Joseph Stalin: The Red Terror

20 million Soviet Citizens died at his hand. For a quarter of a century, he ruled his huge Empire with a ruthless iron fist. Terror was his modus operandi - while he was alive, no one, not even his closest family members, were safe. Yet, at his passing he was mourned as the savior of his people.
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[@Snakeeyes9909]

Waldo: *disagrees with Stalin* Rest of the world: "Where's Waldo?"

[@1thelastmystic]

Lol underrated comment

[@wicketandfriendsparody8068]

Carmen SanDiego also disagreed and Everyone is saying where in the world is Carmen Sandiego:/ LOL:/

[@nguyenhoanglong420]

:)))

[@tommcglone2867]

Waldo is in the *GULAG*

[@nguyenhoanglong420]

@@tommcglone2867 ooops! :3

[@WhatInTarnation123]

Gotta love when Stalin gave a speech after which the crowd started applauding, but after applauding for awhile nobody wanted to be the first person to stop clapping for fear of being accused of not being loyal to Stalin. So everyone kept applauding for about 3 minutes straight until Stalin got angry and ordered everyone to stop.

[@zakiahmed6655]

hahahaha that's great

[@MrAbawmidabull]

They eventually installed bells that were rung to tell everyone when to stop clapping.

[@Sixstringman]

Sounds like Democrats applauding something woke.

[@iram5192]

@@zakiahmed6655 yes that's really great, terrified people afraid for their lives, that's so funny 🤦‍♀️

[@zakiahmed6655]

@@iram5192 Im glad you found it funny as well

[@zeyeff1628]

'Stalin's son gets captured' Stalin: I have never met this man in my life

[@elliotfong8794]

Why couldn't those police just executed or something since he did murder people before taking power

[@somerandomguy9125]

This is the same man who mocked one of his sons for failing to kill themselves. He must've been one hell of a monster to be around.

[@huuphuclecao8712]

@@somerandomguy9125 No,Stalin’s son provoked the German soldiers to kill him.

[@somerandomguy9125]

@@huuphuclecao8712 he had several sons.

[@huuphuclecao8712]

@@somerandomguy9125 He only had 2 son and a daughter.

[@drewboden6981]

"You're like Hitler, but at least Hitler cared about Germany or something!" - Morty Smith

[@tristansalagoste4486]

Well if thats the case... "Atleast Stalin wasnt racist" -Me (Its a joke tho)

[@theowlfromduolingo7982]

@@tristansalagoste4486 are you sure about that

[@tristansalagoste4486]

@@theowlfromduolingo7982 not really.

[@tristansalagoste4486]

@Ethan Evans not if your a hardline communist.

[@alyssarichardson2544]

@@tristansalagoste4486 Dude, *Stalin LOVED* (killing) *his countrymen, whatever do you mean?*

[@RictusHolloweye]

"Dark humour is like food. Not everybody gets it" - Joseph Stalin

[@shreihals9314]

Damn Joseph was a troll!

[@BaniyaFitness]

Or Dark Humour Is Like A Kid With Cancer It Never Gets Old.

[@terrionsmith1389]

Good one😂

[@ninolamkin4558]

Fun fact: people in the USSR actually ate far more healthily than Americans during its existence

[@Joey-ok6rs]

Damn i might be a commie

[@jonathanc.209]

Imagine going back in time and showing Stalin the entire Comment section of this video.

[@jmbpinto73]

Or give Power to Trotsky instead.

[@stevehairston9940]

Then imagine the bodies piling up.😲

[@awddfg]

*_3000 kill streak._*

[@kaiser_Haux]

He wouldn’t understand 98% of the comments

[@livethefuture2492]

If he came back everyone in Russia would round him up and hang him in the red square...

[@piggleman5009]

“I have no son by that name.” I cannot emphasize enough how evil that is.

[@Sean-kp1to]

@Shivu anir I’m pretty sure that was considered bad even back then, maybe that’s why not a lot of people know about it

[@tazydevil1379]

I felt bad for the guy 😥

[@maryumgardner5958]

Stalin is REALLY not a great father

[@markospain5349]

He did not say that , his son was a low rank officer and germands wanted to trade him for some high ranking ones to which Stalin replied i am not trading major for a generar or something in the lines of that

[@omaratef2828]

Yes I completely agree with you this beyond evil, however considering the cold harsh soviet he was he put his homeland before anything, still very harsh of him, but he did what he had to do to beat the nazis

[@thecitizenoftheinternet1077]

Fun fact: Stalin got nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 and 1948.

[@skirtboi]

So was Hitler not in the same year tho

[@thtboyjosh_]

Wtf

[@scott7948]

Henry Kissinger won one

[@livethefuture2492]

Fun fact after he died, it was revoked...

[@lamehick7511]

Obama won one...

[@harrisonofcolorado8886]

Soviet officer: Dude you're really messed up. What is wrong with you? Stalin: My father used to punish me severely.

[@JcBrookesMom]

Oversimplified

[@primroserain1739]

@@JcBrookesMom yup

[@RetroGamer10]

His daddy beaten him like a dog and now he’s evil

[@guidomista559]

RetroGamer10 he’s from georgia, sweet georgia

[@onetruth37]

@@guidomista559 And history books unfolded him

[@jackma9816]

Shhhhh, Simon, this never happened....

[@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346]

Joseph Stalin .... Great he got out of his tomb again..... Joseph get back in .... I'm gonna use stronger chains this time.

[@cavejohnson4306]

I thought this was Michael.

[@aneesh2115]

@@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346 use glue

[@uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweug9760]

Whats your favourite breakfast cereal?

[@thecrispy7789]

@@grantmclean4744 survival of the fittest. Noone is my responsibility.

[@deinVater9983]

Joseph loved that girl. Joseph wanted to confess his feelings to her. But Joseph was shy. Joseph stalling.

[@justwilliam4802]

Edgar Alan Poe is rolling in his grave

[@sausthabbirsinghtuladhar1729]

damn nice poem🤣

[@bentoneaster6956]

Good one!!!!

[@deinVater9983]

@@bentoneaster6956Thank you!!!!

