Stalin's Great Purge | The Great Terror (1932-1940)

[@Rorynes]

The one who shot the one who shot the other who had shot many others before ,has been shot also.

[@thekhans2823]

@ Nestor Thomsen , (I’m Mongolian 🇲🇳 where there was a coordinated Great purge also 1937-1938) My Great Grandfather was a Buddhist Monk, ( They targeted Buddhist monks during the purge) But luckily his teacher had a vision of that happening so he was able to escape

[@CC-rb1yf]

Stalin probably the last shot

[@tallandhandsome29]

Seemed to be pretty relentless. Sound as if they grew to enjoy it.

[@wolfu597]

If my memory serves me correctly, that's how Djengis Khan hid the location of his final resting place.

[@Rorynes]

@@wolfu597 He left no witnesses.

[@deanhallett6815]

And the lesson from History is; never, never, never give power without accountability.

[@stephenmcdonagh2795]

Like the EUSSR...

[@dr3yfusz]

like the elite in the us have? yeah agreed, wish they were communist

[@fredflintstone8998]

'Power without accountability' ... yes, you have it in a nutshell. Well put sir... we have some of that in England now with Dominic Cummings.

[@mikefay5698]

Well that would mean there is no History since as Napoleon observed , "History is mainly lies which we all agree upon!"

[@mikefay5698]

@Chris Russell Russian here Russian there Russian everywhere toward a doomed Capitalist state. Creepy Joe shut the door Russia is Rushing in!

[@concernedcitizen5053]

I'm a Scotsman. I'm currently pursuing the MA Russian and Central-Eastern European Studies at the University of Glasgow and it's a pleasure to stumble upon a man as passionate about studying this fascinating period as myself.

[@HoH]

It certainly is fascinating and there are many great books written about this period. I am currently reading Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith. It's an amazing book, I definitely recommend it.

[@robertsansone1680]

Robert Conquest, The Great Terror, copyright 1968. Edvard Radzinsky, Stalin, copyright 1996. Conquest wrote several other books about the purges. The reason I mention this one is, A. I read it, and B. The fact that the Soviets didn't open their archives to him. He said that he got his estimates of deaths from Soviet sources. Mainly census figures. Taking into account WW2 loses, there should be twenty million more Russian people alive today. Radzinsky was allowed into Stalins personal library and into formerly secret archives. He confirms Conquests conclusions.

[@concernedcitizen5053]

@@HoHI have a copy of the Russian Job and a biography of Rasputin by Douglas Smith. I've just read the works of Robert Service. My professor studied under him at Oxford. I thoroughly enjoyed his trilogy of biographies on Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky. I also read his history of Modern Russia.

[@concernedcitizen5053]

@@robertsansone1680 Robert Conquest is not only considered a staple reading supplement for anybody on my course but we are frequently forced to read extracts of his books at compulsory tutorials. Great writer. I am currently in Ukraine, an epicentre of the Holodomor, where he is considered by many to be a hero in exposing the terrible deeds of the Stalinist regimes.

[@robertsansone1680]

@@concernedcitizen5053 Interesting. I am glad to hear that his works are not forgotten. Professor Conquest died only a few years ago. I remember reading his obituary. He lived to a ripe old age. We need people warning the world about evil. I saw a pro- Communists video on KZbin just the other night it was so full of lies & distortions it really infuriated me. What really disgusted me were the supportive comments. Communism is like an incurable disease. It apparently will never go away. Thanks For Your Information. Robert Sansone

[@neilreynolds3858]

There's a video of Stalin returning to Moscow and being met at the airport by his top men. You can see by his reaction the exact moment when Yezhov realizes he's a dead man: Stalin didn't shake his hand.

[@HeathenDance]

Can you share a link to such video, please?

[@garrettbaker2320]

He frequently had his right hand in his coat: freemason gesture.

[@HeathenDance]

@@garrettbaker2320 Stalin had a pretty simple personal life. He liked to spend time alone in his datcha listening to music, reading and smoke his pipe. Occasionaly, he bang his maid. His personality type would never allow him to get into that freemason pompous ritualistic shit.

[@davepowell7168]

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[@SkyguyFilmsZooruvfilms]

hahaha conspiracy. hand in coat was a sort of fashion trend back then, and i think stalin did it in order to sort of hide a small deformity in his arm due to a childhood disease which left his arm slightly shorter than the other@@garrettbaker2320

[@jonkore2024]

And the young of today do not listen to the history from their elders

[@leefithian3704]

They are using the Red China model , turn on their elders , then spend 60 yrs trying to tie their shoes , Bolshevik model killed off their rural farmers and starved everyone , CCP too

[@joethekinghawk7514]

When you get rid of God and trade it in with Charles Darwin and atheism and communism you Get Joseph Stalin.

[@brabham74]

Korepta, you are right, and I am pretty sure we are seeing the beginning of the end of the "western" countries that we grew up in and loved. Loved because of individual liberty and freedom, which is the polar opposite to the socialist/communist plague that is growing, yet again.

[@tmcche7881]

As such, this video and the others should be required viewing for the useful idiots that cannot tie their own shoe laces. Including democrats that believe they are just one massacre away from their socialist utopia. If only they can murder all of the right people this time.

[@leefithian3704]

@@joethekinghawk7514 there is a balance with Darwin , Peterson doesn’t toss out Darwin models nor is he atheist in it’s role in our world as far as we know today , religion is the opposite side to that balance, too far either way is a dark age or godless purge

[@robertphillips6296]

Wasn't it Stalin who said, "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime."

[@HoH]

I think that was Beria, his right hand man eagerly carrying out much of his dirty work.

[@mattanderson6336]

I think Beria said ‘bring me the man and I’ll invent the crime.

[@joethekinghawk7514]

Yes.

[@joethekinghawk7514]

When you get rid of God and trade it in with Charles Darwin and atheism and communism you Get Joseph Stalin.

[@7curiogeo]

Sounds like words of the democrats for their impeachment of our President. Here are the template used by the democrats today.

[@Rog5446]

Khrushchev was himself lucky to survive the purge.

[@borracho7]

Dude, Khrushchev was one of those who was responsible for repressions.

[@SpiritOfOrange]

Molotov was the lucky one.

[@borracho7]

@@SpiritOfOrange, omg, what do you mean when you say “lucky”? Molotov was also responsible for repressions as lots of other people in politburo (most of them became the main critics of Stalin after his death), Molotov was close friend of Stalin, he was one of the oldest bolsheviks in the party. He wasn’t lucky, because it was not about luck, okey?

