Russia, Soviet Union and The Cold War: Stalin's Legacy | Russia's Wars Ep.2 | Documentary

[@Joe-ym6bw]

This is what happens when one man takes control of the government

[@cameronbuckley3356]

what ? They become a super power ??

[@Real-Ruby-Red]

@@cameronbuckley3356 you must be trolling or too stupid to understand what you’re praising…

[@Exshia-wj3op]

Same is happening to america by the same men....if you know what i mean

[@Hunter_Nebid]

@Exshia-wj3op Oh give it a rest the TDS. Do you Lefty folks believe every single thing the corporate media keeps telling you? Enjoy those vax boosters 🤡

[@kylegoodreau2170]

​@@Exshia-wj3op what by leftist scum ?

[@shaiaheyes2c41]

Thank you for this excellent documentary, thank you!

[@michaeltischuk7972]

It wasn't the 5th Army that surrendered in Stalingrad, it was the 6th, (34:10)

[@buckeyedave09]

@relevanthistorynow

[@silkkdread]

Exactly lol

[@ChristopherSaindon]

Soviet death tolls are just staggering. 10 million in the civil war, 5 million in Holodomor, unknown hundreds of thousands -- perhaps millions -- in "the terror," 27 million in WW2! I have no idea how many have died in the current war.

[@jaredcarrick3468]

66 million Russians murdered by the communists from 1918-1957. 16 million from the 3 different Holodomors

[@Hunter_Nebid]

I was a young soldier stationed in Bavaria when the Iron Curtain fell. I remember the huge celebrations and hopeful spirit that seemed to sweep the world... it amazes me how quickly the lessons of the Cold War were completely forgotten and the world we have today is far worse and far more dangerous. Like Hegel said, the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

[@deb310red]

Do you think that Russia 🇷🇺 is worse now than it was under the Soviet Union?

[@olga9219]

the curtain fell and NATO was pushed to the borders of Russia.

[@robinpage2730]

​@olga9219 actually, the countries that the ussr occupied for 45 years decided that the west was a better partner and could guarantee their securityfrom Russian imperialism.

[@BidenWearsTrumpsCrappyDiapers]

@robinpage2730 Nope. It was about western superiority!!!! Most of those former Soviet countries all have western backed puppet governments and since the conflict with Ukraine NATO has proven to be nothing more than a paper tiger.

[@BidenWearsTrumpsCrappyDiapers]

@robinpage2730 Nope it was all about western superiority and the growing Western empire.

[@victorperfecto7472]

At least leon did field checks during the Russian civil war.Unlike stalin who hid in his dacha during the early phase of operation barbarossa

[@robertjelinski5113]

Outstanding documentary, one of the very best! Thank you.

[@chrisdfx1]

How do they not bring up the Soviet/Latin American invasion of the United States in 1984? That was probably the most important event that caused the collapse of the Soviet Union and they don't even mention it once. Well, the US remembers, and we celebrate the sacrifice of those brave kids in Colorado every year.

[@robzilla730]

"WOLVERINES!!"

[@theshamanarchist5441]

Everyone knows Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen single handedly took down the Soviet Union.

[@RaisedxFist]

​@@theshamanarchist5441 Exactly😅‼️

[@billm.819]

I visited the memorial on the internet and paid my respects. I also saw the movie

[@RaisedxFist]

@@chrisdfx1 Remember the Alam, oooh wrong movie !!

[@jebbroham1776]

Up until a few weeks ago I had a Russian made Mosin Nagant made in 1937 at the Tula Arms Works. It was most definitely used in the Purges because it actually had notches carved into the rifle butt, 27 in all. I can only guess that it belonged to an NKVD soldier.

[@justinrichardson4456]

What happened to it?

[@blyatman3725]

@@justinrichardson4456he got caught by the kgb

[@jebbroham1776]

@@justinrichardson4456 I sold it to buddy of mine for $400 so I could pay for a new water heater when my old one went out.

[@JuleyC]

It could also have been used in WW2

[@robzilla730]

I have one. It's stamped 1941.

[@papadocsamedi2544]

OMG. Still historians are calling it paranoia. What a simplistic analysis.

[@robert-parsifal-finch]

Tsarist Russia was such a nice and happy place for everyone to live in, that there was a revolution to overcome it!

[@borninvincible]

Yeah right 😂

[@thekingofkingsrp]

Proof the grass is not always greener.

[@chacesimpson2856]

Thanks to the jews they ruined it

[@hannibalbarca4372]

Revolutions never happen where people have decent life...

