A History of Communism: The Peak Years (1940-1953)

Through the European communist parties, the Soviet Union played a decisive role in resisting fascist ideologies during World War II. The failure of Operation Barbarossa and the capture of Berlin by the Red Army made Stalin the big winner of the standoff that pitted a large part of the countries of Europe against the Nazi Hydra. At the end of the conflict, the Soviet model spread in the States where the communist leaders of the Resistance had been brought to power, laying the foundations of the Warsaw Pact. When Mao took power in 1949, the red flag extended its influence from the banks of the Elbe to those of the China Sea.
0:00 The documentary
1:13 The rise of communism in the Soviet Union, its role in fighting fascism during World War II, and its impact on Eastern Europe.
9:41 The rise of communism in France and Italy and its impact on politics and society.
16:23 The Cold War began when Europe was divided between America and the Soviet satellite states, with Stalin's influence expanding.
24:30 The impact of communism in Eastern Europe, with emphasis on the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and China.
29:50! The rise of communism and the Cold War between East and West.
39:25 The rise of communism and anti-American sentiment in France in the 1950s.
45:00 Communism offered a sense of purpose and belonging, with an emphasis on collective well-being and the abolition of personal profit.
A film by Patrick Rotman, Patrick Barberis
Produced by Michel Rotman
Written by Patrice Chereau
Series of documentaries Faith of the Century
All episodes:
Utopia in Power (1917-1928) • Russia 1917 to 1928: U...
This volume covers 1900 to 1928, a period which saw the death of Lenin, the creation of the KGB and the coming to power of Stalin.
The Two Faces of Communism (1929-1939) • The Two Faces of Commu...
This episode includes Stalin's purge, Communism the defender of democracy, the great famine of the Ukraine and the Spanish civil war.
The Peak Years (1940-1953) • A History of Communism...
This episode includes the defeat of Germany, the take over of Eastern Europe, the Korean War and the Cold War.
End Without End (1953-1999) • A History of Communism...
This episode includes Stalin's death and Krushchev taking power, uprisings crushed in East Germany and Hungary, the propaganda of the space race, Castro taking over Cuba, Vietnam, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the unleashing of freedom, the remnants of a discredited philosophy.

[@Bestwick1983]

Remember kids: The problem with Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. The problem with Communism is the equal distribution of misery.

[@pauldaly2416]

Actually capitalism although not perfect has brought countless millions out of poverty and there are many valid reasons why wealth should not be equally distributed Communism and fascism are equal in fact just two cheeks of the same dirty arse

[@damijanxxx7221]

Which one of these categories is more painful?

[@res3382]

@@damijanxxx7221 My paternal grandpa immigrated (escaped)from the Soviet Union from Odessa,Ukraine. Believe me-the Misery was MUCH worse. He thrived in America.

[@damijanxxx7221]

@@res3382 my family participated in build up of socialist society happilly. We thrieved.

[@pilarpinedo9792]

THE HATE, ENVY, FEAR***!!! MISERY*! LIES, LOTS OF LIES***!!! KILLING & STEALLING***!

[@UA_in_USA]

Not Russian but Soviet soldiers. It MATTERS tremendously. My grandparents and great grandparents on both sides of the family fought against Nazis and none of them were russian. They were Ukrainian, which was stated in their Soviet passports as well. So fought the people of Belarus, Kazhakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc.

[@sidm479]

Thank you for that comment ❤

[@biffmuncher23]

A man that knows. It is annoying that the West labels all Soviets as Russians.

[@sofiabessonova2214]

A lot of Ukrainian fought against partizans and Red Army as polizies. You forgot it soon. Where your proofs?

[@UA_in_USA]

@@sofiabessonova2214​​⁠​⁠I owe no proofs to no one and neither do my ancestors. Especially to the representative of the oppressive nation and a spreader of pro-Kremlin agenda.

[@Alex-lg6nz]

Don't bother wasting your time. We're all the same to them - slaves/slavs

[@jusferstuff4597]

Hey kids, these docs were made before most of us were born, for propaganda reasons. They were made for tv not youtube, and this chan just uploads it. No it does not hold every article of info you know on the subject or tell every story worth telling. Its just an old documentary im happy to see still available.

[@Invictus888]

Well said!

[@LichsuhoathinhDrabattle]

Rất mong sẽ có video về lịch sử hơn ạ. Cảm ơn nhóm nhiều, video nào cũng chất hơn nước cất 👏🏻

[@tranthuykha]

Đồng chí:))))

[@user-nq6dc1yb2s]

Việt cộng bú cc tàu+ 😂

[@ram--pyro9588]

Vă mulțumesc pentru traducerea în română 🇹🇩❤🇹🇩

[@davidholder3207]

What I have learnt from Part 3 is don't trust what a socialist says but judge him by what he's done.

[@user-qs6lz8sv1e]

هل تؤمن بالله الواحد الأحد؟

[@--O_0---]

but of what the Socialists did, they showed the worst, exaggerated and mixed with lies.

[@vojtechvanek1686]

Completely correct, but doesn't that work for, you know, literally everyone?

[@--O_0---]

@@vojtechvanek1686 no, you are just a person who has never lived in any paradigm other than Western and capitalist. Brazenly fooling the population, knowing that this is a lie, it’s about Western capitalism. But now it's almost all over the world

[@richardque1036]

It use a lot footage from french news reel,is the documentary film produced in france?

[@sinovizyon]

Detaylı alt yazılar için teşekkürlrr

[@robertmiller2173]

Wow ! Interesting and well worth watching! I don't agree with lots of it but it has made me think!

