Cults of Personality in the Soviet Union - Cold War DOCUMENTARY

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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video describing how the role of the cult of personality became commonplace in the USSR first with Lenin and then Stalin and then what became of these cults.
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[@TheColdWarTV]

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[@gus3247365]

TELL US WHY IT HAPPENED ..that's more interesting and to the fact.@ The cold war

[@skyhappy]

You should share your sources, adds credibility

[@Marinealver]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” -Eric Blair better known as George Orwell in his novel 1984.

[@gus3247365]

@@Marinealver Agreed .. it's all hidden and manipulated . Final Presidential Debate 2020 REMIX Ft. Lil' KC - WTFBRAHH kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5S7fGCHjcqri6s

[@simplicius11]

*Letter to the secretary of the Tsaritsyn province committee of the VPK (b) P. B. Sheboldaev. * “I learned that they want to rename Tsaritsyn to Stalingrad. I also learned that Minin is seeking to rename it to Miningrad. I also know that you postponed the Congress of Soviets because of my non-arrival, and you are planning to carry out the renaming procedure in my presence. All this creates an embarrassing situation for you, and especially for me. Please keep in mind that: I) I did not seek and am not seeking to rename Tsaritsyn to Stalingrad; II) This business was started without me and apart from me; III) If it is really necessary to rename Tsaritsyn, call it Miningrad or something else; IV) If you have already rang too much about Stalingrad and now it is difficult for you to abandon what you have begun, do not involve me in this matter and do not demand my presence at the Congress of Soviets, otherwise you may get the impression that I am seeking a renaming; V) Believe me, comrade, that I am not seeking fame or honor and would not want the opposite impression to appear. With communist greetings, Joseph Stalin. The original document is publicly available (declassified) as well as the Sheboldaev's answer.

[@CivilWarWeekByWeek]

It’s not a cult! Glorious Supreme Leader told me so.

[@SRW_]

Comrade 07687 is becoming problem. He requires environment relocation

[@Sasha-gd8xi]

Congratulations you have just won a free vacation at our renowned winter resort

[@eazya1523]

Comrade 0678 dont forget to vote trump so we may bring down these capitalist !

[@jan-willemvankaathoven914]

Correct, when fortified with institutions and dogmas it's an organised religion.

[@TomiDeLuna]

Supreme Leader Joe Bid-un sends an abundance of flowers and rice to you! The Alpha Omega Joe Bid-un smiles upon your undertaking.

[@kgbfiles5713]

the applause for Stalin often lasted more than 10 minutes. everyone who applauded was afraid to finish first

[@nofthet5548]

and we thought we were badass in school for trying to be the last one to sit down outa the entire school assembly....

[@JohnDoe-pv2iu]

@@nofthet5548 really? I just applauded and sat down when I felt it was right. The last time I was the last kid applauding was in the audience of Ronald Reagan! I knew I was right then! Take Care and be safe, John

[@bernardobiritiki]

if you belive solzhenitsyn yes, if you belive people that were present in stalinist speaches then no

[@FenderBender5150]

There was a 7 record long speech released by Stallin...One of the Records was just applause.

[@black10872]

Yes that's true! Stalin installed a bell in the Presidium on the podium. He would ring the bell to make people stop applauding. LMAO!!!!

[@Taistelukalkkuna]

12:10 Stalingrad was to be renamed Volgograd, when Politbyro got a latter. "Renaming of the city approved. Signed: Josif Volga."

[@simplicius11]

: ) *Letter to the secretary of the Tsaritsyn province committee of the VPK (b) P. B. Sheboldaev.* “I learned that they want to rename Tsaritsyn to Stalingrad. I also learned that Minin is seeking to rename it to Miningrad. I also know that you postponed the Congress of Soviets because of my non-arrival, and you are planning to carry out the renaming procedure in my presence. All this creates an embarrassing situation for you, and especially for me. Please keep in mind that: I) I did not seek and am not seeking to rename Tsaritsyn to Stalingrad; II) This business was started without me and apart from me; III) If it is really necessary to rename Tsaritsyn, call it Miningrad or something else; IV) If you have already rang too much about Stalingrad and now it is difficult for you to abandon what you have begun, do not involve me in this matter and do not demand my presence at the Congress of Soviets, otherwise you may get the impression that I am seeking a renaming; V) Believe me, comrade, that I am not seeking fame or honor and would not want the opposite impression to appear. With communist greetings, Joseph Stalin.

