10 Brutal Realities of Life in Stalin’s Soviet Union

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When Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, his charismatic henchman Leon Trotsky seemed to be his most obvious successor. Instead it was Joseph Stalin, a man once described by Trotsky as a “dull grey blur” and a “nonentity” who had, by 1929, vanquished his political rivals and seized power for himself.
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10. The Soviet Famine of 1932-33
9. The Great Terror
8. The Activities of the NKVD were an Open Secret
7. Stalin’s Right-Hand Man was a Sadist and a Serial Killer
6. Suppression of Religion
5. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-45
4. Prisoners of War were Treated as Traitors
3. The Most Powerful Men in the Soviet Union were Routinely Humiliated
2. Siberian Gulags
1. The Cult of Stalin
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[@painhertz]

Worst part about escaping prison in Russia? you're still in russia.

[@BilltheButcher1855]

Astin Martin unless you’re Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[@painhertz]

@Larry David Well that's a random and suspect factoid!

[@daniellap.stewart6839]

@@painhertz yeah

[@MTS7140]

@Larrydavid I think the point here was to illustrate that even if you escaped prison you were still in a miserable country where life wasnt much better than the facility you just escaped from.

[@Iandar1]

Michael Thomas most people fail to recognize that the USSR at this point was still a 3rd world country and most people don’t realize that most “fact” about this time was really just hear say from your mother’s friend’s boyfriend’s mother’s other child. Even anti Stalinist researchers who have looked at the opened Soviet archives over the past 20 years say that some things are plain out false.

[@billykauker8152]

Being a third-generation Hungarian it's important to me that you put up this video my grandfather was raised in the gulag camps until the age of 12 he lost both his father and his mother to the camp. He never spoke much about it and sadly passed away before I was born. No one talks about the gulag. People need to know.

[@tabiripetrovich517]

Billy Kauker I'm the same. my great-grandfather was on the gulag and survived because he found a polish guy with whom they shared a jacket to sleep on. In Canada now they would say that they were homosexuals. they slept on a wooden bed with no mattress and it was increadibly cold in the shack. they would have frozen if they don't share the jacket and each other's heat. eventually the polish guy got taken home and my great-grandfather knew that he would not survive alone. he had a small wound on his knee and on purpose he opened it one night causing a rumpus the next day because he couldn't perform his job. they wanted to shoot him in the spot but the doctor saved him - telking thst he needs just meducal care and he will be fine. he stiched the knee and my great-grandpa opened it again. then the doctor said it's an infection and because they had a wagon going back to the society - they sent him back. from niezmij Novgorod or where - he got taken to kiev and then to Hungary. and when the train arrived the tv was there broadcasting it and stating: the students of the great communism have returned home. apparently his knee never got better resulting an amputation later. and even eight years later when the doctor asked him what had caused the knee problem, he wanted to tell him but the moment he said "siberia" the doctor indicated: ok don't say more please.

[@jennymisteqq695]

Tabiri Petrovich Thank you both for sharing those stories. Have you read The Gulag Archipelago? I don’t believe I could read it.

[@thelatearthurmorgan6158]

Fascinating stories you come across in the comments hidden among the noise. My hat is off to you both and your forefathers who suffered.

[@josephstalin7995]

No one talks about it for a reason...

[@soulitafire2445]

Agree so much history not taught.

[@josephsmith6777]

Imprisonment of most of his veterans after ww2 was more than cruel

[@susactivities_]

“More than cruel” is the story of his life

[@user-lz6hd1fx6t]

But the worst thing is that after that he ate their children

[@victorokeke3395]

@@user-lz6hd1fx6t WHAT!!??

[@antona.4572]

Most?

[@user-lz6hd1fx6t]

@@antona.4572 all of them

[@freeman7296]

funny how "workers paradise" always ends up like hell on earth...

[@AnshuOP69]

humans

[@Hannibalkakihara]

Communism

[@mtsenskmtsensk5113]

Free man, yes during the war America was a workers paradise, but ever since it has become worse and worse and as you say now America is hell on earth for the working class.

[@freeman7296]

@@mtsenskmtsensk5113 I think that depends on who you ask - I'm fine and continue to do fine...

[@janvisser4132]

The problem is that those socialist idealists give the goverment way too much power and shut down the free market. Power corrupts, even if those socialists start out with a genuine goal of making life better for the less endowed, they will turn into ruthless dictators eventually. Thats why presidents have terms, leave them with power for too long and things go wrong.

[@robertpaul4156]

Mao Zedong: "Hold my Beer"

[@factenter6787]

It was Tsingtao😂

[@pilot747andrey5]

)))policy of UK made Mao as he is

[@jollyswashbuckler]

@@pilot747andrey5 Long Live The British Empire 🇬🇧

[@pilot747andrey5]

ancient blue dream sounds sarcastic , but I like it

[@jollyswashbuckler]

@@pilot747andrey5 "gets stabbed by bayonet"

[@JohnDoe-fo3fn]

My grandfather was in the Red Army and was captured a bit west of Stalingrad. He was moved westward from camp to camp as the Soviets advanced. He was lucky enough to be tipped off after his liberation by the Americans that going back to Russia would be a really, really bad idea. Sometimes I wonder who that guy was who tipped him off. Without him, I wouldn't be here.

[@Broncort1]

Toast Nipples how did he avoid being sent back? Where did he wind up?

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Until we know we can believe in an Angel

[@captainjackpugh6050]

Lobotomizer You mean stalin sucks, the bolsheviks just wanted better lives without the tyranny of the tsar

[@captainjackpugh6050]

EP114587 What?

[@captainjackpugh6050]

EP114587 1 The bolsheviks were communists and they didn’t suck 2 the tzars weren’t gone in ww1 3 what are you talking about

[@debbied7035]

This should be required viewing for high school and college students.

[@zacnieprawisz9171]

This is basic stuff from high school, so what is your point?

[@fabianrios9659]

​@@zacnieprawisz9171 uneducated people believe educated people defend communism, somehow, as an excuse to feel superior to people who have been through university and justify their refusal to attend college

[@liammorgans7329]

Architecture Rios- maybe I’m mis- reading your comment, so forgive me if I misunderstood, but what are your thoughts on Jordan Peterson’s views on the left wing mindset of college professors and lecturers etc? His whole argument is that it’s going down a dangerous road of authoritarian socialist ideology. You don’t agree?

