Buying Nazi DVDs in Sydney just got easier

I was in Newtown recently when I visited the Gould’s bookshop on King St, a truly enormous store filled with cassettes, CDs, books and LPs, all second-hand. This was my second trip to the store and to Newtown. (Read about the first trip if you like.)

There were a few things I was looking for, all Communism related, for this store has a huge range of books covering all aspects of Communism. There are books on Marx and Engels, the Russian Revolution, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Mao and all the isms associated with them. There are books that Stalin and Lenin had written (or ghostwritten). If you are looking for the Soviet Union Criminal Code (1971 edition) or a copy of the speech Stalin made to the 14th Party Congress, Gould’s is the store for you!

Unfortunately, I didn’t find what I was looking for, namely The Great Terror by Robert Conquest, The Gulag Archipelago Volumes 2 & 3 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU(B)), also known as the Short Course, which was the official history of the Party.

Now, there were several editions of the Short Course up for sale, but the edition I was looking for was not among them. I needed an edition that covered the Second World War but was published while Stalin was still in power, since later editions were revised to be more critical of him. Why? I was looking for the edition with Stalinist propaganda in it, to verify a quote that had previously appeared on this blog.

Never mind.

I did, however, manage to find a copy of “Triumph Of The Will”, the masterful and notorious Nazi propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl, on sale in a discount shop bargain bin for just $2.

If any of you are interested, the discount shop is located right next to Westfield Miranda on Kiora Rd. There are probably a few copies left. Happy hunting, or should I say, Sieg Heil!