The Soviet Union | Part 1: Red October to Barbarossa | Free Documentary History

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

Power corroded the leadership, leaving the masses to suffer in the name of history. The very people who were supposed to be governing themselves. There are many factors that affected the Soviet Union’s turbulent history, but the sheer ungovernable vastness of the country was inescapable. It was a nation the size of a continent stretching from Moscow to Vladivostok and from Leningrad to Stalingrad. What we might consider European Russia was dwarfed by the reaches of Siberia. Enacting any kind of policy took force. Complicated, contradictory figureheads would come and go, men, who held this impossible country it seemed by sheer will. Over many painful years, this vast country locked itself away from the rest of the world, paranoid, economically uncertain, and repressive, while still casting a vast shadow across the world. The 20th century was shaped by its convulsions, its purges, its wars, and its leaders.

[@DrCruel]

Power was the purpose of socialism, specifically the power to make the masses toil and suffer for the enrichment and grandeur of the Bolsheviks. The proletariat was never meant to govern themselves. The Romanovs found the whole of Russia ungovernable through their archaic methods, but the Bolsheviks impose modern socialist methods of coercion, exploitation and terrorism to put an iron grip on the whole of their vast nation. In the process they crushed a young democracy under Kerensky, replacing it with a despotic socialist tyranny that crippled the Russian nation and set their political development back centuries. The United States, the great rival of the Bolshevik Empire, proved that a vast state could be rule democratically and for the goo of the common people. Instead the Bolshevik Empire, like all socialist regimes, was ruled for the goo of only a hereditary few. The dream for something better prove impossible for the Bolsheviks to kill, even as they starved the democratic soviets in their crib. Ultimately a kleptocracy of thieves became impossible to rule. Thus a great nation that had existed for centuries as a united whole fell to pieces due to Marxist socialist criminality, corruption and stupidity.

[@52daytripper]

power did not corrode the leadership, the leaders were murderous evil heinous people, the power they obtained just allowed them to perpetrate their evil on the population

[@Olga-de3ru]

Очередной безумный антисоветский скетч, достойный разве что Геббельса. Все больше убеждаюсь в том, что Запад -- природный очаг геббельсизма (и eo ipso гитлеризма, ибо это две стороны одной медали).

[@vidyanandbapat8032]

What happened to the dictatorship of the prolatariat? The dream of working class of the world?

[@MichaelEdwardWright1]

Enacting any kind of a policy took force? Nope. Murdering people and their Free markets took mass murder.

[@donofon1014]

The Tsar fell ... and then Lenin ? Not one tip of the script to the "February Revolution" or Kerensky or the Bolshevik coup called the October Revolution. That would have burned up a minute or two.

[@dorkthrone]

And after Lenin, Stalin just kind of shows up. Very in depth stuff.

[@williamroberts9121]

Just watch a documentary about Stalin 🤦🏽

[@fate8007]

the bolsheviks launched a workers' revolution in petrograd, cope more

[@nhopkins8266]

That’s kinda how I remember it from school. Historians just gloss over certain brutal parts of ussr history. I never even learned about the holodomor because “they don’t think it was intentional”.

[@cragjones1799]

​@nhopkins8266 they don't overlook it. It's just so complex and " big" you can't cover things in detail.

[@joeyanny8018]

One of the most outstanding documentary films on the subject matter I’ve seen. Bravissimo!!! Thank you!!! I’ve passed to many friends. Bless you. Joe

[@johneze6693]

It's garbage, Nothing like Ukraine during this time

[@paulmarsh5325]

I CAN NEVER GET TIRED OF LEARNING ABOUT RUSSIA!!!

[@mikeedson]

Me neither

[@sammead7911]

It’s always fascinated me as well; I’d recommend any book by Orlando Figes.

[@mattwalter5184]

Too bad this video is about the Soviet Union and not Russia.

[@pyatig]

I’d be very careful about the sources you use especially if you’re from the west

[@Dobie-h2l]

Russia my Russia 🪆

[@Frip36]

Love that you got an actual Bolshevik woman to talk about the Bolsheviks. You don't see that kind of effort often in such documentaries. 0:29

[@alonelyfridge]

I love history and this channel is amazing at explaining it thank you

[@daChief-khalife]

🤲🏽

[@Someone-mq7hc]

I am not even 14 or smth like that, since 2 years, i was addicted to history, so i learned pretty much things that my classmates dont even know about Edit : I am sorry if I sounded like a pick me. I made this comment to inspire others to learn new things.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

that’s how I started. Reading and watching everything I could. I’m working toward my PhD in history.

[@Someone-mq7hc]

@@FreeDocumentaryHistory :)

[@pradeepbashyal146]

​@@FreeDocumentaryHistory What is the source of Background Music (The Instrumental one) of this video.