[@miked1765]

Zacnie prawisz It use to be. No longer.

[@fabianrios9659]

@@liammorgans7329 I'm glad we can most likely disagree and yet not go at each other's throats. I don't watch jordan peterson. However, in all my years of university, not once have any of my professors said anything positive of communism nor fascism, and none of them agreed with any form of authoritarianism, but they incite dialogue between sides.

[@PediculusPL]

Roses are red, so is the state. Do not complain about no food on the plate.

[@johndoe-nutz2980]

Bravo👏👏👏

[@tgcid2018]

The Soviet Russians ate as well as the Americans,actually technically better until the 80s when they moved towards a less healthy western style meat based diet.

[@johndoe-nutz2980]

@@tgcid2018 lol whatever helps you sleep at night

[@user-mj5uf8lf3o]

@@johndoe-nutz2980 yes it is time to stop with that annoying point, hunger has no ideology.Capitalism can cause hunger and so does communism, it all depends on the leader

[@mikemancuso2526]

@@tgcid2018 Really?? And why the Soviets build the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall to stop a massive emigration to the West???

[@libra9605]

Funny how we never got to learn this in school

[@kencouch6777]

You didnt?

[@juanperdomo276]

Its the American system putting mental barriers to us but history and the world its self

[@KingOneShot47]

My school glorified the alliance more than anything tbh

[@inguspodnieks9028]

Not funny nor surprising

[@hiiitek9053]

I learned it in school you probably just didn’t pay attention in school.

[@joecook5689]

Dudes, the funniest movie ever about stalin is called The Death of Stalin. With Steve buscemi as kruschef. And Tambor and them. It's a comedy that scares you how scared everyone was of stalin.

[@zama422]

Joe Cook can confirm, great movie.

[@mikhailalexandrovichrimsky5501]

I see new movie about "Implosion of American Empire"! It is based on True Story showing in cinemas soon!

[@joecook5689]

@Max Smith I can answer that. America is an empire, not in the traditional sense like Spain and Britain were, but more in the sense like the Soviet union was. How the soviet union absorbed the Baltic states. A state is also technically a country. The USA is kind of fifty countries. It could be called the United countries of America. They're federalized under Washington DC. That, and they have military bases on like 180 of like the 200 countries on earth. That's pretty empirey. Not saying empire in a negative way either. Before 476 a.d., the roman empire was called pax romana, meaning roman peace. Before Rome fell. Then Europe had the dark ages again. Today is called by some pax Americana.

[@mikhailalexandrovichrimsky5501]

@Max Smith No, you are correct! WE were an Empire with our Tzars! My Gr. grandfather was in the Imperial Navy. When I refer to US as empire, I don't mean it as empire by definition. The US has no need to invade and assimilate nations to be under her control. Nations invited US to exists within their Sovereignty...of course with benefits! Why invade when countries can benefit from US protection, US Dollars when needed, but like tumor, the US' influence and might grows to a point when that Sovereign State becomes a "slave". If they refuse her will (like in Germany, Turkey, Iraq, soon Ukraine and the US' biggest slave...NATO) the Oval Office simply opens his closet of rods to punish with. Some fav rods to punish nations are to hunger them into obedience, so "...let me see...sanctions...mmm....perhaps decrease financial contributions...how about replacing the Leader?..." As in WHO, Global Heating etc...just threaten and stop any contributions towards it. Wait...this closet has some nasty punishments "...let's see...Lets make some naughty country obedient, so CIA have some nice goodies like "Rits-for-Hire", they burn cities, crops even rent proxy militias to take blame!...and THIS one...send Military!" The US is more than empire. It's foul breath can be smelled globally...but...I know of an EMPIRE from who NOTHING evil can be hidden. Like I said, it will end badly, and NOT by the hands of men! Burning wheat crops, huh? Starving and shooting kids! I cannot wait for my Empire to charge!

[@joecook5689]

@@mikhailalexandrovichrimsky5501 nice comment, dude.

[@CommodoreFloopjack78]

Between this channel and Bio Graphics, I've learned more than I ever did in school.

[@6idangle]

Is that really true haha

[@jamusmorrison3073]

It’s very true. Simon isn’t pushing a narrative. Much like books and teachers today. He shows facts not feelings.

[@goodyeoman4534]

I think it's always useful to watch things like this for summary. And to get a richer understanding you read longer works. If you can't summarise a topic then you probably don't understand it.

[@princedeasturias]

Im sorry your education was subpar. School isnt supposed to teach you everything. Learning is something that is lifelong

[@CommodoreFloopjack78]

Daniel Gomez You and me both. At the very least I didn't have to pay for the four years at university. That would've been a HUGE rip-off.

[@032Eagle]

Let's see hollywood have the backbone to make a movie about THIS...

[@t.b.5115]

"Child 44" with tom hardy and gary oldman. Edit: the book is far better.

[@ooyginjardl4037]

Listen to Al Stewart’s “Joe the Georgian”

[@paultardspambot]

they've made a few. Check out The Inner Circle (1991). It's about a film projector technician who by basically chance (he happens to be there when stalin is screening a movie and there's an issue with the projector he fixes, Stalin is a huge movie buff so she takes a linking to him and he winds up a part of Stalin's inner circle in way over his head). Or the more recent dark comedy loosely based on the real history of the fight to be Stalin's successor after his death between Beria and Khruscev, The Death of Stalin (2018)

[@paultardspambot]

@Ordinary Sessel You could find any number of tragedies, genocides, etc. that have not received treatment by hollywood or have not entered into the american public consciousness. There are a lot of historical reasons why the Holocaust entered into the public consciousness and has been depicted by artists, filmmakers etc. What's your point?

[@paultardspambot]

@Ordinary Sessel ​ Ordinary Sessel I wrote out a lengthy reply, but it went too long and I couldn't post it. I suppose youtube isn't the format for detailed conversations. Summarizing, I never made the statement that you seem to want me to defend. I gave historical reasons why that was the case. I also made the point that North Korea was somewhat post-communist, in the direction the Soviet state probably would have gone had Stalin lived longer and established his own succession. It no longer refers to itself as communist, but as "Juche" a Korean term which historically meant something like the European equivalent of absolutism.

[@barrettfenwick8028]

"All animals are equal, but some are more equal then others."

