.
    I myself remember thinking back then-Wow! now we have to integrate 17 million ex-prisoners of the DDR. Bummer! Yes, we Westerners couldn’t understand the ingratitude. What happened was a form of mutual rope-a-dope. It is no wonder the RAF was finding refuge in East Germany the whole time. The East sold out only to get closer to the reigns of real power.
    I’ve said this before and I’ll mention it again; I saw the turning of the tide at Christmas 94/95. I was windowshopping at the Kaufhof in downtown Stuttgart where I noticed a display of dolls. I looked and looked again because I could not find one doll that had blonde hair or blue eyes in the whole lot! In addition, their faces did not have a European look to them. Not one! Now that is truly frightening!

  10. Those “wonderfully white” Östdeutsche provided arms to the African Communists
    who attacked White Rhodesia and Suid Afrika.

  11. Judeo Capitalism is the root cause of all our racial problems. The socialists, for the most part, didn’t have these issues. And the National Socialist had it not at all. The egalitarian left has hijacked socialism and perverted it into something it’s not.

    Socialism only works in the white world, amongst a homogeneous people. I would not want the perverted forms of it such as practiced in England and the low countries, but a socialism where the truly disabled, the sick and the elderly are taken care of. No one should have to go without medical care due to class status. That’s a healthy socialism.

    That, coupled with Aryan values of free enterprise could make our people great again.

  12. Re: “the Judeo Christian Jew apostles”:

    “NONE of the Apostles were ‘jews’ as they are defined today.” Right, Fr. John.

    Re: “Judeo Capitalism is the root cause of all our racial problems.” Add to that the scripture: “The love of money is the root of all this evil.” Judeo Capitalism, global corporate capitalism, is essentially the pursuit of “filthy mammon.”

  13. “I’ve said this before and I’ll mention it again; I saw the turning of the tide at Christmas 94/95. I was windowshopping at the Kaufhof in downtown Stuttgart where I noticed a display of dolls. I looked and looked again because I could not find one doll that had blonde hair or blue eyes in the whole lot! In addition, their faces did not have a European look to them. Not one! Now that is truly frightening!”

    Markus- it’s not only in Germany. One of my brood, a little girl, was bought Barbie Dolls when she was littler. About 2004 or 2005, I began to notice that the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ look Barbie was beginning slowly to disappear, and that a ‘longer nosed, hooded-eyed’ “Jewish Barbie” (looking like some plastic clone of the ‘original Barbie of the late 1950’s- invented/designed by a Jewish woman for Mattell) was beginning to take her place. It was gradual, but was noticed even by my daughter by 2008. My daughter (taught to be racially observant from a young age- beginning with the Laurel and Hardy ‘Babes in Toyland’ – a great film to ingrain ‘niggers as savages’ into their visual cortex, forever) said, “Daddy, the Barbies aren’t the same anymore. They’re UGLY.” I said, “Yes, dear, don’t they look amazingly Jewish?” “That’s it,” smart White Daughter replied. Barbies IMMEDIATELY lost their lustre. We moved on to American Girl Dolls, yet the Jewish Weltanschauung was at work there, as well. These dolls, supposedly representative of ALL Americans, have now also been ‘darkened’ in their ‘melanin’ content- the earlier Kristin doll (which initially had a skin tone as fair and rosy as my little baby) was ‘retired,’ (which is strange enough, unless you realize she represented the Nordic ideal of Beauty…) so that they could replace the White Scandic doll with…. a JEWISH SHIKSA doll, named Rubin! But before they could retire her, they also DARKENED the DOLL’s skin tone. I kid you not. My daughter’s doll is ‘tan’ compared to the same doll I looked at, about four years earlier, when I wrestled with the thought of paying $100 for a DOLL.

    I broke down, but for a lesson. To teach my daughter her HERITAGE, before it, too, is ‘retired.’ (Think of that damned Swedish sex/rock/genocide video, ‘Mix it up’ and you know what I mean!!!)