[@freespiritable]

What is there to agree with? It's historical facts. If what you mean is you don't agree with the ideology, then you should word it better.

[@yuzhang2206]

Because you’re a madman

[@stuart6552]

​@@freespiritableno, this is propaganda. Historical facts get tossed by the wayside to make sure socialism is sufficiently demonized.

[@PaganEuropa.]

​@yuzhang2206 do you agree with communism?

[@ukwupdates3509]

Great doc's, I'm assuming there is more to this series? Will they be uploaded anytime soon?

[@orphandextro7046]

There’s one before and one after. The one before leads up to this, the one after is about the fall of communism. Ya, these are great.

[@BernieClemenz]

kzbin.infosearch?query=communism

[@titoqwentezproductionz3406]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoKpfHWchLKZnMk&ab_channel=BestDocumentary

[@ukwupdates3509]

Thanks 👍

[@myassizitchy]

Hey does anyone know that sing the bolshoi choir is singing there at the end at stalin's birthday party at 40:34? ? I cant speak jibberish

[@robertshonk518]

The communists in France and Italy were far more devoted to the cause than the workers in eastern Europe. A noble ideal for one, a brutal reality for the other.

[@blue_wolfproductions12]

Yeah

[@richardque1036]

One french politician once remark about the french communist party" they are not left,they look to the east!" Maurice thorez if ww3 broke out,and france invade by the red army,french proletarian should not resist,instead should embrace them as liberator.

[@tepesvoda464]

God.... I wish all these screwedminded idealists to have live a single day in the "Worker's Paradise". They would have been cured for life...

[@appalachian420grower5]

Nobility was dismantled under communism

[@user-jz8ze1jm6v]

@@appalachian420grower5 Yes, but under Stalin, the bureaucratic apparatus (it seems, because of the struggle with Trotsky) and his cult of the leader increased very much.

[@sammyjr6989]

I get the sense we are attempting to rewrite history.

[@thedualtransition6070]

The best comment of them all....

[@GaiusCaesarAugustusGermanicus.]

When haven’t we attempted to rewrite history? Most Americans are just as brainwashed as citizens of North Korea.

[@bullpup1337]

no… its the communists who try to do that…. just look to Russia and China….

[@user-fb9ql8bm2e]

You are rewriting history. The myths of Stalin being an oppressor are Western fabrications. We lived well and free in the USSR, and Stalin was the one who made this happen. Under the Tsar, we suffered, starved, and lived poorly. Stalin came and oversaw the rapid development of the country to ensure that we could never experience such hard times again. He laid the groundwork for all the future development that was to take place in the Soviet Union.

[@bullpup1337]

@@user-fb9ql8bm2e wow really ARE brainwashed…

[@marnickfox9891]

Why did you set part 1 private?

[@namthanh1324]

Intro song , please?

[@fishharvester9434]

I don't think there were ever peak years in communism.

[@TheFyrz]

sejarah yg terdokumentasikan

[@skyterdaniel5707]

Intro song?

[@AckzaTV]

46:00 that Z in the bottom corner, did this documentary take that video clip from a "real communismZ telegram? lol

[@ht8520]

Correction. Using "the red army" and 'liberated" in the same sentence is a joke

[@Ffiffijs]

Facts

[@user-qn7hi9nd4t]

Agreed, the Soviet Red Army defeated the Japanese fascists in Northeast China, but the Soviet Red Army subsequently behaved like a group of bandits.

[@Alex-lg6nz]

What's really funny, is how ignorant and confident you are.

[@nobrenobre1]

I love that song, avanti poppulo !

[@Sammyfarel]

What's the song in 8:10?

[@Sammyfarel]

What is the song 8:10

[@lifehacktrip]

Lezginka грузинская народная музыка

[@mandymulwray6789]

Is he being sarcastic when he says that the Soviet Union was freedom loving and peace loving? It didn't sound like he was.

[@bbmtge]

He is. Watch the first two videos of this trilogy. Very informative and realistic as to truth versus fantasy.

[@ryanrh724]

That threw me off for a minute as well.. commie loving SOB lol

[@haraldthorson9153]

@@bbmtge The first one was very anti-Communist though, they must have changed out writers

[@McChillin10]

@@haraldthorson9153Not sure, but that's the best part about history! All we can do is gather the facts and judge from our point of view now, but there's a lot of morally gray area. "Good" people have done terrible things, and "terrible" people could have done good things. All depends on how they get written into history and/or politicized later on.

[@GenJouh]

The author of the entire documentary is the son of survivors of the holocaust who were part of the Maquis. He himself took part in the 68 student revolt in Paris which dismantled some of the conservative rule of the Gaulle's government. He probably had some Trotskyist sympathies. Afterwards he attained a Phd in History in 1979 after which he became a renowned independent researcher and publicist in France on the movement for social change on the Left of the political spectrum. So yes he probably has some communist sympathies, but certainly not with Stalin. From what I can gather from french articles on him is that he mostly favored left-leaning topics. He also covered the decolonization of French Algeria, at least as far as that decolonization happened.

[@nobrenobre1]

I grew up near to the place where the French communist party have the annual (party), just to see the concerts there, so, I saw, Ray Charles there, and Stray Cats!

[@seanohare5488]

I doubt they were free concerts

[@nobrenobre1]

@@seanohare5488 Sure man it was free, but it was the communist annual reunion, so for 3 days of this big circus, it was 4 dollars!