[@gerarduspoppel2831]

animal farm

[@kennycubensis8152]

Funny

[@Jjjof]

@@agneebh23 so you have to go to the USSR to speak on the generally known evils that go on there I mean exactly Orwell know how much unnecessary lives were lost or how the ussr collapsed or how dysfunctional the whole communist system was But oh yeah it wasn't " *real communism* "

[@megancrager4397]

@@agneebh23 socialism IS communism, just a different name. The left likes to separate and segregate 🤷‍♀️ so they love to have all these different "titles". Stalinism, Leninism, Nazism, Maoism,....Socialism, Communism.. whatever you wanna call it

[@megancrager4397]

@@agneebh23 not literally 🙄 Socialism works very much like a communist regime

[@jamesvanpattenjr6925]

He woke to a painful place he can't escape.

[@mikhailalexandrovichrimsky5501]

Not YET! ALL are resurrected on JUDGMENT DAY! NOW, the dead are sleeping except or those in union with God's Son! *Judgment Before the Great White Throne* Rev 20:11 Next I saw a great white throne and the One sitting on it. Earth and heaven fled from his presence, and no place was found for them. Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, both great and small, standing in front of the throne. Books were opened; and another book was opened, the Book of Life; and the dead were judged from what was written in the books, according to what they had done. Rev 20:13 The *sea gave up the dead in it; and Death and Grave (including Stalin) gave up the dead in them;* and they were judged, each according to what he *had done!* (and WHAT EVIL did Humans do!?) Rev 20:14 Then Death and Grave (Sh'ol) were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the second death-the lake of fire. Rev 20:15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the Book of Life was hurled into the lake of fire. Most people in this comment section are also going there! С уважением, Saint Mikhail Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian Orthodox)

[@vexmythoclass5000]

@@mikhailalexandrovichrimsky5501 calm down he just said something

[@detroitandclevelandfan5503]

Hell?

[@jordandelgado7571]

I think Joseph Stalin got a first class ticket to Hell.

[@jqjig820]

And I a third one :3

[@eddyshluger9332]

But Stalin did not beleive in hell.

[@jordandelgado7571]

@@eddyshluger9332 he does now!

[@habandajop5617]

@@eddyshluger9332 he may not Believe but ,but he will have to go

[@rogerking3771]

I hope so.

[@DatsWhatXiSaid]

Nobody: Absolutely Nobody: Stalin: So... you ALL have chosen death.

[@lindainglis8506]

George Orwell’s Animal Farm was about Stalin, not Hitler. And he was the monster behind the face of Big Brother.

[@theguybehindyou4762]

Communist subversives in the west found Hitler to be a very useful distraction from their own failures and atrocities which massively outweighed Adolf’s. That’s why Hitler is remembered while Stalin and Mao are completely ignored.

[@shesaknitter]

Animal Farm may have been about Stalin, but it is easy to see resonance in that allegory that extends to many other dictators and their regimes, even to the current day. By the time people realize what is happening, it can be extremely difficult to get rid of them and undo the damage that they do to too many willing people.

[@zacnieprawisz9171]

Orwell was anti-authoritarian but it's hilarious when right wingers quote him. Orwell was a socialist and belonged to socialist party. He also wrote an interesting book about Catalonia 👀

[@lindainglis8506]

Zacnie prawisz Orwell was more than anti-authoritarian, he was passionate about individual thought and liberty. Perhaps he learned something as a policeman in Burma during the Raj. Our news media have become a propaganda machine for the Left. And don’t get me going on those dangerous clowns.

Like Obama was for eight years.

[@Trillock-hy1cf]

I was only 8 years old when Stalin karked it, and it didn't mean a lot to me at the time, but I knew it was important. But didn't think much about it much either. But when Churchill died in 1965, it meant a lot more to me then.

[@mrfurio875]

Trillock 1945 thanks for sharing

[@robertmarino2666]

A Ukrainian fried said that they danced in the streets when Stalin died

[@Cripalani]

Yeah, they feared him and nkvd and danced in the streets at the same time, sure, sounds very realistic

[@robertmarino2666]

@@Cripalani My friend was there YOU were not ....

[@Hitman-889]

@@Cripalani Well, when he died, the NKVD didn't have much control over society.

[@MykolaLastovetsky]

I am from Ukraine - there were no dances, sure people were happy because of stopping killing lists, but instead it was very dangerous times to dance on the street

[@suomalainenmekko6131]

@@robertmarino2666 Is your friend 80 years old? My grandfather is 82 and the whole country cried at the death of Stalin. You can watch the footage from that time. Hundreds of thousands of Moscow residents took to the streets when they found out. This man turned the backward agrarian Russian empire, ravaged by war and famine, into a superpower and the second economy in the world.

[@JeffTaylorRomania]

The scary thing is that he is revered by many today in Russia. And they are on the verge of repeating history

[@kensukefan47]

Of course.

[@sovietheart3883]

He did right and killed nobody!

[@Rangerman69420]

@@sovietheart3883 I hope you are trolling 😐

[@Stretch501st]

Not so fast.... there is a lot of skepticism of Putin, especially in the younger generations who have had access to the internet, and have found ways around Russia’s censorship. Access to western literature, news, pop culture and music, like rap, has brought new awarenesses, and demands of younger generations that Putin cannot wisk away, as he does not have the ability to commit atrocities of Stalin, even if he wanted to, due to everyone having a camera (their phone) and nothing is secret anymore in the world. Russia is also very capitalist and materialistic now as well, so also influencing Russian culture. Russia wants to change its image, to encourage investment by global corporations and businesses to expand works there.

[@Stretch501st]

@Tom W North Korea, is the last truly communist state in world. China has the control of its people’s image and behavior like a communist state, and utilizes that to create the best combination of vulture capitalism, undermining the worlds economy and enriching the country though being the cheapest labor with least amount of labor and environmental regulations, as individual health rights like acres to clean air and water, or fair work conditions are nothing in collectivist hive culture.