    Don’t think that this is a ‘coincidence’ folks. We need to restore older authors, illustrators, cartoons, and other forms of ‘kulturkampf’ because the Deicides know EXACTLY what they are doing… but, of course, now, WE do, TOO! The fight is engaged. To the victor (the White man) belong the spoils, as they always have.
    [Lk. 20:43, Acts 2:35, Heb. 1:13]

  14. I watched the movie, very good!
    This film is the kind that, when you see once, is eager to see again.
    Today, East Germany is one of the most racist places in Europe. If Eastern Europe was frozen in time, then this part of Germany was frozen during the Surf Nazis.
    The only problem is their fecundity, extremely low and the emigration.

  15. How about a film called “Good Bye, Hitler!” that glorifies a true, Germanic conception of Germany and the West? Oh, that’s right, I forgot that post-modern Germany under Judeo-American tutelage has banned anything and everything that shows the NSDAP years in positive light. I guess the best Wolfgang Becker could do given post-WW II political realities was to produce a film about lingering nostalgia for the “good old days” of Soviet bloc Communism instead. How pathetic!

  16. Scipio Americanus says:
    May 23, 2012 at 7:26 pm (Edit)
    How about a film called “Good Bye, Hitler!” that glorifies a true, Germanic conception of Germany and the West? Oh, that’s right, I forgot that post-modern Germany under Judeo-American tutelage has banned anything and everything that shows the NSDAP years in positive light. I guess the best Wolfgang Becker could do given post-WW II political realities was to produce a film about lingering nostalgia for the “good old days” of Soviet bloc Communism instead. How pathetic!

    Jack Ryan replies:

    Just rent this all White movie “Good Bye Lenin” from Netflix. I think you will like/love this movie.

    Yes, of course – we at OD know that the NS state was much better for White German people than the DDR. But, my point was/is – whites need to try to make the best of things given the political/social realities that exist. And these East German DDR Whites did just that and their lives were OK – not perfect, but in all honesty , Whites do better when they have to struggle a bit/lot and we get in to trouble trying to make everything “perfect”.

    If you are interested in a movie that presents Hitler and NS Germany in some positive/accurate light – I recommend (title is very negative) the miniseries:

    Hitler – the Rise of Evil

    The British actor (lead actor in The Full Monty) does a very credible job or showing Hitler’s great gifts and how Germans of all social classes were drawn to him.

    Here’s a music video that uses scenes from this miniseries to present a tribute to AH and the NS movement.

  17. Jack, I understood your point. However, personally, I prefer movies that capture the true Western spirit such as El Cid, 55 Days at Peking or Unconquered. In these films, Western man certainly struggles, struggles mightily for dear life against all odds, but prevails heroically in the end. Frankly, I’m too much of a romantic to embrace the notion of making the best of things given the current political realities and cannot even contemplate life under Soviet communism which, after all, was nothing more than a system of slavery. I’m much more than simply a white racial nationalist; I’m a white man of the West in the Revilo P. Oliver or Francis Parker Yockey sense of the phrase and will always be such until the day I draw my last breath. Anyhow, that’s where I’m coming from. Thanks for the reply, though, as it’s greatly appreciated.

  18. Jack Ryan,

    I saw that mini-series years ago. The presentation of Hitler’s speeches, during the Starving Years, when spoken in English – well – it switched a light on. The early scenes are brilliant. The series falls apart at the end, when the JudenSlander takes over.

    But his speeches? They rang true. I didn’t act on that switch for years. But that was the first switch, being flipped.

  19. This is an excellent film – it is a shame that Daniel Bruehl went on to lend his considerable talent to Quentin Tarantino’s dismal Inglourious Basterds. Still, at least his character in that film was the good guy, despite being one of Those Evil Nazis!

    What interests me is its popularity. In my experience (which is vindicated by its box office performance), it is by far the most popular modern European film among young Whites, along with Jeunet’s Amélie. Amélie also romanticises a pre-multiracial Europe. It is set in Paris of 1997, but the hordes have been whitewashed out of the landscape. There is little wonder that it, along with the French New Wave films, endures sustained popularity – its young European admirers, whether or not they are conscious of it, do yearn for better times when they embrace this White aesthetic.

    If you speak to a young White cinephile with an interest in more than Hollywood poison, you can be sure that much of their intake will consist of modern films with a historical setting (i.e. an all-White cast) or classics from the years before the immigrant onslaught began (Fellini, De Sica, Truffaut and Kieslowski all remain popular). These will far outweigh films with mixed-race casts. I doubt many of these people are willing to admit to their implicit ‘racism’, but it is there, and they cannot deny it.