[@SpiritOfOrange]

@@borracho7 Yes, he was lucky because he was on Stalin’s many death lists. “Molotov retained his place as a leading Soviet diplomat and politician until March 1949, when he fell out of Stalin's favour and lost the foreign affairs ministry leadership to Andrei Vyshinsky. Molotov's relationship with Stalin deteriorated further, with Stalin criticizing Molotov in a speech to the 19th Party Congress.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Molotov EDIT: Additionally, being “one of the oldest Bolsheviks in the party” is no argument for impunity from Stalin’s purges. Look what happened to Trotsky.

[@borracho7]

@@SpiritOfOrange, lol, Wikipedia, bro. 1. We talk about the Great Purge, 1949 isn’t the time of Great Purge. 2. Molotov was dismissed in 1949 not because of he lost Stalin’s favour but because of Beria and Malenkov tried to clean the way to power for themselves. 3. Stalin criticized lot of people and not all of those people were killed or repressed. Criticism is okay, and Molotov or for example Rokossovsky often argued with Stalin. They continued to work together (Stalin and Molotov) after 1949 and till the death of Stalin Molotov was known in public opinion and in state propaganda as the second man in the country right after Stalin. 4. Trotsky was not old bolshevik, he becarme the member of bolshevik’s party only in July 1917, Molotov was the member of RSDRP since 1906 (he was only 16 years old at this time). Also Trotsky didn’t support a lot of bolshevik’s decisions, he wasn’t bolshevik if we talk about his political ideas. Molotov was much more consistent in this issue. I agree that it was not something like absolute shield but this thing meant a lot for Stalin and for the party.

[@sheilamacdougal4874]

Only one thing is more incredible than the scope of this terror: the number of Western communists who remained in the party and stayed loyal to Stalin throughout.

[@anthonyfuqua6988]

Including Paul Robeson

[@sheilamacdougal4874]

@@anthonyfuqua6988 Indeed.

[@sheilamacdougal4874]

@@anthonyfuqua6988 And Pete Seeger while we're at it. I don't recall if he actually was a member, but certainly was an enthusiastic fellow traveler and apologist.

[@anthonyfuqua6988]

@@sheilamacdougal4874 Yes the show trials of 37 an 38 did turn off some western communists but not all. Robeson continued to visit even after the trials. I know Seeger was involved but to what extent I'm not 100% sure on when he became lukewarm on Stalanism. I think his flirtation with Marxism continued though.

[@johnh.tuomala4379]

None were more loyal to Stalin than his American apologists.

[@jglammi]

The NEW YORK TIMES praised the trials as an example of true justice

[@anthonysalgado5118]

Not much has changed with the NYT.

[@realsushrey]

Can you link that for me?

[@TheJosephPrice]

We weren’t exactly a bastón of freedom then either. Things are much better now.

[@anthonysalgado5118]

@Nasty Lil bitch millions of people were not put in gulags , displaced and killed in the USA compared to the USSR.

[@mattyvonlong-schlong4433]

Uncle Joe strikes again

[@Ashguy733]

Stalin: Execute Order 66 "It will be done my Secretary General."

[@theworldoverheavan560]

lol

[@thekhans2823]

@ Sergio Ruiz , You have no idea. There was also a Great purge in Mongolia 🇲🇳 1937-1938, Nearly 7 to 9 percent of the population was killed, it was a miracle that my ancestors survived

[@zeckiel6109]

@@thekhans2823 do you have any scorce

[@thekhans2823]

@ Caesar Augustus Zeckiel , ??? Wait so your doubting that it even happened ? Mongolia had a Great Purge too at the same as as the Soviet’s ,

[@RealLordkiffington]

@@thekhans2823 I'm sorry I had no idea, that's terrible

[@gizboliberty8643]

Thank you for this horrifying but valuable piece of history

[@isaacpowell6182]

Y did the polish operation of the nkvd start I need help I’m doing a project on this

[@_S.T.A.L.K.E.R._]

Correct its just sad how much misinformation is out there.

[@thebestofallworlds187]

@@isaacpowell6182 will you do research on what Putin says here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXrIiqJ8ZrubfsU

[@thebestofallworlds187]

@@_S.T.A.L.K.E.R._ what misinformation?

[@lawbringer8085]

@@thebestofallworlds187 believe he’s talking about these ‘independent fact checkers’ that hide the truth

[@swimmad456]

While there’s a lot of pleasure to had from seeing Communists being destroyed by their own creation, we must not forget the ordinary innocent citizens lost in this madness.

[@Yodumeee]

Destroyed? It's spreading around the world right now. Swallowing Europe and the U.S. as we speak

[@lothar3610]

@@Yodumeee Well said. But maybe 1 % of population sees this.

[@anthonyjbrostayshigh9422]

@@Yodumeee its more of a technological corporatist takeover that wants to turn people into mindless consumers all living on a social credit system...shits some transhumanist shit

[@francismarion4450]

@@Yodumeee That was Soviet Socialism. American Socialism will be perfect.

[@johnratican3824]

Good point. A lot of ordinary Soviet citizens were killed or starved to death by being trapped in this country held by this monster of a leader.

[@qirat73]

Party member 1: Wow we're killing alot of our own Stalin: You get shot Party member 2: Very good comrade Stalin, he was probably planning something Staling: Thanks, you get shot too

[@joethekinghawk7514]

When you get rid of God and trade it in with Charles Darwin and atheism and communism you Get Joseph Stalin.

[@nicholasbrassard3512]

@@joethekinghawk7514 a lot of people don't believe in god without become paranoid murderers lmao calm your religious preaching xD

[@chrislastname744]

@@nicholasbrassard3512 He has a point though. Without an absolute authority, one who provided the basic fundamental human rights Laws there is really no accountability. If you accept evolution as fact then who has the right to determine what is right or wrong? You cant tell me how to behave and I cant tell you. Its survival of the fittest right? God provided 10 simple laws on how to behave and WE, man, choose to ignore them and ultimately, HIM. We even blather on that we are doing whatever we do in Hs name. Pfft! Look how thats turned out. He will have something to say to each of us when the time comes. Especially those who claimed to do it in His name.

[@TheFlutecart]

@@chrislastname744 Meh, absolute authority corrupts absolutely. One need go no further that the history of the Popes to understand that if there is a God, then it's every man's decision as to the workings of God's will and right and wrong.

[@francismarion4450]

Oh there is, and everyone will be held accountable. Even Pope's.

[@victoria653]

It's crazy to think to there's still a lot of people in Russia that are fanatical about Stalin.

[@gingersnap9712]

Its a shame his horrific gulags arent up and running just for them

[@Mentol_]

Here is a brief list of the achievements of the two revolutions of 1917: - The peasants were given more land. - The working day is reduced from 10.5 hours to 8 hours. - Improvement of the health care system. - The policy of eliminating illiteracy of the population. - Equality of men and women is presented. - Elimination of class privileges. - Separation of church from state.