[@mignas]

My grandfather and his family were exiled to siberia during stalin's reign. Grandfather was only 12 yo at that time (he had 3 little older siblings). They lived a few kilometers from the nearest town, had two neighbours. When my grandfather returned home from wherever he had been that day, he saw his mother weeping, one soldier sleeping at the table and another one negotiating with his father (judge or a lawyer). They convinced the soldiers to allow to slaughter their pig for meat (with a share to soldiers as well). They packed their stuff and drove off with a car to the train "station". They were placed in cattle wagons with a hole at one end for peeing and pooping. No chairs/beds, all people were PACKED inside and locked inside. (as for being reported, its highly unlikely. All neighbours were very friendly and worked together hand in hand for 2 generations before. Once some relative shot dead my grandfather's relative who lived nearby... nobody reported anything, to save the entire families from being executed. The dispute was resolved, shooter was sent off to live elsewhere, friendliness was continued.) When in siberia, Grand grandfather was continuously sent to work in lumbering 100-300 km away for months. Grand grandmother was being sent away for weeks at a time as a cook or tailorer. All the children were unattended the entire time. The living conditions were horrible ofc. Wooden baraks with few windows, no insulation, no ROOMS, draping cloths for walls... Possibly no tap water and sanitation as well. After having built a new home in siberia, growing some crops and vegetables, having domestic animals etc. their family were finally allowed to go back to our country. But they had no place to go. The house back there which has been built by their family was just given away for some other people... and to return to their home, they had to BUY it back from that other family. After living another 2 years (after being accepted back to their home country), selling all their stuff and saving money, they finaly came back and bought back the house... which was almost completely ruined and infested with rats. The exile never went away. The entire family was forbidden from education. My grandfather could not be accepted to universities (even though he had the best marks and gold medal for studying). He went on to become a blacksmith. Through the years he worked as blacksmith in thread factory and at home, making countless adjustments and building several machines (which he tried to patent, but was only given "awards" of small amount of money for each of them), in his workshop he made certified hunting knifes for hunters with issued permissions, crosses (for home decoration) and metal ornamented fences. During his career, my grandfather served as a volunteer firebrigadesman, won a few times in competitions. Once saved the whole factory from burning when a propane tank was lit and was spewing fire from the whirling loose hose. He ran in and closed the valve before it could explode or burn more of the place. 1/3 of his body was burned severly, he was carried to a hospital with a plane, and spent about 2 years there. Fully recovered, retired. He died at age 61 in 2005 (not due to burning). As for his siblings: His sister became an accountant, His first brother died at age 40, another brother is in pension. Successful to an extent given the challenges they had endured. To note one more idiocy of soviet union: Most of my relatives did not have any ID, any personal document. People born were not considered "people" or something that belonged in the area. That means nobody could ever find you or know you existed if they didnt know it directly.

[@JohnDoe-rw4hl]

+Incubus99 Why do you bury the lead? Your family was Volga German? Polish? What?

[@The80sWolf_]

USSR made those that did not belong before belong in a new society. It was not perfect, because nothing can never be perfect.

[@patrickhayden8183]

Thank you for sharing your family's story.

[@jenncarutis8464]

Incubus99 , what exactly was the point of you telling this story? Just to give us a glimpse into what life was like back then? It was a very interesting story.

[@kurapaska1]

If your grammar wasnt dogshit awful this fiction would have been a nice read.

[@ninjaman815]

This comment has been taken down by our glorious leader Stalin, for deposing the USSR. This man will be re-educated

[@michaelwhitt355]

Great video and I love your Biographics channel!

[@Logang007]

Thanks for reading my Wikipedia article Comrade, I couldn’t have did it myself!

[@jimbob5487]

Biden, take off that Stalin mask, you ain't fooling nobody.

[@kaloyanmanchev6613]

@@jimbob5487 Biden i was thinking that Putin is playing dress up

[@sibire8284]

"bUt tHAt wAsN't REaL cOMmUnIsM"

[@yourlocaltoad5102]

Sibire Whittney It wasn’t communism, as communism is per definition a stateless and classless society. And the union of sovjet States sure as hell wasn’t stateless. Try reading some literature before you speak on the topic

[@mikethunder84]

@@yourlocaltoad5102 People who correct jokes and memes should be sent to a gulag.

[@katatastrofa6136]

@@mikethunder84 then don't correct him, he's the best joke in this comment section

[@mikethunder84]

@@katatastrofa6136 I'm not, the guy above me is tho.

[@katatastrofa6136]

@@mikethunder84 thats what i said

[@LegendofLaw]

Stalin's "creatures". Perfect description.

[@IvanKhmel]

Correction: At 8:40 you say Germany defeat on "May 1941" I think you meant to say 1945. Operation Barbarossa started in Jun 1941.

[@allenhuss9387]

Ivan Khmel I know this guy doesn't really know the history..

[@flores332]

The captions say its "1945"

[@UhhSure2012]

Hes the host. The author is in credits

[@patwiggins6969]

Details...

[@Chris14_]

I mean he wasn't wrong

[@lanamack1558]

Thank you for this vid. Well researched ad well presented.

[@sean..L]

Now do a video on Chairman Mao

[@movielord911]

And that little red book everyone had

[@timothyguay]

Yup. The Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution was a bloody slaughter of the Chinese People

[@igloo54]

He'd need to do a top 20 because Mao was far worse than Stalin. At least the Russians had an insulating Culture of Christ to temper the violent from becoming absolute. The Chinese were not as lucky. Thus, China suffered far worse horrors and humiliations.

[@seanmcgouran4091]

Why not do videos on the Brit, French, Portuguese, Spanish colonial empires? There is plenty film evidence of the bloody histories of those places. And they didn't have the 'excuse' that they were rushing pre-industrial people[s] into the modern world.

[@austinclark6371]

Mao sounds like a classy man!

[@terrencedouglas375]

Soooo... who in the US wants this type of government?? Enlighten me

[@johnmcdonald9304]

The garbage you put in your couch. Who in the US wants this type of government? Bernie Sanders and AOC.

[@beastlypear2594]

john mcdonald both bernie and AOC are for reformed capitalism not communism where did you get that?

[@kensukefan47]

@@beastlypear2594 dumb right wing guy. Nothing to do here.

[@Rangerman69420]

@@beastlypear2594 I agree they're not Communist but they are Democratic socialist and Socialism has two definitions the second being "the beginning stages of communism" so you can't really blame someone for being scared of them or what might come after them.

[@kaelia1118]

@@Rangerman69420 yes socialism is indeed defined as a transitionary stage toward communism. but the ussr wasnt communist, it was socialist. communism is when classless stateless moneyless. parties are communist, people are communist, but not countries. a communist country is an oxymoron.