[@Taistelukalkkuna]

@@simplicius11 This deserves more likes.

[@kgw72]

A soviet-era joke: A group of scholars join together; there is a Stalin bust, a Stalin picture, a chorus sung about Stalin and the opening speech praises Stalin. What's the reunion about? Pushkin's death anniversary.

[@madshagen5849]

I´ve heard another version: a committee was established to decide on what monument to raise to commemorate the 100-year of Pushkins death (he died 1837, so that be 1937). The conclusion was simple: a live-size statue of Stalin reading Pushkin...

[@valentinexristov8915]

Here's a small joke I know about Stalin During a big meeting organized by the party,Stalin is having his speech and someone sneezes. Angered by it,Stalin asks who was. Everyone is feared from Stalin so nobody says anything. Stalin angered by that says: The first row,goes to Gulag First row is now empty and Stalin asks again 'Who sneezed'. Same thing,nobody says anything and second row is sent to Gulag as well. Third time Stalin asks and one party member says 'It was Me,Generalismus' Stalin with a cheeky smile 'Don't worry comrade,it's just a cold,You will be fine'.

[@kazakhdoge1822]

Stalin's cult of personality hasn't gone away in Russia and, in fact, only growing more and more. To some extent, his cult of personality still remained in other post-Soviet countries, although their governments never tried to glorify him or downplay his atrocities (unlike Putin). Btw, the influence of communist glorification of leaders on our culture is massive, as post-Soviet dictators used the same elements from the old regime for their own cults of personality. One key example of this is our capital being renamed from Astana to Nur-Sultan.

[@sarthakmaan7075]

He is a demigod among communists. In India there is a political party communist party of India (marxist) whose leader named himself stalin bast**ds still don't accept the crimes committed by that man communists

[@Paciat]

Still those people are better than Hitlers defenders. Just look how much money people like David Irving earned, selling books that defend him.

[@Johnnycdrums]

No, it's waning, they are actually disgusted by it.

[@tinymouse1781]

Nice pfp and name

[@bobs_toys]

@@Paciat the problem is that being better than Hitler, etc is a really low bar. If the best thing you can say about someone is that they're better than Hitler et al, then that person is genuine scum. Then you get people like Mao who made Hitler look like an amateur in mass murder who still get glorified

[@karoltakisobie6638]

Cult of personality is very old concept. It's still around and it will be for a very long time. You can bet on that. Communists have no monopoly on it.

[@ArkadiBolschek]

The point, however, is that communists should _oppose_ the cult of personality more strongly than anyone else, not practice it.

[@noahkidd3359]

Hello McDonald Trump!

[@morisco56]

@@noahkidd3359 hello libtard

[@rhodreemahr4598]

True, but the modern version is backed by much more powerful media technology and was birthed by the authoritarian left wing regimes of early 20th century central and east Europe. Where did the word agitprop come from?

[@petebondurant58]

You can bet that there's always some communist deflecting in these videos.

[@patrickkiss8984]

An Episode about Nicolae Ceauşescu would be interesting

[@Thecrazyvaclav]

Patrick Kiss there's a good documentary about him called King of communism it's on youtube

[@morisco56]

And hoxha

[@patrickkiss8984]

@@Thecrazyvaclav thank you very much

[@MarvelousSeven]

Really wish the Russians would stop with the cult of personality, even to this day. They keep swapping out one "His most high radiance" for another.

[@Legitpenguins99]

Dont talk shit about the glorious God Emperor Putin! #BringGulagsBack

[@docdeeone2813]

The United States now has its own political cult of personality and is therefore no longer in a position to criticize Russia.

[@MarvelousSeven]

@@docdeeone2813 every society has its elitist snobs. Kennedys, Clintons, Bushs. Etc.

[@docdeeone2813]

@@MarvelousSeven I noticed you didn't mention the Trumps though. Why not?

[@annoyed707]

@@docdeeone2813 It isn't the first time.

