The Real Story of Joseph Stalin | Best Stalin Documentary

Joseph Stalin would rise from humble beginnings to become the leader of the Soviet Union, one of the world’s largest superpowers, being unafraid to sacrifice anything or anyone to achieve power. His political opponents would be shot, his own citizens would be hunted down by the secret police, and millions would be sentenced to backbreaking work in Gulag labour camps.
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Between 1930 and 1952, over 26 million people had been shot, imprisoned, or subjected to internal exile, an average of over 1 million per year. Tens of millions more would be arrested without charge, evicted from their homes, or forced to work on dangerous projects, with it being estimated that at least 60 million people had been subjected to some form of repression during Stalin’s rule. But despite this, many Soviet citizens would remain devoted to their leader. The state produced an endless stream of propaganda, portraying Stalin as a hero and a father figure. Paintings, songs and statues were all commissioned by the dictator, with several towns and cities being named after him. Official history books would distort events beyond recognition, and he would go as far as to doctor historical photographs, removing his political rivals from important events in Soviet history.
Hero or tyrant, a great moderniser or a ruthless killer, there can be no doubt that Stalin was one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, whose legacy has shaped the world as we know it today.
Timestamps 📽
Intro: 0:00
Stalin's Youth 0:53
A Young Revolutionary 2:49
The Russian Revolution 5:44
Stalin's Rise to Power 9:09
Famine 11:38
The Great Terror 15:00
The Wartime Leader 18:05
Stalin’s Final Years 22:04
Stalin's Legacy 25:42
Primary Source: Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by Oleg Khlevniuk
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Thanks for watching! *If you enjoyed the video, help support the channel by leaving a SUPER THANKS!* Remember to *Like & Subscribe* and click the *Bell Icon* to never miss an upload. *Timestamps* can be found below: *Timestamps* 📽 Intro: 0:00 Stalin's Youth 0:53 A Young Revolutionary 2:49 The Russian Revolution 5:44 Stalin's Rise to Power 9:09 Famine 11:38 The Great Terror 15:00 The Wartime Leader 18:05 Stalin’s Final Years 22:04 Stalin's Legacy 25:42

[@technobloode9709]

Love your channel specially the intro

[@amirudinadnan7024]

Wow, he literally far more worse than hitler. I bet mao will beat them both stalin and hitler because he literally killed far more people. 55 million chinese lost their lives under mao zedong rule of terror. Mao will be the king of all the devil. No doubt.

[@qywh828]

@@amirudinadnan7024 what

[@qywh828]

@@amirudinadnan7024 history is write by the winner

[@Whizzy-jx3qe]

Is Putin another Stalin?

[@rmz1661]

“If one wants to know the true character of man, give him power”

[@zivkamales4258]

Old saying

[@sushmasagar316]

The current prime minister of India is a great example: powerful yet, humble, and compassionate. Modi is proving to be a true giant among men.

[@rmz1661]

@@sushmasagar316 I diagree, he's holding on to power by putting Hindus against Muslims but people don't see that and he's staying very silent about Putin's war against Ukraine. Give a man power he'll show you how cruel he can be too

[@hoanglongchau120]

But you can doubt he didn't bring benefits to USSR. When he died, he has nothing left unlike other man.

[@Sweatcheck69]

@@sushmasagar316 Modi is responsible for Genocide of millions of muslims in Gujrat massacre of 2002. Even the USA sanctioned him and he was barred from entering USA. Not sure how such evil dictator is humble and compassionate

[@WahPony]

it's so much easier to remember historical facts when images/video of the people/things involved are shown. Great work

[@ghaziabu-dayyeh602]

what facts ? I don't like Stalin, but this video is so ridiculous !! It sounds just like the garbage propaganda used by Stalin himself against his enemies!!

[@nucacqimanauri]

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[@fhshshfs2189]

Present the documents on which such conclusions were made. And then the video is similar to the opinion of the 15th child who says: "I think so, which means it is so"

[@MooseMeus]

I can't read a fiction book unless there is a movie that i can reference for what the characters look like.

[@TheDoctor1225]

@@fhshshfs2189 1. Learn to write coherent sentences, and 2. Do your own research. I've yet to see any documentaries that cite a list of sources at the end. That is done in written works, but not in video in most cases.

[@luyandzabavukiledlamini4693]

I learnt very little of Stalin in school other than being the leader of the Soviet union during World War 2 !Thanks for the video

[@kindnessfirst9670]

Not only was Stalin not Russian- he didn't begin learning to speak Russian till at least 8 years old. Even as leader of the USSR he always spoke Russian with a strong foreign accent that embarrassed him.

[@johnbowkett80]

Yes . The Royal Russian Court spoke French . 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@chad1542]

An Austrian became a leader of Germany. And a Georgian became a leader of USSR

[@almamybokarbirobarry780]

and african became a ruler of the U S

[@zivkamales4258]

@@almamybokarbirobarry780 and now One Joseph became a leader od USA

[@QoDeZeRo]

@@almamybokarbirobarry780 That’s incorrect! Obama scenario is different. He was born and raised in the USA! He’s half African, remember his dad from Kenya which he never really had that much interaction with based on his memoirs and also his mom is an American from Kansas. Americans will never allow a foreigner from another country and also with a foreign mentality to rule over them as president! That would be totally absurd from an American perspective! That’s why Arnold Schwarzenegger can become a governor of California but can never ever be President of the United States, but Obama can because he’s a natural born American 🇺🇸! Btw, I don’t like Obama, but at least he’s not foreigner or foreign born compared to Stalin and Hitler!