[@anderspersson7084]

@@Mentol_ If you where Stalin everyone that dissagred with that (what you just stated without proofing it in any way) would have been executed if they didn't gave you applause and flattering words, it's pretty clear that Stalin was a trailblazer in genocides earlier than Hitler who later wanted to compete with Stalin for the biggest terror on the human race, and with the history books we can also see that Stalin vad ni problem being a racist and doing ethnicall cleansing. In WWII be also demanded the army to keep the civilians in and don't let them evacuate the cities that where under attack, that caused millions of civilians deaths and dead people usually don't have much use of nice words on a paper that is created to glorify and misslead those who wasn't there wasn't fanatic secteristic followers of the Stalin Cult, the truth is that Communists in power never got held accountable by those fundamentalists who make Communist/Socialist Ideologies their new religion, they can't aknowledged that people from the Socialist Party in Italy started the Facist Party there, they have no problem (100% of all lies is created to keep the truth away from the reciver of the lie) so fanatics leftists never bring up the terror of Communist/Matxist/Socialist regimes, they never going to bring up Holodomor, Gulag the ethnicall cleansings, they never brings up "The Great Leap" or the "Cultural Revolution" that was a way to keep those who demanded leaders hel accountable for the first one, they never brings up the Red Khmeers genocide in Cambodia, they have no problem to hide the true name of the party Hitler lead National Socialist Party that in the 1920-30s also said "Take the power from the Aristhocrats" and "Nationalize the Banks, and Industrial Corporations" they started with the watchmakers and scared all Bank and Industrial leaders to get behind them with that move, they also wanted to build a huge state machinery as all communist/socialist wants, and whole the media and cultur sectors where injected with goverment money, and after that they infiltrated all institutions from schools to science projects to put ideological loyals in charge and fire political opponents from the whole area. Todays leftists neverlift a finger when a leader of a country of 5 millions shot and kill 300 protester in a few minutes and injuries thousands by using excessive brutality, in that kind of cases todays pro communist/socialist never want it on their prefered news media they don't brings it up to public discussions, they just don't want it to be known so their images of being a humanitarian ideology going to keep fooling people untill they get into power and can start their Reign Of Terror once more creating genocide after genocide on those who ever have the courage to hold them accountable for their actions here and know and in history, remember that lies keeps the truth away from you 100% so be aware of those who tries to hide the truth, and when you find out anyway they try to confuse you, if you still doesn't giving up on finding the truth they then tries to misslead you with false "evidence" and other methods or bombard you with "Whatabouisms". Marx once said that Capitalism going to end in powerful Monopolies, Communists and Socialists said: "Well why not create those monopolies directly and create a state of Political Nepotism camouflaged as an political ideology by selling it as an Utopia Faritayle to the people, and then we in the top can live lifes like the richest capitalists but with control over the justice system and all kind of weapons from military, police and intelligence agencies so we never can be hels accountable", to give away the power to the ideologies that created the most egoistic politians rulers that ever walked on earth, how can we not teach coming generations of the Nazino Island (Cannibal Island) in Siberia were Communist/Socialists placed political prisoners together with hardened criminals without food to let them eat each other, at that time when the Communist Regime at that moment first discarded all passports and a little later reintroduced passports but only to the ones the Communist Party thought was agreeable and then made it a criminal offense to don't have a passport so they could hunt down their critics, talk about political corruption what can be more corrupt than killing your opponents in such a way.

[@Mentol_]

1. Stalin was never a racist. Racism is not compatible with internationalism. 2. Of course, you cannot quote Stalin’s order forbidding civilians to evacuate from cities during the war. Because it's a fake. 3. After the famine in 1933, some communists and agrarian workers were condemned by the state for misconduct during the disaster. 4. Communism has never proclaimed itself a new religion. 5. Hitler said in an interview that the name of his party could be liberal. It’s just populism to draw the attention of social justice advocates to his party. The rest of your rhetoric is conspiracy theories.

[@Hliouxas]

Not only in Russia. The communist party in Greece , still idolise him and come up with the excuse that the great purge was and is anti-communist propaganda. My grandfather ( who was Greek ) after surviving the purge , he still fought valiantly in the second world war...

[@VikingLord101]

I’m surprised how this video has not hit 1 million views great work my friend thank you for talking about this horrific time in history I wish you the best 🙏

[@franciscovarela7127]

A country drenched in blood.

[@nikitag1376]

Thank you for the video, I've been researching on this topic for a while now, to be honest this is quite different perspective on the causes of the purges.

[@Manowarmx3]

Curious to hear what other perspective did you know/learn?

[@pooder53]

A farm worker greets Josef Stalin at his potato farm. “Comrade Stalin, we have so many potatoes that, piled one on top of the other, they would reach all the way to God,” the farmer excitedly tells his leader. “But God does not exist,” replies Stalin. “Exactly,” says the farmer. “Neither do the potatoes.” 🙃

[@pawelnowak9440]

What is more funny prosecutor Vyshinsky was a prominent prosecutor in 1917 during Kierenski government and demanded Lenin dead or alive when Lenin was in a hide

[@kazkk2321]

That’s awesomeness man. Nice 😭👏🤗👍🏻

[@pooder53]

@@kazkk2321 yeah, too bad the farmer was executed via firing squad 😒

[@1959mstone]

What's that Joe Biden I saw?

[@Noname-c9w2g]

You, my friend, just got yourself in trouble. Even by telling this joke to your family member, you committed a crime. And we are talking the entire Internet here who heard you telling that joke. No, you will not be shot. You will only spend 15 years in a labor camp. If you starve to death or die of a disease in the camp, you will eventually be claimed innocent.

[@ciciliaqiu299]

Thank you! This is so well presented and informative! And it deepens my understanding of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm to a new level!

[@aleksandra.korzycka3192]

Kirov was not shot on the street but inside the building (party headquarters at Smolny Institute)

[@HoH]

Good point. The sources I read about it stated it was on the street at night closeby the Smolny institute, but one quick google search reveals you’re right. Thanks for the reply!

[@yggdrasil9039]

Yes I recall that about Kirov from the documentary Stalin Man of Steel.

[@GINGOLOGUNGA]

His bodyguard was held up outside of the building when Kirov was shot. Later, that bodyguard was killed in a suspicious car accident...

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

@@GINGOLOGUNGA One account tells of Kirov being with the wife of a junior party member at an apartment house. The husband who was on duty that night got the ratting from an unknown source ( ... ), & rushed there. & of curse Kirov's bodyguard was nowhere in sight. Kirov answered the door knock and was confronted with the husband who shot him dead after some harsh exchange. In any case it was a cheka set-up on the master's orders. The 1992 Robert Duvall movie adopted the thesis quoted by the O.P. Later when Mr. K ordered the reburial of Awfoul Joe, he had him put under a simple stone slab with just name + entry & exit vintages. & neighbour to Kirov.