[@5Penkets]

Oh look there’s a Lithuanian family! so Stalin picked up a gun. And suddenly three shots: BANG BANG BANG! And now they’re gone. (Try to sing to yourself this with rhythm it’s hilarious even though it’s sad)

[@josephleonard6695]

the entire planet: *What is wrong with you, Stalin?!* Stalin: *My daddy beat me like a dog and now I'm evil.*

[@rejvaik00]

Stalin: *I'm from Georgia sweet Georgia and the history books unfold muh* *As a messed up mothafucka bent in the mind*

[@shawnv123]

cope and seethe

[@sirfardon3247]

Erb here

[@sidequestenjoyer7037]

@@rejvaik00 Who built a superpower but paid the price

[@evanmoore3114]

@@sidequestenjoyer7037 with the endless destruction of Russian lives.

[@Taizu314]

Stalin disowning his first born leaving him to be killed by the Nazis was so cold it would’ve put Elsa to shame. Damn.

[@srinjoyghose]

He was offered by the Nazis to exchange his son for Field Marshall Paulus. His son was a colonel. Stalin said, "You don't exchange a Field Marshall for a colonel. " Tell me what wrong did he do here?

[@kylehopkins7841]

he also said to the Germans ”I have no son named Yakov“

[@TobiasCarlander]

srinjoy ghosh for a Russian nothing, for a father everything

[@lakiog1938]

@@TobiasCarlander russians have far more bond with their families then nuclear family societies , Stalin wasn't russian.

[@user-lj8js5vj4g]

@@operator2855 By ethnicity he was Georgian.

[@NeutralGuyDoubleZero]

*edit: i thought he died directly from his stroke, ive been corrected that he died several days after said stroke, and his policy on keeping people away caused a fatal delay in his treatment rather.* During his paralyzing stroke, he actually rotted away in his room since he'd train all those close to him in location and rank to NEVER open the door to his private bedroom under no circumstances unless directly invited in by himself, lest they face being put to death. So during his stroke, unable to talk, he *spent hours on the floor as his subordinates knocked on his door asking if anything was wrong. This delay in his treatment caused his condition to basically hit rock bottom and he rotted away in his bed over the next few days.* Karma at its absolute finest.

[@Dicknballz52]

That's not true m8. He died days after the collapse in his room

[@naknampucha5236]

Well I could only say it's a divine punishment,. You have to atone to your sins once before you're allowed to die . My Gramps was the same, he was a very abusive person towards others espicially to his family. He was once a policeman, killed a man, beat his children and cheated to his wife,. Years later, my Gramps was having stroke until he was bed-ridden. He became thin as sticks and bones and he couldn't move anything other than his head and fingers. My second mother told me Gramps is taking his punishment for his cruelty. She says Good people doesn't die with miseries and illness, they just pass away.

[@ryanperper5470]

Nobody actually heard anything other than a dull thump. They found him multiple hours later in a pool of his own urine, completely unresponsive.

[@travisthecancerpill3403]

He probably should’ve factored in that scenario.

[@MeliaMimi]

Giga Yupiel no one said he was

[@altarpiece]

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" - George Orwell

[@slime8177]

This is true in both capitalism and communism.

[@Adam-je2xs]

A stupid book written by an anti-communist snitch who had never stepped foot in the USSR. It's propaganda nothing more.

[@tokyosmash]

Adam if this isn’t satire I feel sorry for you.

[@shzarmai]

Indeed lol

[@todoldtrafford]

Capitalism is voluntary not coercion.

[@tristenbrown4208]

*20M citizens and 6M soldiers die* “Sorry I was in a silly goofy mood” -Joseph Stalin

[@someone3542]

"We do a bit of trolling"

[@SAkurA-ww5po]

Why are you spreading false info.

[@florindacastrejon245]

@@SAkurA-ww5po oh please stop lying

[@RetroGamer10]

Stalin looks a bit like Mario

[@goldenreel]

RetroGamer10 well...also consider that we’ve never seen them together in the same room 🤔

[@ButterDog42069]

It's a meee, Stalirio

[@thecitizenoftheinternet1077]

And Luigi looks like an argentinian dictator Jorge Rafael Videla.

[@mega0590]

Evil mario

[@godfreecharlie]

I sure if Uncle Joe had gone to Hollywood he would have made it bigtime. One screen test and the contracts would have come at him like a Blitzkrieg.

[@stevemcdigstraightdown2404]

Stalin sang in the choir. Imagine that.

[@markanthony3275]

Stalin...not his real name...had planned to go to seminary to study theology and church history...but the devil got to him instead. A person I know of said that Stalin's daughter Tatiana was there in his final moments...and she said his last act was to raise and shake his fist at God...and then he died. He knew where he was going...and he knew that God would hold him accountable for all of his crimes.

[@TaCaptainObvious]

@Mark Anthony, Stalin said he was an athiest, your claims seem to contradict his claims about his beliefs. What sources are you basing this claim on?

[@markanthony3275]

@@TaCaptainObvious No...my claims don't contradict his atheism...he wasn't always an atheist, until he said "No" to God and "Yes" to self....the same thing Satan did. His desire to study at seminary is a well known fact...but the account of him shaking his fist at God as his last act was witnessed by his daughter Tatianna and she told what happened in her conversations with Dr. Ravi Zacharias , who was invited by the communists to come and speak to them in the early 1980's. Dr. Ravi Zacharias mentioned this fact during his public lectures at Universities on the topic of " The Incoherence of Atheism".

[@katemaloney4296]

Stalin and Hitler's similarities are striking and scary.

[@dougroberts9821]

TaCaptainObvious there are no atheists on their death bed. But then it’s too late for them.

[@Logan-wu5kr]

Fun fact: Stalin could’ve survived, but all the doctors were either killed, or too scared to treat him.

[@lolppang4347]

And thanks god

[@ruturajshiralkar5566]

Even if they weren't killed or imprisoned, Beria certainly made every effort to ensure that the Medical aid to Stalin was greatly delayed.

[@SAkurA-ww5po]

Stalin was not a terrorist

[@mikeor-]

@@SAkurA-ww5po He was. My great-grandfather lost his cousin to his gulags, and the man who saved his life also died because of Stalin. He never forgave Stalin, and that is all he ever told me about the Man of Steel. My great-grandfather was the only great-grandparent who not only survived to see the fall of the Soviet Union, but lived into the twenty-first century and the only one I knew while he still lived. He died of old age in 2012.

[@SAkurA-ww5po]

@@mikeor- how many people died in his gulags?

[@ignitionfrn2223]

0:35 - Chapter 1 - Early life 2:05 - Chapter 2 - Koba emerges 4:10 - Chapter 3 - Man of steel 9:00 - Chapter 4 - Total control 10:20 - Chapter 5 - Collectivization 12:25 - Chapter 6 - The great terror 14:10 - Chapter 7 - Facing hitler 18:20 - Chapter 8 - The end

[@cesarpearch1989]

Thank you sir

[@justinvaladez4503]

Do you know the music that plays at 0:32

[@motherhen1028]

@@justinvaladez4503 Smooth rest cafe by Emily Shepard. Otherwise known as From Russia with love but Huma Huma

[@dannyjohnson8936]

anyone know the music played at 18:20?