[@deb310red]

Tsarist Russia was better than the USSR

[@robertsansone1680]

Excellent. Thank You

[@magdalenachadrys9437]

Thank You. ❤

[@katherinecollins4685]

Well presented and researched

[@davefleming1117]

Great program.. very informative

[@Thorismond]

Why not a single word about the annexation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina from Romania by the USsR? That was also in the Ribbentrop Molotov Pact...

[@Maldoror200]

@debrakleid..You can sure say THAT again..!!

[@terryeustice5399]

Very good documentary on the Soviet Union. And its demise. Thank you for sharing! 💯👊👍

[@debrakleid5752]

Can’t imagine living there during this time. My dads side was from Russia

[@ALLUK633]

What, ww3 is about to start , we will taste nukes which is worse

[@olga9219]

The authors forgot to mention the intervention of the British, Americans, Czechs and other countries against Russia after the revolution. Britain built the first gulags in Russia in Arkhangelsk.

[@Queen71.91]

to be that powerful and have everyone absolutely fear you..... he's only one man and yet....SOOOOO mean and got to live a perfect life (for him)....

[@no-grumpy-old-men]

The battle of Stalingrad is one of the worst parts of WW2 for me. I can't bare to think of all the civilians and all the soldiers on both sides who suffered starvation and cold for marching through snow for months only to die or end up in the gulag. Such a tragic waste of life.

[@MrRikki52b]

The sixth army not the fifth 😮

[@Odysseus88]

😂

[@cusematt23]

What an illustrious and beautiful history

[@Smudgeroon74]

Operation Barbarossa was a 6 nation attack, involving Germany, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Italy(60,000), Finland[known collectively as the Axis powers] and there was 47,000 Spanish volunteers that left their homeland to fight against the communists[Spain experienced the worst of Reds support during the Spanish civil war, as the Soviets supported the Republican side]. Also 2 divisions of Belgian troops joined.. the fact of the matter was that the Red army had 170 divisions of soldiers bunched at Germany's eastern front.. they were preparing to invade Europe. So Operation Barbarossa was a pre-emptive strike against Russia, in order to destroy the threat of Bolshevism forever.

[@dmitryletov8138]

You are delusional in 1941 USSR had total 6 mln troops, AXIS had 13 mln troops in Europe and 5 mln in Asia. How USSR could invide Europe having 6 mln troops vs 18 mln Axis troops???

[@hazelwray4184]

Operation Barbarossa/General Plan Ost was genocidal and took its cue from the what happened in the US to the Native American population.

[@mikeappleget482]

That’s some really weird revisionist history going on right there. Very impressive.

[@marvwatkins7029]

Trotsky got his well deserved comeuppance in Mexico.

[@davidcoleman2796]

100%

[@asullivan4047]

Unfortunately diabolically destructive Stalin didn't.

[@robert-parsifal-finch]

You are completely unimaginative. There are probably 'better' words for you.

[@andrewnormand7787]

Simping for stalin… insane

[@jaredcarrick3468]

Europa: The Last Battle

[@denfoot1111]

He called them the German 5th army and nobody caught it that made the documentary 😢 34:09…also at 34:18 who or what is that person in back left of the photo😮

[@kevincaldwell4707]

Dictators never care about their people, as long as they have the power the rest of their country can suffer

[@thesuperostrich]

Stalin cared very much about the people

[@deb310red]

​@@thesuperostrichDid Stalin care about the people he sent to the gulags?

[@andrewnormand7787]

@@thesuperostrichyoure insane

[@dh1380]

He said war and prostitution are both professions better undertaken by amateurs? 😅 well then that's him written off as a beacon of enlightenment right away 😅

[@victorperfecto7472]

Trotsky had blood in his hands as well. But not to the level of the tyrant stalin. Also, it cannot be denied that under his leadership, the Red Army successfully repelled its internal and external enemies

[@toddmartino5398]

What the he'll is that at the 34 minute 19 second frame?

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Hell en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell

[@florinvoicu7801]

I find it amazing that this documentary is presented by Germans . I looked at their faces when they mentioned Reichstag building, the Germans that's fought in Stalingrad , and other mentions . You can see a glimpse of nervosity

[@donbraugh185]

Yes definitely. Germans are some of the most overall educated Europeans and culturally aware, so it's not surprising to me, an American German.

[@Thorismond]

And why not a single word about Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina annexed by the ussr in 1940?

[@ionel461]

Muta-te in rusia, boule ..