[@willtrap4food698]

This is excellent content. Well researched and really gives you a good idea of the attitudes and feelings of the people in places far away, and long ago. Thank you

[@t00bgazer]

Letter on Publications for Children Directed to the Central Committee of the All Union Communist Youth 16 February 1938 I am absolutely against the publication of "Stories of the childhood of Stalin." The book abounds with a mass of inexactitudes of fact, of alterations, of exaggerations and of unmerited praise. Some amateur writers, scribblers, (perhaps honest scribblers) and some adulators have led the author astray. It is a shame for the author, but a fact remains a fact. But this is not the important thing. The important thing resides in the fact that the book has a tendency to engrave on the minds of Soviet children (and people in general) the personality cult of leaders, of infallible heroes. This is dangerous and detrimental. The theory of "heroes" and the "crowd" is not a Bolshevik, but a Social-Revolutionary theory. The heroes make the people, transform them from a crowd into people, thus say the Social-Revolutionaries. The people make the heroes, thus reply the Bolsheviks to the Social-Revolutionaries. The book carries water to the windmill of the Social-Revolutionaries. No matter which book it is that brings the water to the windmill of the Social-Revolutionaries, this book is going to drown in our common, Bolshevik cause. I suggest we burn this book. J. STALIN

[@denysd7241]

This one is "glorious", thanks guys!

[@ThatGuyWhoLivesinChina]

Another great documentary.

[@tobiashahn9365]

It's not like I don't appreciate the USSR marches you play in the background, but it almost always leads to me humming along instead of listening to you XD

[@sankarchaya]

As a philosophy grad student, I appreciate the fact you took the time to point out that Marxism in fact is not consistent with the cult of personality and the "great man" theory of history it rests on. I don't think it's appreciated enough that Marxism became a dogmatic ideology, and not a living (and self critical philosophy) in the soviet bloc

[@Marinealver]

but it still ends up as a cult of personality but maybe if we try it one more time, eh?

[@LeonWagg]

@@Marinealver Marxism has no monopoly on the concept of the cult of personality, you idiot. So any ideology can end up as a cult of personality. Marx was a philosopher. All he did was writing books, and if some dudes half a century after his death would go around killing people, then that has nothing to do with Marx.

[@iddomargalit-friedman3897]

@@LeonWagg Never heard on a liberal ideology ended up as a cult of personality Somehow it's always the totalitarian, collectivist, pro-political-violence ones. Marxism is definitively not the only one (as no one claimed, so last comment is fighting strawmen), but it's certainly one of them.

[@LeonWagg]

@@iddomargalit-friedman3897 No, the last comment sarcastically says, ”maybe if we try it one more time,” which implies that there's something in the structure of Marx’s philosophy that will always result in the cult of personality. That's something you can't theoretically prove, so the comment in itself is wrong. Marx never endorsed collectivization, nor did he for totalitarianism. Marx was totally against any kind of superstitious belief in one individual or cult of personality. In fact, when Marx and Engels joined the communist league, their first request was for the league to reject any kind of cult of personality.

[@iddomargalit-friedman3897]

@@LeonWagg First, again, you replied that's "it's not unique", which is a strawman. To the point: Marxism supports a totalitarian, non-democratic state with instituted political violence - and gives moral justification for it. It only take the person holding the responsibility to execute that power to use it against his rivals to turn it despotic. And since people, especially politicians, especially radical revolutionists, usually want more power - It happened *in every single marxist country*, stalinist or not. It also happened in every other country with the same characteristics. If a phenomena is not only explained and predicted in advance, but is observed consistantly in *every instance* of the conditions applying - It is to be expected to continue doing so.

[@brokenbridge6316]

This was a nice video. Hey have you ever considered making a video on Switzerland during the Cold War. It could be a good one.

[@arthas640]

It would be a short video. Swiss continue getting rich hiding money for dictators, spend the nazi gold, make some chocolate harvested by African slaves, and sell some fancy clocks and watches all while NATO and the USSR fight for the fate of the world and then the Berlin wall gets knocked down.

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@arthas640---It might be interesting. Just thought I'd ask.

[@arthas640]

@@brokenbridge6316 compared to their neighbors they haven't had much happened since WW1. They're small, stable, slow to change, and resist any outside influence. One of the few interesting things I can think of that happened during the cold war was the swiss attempt at gaining more energy independence without importing foreign technology when they built a nuclear facility from scratch using native tech and proves why nuclear facilities normally are built by superpowers like the US, UK, and USSR or import the technology. Here's an interesting video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXfVo5yniamrpdE

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@arthas640---Nice video that was. Thanks for sending it my way. Perhaps this channel will make a video on that little disaster.

[@Whurlpuul]

Love these videos

[@brianrunyon266]

Great video. It caused problems in the Georgian SSR, from what I've read.

[@ramona14220]

Every time I see a group photo with Stalin in it I wonder how many of the others lived past his death.

[@madshagen5849]

Of the Central Committee which decided to do the October Revolution only thre died natural deaths: Lenin, Stalin and Alexandra Kollontai (yup, only the non-blonde survived the horror...)