[@SAkurA-ww5po]

He is not a terror

[@theblueskyisstolensunlight]

As they say in Russia, “It was when half of the population was in jail while other half guarding them”

[@vagusmaximus3711]

Hmm...i am russian and this phrase are used as a sarcastic joke. At least, i have never heard that somebody says it seriously.

[@theblueskyisstolensunlight]

Vagus Maximus nobody say such a thing with a serious tone, of course. It’s called satyrique joke. Zhvanetskiy used to quot it, as well as very close saying of Smirnov-Sokolskiy “we live like in a tramway, half is sitting (Russian Argo to be in jail), half is trembling (shaking)”. It doesn’t mean it was a big problem, people used to make jokes to overcome their fears, to laugh on the shame. Like you feel terrified during a minor car accident then you tell your friends “boy, it was nothing, I actually was bored” to look cool. The year Stalin died, there were more than 2.4 mln prisoners in GULAG. About 18 mln people passed through GULAG from 1930 to 1953. I do agree that in fiction book there’s a lot of exaggerated info about that period, but....

[@luisurdiales3091]

@Son of Europa Dude, that's the entire population of my country. He literally had a country's worth of people sent to a gulag over his rule, dang

[@livethefuture2492]

Son of Europa If you really believe Stalin's actions were in any way justified... I hope you rot in a gulag and burn in hell.

[@mbanasevych]

@Son of Europa , white Russians and Monarchists are two different meanings Humanist and historian... Pfft.

[@lumduandee6588]

Sadly, Soviet history is rarely taught today.

[@valen23arg]

@Таня Медведева exactly

[@einarasjuodelis3142]

Agreed, the best we can get is the cold War, but even that is taught with a very biased view.

[@Marika50]

Capital of Georgia is not Tiflis.... its Tbilisi... it has not been called Tiflis since like 10th century. Also Georgia was never actually part of Russia when the Romanofs were in charge. It was more of a shitty relationship with Russia to get help any time Turkey decided to attack since Turks wanted to force Georgia in to Islam and Russia was ok with letting Georgia kipping Othodoxy.

[@gusty_scarf]

Marika Kutaladze Really? I thought it was called Tiflis when it was in the Russian Empire as the Government of *Tiflis*

[@thelitmango6333]

yeah its fun to learn about their leader who gives his own up for death and also killed his own people along with allowing anthrax to be dumped and used, ah yes glorious soviet history. a history of fuckin up than ultimately failing because communism never works

[@longwlenguyen4214]

Psychiatrist: "Stalin, why do you behave this way?" Stalin: "My father used to punish me severely."

[@harpar1028]

QUEEN ELIZ.....my dad raped me

[@dingohammer1136]

Other kids are abused and don't turn out that way. The more likely explanation is genetic. His father was innately brutal and he passed that on to his son.

[@theradmadlad7681]

@@dingohammer1136 have you seen oversimplified?

[@rimfire8217]

A Freudian Excuse is Truly No Excuse at all.

[@rimfire8217]

@@dingohammer1136 No.

[@cheffrey82]

I'm glad you covered the deaths of his two wives - they always struck me as pivotal moments in the shaping of Stalin. Had his first wife lived and Stalin remained a little happier, would things have turned out differently for Russia? Would Germany have suffered less if Hitler had been accepted by his art school? It's impossible to answer but sometimes it seems like huge events could hang on such tiny details.

[@dasdream2364]

YES. I found someone who understand the butterfly effect

[@skelpiterse]

You've left out the bit where Stalin and Hitler carved up Poland..

[@user-ti1tq3cj2p]

Yeah. But recently, Poland shared Czechoslovakia with Hitler. Poor Poland))

[@lukemonaghan4727]

Listhpy Whithper coz this is a video about Stalin

[@jordanwilliams6972]

Right... I forgot that Poland had invaded Germany and Russia. Good point.

[@FJoeB1998]

Listhpy Whithper ummmm Stalin did it with the Nazis against an innocent country that did nothing.

[@Tuhajuhan]

@@user-ti1tq3cj2p The only difference is that Poland was an authoritarian nationalist country and took a piece of Czechoslovakia (despicable and cheap for sure) while the USSR was, just like Russia for centuries, sick with an intense xenophobic anti-Polish sentiment that seeked to keep Poland from existing at all.

[@MordredSimp]

This guy looks like a British V sauce

[@Chuked]

Bru

[@manduse5247]

@@programinc7581 so are you

[@shebbs1]

Is vsauce dome inane American pop-culture reference? Sounds gay!

[@TheMemeProf]

Wait a minute...

[@ashantinyongo7632]

Owain Shebbeare vsauce is the original sauce god.

[@AJ1990.]

Seems like all of the monsters that line the history books have this one thing in common: their formative years had irreversible trauma and violence imprinted on them. Raising children right is so damn important. Its unfortunate that half of the parents out there dont have what it takes. All of civilizations problems could be rooted right there, in a child's development.

[@jacksonstandley555]

In a sense it is

[@kimwhitehead9096]

Nope. If that were true, there would be a world full of psychopaths. These are narcissists. They are highly intelligent. They manipulate people in ways that most humans cannot understand. They have no sympathy or empathy to anyone. Stalin was raised well. His mother ensured his education. He was a master narcissist. Just like Lenin. Just like Hitler. Just like Mussolini. Just like Mao. Just like Pol Pot. Just like any leader who justifies mass genocide.

[@amyness3452]

Plenty of people are abused as children, but it takes a conscious decision to murder millions of your own people. His parents should not have abused him but are in no way responsible for anything that happened.

[@janobara6337]

Not enough of this narrative in this comment section, children's minds are very malleable and susceptible to trauma. Subject them to abuse and, with the right genetic risk factors, they become psychopaths/sociopaths/narcissists. Can't emphasize enough how little need we have of their kind in our societies. Of course, they'll still pop up and cause suffering and chaos here and there, sometimes use opportunities to gain power and people will still follow them as if they care about anyone else's wellbeing. Sad that we've evolved into minions for absolute monsters. Let's just hope that developments in the field of psychology, psychiatry and field prevention let us sleep soundly one day.