  20. Speaking of ‘all-white’ film, bizarrely enough, the Powell-Pressburger films of the 1950’s just blow my mind for honest, clear, ANGLO white racial consciousness, even when they are set in France (Red Shoes). (Blow my mind because one of those two [P&P] was Jewish, but that was before Judensuperioritaet took over….)

    But, “I know where I’m going” (with Wendy Hiller) and ‘A Canterbury Tale’ are three of my absolutely favorite films. “Black Narcissus” also shows how Anglos just CANNOT live outside of Europe. Deborah Kerr was astounding in that film. And it made me understand the degenerate nature of India and her polytheistic, satanic culture. (though I like Indian food buffets, go fig….)

    Contrast that Kerr reality, with the ‘sweetness’ and light’ of overt Multicultis Rodgers and Hammerstein in Kerr’s other ‘Asian’ film, [King and I] and you get what I am talking about.

    I now consider R&H to be THE Judenagentur for Kulturkampf in the postwar generation, with all their anti- ‘American’ musicals, starting with South Pathetic, Kink and I, and the greatest (worst) propaganda piece of musical theater known, ‘the Sound of Mucous.’ Truly, those three shows (along with Flower Drum Song) enabled/encouraged Bernstein, and Sondheim, and all the other Juden Tin Pan Alley types, to ‘re-write’ and ‘re-focus’ American musical and theatrical sensibilities. They are all damned Jews, BTW. Which is not a coincidence.

  21. Jesus of Nazareth was not assassinated for leading a moderated Jewidh reform movement. They killed him for advocating a complete overthrow of the old order of tribalist exceptionalism based on hate, war, extortion, and revenge. The is no such thing as Judo-Christian culture–that is only Judeo culture. True Christian doctrines, thrift, sacrifice, charity, forgiveness and peace have not run this country since we let Alexander Hamilton’s bankster friends in the door.

  22. “They killed him for advocating a complete overthrow of the old order of tribalist exceptionalism based on hate, war, extortion, and revenge.”

    Seth- you’re out of your league.

    “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” – Jesus, Sermon on the Mount.

    Christ came to RESTORE the LAW, the Adamic Race, and the Kingdom to Israel- GOD’S ISRAEL [Gal. 6:16] While the sacrifices of the law are now contained in the bloodless sacrifice on the Altar (whether spiritual or true corporal, via the “Body and Blood”) still, Christ’s sacrifice replaced the ‘bulls and calves,’…. but the LAW (moral) remains. Thus it is that every Christian culture, via their catechisms, ESTABLISH the Law…. and it is only antinomian heretics who deny this.

    Moreover, the Kingdom, having been taken over by the accursed Edomites/Herodians, etc. was to be RESTORED from her racial fornication, at the hands of the ‘Jews’-

    “When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? 7And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. 8But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” – Acts 1:6ff.

    Note that the giving of the commission to redeem all of the ‘lost sheep of the House of Israel’ [Matt. 15:24] is given in this statement- Christ neither abolishes his earlier statments about who is to be redeemed, but here is thus also RESTORING the DAVIDIC KINGDOM, now known as Christendom, while FOREVER annulling the “jews/Khazars/edomites/Satan seed” [John 8:44] from these promises!

    The Greek word for ‘world’ or the ‘uttermost parts of the Earth’ is ‘ecumene.’ The ‘ecumene’ as an Orthodox Scripture Scholar pointed out, did NOT mean all races, in ALL THE WORLD, in one polyglot Multicultural Mecca. On the contrary:

    “Side by side with this term (catholikos) there was also used with the meaning of “universal,” the word oikoumenikos. These two terms were not mixed. The Ecumenical Councils received the title Oikoumenike Synodos, from oikoumenikos, meaning from all the inhabited earth — in actual fact, the land which belonged to Greco-Roman civilization.” – Fr. Michael Pomazansky, Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, (Platina, CA: St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood), 1994, p.240.)

    In short, Christ was commissioning the establishment of Caucasoid Christendom, restoring the Kindom, and allowing the Millennial fulfillment of ‘the river’ (Jordan) to the Sea (Atlantic)’ limits of the Kingdom of God.

    I think you better reconsider your position. 2000 years of Christendom weigh heavily against you….

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