[@marinpanoniaskapunk]

She corrected you. Shot?

[@brabham74]

If anyone is failing to recognize that this is now beginning again, but this time in the western world, then you are not paying attention.

[@nicholasbrassard3512]

A lot of americans seem very paranoid about communists xD do you guys think it's still the cold war or something? I've yet to see any politician coming close being a socialist or advocating this type of shit

[@brabham74]

@@nicholasbrassard3512 , you aren't paying attention, or you have no connection with reality. It is one of those two things.

[@Kayvonix]

@@brabham74 you seem like a moron...maybe smoke some weed and calm down Joe Biden isnt leading us to communism lmao hes literally Trump 2.0

[@brabham74]

@@Kayvonix , ok, you 82 IQ genius, what Is dementia Joe leading us to?

[@Kayvonix]

@@brabham74 the same shit Trump was doing take off your fox glasses my 32 IQ friend

[@felipesoares5900]

Here's a game: drink every time he says the word "shot".

[@gizboliberty8643]

I can't feel my face 9 minutes in

[@easy2findproductions2014]

I died of alcohol poisoning

[@jamesh8654]

Another day in Russia my friend

[@neilreynolds3858]

@@gizboliberty8643 🤣

[@peteredwards338]

Did the Winter Palace get stormed? I understood that the provisional government left and the Bolshevics walked in unopposed.

[@fredflintstone8998]

Amazing! ... prison floor sloped downwards to make cleaning up the blood easier... sounds 1984ish... great video.

[@lucioagelvis2134]

Katyn

[@johnratican3824]

.....and after I am shot, my last words will be, "Sorry for messing up your clean floor." gallows humor.

[@factenter6787]

"We have defeated the wrong enemy."--Gen. Geo. S. Patton

[@OBZRV82]

So he's down with the nazi's? Not surprised. Soviets, Nazi's and zionists should all swing on the gallows. 😅

[@michalaugustniak433]

either way, wall street financed all of them

[@OBZRV82]

@@michalaugustniak433 Of course..

[@steephanroy8461]

You defeated no one.. Don't flatter yourself... Communist muscle and the Soviet blood defeated the Third Reich .. the rest?? Well they stick around to take the credit..

[@jamessolana7641]

@@steephanroy8461 considering they were probably more scared of their own leader they were just cowards to me not willing to stand up to their own government a bunch of non patriots on both sides of the eastern front the only reason the soviets won is because they were more scared as the nazis didn’t persecute all of their people. I have no respect for either side of that front and if it was a 3 way war free people would have won nukes would’ve been out of communist reach for years

[@SpiritoftheHarvestMoon]

The timing of this showing up on my feed my god.

[@HoH]

This is a pretty old video of mine, so I'm rather surprised it received a few hundred views the past several days.

[@noelkosobucki9722]

@@HoH showed up for me today 2/21/21

[@bennyhightower416]

The youth in america can't hardly wait until this happens here.

[@Commie_Mike]

Hell yeah

[@craiga2002]

Those fools don't know anything about what happened to the "Old Bolsheviks.' Also you are too polite to mention that the total Soviet death toll was around 66M.

[@emuriddle9364]

Stalinism and Social Democracy are two different things. It's like saying Denmark is the same as North Korea. (Which isn't true.)

[@leefithian3704]

@@emuriddle9364 it’s all a sham without voter ID

[@joethekinghawk7514]

Welcome to cancelled culture, feminism, and woke social justice warriors. Way to go America

[@citizencairn5230]

This should be recommended reading for Guardian 'journalists... if only.

[@KimTebrok]

You are obviously totally ignorant. Just a pathetic moron sucked up to spout out about right wing media. Stalin was an unhinged psychopath, no doubt. But a deeper understanding is required.

[@dimstar1265]

very well put together, thank you!

[@jimmyfallon2484]

#Yang2020

[@1966bluemax]

Thank you comrade yang

[@pneitkrietnako9970]

interesting fact: in the Stalinist Soviet Union there were 538 prisoners per 100,000 people, and in the modern United States, there were 626 prisoners per 100,000 people. So ... Yes, that line from the song at the beginning of the video is quite true.

[@emmanueldidier321]

How many political prisoners in the US? How many Gulags in the US?

[@jeffclark7888]

Buffoon. Probably a Bolshevik.

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

But in the US there are no political prisoners and Stalin also has a habit of shooting many prisoners which kept the numbers down We give most of our murderers life sentences Also almost none of our prisons are in Alaska and our prisoners are fed (not the best food, but still food with the ability to buy a few things that are actually tasty)

[@patrickols]

Yes the USA is such an horrible place to live in

[@sands7779]

Although Americans prefer to imprison street criminals over white collar criminals and leaking classified documents is treated harshly; political repression is not on the scale of Russia. Putin has invested time in rehabilitating Stalin as an effective leader and banned historical organisation Memorial which documented Stalin's purges by labelling it as a foreign agent and charging people running it with criminal offenses including child abuse.

[@andyoncam1]

Slight correction. Kirov was assassinated inside the Smolny Institute, the location of his office, not on the street.

[@joshuagilbertyear926]

Yh wasn't it through the window

[@andyoncam1]

@@joshuagilbertyear926 He was shot by a man who walked up to Kirov as he walked down a corridor on the way to his office.

[@tonymullins6627]

A very good presentation. Will search for more of your videos.

[@isaacpowell6182]

Y did the polish operation of the nkvd start I need help I’m doing a project on this

[@deepwater2652]

Excellent presentation!

[@wmhhealth2018]

The great purge, the great reset. Not a coincidence.

[@christihiatt3459]

Not a coincidence at all; but maybe the architects of the reset will also disappear. The spirit of this age seems the same as then, that of an unclean spirit.

[@adacamper3627]

And the Great Leap Forward in China. Same thing. Millions died of starvation under Mao

[@misterscaz6011]

None of these things seem "great" (purge, reset ,leap) to me. In fact, they kind of suck.

[@adacamper3627]

@@misterscaz6011 i agree

[@rudimeergans5741]

@@adacamper3627 And all that was absolutely topped by the unspeakable crimes of Nazis,Germans and Hit(!)ler. As every school kid knows.

[@corettaha7855]

This reminds me of pirates captains who would take a couple of subordinates ashore to dig the hole to bury their treasure, then they’d cut their throats and bury their bodies with it so they didn’t have loose ends running around knowing where their treasure ended up. Harsh.

[@HoH]

And to think that the treasure, in this case, was a country and the lives of millions of people. Funny that you mention pirates - next week's Tuesday video will be about a Russian pirate that sparked one of the first large-scale revolts against the Tsarist regime in Russia!

