Nikita Khrushchev - Premier of the Soviet Union in the Cold War Documentary

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[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Noted man! Love your work and channel!😊😊

[@AutomatedPersonnelUnit_3947]

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[@ahmedisse1745]

Do former minister of foreign affairs of USSR

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[@fossilized_treee_sap]

As a historian, I am once again impressed with a solidly sourced and engaging narrative. I have always considered Khrushchev the most fascinating and contradictory Soviet leader alongside Lenin himself, and this does a great job showcasing Khrushchev’s strengths and weaknesses and how they combined to influence his policy decisions and worldview. Well done.

[@sportsfanivosevic9885]

After overseeing the transfer of Crimea to Ukraine in 1954, Krushchev's legacy became entangled with the actions Putin took to return Crimea back to Russia.

[@username2966]

Greatest docu channel on YT. Amazing narrator ❤ great work 👏

[@alanmagee2193]

The narrator almost sounds human

[@michaelacosta3165]

Very well done! As for your question, it would be hard to say that both are true. There was brilliance in him, and it is easy, as an American, to see that he was attempting a new path in relationships with the west and seemed to understand a balance of peace and power. But maybe, in part because of that, he couldn't see himself negatively affecting his people. He was as human as the rest of us.

[@marcwhite6267]

Did he not threaten to "bury" us? The brave "hero" was willing to fight us until the very last Cuban.

[@robertmanfredthurrigl9424]

What is often overlooked and swept under the carpet is that it was Khrushchev and Kennedy who actually defused the cinder box that the Cuban missile crisis had become . The hard liners on both sides aka the military complex wanted escalation . Curtis Le May, the WWII General who fire bombed Tokyo killing a hundred thousand civilians in one night back in 1945 said : "I fry Cuba" and Fidel Castro was willing to be the sacrificial lamb and pawn for the soviets and have Cuba fried and nuked for the socialist revolution! That is a fact. Back in them days , as divided the world and these two opposing sides were during the cold war , there were still open channels for discussion , where as right now ALL CHANNELS are closed . Its worse now. The fact it was defused by Khrushchev and Kennedy cost them both later . Kennedy was shot and Nikita was ousted and voted out of office. I wish they would vote Putin out of office but there are no checks and balances in his Russia which is a Mafia state now just like it was under Stalin . @@marcwhite6267

[@NotesNNotes]

@@marcwhite6267did you not see his personal letters to Kennedy? That’s not what he said at all

[@tristanstephen8848]

I wanted to write a note that I love your videos and learn a lot from them. That being said, you have the best audio for documentaries on KZbin. So many videos have additional sound, music, and just plain noise that they add to their videos. I fall asleep peacefully while listening to them. Thank you for what you do.

[@Dechieftian]

you are so right on the audio quality ..

[@roystonboodoo7525]

Thank-you for another concise, thorough very informative presentation with an unassuming narration as usual.. all class 👍

[@PhoenixTroy1976]

Excellent documentary. Well edited and narrated. Great job!

[@chrissiek8706]

33:00 nooo, those are later, 70-80s buildings, khruschovkas were with smaller windows, generally smaller apartments, with barely existing kitchens and were just 3-5 stores. I would know, we still have some in my town... And mom remembers corns from her childhood in kolhoz, would make dolls of them, braiding corn "hair". Totally silly to try growing them in Lithuanian climate, by the way, one would think Khruschev learned something about farming and planning by then...

[@Bismarck-go6ir]

Love these Videos! Top on my recommended for a reason. ❤

[@paulbergen6574]

Excellent bio. Because my family was engulfed in his shadow, I can't see the man in a positive way. I read his rememberences and appreciate your thorough work. To answer your question, I suppose that the best that can be said of him that his circumstance was a tragedy that easily could have gone far worse.

[@syncmonism]

As far as Soviet and post-soviet heads of government go, he seems to have been one of the best, if not the best. That's not exactly saying a lot, but he seems to have at least tried to have done the right thing most of the time, and that's a lot more than can be said of a lot of other leaders.

[@arthas640]

He was the most highly polished of the turds to rule the Kremlin

[@nadya671]

​@@arthas640тебе Берию подавай. Если бы он был таким ловким, то удержался бы у власти так, как поступают порядочные ублюдки

[@Sabundy]

That applies to almost every country's leaders. Have the leaders of say America or the UK been any less hit and miss?

[@PaintballVideosNet]

Khrushchev likes men

[@benjaminreina8631]

Compared to Stalin anyone looks better. Khrushchev was uneducated with a chip on his shoulder because of it.