[@ra.n9482]

@@kimwhitehead9096 well , the world IS full of psychopaths and narcissists !

[@tool4132]

The biggest compliment I can give this channel is that even though present political ideologies are starting to reflect past ideologies (like the re-emergence of socialism and communism) you guys don't show your ideological hands. You present history in an unbiased manner. You don't have to paint a picture of the evils of ideologies. You present history and let it paint it's own pictures. I really appreciate that about this channel.

[@rboyd3435]

Great point!

[@sonofcronos7831]

Socialism will revive again as long as capitalism plunges humanity into a new crisis.

[@tool4132]

@ghost mall wrong

[@ArtOfDyingWell]

@@sonofcronos7831 You mean like socialism and communism did for the 20th century called the bloodiest century or do you want to pull "iT wAsN't DoNe RiGhT" or is that just the inevitable result of authoritarianism. As you write on your laptop, have a working toilet, have freedom of speech, food, and the luxury of electronics, all things done under capitalism. I'd may agree with you if we're talking corporatism or crony capitalism where state and corporations join together for tyrannical means, but that again is also authoritarianism

[@sonofcronos7831]

@@ArtOfDyingWell all things you mentioned was produced by human labor, not the economic system. The economic system only manages who gets the profit of labor, the slave owner, the feudal lord, or the bourgeiose. Crony capitalism is just financial Capitalism, is the evolution of industrial capitalism and thus cannot be reversed. The term crony capitalism was created by people now, while marxists have explained for a century in a half that financial capitalism is inevitable and will, and is, creating problems to humanity. This is why Trump dreamed of reversing capitalism back fo the industrial form, but was unable to, because "crony" capitalism cannot be reversed by liberal policies.

[@timbednarchuk3004]

Red Terror Gives blue colour in thumbnail

[@boliha8059]

Was wondering why no one commented that

[@TheTheThe_]

@@m3c4nyku43 Not true. If it wasn't for Stalin killing them, is the reason why. Stalin was a Fascist who simply wasn't for the race or culture based aspect.

[@marthab-c5226]

M3C4NYKU Facism isn’t necessarily anti communist, anti socialist or pro capitalist. Hitler hated all of them. Stalin was a facist in the way he had total control of all people in his state, and put many in working camps instead of supporting the people’s freedom.

[@ahmedio5289]

@@marthab-c5226 I'm pretty sure Fascism is the belief that no individual is more important than the State. If you look at it like that, than yeah, Stalin was a Facsist. He was just not like Hitler. He didn't believe that Russia was superior to all other nations. He was a different kind of Facsist. Total Side Note: I think Stalin took inspiration from Maximilein Robespierre, the head of the Reign of Terror, of the French Revolution. They both ruled through FEAR. And they both suppressed their people so much, that it came back to bite them in the ass.

[@kaybevang536]

Nice!!!!

[@sidewaysfcs0718]

"Imperial Russian Empire" We get it, they're big

[@panzerofthelake506]

Tsarist Imperial Russian Empire Tsardom Federation

[@shawnv123]

wow

[@calebsmith5759]

I love how he suffocated for several days. That warms my heart.

[@shauncameron8390]

LMAO

[@zoyuomg5934]

Sorry to end your wet dream of a scenario but he only suffocated for about 4 minutes before he died.

[@juliuscaesar2596]

It was nice

[@harpar1028]

omg u r cruel

[@kaybevang536]

Thank god he didn’t send u to Gulag lol

[@brianlondon5967]

Outstanding summary. I wrote 2 papers on Stalin in University and this video didn’t miss a single significant fact.

[@rohanghosh1499]

Hitler : No one can stop me Stalin : Hold my Gulags

[@user-qd8vi7nz1k]

More like Winter:hold my beer

[@commie3393]

Stalin: My great red army is unstoppable Hitler: Hold my gas chambers

[@ruturajshiralkar5566]

@@commie3393 more like Finland: PERRRKELE

[@mikailmillion]

Stalin could not stop Hitler buy himself. Luckily America, uk, Russia ect took on Hitler and won. Otherwise Hitler would have taken over Russia, uk and America.

[@ruturajshiralkar5566]

@@mikailmillion Most Historians say that by the time the Western Powers (USA & UK) actually got involved, the Soviet Red Army was Smashing the German Armies all across Central Europe. German defeats at Kursk, Stalingrad, Moscow, Donbass, Kiev etc sealed there fate. The Winter completely halted German Movement and their Overly-extended Supply lines were constantly disrupted causing huge shortages of Food, Ammunition, Oil, Clothing etc. The Soviet Red Army withstood the deadliest of German blows until they had nothing to strike with.

[@GAZAMAN93X]

*Moral of the Story: don't treat and beat your kid and spouse like wild animals. You might turn your child into a Dictator*

[@kayseek1248]

That's actually something many dictators share

[@blobfish4514]

Jill's Sandwiches don’t give me more reasons to beat my kids (don’t beat your kids this was a joke)

[@tyeonism]

Bahaha

[@Nantosuelta]

serial killers, dictators, its never a good outcome

[@allsystemsgo8678]

Maybe they know their child is going to be a terrible person and are punishing them accordingly.

[@mikeor-]

My paternal grandfather called him ''Joey Stalin,'' even though when he was a child, he was swept up in Stalin's Cult of Personality. He was eighteen years old when Stalin died, and when he found that out, he asked his neighbor what would happen next. His neighbor replied with the same words Stalin uttered in 1935, which also happened to be the year of his birth; ''Life has become better, Comrade. Life has become happier.''

[@mikeor-]

My great-grandfather endured the hardships of the Blockade of Leningrad. In 1942, he was almost starved to death along with a lot of the people there. He was lucky to be taken out in September of 1943, months before Leningrad was liberated. When he was driven out, a bomb was thrown at the truck he was hiding in, knocking him unconscious. The driver of the truck thought he was dead. When his friend went to bury him, he heard that he was still breathing, and told everyone that my great-grandfather was still alive. He was transported to the other side of the Lagoda Lake, near the Volga, where he first met my great-grandmother. My great-grandfather and his friend lived with my great-grandmother's family, and on July 23rd, 1944, my great-grandfather and my great-grandmother had a child together, my maternal grandmother. In 1946, after the end of the war, my great-grandfather attempted to find out what happened to his friend. It turned out, that his friend was sent to a gulag after being a POW. My great-grandfather never forgave Joseph Stalin for this atrocity. He was one of the very few people who secretly celebrated Stalin's death.