[@almamybokarbirobarry780]

@@QoDeZeRo but white americans are from Europe and Malick ambar was an ethiopian slave from India and he rule India

[@QoDeZeRo]

@@almamybokarbirobarry780 From an American perspective that’s means nothing! Arnold Schwarzenegger is from Europe too and he will never be allowed to be a US President! Obviously, you’re not American, so it’s hard for you to understand that. There’s millions of Americans that come from different heritages but were all Americans! The rule is inshrined in American law, only a natural born American 🇺🇸 is allowed to become the President! This prevents foreign influence within the US and that’s why that law is in place and mostly that will never change. Period!

[@scribblenaughttv]

The quality and color of the films is amazing. Its like seeing some of it all over again. What an amazing archive

[@Johntb100]

Вічна пам’ять жертвам Голодомору!

[@zivkamales4258]

@@Johntb100 vam you little Explained Holomodor Whole country was in famine How many others in soviet union died He said 3.2 milions of Ukrajina People

[@bad_money]

Hitler: Tell me a joke Stalin: Moscow Hitler: I didn't get it Stalin: Exactly lmao

[@skitzochik]

that is great ...

[@MJ-pb4bp]

😬😬😬😬

[@ree2453]

Well, stalin did a better job at exterminating his own people than hitler could ever dream about

[@stephenduke412]

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[@hamzamahmood9565]

My man wanted Moscow and ended up giving Berlin. R.I.P.

[@laurencekillen7310]

This guy is so consistent in the quality of his content. Keep it up.

[@Johntb100]

Вічна пам’ять жертвам Голодомору!

[@violetweston3401]

except for the killer putin

[@fhshshfs2189]

Present the documents on which such conclusions were made. And then the video is similar to the opinion of the 15th child who says: "I think so, which means it is so"

[@TheDoctor1225]

@@fhshshfs2189 1. Learn to write coherent sentences, and 2. Do your own research. I've yet to see any documentaries that cite a list of sources at the end. That is done in written works, but not in video in most cases.

[@laurenwyss5447]

Please make more videos. I've watched dozens of documentaries on ww2 and the ones you have made are simply amazing. Thank you

[@keithsa41]

The creators of this channel do incredible work. Thanks for posting!

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Great content and effort. Looking forward to more videos.

[@NuckCorris]

Good video! I was wondering.. Where do you find all this video footage? Must be a lot of work! Well done.

[@alistairhenshall9204]

life guide rocks! Thanks for all the content.

[@dhanushkailash]

'Knowing the history' has the power to change our views in the perceiving of this world and it's events. Thank you for taking the time and making this research and study.

[@mathiasphiri6907]

No where in the world do you find a weak revolutionary, revolution can only come from hard liners not cowards. It's only natural!

[@ronelmarais9814]

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace" - Jimi Hendrix

[@loldiers3238]

It's Amerikkkans who most need to heed those words.

[@TiOZAO1966]

Oh... The hippie platitudes... As a philosopher, Jimi was a great guitar player! He was great with his mouth shut, too.

[@TiOZAO1966]

@@loldiers3238 = Dunning-Kruger Effect Syndrome pacient

[@kindnessfirst9670]

That's depressing.

[@dolphineachonga555]

I guess we'll never know peace then. Humanity is Doomed.

[@billlieve]

if you guys didn’t know, after the ussr eastern europe began “de-stalinization” which is exactly what it sounds like. which was good, but now putin is actively reversing the de stalinization in russia. it’s honestly crazy. good video!!

[@sonochinosadame4276]

You are so ignorant, most of the eastern when USRR ended became completely controled by corporations including Russia, Putin is just as right winged liberal as any other Eastern European country, the only difference is that he didnt allow Russia to be controlled by foreign corporations, so the whole world is trying to paint them as communists or stalinists, eat more propaganda

[@PlumbuM871]

Why? It's good, dude. Try, you'll like it

[@ingislakur]

top level content my man. !

[@redspear6692]

Thanks for making a documentary about Stalin, because this video is so informative. It's such a shame that they never taught about him in school, even here in the Philippines

[@danielhartnett9242]

Didn’t learn much about anything regarding the USSR in school here in US. All I was taught was “USSR=bad” but never why or how Russia even got to that point. I’ve learned more about history from KZbin than any class I ever took.

[@MJ-pb4bp]

They taught us in school - What is mitochondria

[@marcelladonyi2409]

Wait, really? We had like two classes on him in History.