[@nuadtrainer]

I met many Soviets from the next after Khrushchev generation, as they were studying French in Montpellier (France) . They were at high position in soviet hierarchy: university heads, industry and art managers. They all started their career as simple worker, like Khrushchev, and later went through series of studies and on the job positions. These people, with immense experience, had a great culture, were very simple in contact, and very discriminate in judgement. The marks of the great ones.

[@stevewbolanz3539]

This present day hatred for Russia must stop. It is ruining America

[@anairenemartinez165]

Members of the Communist Party. Without that they were NOTHING.

[@dwaynefoley1020]

They were all scum

[@uralbob1]

Excellent! Thank you for posting this video! It filled in many of the questions that were living in my mind all these years.

[@oddvardmyrnes9040]

How can we judge a man without having walked the earth during his time? To me, the makeup of the man must be a product of the environment he lived in. True in both psychological & physical life. How can we imagine the horror of living under Stalin's terror. No judicially protection, instant prosecution & death in a brutal society of terror as the Soviet Union was back then. The brutalization imposed on him by the war. These environment factors must have shaped him. For us to judge is a folly's errand. How the Russians saw him is a better measure of the man. He invited the Russian public to denounce Stalin, and by doing that, himself. But he was not killed or exiled. He was acknowledged as a statesman by the Russians. But as a man from Stalin's inner circle, he was ejected from power. He was a survivor. A man that did what it took to survive in a time hard for us to comprehend.

[@BVargas78]

Khrushchev had his fare share of blunders and some black marks but overall I think he was one of the better leaders because he had a genuine desire to improve the living standards of the common people.

[@MarMar-nq9ii]

He had not only the desire, but also the opportunity to improve living standards. Stalin also had such a desire, but did not have the opportunity to do so. But Stalin created the basis and opportunities that Khrushchev realized. My aunt (22 years old), her husband (23 years old) and my half-year-old cousin got a two-room apartment in Moscow in 1955. An area with a lot of greenery, close to shops, a school, a cinema, a kindergarten, a polyclinic, etc.

[@therealuncleowen2588]

​@@MarMar-nq9iiStalin killed so many for imagined crimes. I hardly think it reasonable to assume that Stalin ever had another human being's best interest at heart, that he wasn't related to. Krushchev ended the senseless executions that characterized Stalin's era and restored some measure of sanity to his nation. It is a measure of his humanity that he was allowed to retire rather than being led out back and shot.

[@brandonlyon730]

He also helped stop a monster like Levrentiy Beria from becoming head of state after Stalin’s death.

[@2dope96]

@@MarMar-nq9iiStalin modernized the Soviet Union at the expense of millions of innocent lives, he was a brutal monster

[@BearFoxTrot]

@@therealuncleowen2588you have to remember the history here. Russia has one hell of a history of being invaded and subversion from within. During Stalins time the Soviet system was still fragile. He went to far but I see why he was on edge.

[@ferschtein7514]

Thank you for your great work! I from Russia and this documental film is very interested for me.

[@rizkyzahranzaidan4937]

1:00:41 Please do one for him, I'm so curious about him (Leonid Brezhnev)

[@kamilyaaaa]

me too!

[@seanbaskett5506]

Brezhnev.......grew his eyebrows out and ruined the Soviet economy.....brilliant

[@arthurvane3901]

I agree Brezhnev rules the ussr for 18 years second longer behind Stalin.

[@tedmusson5179]

@rizkyza... and please title it THE TRAITOR.

[@FATHOLLYWOODB123]

@@seanbaskett5506 Actually, the Soviet Union reached its peak with Brezhnev, historically speaking, quality of life was best for the citizens under Brezhnev than any other Soviet leader.

[@AA-gu1vv]

Interesting how Hrushev manages to acuse Stalin of all sorts of crimes when he was directly involved in assisting Stalin.

[@annohalloran6020]

These docs increase understanding and promote peace.

[@clydelegend09]

That was a brilliant body of work. I really enjoyed the way the orator caught the subtle nuances and delivered them eveny, pro ot con. Thanks most enjoyable. Self preservation is a third option.

[@oloansitanggang2129]

Kruschev was a hero in his era; Eventhough his friends were hit him fall-down in to the ground, the world thanked him in bringing touch to the west. Although the west was his enemy in cold war.

[@Voucher765]

I especially praise him for stopping Stalin and his brutal regime, Communism eventually collapsed in 1991 when the USSR dissolved at the end of the Cold War

[@LordTalax]

@@Voucher765 Its still going in China and Cuba.

[@oloansitanggang2129]

@@Voucher765 a hundred percent agree. But, although Stalin was acting really like a devil in action of slaughter n murder 20 million Russians, but we need embraced him to stop Hitler n Nazi. This was make Japan in danger. And when the little fat falled in H & N, some countries were freedom. Thanks America. The greatest country of the world.