[@bjr4567]

Oh there were quite a few Soviets who secretly celebrated Stalin's death, even if many more were convinced it was Yezhov or Beria behind the purges and crimes.

[@Commielover69]

Stalin later apologised for the gulags

[@bjr4567]

@@Commielover69 When did he apologize for the gulags? Provide me an actual quote or you're dreaming.

[@papaboom69]

"my father used to punish me severely"

[@sethvanthiel7937]

A MAN OF QUALITY I SEE

[@MrK-]

Huzzah! A man of quality

[@deleted-cg9of]

*HUZZAH A MAN Of QUALITY*

[@pinheadlarry1977]

Quality! A huzzah of man!

[@MrUtah1]

Harisankar D “man, thats really messed up, whats wrong with you?”

[@prestest2]

They didn't die, they just took a vacation to the soup store. They're still buying soup to this day.

[@kaiser_Haux]

It’s for the people in the gulags

[@Tylerthety]

Were they shopping for clothes at the soup store?

[@deadeyecpt.7765]

Kinda like my father who went to buy cigarettes and never came back.

[@Dragonkin7]

They’re all waiting in a bread line

[@shawnv123]

lmao

[@Druzica18]

Unrelated, but The Red Terror is totally what I'm calling my period from now on.

[@missnizny9278]

LMFAO

[@choppaboyy]

My lil ketchup packet

[@jdubskiwright2380]

Eww

[@_Patton_Was_Right]

"WE DEFEATED THE WRONG ENEMY!" Patton was murdered for speaking the truth

[@gangasinghrathore4709]

Absolutely sir you were spot on

[@ButterDog42069]

Not the wrong, but only one out of two

[@EnigmaEnginseer]

Nazis had to go

[@colico14]

Patton had a work ethic that was second to none.

[@panzerofthelake506]

@@EnigmaEnginseer yup

[@MrVvulf]

Good video. You accurately portrayed the man as a paranoid bully who murdered his way out of any issue, killing anyone who disagreed with him.

[@cavinhannahs1879]

Immolation Liquidation Jesus Christ the internet is full of crazy people........

[@ddlithuania819]

Immolation Liquidation its not russian people only, about 20 million baltic people died when that rat send them to siberia just because they were more inteligent when other soviet union citizens. Do not defend someone that killed and burned many peoples lifes.

[@lmao2709]

He did do many horrible things, but the did transform the USSR into the beautiful country's it has made like Russia

[@radicallarrythemailman8269]

MC Catman101 But he didn't? His successors did? He merely just intensified the Army, made the NKVD more prominent and waged a proxy war to establish a communist state in the Korean Peninsula. Khruschev, Brezhnev, Antropov and Gorbachev did all the work to make the USSR a better place to live in. Stalin didn't care as long as it didn't interfere with his ambitions

[@GAZAMAN93X]

AaronExDee he was a paranoid individual that killed everyone he thought was against while rewarding those who he thought were supporting his cause which from my limited knowledge was to modernize Russia and the the rest of the USSR to stand against the world

[@wayfaerer320]

One of the things that wasn't mentioned in this video is that Stalin was repeatedly warned by Red Airforce pilots that there were heavy German troop movements all along the Soviet border prior to the launch of Operation Barbarossa - Stalin dismissed them all as being "dis-information."

[@andreiiuliantoma6303]

Woah Simon, you did a great job with the video. Now I really feel like I need to know Stalin in more detail.

[@edhammond6911]

Love this channel. I just found it. Perfect for me quick and concise information.

[@kodyeldridge5847]

Born in a town called Gori. How fitting.

[@appleseed2933]

?

[@hamzaferoz6162]

@@appleseed2933 wordplay on the English Word Gory

[@appleseed2933]

@@hamzaferoz6162 ah nice

[@phobos2077_]

"Gori" in Russian (Гори) means "burn" as in "burn in hell".

[@majolko]

"gore gore gore gore" is a serbocroatian sentence that means up there the mountains are burning worse

[@brufnus]

I've always felt so sorry for the Soviet peoples. They merely wanted a better, more just, more peaceful and more prosperous life, and they ended up suffering in ways, nobody can ever imagine. Yet they remain some of the kindest, most helpful and generous people I've ever met. I've been there many times now - Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia (including Stalin's childhood home in Gori), Armenia and Azerbaijan - and they never fail til impress me with their welcomes.

[@MiniM69]

brufnus One word: Haiti m. All of these is child’s play.

[@Hype.15]

So Donald Trump was well deserved or something?

[@Bellatrux13]

@@Hype.15 that's a burn one just doesn't recover from.🤣🤣🤣

[@rexmccoy209]

You know former Soviet countries are mega homophobic right?

[@Will-tm5bj]

@@MiniM69 ,when have 20 million Haitians been killed in a 20 year span?

[@fanta-cool7532]

People who grow up with bad parents either grow up to be the best people, or the worst people.

[@btetschner]

The videos of The Whistler are the best. Thank you for the video.

[@superleekegshoondinovevo6998]

Why do horrible people almost always have nice moustaches?

[@kavinraj8176]

FDR and churchill didn't have a mustache and they're horrible people.

[@mustardbottle8663]

Kavin Raj Uh how was FDR bad? Oh wait he married his cousin and his new deal might’ve caused the depression to last longer.

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

@@mustardbottle8663 he was a racist

[@emmanuelwatts2743]

@@quanbrooklynkid7776 I don't want to offend you but he was my president and I usually like to respect my patriotic leaders no matter who they are. I hope I am not making you mad.

[@kaybevang536]

Emmanuel Watts FDR is best but screw Bush

[@julius-stark]

Oddly, the transition music choice is always one of my favorite things about these videos.

[@David_Me825]

Senior Woodz Are yoh therapist?

[@eoin6922]

What song is it in the background

[@shelleynobleart]

Senior Woodz There were two beds in this one, a Soviet sounding one and a tv stinger one. Great info though. Great history lesson.

[@hannahl8081]

Eoin It sounds like The Montagues and the Capulets from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet

[@isaacschmitt4803]

Hannah L, Eoin, and Senior Woodz In this case, it is Franz Lizt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.

[@SpiritualStuntman]

Your videos are amazing. Thank you 🙏🏼

[@SeanUCF]

It's a shame more people don't know the atrocities and evils he committed just because he was on the winning side of the war.

[@sonofcronos7831]

What you mean? Stalin is considered one of the most ruthless man in the world, especially because he lived until 1953 so the cold war propaganda could make that point.