[@MrCtsSteve]

Good on you 👍 ​@@FreeDocumentaryHistory

[@Schwertfisch13]

Keep on going that path. I always found the people amusing who made fun of me for being a history nerd with the explanation: 'I care for the future, what do I care about the past?' Now whos gonna tell those folks that you can understand the present and even make predictions for the future by analyzing the past?

[@diegodiniz-zw9fn]

Thanks for broadcasting it!This represent a significant era for all over worldwide's politic,so it must be called on of course that one we have learnt through of history,also our mistakes that were made in name of political fanatism.The history can be showing it,right now. History is the past that influency the present!Here is its importance today.

[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

I know. Lets open the southern border.

[@diegodiniz-zw9fn]

@@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858 What is the concept of border for you?I think it was created to feed the inequality among nations.

[@arkady714]

Brilliant and compelling. Thank you for posting this excellent video. One small note: It was a pleasure and, dare I say, a relief to watch 45+ minutes of documentary without once hearing the (now meaningless) word "iconic."

[@AugustusOmega]

But they are Iconic!

[@TheRaveJunkie]

When did it stop being meaningful?

[@arkady714]

@@TheRaveJunkie When a Doritos add described the snack as iconic… when actor Stanley Tucci (in a food tv show) described a certain Italian dessert as “iconic”… when Arod, who batted about .100 in post season play in the Bronx, was described as a Yankee “icon”… The iconic car that the iconic actor drove when he played the iconic role in the iconic film based on the iconic novel written by the iconic author… A word used (often erroneously) to describe anything of note has become so over used, that it’s lost its meaning.

[@Elic205]

The history of World War II and the USSR is so fascinating.

[@pyatig]

Those people are fascinating, they were believers in better future and perhaps naive idealist but they were the best of us and unfortunately those who truly believed died first during WW2

[@sosacapone4588]

@@pyatigone of the best shorts explanations of that period I’ve ever read.

[@wreckagevic]

I’ve been waiting for this. Thank you

[@hillarious2393]

At 02:58 autor says "The Roman dinasty has fell" - but nobody says that not are bolsheviks overthrew the Tsar, but his allies - deputie of russian parlament mr Shulgin at 02/03/1917 after when the tsar abdicated the throne at that date, monarch has been arrested by non comenistic deputies of russian parlament.

[@TheBusinessMindset_]

Dynasty

[@hillarious2393]

@@TheBusinessMindset_ whatever, am not english speaker)

[@PhoenixAscending]

Stalin was very smart to heavily industrialize the USSR, because if he hadn't, Germany would have completely demolished them. He was a very smart, shrewd man...but also cut-throat, sadistic, cruel, and evil

[@ouroborosnagyok9306]

this he had to, he wanted the USSR to survive if any other western nations leader does the same theyre considered a hero but stalin wears the red star so ooooh bad bad bad

[@felipecortez1042]

I often wonder how ww2 would've gone if Stalin had not come to power, the Soviet union would've probably lost

[@PhoenixAscending]

@@felipecortez1042 I agree

[@odysseasantoniou6840]

Just like the american presidents

[@Nutteredbutter]

@@odysseasantoniou6840yea kinda. Most of them 🤣

[@olgashekhanina4818]

Жили мы в СССР в 60 - 80-е годы как и не снилось гражданам капиталистических стран: бесплатное всеобщее образование, бесплатная медицина, бесплатное жилье, мирное время. По принципу: человек человеку друг, товарищ и брат. Сейчас мы в диком капитализме.

[@anastaziajade4604]

It’s Called God given freedom

[@Smittron]

Someone has to pay for all of the free stuff.

[@thulean_mysteries]

Дефицит/отсутствие: туалетной бумаги; одноразовых шприцов; женских прокладок; таких обыденных для наших современников, фруктов, как бананы, гранат, апельсины, ананасы, манго и т. д.; молока и молочных изделий, вроде йогуртов; мяса и мясных изделий; холодильников; телевизоров; стиральных машинок, автомобилей и пр. И да, бесплатного жилья не было, нет и никогда не будет. Вообще нет ничего бесплатного. В Советское время, это выглядело так: стоимость жилья, заранее входила в зарплату гражданина (а работать был обязан каждый). Какую страну потеряли… 😢

[@olgashekhanina4818]

@@thulean_mysteries 😮

[@dimzyk4134]

Тебе бы главное пожрать от пуза?При СССР был мир,вот что главное и то,чего сейчас так не хватает.Зато жрачки полно теперь@@thulean_mysteries

[@a.z.b.1916]

Good documentary but impossible to watch. Without adblocker youtube is worst than television now.

[@Sandman2007]

Cry a little more.