[@nobrenobre1]

@@seanohare5488 So, in fact, if you came for the concert, the money you give goes to the party, but, it was an opportunity to see, big stars for almost nothing!

[@alexfriedman2047]

@@nobrenobre1 did you beat up some commys? All nuts and crazy people no doubt. How could you willingly supoprt that sht? da fuq wrong wit u

[@nobrenobre1]

@@alexfriedman2047 Man, we live in a different world, here in Europe until the 90s, the communist party had great influence, in U.S. after the 1920s, you do what Germans do, criminalize the commies and the anarchists, we as a democratic country, let them have a voice until, they reach sometime, 25% of the representative chamber. And finally in France, in 1981, have social-communist government, who never change the democracy, elections 7 years after was a normal election, without commies!

[@nonvera]

Any reason why from 10:10 the Z symbol appears and then later disappears? Bottom right.

[@nobrenobre1]

No worry, it's only the sign of Zorro with Alain Delon!

[@nobrenobre1]

@@mcs699 Blah, blah, has capitalism is now, within Wall Street control !

[@jclplambeck]

And pretty much during any compelling quote by a major communist figure ... Neo Marxist historic revision and pro Russian.

[@johannakadar4314]

Yeah im thinking about it, the uploader is a russian sympathizer? Maybe because Z is like the symbol of the russians in the war now

[@nonvera]

@@johannakadar4314 I doubt it. It seems to me that the Z comes with the original video? No idea.

[@The_Directorate]

8:02 song?

[@sofiabessonova2214]

Georgian dance. From Caucuase.))))

[@The_Directorate]

@@sofiabessonova2214 Thanks

[@nobrenobre1]

47 France 18:48 truck 4 is my town!

[@kuwaitisnotadeployment1373]

Man if the 40's were russias peak years id hate to know what their bad years were like

[@420bengalfan]

i would assume its the peak years for the state not the people living in it

[@thedevilneveraskstwice7027]

Black book of communism describes that perfectly. Leftist scums are butthurt about this work though...

[@thedualtransition6070]

They weren't, that was the 1960s, the USSR really started going downhill from the mid-1970s.

[@myassizitchy]

They're very bad. It's a total shit country. I know a girl over there and.shes amazed I didnt have a cow at home. I said I do live in the country but I don't need a cow she said everyone in the country over there had to have a cow or know someone with a cow cause they only have Stal-Marts and Lenin Depots in the big. City like Moskow or St Petersburg maybe. They have a big farm around every 4th or 5th.hone so everyone can have lettuce and potatoes and what not. No paved roads. She said some in places that have commie-condos maybe do or if they're putting up a new Khrushchevs. I think that's like a lowes here

[@seanohare5488]

Good point I agree

[@flyhigh6088]

„The USSR ‚liberated‘ Bulgaria, Romania & Hungary“ - liberated? No, replaced one colonist regime through another.

[@pilarpinedo9792]

THATS RIGHT: COLLECTIVISM: HATE, ENVY, FEAR***!!! LIES, LOTS OF LIES***!!!

[@westvirginiatransparency1305]

Anyone fighting the nazi's was a good guy. Socialist being pushed out to be filled with communist... SMH

[@thedualtransition6070]

More revisionist rubbish. Pre-WW2 Hungary was run by the Horthi right-wing dictatorship, Romania and Bulgaria were absolute monarchies. Shitholes just like pre-WW2 Poland, where the average person was treated like scum. Oh, and look up the word colonist in a diary, its obvious you have no clue what it really means. just look at Romania and Bulgaria now, once again turned into poor despotic resource colonies as they are prior to WW2. Bulgaria and Romania were allies of Germany, that supplied armies that invaded the USSR. They were enemies to be kept under a tight leash to protect the USSR.

[@channelname1700]

Based response

[@badgeologist]

yes, World has to admit Stalin=HItler!!!

[@boris.m2624]

Amazing film 🎥 lot's of revelations

[@maestrolodahl8681]

But where is part 1?? :O

[@ranjittyagi9354]

Hidden and available. We may not get to see it for a while or ever.

[@user-yz6qu2jr9g]

A lot of things wrong with this documentary, I just heard that Stalin was the defender of democracy 😂😂. Still happy to see an upload

[@youthoughtaboutit6946]

The context is that that’s how he was initially, thoigh falsely seen by various people within the allied countries, since he fought against the axis, rather than it being meant to be taken as a true statement.

[@Snwman_]

I'm just glad my grandparents were living in and my parents growing up in England.

[@AnthonyEvelyn]

Britain was full of commies too!

[@futurejameslove]

england has a horrible labour history hahahahaha

[@yuzhang2206]

@@futurejameslove like your a mad man

[@futurejameslove]

@@yuzhang2206 what? make fucking sense idiot.

[@futurejameslove]

@@yuzhang2206 learn english loser

[@Reathety]

Peak years = peak starvation?

[@chrise842]

Holodomor!

[@ranjittyagi9354]

I ponder what would future generations think when AI would've taken much more hold of many things, when families wouldn't be so common as they are today, even if reduced compared to yesteryear and depression and anxiety and rage would be the talk of the day on media.

[@Tatidomari_Idiot_haibokusya]

4:05「スターリンと名付けられた都市に対するヒトラーの個人的な挑戦」というよりブラウ作戦の一環としての挑戦なのでは？

[@JV-fj7of]

And 2021 to the present...

[@ranjittyagi9354]

The communist orchestras have always been my favorite since I was a child.