[@ItsTruble]

Thank you, I just finished the book “The White Pill” I was hoping for a bigger deep dive with him.

[@corymcdowell7295]

Michael Malice's book?

[@raymondhartmeijer9300]

I recently been to Estonia, those 5- to 9 storey appartment buildings that were build in the 50s and 60s, often look identical to appartments build in Western-Europe from the same timeperiod

[@stevewbolanz3539]

I think this guy is one that saved the world from nuclear war. If he only knew how much Kennedy Generals wanted war.....this guy and Kennedy saved the World. Now if only my leaders were as afraid of nuclear war as he was then I wouldn't be so worried about ww3

[@anairenemartinez165]

I think he knew how Che Guevara wanted to nuke Miami and NY, and told JFK Loco Che is out of his mind.

[@Pootycat8359]

Since the early 2000s, the West has been playing the "Most Dangerous Game." It's called, "Poke the Bear." I believe they actually WANT a nuclear war, to prune the Planet's population. But I think Putin's smart enough not fall for their tricks. But what if "WE" execute a "false flag," like nuking a Western city and blaming it on the Russians? The Azov Battalion has been perpetrating atrocities and blaming the Russians. I don't think it's beyond the Globalists to continue that strategy, and up the stakes.

[@baneofbanes]

Maybe Putin should be more worried about WW3.

[@baneofbanes]

@@Pootycat8359sure thing Ruski.

[@michaelallen8498]

That fear you speak of is how Putin controls the West. If we cow to Putin like you want we will have war regardless only n Putin's terms, just like Hitler.

[@treverblanco]

My God I've been waiting for. Krushchev was the soviets chance of redemption.

[@freedomfries6618]

There is no redemption for communists.

[@ntatemohlomi2884]

Nor for fascists perhaps?

[@69ElChistoso]

How do you figure he was their chance for redemption? That commie POS said he was going to bury us!

[@fmgmack]

@@freedomfries6618just chatting shit I guarantee you know nothing about the tenants of Marxism or communism

[@crispycasp7876]

Pretty sure their actual second chance went to some chap named Stalin

[@alanaadams7440]

When I was a child in LA Nikita came to LA. He held a news conference. He took his shie off and banged the podium with it saying "We will bury America" made quite an impression on this little 8 yr old. Very frieghtening

[@vladdumitrica849]

Now it is China's turn to make the same statement

[@E-Kat]

What year was that, I wonder? I thought he went to the US with a peaceful mission. I remember he wrote to Nixon proposing friendship and a new beginning for the Russian and US citizens. Nixon didn't buy it and was harping on about the past, so these talks had quickly ended. I wonder what was really going on the both sides. Most probably we will never know. Who was behind Nixon's presidency?

[@E-Kat]

I must add, how unusual it must've been for an 8 year old to watch NK speech! I'm so sorry it had frightened you. ❤

[@JS_Precision]

These videos are very well made and researched. Nice to see such quality on KZbin.

[@ReiMari12]

I don't know why. But I always felt bad that he wasn't able to visit Disney land. Poor guy just wanted his Mickey ears.

[@lynnhauenstein4136]

I felt bad too. He should have been shown Disneyland with his Son. What, the California folks said no. What KRUSCHEVE. Get codes. Well same stupid folks house tent city, homeless, shit city. Now that's a good reason not to let Russian gov folks visit LA or SF.

[@mesoanto1031]

😂

[@Bob.W.]

He did get to eat a hot dog in Iowa....

[@thermionic1234567]

The stronger the socialism, the safer the peace!

[@lynnhauenstein4136]

@@thermionic1234567 curious thoughts.

[@jonmcgee6987]

Other than his tendency to look out for himself in regards to helping Stalin with his purges. I think he was a pretty decent fellow. He tried to improve the Russian's agricultural problems multiple times with some common sense ideas. He wanted a peaceful relation with the Western countries. As we saw, he could be erratic and a bit of a loose cannon. Of the leaders during the time of the Soviet Union. He was maybe 2nd best.

[@PromorteD]

Other than killing thousands of Ukrainians, pretty decent fellow 🙃

[@therealuncleowen2588]

​@@PromorteDMethinks anyone who tried to get in the way of Stalin's purges was in the ground long before Stalin. Khrushchev was probably as decent a person as could have emerged from Stalin's inner circle to succeed him. Still a bastard, but nowhere near the monster that Stalin was.

[@jayaramaguntupalli355]

I am not a historian, but I have studied history for several decades. Kruschev is a product of his time but was very different from his colleagues. He would have faced a bullet if he had resisted Stalin's purges. He certainly deserves his share of credit in resolving the Cuban missile crisis. Like all good communists, he was willing to change facts to suit the theory - particularly in agriculture, and that was his end.