[@kimberlybrown5348]

It's about $10 for premium. No ads

[@crushtheserpent]

You're using the wrong browser. I have no such problems

[@Hellokemon]

Stop crying You seriously crying for months ​@@Sandman2007

[@Itxx_shaheer_786]

Great documentry..........nice job 🎉

[@smisomajola3098]

Outstanding documentary, thank you

[@Arushi701]

12:22 "Moon-faced, balding dictator literally died of overwork." 😭😂

[@tormentedterror]

I knew arrushis can never be trusted .

[@Arushi701]

@@tormentedterror Well, at least I’m not the only Indian invested in a video totally about Russian history 😂

[@Mattyice6969]

Nah fr bro went all out on that one

[@Crazyyyyyywjwksi]

This documentary just explained all the stuffs... Appreciations

[@DanielAldous-yu7kj]

💀💀💀

[@The_dude_channel]

this was incredibly well done

[@shahzadiqbal219]

Russia's vastness is it's defence

[@DocumentaryHistory-e5m]

The video doesn't shy away from the harsh realities of the early Soviet era, including the purges and famine.

[@chadczternastek]

24:00 in these times where the poorest people still have leftovers every night, its hard to wrap your brain around an entire country that's literally dying by the hundreds of thousands because food is just not there. I cant imagine how that must if been, torture wise. Watching yout wife, husband, son, daughters, just breaks me humans can be so ruthless and hate each other.

[@johnmesser522]

What's scary...these food shortages can happen rapidly and we are not immune... here and now !!

[@Sandman2007]

Collectivism in a the most basic form.

[@PinkyJujubean]

Russia's rapid industrialization was a separate genocide unto itself. The appalling working conditions, abuse, danger, etc cost a whole lot of lives

[@pyatig]

I can’t 🤧

[@ultradevon04]

@@pyatigcan’t what?

[@krakowski-ruch-katolikow]

It's a little surprising the documentary doesn't mention the Miracle of the Vistula in 1920 - the battle in which Joseph Stalin was one of the commanders. The invading Red Army heading towards the West was stopped at the gates of Warsaw. There's no telling how much further they would have reached had they not been stopped there, for their original plans included going as far west as Italy. The name of the battle comes from the fact that a Polish communications officer forgot to cypher his message. The result was that the Polish battle plans got into the hands of the Red Army. For some reason their generals assumed, that it was an attempt to trick them. The Polish army was thus able to deal a defeating blow to the Red Army. The key battle took place on the 15th of August, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, venerated as the Queen of Poland.

[@juliusraben3526]

Oooooh noooooo, ive seen many docus about the soviet union. All of them didnt mention it. How can i ever look at the same way at the soviet union...................

[@sandrama22]

Poland grabbed lands of Russia while it was in great turmoil. Poland should stop crying- it’s hyena of Europe.

[@phil__K]

Yup, its very rarely remembered in western historiography

[@williamgill5286]

@@juliusraben3526 u will dont worry

[@bobdollaz3391]

They would've been stopped by the Stahlhelm and Freikorp.

[@Kunisanni]

Thank you!!! Amazing Documentary!! Used this as background noise as I'm studying for my Russian and Soviet Politics Mid-Term. Helped me to remember what to include in my note sheet I'm allowed to have on my test. :)

[@dasritzoo9234]

Lenin was a genius, and I encourage everyone here to read State and Revolution.

[@52daytripper]

an evil genius perhaps

[@AmericanProletariat161]

Vladimir Lenin is the reason why I understand the class struggle living in an imperial United States.

[@Sandman2007]

@@AmericanProletariat161says the person who has no skills to pay the bills.

[@1965Grit]

😂😂😂 Imperialist nation😅😅, We are not an empire, in fact, we are becoming more like a Socialist State.

[@AmericanProletariat161]

@1965Grit Profit market economy is not becoming a socialist state. Right now, we have corporations in the back pockets of politicians on both aisles that are passing bills through legislation that benefits the big wigs, not the working class.

[@motojunkie8348]

Why didn't you talk about the Romanov family and how they were all brutally murdered including the children? That seems pretty important.

[@jeffreyval9665]

They were already deposed and irrelevant. Probably wouldn't of made any difference what happened to them in the end.

[@Cris-if8kf]

That information is irrelevant at this point

[@asullivan4047]

Why not they were no more important then the rest of the millions whom were murdered. They were the sole reason for the revolution.

[@TreyMessiah95]

They wore angels themselves they wore just as corrupt, and also they wore already gone at this point.

[@eldios831]

Maybe you should talk about the people they murdered...by your logic we should have forgiven Saddam and his son's and given them honorary American citizenship😂😂😂😂

[@marinatopal7616]

if you speak about Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact why don't you say a word about Munich Agreement?

[@akemalaydin]

A fair point but I'd not have an expectation of them to speak of such matters since they're the winners.