[@d4v0r_x]

in soviet russia, every comrade lives past his death

[@UpcycleElectronics]

15:45 David's vehement opposition to such a trivial joke has added depth to the meme at this point. Well dialed. The ring of oppression must resonate!

[@valentinstoyanov304]

Varna, the third largest city in Bulgaria was named after Stalin for almost a decade. True story. And a sad one too...

[@AloisWeimar]

A song by Living Color ? Okay .. I’ll see myself out

[@jozz2248]

I exploit you still you love me I tell you one and one makes three

[@arnavbhagwat4232]

I'm every person, you need to be.... I'm..The...Cult....Of....Per....Son....Ality!!!!

[@goupilmauperthuis8413]

Excellent video! It summarizes quite well a complex issue, especially the paradox which is how some communist leaders have been individually glorified, or even deified, although it directly contradicts historical materialism and marxist ideology. Thank you for this awesome work.

[@luke.4317]

imagine taking seroisly the krushev words, words used to create his capitalistic laws and create a very elite. A lot of information make also think that he killed stalin with others.

[@user-eq5we2iw7l]

I am a simple man. When there's a Cold War video, I press like.

[@dialectixemcee2428]

its Marxism Leninism to identify the scientific advancement of Lenin's contribution to the understanding of Imperialism, and the struggle against it, and of course Marx's to understanding capitalism and the struggle against it but yes at the end of the day proletarian science is a collective effort of the working class and with or without Lenin, Marx, or Mao, the working class would have developed it one way or another, class struggle is universal in a reality based on class antagonism.

[@derrickbonsell]

So this isn't a Living Color song?

[@morisco56]

Well yes but actually no

[@tchy7246]

would love to see a multi-part examination of Maoism, especially since it's being echoed as we speak

[@a.n.l.aantineoliberalismas4504]

As an leftist demsoc myself I wouldant nessesarly say that

[@commonsense124]

As a simple peasant I would say it is.

[@Firebringer121]

I kept pausing this, thinking I had started up HOI4 by accident.

[@memofromessex]

I love this fellas voice!

[@Johnnycdrums]

How come nobody ever talks about Gregory Malenkov? He was the jolly intellectual type.

[@NewDealChief]

*The past Premiers and General Secretaries of the USSR approve of this documentary my Comrade. Hurrah!!!* (Alright KGB I said it, I said it)

[@masterimbecile]

A black van slowly drives away, and the soft, rapid clicking you've been hearing in your phone for weeks suddenly stopped happening.

[@NewDealChief]

@@masterimbecile Suddenly, the black van stops and backs up, opens up the window and a man stares at you, saluting before you and slowly speeding away.

[@annoyed707]

The producers of this channel knew that staying to watch the western was a good idea.

[@DMS-pq8]

Need episodes on Envar Hoxha and Ceausescu

[@nikhtose]

Your argument there was a Party-sponsored cult around Lenin during his leadership is a stretch. The assassination attempt provoked an outpouring of sympathy and praise, yes, but no official campaign of city renamings, statues, historical rewrites a la Stalin. Lenin's wife opposed the embalming of his body and the tomb. This was very much a campaign Stalin orchestrated after Lenin's death, aimed at suppressing open political discussion in favor of blind worship and obedience, which Lenin and the original leadership never countenanced.

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you .

[@theterit7413]

Nice!

[@gerald1495]

7:55 that HOI4 music though

[@KlaymenSk]

Yeah, I smiled a bit when the familiar tune started

[@toukairin354]

what's the name of the BGM?

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

Gee I wonder what hoxhaism is like “build bunkers nonstop and cut off all trade”

[@sbevexlr848]

Oh it gets worse, since the dude was an ultra nationalist Athiest the only religion you were allowed to practise was Albaniasm so yeah it was bad

[@malakov5]

Awesome

[@sonofplutarch]

Bond: History hasn't been kind to men who played God. PM Modi (There's a temple built for him): Hmm (Looks at Amit Shah)

[@ArkadiBolschek]

7:33 Was Marxism-Leninism _really_ "Lenin's interpretation", though? The doctrine was codified after Lenin's death, under Stalin's regime, and it suspiciously lines up with Stalin's ideas, rather than Lenin's, on a number of key points, starting with the idea of "socialism in one country". I think it's safer to say it was _Stalin's_ interpretation of Marxism, marketed under the Lenin label.