[@majinoce]

13:30 quite a close call

[@user-yi8fj8kh1m]

Где перевод

[@stephenkneller6435]

You failed to mention that the Poles decided to liberate Warsaw before the Russians arrived. The Russians, not wanting to deal with a strong and victorious Polish resistance, conveniently “paused” operations for rest and refit, thereby allowing the Germans to destroy not only Warsaw, but also the Polish resistance in the city. Had the Soviets attempted to support the Poles, there is a good chance that Warsaw would have not been destroyed.

[@fademasterfade227]

Yup, this is a pretty piss poor documentary. They also neglected to mention the millions of rapes carried out by soviet soldiers as they pushed into Germany.

[@damijanxxx7221]

Poles Decided but failed. Were liberated by soviet communists as written above. Hungarians decided, bulgarians decided, everybody decided but failed until red army arrived. Why repeating well known facti brutti.

[@macgurkha1973]

This is a mediocre documentary. He should retitle this "Communism in both France and Italy." There was no mention of Communism in Germany, Britain, Scandinavia, etc, Credit also goes to Franco in Spain how the Communist world tried everything to isolate and undermine Nationalist Spain but without any success.

[@damijanxxx7221]

@@fademasterfade227 in comparison with some 25 milion lost lives in soviet union in 3 years!!? When germans pushed uninvited to russia.

[@fademasterfade227]

@@damijanxxx7221 Who said anything about a comparison? The documentary is about Communism. If you can't condemn millions of women being raped than that says volumes about you.

[@personnelente]

So you show an image of US troops loading for D-Day for a video about Communism? Nice.

[@juhopuhakka2351]

D-Day for example let the communism take east europe.

[@anarchist3551]

biased

[@greenhammer3263]

The US is great for entering wars when it’s just about over

[@pauliegualtieri368]

@@juhopuhakka2351 D day for example was possible due to an eastern front

[@TomHillBrushHawg]

@@pauliegualtieri368 a

[@JoffreyGeenen]

Communism starting in a poor undeveloped state, IMO is inhumane, but what the soviets were able to create in such a small amount of time is astounding and utmost impressive, the problem is that such growth comes at a great cost for the lower class. Now my hot take: the west ( a philosophy of economics that cannot be sustained for a healthy social society, capitalists are becoming sorts of dictators. ) should adapt a form of communism because now we have a monopolized market that is dictating the masses, we need more state and more regulations for sick billionaires, the fact billionaires exist in a ''free'' market cannot be, only by perverse and unfair tactics.

[@Salvatore...23]

e il 1939 dove lo mettiamo?

[@eduardshamis1397]

Переписывать историю и копаться в грязном белье неэтично. У всех руководителей государств есть светлые и тёмные стороны в их деятельности. Уничтожение фашизма и освобождение половины Европы это важный факт для человечества.

[@ryack6355]

The Soviet Union didn't bring liberation. Only misery, evil, death and poverty

[@Alex-lg6nz]

Порядочность и честь на Западе давно уже просто слова без смысла.

[@Gassebol]

When rock and roll was invented communism lost.

[@BernieClemenz]

Communism - You got the right to fight for the party Rock and Roll - You gotta fight for your right to party ;)

[@Mateo-nz1xl]

You mean when people substituted ideals for carnal pleasures

[@seanohare5488]

I agree because rock and roll came out of America s prosperity and freedom like the bill of rights

[@GagariinYang]

I'll tell you something. I was born in the USSR in 1968, my parents had good jobs and we lived in a nice apartment near Gorky Park. I studied 11 hours a day; I studied Latin, arithmetic, Greek mythology, European literature, art history, marquetry... they took Olympic gymnastics classes, dance, football... we traveled to communist youth summer camps, learned to build tents, swam in the rivers and harvested wheat to enhance the value of the field. Today, I need to pay for my son to have a good education and it still doesn't come close to what I had in the USSR. I know that the communist regimes in Poland and Czechoslovakia were not good for their people. But I was never in favor of the Warsaw Pact! However, tyranny is due to those who governed these countries. General Tito of Yugoslavia was very good to his people! Then no! I may love Russia today, but that doesn't inhibit the admiration I had for the USSR. 🇷🇺🇷🇺⚒️⚒️

[@kennguyen6802]

Such a curse, when my country, Vietnam, is still under the communist regime. By the way, in my country, it has changed its original manifesto, the communist members now can practice the capital things like: trading, open company freely.

[@jiritichy7967]

Eastern Europe is Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Soviets took control of Baltic (Estonia, Latvia. Lithuania), Central (Czechoslovakia, Hungary) and Balkan (Rumania, Bulgaria) countries.

[@user-lw7xt6zy5g]

Росия. Это варвары. Орки дикие. Азия. Фашисты. Убийцы. Слава Украине. ✊🇺🇦✌️🌅

[@user-fr9mw9go7z]

You dont know the history well

[@jiritichy7967]

@@user-fr9mw9go7z Ty budes mena ucitsa, tovarisc Jelena.

[@miklosfenyves1979]

​@@user-fr9mw9go7zLook at the map. Hungary is the middle of Europe.

[@GBsavant]

Poland?

[@angelosliotscos8405]

My father hated fascism and the only alternative was communism in Greece. So he rose to become a communist political commissar and faced 2 firing squads, only to be freed by his best friend, the mayor. He, in turn, was hanged for his sympathies. The mayor's son married my sister. I hope to live to see the final demise of this vile and fraudulent political system.