[@Post-321]

Just a countinue our realàtion

[@saidsuleiman3909]

Its the 6th Army that surrendered at stalingrad not 5th as said

[@hugosophy]

The music at 11:10 is from the movie werewolf a hilariously bad movie shown on mst3k directed by Tony zarindast

[@TheGreatDarkLightLP]

36:08 February? who wrote this script lmao

[@MikeHunt-fo3ow]

im seeing what happened that month...Ecuador declared war on germany and japan lolen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1945%E2%80%931991)

[@randstahl4869]

Factually illuminating video essay -- one that touches (Hooray for heroic women) and saddens a heart. Taken away is not so much a sense of enlightenment but undoubtedly an increased insight. The candid and gritty presentation of recent history educates and (ironically) entertains.

[@strfltcmnd.9925]

In 2024, Brandon and his Bullshivks are trying to destroy America.

[@davidcoleman2796]

Trudeau in Canada

[@Eddie1967-u7r]

exactly what is "America"?

[@ghostsignal]

How many people did the American 'forefathers' relocate, exile, starve, and flat-out murder in the creation of their empire?

[@deb310red]

Ask an Indian.

[@malamuteaerospace6333]

This is why Russian people are the toughest people on earth. Look at what they've been through and survived.

[@cragjones1799]

Africans?

[@Nomaswearefull]

​@@cragjones1799not even close

[@cragjones1799]

@@Nomaswearefull I dunno man, The Congo and The Sudan seem pretty ragged to me.

[@alexsolo2647]

Interesting video. Great Thank's. Stalin & Truth... SPrangER.

[@arbentashko7005]

Using different criteria for an event may give opposite interpretations. This is why people fail to understand each other. Analyst need to choose carefully the criterion and sometimes use the criterion used by the other side and explain why their criterion is better to use. Only during the war it can't happen, but during negotiations it can be taken under consideration.

[@williambarr3551]

The people were not Russians. The people Stalin starved in 1932 & 1933 were not Russian, they were Ukrainian. How Russians treated Ukrainians is why Ukraine fights today.

[@Chaldon-hl6yk]

russians absolutely immune for famine

[@olga9219]

Famine in the USSR (1932-1933) was a mass famine that swept in 1932-1933 the vast territories of the USSR (mainly steppe regions) that were part of the Ukrainian SSR, the Russian SFSR (including the Kazakh ASSR, the regions of the Central Black Earth region, the North Caucasus, the Urals, the Volga Region, the Southern Urals, Southern Siberia).

[@BlutoandCo]

​@@olga9219all caused by stalin.

[@jamessmithers4456]

The same happened across the USSR. The hardest was for Kazaksrtan where some 35% of the people died

[@Lukasz-i8f]

Ukraine loved Russia

[@thedukeofswellington1827]

"trotsky was good looking" stop right there, i dont need to hear anymore from someone who can lie that easily

[@paulchogudo1866]

Stalin was simply amoral... emotionless, not discrimination between Man and animal

[@olga9219]

Winston Churchill (Great Britain) "It was a great happiness for Russia that during the years of the most difficult trials the country was led by the genius and unshakeable commander Stalin. He was the most prominent person, Churchill W. Speech in the House of Commons on December 21, 1959, the day of Stalin's 80th birthday).

[@ajaysidhu471]

​@@olga9219did he actually say such things??

[@matthewcampos5752]

It's crazy all dictators never been in the army

[@dimamikhaylov3474]

Shall I ask a question ? If it is a video about criminals where is video about president Bush junior and Macarthur?

[@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip]

A US president can't go to war without congressional approval (Unless your name is Obama)! Democrats controlled both houses and voted overwhelmingly in favor for the war!! Nice try though

[@donbraugh185]

The main thing I can fathom only in my imagination is the fact of replenishment of the multi millions in the Russian Civil War through the fall of the USSR. How do you replace 100 million citizens? I can't get that

[@Exshia-wj3op]

They were all juuuz from top to bottom

[@stanislav7920]

25:42 Notice the Austrian insignia on the helmet. Though, the Austrians keep claiming that they never been Nazis. 🙂 Hypocrites!!

[@pmtspmts8441]

Excuse me Trotsky good looking? This guy is needing glasses checked

[@leobatard]

The GRU was founded by Leon Trotsky also.

[@WhenDovesCry]

Trotsky was very bad at making friends. Same here buddy, same here.

[@Aboaye6163]

34:12 the German 6th army surrendered not the 5th 😂

[@gabrielalvarado1504]

Just because trutski looks like you (the narrator) doesn’t mean he’s handsome 😂😅😂

[@omoruyiomorogieva2319]

Nice documentary but you omitted the moon race

[@olga9219]

The first satellite, the first man in space, it's all Russia.