[@БубликПомидорович]

No, because it contradicts global agenda

[@Ayro-ny]

What does the Munich agreement have to do with it? these two agreements have completely different purposes

[@Leantenant]

@@Ayro-ny Yes you are right. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was aimed at achieving short time peace. The Munich Agreement for the strengthening of Germany.

[@sammead7911]

They did mention it and how Stalin was upset he was left out of it

[@bryang3635]

This is a great documentary. AOC, Bernie Sanders, and many millennials as well as Gen Z that support Socialism need to watch this.

[@shoegazemusicisthebest2715]

😒

[@vadimgershman9173]

naw they just need to keep living in capitalism and theyll arrive here on their own

[@joshspruill4162]

You do realize comunisism and socialism aren't the same right

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

"Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of then." -- Roger Zelazny

[@ericbush3399]

Yes, it should. The populace is just that weak. Is the government still murderous? Are you that afraid of saying anything disparaging?

[@informedtraveler3014]

@drewpballz6794 more like Putin is trying to bring back Imperial Russia

[@dsadawrware]

soviet union had 15x russia's GDP

[@ericbush3399]

@@dsadawrware ....but you couldn't buy a loaf of bread.

[@dimzyk4134]

@@ericbush3399 This already happened under Gorbachev (let him burn in hell) who brought the country to destruction.

[@kurzeful]

What a blessing to watch this informative video about my favourite country in the history of mankind

[@samuelonungwe]

Great documentary

[@WorldUnity-dq4ln]

It’s funny that the West refuse to talk about the deaths outside Bengal during the Bengal famine because Bengal was not the only place devastated by the famine. Other parts of India were affected as well.

[@jon82489]

Because it was Churchills famine

[@anneslot7013]

This is a "democratic" famine, it's completely different

[@matthewnikitas8905]

Was the famine due to a low supply of food or was it instituted by the state to kill people?

[@ondoreoku]

There is a big difference between nationalism and patriotism. Real communists are patriots, not nacionalists.

[@nickfirestone388]

Nationalism is the way a patriot perceives the world if he is to be true. Imperialist Nationalism is what every great nation has engaged in.

[@sloopjb5359]

Exactly, the most patriotic people you will see are the North Koreans. You have no other optin than to be a patriot. That is why their system works.

[@sloopjb5359]

​@@nickfirestone388 lol sounds like you would make a great butler. loyal to the emperor. I guess many people simply need their Master...

[@whoami-eb7cq]

What you said applies to anyone who works to take other peoples money to live,buisness owner and worker alike.Unless you're the one printing it(money) then you're a butler(as if being a butler is a bad thing,mind you)If the people you work for provide for you what you need then you should absolutley be loyal to them.And ALL will drop you like a bad habit if you don't.Some will kill you,others will make you wish they did

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

@@sloopjb5359 their system “works” because if you don’t follow the rules, you get sent off to an interment camp or worse. It’s oppression of the worst kind.

[@wimdefoort7698]

Very good and new insights

[@manikandank2538]

Interesting documentry 👍

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@taylorclark2100]

Part two when

[@putra6106]

The only gripe is that this channel doesn't provide the english subtitles. Auto generated is useless.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

Thank you for the input - I’ll bring it up with the team to see if we can improve

[@putra6106]

@@FreeDocumentaryHistory Thank you very much Sir. 💝💝💝

[@magdalenachadrys9437]

Thank You. ❤

[@Qasibr]

Stalin probably would’ve purged Gorbachev, if he could. Maybe Brezhnev too.

[@unitedkt18]

For sure, these weaks are poison, worst than external ennemy. And it's totaly true.

[@iamnotfooled4972]

One may say you are quite right. Stalin is the consumate evil step father

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

The thing about Uncle Joe is that you never knew where you stood.

[@josephanderson7237]

Assume the rose case and avoid him at all costs. Satan= Stalin

[@jerrymartin4450]

Please can anyone tell me the name of the man on the right-side of stallin, with a suit and glasses at 21:03?

[@Chaldon-hl6yk]

Leo Bronshtein

[@eaccou4270]

@@Chaldon-hl6yk No, it's not. It's Lev Kamenev

[@myassizitchy]

Kamanev

[@PuerAeternus56]

It's Mikhail Kalinin

[@whysoserious7553]

Johnny sins

[@colemcclain7319]

I thoroughly enjoyed this

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

excellent. Always very happy to hear that

[@bevanabrey7865]

"Stalin is an unnatural man"....I think it was Anthony Eden who said that...that's hitting the nail on the head, using few words.

[@billotto602]

My heart breaks for the Russian people. To live in horror about what your own government might do to you & your entire family for the smallest transgression. I wonder if they'll ever get the chance to live free & truly at peace. 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️

[@alekisp6814]

You must read, how majority of Russian people lived before October revolution. And after it you can understand, why people supported Lenin and Bolscheviks.