[@fukfukccp]

Your father and his mayor friend were lucky enough to be punished by anti commie regimes. If it were the commie regimes ( eg China in 1949 and onwards), the whole families would have liked be condemned to deaths by various tortures

[@user-lw7xt6zy5g]

@@fukfukccp 🤝👍✊🇺🇦✌️🌅

[@thedualtransition6070]

@@fukfukccp Bullshit

[@canpek545]

@@fukfukccp He told the real tragedy 😭and you told your imagination🤮

[@steve-oh4342]

this is what baffles me, why so many people still push for this. even people eho lived through it, apparently want it back.

[@missiavu]

Pas un mot non-plus sur le blocus soviétique de Barlin en 1949 et le pont aérien allié qui lui fit échec.

[@sinisakrizan3447]

Only Yugoslavia and Tito said NO to Stalin!!!

[@ryangibson2831]

You skipped over Stalin's purges and starvation of his people. Germany and Russia would have remained alies if Barbarossa never happened. Stalin sure loved carving up Poland when the spoils of war were lining his pocket.

[@pauliegualtieri368]

They were not allied. They exclusively had a non aggression pact

[@platosbeard4449]

The Soviets entered a non-aggression pact with Germany the next year after the sneaky and backstabbing British and French entered their respective non-aggression pacts with Germany (the 1938 Munich Agreements). These earlier pacts had been signed while The Soviets had been trying to get Britain and France to enter into a collective security agreement. The imperialists of course would do no such, given that they were more ideologically aligned with the Nazis (remember that the imperialists had similar Nazi policies in their far flung colonies). Meanwhile, poor Poland was busy carving up Czechoslovakia along with Germany before the German monster turned on Poland. No tears for Poland, they had fascists for leaders and had been getting ready to invade the USSR as well.

[@seanohare5488]

Good point and Stalin trade of valuable resource from 1939 to 1941 helped Germany conquer western Europe in 1940

[@seanohare5488]

Good point and Stalin trading with Germany of valuable resources enabled Hitler to conquer western Europe in 1940

[@alexfriedman2047]

@@pauliegualtieri368 The non aggression pact made them allies. Russia gave them vast ammounts of coal, metal, minerals, etc and Germany gave the USSR free reign and let them invade east poland, Finnalnd and basically all of eastern europe. I think they also gave war materials to Russia and other resources but I'm not entirely sure. It deff was not just a non aggression treaty but a trade treaty as well.

[@CunningStuntsGoFast]

"Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.” ronald reagan

[@kimobrien.]

US Imperialism (foreign investment) is in crisis today. Reagan incorrectly thought he won the cold war.

[@CunningStuntsGoFast]

@@thebeatcreeper i dont know wich countrys you talk about as im european , maybe those countrys you speak of has oil ? while you at it , name me a succesfull socialistic country because i cant think of one

[@CunningStuntsGoFast]

@@thebeatcreeper thats obvious . as obvious as that your reply has nothing to do with my comment .

[@CunningStuntsGoFast]

@@thebeatcreeper ah ok . i dont care for america or what they do .if america is involved with arming oposition ,my gut feeling is the country has oil . i never seen a succesfull socialistic country , and by my knowledge there has never been one .

[@Robotdoge01]

Reagan as a fascist

[@bartekdomanski6197]

You have missed 2 years (1939-1941). What about the attack on Poland on 17.09.1939?

[@missiavu]

On passe totalement sous silence la période séparant la signature du pacte germano-soviétiques du 23 août 1939 du déclenchement de l'opération Barbarossa par Hitler à l'aube du 22 juin 1941, il y aurait pourtant tant de choses à dire sur l'alliance de fait, notamment sur le dos de la malheureuse Pologne, entre l'Union soviétique et l'Allemagne nazie qui caractérise ce moment-là, à commencer par la tragédie de Katyn au printemps 1940.......

[@Ftroll]

The unfortunate Poland refused to let the Soviet troops through to help the Czech Republic, signed a secret pact with Germany, then took part of the Czech Republic for itself and hated the USSR. Later, Germany itself attacked Poland and destroyed it in 17 days. If Poland wanted to be friends with the USSR, it would not have been attacked.

[@Alex-lg6nz]

Just start even earlier, when the West betrayed and abandoned two central European countries to Hitler's threats.

[@RabelFibal1]

MC xuse me, America bailed France out of two world wars, and rebuilt all of Western Europe, including, the on time rail system. Marshall plan ..not Russia communists.

[@ottomeyer6928]

Germany paid it all back including the 400 % interest. to make the US rich.

[@djejdjrjwja4926]

But still lost at Vietnam’s Communism

[@heavyleather]

Two men with cameras in the Soviet Union between the 1930s and 1940s: interviewed by law enforcement officials. Red guard etc. Question: "why are you filming?" Reporter number one: "building a positive outlook propaganda film for our great comrade and dear leader. " Police response: carry on Cameraman number two. Responds: "I'm filming an objective documentary about the positives and negatives of wartime developments, the military industrial complex, The impact of social pressures and political correctness on the working class citizen, whether or not it's healthy for a populace either in rural or inner cities, the positives and negatives of both capitalism and communism." Police response: "off to the Gulag with you!"

[@herbertvonsauerkrautunterh2513]

Scary stuff..

[@StayBasedJesus]

Спасиба красна армия из един Българин 🇧🇬❤🇨🇳

[@victorivanov6603]

Това е китайското знаме

[@StayBasedJesus]

@@victorivanov6603 я знаю, има флаг Ссср?

[@victorivanov6603]

@@StayBasedJesus нет

[@Petar_Ivanov02]

Предател! Ти не си българин, а руснак!