[@SeanUCF]

@@sonofcronos7831 Not sure what you mean with regards to cold war propaganda, but what I'm saying is a lot of people don't realize he murdered millions just like Hitler did. Usually when you hear about the "boogy man" from history, it's always Hitler. More learned people know about the atrocities that Stalin committed, but most people aren't learned.

[@sonofcronos7831]

@@SeanUCF off course, because Hitler ideology can only work with genocide, that is the difference. Was Stalin a madman? Sure, was his ideology genocidal? No. Nazism can only work with genocide. Nazism can only work if people are dead. I not defending Stalin here, but you can say that if people agreed with him, they would not be killed, or if they pleadge mercy. But for Hitler? That dont matter, youl will die regarless if you are a part of a certain race or nation. That is the difference between Nazism and all others ideologies from human history. Is the only one (or at least the most well know) ideology that requires genocide as his part of the plan. This is why Hitler is more vilified than everyone else.

[@SeanUCF]

@@sonofcronos7831 Yeah that's a good point, but if the soviet empire had expanded to cover what the Nazi empire had, in terms of ethnic diversity, I think we would have seen similar outcomes. There were several groups that were treated much the same (such as gypsies and jews), but they just hadn't gotten quite to the full on genocide stage yet. It took nazi germany several years to get there, and with time and expansion I think the USSR would have gotten there as well.

[@sonofcronos7831]

@@SeanUCF you are not understanding man. The nazis did not kill because they were just a empire. A lot of empires existed, before and even after, and most of them not considered gen0cide as part of their ideology. Nazism by DESIGN includes genocide. This is the difference. Nazis did not started to kill people because they expanded, they expanded to kill people. The nazi empire was created to destroy all jews and half of the slav population. Nazism by itself includes death of people. I recommend to you a video by the channel "Three Arrows", called "Jordan Peterson dont understand nazism". Peterson also claims that nazism was just a regular empire like any other, but it was NOT, and the owner of that channel gives you the information that you need to know about n4zism, and all discourses of Hitler himself were he says that jews should not exist. So even if people lived bad in Stalin goverment, he never considered them unworthy of life just because they were part of a people or nationality, and after his death his people started to live better. This could not happen in n4zi germany, jews and slavs would have no future there with Hitler or not as long as the country considered itself n4zi.

[@jjaye805]

This was great. I actually got chills when Simon gave his last line about Stalin: "A terrible lie"

[@roscojenkins7451]

Death of Stalin is a must watch historical comedy!!! Seriously hilarious!!!

[@RBYU001]

It’s so morbid but I’ve never laughed as hard as I did watching this movie!

[@carlosescobedo6406]

Randy Morehouse it was genius, many today would not understand the humor

[@zakiahmed6655]

great i'll try if I have time

[@surjitkaur9850]

Great film, no wonder it was banned in Russia. fxkin joke. Germany has moved on from Hitler while Russians still idolise Stalin..

[@MikeOxlong-wl5tk]

dare to say ur words again?

[@kikiza123]

"No person, no problem." - Joseph Stalin

[@kevinvalma2262]

When I was little, my mum telling me that when stallin died every one was crying, because they were so happy to see his death.

[@JohnSmith-kz8yo]

True fact: Stalin was Saddam Hussein's role model.

[@keelyleilani1326]

Yes I remember reading that somewhere.

[@valen23arg]

@Cyber Soul not really tbh

[@kumarsatyam1819]

And Saddam Hussain was better than bush .

[@valen23arg]

@@kumarsatyam1819 facts

[@user-mj9pe3xf9w]

2 Legends

[@justinmiller2132]

"Was worried for the safety of his country." More like worried for the continuation of his power.

[@artemesaulkov2010]

Putin has more power than stalin mate

[@luism9727]

@@artemesaulkov2010 They are different dictators from different time periods

[@artemesaulkov2010]

@@luism9727 stalin was such a dictator that he couldn’t even implement contested elections into the supreme soviet. Such a dictator wow

[@artemesaulkov2010]

@@puppet1-170 facts

[@alexp8785]

@@puppet1-170 but Robert Conquest and some random youtuber who read a wikipedia article and watched some youtube videos said he murdered 500 billion people!!!!

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Other than _rocking the 'stache,_ Stalin was a DESPICABLE MONSTER.

[@wcwmaniac110]

Love your episodes good sir. You just earned another sub 🤟🤟

[@VulpesFidelis]

Trotsky looks like a Russian Colonel Sanders.

[@JokerMan-rp2kf]

Jack Rowan You're a genius.

[@willhufftarkin3357]

Jack Rowan how can they have a colonel if they have no food?

[@kosmosyche]

My father has always called KFC "Trotsky's". At first, I didn't understand it, but then I saw his portrait. lol

[@mixfeat]

Kommunist Fried Chicken

[@BigBoiTurboslav]

more like colonel sanders looks like trotsky you DOG

[@UCSPanther20]

Joe Stalin was a 20th century version of Ivan IV aka Ivan the Terrible. Both were brutal, paranoid and cruel rulers, and both are admired in Russia to this day for their role as "empire builders".

[@Ozymandias1]

As was Peter the Great. He modernized Russia but was terribly cruel.

[@mysteriousmuffin6017]

UCSPanther20 Why put ‘empire builders’ in speech marks?

[@mysteriousmuffin6017]

retsaM innavoiG If what Stalin created was so backwards, how was the Soviet Union able to send the first man to space in 1961?

[@mysteriousmuffin6017]

@retsaM innavoiG You said inefficient so the same points still apply. The Soviets never expressed any desire to land somebody on the moon because It was completely pointless overall. Sending the first human out of the atmosphere is a far larger achievement than landing on a rock. The Soviets also launched the first satellites, space station and overall made far greater achievements than the USA regarding the Space Race. Again, none of that would have been possible without Stalin's industrialization of the nation in the late '20s and '30s.