[@Bisquick]

@@danielhartnett9242 Indeed! So at the risk of rambling on forever, and this video does a good job in a basic sense I think as it briefly mentions the goal/ends that the means eventually corrupted in the...end...lol, but if anyone cares, there's definitely some political/historical context I would have included to make the presentation more understandable from a descriptive standpoint that formed the bounds of material and ideological realities/possibilities, like the conception of Bonapartism in Marxism regarding his concern for military overthrow or 1918 Germany as the historical contingency for the success of the Bolsheviks and their USSR project as a whole (will attempt to explain in a second), but definitely some great footage and did briefly mention the context of imposed state-capitalism toward the goal of industrialization after the failure of Germany's SPD to align with the international socialist movement regarding the issue of war credits, resulting in extensive executions by the paramilitary freikorps (later becoming the SS, oops...) to put down the subsequent sailor revolts that led to mainland uprisings, the outcome of which being the establishment of Weimar, though it easily could have went toward a socialist organization of property relations which would have then been a massive industrial base for the movement and the one the Bolsheviks were explicitly relying on toward the goal of the USSR having any possibility of long-term success (what Marx had predicted as a precondition for global revolution ie why the bolsheviks were explicitly dependent on its outcome), else be forced into a geopolitical context of competing capitalist nation-states that had just gone to war and were uncoincidentally about to enter another from this context of competing domination. Also like maybe the fact that his paranoia wasn't _entirely_ baseless corroborated by things like Sykes-Picot secret treaty between Russian empire and the western powers and the western powers' massive support for the white army during the civil war, gaining only more veracity after WWII with like Operation Gladio in Italy and Span and such, not to mention the 2 nuclear bombs being dropped pretty much entirely just to draw a red line for the USSR's sphere of influence as Japan was willing to surrender (but only to the USSR, not unconditionally to the US as the US demanded), the USSR's planned entering into the pacific was coordinated by FDR at Yalta and the 2nd bomb dropped by Truman was mere hours after this invasion is of course revealing toward this intention. I would have also included the bank robbery portion of his life merely because it was indisputably badass, pretty sure there was a grenade launcher involved at one point lol, actually important though as to influencing the paranoia and such I think too, and yeah maybe some of his poetry and stuff idk, but other than that the video is generally pretty fair and the footage/presentation great. _"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living."_ - some guy (Marx, to not be facetious lol) There's plenty more to say on all of this (hopefully obvious, encourage further independent investigation into anything and everything I'm mentioning) but I think helpful toward expanding consideration here actually, just because I know I wasn't aware of this for most of my life in a similar vein of simply having never been explicitly taught any of it, some other important historical context (I would say at least) going to likely be circumstantially unknown that I recommend at least some familiarity with to square the circle of one's perspective/ideology, particularly toward where we find ourselves now and importantly regarding the narrow bounds of political possibility that forms our array of potential futures (or lack thereof, aside from the "common ruin of the contending classes" sadly, my god climate change _alone_ right?) as I think this info will put some further balance against the (some true obviously, most exaggerated) propaganda against the USSR by the US, ie what was required during the cold war and kept hidden/glossed over when revealed, as this set the global geopolitical chessboard further to the advantage of the US: US involvement in "regime change", the entire operational history of the CIA, NATO and color revolutions, Operation Gladio, Operation Cyclone, Operation Condor, Iran installing the Shah in '53, Guatemala in '54, Sukarno in Indonesia, Lumumba in the Congo, the first 9/11 in 1973 in Chile ousting democratically elected Allende to install Pinochet's military dictatorship (using a literal nazi we protected in the ratlines to south america Paul Schafer, also a huge pedophile because of course he was), Operation Mongoose/Northwoods and the absurd/criminal embargo of Cuba, honestly this is the tip of the imperial iceberg, far too many insanely grotesque operations to list, some even domestic to the US (the Schmitean "exception"; tangentially related it was Stalin who coined the term "American exceptionalism" but from this negative fascist-ideological-origin of sovereign political power - see Carl Schmitt for more) and quite related like Operation Mockingbird, to which I'll quote William Casey CIA director under Reagan aka absolute demon regarding its efficacy, _"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."_ Some recommended reading for anyone unfamiliar with the insane covert operations of the cold war like I was for most of my life, check out The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot, Killing Hope by William Blum, The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, War is a Racket by Smedley Butler (also see: "Business plot", Bonus army thing), etc. etc. Or just like look up any of that stuff mentioned, US involvement "regime change" or any and/or all of the CIA's operational history, the consistent and really quite excessive pattern of interests alone would make their intentions _quite_ transparent but luckily they also are surprisingly open and forward most of the time in spite of the callous belligerent plots schemed and carried out (the ones _not_ carried out are also revealing/insane, Operation Northwoods for instance) which you might think would be more carefully covered up but merely hides in plain sight, "cui bono?" of course is the _only_ question of politics. Might I also recommend this entertaining yet informative podcast on Stalin through a historical materialist lens ie with a focus on the material contingencies and ideological boundaries/realities/possibilities that emerge from such historical material conditions, also pretty hilarious which helps, some guys reviewing the book Young Stalin (haven't heard this in a while, but I remember it being good and forming some of my intrigue toward all of this): kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6TCp5yIrd6thqM Oh yeah also (I swear last thing lol) just because someone mentioned they're from the Philippines, I would add to that brief counterbalancing broad historical narrative the US invasion/occupation of the Philippines in 1899 taking opportunistic control from colonial Spain and then again during WWII in 1944ish that is generally similarly not discussed/taught (for reasons I'm badly trying to illuminate if not clear lol). I guess to end this random rant and highlight the throughline of my own politics, I guess I'll go back to where I started and note Rosa Luxemburg's political slogan from the uprisings in 1918 Germany that I think are still relevant today, uncoincidentally executed by the SPD's coordination of the freikorps paramilitary to suppress those revolts/dissent (as mentioned in beginning, later formalizing into the SS when the nazis take over from Von Papen, "oopsies"): socialism or [continued] barbarism. _"The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."_ - some guy, again (yeah, Marx again lol), a bit optimistic at the end we wouldn't just choose individual delusion while everything burns. Not looking too good currently, but uh...pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will...or something lol...