[@adamwatson6916]

You didn't even need to be guilty of a small transgression. Many were killed for fabricated transgressions or no transgressions at all .

[@alexeyb6129]

My heart breaks for the American people. To live under terror of its own army during miners strikes in 1920-x and under race segregation, to work 12 hours a day till 1938, to be black in labour camps is a hard torture.

[@zuibeckpulezon4626]

And u think you're free ??

[@franciasii2435]

Waka Waka, still happens, just not as bad(?)

[@alvarolopez4311]

What's the video at 0:11?

[@fittzu4175]

I watched this for the sole reason of understanding Animal Farm in-depth.

[@iamnotfooled4972]

Would Hilary be a fan of “Animal Farm” ? You may try “The Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand . Much about socialism in a veiled form

[@donaldbraugh2314]

Did anyone notice the bottle of spirits Stalin was drinking while speaking from the lecturn or was it l'eau minerale? Wow

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Dionysus

[@oldman0103]

Это минеральная вода "Боржоми"

[@AnivalEspinoza-p9v]

Sold 0:08

[@gaminginsidecar9098]

lady at 24:00 obviously hasnt heard of the holodomor and seems ignorant about the situation about how ukraine was in fact targeted because of how much farmland there was and how the people had already been fighting for independence even back then. so obviously stalin didnt like this and purposely starved ukraine

[@johnlenin830]

Oh, really? Did Stalin tell you about it personally? Or can you refer to some documents or other evidence? Are you aware that the famine was not only in Ukraine, but also in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Caucasus? You are just repeating someone else's nonsense.

[@sevvythe3rd597]

80% of all deaths from the holodomor were Ukrainian

[@kfork814]

@@johnlenin830what about nature global warming the ice blankets heating up the ice sheets? The trash land fills of garage what about how the farmers way to control change the world before colony’s and tribes?

[@ProdigyofEpistemology]

Music at the end?

[@SusieDaw-ix6pv]

No audio. Sad :(

[@garrettcohen365]

Turn up the volume

[@myassizitchy]

Yeah. Turn it up a tad. Its there

[@GonzaloDarre-hk4rl]

This is just perfect.

[@The_Ninedalorian]

27:05 GEE THAT SOUNDS SO FAMILIAR! What does that remind you of, Jack?.... Jack? Patty, have you seen Mr. Smith? "He's in Washington, sir. Uncle Joe had a task for him" OH... damn too familiar.

[@Foyay_Red]

We are currently watching this in history class

[@valvlad3176]

In 1922 Soviet Union was born" I see you have some abilities beyond but it was 1924. I know, two years of my country's life means none to you, but that was a lot for 200 mil people living there then and it means a lot for me now still. Check the history of early 20s in Asia - mean Russia and China - and you'd better understand what is going on now. Including names, personalities, chains of events.

[@ouroborosnagyok9306]

@@drewpballz6794stop capping

[@tomservo75]

This was very enlightening. I was hoping for a more detailed look at how the USSR first formed, rather than a more broad history. Still entertaining.

[@joesalyers]

Pretty good documentary. But I wish these documentaries would look deeper into Stalin before the revolution outside of the normal things that are said. Before he was Stalin he was called Koba which for those who don't know is because he was the highest ranking member of the Georgian Mafia this is why Stalin never went after the criminal elements of the Vory (Russian Mafia) during his dictatorship. Stalin was basically the equivalent to what westeners would understand as a Mafia Godfather. He robbed banks and used union muscle to call for protests and strikes. Stalin nearly single handedly kept money in the Bolshevik coffers up until the revolution. He lived in lavish places. So when the opportunity to move into real political power outside of criminality he took it. This is how he was able to maneuver around the quote "smarter politicians". Stalin outsmarted them with street smarts and common sense something that the political dreamers and upper class socialists never saw coming. These things are rarely covered since its the intellectuals that write about Stalin and they see him in exactly the same way his contemporaries saw him which was utterly misguided and wrong. It would be like John Gotti or Al Capone becoming Secretary of State in the USA and everyone brushing them off because they are just petty common folk and not a part of the political class. I'm not a communist but I find Stalin fascinating. He's basically the Russian version of Lucky Luciano except he came from being a mob boss to ruling half of the world before his death. He was more powerful than any Tsar or Caesar and ruled an Empire larger than Genghis Khan or the Romans. All while intellectuals take about how dumb and ignorant to politics Stalin was. From where I'm sitting he seems like the smarter politician than everyone else in the Bolshevik regime. His rise to power is actually fascinating but you really have to look at Russian post 1991 biographies to get a feel for who Stalin really was! Cheers!!!

[@schaylice]

damn

[@georgethecoconut3854]

Is there any documentaries about his life before the ussr?