[@GeneralSulla]

So, what happened to Trotsky in Mexico was just desserts.

[@astralclub5964]

The Sixth Army surrendered at Stalingrad. Not the Fifth.

[@christophergriffin4643]

No church bells with Lenin's death. By that time all Russian church bells had been silenced and smashed.

[@godstomper]

Pluto in taurus energy.

[@jamessmithers4456]

The hardest hit by the famines of the early 1930s was Kazakhistan. 35% of the population died.

[@szymonr3627]

you omit a whole chunk of the Bolshevik Poland war of 1920

[@olga9219]

Liars, what do you mean intentionally starved? It was a lean year, there was famine in Romania, Poland, and AMERICA. Did people deliberately starve there too?

[@BlutoandCo]

Spot the russian 😂

[@franciskaruga4478]

The diction in the documentary is meant to paint the soviet union in a bad picture.

[@markbrisec3972]

2:58...WTF? Tell me that's not real.. Tell me the guy was punking his comrades by slapping a corn husk on his face....

[@jonniheinisto9825]

Soviets had more casualties than that in the Winter War. Just saying....

[@annehersey9895]

The Battle for Moscow WAS the Battle that changed the morale and confidence while Stalingrad cemented it and was the furthest East the Germans ever got! Why look at the Soviet Losses in WWII in this documentary? Russia in all its iterations have ALWAYS fought by just throwing meat waves at their enemies because of its huge population vs their enemies. They lost horrendous numbers in the Crimean War, WWI, the Civil War, WWII and today’s Russo-Ukrainian War. Russia is fighting today’s war with the very same meat grinder as they always have! It’s Zhukov’s plans over and over. followed by massive artillery barrages until the city is destroyed and then houses to house fighting in the mopping up.

[@ЮраСидоров-т4э]

Yes, but you in the West, I see over the centuries, have not gained either intelligence or self-criticism... Why are you talking about something you don’t understand at all?! Do you even understand that these words were invented by Goebbels, after him (after World War II) the liars in the USA began to repeat them, and now you believe this nonsense. Although this is literally nothing more than an outright lie and an insult to millions of dead soldiers? There were no meat storms. And the USSR never outnumbered the Reich. Here are the dry, REAL numbers: 1) The population of the USSR is 197 million Reich - 280 million 2) Total military losses of the USSR - 8.2 million Reich - 7.9 million And now it’s even more interesting. Battle for Moscow : Airplanes - USSR 680 units, Reich - 1390 units Soldiers - 1.25 million versus 1.98 Mortars - 7.7k versus 14k Tanks - 990 units versus 1700 units. All your cries about “General Frost” literally contradict the Germans themselves, who wrote that the cold HELPED THEM by freezing the dirt. You are ready for any meanness, any lie, just to humiliate those thanks to whom you were born in the first place. This is the essence of your entire “truth” about Russia. Lies and betrayal. And the final nail in the coffin of your words. Leningrad was fortified for 20 years. The Germans were unable to take it in 3 years. Königsberg was fortified for two hundred years. The USSR took it in three days.

[@abdifatahabdirahman9685]

Axis defeat in Stalingrad and Bagration were both brilliant tactical prowess by the Soviets n the first conventional win from allies since the start of the war as Britain n France were routed in 6 weeks and didn’t face the Nazis in open battle till I think Normandy or Sicily landings

[@olga9219]

It is not true. The losses were about the same on both sides. The figures that are given are an attempt to manipulate the facts. On the part of the USSR, both combat losses and civilian casualties are taken into account. At the same time, Germany provides only data on its combat losses, not including the losses of other allied countries such as France, Italy, Spain, Finland and others.

[@leper2698]

закидали трупами что при сталинграде немцев и их союзников погибло больше хахха В начале войны потери СССР были больше из за подлого и варварского нападение почти всей европы на СССР

[@hansloos3284]

The guy in German on the background is disturbing

[@datruth66392]

Take your meds😂

[@jaredcarrick3468]

The following is from a 2011 UK Daily Mail article: An extraordinary secret archive has revealed for the first time how thousands of Soviet citizens collaborated with German invaders during World War II. The cache of documents, some retrieved from the files of the KGB, shows how many viewed the Germans as Christian liberators - and their own masters as godless Communists. This view was reinforced when the soldiers of the Third Reich opened up 470 churches in northwestern Russia alone and reinstated priests driven from their pulpits by Stalin. In turn, the clergy cooperated closely with the Germans in betraying Communist officials and Jewish partisan resistance groups. Perhaps most astonishingly, the Germans even shipped numerous mayors, journalists, policeman and teachers back to the Reich to show them the German way of life.