[@eeiko321]

Love your videos

[@sirchess2526]

Always interesting. Thanks keep up the great work

[@SuperSteveDunn]

Provides interesting insight into why General Patton wanted to extend the war to Russia following the liberation of Germany. That and the fact Patton lived for war!

[@Logang007]

Oh Patton wasn’t aware of it most the world wasn’t until the 1990s Patton just wanted war

[@josephfacey2596]

@@Logang007 Patton did not want war, he just knew of the nessicity of war. This world would be a vastly different place, in a negative way, if Germany won the war. World war II was nessacary!

[@Logang007]

@@josephfacey2596 No not WW2, WW2 was completely necessary to save the world from the brown plague (Fascism) I’m talking about Patton wanting to invade the Soviet Union

[@ZimCrusher]

hmmmm.. 438 dislikes. Must be college students.

[@jorenvanderark3567]

Ot those disappointed that he brought up the same things any highschooler would know instead of something mostly unknown of...

[@jackbailey7037]

Putin's trolls

[@UnivegaSuperSport]

Fear of intellectuals and universities. Sounds like Stalin to me.

[@johncuddy2669]

YES I AGREE ALL INDOCTRINATED BY LABOUR LEFTIST COMMIE CORBYN SUPPORTERS ... IN UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGES THROUGH OUT THE UK ....

[@user-ku3jy9vd7n]

- 437 viewers due to their poor command of English misunderstood and thought the video was praising the USSR; - 1 viewer - Putin.

[@wolfhachmuth7731]

Bakunin predicted it. "Give an ardent revolutionary absolut power, within a year he's worse than any czar."

[@thedethrocker8858]

I fully enjoyed it...thank you 😎😎

[@larrybrennan1463]

Khrushchev did not immediately succeed Stalin. Georgy Malenkov held the post of Premier until ousted by Khrushchev, who had taken control of the Party. In two years he had become the effective ruler, Malenkov was demoted and later expelled from the Party. He died shortly before the Soviet Union collapsed.

[@bobjones2460]

Well done, sir!

[@Hermit_up_a_Holler]

This video should be mandatory viewing for all high school students.

[@jojolucas6973]

Not likely

[@daniels1263]

Lady Cat terrorist?

[@user-lz6hd1fx6t]

Along with election videos and other propaganda from both sides. Or better "Enemy at the Gates" or "The Death of Stalin", why not?

[@MarcoPolo-su2fc]

NEVER GIVE UP YOUR GUNS

[@kaiserwilhelm3933]

Could you do something about Bismarck or Frederick the Great? They are like my top 2 favorite people in history. Napoleon, Charlemagne and Otto the Great are close too.

[@ncrveteranranger9126]

Kaiser Wilhelm mein kaiser, what are you doing watching videos about this monster! (Pulls a pickelhaube on)

[@johnhardin2269]

I vote for Bismark. Nations are made of blood and iron.

[@eriktruchinskas3747]

My family came from lithuania when it was part of the u.s.s.r and the stories passed down to me were just horrible. My great grandfathers family members had a nice farm that was seized and they were so scared of being taken or killee that they would talk about how lucky they were that they were left with so much

[@nielszindel1151]

.. because so many farmers were murdered, so they were lucky. Delia Morris

[@antona.4572]

Maybe Lithuania should now give Wilno (Vilnius) back to Poland, after Stalin took the city away from Poles and gave it to lithuanians.

[@YourFav_Anastasia01]

@@antona.4572 my grandfather was born in Vilnius when it was apart of Russia

[@antona.4572]

@@YourFav_Anastasia01 ok, and your point?

[@tomvarallo2108]

Excellent!

[@johnwayneerb]

Many more than just a few million died in the gulags. Actual estimates range from 15 million to 60 million

[@user-lz6hd1fx6t]

why not 120 million?

[@jesseleeward2359]

Those numbers are obscenely false. They don't add up at all

[@user-lz6hd1fx6t]

@annonymous2223 yes, man >U, who "actually care about what really happened" and take numbers out of thin air. >Me, some russian (nope) madman... -(there was another word here that better describes me, given your love of attributing people to certain groups without really thinking, but the comment with it was immediately deleted) - ...who is "in insane mental state" just because I don’t tell scary stories about 1337 million victims. nice logic, man.

[@semaj_5022]

I mean, the most likely estimates of deaths in the gulags specifically range from about 1.5 to 2 million. Though if you add in the deaths from the famine caused by Stalins policies, you're looking at the most likely estimate being around 6.5 million. All in all though when you add together all causes, Stalin's reign and practices likely led to the deaths of 9-10 million Russians. Those are just the deaths caused by his policies directly and indirectly. Add in WW2 deaths and that number jumps a LOT higher, but I digress. While he did directly or indirectly cause millions of people to die, let's not blow those stats put of proportion when the reality is already horrific enough.

[@user-lz6hd1fx6t]

@@semaj_5022 Since you are saying not to blow those stats, then please indicate the source from which you take them. I mean, honestly, it gets boring to hear about "several million deaths in the gulag" and "millions of people who died because of Stalin," when the numbers are taken literally out of thin air, but served as "true".

[@zegermanscientist2667]

The clapping scene is real. People fainted, their hands bloodied, until one guy decided it was enough, and ordered the clapping to cease. He went to the GULAG and got the advice never to be the first to stop clapping.

[@nihlhinz488]

My great grandfather died in one of these. He rolled his eyes and paid the price.

[@u.c.r.founder7876]

Sacrifices must be made.

[@TheMoonIsAConspiracyTheory]

vbobkovsky After he had a child (????)

[@sosopembe3756]

+nihl hinz The. chicken came before the egg ?Then how that chicken came to be ?

[@israel.a8433]

Hey short crazy stalin I'm i right?

[@CommieHamiHa]

There's a 75% chance of your great grandfather being a filthy grain hoarder.

[@sachidanandjha7027]

Nice information thanks

[@summersculpt9278]

Great video

[@calripson]

Beria was also a Georgian like Stalin and Yagoda and Trotsky were Jewish. Surprising how few ethnic Russians there were in the Soviet hierarchy.

[@mikey1717]

They’ve been in Russia for generations wdym? And I can’t find anything that says Stalin’s Jewish, just a atheist.

[@greguir]

They hated the russians

[@dddc2]

@@mikey1717 jewish can also be a race

[@n.s.pranavbalaji905]

trotsky was ukrainian

[@comradefromtheunknownkatlo6957]

@@user-gs1yz3gc2o no his great maternal grandfather was jewish

[@sent4dc]

What's amazing to me is that there are still some people in Russia today that think that Stalin was a great guy.