[@strafe9564]

Indeed, the term marxism-leninism was coined by stalin therfore it is synonymous with the term stalinism which heavily contradict marx, engels and lenins ideas.

[@ArkadiBolschek]

@@strafe9564 It's not always synonymous with Stalinism, though; that depends on the context. Khruschev and his allies thoroughly condemned 'Stalinism', by which they meant Stalin's autocratic leadership, murderous paranoia and cult of personality, but they continued to adhere to 'Marxism-Leninism' as a political program; they clearly saw them as two different things.

[@wilhelmheinzerling5341]

Ie "Stalinism"

[@zsg87]

This is what Lenin wrote in 1915: “The unevenness of economic and political development is the unconditional law of capitalism. Hence it follows that the victory of socialism is possible first in a few or even in a single, separately taken, capitalist country."

[@jamesdreads7828]

is this the guy from the fall of civilisations podcast?? love that podcast

[@TheColdWarTV]

No, it's the guy from the Cold War Channel on KZbin (but yeah, that podcast is REALLY good!)

[@jamesdreads7828]

@@TheColdWarTV sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, prick.

[@deanbuss1678]

There needs to be a bust of DAVID at the youtube headquarters.👍 Or perhaps Vancouver.🤔 IDK. interesting video 👍.

[@ohexploitable]

13:47 oh man all this time i thought it was a real studio! i didn't realise it was a green screen

[@TheColdWarTV]

the new studio, gives us the option to use green screen. The old studio was all-real.

[@greatianempire]

Comintern Theme from HOI4. Nice.

[@reybladen3068]

The background music sounds like it's from ck2 lol

[@The-Real-Sawyer]

Whats the last song that was playing called

[@rafaeldesouza3812]

It`s good to see that Stalin popularized the "Peace and love" gesture before the hippies

[@matiasd5216]

Here in Argentina we've been learning something about cult of personality (learning by practice). A ridiculous number of avenues, squares, libraries with the name of "him" bores your view all around the country. Now, 13 years after his death (occurred in 2010), we are still afraid of taking off ridiculous statues and giving streets their original names.

[@mikebaker2436]

Help me understand: If Lenin was regularly opposed in the party and his status as "first among equals" meant he lacked dictatorial power, how can we assume he could eradicate his own cult if the other members of the party and the people were the ones doing it?

[@ArkadiBolschek]

"could have" is not the same as "would have". The general consesus is that, unlike Stalin, Lenin wasn't happy about the hero-worship surrounding himself and other leaders of the revolution, but grudgingly acknowledged its usefulness. If he had chosen to oppose it in earnest, he _could_ have succeeded in putting an end to it, but he could have also failed; and in any case, the matter would have caused a lengthy struggle within the party leadership, which he probably thought wasn't worth it.

[@ironheart5830]

After cold war you guys should make War on terror. :)

[@tuongnguyen9391]

What is the back ground music ?

[@vladardelean4970]

Indeed, as previously said by many around here, do please share your sources @The Cold War

[@valentinstoyanov304]

Read "Letters from Russia" by Astolphe de Custine. It explains a lot...

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

When are you doing Portugal?

[@petebondurant58]

I did Portugal in 2014. Nice place.

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

@@petebondurant58 😂😂😂

[@mklztr4542]

Name of the track at 2:40?

[@christopherconard2831]

I, like all true and loyal citizens, have always celebrated the glory of the Mighty Bell Button in the name of the Party and the People.

[@kgbfiles5713]

your Красная площадь is already a little better than your Комитет государственной безопасности, keep working on your pronunciation

[@TheColdWarTV]

thank you! Time and practice.

[@Eric0816]

One small note. In his secret Speech Chrustchov referred to a letter by Karl Karx in which the founder of communism denounced the idea of a cult of personality.

[@toukairin354]

I hear one of the BGM of Hearts of Iron 4, what's the name of the song?

[@sonofplutarch]

Maratha Kings: Mmm...Rookie.

[@Vundeq]

love the hoi4 music!

[@nik3301]

i was looking for this comment

[@satyr1349]

Kicks off with 'The Death Of Stalin', re-watched that so many times 😉

[@tmdwu5360]

Everybody interested in this should give the Red Symphony documents a read 🤔

[@devendrabaskey1]

Music in the video??

[@IamAWESOME3980]

9:55 clap clap clap, first to stop clapping dies.

[@wildfood1]

"The cult was in accordance with the interests of the Soviet state".