[@jaredcarrick3468]

There still exists archived images and even video of Christian women giving blessings to Wehrmacht troops as they passed through their liberated Soviet Union villages during the initial part of Operation Barbarossa.

[@olga9219]

@@jaredcarrick3468 It was not Russia, but Western Ukraine.

[@PhilipShawn]

Verdicts previously decided

[@jamessmithers4456]

Working people unite to throw off the yoke of oppression

[@Post-321]

Just a countinue our realation

[@Xyznews-v1d]

❤

[@Endurokungen666]

I rest my case…

[@nasalimbu3078]

Klime i van the trabbile 😊

[@robert-parsifal-finch]

The ignorance of these speakers is stupendous.

[@Maldoror200]

💀..poignant observation..🤤

[@Post-321]

Just a ciuntinue our realation

[@cragjones1799]

Feb 45 battle of berlin? Lol

[@TheresaWinters-z4w]

Jerald Valleys

[@freedomworks3976]

Vote for the business man not the politician please

[@robert-parsifal-finch]

Has the word socialism not been demonised and lied about enough ?

[@markvolker1145]

It has been the causes of more death than any other form of government!

[@MolapiAndriesTlouamma-cg7jq]

History repeat itself at Ukraine

[@jaybobdoodles]

Unmedicated and lustful: what a world.

[@acepath3001]

We need a Stahlin in the the canadian parlament

[@xxvxxv5588]

Why?

[@xxvxxv5588]

@@Вивсівідстій Stalin and his surroundings commited much more crimes against Ukrainians than Ukrainians from SS or all right wing Ukrainians in general. Do you just hate ethnic Ukrainians?

[@xxvxxv5588]

@@Вивсівідстій Not a real problem. It's better to talk about crimes against Ukrainians committed by Russian supremacists in occupied Ukraine. Reminder that not just Putin but also Stalin responsible for genocide of Ukrainian people. There are many people with deeply anti-ukrainian way of thinking.

[@xxvxxv5588]

@@Вивсівідстій Is this a real problem compared with what Russia is doing now in occupied Ukraine?

[@davidcoleman2796]

​russia is evil . It always has been

[@MikeHunt-fo3ow]

trotsky was murdered by an ice axe i thought?

[@Odysseus88]

Who the hell is he? Oh, you mean Lev Bronstein. Never mind

[@MikeHunt-fo3ow]

@@Odysseus88 yea him lol

[@alungiggs]

It was an ice-pick.

[@hugosophy]

No it was an ice axe. There’s pictures of it

[@marvwatkins7029]

(See looks pretty old - and just plain silly- to give flowers which was obviously staged for the camera anyway.)

[@paulchogudo1866]

Killing both real and imaginary enemies... you were not even allowed to think,to harbor any other opinion save that shoved your throat!

[@Lukasz-i8f]

Russia great democracy

[@donrump461]

Stalin poisoned lennin!

[@deb310red]

Yes. I think he did.

[@olga9219]

And ate it🤣

[@motherslittlehelper8055]

34:18 face left back. wtf is that? some sick joke?

[@cruzmizzl]

Stalin should had been kept at bay during WW2, as he proved to be as bad hitL3r- untill he was attacked. Most definetly not allowed to sit w/t Allies. Then the 'cold war' wouldve been 'luke warm'. Churchill tried to warn all.

[@troywilson747]

Troski isn't good looking!... He looks like Rasputin..

[@Endurokungen666]

20th century witta USSR/Rus thouch

[@badgeologist]

და ვისაც კიდე სტალინი გიყვართ!!!

[@Wargasm54]

Nobody except idiots

[@Maldoror200]

💀..Dear god..WHY did they put up with the Psychopath..?? ..Smfh..

[@RawOne911-un3sj]

In Soviet Russia war makes you

[@charlesBramast]

KZbin STOP THE STIMMY CARD ADVERT UR SPAMMING PEOPLE TO DEATH

[@wildrose338]

Stalin was a Georgian jew he was not even russian

[@datruth66392]

And Lenin and Trotsky

[@woobiefuntime]

Stalin wasn't Jewish

[@joshuamathewson]

6th army

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

I really hate this documentary style. The 'can't be F'ed to actually write a script and pay a good narrator for two hours, so we'll just take a camera to a university somewhere and get some professors to babble on about it.' style.

[@antekknoll6568]

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