[@Mentol_]

Communists modernized Russia, made women equal with men, shortened the working day, eliminated the illiteracy of the population, etc.

[@NBrioDaZueraRules]

it's impossible for a russian to hate communism

[@mh-tw4kx]

Nobody is innocent

[@nielszindel1151]

Ones who had regular work and never came into the hands of the KGB. I could have survived the system by behaving, does not make it right. Delia Morris

[@grabeless1656]

It's not just Russia. The communist poison confuses the mind, dilates judjemnent. After some time the mind is becoming wrecked and occupied by the ideology. You are blinded. It's like a ghost. All the host wants is to reenforce the beliefs. It works in the devils ways. It leaves you a slave that "fights for working class rights"., proud of it. You want no more freedom that to serve the party, "the cause.". A zombie. Yet with a raging phony psyco's smile in the face...

[@TheArizonaAssasin]

Simon, your channel is great! Greetings from Texas!

[@Zip_FPE368]

This is my favorite KZbin page. It's always so interesting

[@brianedwards7142]

I saw an interview with a gulag survivor and he said, people in the camps were saying "someone should tell Stalin: he will put a stop to this", without realising they were there at his order.

[@Christian85595]

Thanks man, i was wondering how my nightmares could be a bit more vivid...

[@graham3368]

LOVE THE CHANNEL

[@marcr660907]

Very interesting, thank you.

[@nunyabeeswax275]

Don’t pretend like the allies didn’t know that they were sending the Russian POW’s to hell

[@MrRdavis1776]

Yes, they knew but it was complicated and in part involved allied prisoners who had been liberated by the Soviets from German prison camps and were being held by the Soviet Union being returned. "Operation Keelhaul."

[@meganlukes6679]

How much did they really know? The Soviets were obsessed with hiding their crimes from the outside world (and shutting up anyone who dared talk about it). A guy won a journalism award (like a Pulitzer) for writing that the Ukrainian famine totally wasn’t happening, and they sat up a Potemkin gulag to show to foreign dignitaries to prove there definitely wasn’t any starvation and torture going on. Progressive intellectuals were still infatuated with the idea of communism.

[@paradoxicalpotato8927]

@@meganlukes6679 Even if they knew, it would be foolish to say Stalin was worse than Hitler.

[@paradoxicalpotato8927]

@Fabian Kirchgessner Hitler ruled for less years than Stalin, if he ruled as long as stalin he would have killed way more.

[@noticedruid4985]

@@paradoxicalpotato8927 hmm maybe, and maybe not. And if Stalin lived longer he would killed more too. There no point to say whose worse, but if there was a Olympic medal for the worse monsters in history my money is on. Gold: Mao Zedong Silver: Joseph Stalin Bronze: Adolf Hitler And what they have in common besides being monsters, was that each of them had origins from Communist Ideology.

[@walterboudreau7791]

My grandfather survived one of those forced labour camps in Siberia then lived to be 100. Even escaped at one point, was recaptured, tortured, and sentenced to death. Thankfully, the execution never took place.

[@suspectalien246]

Thank you informative

[@alfredcollins3944]

I enjoyed this video.

[@grouchomarx5609]

BUTT ITS NUT REUL GOMMUNIZM

[@Sam-lj9vj]

Can you imagine that there are still people celebrating this man, Lenin and all his followers....

[@Sam-lj9vj]

@Tylenol PM That's the consequence of the amount of liberalism and more importantly decadence of the last decades.

[@Sam-lj9vj]

@Matricx700 You seriously going to defend them?

[@superiorshotgun4348]

@Matricx700 You mean historical fact of how brutal communism is

[@superiorshotgun4348]

@Matricx700 So holodomor and the red terror were lies? Capitalism helped billions while communism and socialism helped billions into poverty

[@superiorshotgun4348]

@Matricx700 If no one could read then the reds wouldn’t have had a bloody revolution l. Holodomor was a famine cause by forces collectivism and bismark created healthcare.Capitalism doesn’t make slaves thats against capitalism . I’m not brainwashed I just smart because I know capitalism is better an communism will always fail and be followed by idiots like you and the fact you used your dead friend to make your argument sound better shows communists are inhuman

[@khenwilfredmaranan7569]

Thank you for the information sir Johnny Sins

[@astyanax905]

you should have also mentioned, not only did millions of them mourn his death, hundreds were crushed to death just trying to attend his funeral. insane yes, but definitely powerful :D

[@joeyjamison5772]

People were crushed to death by the millions, caught between 2 despicable tyrants, Hitler and Stalin.

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

Poland suffered, but most of the other Eastern Europeans ended up joining Germany in the invasion of the USSR, that's how much they hated Stalin and/or communism.

[@joseftrumpeldor6240]

Considering that many young people get most of their history knowledge from the Web, thank you for presenting this monster in the correct light.

[@fidelcastro8481]

@Juliannaaan Thanks for educating this uncuItured western pig. Really appreciate it.

[@usonumabeach300]

Hitler is literally the worst! Stalin: Hold my vodka, comrade!

[@aaronmurphy8224]

King Leopold II: hold my congolese hands

[@captainretro373]

Hitler: killed 12 million people Stalin: killed 20 million people while fighting the Nazis Me: salute Stalin

[@jaredpioroda156]

@@captainretro373 both still bad

[@NapoleonBonaparde]

I would rather be around Hitler than Stalin.

[@troystaunton254]

@@NapoleonBonaparde I’m out here preferring the company of uncle Winston Churchill

[@Dustinwhy8]

Why you should never, EVER, trust your government without question. Keep your weapons, land and freedom.

[@jessvolina6007]

Who the hell gives these videos thumbs down? These are amazing and informative lessons of some of the most prolific people in world history. This is my favorite channel and often gets me through work. THANK YOU! I have no problem with contributing to your patreon!

[@shmagglehammer]

While I care not to participate in the faux vote thumb thing, the down votes were most likely due to this video being as purposefully inaccurate prop as a ‘based on true events’ hollywood movie.

[@mike83ny]

And his death was simultaneously celebrated by millions more.

[@rodrigomercader1275]

Millions of bankers, landlords, and other parasitic enemies of the human race. No point debating this with you - a born slave, willingly serving his masters.