[@Bisquick]

@@danielhartnett9242 OH YEAH quick addendum for further context and understanding/other recommendation... _Vital_ for the US hegemony ie global neoliberal finance capitalist corporate empire (akin to the optimates of late Rome) _to this very day_ is the Bretton-Woods international financial system, maintained with a latticework of transnational capital flow and more specifically the currency hegemony of the dollar and its established status as the world reserve currency during this conference toward the goal of an international finance system. The IMF/World Bank emerge as international institutions ostensibly to coordinate international loans/monetary policy but their political allegiance and control by the US (which itself is captured by _supranational_ finance/corporate capital, hopefully that much is clear) is betrayed by its actions in the cold war context I was trying to lay out before, particularly obvious in its "washington consensus" -debt peonage/resource/labor pool control/austerity- "structural adjustment" policies. In the 70s, capital rallies around the ideological notion of "neoliberalism", which is now ubiquitously imposed by our ruling class; just a reference point for more on all of this stuff and essentially just a dogmatic devotion to markets/capitalism at quite literally all other costs and obvious contradictions (climate change alone for example, obviously being an obvious enormous existential threat, and one that highlights the lack of political will toward _any_ action at all to mitigate it, necessarily constricted to this bounds of bourgeois dictatorship). After the Nixon shock in '71, the petrodollar system de facto grounds the dollar's purchasing power (OPEC tries to leverage this in '73, etc) and this broadly speaking points to the importance of controlling petrol trade in foreign policy, why for instance we hate Venezuela as it sits on the largest oil reserves in the world and after Chavez nationalized oil revenues breaking free from the Bretton-Woods system in order to do this, this inherently poses an alternative means of oil trade not under direct influence of the dollar/US empire, essentially, if that made any sense lol. Anyway, also, here's a hilarious/interesting/good series by Matt Christman/Chris Wade of Chapo Trap House on the entire history of the US following a historical materialist lens on the lineage of presidents, similar to like Charles Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States or just like what marxism intends to describe in general with dialectical/historical materialism, but importantly (to me) is also hilarious and easy to understand: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2GmnZtopNqhkMk

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[@nickyd922]

Well done👏🏼 excellent work.

[@decipher_my_dark]

As I dive into the history of these notorious political figures I'm afraid that my own country is on the verge experiencing the same

[@user-dn8wv5ok3i]

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[@Montyhugo]

That's why they are trying so hard too destroy Trump! He's not one of them! TRUMP 2024👊

[@jaoco4805]

Where are you from?

[@brandonbozych6750]

Absolutely amazing documentary.!!

[@astyanax905]

the only point I'd disagree with is the way his childhood is presented. they lived in a tiny shack, his mother did laundry for the townspeople. irregardless, excellent documentary, definitely one of the better Stalin documentaries

[@da2noob792]

Thats good details but why do you disagree with what he said, he was just stating the facts

[@soposh5673]

Lol you actually believe that shit?

[@geekyradical4985]

@@foxichannel6054 The famine was a consequence of Stalin's botched job of collectivisation. The Stalinist-reformists spent years supporting the Kulaks and encouraging them to "get richer", and opposing the Left Opposition's collectivisation proposals. Then, after the Kulaks became too powerful, Stalin was forced to do a 180 and initiated his disastrous forced collectivisation.

[@LeftistUprising]

His parents were also orphans. His dad was probably Ossetian, and his mom may have been Ossetians as well.

[@TheTanique89]

Love the content!!!

[@felyencisa9065]

Thx TLG now I know fully the life of Stalin.Your documentary with videos is so interesting and clearly narrated

[@b.s.1929]

I would love you to do episode on either the Balkan wars or the Yugoslav wars

[@abogadocarlosmorthera]

Excellent documentary. Many thanks! Greetings from Cancún, México 🇲🇽

[@alexanderscalzo340]

Behind that smile, cold & steely eyes is a bloodthirsty monster who’s evil and depravity knew no bounds

[@johnchateau]

thanks for the video. easy to digest and remember. good piece for the history

[@lilpp4791]

This is the best history channel on KZbin, fight me.

[@zivkamales4258]

Only God Can fight with Draco Why do you chose that mame?

[@lilpp4791]

@@zivkamales4258 whats wrong with that name?

[@yeh.80]

Really really well put together.

[@CalmCuB]

Love the videos

[@MooseMeus]

Great documentary. Thank you

[@davidd1138]

6:18 implies that the Provisional government executed the Tsar, which was never something they’d even consider. The Tsar was not executed until nearly a year after the second Revolution in October, by the Bolsheviks and not by the Provisional Government.