[@tzufbb]

They did the same thing in China in the movie the building of a Republic

[@user-df1ek5rc1h]

Lenin: Glorify me if you want... I won't stop you Stalin: Glorify me more! MORE! Marx: What have you guys done to my ideology...

[@Panzergruppe22]

lol poor Marx

[@Marinealver]

your ideology played out its natural course Marxy Marx.

[@BangFarang1]

Marx ideology was written for industrial countries. Russia was a rural one.

[@BangFarang1]

@Srpski Nacional Socijalista The main economy of Russia was based on agriculture. The only industrial country on earth that became communist was East Germany.

[@steeltitan6691]

Was that Hearts of Iron music I heard?

[@pepega7015]

What's the name of the music in this video?

[@user-eq5we2iw7l]

I think it’s EU4 or hearts of iron 4 BGM

[@ivarkich1543]

Slavyanka march

[@pepega7015]

@@ivarkich1543 Thx dude

[@pepega7015]

@@user-eq5we2iw7l thx fam

[@user-eq5we2iw7l]

@@pepega7015 🖖🖖🖖

[@aimansafwan1997]

Well-informed video you made. However, you forgot to mention that Trotsky and Che Guevara weren't guilty-free from having a cult of personality. George Orwell was a fan of Trotsky and most Latin Americans, even some Americans and Canadians praising Che Guevara, T-shirts and all, whether they realized it or not.

[@sebastianguevara3615]

Aiman Safwan That's Not A Secret Nor Anything New We All Know That A Lot Of Pinko Commies In Latin America And In The United States, And Canada Praise Che Guevara Who Was A Brutal Marxist Argentinian Guerrilla Terrorist Who Along With Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro Killed Millions Of Innocent Cubans I'm Glad The Bolivian Army Killed Che While He Was Orchestrating A Brutal, Violent, Communist Revolution In Bolivia In 1967 I Believe Since He Wanted To Overthrow The Democratically Elected President Of Bolivia At The Time But I'm Glad They Killed Him, Thank God I'm Not Related To Che To This Monster I'm A Right Wing Conservative And A Hardcore Trump Supporter And A Huge Anti-Communist And An Anti-War Conservative Trump 2024!!!! Keep America Great!!!!! Save America!!!!! God Bless America!!!!!

[@The_Daily_Tomato]

Skip here 02:42 to begin the video.

[@SwfanredLotr]

"No, the Supreme Leader is wise!"

[@BangFarang1]

What do you mean "from Cuba to Angola"? Fidel Castro always rejected his name to be glorified during his whole life, no street, no statue, no stamp, no wall picture of him was allowed except on historical despictions. There is even a Cuban law forbidding any living person to be officialy praised in order to avoid cults of personality. The only cult was reserved to the dead heroes like Jose Marti, Che Guevarra, Camilo Cienfuegos, Frank Pais, etc.

[@sebastianguevara3615]

Frederic Letellier Your Wrong Pinko Commie!!!!!!!

[@sholahverassa8582]

Oh mighty Bell Button, the voice of the channel in phones of subscribers! I salute thee!

[@ziggyzap1]

I wish Nikolai Bukharin had ended up leading the USSR instead of Stalin or Trotsky

[@mateuszp.6109]

Greetings from Katowice, Poland, which for a brief period of 3 years was named Stalinogród - at the same time being a capital of region which was literally devastated by the Red Army couple of years before...

[@TheColdWarTV]

Dzień dobry!

[@mateuszp.6109]

@Srpski Nacional Socijalista By communists - sure. But definitely not by the Russians. A lot of damage was done by Red Army, then right after the war a lot of people, industrial equipment etc. were taken to the East. No help was provided by the USSR and at the same time Poland was forced to reject Marshall plan help. And despite all of that country was lifted from literally ashes. Definitely not thanks to Stalin...

[@simplicius11]

@@mateuszp.6109 "industrial equipment etc. were taken to the East" really? Poland was a backward agrarian country. What was taken to the USSR? "No help was provided by the USSR" Are you kidding. Who helped rebuilding your country and Warsaw? At the end of 1944, Poland was granted an interest-free loan of 10 million rubles. At the beginning of 1945, loans of 50 million rubles. and $10 million In February 1945, the request of the Polish government for the provision of material and technical assistance in the amount of 50% of the costs envisaged by the plan for the restoration of the main districts of Warsaw was granted. Soviet architects, using documents from the archives of the USSR, contributed to the development and implementation of a complex and expensive project to recreate the historical appearance of the country's capital. In 1947, the USSR sent thousands of tons of grain and other foodstuffs to the Poles, thus avoiding large-scale famine in Poland due to the drought. In 1948, Warsaw signed an agreement with Moscow on the supply of Soviet industrial equipment worth almost half a billion dollars, ultimately free of charge. On account of the Soviet share of reparations that Germany had to pay ($ 10 billion), Poland received financial and material and technical assistance in the amount of about $ 1 billion (mainly in the form of various industrial and agricultural equipment and property).