[@BountyFlamor]

Did that really happen? After all, the only pirate that is known to ever bury treasure was William Kidd.

[@johnmcdonald9304]

Coretta Ha. Pirates didn't bury treasure. They headed for the nearest port and got drunk and fornicated with prostitutes.

[@jaa5097]

Чтобы это понять, необходимо жить в это время и в этой стране, где был кровавый диктатор Сталин.

[@legalvampire8136]

In Robert Louis Stevenson's novel 'Treasure Island', Long John Silver describes how his old pirate captain, Captain Flint selected 8 men to accompany him with the treasure and row to the island where they were to help him bury it. Only Captain Flint returned to the shore to be collected, the others were never seen again. Evidently he had found some way to eliminate them all after they buried the treasure, so there would be no one else left who knew where it was.

[@LKaramazov]

Excellent video! I’ve read court of the red tsar and Stalin’s hangmen several years ago, the first being one of my favorite books. This was a very well done video!

[@TheOnefrommany]

History - our best teacher

[@DatsWhatXiSaid]

Riddle: shot shot shot shot shot shot... vodka night OR purge?

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

Let's play R(ussian) R(oulette) to decide.

[@421less1]

"Realeased due to lack of evidence" Me: thats a thing?

[@jglammi]

The New York Times called these purge trials a good example of justice.

[@bertplank8011]

Today it is bankrupt and is propped up by wealthy people of a certain ethnicity.

[@richardque1036]

That included lillian helmann,"the more they deny it,the more they are guilty"she way on to defend stalin right until her dead in 1986.

[@princemichael4708]

NYT is a Jewish organisation what do you expect

[@NBrioDaZueraRules]

@@princemichael4708 then they should hate it, because jews are anti communist

[@NBrioDaZueraRules]

@@bertplank8011 of course, it's in new york, that'd be like being surprised that everyone in the government of burundi is black

[@elsapartida1471]

Thanks for share your history !! I need to hear many times because I dont understand english very well. If you vídeo has spanish subtitules..... I'll glad to read it. Thanks. Greetings from México

[@bigm9228]

Two of my grand uncles were shot in the Yezovchina. Their crime, studying in Germany!

[@mec1107]

Two of my family members where also shot. They said...."ALL LIVES MATTER"

[@joshuagilbertyear926]

Bit of an L unlucky g

[@neilreynolds3858]

It was a crime. They could say that what they were being told about the West was a lie.

[@georgequalls5043]

Interesting use of “You Are There”. scenes of the show trial. I recall watching this episode on TV in the 1950s. It was hosted by Walter Cronkite.

[@jglammi]

Princeton professor Stephen Kotkin has great interviews and lectures on line as well. He emphasizes the point that the purges cannot be understood in terms of Stalin's past or his personality only, but as the inevitable result of the communist system

[@jazz4asahel]

Correct. You're one of maybe four who understand this. Maybe five. Americans today are ignorant of this. Onward they march making things better for us all.

[@squatch545]

Then why didn't any other communist leader conduct purges, before or after Stalin?

[@jazz4asahel]

@@squatch545 Prior to Stalin was Lenin; anyone can read about Lenin's tactics. Contemporary with both were Beria, Trotsky, and others; read about them. Immediately following Stalin was Kruschev; plenty about his repressions are recorded. Not sure what point you are after. Lammi's comment about Kotkin's research is spot on: Kotkin noted that Stalin was true to communist doctrine originating with Marx et al, as were Lenin, and Trotsky and Russian Bolsheviks. What is currently runaway train in the United States seems shackled to this same ideology. The point I am after is, a kind of tactical Bolshevism is currently afoot in the United States guided by the same overall communist ideology. And that, some beg the public to see, is quite contrary to the cornerstone foundations that our forebears and Constitutional framers set forth for the guidance of the most precious republican democracy we have in these United States that, contrary to current cancel culture, has indeed been generous to Americans and foreigners alike, including our freed slaves.

[@DrummerJake_57]

@@jazz4asahel "precious republic democracy" I laughed out loud on that. "Cancel culture" is another manufactured outrage tactic by your precious. It's just accountability. Change is inevitable. Can't stay in the 50s forever. Upcoming generations just want to have a life of equity, fairness and a living wage. If that means breaking the status quo for a decent living, people are going to do it. Boomers are pissed at leftists taking hold in society now as if it wasn't a direct result from (*checks notes*) precious boomers creating them. Kids and grandkids are here now trying to survive and you fucking hate them.

[@nemamodgeddi5338]

I disagree, most other communist leaders aroubd the world and in the Soviet Union after Stalin, did use purges. The only other example was Pol Pot in Cambodia and Mao in China. It is false to say that purges are inherent in communist regimes or any type of regime.

[@Kulsarieff]

My great grandfather was arrested and blamed as a japanese spy in october 1938, only the month before Ezhov was removed from NKVD. Maybe only because of that he avoided being shot and was freed in 1940

[@JacobR522]

Ironic because the NKVD was not at all a communist organization and was later opposed by Stalin and like-minded individuals in the party and country (Marxist-Leninists). The NKVDs lead officials and leaders, Genrikh Yagoda and Nikolai Yezhov were both undemocratic conspirers who carried out illegal arrests and executions as the NKVD because of a lack of time and democratic consideration was at the time ahead of the democratic party parties and government organizations. This is ironic because despite all of this, in your extreme biased opinion (due to your grandfathers' bad faith retribution) you believe any wrongdoings were machinations of Stalin and the Communist party when Stalin personally wanted the NKVD punished more severely than they were! This perverted twisting of facts and entire generations of propagandized people is exactly where your blam and this idiots video come from

[@doubleplusgoodthinker9434]

Same in the UK including a lot who should have known better such as George Bernard Shaw.

[@buckgulick3968]

What is the Soviet trial movie you keep showing near the beginning? Looks like something I'd like to see.

[@michalfreidson1122]

You Bibliography should include Robert Conquest "The Great Terror" and "Harvest of Sorrow", no history of the period is complete without these.

[@HoH]

I've only used his Stalin: Breaker of Nations. If I find those books I'll definitely buy them though.

[@Vangolovesart]

Great video and very informative I knew there was a purge but nothing like the scale you have talked about, very chilling, especially with the current events unfolding in the USA

[@emmanueldidier321]

Read the books of Werth (in French) and Google "Nkvd secret orders".

[@johnratican3824]

Our historians usually have a romanticized view of any dictator of the Left. Stalin's horrors are continually played down.

[@terrancenorris9992]

Won't be any purges of folks in the U.S. The people of the SOVIET UNION were not armed. NKVD did Stalin's dirty work. The armed military was something Stalin knew better than to try to purge.