[@jaikishanadvani6605]

This video is a fake fabricated false propaganda, this has nothing to do with history of Soviet Union

[@allen2770]

@@jaikishanadvani6605 whatever you tankie!

[@kxaris21]

@@jaikishanadvani6605 said stalin's offspring😂

[@matss5864]

Watching this I realise how lucky I am to be born in the time I did and where I were...this is depressing.

[@Allyourbase1990]

definitely makes me grateful

[@Sweatcheck69]

This isn't a documentary it's a CIA propaganda like all the documentaries this channel publishes

[@ko-yoshi]

@@Sweatcheck69 got better suggestions for unbiased vids on Stalin?

[@quinn1606]

Look around you and ask how different it really is

[@truekapo3968]

I dont see any kind of difference anymore🤷‍♂️

[@rabiayusuf4667]

Well done I've really enjoyed it.

[@zmeu_md3831]

you deserve more views ,this quality content and narration deserve millions views

[@zmeu_md3831]

@@foxichannel6054 dude , i am from Moldova ,i speak russian, members of my family (from the mother line) were deported to kazakstan in gulags because they were "bourgeoisie" ,they were teachers of romanian language . The family from father line, my grandmother barely survived the famine from 1946-47 and the war , her dad and brother served in the red army . By her words and all the people from her village ,with some i personally talked many years ago when they were alive, soviets confiscated all their supplies , after the war! there were cases of canibalism ,mother of my grandmother used to cook bread from the grass . Here in moldova in the ussr time we were treated by russians as second class citizens ,russian was mandatory in schools and government structures ,russians were moved in in big cities and were given free apartments ,many of whom they deported or killed before and till today we have those russians and their kids voting pro russian politicians and holding us behind with their nostalgia for ussr ,communism and russia. We had a war in 1992 because of that for the god sake . So next time you try to vomite a communist soviet propaganda at least try better .

[@paleo6829]

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy. -Joseph Stalin

[@Jerry.anthony.c]

3:00 - Described as exceptionally vicious and vindictive 3:44 - Meeting first wife 4:14 - "This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity" 4:46 - "Stalin" Man of Steel 5:10 - One of Stalin's lowest point 7:27 - Shape Stalin to be Cruel 8:30 - Tyranny 11:05 - Manipulation 11:30 - Emergence as sole leader 14:20 - Holodomor 15:10 - Paranoia 16:34 - Fear 18:55 - Assassination 22:55 - Paranoid and Lonely 23:18 - Second wife and her suicide 24:40 - Health Hazard 25:30 - March 5th 1953 Death. 74yrs

[@eagletracesolutions6820]

Yet he was so loved by his people🤔????someone is a bull crapper.

[@PlumbuM871]

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[@djhemirukahemisphere8893]

Thank you for this information

[@frankdelahue9761]

"Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem." - Joseph Stalin

[@StefanNemec]

THATS A MYTH.. Stalin never said this! ... its an old quote ...

[@solanut]

Yeah apprently he was never the chatty type going as to far as making it seem he never needed to say anything.

[@darrenfromaustraliaupside-9079]

Imagine being a boyfriend of Stalin's daughter. You would instantly shit yourself finding out this fact.

[@Daniel-yc2ur]

This channel deserves more views 😩

[@simonhuber9515]

Really good video as always

[@arturoortega2230]

In your documentary you refer to the kulaks as peasants, and although they were technically "peasants", they were rich enough to at least have 8 acres of land and the ability to hire much poorer peasants for labor. They resisted the collectivization of land and agriculture because they stood to lose a lot. Many of the poor peasantry supported the seizing of kulak lands and their subsequent imprisonment as well.

[@marcelladonyi2409]

Not really, poor peasants followed kulaks into gulags.

[@YouLoveMrFriendly]

Collectivization doesn't work economically, so too bad their resistance failed...it would have saved millions from famine.

[@princed8534]

My ancestor resisted the collectivisation because the great purge got his father killed. He was left with only a single cow the commies took away the rest of his "wealth". I have no idea how he managed to survive with that but he did. That is just bullshit, people were deemed "kulaks" or enemies of the state for nor reason all the time and got executed or sent to working camps, all to serve to fuel the terror that USSR had to have on people to keep them in check.

[@Rackhamish]

Very true.

[@worldoftancraft]

@@YouLoveMrFriendly If it «does not work economically», how were cities being fed?

[@zmeu_md3831]

my grandmother lived in USSR and survived the famine in 1946-47 , 30% of her village or more died of starvation ,many more were deported or killed ....

[@johnsch1988]

Stop talking bullshit ... All liberals know that 144% of the citizens of the USSR died of Golodomor ! That's why Stalin had to resurrect the dead and kill them again and deport them to the terrible Gulag

[@ree2453]

​@@johnsch1988 Thats like saying that the population of nazi germany increased from, lets say 1933 to 1940 . Even though they were killing jews. But by your logic that doesn't matter.