[@jangrosek4334]

@@simplicius11 Stalin's policy provoked famine in the USSR in 1946-47. The communists sent huge amounts of food to Eastern Europe and Germany, but in the USSR, the population starved on land devastated by the Nazi occupation.

[@simplicius11]

@@jangrosek4334 No any 'huge' amounts of food were sent in 1946-47. In 1946-47 they exported 1.8 mil tons (500,000 to France before drought appeared) and imported 600,000 tons. What were they supposed to do? Let those people starve to death?

[@NotHPotter]

Look in my eyes! What do you see?

[@jimmyyu2184]

Unknown to most Westerners, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Bang-Shoe-On-UN-Tablegrad, Brezhnevgrad, Wine-stain-on-My-Headgrad, Yeltsingrad, and now Putingrad are all the same city...

[@MrMirville]

Trump even ousted as a president will maintain the US in a state of adoration of his personality modelled after Stalin's.

[@Jason_Tripp]

please keep up the corny jokes you deliver so straight faced "glorify the bell button" lol

[@viniciusgomes5147]

Cult of personality in the US: Elvis Presley.

[@noahkidd3359]

How about McDonald Trump?

[@BangFarang1]

J.F. Kennedy

[@tigertank06]

Barrack Obama?

[@samjadk2681]

Yay

[@tomamarius2669]

Was hoping for more about other communist cults.

[@andyreynolds6194]

Completely misread your last word as a really bad one and thought: “woah, that’s strong!”

[@mishapurser7542]

I like that you say Moscow in German (Moskau).

[@Ivan-hb3co]

We had the same shit in Yugoslavia with dictator Tito, unfortunately it took a bit longer for him to die.

[@haenselundgretel654]

How about "HOI 4" - ads? It's a really good game that should be interesting for every history interested person. Browser and mobile games instead are usually just pure shit.

[@kraanz]

If youŗe talking about the USSR in the 1920ies amd 30ies, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia shouldn't be part of it, as opposed to what is depicted at 6:55

[@sefagundogan1595]

The map probably depicts post-WW2 Soviet Union, which includes Karelia, Beserabia, the territories which had been lost during Soviet-Polish War and of course Baltic states. So you are right.

[@JohnDoe-pv2iu]

One thing. You mentioned that a lot of this was before the cold war. Well, that's perspective. While supposed to be allys in WW2. The Soviet Union had spys in the United states long before WW2. Take it for what it's worth but the Cold war was very much a reality long before the 1946-1948 era. Take Care and be safe, John

[@Joao-de9gl]

The fear of communist revolution in Europe was even more alive since 1917, especially in the defeated ww1 countries. That in part explains the rise of fascism as a reactionary conservative movement. US, France and UK all intervened militarily in the russian civil war in favor of the whites. The appeasement policy to Italy and Germany was failure of western cumplicity guided by anticommunism. There was no defense of the constitutional goverment of Spain from the fascists by UK and France. Czechs and soviets were excluded from talks in the Munich agreement. The overall climate was of distrust, each nation seeking its own agreements on a national basis. That's the context of Molotov-Ribbentrop. That's what the UN was founded to change.

[@thethirdjegs]

We have a colored footage of lenin making a speech??

[@erikprank4611]

It's not very important for the content of this video, but still, 06:55 you're showing a map where the Baltic states are part of the Soviet Union, same time you are talking about Lenin's death and the 1920s. Baltic states were occupied by the Soviet Union only in 1940.

[@dejavue3013]

That's called internal democracy

[@TheTeutonicPlague]

Stalin loves me This I know For the Party Tells me so Soviets to him belong Disagree and go to Gulag

[@shawnv123]

marxist leninist version of yes jesus loves me

[@Barkend3]

Good thing this level of cult of personality would never happen in the US, right? ** looks at Mount Rushmore **

[@petebondurant58]

Yeah...that's exactly the same as Stalinism. Nice try at deflection though.