[@Vangolovesart]

@@terrancenorris9992 But Terrance he did purge the armed military and they defeated the White Army ( those that stayed loyal to the old order ) terror is such a powerful weapon , look at the Afghan Army they will not stand and fight they are hoping to get away with a story of "we were with you all the time we were just pretending to be with the Westerners , they have more than likely been giving the Taliban info for a least the last 4 months since your senile POTUS usurper told them that you were going 4 months ago , that is why they are moving so fast they had time to prepare without any concerns. I truly worry for your Republic the shinning light of freedom for the world, that light is being extinguished before our very eyes. Love free America

[@felixxxxxxstalin]

in the first second of the video there is cheap anti-Soviet propaganda. Cheap manipulation of consciousness. I am 100% sure that you and most foreigners here did not even understand this. Sorry for google translator

[@billashby7858]

Some people in the US think Stalin was a great man, and they are getting more powerful!

[@nikitakuznetsov8446]

Because he was, do actual research rather than listening to Western Propoganda.

[@jamesricker3997]

We are fortunate that they lost the last election

[@billashby7858]

@@nikitakuznetsov8446 So the millions of people that starved in the Ukraine did so because they refused to eat? Why do the people of the Ukraine hate the Russians, why do the Poles hate the Russians, why do the Czechs hate the Russians, why do the people of Hungary hate the Russians? I guess world history is not taught where you live!

[@billashby7858]

@@jamesricker3997 Watch CNN much?

[@dunc221]

By some people you must mean democrats!!! Democrats must pay now.

[@KOLDBLU3ST33L]

USA: SOUND FAMILIAR? WAKE. UP.

[@AnnalOfHistory]

Finally decided to check you out since you showed some interest in my history content. I've oddly enough heard people stating that the Purge was actually beneficial. Stating that the Officer purge was not damaging at all to the Red Army and actually made it vastly Superior since many of the officers "couldn't" be trained in the new tactics and so had to be removed for the new tactics that modern warfare called for to be implemented into the army. I 100% disagree on that assertion (largely because when you actually think about it, it's ridiculous) But still something that is kind of interesting to hear.

[@HoH]

Hey Tipsy, thanks for checking out my videos! Well, it is true that the Purge was beneficial to Stalin and his objectives of cementing his absolute, uncontested power. It shaped an administrative and social revolution, purging any and all unwanted elements from society. TIK (a channel that covers WW2 battles in depth) has made a very good video about the effects of Stalin's purge on the functioning of the Red Army, as that is something I am not familiar enough with to give a clear-cut answer to (although I am certain it was detrimental rather than beneficial).

[@tormundgaint1022]

Where did you hear from this absurd idea!!

[@thekhans2823]

@ House of History , You forgot the Great PURGE of Mongolia 🇲🇳, it took place at the same time 1938-1938, Nearly 7 to 9 percent of the population was killed. My Great Grandfather would have been one of them since he was a Buddhist Monk, but luckily his teacher had a vision of that happening so he was able to escape

[@julianshepherd2038]

There are arguments for modernising your officers but shooting them is not necessary.

[@herptek]

The new "tactics" that came out of such a purge failed spectacularly not long after the fact.

[@christopherarnold3844]

Thank you I really enjoyed the video.

[@darwinism14]

Churchill and Roosevelt called this monster - uncle Joe

[@jameslawlor1404]

Apparently Churchill despised him. Patton was right, should have continued on

[@matthewjames206]

He was seen as the lesser evil to Hitler.

[@opannefrank1986]

They needed him. Stalin was a complete madman, and he was exactly what was needed to keep that Nazi madman busy in the East. Remember, without Russian efforts, the allies would have a nearly impossible task of overcoming Fortress Europe and establishing a continental beach head.

[@darwinism14]

@@opannefrank1986 in a few words - no one cared for the millions of death in Ukraine (caused by hunger), because Uncle Joe found himself among the "good guys", right?

[@opannefrank1986]

@@darwinism14 I care about the atrocities committed by Stalin. I'm just explaining the historical context of the alliance. It wasn't an alliance of mutual respect, shared cultural values, or convivial fondness. It was an alliance of necessity

[@fredturboduck]

Great video! Very educational.

[@emmamcniven144]

really interesting!! thanks for the video

[@scottfranco1962]

"todays man is not up to the demands of his history" - Orwell.

[@jpbulkley33]

New subscriber. Thanks for this piece. Full of substance and visually interesting. Well done.

[@chrismashburn9710]

Hair salon receptionist reads his mid-term report, his right hand engaged in languid interpretive lap dance accompanyment, his left a limp and indifferent audience of extras meant to draw the eye to a completely non-cliche...wait for it...open book. Eighteen minutes. No refresh on the pomade. No noticable break for Visine. Truly emotive and visceral when brutality can be both subject and substance...

[@albertarthurparsnips5141]

I know this will seem dreadfully trivial to some readers, but you present yourself as well-groomed and dressed as Timeghosts Indy Nydel. You always look impeccable !

[@ThisisBarris]

Hey man, Definitely enjoyed this video. Really well researched and a great way to shed light on the tragedy that was Stalin's Great Purge. I like that you have a decors set-up for your videos, really helps set the mood. Also, keep filming during the day, much better for lighting and video quality. If you can, however, I recommend setting the desk with you facing towards the window so the lighting illuminates your face evenly rather than creating dark shadows. Of course, not too directly, or you'll be blinded... But I guess it'll be complicated to move the bookshelf? There's a definite improvement from your Finn video, which was already pretty good. Instead of the zoomed in photos, I suggest editing them as a window beside you (on the right). It'll allow us more time to watch and well, avoid the reduction in quality from zooming in. Finally, I recommend buying a cheap lavalier mic just to improve the sound quality - if you can afford it. I hope this helps you out; again, just my subjective opinion so take it with a grain of salt. I definitely subbed and I look forward to more content!

[@HoH]

Thank you for the kind words. I am completely new when it comes to creating videos so any advice is more than welcome! You make a very fair point about the window, I hadn't thought about that. I am moving house next month so hopefully I will be able to create a bit of a better set-up than I have right now. I strive to improve my videos a little every time. Just invested in a new camera and microphone! About the photos: once I start editing the video for coming Friday I will check if that is a possibility and if it looks good! It is a possibility to just split the screen, and have a large picture on the left part of the screen, perhaps in a frame or something. Good shout! Merci beaucoup et bonne chance avec vos vidéos! (Had to dig deep for my highschool French memories)

[@ThisisBarris]

@@HoH My pleasure; you have genuinely good content, especially if you're a new channel. You should also consider adding end screen cards. You'll see it makes a huge difference. Natural light is best, cheap lighting you can get! My only issue would be dealing with it blinding you; I'm not sure how you could avoid it but I'm sure you can find some resources about it. And improving at every video, even by a bit, is great - that's exactly what I try to do. Looking forward to seeing the new setup and equipment! Yes, you could do that, but I feel like it would be more natural just a photo emerging on the side rather than cutting your frame in half. But that's just my opinion. It's worth trying different things into you find an aesthetic you enjoy! Ton français est excellent! Bonne chance avec tes vidéos aussi!