[@waynecorbit8475]

Smells like propaganda. Timeline is off.

[@Dominicanbulk]

Smells like yo momma

[@samueljackson6188]

What if it was the truth?

[@johnnywindsor183]

The red army waited outside Warsaw and let the polish die

[@Alex-lg6nz]

Armija Kraiowa are cowards and traitors.

[@johnbrennan4759]

I don't think the use of the words freed and liberated are particularly appropriate when related to stalin and the cccp

[@user-wd3fr1jv9y]

Коммунисты освободили восточную Европу от рабства фашизма

[@gaylegoodman9097]

The next time you feature a video that has a lot of songs in it without a voice over, please translate the words to the songs. There have been several times in this series when it would be nice to know what they are saying..

[@TheAbrantino]

Anarchy for a better humanity

[@chrisapperley2616]

Even in the bible it warns of ideologies🙏

[@kimobrien.]

Sure better to have no ideas what so ever the dream of every centerist fool.

[@seanohare5488]

What isn't of God is of the devil no neutral ground there

[@kimobrien.]

@@seanohare5488 How is that thinking any different than Stalin's? For him everyone was either for or against him and that made them either good or bad.

[@daniald8986]

"Bella Ciao..."

[@terminatorregion4576]

Capitalist Barbarism vs Communist Humanism 80 Years ago. 80 Years later Capitalist Barbarism make its comeback now that it is crumbling down like 80 Years ago after 1929 Wall Street crash.

[@artkahn888]

Leave it to the French to cower against and again. We saved their asses again and again and they turned on a dime against US

[@dantheman3022]

whos 'WE' ????????

[@chrisroberts6089]

Try losing an entire generation of young men in a few years for a pointless war that was fought mostly within your own borders, in your own towns and cities, on your own fields. Americans love to brag about how everyone else is ungrateful for their support, yet America hasn’t seen an actual war within its own borders in over 150 years.

[@victorivanov6603]

Didn’t the French support the USA in the independence war?

[@artkahn888]

@@dantheman3022 US 🫡🇺🇸

[@artkahn888]

@@victorivanov6603 You mean in 1776 when they were at war with England. Remind me how they really “helped”. Half of Europe would be speaking German now if it wasn’t for US 🫡🇺🇸

[@thestoryteller_z]

This doc is made from only one perspective!

[@seanohare5488]

Definitely

[@youthoughtaboutit6946]

Yes, the correct perspective.

[@albertlopez6620]

Los paises o civilizaciones antiguas son deseos que teniais por eso caian Le faltaba la radiotronica

[@catguy00]

@27:25 - See an innocent man being condemned to death

[@GenJouh]

Did you watch the documentary? That man was purged by Stalin loyalists..... He himself was a communist.

[@AraAli0]

Capitalism gives you the promise of opportunity, communism gives you the promise of prosperity. In the first case, if you work hard and right you reach the promise. In the second case the promise materialize only if others share the lots of their hard work.

[@nmb3699]

然而，第一种情况下，你认真工作的成果会被资本家无情拿走，而你浑然不觉

[@brianrobinson1259]

@@nmb3699 my hard work hasn’t been taken away by a capitalist. I live very well thank you. Everyone around me hasn’t had anything taken either. You’re obviously an ignorant Commie that doesn’t know anything. I’ve never met a smart lefty and your comment has proven my point beautifully. You’re so angry at successful hard working individuals that you are all for free stuff that isn’t really free. 😂😂😂

[@nmb3699]

@@brianrobinson1259 你显然是一个小布尔乔亚，或者是资本家本人。你不明白资本家的险恶。 我只是对剥削者感到厌恶，并没有对广大通过自己努力劳动来创造美好生活的劳动者不满，相反我还非常尊重他们 你显然被资本家们所灌输的思想所影响

[@nmb3699]

@@brianrobinson1259 试想一下，一个人坐在办公室里，而你坐在工厂里拧螺丝，你每天累的要死，而他每天却在办公室里喝茶，你每天领着微薄的工资，而他什么不做，却能拿到比你多十倍，百倍的工资。他看你如牲畜，你却把他当作成功的榜样

[@brianrobinson1259]

@@nmb3699 you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about and are either lazy or bitter because you don’t have what someone else has. For your information I’m a union member of over 20yrs. I’ve considered leaving several times because there are some of the biggest babies I’ve ever worked with there. A large number of whiners and complainers just like people such as yourself. I support my community even the ones that I don’t agree with. Also I’m not afraid of using my real name on my comments. You’re just like all of the rest of the cowardly Commies! Get up and go to work and stop wanting what others have! That’s as fair as it gets bud…😂

[@adamrspears1981]

Its pretty bad when The Communist Soviet Union offered Women more opportunity years before America did!

[@brandonw2734]

Not really

[@adamrspears1981]

@@brandonw2734 Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 - July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32. After flying two missions on the Space Shuttle Challenger, Ride left NASA in 1987. #REALLY

[@haraldthorson9153]

They were COMMUNIST ofcourse they did that, that is their agenda!

[@adamrspears1981]

@@haraldthorson9153 So then the agenda of the Communists offers more opportunity to women. -This is my point. When you stop & think about it, ots really just sad on our part.

[@haraldthorson9153]

@@adamrspears1981 Maybe that is not good

[@manuelfernandez4812]

La Revolución es el reparto de la riqueza, FRATERNIDAD, en forma de RBU de tres mil euros por SER HUMANO.....