[@daudenfield2905]

Omg...🤣. This comment.

[@michaekrynicki8330]

@@rodrigomercader1275 if working in for youre own wealth in a capitalist sociaty is being a slave il take being slave 100 procent of the time specaialy if the alternative was living in a opresive comunist society or socailist remeber venezuela

[@antona.4572]

Google the photos of Stalin's funeral. Those tens of thousands of people attending his funeral were probably forced to come by evil KGB, lol

[@Charles-hy6gp]

@@michaekrynicki8330 Venezuela didn´t became poor because of Chavez, like Cuba they have locked economy by USA When socialism don't have open economy, they collapse into African countries Nixon ordered the CIA: "Make the Chile's economy scream" That why make you think Allende would turn Chile into Venezuela 2.0 but in reality he wanted to put the economy policy of USSR in the 60s For Example: Soviet Union didn't opened its economy like China or Vietnam, it was matter of time to stagnate. Lenin knew it, that's why he put on track the NEP (New Economic Policy) similar to China, but future leader didn't follow that. “The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.” --- Simon Bolivar

[@Millsprinkles569]

Everyone needs to watch your videos!

[@chrisalan1187]

Well done narration

[@Len124]

Man of Steel? You can't just choose your own nickname... Comrade Stalin: "That's why they call me _The Man of Steel!"_ Comrade Trotsky: "Who calls you that?" Comrade Stalin: "Guards...!" True story.

[@catwithaknife198]

Do you know what "Stalin" means?

[@jqjig820]

Ahahaha! See! Other like me! Me: uh nuh you bad. Communisim is be- No. Let's not start this again. Anything but the discussion.

[@explorermike19]

It is interesting that Mao copied Stalin's moves right down to the enormous mistakes like collective farming and quotas and blundering sacrifices in the name of industrialization. Some people give Stalin credit for industrializing Russia and military superpower, but at what cost? Russia never really became anything close to an economic success and all the military build-up during the cold war never brought Russia any wealth despite the enormous human suffering and death toll during Stalin's rule. The exact same can be said for Mao.

[@michaelroach4219]

Beyond ridiculos.

[@usoasouma1060]

Hows trump going for yous? 😂

[@CameraMystique]

@Danielle Adair The USSR was the first empire in the history of the planet that did not allow exit to its citizens. That should tell you something.

[@user-uw3bn9kw6m]

@@CameraMystique And rightly so! When friends from America came to us, AIDS and gays, debauchery and immorality came to our country with them.

[@at9670]

@@user-uw3bn9kw6m i would easily choose to be gay rather than go to a Gulag/vote for putin.

[@mikemancuso2526]

Dear Top Tenz, you forgot another brutal reality : Hitler-Stalin Pact on 23rd August 1939. With this Pact, Soviet-Russia and Nazi-Germany agreed to start WWII together.

[@kenhanson27]

Mike mancuso. One small forgotten detail Mike. The soviets didn't expect the nazis to attack. Well not quite so soon anyway.

[@cubanpete3444]

Very interesting to take this information from who never live in USSR, author thanks for this material)))

[@101325]

After the war, Russian POWs being sent back to Russia were being put onto ships at Liverpool docks. When they saw NKVD officers on the deck, many killed themselves rather than be handed over.

[@konstantinkelekhsaev302]

@@peterpunch8136 What a load of BS

[@vsorokins81]

Lol, surely it did happen

[@jorenvanderark3567]

Never read that part. Would you provide a source please?

[@notjoerogan]

John Brennan Source please?

[@PORRRIDGE_GUN]

What were Russian POWs doing in Liverpool?

[@MrNeltoni]

History has a tendency to repeat itself time and time again, history should be taken seriously and not as novelty, not just a story. Keeping your senses open is crucial.

[@lemaianh5746]

Next topic: Ho Chi Minh

[@Xp8riot.]

The funny thing is you ask old people from the old Soviet Union about Times then and they miss it and say things weren’t as bad as people in the west assume and no one went hungry and life was better .. they prefer it over today ....

[@mannyortiz3656]

the capitalist west and their sycophant media talking heads are quick to point out how the 'other system' was bad but never look at the conseuqnces of capitalist exploitation : 1)genocide of the native americans 2) wealth/capital accumulation via centuries of slavery 3) the 3rd reich 4) the millions dead in WW1 5) the millions dead in WW2 6) the millions dead in capitals dirty wars in africa, asia and latin america during the 20th century 7) 50,000 annually dying from lack proper nutrition TODAY 8) the annual 35,000 opioid deaths TODAY 9) the millions dying annually from lack of basic health care/medications 10) YOU GET THE PICTURE

[@Phil-ui4tm]

The transition to capitalism was a free for all dominated by mobsters and former kgb thugs. Like the American old west. Regulations and law enforcement were lax or worse, corrupted.

[@Thesameasiteverwas]

Stalin was extremely paranoid (a trait shared by all dictators). He was, for sure, a paranoid psychopath; ruthless and violent. At the end of his life, he was left agonizing for a couple of days: everybody, doctors and politburo members alike, was scared shitless of entering his bedroom. His agony is meagre consolation considering the considerable harm he'd done.

[@edgars112233]

Man fought marxists, zionists, trotskyists, international socialism movement, NEP, mass terror of NKVD, political democracy opponents and party nomenclature. All his political life was a war for people, no wonder he was paranoid.

[@canoeadventures-riverlandk1536]

@@edgars112233 Just noticed something you might have worded wrong by mistake: "All his political career was a war AGAINST people..."

[@edgars112233]

@@canoeadventures-riverlandk1536 these two options doesn't exclude each other. He fought for one side of people against other side of people. I admire the fact he took side, which nobody ever took in all of the russian history.

[@canoeadventures-riverlandk1536]

@@edgars112233 Interesting. Personally I can't see that being responsible for the murder of 10s of millions of people on suspicion that they might oppose you could be considered fighting FOR people. Sounds more like a bloodthirsty tyrannical dictator.

[@PaulisInclusion]

The weird thing is that many older people in russia miss the Soviet Union. Maybe its from nostalgia.

[@lewis123417]

Those who weren't being carted away and worked to death for their views or anything else were given free houses and healthcare so they closed their eyes to the atrocities

[@rossbrumby1957]

@@lewis123417 healthcare: let live.

[@lewis123417]

@@rossbrumby1957??