[@jambalayabayo6933]

A great and concise documentary.

[@carlajenkins1990]

Yes. A fine little history.

[@artgoold5937]

Fascinating video. Thanks for publishing.

[@Modeltnick]

The scars of the Lenin and Stalin eras are still being worn by the Russian people. The brutal treatment and murder of the Romanovs was only the smallest example as to what followed. Very good research and editing! Thanks!

[@Modeltnick]

@@vasilikim4846 Wrong.

[@normanbowers5669]

@@vasilikim4846 Certainly, Tsarist Russia was a backward horror. However, Communism always ends up this way. It must have absolute power to take from whom it wants and to give to whom it wants. Absolute power always devolves into power for the most cruel and rabid leader. Cuba, Communist China, Cambodia, Vietnam (some of my friends had their fathers murdered or imprisoned for years by the regime), Zimbabwe, etc. have all gone that way.

[@wolfu597]

1930's: The Great Purge by Stalin. 1966-76: The cultural revolution by Mao. Today: The Cancel culture.

[@jayzee6617]

..Snowflake right-wingers making false equivalences...Gotta love 'em...

[@daudenfield2905]

How was that even remotely right wing?

[@matthewgray469]

Also the Killing Fields of Cambodia under Pol Pot who was a darling of the American leftist groups such as the Socialist Workers Party and the Revolutionary Communist Party and the Communist Workers Party back in the 1970's

[@emuriddle9364]

@@jayzee6617 I agree. Disagreeing with Stalin, is different from Mocking people who fell ill to COVID-19. Sending threats to LGBT people. Vandalizing Jewish homes of worship. And victim-blaming poor people. As well as victims of Sexual Abuse.

[@squatch545]

@@daudenfield2905 When someone equates Stalin purges with cancel culture, you know they are right wing.

[@ivozagreb3432]

Thank you for the great video. One of the interesting persons in the Staling purges was Tito, who later became the communist dictator of Yugoslavia, where he organized mass murders in Stalin's style. Journalists who researched the NKVD archives found that during his Russian years, he was a peculiarly perfidious NKVD spy who spied on his communist friends and wrote characteristics about them that virtually always led to their executions. This way, he eliminated possible opponents for the position of the chief of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and gained a great Stalin's trust. Stalin called him "molodec ", meaning brave, great. Tito took part in the Spanish civil war, where he probably conducted purges as an NKVD spy. The story about Tito is especially interesting because his identity is disputed. Officially, he was Josip Broz from Croatia, from a village on the border with Slovenia, but the mother of Josip Broz was a Slovenian woman, and Tito did not speak Slovenian. He also spoke bad Croatian, but he excellently spoke German (Viennese dialect). There is a declassified NSA document about Tito that questions the official narrative about his origin. Just google Tito NSA Yugoslav, and it should be the first result.

[@fritzs1207]

Assassination attempt on Stalin =0 assassination attempt on Hitler =45 , Revolt in gulags =1 Revolt in concentration camps = 18 that shows how Hitler was a lousily dictator .

[@maksim05makarov]

И насколько уважали Сталина

[@rolandrodriguez3854]

And the US is so racist that there were some lynchings. USSR; Hold my vodka!

[@tomraw4893]

A very erudite and concise presentation. I thought Kirov was assassinated in the corridor near his office at the Smolny Institute, not in the street.

[@meeeka]

So did I; the father of my thesis advisor had been a ranking member of the Tsar's advisors and later, he became a Bolshevik. The father escaped after the Civil War. Both mt advisor as well as Kerensky later told me that Kirov was murdered in the hallways of the Smolny.

[@tomraw4893]

@@meeeka yes, you understand, thank you.

[@matgeezer2094]

I thought it was inside. But, the evidence points strongly to 'higher' involvement in the assassination

[@robzilla730]

I used to think hitless was worse than Stalin because I kept getting told that by society. But nowadays I see "society" completely demonizing one former president while at the same time completely ignoring the crimes his opposition committed.

[@violeta6846]

Its because it was kept in the country vs hitler's disgusting crimes.

[@ruturajshiralkar5566]

Stalin won the WW2. Victors write History.

[@anotherbigfootwithinternet2147]

They're both fucking pieces of shit.

[@Theywaswrong]

@@violeta6846 Kept in the country? The whole of Eastern Europe would sure argue THAT statement with you.

[@Theywaswrong]

@@ruturajshiralkar5566 HAHA. Stalin won WWII. What a bloody lie. It would have ended years sooner if your Stalin hadn't signed a pact with the devil Hitler. Millions of your own casualties would have survived had it not been for a treacherous Stalin. German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, September 1938, designed to divide up Eastern Europe starting with Poland. Fool.

[@janedoe-hq9vn]

I never heard the word "gulag" until I was older, out of school. Why aren't kids taught this in school? Sounds like Russia has more fatalities than the "holocaust ". Why isn't this talked about?

[@mattanderson6336]

Waiting for the day when the secrets of Mao He’s Dung and the ‘Great Leap Backward’ come to light. Tienamin Square came so close. Read the trilogy by Frank DiKotter. 1. The Tragedy of Liberation. 2. Mao’s Great Famine. 3. The Cultural Revolution.

[@maddyg3208]

Do you really need an answer?

[@rowdyrx6109]

Because public schools teach “wokeness” and other dribble

[@jedibattlemasterkos]

Because our education system is compromised by the CCP and other Marxist sympathizers. They dont want you to think poorly of communism.

[@janedoe-hq9vn]

@@jedibattlemasterkos pppwwweeppttt!!!(as I spit my coffee out)..how can I NOT think poorly of Communism? Seriously..unless someone has not been taught or lived anything else, what, exactly, is so desirable about it, other than for the "powers that be"?

[@royparker7856]

Sound familiar? Everyone who holds a dissenting opinion must be CANCELED. They must be driven from the public discourse and isolated and prevented from spreading "false information".

[@Paolo7219]

Just like FACEBOOK!!! Actually all of Social Media is like that.....

[@emuriddle9364]

There's a difference between Dissent and Malicious. Hence why leftists accept both LGBT people. And those who aren't.

[@Paolo7219]

@@emuriddle9364 HaHaHaHa!! Who are you trying to kid? Members of the LGBTQ do NOT accept Heteros. Most of them have a deep hatred of Heteros. Anybody with some first hand experience with them knows this is true.