[@vladlenzverev4626]

It's so weird to hear my name being spoken out loud on a youtube video ... Yes I am a Vladlen, but born in 1990 from parents that didn't even know the meaning of the name until I was 7 !

[@E.W_figure_wrestling]

Like Joseph Stalin and Gandhi I'm the cult of personality

[@TIENxSHINHAN]

The interesting thing about cults of personality is that all political and economic systems have them and we see them everyday. For instance, there are 100% cults of personality surrounding Obama and Donald Trump. It's just that the US has more freedom of speech than the USSR or China, so the people who disagree can be just as loud as the personality cult while openly criticizing Xi Jinping, especially criticisms that aren't totally valid, may get you put on a watchlist.

[@theparadigm8149]

Types of communism: Orthodox Marxism: Follows a traditional “domino theory” of communism. The size of the state varies (may or may not support a dictatorship of the proletariat). Marxism-Leninism: Supports the teachings of Lenin and his interpretation of communism. Supports a dictatorship of the proletariat and purged of capitalists. Willing to work with most types of communism. Trotskyism: Supports a global revolution, but is willing to work with Marxism-Leninism. Stalinism: An exaggerated form of Marxism-Leninism that supports rapid industrialization, internationalism, and purged of everyone not loyal to the state. Maoism: A more agrarian form of Stalinism that favors peasants over proletarian. Believes that the revolution will happen again in an infinite cycle of economic systems. Hoxhaism: A form of Stalinism that is anti-revisionist. Usually will not work with other forms or communism. Titoism: Favors a more gradual transition to communism. Supports social equality, as well as economic equality and loyalty to the state. A notorious rival of Stalinism. Ho Chi Minh thought: Focuses mostly on anti-colonialism. Supports communism as a way to revive native traditions. A slow transition to communism is usually recommended. Pol-Potism: A form of Stalinism that is extremely against anything modern that may represent capitalism. Purges are very extreme. Jucheist communism: Supports fierce nationalism and a strong military. Works with Stalinism and Maoism. Libertarian/democratic communism: Promotes social freedom, as well as economic equality. Capitalism is seen as a system that takes away necessary rights. Anarchist communism: Believes that authoritarianism and capitalism are inseparably linked. All hierarchies must be abolished simultaneously.

[@a.n.l.aantineoliberalismas4504]

A good basic list but not 100% accurate Also you seem to know a lot about leftists idears so why are you subbed to Donald trumb and ben Shapiro

[@theparadigm8149]

@@a.n.l.aantineoliberalismas4504 Believe it or not, but I’m a communist. It’s hard to believe... I just support Trump because I’m also socially/culturally conservative.

[@theparadigm8149]

@@a.n.l.aantineoliberalismas4504 Also, I feel like you jumped to conclusions when you said that I don’t know a lot about leftism just because I’m subscribed to Trump and Ben Shapiro... it could be possible that I subscribed them for humorous reasons...

[@Robert-qq9em]

You got Maoism wrong, so I'm not sure why I would believe you on the rest. Black Panthers were notoriously Maoists, but had nothing to do with Peasants. You've apparently misunderstood the levers of the revolution Mao guided for Maoism, a critical lens based on Maos writings but specifically not related to China. It seems like you just pulled from the Wiki article, which I understand but will tell you is contradictory (how can the Black Panthers have wanted a US Communist revolution based on Peasantry instead of the Proletariat?). The issue with trying to understand things like Maoism is that, generally, there is no Western Framework to begin from, as large actions are taken to prevent an intellectual ability to engage with anti-capitalist thought. To further the point, India call Maoism a method of violence which attempts to overtake the government. But even this is at odds with what the Black Panthers did, which was provide food for poor areas and send lawyers to watch police interactions in their neighborhoods, not bomb schools and fight it out with the military. So the underlying principles of Maoism MUST be different, or there is a Contradiction (brought it back to Mao!). However if you use Mao's writings as the base of how to deal with the local issues of exploitation, you could describe the different Maoist thoughts. Most enjoyably, that also explains how the school of socialist thought would get it's name "Maoism", a method of using Mao's writings to deal with the Contradictions. Contradictions in the Socialist sense, of course.

[@theparadigm8149]

@@Robert-qq9em Dude, you’re taking Maoist theory WAY too far… Mao DID support peasants over factory workers after the Great Leap Forward failed miserably (that’s an understatement)… Also, I didn’t just pull these facts from Wikipedia. I got them from months of extensive research… 🧐

[@icostaticrebound6007]

7:15 Anyone else see Vladimir Putin?