[@johnsch1988]

@@ree2453 I 'm just laughing at the tales of liberals and Nazis from Ukraine

[@helmortkuper2626]

@@johnsch1988 Tankies are so cringy

[@skyrio5825]

После любой воны настаёт голод! Ни кого Сталин не убивал, ему наоборот нужны были люди для восстановления страны после военной разрухи. А людей не депортировали, А переселяли на новые земли для её дальнейшего возделывания. Это называлось "Поднятие целины" И люди после этого получали бесплатное жильё и хорошие деньги, так моя бабушка заработала на дом из камня!!! В Америке дом из дерева в десятки если не в сотни раз дороже стоит! А вашу бабушка видать была либо ленивой, либо предательницей Родины и сотрудничала с нацистами если убежала из СССР!

[@ELARTEDELAMOTO]

Interesting to hear no mentioning of the major Stalin-Trotsky discussion that separates one from the other. The idea of "permanent revolution" was held by Trotsky and his denial of the possibility of a Socialist Revolution in one country, his idea of keeping applying the War Communism, his idea of exporting the Soviet Revolution into Poland and Germany, is completely ignored in this documentary. Joseph Stalin was elected as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU in April 1922 during the 11th Congress of the Party. Between then and until his death, he asked to be relieved of his duties as General Secretary a total of four times - all of which were rejected. Stalin’s first attempt at resignation (likely in 1925) from the post of General Secretary was at a meeting of the Central Committee after the 13th Congress (held in May 1924). This was rejected unanimously by all the delegations, including Trotsky.

[@lemlematta229]

Fear of him

[@viktordragovich94]

@@lemlematta229 in 1925? They waited when he failed, but he was much better administrative worker than all politicians like Trotsky

[@theparadigm8149]

This a documentary about Stalin, though, not Trotsky

[@lemlematta229]

@@viktordragovich94 when you starve 3 million people good administrator or not it's time to go

[@viktordragovich94]

@@lemlematta229 When you had a civil war in your country, where 10 million people died, and the Leninist group of Bolsheviks is trying to destroy the whole of Russia (they organized a deadly famine and the first stage of repression), then you need to save the country.

[@OurGodIsLove]

Thank you for sharing.

[@nikhilreji9334]

Good presentation!

[@rossbriannestein5054]

This was a very good documentary. I learned a lot.

[@Sweatcheck69]

I call BS! that's a Western Propaganda not a documentary

[@fhshshfs2189]

Present the documents on which such conclusions were made. And then the video is similar to the opinion of the 15th child who says: "I think so, which means it is so"

[@snapdragon6601]

Great documentary. Lots of info packed into a manageable amount of time. Also, @6:47 it looks like Stalin is talking on a cellphone in the background while Lenin is busy giving a speech at this meeting. 😆

[@ucctgg]

Very Well Done !

[@kallosamuel3106]

love your work

[@MatthewHusseyLondon]

Thanks for making this video. Just one thing: you need to work a bit more on your flow and timing. Your sentences are exactly the same length and pitch, meaning your voice becomes robotic as you’re just using the same structure over and over again. I can see you did a lot of work, but think about using a more conversational tone and varying your sentence structure. It’ll make a big difference

[@livvi67]

Yes, it’s his cadence.

[@keithhummel6660]

From the US but I honestly don’t really remember learning about him in school at all. Everyone knows and remembers learning about Hitler, but why haven’t a lot of us learned about Stalin?

[@TJ-fe7rr]

Good question, I didn't either. It went to ww2 movies and history docos and Google to find more about him.

[@benmmbk765]

Perhaps he was HIDDEN by his successors, to hide his deeds.

[@faa1412]

@@benmmbk765 Exactly what deeds? Did you watch the video? The guy was a paranoid nut job.

[@faa1412]

I remember learning about him. I had a write a report on him lol... I remember using my typewriter as a kid of the 90s lol

[@TJ-fe7rr]

@@benmmbk765 Stalin reminds me of the Persian king off the movie 300

[@clintasaurus32]

Great video!

[@chriscollins7719]

Masterpiece. Well done.

[@anoofhussain3084]

From the yard?

[@showze21]

well done, concise biography

[@thedude1573]

Bloody Dwarf is a pretty badass nicnkname

[@alicedoyle41]

Thank you for the history lesson

[@mohamed1022]

Nice documentary

[@vandero.8742]

To think he almost became a priest

[@joshnalder5011]

It's amazing how much history repeats.

[@GeGe-fg3hx]

I can think of today

[@andreytsoy44]

Putin

[@cooldude-mi9wz]

@@andreytsoy44 usa when they kill 1 million is iraq for oil : lol usa is so cute xd usa is angel Putin when he attacks ukrain for actually a reasen : BAD BAD THATS VERY BAD OMG (i dont like war anywhere ever even in ukraine but the fact wars like vietnam and iraq arent mentioned is so hypocritical to me.)

[@andreytsoy44]

@@cooldude-mi9wz lol and its for what reason?

[@cooldude-mi9wz]

@@andreytsoy44 nato didnt hold up their end in a deal and ukrain joining nato made ukrain a threst.

[@danielwoldu1855]

number one presentation of history thanks a lot

[@osen6907]

Thanks man

[@sumantalaha7355]

Read George Orwell's "Animal Farm",a world-famous novel on Joseph Stalin's most grinding tyranny in erstwhile Soviet Russia(1917----1991) that has been passing through a virtual anarchism since the year 1991.

[@junesilvermanb2979]

Animal Farm wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm

[@badfairy9554]

Stalin was a pig.