[@joesalyers]

@@georgethecoconut3854 Not any video documentaries that I know of but their are countless books talking about this time in his life. The best Biography is the well researched 3 part series by Stephen Kotkin. Also Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn talks extensively about Stalin, and their are numerous books written about him after the fall of the USSR when the Soviet archives were opened up from about 1993 to around 2000 that changed the narrative on Stalin and shed some light on him that no one really knew before the fall of communism. Cheers!

[@ronnymjs758]

history tends to repeat itself

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

At 8:20: "Him and Lenin worked out the question of the nationalities," eh? Are you planning on doing a version of this documentary in English any time soon?

[@RoseSlane]

Good Morning Kelly.. Again.... Thanks NYPD

[@arturamatuni5801]

Lenin to vere a Jewish by he's mother side. Moters last name was Blank

[@SymphonyBrahms]

His family was aristocratic.

[@thulean_mysteries]

Yes, the revolution as a whole was made by Jews.

[@GooseGumlizzard]

no he wasn't. There is an argument that his mother's father may have been Jewish and converted to Christianity, but its not a fact, and even if it was that would only make him 1/4 Jewish and Jewishness is matrilineal anyway.

[@ouroborosnagyok9306]

@@SymphonyBrahmslol

[@magdalenachadrys9437]

So what????

[@FriedRiceINC]

Refreshing to see a Western documentary about the USSR not resort to the so-called "Double Genocide" theory that so many people are pushing today in a way that obfuscates German crimes. I appreciate this video for having a fair take on the tragedy of forced collectivization.

[@willboudreau1187]

Trotsky was sent off to do pheasant shooting while Stalin stayed put and engaged in peasant shooting. A bitter symmetry.

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Lenin 😈 was a clever/astute/opportunist whom patiently waited in exile. Upon his return to Moscow's chaotic political situation. Connected with Stalin to finalize the Kremlin revolution. With the assistance of the disillusioned Bolsheviks. Many whom were murdered or imprisoned. After Stalin 😈 had an iron clad communist ideology syndrome over Russia. Lenin was the lesser of two evils being diabolically paranoid Stalin 😈.

[@kambigbad]

What is the source of the video at 00:11?

[@Xarmutinha]

I like the fact that grave errors and evil intents are attached to Stalin and not communism or the USSR.... He really acted in a very anti-communist way...

[@TrapperWelch]

So what about Mao, Pot, Castro, Jung-il? Whenever has it acted in the actual communist way, it’s all led to totalitarian rule with death, famine and human rights abuses.

[@MrNote-lz7lh]

Nope. That was the inevitable result of trying to put communism in practice. Everything he did was required to stick as close to communism as possible. Although true communism itself is impossible.

[@MIKEBEAN-1888]

24:05 I gotta disagree on that perspective on the Holodomor. It was 100% a targeted/ state sanction famine towards the "kulaks" class of Ukraine. My family fled during this time to america due to the state siezing all food, sending it to major cities instead. The kulak class was a "scapegoat" for the bolsheviks, and saying it wasn't intended is 100% false

[@Snaxolotl71]

Stalin used his Comically Large Spoon to eat all of the grain in Ukraine

[@dww-yo4xz]

The assertion that the collectivization caused the hunger is wrong. Crop failures happened in the Russian Empire every few years due the harsh climate. Actually, the collectivization was the measure to use agricultural machinery, so to level up the productivity and to end the hunger problems. . The issue was, when the drought came, the grain reserves were already contracted for the export, so the possibility for help was not big. Still, where collectivization was in progress, the people got centralized food help from the state, whereas otherwise it was depending from the local authorities some of whom were unintended to help or just corrupt. . That's why some areas were struck by hunger, and their neighbor areas were not. But the authors are biased themselves, so don't mention this fact.

[@jons4418]

Don’t stop lying, it suits you.

[@ouroborosnagyok9306]

@@jons4418keep being a mindless beta, it suits you

[@jons4418]

@@ouroborosnagyok9306 you don’t know from nothing you’re the bot

[@sevvythe3rd597]

The famine targeted ukraine and the caucuses to suppress the nationalizm that was rising during the previous famines and the brutalization from the nkvd, regardless if it was natural or not, it doesn't bring back the 1 million people who died from the states neglect

[@Ravenoflight2275]

I have nothing against the History of Russia or it’s amazing people. I honestly want them to respect other countries and for Russia to be a better ,great country.

[@variain]

"from out of nowhere, Vladimir Lenin..." ???

[@ericdbates]

@2:25… no, the 20th Century was the German question. even the Cold War revolved around how to contain that country. really, in the end Germany won despite the loses at the war.

