Kirtaniyah sada harih – that is Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s Life

Prabhupada, May 8, 1975, Perth: […] Yes, everyone is in darkness. If you can make propaganda, the people will be misled. That is not very difficult. Just like from Russia, nobody is communist. But it is going on—the Russia is communist country. I have studied thoroughly. Nobody is communist. Maybe a few only. But it is going on by propaganda that Russia is a communist country. The people in general, they are forced to accept it. That book was written by some man, terrorism. It is terrorism. That’s it. By force. Nobody accepts this communist philosophy, I have studied. They were very, very unhappy.

The young man cannot go out of the country. Just see. Restricted. How much uncomfortable he is feeling. Especially in European countries, the young men, they want to go. But they will not allow. They will not allow anything to read except Lenin’s literature. What is this? Simply suppressing. Everyone is unhappy. Which way? This way? This is their position. I have seen it directly. And as soon as one is suspected that he is doing otherwise, he will be sent to some unknown camp. Nobody knows where he has gone.

Paramahamsa: Just like they had some people who came to Russia to start some Buddhist thing, and then they were sent away to some camp, concentration camp.

Prabhupada: Never seen again.

Paramahamsa: No one has seen them.

Prabhupada: Just see. This is their… It is the most fallen country. No freedom. No freedom at all. Horrible country.

Ganesa: Why don’t the people revolt if they’re so unhappy?

Prabhupada: Yes, they are revolting, but they are now so much suppressed they cannot… Sometimes there is revolt. Sometimes there is upheaval.

Paramahamsa: Not a big upheaval because they are terrorized. They are afraid that if they revolt, then they…

Prabhupada: They will be killed.

Paramahamsa: Yeah, the government will come out and just shoot them all.

Prabhupada: Yes, all the Leninists and Stalinists, they kill. It is a country of terrorism. That’s all. The government men, they are simply terrorists. That’s all.

Paramahamsa: Just like in Cambodia they just, the new Communist government, they executed tens and thousands of people just recently.

Prabhupada: Just see.

Paramahamsa: People who were working for the old government. They just killed them all. So this what the people are afraid of.

Prabhupada: Yes. Terrorism. This Communism means terrorism. That I have seen. I have studied personally. By threat, by pressure, that’s all. Nobody is communist in Russia.

Jayadharma: Is the whole world going to become Communist, Prabhupada? Or is the whole world going to become Krishna cons…

Prabhupada: Nobody is Communist, but if the demons are powerful, they will declare.

Paramahamsa: They will introduce it.

Prabhupada: They will not introduce; they will declare like that, falsely. That’s all.

Paramahamsa: Even in some countries where Communism has a very light influence, like in Thailand there’s a little bit of Communist influence, when they had a student revolt, the government came in with tanks and machine guns and immediately killed about three thousand students.

Prabhupada: In Thailand?

Paramahamsa: Yes. In Bangkok. That was about two years ago.

Prabhupada: Oh, just see.

Paramahamsa: So the people are very afraid to cause any upheaval. They are afraid that immediately the government will just come and kill them. ’Cause the government has all the weapons. They have the tanks and the guns and everything. And the normal people, they don’t have any weapons.

Prabhupada: This is the age of Kali-yuga. Therefore the only shelter is Krishna. There is no other way. In India it’s practically dwindling. Now there is no reason they are not sanctioning our temple. They do not give any reason. “No!” Why “No”? “We don’t give any reason.” And “Kirtana is nuisance, nuisance.” They are doing that already.