[@Sara-zk8ts]

I wonder what would've happened if his first wife didn't die. "She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity." Could his wife's death have been a turning point in his ruthless regime which made him numb to killing/imprisoning millions?

[@66kaisersoza]

If that's all it took for him to become so cold? then he probably would have gone that way regardless

[@Sara-zk8ts]

​@@66kaisersoza yea you're probably right

[@rebeccagutierrez1960]

Nah, he was a devil from the beginning.

[@ruturajshiralkar5566]

I doubt that. If anything she herself would've ended up in a Gulag Labour Camp.

[@danielwoldu1855]

i am opposite to your idea becouse every where including my African country during communist period unlawful killing was every minutes communists are behaviorally killers

[@WaysideChristianMiss]

Excellent presentation--will assign this to my students.

[@koontzzlyrics8098]

Never talk about a man without his good deeds,no man is solely good or evil including you and I. If you point out the worst of a man also point out his best,if not then you are the worst of them all.

[@badfairy9554]

What? like Hitler liked dogs.

[@yaakovkrakowich4563]

Did I miss something, but I thought you'd mention his congenital stroke and the story he included in his Party Biography about a phaeton crash.

[@luvomdleleni84]

That 20th century was a really dark period of time. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Apratheid in South Africa, Ku Klux Klan, the 2 world wars....it was tough. The unnecessary loss of human life during that period is just incomprehensible. Great documentary though!

[@user-lg9kh8hg4r]

dont say mao.ok？mao is our great leader.You know nothing you only know the fake shit

[@ottovonbismarck1352]

New sub

[@lulutitmarsh5411]

I've been procrastinating my first year 12 assignment and it's due next week (i hadn't started and knew nothing about it). This video has saved my lazy ass thankyou so much.

[@blackranger7597]

How did the assignment turn out? lol

[@petarpopov7648]

„It doesn‘t matter who votes, it matters who counts“ Joseph Stalin

[@badfairy9554]

Trump will be saying that next.

[@curatcacurcubeul5550]

6:22 the tzar was not executed at the beginning of the 1917 revolution. He was arrested by the provisional gouvernment and executed later by the bolshevics after the 24 October/7 November coup.

[@Madkklown]

Subbed

[@darkwebforgoodcontent7567]

Stalin was a such a complex character. He was a man that world needed in WW2, but not after that

[@leonidlykhovydko3645]

Soviet people complete his mission, they protected a motherland

[@skyrio5825]

Сталин нужен миру и сейчас. Сталин нужен миру всегда! Сталин вечен!

[@OdenOdinOden]

@@skyrio5825 🤨

[@iamrozazemlyachkalookupmye5561]

The Soviet Union, under Stalin was the one who secretly made arms deals with Germany in 1923, when Germany wasn't supposed to have offensive weapons, under the Versailles Treaty.Germany was, for all purposes, disarmed.Stalin was the one that helped build up Germany's power.For more information, read •The °Chief •Culprit.°Stalin's °Grand •Design to °Start WW2.

[@eq1373]

The same Stalin that made a deal with Hitler in 1939?

[@ELARTEDELAMOTO]

Stalin remarked on this later in 1927 in a speech at a meeting of the Central Committee: It is said that in that “will” Comrade Lenin suggested to the congress that in view of Stalin’s “rudeness” it should consider the question of putting another comrade in Stalin’s place as General Secretary. That is quite true. Yes, comrades, I am rude to those who grossly and perfidiously wreck and split the Party. I have never concealed this and do not conceal it now. Perhaps some mildness is needed in the treatment of splitters, but I am a bad hand at that. At the very first meeting of the plenum of the Central Committee after the Thirteenth Congress, I asked the plenum of the Central Committee to release me from my duties as General Secretary. The congress itself discussed this question. It was discussed by each delegation separately, and all the delegations unanimously, including Trotsky, Kamenev, and Zinoviev, obliged Stalin to remain at his post. What could I do? Desert my post? That is not in my nature; I have never deserted any post, and I have no right to do so, for that would be desertion. As I have already said before, I am not a free agent, and when the Party imposes an obligation upon me, I must obey. A year later I again put in a request to the plenum to release me, but I was again obliged to remain at my post. What else could I do?

[@jaikishanadvani6605]

Stalin tried to resign 4 times, not even once is mentioned in this fake false propaganda video

[@zivkamales4258]

@@jaikishanadvani6605 What are you thinking now About Puttttin?

[@LeftistUprising]

According to Montefore, that "last testament of Lenin" may have been written by Lenin's wife!!!

[@ELARTEDELAMOTO]

@@zivkamales4258 I think Putin is a conservative, pragmatic, and very keen politician. He overpasses all his counterpart partners just by the fact that, besides being a Colonel, he is a lawyer and speaks four languages. I do not care much about how he conducts his country as I hate people from other countries telling me who I have to vote for or like as a politician in mine. As we have been crying about "Russian intervention in American Presidential Elections," we should be truthful and avoid intermingling with other people's internal affairs. As my grandma used to say, " mind your own business."

[@adelzaptia9965]

A really great video. Excellent narration, video, and music. Please do a video on Putin, it would be excellent.