[@TopTrend89083]

Good

[@rex7471]

10:24 the Soviet Union was not “socialist” it was communist. Socialism implies democracy whereas communism is authoritarian by nature. Crazy how even historians get the two mixed up.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

@@rex7471 We know it was not socialist but they called themselves Union Of Soviet Socialist Republic, as you may know. We also know that the term “socialist” has been destined for misuse throughout history with various dictatorial regimes.

[@rex7471]

@@FreeDocumentaryHistory and there’s a place called the democratic republic of the Congo. Not democratic or a republic. People call themselves whatever.

[@rex7471]

@@FreeDocumentaryHistory it’s the job of a historian to explain so you don’t have a society that’s interchanges the words like they’re synonyms.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

@@rex7471 another example: former East Germany was known as the German Democratic Republic and it was decidedly not.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

@@rex7471 absolutely and they give it their best some more successfully than other but they do try. We have to listen to

[@bertbaker7067]

The USSR wasn't perfect, but we need to try something new and build on what worked for them and fix what didn't. It doesn't take a genius to see that our current system is not working anymore.

[@mattclark6721]

Famous last words. What you are not a fan on of crony captilisim? Getting more crony everyday

[@ouroborosnagyok9306]

@@mattclark6721its not crony capitalism wtf is that term, use your brain its just capitalism, its working exactly how its meant to

[@joeducker8543]

@@mattclark6721 tell that to the starving people in every communist country ever communism doesn’t work you have to have a make sure of capitalism in there for to even work

[@EmmaTaban-nh8de]

History speaks for itself

[@stevefisher2553]

Exactly what is happening in the former United States of America

[@marccru]

???? What?

[@pyatig]

One can only hope

[@SymphonyBrahms]

Nothing is happening to the U.S.A. Socialism will not happen here. Neither will faschism. The American people don't like either of those philosophies.

[@stevefisher2553]

@@SymphonyBrahms we are fighting fascism.

[@stevefisher2553]

@@SymphonyBrahms hope you are right

[@defunctchannel942]

This documentary was pretty disappointing because of how little it actually discusses the Soviet Union itself and it mostly just looks at the Soviet Union in relation to the United States and the rest of the West. There was a bit about Soviet life in the 1st party during the Lenin and Stalin years, but that quickly fades, and the Soviet Union ceases to be the largest country ever taking up 1/6th of the Earth's landmass with the largest population, and becomes just a label on the map as we look at Czechoslovakia, Vietnam, Cuba, Germany, and so on. We would never do a documentary about the United States but only looking at it in relation to other nations, but somehow a nation that rivaled it enough to be considered a superpower can be diminished to just ignoring its internal politics, culture, daily life of its people, and any of its non hostile international relations. The Soviet Union for the millionth time is just the villain of a play called Cold War, and we learn nothing new.

[@stanleyquaye8851]

Trosky real name was Lev Davidovich Bronstein

[@GooseGumlizzard]

ok? Lenin's real name was Ulyanov. Stalin's real name was Dzhugashvili

[@Dailymoisturizin]

24:05 "historians who looked really close at this don't believe it was an attack on Ukranian nationalism". I'm a little conflicted at this, if you look up Holodomor (the Ukranian name for the famine) many sources say it's man-made and intentional.

[@adina30]

I agree, it suspiciously targeted minorities who were probably most likely to revolt (the native Siberian cultures, too)

[@АлексейСмирнов-к4л]

Only ethnic Ukrainians suffered from hunger? Didn't Russians, Tatars, Germans, Kalmyks, other peoples want to eat?

[@Contessa6363]

The Trans-Siberian Railroad was built with convict labor. The only tools they had were picks and shovels.

[@JohnSRafferty]

Wait... so a small group of people had a revolution and were given total control, both socially and economically, of a nation and then proceeded to make terrible decisions and/or intentionally destroy and subjugate the peasant class? Boy what a crazy thing. Who would expect such a thing.

[@shellsheridan8056]

Actually they have huge support from people

[@LilMOMMAson]

the USSR was multinational

[@jenniferyates4969]

I see what you meant there...sadly, not everyone can it seems...

[@cicaizrogace8054]

Vredi pogledati. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@jordantynkler201]

Мы будем восхвалять Советский Союз, пока сможем.

[@henrybostick5167]

I thank my God In heaven that the Red Army was there to deal with the Whermact , because I seriously doubt any other army or combination of armies could have withstood the fury of a fighting force they had built. It wasn't until the Whermact was greatly weakened by the Red Army that American and British forces were able to go toe to toe with the Whermact and the Luftwaffe...

[@Garrett-w9k]

The U.S. didn't even enter the war until D-Day. The U.S. would've invaded and won by themselves or bombed them like Japan if they needed to. Russia rushed Berlin because Stalin wanted the credit and his people suffered for it

[@tejasthakur7359]

India Russia friendship forever !!🇮🇳 🇷🇺

[@liYo-f4p]

Mediocre

[@bloopjohnson]

Who said that?