[@Charles-hy6gp]

Left or right, Imperialism is Imperialism, however leaders always have blood in their hands wherever ideology they have Look out USA mass incarceration per capita, so called "Land of Freedom" has higher percentage of prisioners than Stalin and China ever had

[@johnmoore1426]

I'd rather be a prisoner here because I was convicted by a jury of my peers, than a "free" peasant in a country that is starving me to death on purpose, or a prisoner in Russia sent to the gulag because I disagree with the government. Pick your poison.

[@mycaleb8]

This is better than most videos on the topic, but does perpetuate outdated ideas.

[@comradecat3678]

I enjoyed the video...

[@kickassv8]

Thank you Simon. After watching this video I believe this will happen again. We condemn Stalin but many people run with open arms to his ideals today.

[@stefanpigford6891]

Caskas to many people sometimes & psychopaths get power to kill

[@zestargaming3563]

North korea still going worse than this

[@amyrussell860]

I'll paraphrase it because i can't quote it: those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

[@sethgraham4836]

And people complain about the USA

[@OneBirdAllStoned]

Bc they dont know history

[@camron.w1841]

In the end we take a lot of stuff for granted in western countries. We forget how better off we are compared to others.

[@Alexdamastar]

@@OneBirdAllStoned @Seth graham Just because Stalin's rule was bad doesn't mean that people should stop complaining about the US, that is stupid. If you stop complaining about your country it will fall into stagnation, never getting better, only getting worse. If you knew history you would know that

[@kennethhall289]

Unfortunately we have Politicians like Bernie Sanders that admired Stalin and wants to bring his “Workers Paradise” to the United States

[@Alexdamastar]

@@kennethhall289 Bernie Sanders is a social democrat not a socialist

[@serdavosseaworth6115]

How many channels does this dude have?

[@maineyor5662]

TOOOOO many!! Cant stand his voice. I use CC.

[@damionsweet2847]

Another great video! I’m interested in learning more about Stolen how much of a maniac he actually was. Is there a book that you would suggest?

[@ruturajshiralkar5566]

Stalin. Read Robert Service's Stalin Biography

[@chrisfineart2960]

Stalin alone had blood on his hands, more than 50 million people.

[@rogerpattube]

Thank goodness there’s someone online doing interesting stuff that tells the truth about communism.

[@nikoladjulgerov2262]

Well done - short and understandable! I would suggest to investigate more about Beria. Late information depucts him in quite different light. More articles appear claiming his "extreme negative" role and deeds have been tailored to him later, mostly perhaps he have attempted to turn the course of the USSR after Stalin's death. Please check.

[@sirraf23]

Never in your life will you meet a more freedom loving patriotic U.S. citizen than an immigrant that lived in the USSR.

[@sagisli]

Very true

[@orangelion03]

An interesting and little known story is that of Americans working in the USSR in the 30s that were "purged" or sent to the Gulags under Stalin, among them, former Ford employees that went there to set up and run the truck factory that Ford sold to Russia. Suggest reading "The Foresaken" by Tim Tzouliadis.

[@donaldsonburrz]

The Fordsaken

[@GuyFromTheSouth]

@@donaldsonburrz zing

[@shawnreynolds2705]

I read a book about that, I think it was called DANCING FOR STALIN. The author was an American daughter of a Ford employee who was arrested. She was eventially also arrested.

[@jeffrockr]

Never forget that the winners write history. And always remember how we many truth were covered up by lies.

[@Dslayer066]

Yeah all the freaking gulags and dead are just invented history. Theres always an excuse for the commies crimes.

[@drunkensailor112]

@DjRawd0g stupid idiot. They were in the east because almost no one lived there. Same for the camps in siberia. Do you think north koreans have their camps in or around Pyongyang?

[@thedwightguy]

Stalin was a Georgian, and I don't mean the US state. It's doubtful he cared at all about native Russians of any kind. And so was Breshnev and Gorbachev. Go figure.

[@mainstreampopsucks4245]

Stalin was Georgian. Brezhnev was ukrainian and Gorbachev was ethnically russian.

[@AkiraNakamoto]

The mainstream of the Soviet communist party is still ethnic Russian, no matter what the supreme leader's ethnicity is.

[@drunkensailor112]

Stalin was georgian and an enormous nationalist. Only the georgians lived happy lives during his reign including his henchman beria who was also georgian.

[@Rhadamistus5]

@@drunkensailor112 Russians only lived happy lives in their Imperial State at the expense of Georgians, for centuries. Russians are no different than Mongols.

[@Rhadamistus5]

Russians only lived happy lives in their Imperial State at the expense of Georgians, for centuries. Russians are no different than Mongols, just pillaged and displaced ethnic populations, but have foreigners rule and build their modern state.

[@mariemcadams8408]

And all this time I thought Hitler was the worst monster whoever lived.

[@vitosanto3874]

This video is a perfect argument for the second amendment,the right to bear arms.The first thing all dictators have in common is to prohibit or disarm the populace . So yes America does have people that misuse the right but by and large the majority of gun owners are responsible citizens.

[@1035pm]

Vito Santo underrated comment... and I’m not even American or live in America.

[@mikhailalexandrovichrimsky5501]

@@1035pm I believe US will soon have great problems with your 2nd Amnt. Wait and see. Ammo is already unaffordable, according to Fox!

[@daudenfield2905]

Vito speaks truth.

[@Phil-ui4tm]

Still no match for an army.

[@vitosanto3874]

@@Phil-ui4tm when the Japanese attacked Peal Harbor there was consideration for attacking and landing troops on the west coast,one of their biggest concerns was the fact that American citizens were armed. Remember we defeated the best army in the world at that time ,the British in our war for Independence.

[@Apple_Teck]

Han: Let him have it. It’s not wise to upset a Wookiee. C-3PO: But sir. Nobody worries about upsetting a droid. Han: That’s cause a droid don’t pull people’s arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookiees are known to do that. C-3PO: I see your point, sir. I suggest a new strategy, R2. Let the Wookiee win.

[@Broncort1]

Hitler...."I'm the worst leader that ever lived!" Stalin..."Hold my Vodka, Adolf Wannabee, I'll show you who's far worse!"

[@lloydster9000]

Mao.... “I got this, Josef”

[@vexmythoclass5000]

King Leopold II amtures

[@creepyguy9082]

Genghis Khan: *UNHOLY LAUGHTER*