[@mysteriousmuffin6017]

@retsaM innavoiG First of all, saying Russia was backwards or inefficient either way still makes it remarkable that they were the first country to send a human to space, that's what I meant by 'the same points still apply.' A country that was 50 to 100 years behind the other superpowers at the beginning of the century sending the first object to space in the middle of it is incredible. I see I was a bit brash when comparing the moon landing to Gagarin's flight to space, but the fact that it was not a rich and wealthy country like Britain or the USA that accomplished it is very unexpected. You are right though, scientifically landing on the moon was much harder than simply sending a human out of orbit. As for your point about it being easy to send things to space now, it is completely irrelevant. It would be like saying somebody owning an iPhone in the middle of WW2 was not unusual simply because millions own one now. At the time, no other country had sent a human to space before, and even the leaders of the USA were shocked by it. If the US Government saw the Soviets sending a human to space as irrelevant, Kennedy would not have made the bold claim to send somebody to the moon in the first place. If the Soviets actually cared about reaching the moon, they would have done it shortly after. As for your point about Stalin, every advanced country has had some kind of genocidal and radical event that modernized it. How was Stalin's brutality different to the USA and Britain's use of slavery and harsh factory discipline during the industrial revolution? There was also a lot of bribery and corruption within the USSR, and misuse of power throughout the NKVD and GOSPLAN. To see Stalin individually responsible for 13 million deaths is actually stupid and outlandish. Every national hero has evil behind them, look at George Washington for example. He is praised for winning the war of independence, yet years prior took part in the Genocide of the Native American people.

[@davidfowler374]

Stalin: the red terror thumbnail: blue

[@angrymanwithsillymoustasche]

True

[@harpar1028]

churchil ...the ass whole faminist......

[@z3r0_35]

Correction: Stalin was pretty sure Hitler would eventually reneg on the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, but he figured Hitler would wait until the United Kingdom had either capitulated or at least rendered irrelevant in the course of the war before making his move. He supposedly informed his military high commmand to be ready for a war with Germany by 1943. To be fair, Hitler probably WOULD have preferred to wait until perhaps 1942, but someone else forced his hand: Mussolini. Italy’s bumbling around in the Balkans and North Africa led Hitler to fear that the Soviets might mobilize earlier than anticipated if they perceived aggression in their direction, which forced him to move the timetable for his planned invasion forward to mid-1941 in a “now or never” gambit, wanting to strike the Soviets while they were still weak from a purge of their military officers and the pyrrhic victory of the Winter War...and it almost paid off.

[@thunderbird1921]

You have a great point. I think many have little idea how close the Germans came to potential victory. This was NOT a repeat of Napoleon. The Soviets were losing well into 1942 and usually got crushed in warmer season battles until Kursk in 1943. Interestingly, Kursk happened around the exact same time the western Allied powers were invading Italy, forcing Hitler to divert some forces to this new threat. The other thing that I think REALLY should be noted is that 1943 is when British and American bombers truly began mass air raiding German industry (something that to my knowledge the Soviets weren't able to do well). If the Italy campaign doesn't happen when it does and the German industrial machine kept going full strength for another year, who knows what would have happened?

[@z3r0_35]

@@thunderbird1921 Funny you should mention Kursk, because that was also delayed for a number of reasons. One reason, it is believed, was that Hitler wanted units equipped with the then-new Panther tank to be available for the offensive, which would provide an offensive edge, but unfortunately granted Zhukov even more time to prepare his defenses, and this proved to be a mistake.

[@bjr4567]

Hitler was also concerned with the rapid mobilization of heavy industry that was taking place at a vigorous clip in the Soviet Union. He also would end up underestimating the impact and reach of American lend-lease not only for England, but for Russia to boot. This is what helped save the Red Army.

[@johnsummers9660]

You never fail to impress Mr. Whistler. Whether it be the BioGraphics, TopTenz, VisualPolitik or Today I Found Out channel, the content is always well researched, produced and presented. I suppose it's almost a foregone conclusion at this point but I think you're well on your way to becoming the "millennial David Attenborough". Keep up the good work and I'm sure your success will only continue and grow.

[@drdre4397]

John Summers nothing else to add, well put sir.

[@richardtimmsdesign]

If Simon and his team made a feature length documentary or a series it'd get picked up by any major tv channel and or streaming service with half a brain.

[@Zorro9129]

Vertigo Politix is also a good channel.

[@wcatholic1]

When the Germans wanted to trade Yakov for Von Paulus Stalin replied" There are no Soviet prisoners of war. In any case, one does not trade a Lt. for a Marshal."

[@LeanneFowler-ms5xc]

Damn! That's cold as ice!!!! I always thought that was just a lie someone made it up!!!!

[@suecia970]

Great, thanks for this biography!

[@nadwanrosetta2942]

For those who are looking for the music at 0:32 despite the similarity, it is not "Dance of the Knights" by Sergei Prokofiev. it is called "From Russia with love" by Huma Huma

[@skinmanikin]

that episode of Friends came to my mind when Chandler pranks Joey into thinking Joseph Stalin would be a cool actor name xD

[@nicholasbrassard3512]

dude, that episode was great! XD

[@droomzy]

@@nicholasbrassard3512*Joey storms in Monica & Rachel's apartment after an audition to Chandler* ...."you know there already IS a Joseph Stalin????"

[@chickenmanversace7508]

i have learned so much about history from your channels. It has given me reference points to research outside of your videos. Thank you for the education, your work is immensely appreciated.

[@jayjaylecourt9431]

Thanks to youtube and google! And the content makers. Its compensating the global educational system's incompetence. I believe I didn't hear any of this from my history teachers. Not that I was inattentive or anything but some learnings were mostly superficial and even had teachers with words, only empty words. The finesse of technology these days is really an advantage to many of us, students and even teachers. Id say also a challenge. Long live your channel

[@twipped4011]

Title: Joseph Stalin: The Red Terror. The blue thumbnail: *I don't think so*

[@tyl1005]

This man said if they were lucky they were sent to gulags instead of being shot💀💀 yea okay ppl in the gulags wished to be shot. Never heard that before bro

[@alexp8785]

lol, no they didnt. gulags were a far better institution than the CIA told your high school to tell you. google is your friend.

[@oceanofoil]

@@alexp8785 Public schools don't even teach about the gulags. Seeing as how John Brennan himself was a communist you're comment makes zero sense.

[@kimwhitehead9096]

@@alexp8785 Gulags were horrible. Cannibal gulag?

[@alexp8785]

@@kimwhitehead9096 you're mixing up two fairy tales

[@alexp8785]

@@oceanofoil john brennan? what lol

[@zeitgeist2point087]

Thumbnail: The Red Terror Also Thumbnail: *Blue*

[@Phenom98]

That pissed me up a lil bit

[@zigzag3720]

Z

[@zeitgeist2point087]

@@zigzag3720 Z

[@Skualo-77]

Thanks for your service sir and God bless you.

[@Demonetization_Symbol]

I love how you used "From Russia With Love".

[@jessicamarie5781]

I'm such a history nerd and love your videos and love these too.

[@simeonsimov12]

16:05 -Chancellor Stalin , in the name of the Soviet Politburo you are under arrest - I am the Politburo!