[@metalmedan]

Don't forget,, the communist people in Indonesian was twice do the rebel or coup ,with "Indonesian Communist Party" /PKI at 1984 and the biggest one at 1965. all ended with fail...

[@SATXbassplayer]

Job security and fair wages… sounds pretty good to me.

[@sofiabessonova2214]

There are dreams only.

[@martinwhite5076]

Between the Soviet Union, China & Cuba we got a glimpse of the sheer potential achieveable once public ownership & a planned economy were set into motion ! Rather than being forced fed anti-communist propaganda, we should take note of the enormous gain's made possible by co-operation rather than competition.

[@joanhuffman2166]

Capitalism requires voluntary cooperation. Communism is all about coercion. The Soviet Union beat the Nazis only because Americans were supplying their logistics; food, clothing, weapons, ammunition, everything.

[@user-jz8ze1jm6v]

@@joanhuffman2166 Communism is voluntary. "From each according to ability, to each according to need" - so (it seems) K. Marx said. Under communism or socialism, if you want to do nothing and starve to death, then so be it, and if you want to work and be well-fed, then you will also get a good free education, free medicine, a house and a dream job. And under capitalism, you're free too. If you don't want to work and starve to death, then so be it (unless, of course, you are a hereditary rich businessman with the surname Trump or Bezos). But if you want to live, then in most cases (before the start of the competition between the ideologies of the USA and the USSR) you will have to live and work in semi-slave conditions for at least 10 hours a day with a (relatively) small salary, which you will hardly have enough to pay for housing, medical services and education and family maintenance. And this is without taking into account the periodic crises of the free market (one of the most famous such crises is the Great Depression) and endless wars, which at best take hundreds of thousands of lives, and at worst generate tens of millions of corpses. A hungry person cannot be free. If you look at the history of capitalism, you will see that from the slave exploitation of workers who had nothing but their clothes, it gradually, under pressure from socialists and communists, began to move to a more humane use of human labor. This humanity peaked during the Cold War - the fiercest resistance to the Red Threat, not counting the struggle against it by the fascists of Spain, Germany and Italy during World War II. And with the end of the Cold War, the social policy of the United States and European countries began to gradually decrease, the wealth of the rich increased, and the number of workers' strikes increased. Also, after the world's first socialist revolution, the USSR faced a civil war comparable to that in the United States, and numerous interventions by countries such as Great Britain, France, the German Empire, the United States and Japan. After ~20 years after that, another war began, which destroyed dozens of cities, tens of millions of people, etc. And what was happening in Western Europe and the USA at that time? only the First World War, which mainly affected the Russian Empire and France, the post-war crisis and the Great Depression. The same thing happened in the USSR in addition to the paragraph above. Let us also recall that Russia, which later turned into the USSR, was initially economically and spiritually (the majority of the population are illiterate peasants) backward from Western countries, and that the United States from 1900 to 1945 faced only one problem, unlike Russia. This is the answer to the question of why the USSR was less developed than its "opponents".

[@raymondjelich185]

Yes, let’s take a look at those “enormous gains:” 1. Communist China: tens of millions of human beings worked to death, slaughtered, and imprisoned for political dissent, especially under Mao Tse-Tung 2. The Soviet Union - tens of millions of human beings worked to death, slaughtered, and imprisoned for political dissent, especially under Joseph Stalin 3. Communist Cuba - thousands of human beings slaughtered and imprisoned for political dissent, especially under Fidel Castro Those are some kind of “enormous gains.” Not! I hope and pray that my beloved country, The United States of America, the “land of the free and the home of the brave,” never turns communist.

[@larkatmic]

Misery loves company. ‘Brave New Dreams are made that way.

[@Batua_s_MG42]

Коммунизм это будущее до которого люди ещё не доросли. России выпал счастливый билет, но продажные политики всë просрали

[@leonidleonidov7856]

Wide is the gate and long is the way that leads to destruction

[@mikeypiros6647]

IMAGINE IF RUSSIA LOST,?

[@grzesiubiowka9687]

They lost now and then ... but WEST keep silent.

[@-RAYZ-]

If they lost the world would be a better place.

[@damijanxxx7221]

Alert, you must be mentally child or holocoust maniac or a man without basic history education. None of these makes you accountable person.

[@Armygirlsdad]

Imagine if Russians knew they would lose more murdered under Communism than they lost to the National Socialists.

[@samalex8724]

They did lose Einstein, so did America, Great Britain, three evil Empires, look at them today, still at war with themselves and the world.

[@Swellington_]

To say that Russia "liberated" anybody or anything is a bit of a stretch don't ya think? 🤔

[@brandonw2734]

It's a historical fact though.

[@Swellington_]

@@brandonw2734 what, that Russia liberated people? Yeah,if that's what you wanna call it

[@brandonw2734]

@@Swellington_ Yeah I know what you mean. But compared to the Nazis, the Russians might as well be saints.

[@Dominicanbulk]

Liberated them to be slaves.

[@chrise842]

@@brandonw2734 that is not what the Balts and Ukrainian expressed

[@standoughope]

Thanks *Best Documentary!* =) 💗

[@chuckruckus3648]

Now add 2020 - …. The end

[@damijanxxx7221]

Keep in mind that comunist of continental Europe were more or less the sole fighters against nazi fashizem, from France, Balkans, sssr....

[@Armygirlsdad]

Keep in mind that nothing you said was true. Without Free Market Capitalism, those who would have won were National Socialist Germany, Fascist Communist Italy, Socialist Russia.