[@Urmum3469]

You should do a video on WWI

[@brianjones7660]

at 17:20...any idea what those vast piles or cubes of white stuff is? How did they stack it up like that??

[@aaseviltwintheboomerslayer9860]

I mean this in only a positive way and have enjoyed your content long enough to have thought to myself "how many more years am I gonna have to wait for Part 2?" and to then one day re-watch Part 1 and laugh at all the people who felt the same way and then to laugh again after your post about finishing Part 2 was another year of waiting. With all that said, I think you had and still have a opportunity to make a unique Stalin vid. With a lot of the WWII narative propaganda that still persist to this day we are now starting to see it fade away and Stalin is key in it losing it's grip. Stalin did not have his best friend, Kirov, assassinated, research into the Soviet archives have now proven that this was always speculation. I believe you missed one of the biggest accomplishments of Stalin and is more interesting than the war time propaganda we, the Allies, produced to sell Stalin to the American public by framing narratives that looking back on now is just embarrassing that these narratives are still held as common knowledge even though they crumble under even the most basic criticisms. I forgot some of the other points I had so I'll have to watch it again and add a follow up to this post later. Still excellent work as always.

[@shubhnamdeo2865]

Despite so many atrocities he committed, he is still loved dearly in some places. His propaganda still exists today.

[@nauticalnovice9244]

His propaganda? The reason people love him is because they can see through the propaganda that the western anti-communists created!

[@lipumpeari7268]

Great story

[@greyminivanlittleredcorvette]

Thanks!

[@rahulshankar2093]

Sometimes history needs a push -Lenin

[@LateNightAshes]

This was well paced, thank you. I'd like to mention for anyone interested; the topic of Stalin's son Yakov, and how he heckled at his suicide attempt and refused negociation offers when he was put in a concentration camp after being captured fighting from the front line. Yakov lived a miserable life because of his father. If you're still reading this and want to see how his fate was sealed I made a video covering it. The final result is controversial however still interesting, Stalin was cold as ice. Edit: spelling

[@dntlss]

Let me ask you a question and see if you might know the answer,i have seen many pictures of Stalin walking around with his entourage,there is always a little man next to him with a little white beard and hes always wearing a flatcap, kinda looks like a Colonel Sanders, who is that? ive always wanted to know that,i mean if Stalin is on a podium, that man is close by,on the streets, next to a river,it doesn't matter, always there, so i was just curious, thank you for your input!!

[@LeftistUprising]

Stalin felt sad when Yakov died. He would stare at his son's photo for a long time, I read. He also said "Life/Fate wasn't fair to Yakov, but he died as a hero."

[@josephstalin4484]

And me?

[@LeftistUprising]

@@josephstalin4484 you were the spoiled baron from Nedezhda Aliyuyeeva. You died at the age of 41, because you were an alcoholic. I think that you were spoiled unlike your sister, Svetlana.

[@U_Go_Boom]

If your video is as one sided as the argument you have just presented, I have no intention of watching it.

[@skhosanamathiyane]

No matter how famous you are,how powerful you are,how rich you are,how cruel you are,at the of the day we all going to die......South Africa

[@ChristopherSaindon]

5:18 A *14-year-old-girl?!* --Take a seat..RIGHT OVER THERE!

[@syn7071]

I’ve never realized how curse and depressed this country is since day 1 of it existence

[@shalomshaloms]

true and probably nothing has changed

[@persona3rulez]

Oh, come on, it's an overexaggeration. Stalin and 90s perhaps were the worst peaceful times.

[@faultier3215]

The USSR was a thriving country in the 60s and 70s

[@stevehammel9288]

For somebody who has studied the life of Stalin for over 30 years as well as the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union this documentary had many flaws as well inaccuracies. The basic points about him being born in Georgia, family background, early youth , learning about socialism and Marxism while at the seminary ,etc we're for the most part correct. If any of this perked your interest in this man I would highly recommend Stephen Kotkins 3 volume work on Stalin, Robert Conquest brilliant book The great Terror, which is without a doubt the bible on the purges of the 30's. Also The Red Tsar another excellent biography on Stalin. 30 minutes is far to short to give a true picture of this man but in general the documentary here gives a fairly accurate account albeit with a few inaccuracies.

[@worldoftancraft]

Yeah. "The red monarch narrative". No one from russian propagandists were using this narrative. Based and true insight. And why the purges happened? Whom are the full names to be blamed for? What are the story? How does this related to the civil war?

[@jung9399]

Music. At 2:47 ?

[@karoln7078]

2:50 his haircut was from the future

[@MaxRud80]

Is Stalin really to blame for the famine? or the United States and Boitania, which demanded payment for machines and factories built in grain? when the herd offered them gold, they insisted on grain! It was they who led to famine!

[@germanicpride7502]

M'olotov said" Stalin said we had depo'rted ten million...In reality we relocated twenty million. "

[@Mike_HuntizWet]

His mustache was cool though

[@squeezodadon3269]

This man single handedly created one of the biggest memes "the gulag"

[@blazer7731]

Bruh how is that a meme. That’s like calling Nazi concentration camps a meme.

[@oceanwaves83]

2023 in a comment.

[@blazer7731]

@@oceanwaves83 It won't be long before people start meming hitler. Oh wait, some ppl already do that