[@oldmansportsog2514]

That's nothing to brag about. Russia is a crao hole who invaded areas and pushed their ideology onto others groups who didn't have a choice in it

[@anggvoagg7881]

I had this for sega

[@hyperionsixzeroeight5064]

The Ruse of the Kosher Kabal union to be precise.

[@samlazar1053]

Traditionally Russian politics evolved on Keeping a good relationship whit either France or Germany but also a safe distance from the slaughter hause that Europe historically was.. But what made Stalin suddenly want to subdue all of Europe. And I think it was about fundamental changes russia was experiencing internally and the Complete Collapse of all European empires in World war 1.( plus a Russian civil war. That anger gave rise to Stalinism

[@РодионФилиппов-ь6ь]

Stalinism was born out of a struggle for power and Stalin never had the goal of subjugating Europe. Stalin had the goal of building communism in a single country. But Trotsky wanted to spark a world communist revolution throughout the world. For this reason, Trotsky and Stalin were enemies. The Polish-Bolshevik war in 1919-1921 was the result of the policies of Trotsky-Lenin.

[@cognitivedissonancecamp6326]

24:00 "The Jewish politburo didn't deliberately kill Ukrainian orthodox Christian's in a famine, they just forced them to collectivize, sold their crops and bought military hardware making technology that will be used against the same Germans who helped them develop the tech." Ding ding ding - we have a whitewash on isle 24

[@alexanderjdivic4784]

Wow, sounds eerily similar to exactly how the Ukrainians are being used today. Same politburo forcing them to be used as a weapon against the very nation who gave them statehood.

[@mosesmanaka8109]

So-called Historians always forget to ask the important questions like, who funded Lenin and the Revolution?

[@blackadam6445]

Who did fund him? Deep pockets required

[@mosesmanaka8109]

@@blackadam6445 New York Bankers.

[@superduperwan]

@@mosesmanaka8109 is that the germany guy that helped japan, and the 'red shield'? 🤔

[@blackadam6445]

@@mosesmanaka8109 these New York bankers… could they use similar tactics to stage false flags in our own country? Whether it’s war in the Middle East or war in Europe it doesn’t matter. Makes money all the same in their eyes I’m sure

[@was1992]

French

[@firstal3799]

A thing to note is famines were a part of course for much of human populations until quite recently. And so was it in Russia of the time. I am not in a position to say if Russian state policies didn't contribute or exacerbate it, which it probably did. But we have to see it in context especially when we are aware of the tremendous ideological and competing bias against Soviet Russia

[@foxy_codone4779]

It wasn't just exacerbated, it was completely created by Stalin taking food from peasants and then hiding his doings from the larger cities. Drought or crop fail is not to blame, Stalin is.

[@1965Grit]

I try to explain that to people all the time, before anyone can judge what happened, you must first understand what the entire world was like at the time, we cannot judge people of the past based on today's standards, we should only judge them on the standards of the time in which they lived.

[@firstal3799]

Exactly.

[@josephleonard1724]

42:20 did he though??....

[@shabinaamin7668]

i have one thing to say.. ☭

[@HuwadKami-i2n]

Sa digmaan laging panalo ang marami ngunit ang totoo mas marami ang mga mamamayan ng bawat lupain na ayaw ng digmaan. Mag ingat kayo

[@ericb2501]

"Lenin didn't want anyone to succeed him." < 2 minutes into the dang documentary and the falsehoods and bull-💩 starts.

[@gts3004]

Why did he kill the kulaks?

[@raymondhartmeijer9300]

because they were sabotaging the economy by setting fields ablaze and killing lifestock. They were economic criminals

[@comradezy]

Because they resisted collectivization by sabotaging their own crops and livestock and thus caused the famine.

[@EngPheniks]

Salute to USSR, India's good and true friend during Indo-Pakistani war

[@dietrichschluter5562]

Stalin had 3 defense positions in russia, he was aware of an attack but thought it was impossible for the germans to break these lines.

[@bangyahead1]

LOL If the Soviet Union was to define the entire 20th century, then, logically, by that definition, the entire 20th century was an EPIC FAIL.

[@gfNavy731]

Precisely

[@РодионФилиппов-ь6ь]

Well, the Soviet Union defined the 20th century, that’s for sure. But I won’t say that the 20th century is a failure. Let's say the Soviet Union defeated nazism and fascism as an ideology, helped to collapse the British and French colonial empires (Suez crisis of 1956), which is why many colonies gained independence. Rivalry in high technology, which he imposed on Western countries (Space Race) and in other areas. The USA was forced to give equal rights to African Americans under pressure from the USSR, because in the USSR all nations were equal regardless of their skin color or race. Also the development of trade unions defending the rights of workers in Western capitalist countries (such as the right to paid leave, the right to sick leave...).