[@PresidentFlip]

“Not Yet”

[@taylorbarbieri4018]

Stalin: *Its treason then.*

[@livethefuture2492]

Wait but if they just killed him there, wouldn't they hold all the power since they are the government.

[@ps4tv614]

Star Wars reference with palpatine awesome

[@rejvaik00]

Are you threatening me comrade?

[@KindOldRaven]

Main thing I've learned from all these series about different dictators and 'great' (or not-so-great) leaders is that... well... apparently high-functioning socio-/psychopaths with a narcissistic edge make for excellent politicians, leaders in business-life etc. Cut-throat without a doubt, stubborn, charming and good at talking to/convincing others, utterly convinced they're meant to achieve greatness and not afraid to simply end anything or anyone who stands in their way. Either openly or in secret.

[@bentoneaster6956]

I think being killed on sight was probably a mercy compared to being imprisoned in a hell on Earth. Cough. Cough. I mean the Gulags.

[@thunderbird1921]

I've long wondered two things: How many Soviet spies in America actually defected secretly, and how many more didn't because Stalin's regime would have had their families enslaved or killed. Can you IMAGINE going from the conditions described in this video, to a land where suddenly free speech is protected, food is plentiful, workers actually had some genuine rights, and the government is at least somewhat sane? No Communist propaganda could really prepare a Soviet person (especially a younger one) to suddenly handle that experience. America even with all its flaws must have seemed like paradise on earth for a lot of them.

[@Megumi_Bandicoot]

Stalin’s mustache Vs Hitler’s mustache

[@JozeManuLOL]

Stalin.

[@kennethhigdon1159]

Chuck Norris's mustache could beat them both

[@jumpinnemo5044]

Papa

[@nicholsjoshua15]

Teddy Rosvelts mustach

[@keremgulbin9142]

Frederick Nietzche *Amateurs*

[@MotoHikes]

*Stalin's father Vissarion* So..... Stalin's a secret Targaryen?

[@IIISWILIII]

that coin flip definitely landed on the wrong side of sanity

[@sheldonallanhorseman2379]

Besarion*

[@juliohenrique8546]

" A Georgian alone in the URSS. That's a terrible thing. "

[@calumgreen3026]

I thought the exact thing

[@villegas24]

Yet without Stalin we would all speak German and not by choice.

[@tyowens7481]

That’s not true at all

[@guardiadecivil6777]

how about you thank the western allies and the soldiers who actually fought in the red army for that? or are you under the moronically false belief that stalin was like napoleon and led the red army to victory?

[@Mentol_]

@@guardiadecivil6777 there is no reason to separate the actions of the government from the actions of ordinary people during the war.

[@lsghost5805]

"I turned myself into a pickle Mortyyyyyyyy I'm Pickle RIIIIIIIICK" - Joseph Stalin

[@nathanmuller2933]

I'm glad Simon Whistler is still making videos and narrating. You're awesome guys, keep it up!

[@814325]

It's always a pleasure to listen to anything you say, Mr Whistler. Thank you for this amazing video. It's a pity that it was about such a despicable person.

[@deangreen2567]

The numbers are widely disputed to be AT LEAST 20 million. Estimations put the number of deaths to be between 20 and 60 million.

[@Mentol_]

800k people was killed in 29 years of stalin rule. 20-60 mln is propaganda numbers.

[@P.M.O.S.69]

Good job Sir 👍🏼

[@Tyler-tr4hi]

lovely narration, elegant production and editing. perfect. i know you guys read this so just wanted to let you know you got it right. just dont get rid of simon hes awesome!

[@Skac01]

If you took Joe Pesci's character from Goodfellas and made him the president of a superpower; he'd be Stalin.

[@TedMan55]

JakodaRay that’s actually a pretty good comparison. there must have been a LOT of spiders in soviet russia

[@gulfrelay2249]

Jimmy the Gent (DeNiro) gets my vote. Who ran the crew?

[@Curtis69213]

Truer words have never been spoken

[@aaronmarks9366]

Never go get Stalin's shinebox

[@temoffon8226]

Stalin was nothing like him dawgggggg

[@MrShadowThief]

"Only Stalin himself could sleep in peace." Tito: "I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move."

[@comradestalin9444]

TO SIBERIA!

[@n.d.4192]

Khrushchev talked about Stalin's crimes against the Soviet Union all while he was one of Stalin's enthusiastic henchmen, so it goes with psychopaths who rule.

[@SouthernDiscomfort256]

I’m a new subscriber and you have saved my sanity. We are ordered to stay indoors and your videos have been such an escape.

[@magicunicorn4755]

Love all your channels and all the videos you do. Very informative!!

[@PavanKumar-ri5hq]

@Biographics pls do a video on Jim Morrison, Arthur rimbaud

[@phillipwhite7850]

I'm glad you made that last point. Stalin's rewriting of his place in the revolution and the cult of personality were part of his time in power. Loving these videos

[@thunderbird1921]

Kim Il-Sung followed Stalin's example well, he even took it to the next level.

[@alexeyb6129]

He forgot to say that Stalin like Lenin was marxists, they were against russian and foreign corporations and big companies. So after socialistic revolution in Russia in 1917, Lenin made a decree about 8 hour working day ( in USA only in 1938), put corporation under the workers control, gave women the voice right, free education, and so on. So corporations all over the world were afraid of revolutions headed by marxists, cause in that case private enterprises would be captured by workers as in Russia in 1917. So 14 capitalists countries made military intervention to Russia in 1918 to throttle socialist revolution, but they fallen and soviet Russia had to develop rapidly among enimy anti marxist envirement so not to be captured by some capitalist country like fascist German in 1941. So Russia with no heavy industry in 1928 had to make rapid (for 10 years) industrialization not to be captured by some aggressive

[@DarqueQueen7]

Apparently Stalin had the memory of an elephant when it came to grudges. Many survivors of the siege of Leningrad (who had left the country after WWII) swore that Stalin let them.suffer because he hated that the city was named after Lenin. Dude was majorly touched. Great bio as always, Simon.

[@inukithesavage828]

Forgot about the purging of the intellectuals and especially the clergy.

[@zaidshah4535]

Didnt have the balls to touch ivan pavlov though

[@christopherstamp9716]

Communists take over high education first.... Like now.

[@k0mentator507]

@@christopherstamp9716 bruh

[@StelmachsWorld]

16:33 this is when and where my grandpa was taken to a work camp, hes still alive today