[@royparker7856]

@@emuriddle9364 since when does the left accept anyone or thing that does not toe the party line?

[@pablovelasquez6917]

@@Paolo7219 Sadly, the members of the LGBT you have met are perhaps like that, but in my case, non have really done that.

[@TroyaE117]

Excellent video. Well presented and explained.

[@TSmith-yy3cc]

I hate the smell of Tankies in the morning... And in the afternoon... And at nighttime...

[@MrTarmonbarry]

For anyone that does not know the last photo was what actually happened , Stalin had him removed from the photo and did the same with a lot of other photos that contained people he for want of better words '' got rid of '' . Stalin's purges backfired on him but more so on the Soviet people . He ''removed a lot of the experienced generals and top people in the army because in his paranoia he saw them as a threat , then along came WW2 and they did not have those people who knew how to fight battles , who knew the strategies that worked

[@mattanderson6336]

With everyone involved in the trials shot I have been surprised Vyshinsky survived and died in New York at the UN.

[@CrackedClock]

Great Work! Keep it up

[@geoffthompson6217]

Total madness

[@coldshoulder88]

A documentary about the Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution would be the next best thing.

[@detroit12870]

Great video sir!

[@thomastereszkiewicz2241]

"Darkness at Noon" comes to life.

[@psilvakimo]

A play written by Arthur Koestler. It starred Jack Palance. Koestler was a member of the Austrian communist party. But he became a severe critic of the USSR.

[@nick-jo3hy]

I recommend "the gulag archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. A moving depiction of those times and the authors reflections on them. In case you don't know it it's such a classic your local library probably has a copy.

[@ShiningSta18486]

Solzhenitsyn was a fascist

[@nauticalnovice9244]

That book is full of propaganda

[@nick-jo3hy]

@@nauticalnovice9244 Well it's written about stuff that did happen and it's written from the perspective of the author who lived through it. But if you don't think it's true .... ?

[@nauticalnovice9244]

@@nick-jo3hy living through it doesn't mean that the events described and everything else in it is true, I've never read it but I did read critical reviews about it that analysed it and there's several unfounded claims and the math doesn't add up either that's in it, one good article of it is from "Workers Today"

[@nick-jo3hy]

@@nauticalnovice9244 I accept your point that, his having been there, doesn't necessarily mean that a witnesses evidence is credible. Further I am sure that Solzhenitsyn had a specific view point that he wrote from but I'm not sure that that qualifies his work as propaganda. Even if it did get used as such after it was written. It is very much to your credit that you admit straight away, to never having read the book but I would ask what "claims" the book made which you think unfounded, and if you think these unlikely to be true, Why? Similarly with the maths, what specific claims or numbers do you think fail to "add up"? I still recommend it as it gives a window into the lives people lead during a terrible piece of history not so very long ago and because it is beautifully written and has a style surprisingly easy to read and follow despite the profundity of it's content (in my opinion having only read it in the english translation)

[@varovaro1967]

It was like the corona virus, u never knew who could have it next...

[@hddun]

Excellent presentation. Your narration is SPOT ON Sir. And the mix of your dialog with the old film and still pictures in B&W contrasts make it especially information. Thank you for putting us into those times and the people who were the Soviet Communists. Seems to me like a job I would NOT want to have due to the high mortality rate it was probably safer to be a coal miner..(BTW: maybe less hand movements..it kind of distracts slightly from your discussion...no critique, I gave big US Corporate executives tech presentation at IBM and I had someone tell me that I needed to reduce my movements unless I was wanting to push a point of the products value --- but again your knowledge of history is 5 STAR...thanks

[@jessicadavid6492]

Instant sub for this quality historic content.

[@HoH]

Welcome aboard, Jessica!

[@fooshampoo904]

So comforting to know this madness is alive and well in The world today.

[@adielstephenson2929]

This happened 90 years ago.

[@leeshaumark]

Living through a lite version of this nowadays with corona let's hope it doesnt escalate.

[@simpleman5688]

Turn off the television.

[@leeshaumark]

@@simpleman5688 I have done, ignorance is bliss

[@richardhughmongus5574]

Well when msnbc hosts casually talk about drone striking Americans on American soil for not accepting the child sniffing pedophile as president or being a trump supporter then one has to wonder if communists haven't taken over the MSM.

[@davidalexoff1658]

It's like, they had to have killing sqads to kill other killing sqads.

[@60079regulatorylaw]

Extrordinarily Brilliant. Thank you for Sharing.

[@LuisDiuk]

Quite good, this came to my news feed, good discovery

[@NedReck6967]

"All revolutions consume their own children." - Ernst Rohm His last words as he died from the bullet of an assassin.

[@anthonystark3959]

@Micheal Gregory Aaaagh! (Last word or scream, if you like)

[@AllansStation]

one has to ask why, all those who were eliminated, and knew they were going to be eliminated, why when they still had the power did they not move agains Stalin, They had nothing to lose and everything to gain. The senior army officers the senior leaders of the NKVD.

[@robertmanfredthurrigl9424]

Good point .One can only assume they were to arrogant to see Joe had their card marked also and thought it would not be them on the list and banked on for 'loyall services' they did or the terror had turned them into cowards frozen with fear . Stalins bloodlust and paranoia knew no limits . Total anarchy.

[@tominnis8353]

Thank you this brilliantly informed and presented piece. The gruesome price of totalitarianism.

[@herptek]

The same kind of hysterical which hunts can actually happen in systems that fall short of totalitarianism as well, but this instance is clearly one of those where the state clearly took up as its mission the complete control of thought of its subjects.

[@CountNomis]

Excellent video.

[@res3382]

A Finnish co-worker told me that in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe they have an expression called "The Russian Way"-which means the WRONG way to do anything. This apples to everything from the mundane to the large.

[@Zapper-kq1zg]

your Finnish friend is just a Russophobe and does not know the Russian mentality

[@elstongunn6776]

very well done and informative. Thank you.

[@joshuagilbertyear926]

Your welcum

[@matthewmcleod7064]

I'm really praying that the amendment to this video isn't... "The man who made the KZbin video about the man who shot the man who shot the judge who presided over the show trial of the man who shot the man... SHOT"

[@troydhansen4990]

This new American generation keeps saying they weren't using the right Communism...!?

[@Pighood]

I just can’t even with those hand gestures

[@thewhitedeath586]

Great job man! 2 comments, first has anyone ever said you look like james McAvoy? Also very easy to follow and listen to.

[@michaelmorgan9289]

An interesting collection of video's on the beginning the Soviet Union. Thank you. An aside to this series is, my first wife's Grandfather was arrested in Kiev for making a joke about Stalin in 1937. He was sent to the GULAG & never returned.

[@artiglieria2533]

what was the joke😶