[@ekesandras1481]

You mean they were the allies of Nazi fascism from 1939 to 1941 and helped the defeat of France in 1940, which also had the effect that all the little eastern European states, that were allied to France before (most of them were created with the help of France) remained without an ally and thus became easy pray of Hitler and Stalin.

[@damijanxxx7221]

No, i dont mean.i am talking about raw history,not daily politics.

[@SeattlePioneer]

Funny. All along I've thought that it was the British who fought the Nazis from the day Hitler invaded Poland to the end of the war. The USSR enabled Germany to attack Poland by dividing up Poland with Germany in the Nazi-Soviet Pact. The Soviet Union was a staunch ally of the Nazis until the day the Nazis attacked the USSR in June, 1941. And the United States became an ally of the Brits and the Rooosians on December 7, 1941. (Earlier, actually, since the US Navy was already fighting the battle of the Atlantic against Germany).

[@damijanxxx7221]

@@ekesandras1481 Britans and americans sign numerous pacts with Soviet union and their leading communists from 1941 onward. Seems that doesen t appear to be a crime for you?? If it is good for your country everything is ok?? They were supposed to be mortal enemies. Come on.

[@HubasaFamily254]

As an African, I'm sorry but it's none of my f@kn business 🤷🤷🤷

[@claudiachurch4285]

Don't worry the world doesn't give Africa a second thought, except to send food over when your children are starving

[@HubasaFamily254]

@@claudiachurch4285 nice to hear that,kudos for the polished open feelings will be waiting for the food and please hurry before i die please 🤷🤷🤷

[@claudiachurch4285]

So sorry, I have a case of compassion fatigue, maybe another time after all you can always send over your women to work as indentured servants, as my friends from Kenya , Uganda and Nigeria tell me

[@claudiachurch4285]

You were the one that provoked this dialogue with your neg comment :As an African , etc. as my man Jericho Green would say IM Out !

[@HubasaFamily254]

@@claudiachurch4285 ok you win, I'm out 🤷🤷🤷

[@ruzhdigurra9979]

Sad! Disastrously sad. I myself, my family members, my tribe have been under a constant torture of that cruelty regime. God is great all the times, he took me out from that hell in 1985- dead or alive I had to escape, now for 40 years live as a real human being in Land of the brave/ USA God bless this Country.

[@ramonjuarez8374]

El problema me parece que son los"ismos", para el capitalismo lo más importante es el capital, más que las personas, y en cambio el socialismo como ideal es emancipador pero como gobierno es opresivo. Ningún "ismo" sino Democracia es lo que debe prevalecer, es la base de la Libertad de pensamiento, de acción, producción y trabajo.

[@user-jz8ze1jm6v]

Therefore, in communism (not in socialism) there is no state, as in anarchism. PS: Are you an anarcho-syndicalist?

[@sofiabessonova2214]

​@@user-jz8ze1jm6vnobody will answer you.))))

[@Alex-lg6nz]

Communist governments used to be strict and poor because their goal was to defend themselves against , counter-revolutionary in invasions..

[@slovajednoduche9640]

Are you and I a result of worshiping what we created and create what we worship when searching your sacred relations learn from your lessons being a freewill is when medicine comes from within be forgiving no one is immune to utopian struggle good journey to origins and finding your soul

[@ul-fishing4205]

Был, еще Лаврентий Павлович Берия, последняя надежда построения коммунизма в СССР

[@cddcdd7927]

И тот оказался британским шпионом))

[@sofiabessonova2214]

​@@cddcdd7927уверены?

[@cddcdd7927]

@@sofiabessonova2214 есть сомнения в советском правосудии?

[@nobrenobre1]

I'd love to say that the resistant were french, but, this particular group was, the immigrants strugglers for the French resistance!

[@danerwinde7717]

what's up with the faint white colored Z in the lower right hand corner..? weird

[@Arthur-tx8fd]

Churchill did more for communism than Stalin

[@yusumnn2007]

Level the wealth. How compelling and triggering. It’s just a greed

[@user-xl8tk3ig4t]

There is a bémol in your narration, Romania was not eliberated by Soviets Romanians turned against German occupation before Russians come in….and that was in 23 -08-1944 code Stejarextermaurgenta The soviets come after Romanian army already get in Prague and Budapest second time after ww1.f@cputiniu&stalinu

[@brittlecharm]

What a weird documentary about a large subject

[@TheForeverAddicted]

i thought this anti-fascism stuff was a new woke term, but apparently it wasn't. :D scarier than I thought.

[@josefinahuertalopez4153]

Se otorga la misma oportunidad a los interesados, Carlos

[@frankkoslowski6917]

Hmm. Says somewhere in some book: "Thou shalt not worship false gods". 🙄 But then again, by most European standards, a steam locomotive was never a god; not even a false one. Or was it?🤔

[@user-qs6lz8sv1e]

الإسلام دين الحضارة والعدل وهو رسالة الله الأخيرة للعالم كله

[@Ira88881]

No it isn’t.

[@user-qs6lz8sv1e]

@@Ira88881 why?

[@Ira88881]

@@user-qs6lz8sv1e I’m making a bad joke: Your post didn’t give me a translate option, so I have no idea what you said!

[@lokeshchoubey2634]

इस्लाम के खात्मे के साथ ही विश्व में शांति स्थापित होगी

[@faresrizk7725]

​​@@user-qs6lz8sv1e as a Muslim, stop this nonsense. Islam is a personal faith, not a political system of men judging others like they're Allah (swt).