[@georgebrown8312]

Nikita Khrushchev was a more moderate Communist leader. I heard that he denounced Stalin's famine policies after Stalin died and tried to institute reform in agriculture. He was an interesting man. Thank you for this eye-opening video of a Soviet Union leader.

[@johnpilge9249]

Those 4-story slums built to help housing were often called Krustevy in jest. His skill was intrigue, not progress.

[@fasolavoy]

Killer is always killer. Every documentary seams to dawn play that part. Millions died from his hands !!!

[@hsten78]

“The Hangman of the Ukraine” Thanks for a good, thorough job on this documentary. He was a hypocrite, standing against the former crimes of the regime - crimes he committed & sanctioned. He didn’t stand against those crimes for reasons of self-preservation, & only after Stalin was dead.

[@AB-kg6rk]

Well done program, good writing and narration.

[@archie8129]

Can you guys PLEASE continue this series with Brezhnev and Gorbachev so that we get the entire history of the leadership of the USSR all the way from Lenin to its collapse?

[@archie8129]

Oh and Joseph McCarthy and The Red Scare trials too

[@John-r4o9m]

​@@archie8129 Tchernenko, too?

[@sarathdassanaike2807]

We in Sri Lanka Ceylon in was informed by a newspaper publisher they expect to print a English newspaper So on the day new newspaper was about to release was on 15th October 1964 in Sri Lanka So Chief Editor was waiting for a Break in news to compete with other English newspapers So kept heading opened for hot news Reuters issued news item stating President Nikita Khrushashow was outstead on 14th October 1964 So Newspaper Called, " The Sun " sold as hot cake This was historic edition in Sri Lanka Ceylon in 1964

[@stevecoscia]

Excellent and informative video. I learned much. I am 70 years old and the last ten years have brought new understanding about Russia. The USSR in the 20th century was horrible for most of Russia's common people. Much of my opinion is based on Adam Hochschild's book, The Unquiet Ghost, written after glasnost in the 1990s. It was during this time that common Russian people were permitted to share memories about past atrocities without fear of arrest and imprisonment. The stories are horrifying and Khrushchev contributed to the horror. Another writer from whom I learned much is Vasily Grossman - his book, Life and Fate, is one of the best 20th century novels.

[@allasegal4585]

Thanks for your interesting video 🇺🇲🇺🇦

[@theresalaux5655]

Wow, brings backs memories! Excellent video!😊

[@CdeMao]

Great naration full of knowledge thank you very much

[@harrisgudocumentour]

In the line of all communist state leaders, he has been the one most sane and sensible, the least power hungry and brutal.

[@kxkxkxkx]

LOL He was better than Stalin but that is a very low benchmark indeed

[@tedmusson5179]

@harris... have you ever been diagnosed as delusional?

[@moosesandmeese969]

Seems like on one hand he had real ambitions to increase economic development, relax political repression, and improve life in the Soviet Union while on the other being victim of the environment Stalin had created where the only Politburo and Communist party members not in jail or executed were those that supported Stalin's cult of personality. He was more liberal compared to other members of the government but would still sometimes make judgements based on his own personal views. His reaction to the youth Stilyagi subculture was lenient compared to even the way American leaders reacted to the counterculture movements happening in the US. By purely economic measures, it seems his policies were fairly successful, if facing challenges along the way. Life expectancy in the USSR was rising consistently and by 1965 was within one year of that of the United States, and GDP per capita was also rising. The Khrushchevka housing blocks get a bad reputation in the west and certainly aren't without problems but were nonetheless successful in moving huge amounts of Soviet families out of communal housing into their own private flats with running water, gas, and electricity. The housing blocks could have been of higher quality, but the method of using mass produced prefab concrete panels was a very efficient one, especially considering so much of Soviet housing was destroyed in World War 2. They were still better in quality and outlasted American public housing projects being built in the US at the same time. To this day, home ownership in the former Eastern Bloc vastly exceeds that of the west, attributable to such housing policies that Khrushchev had a major part in developing.

[@johnarmstrong3140]

Transferring Crimea to the Ukraine in 1954 was a mistake based on his own sympathies but not on common sense.

[@richardsimms251]

Great talk

[@PARABOLA1966]

Excellent channel; the thing I live aviuy your channel is that is, non political; but even more importantly, no religious. Good speed, and safe travels to the, both of you.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Great! Next you should do a video on the last leader lf the soviet union Mikhail gorbachev!🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@richardwhitfill5253]

Another great documentary Thank you

[@AMATER898]

Khrushchef wasn't an angel. But he definitely was great statesman. Even being a notorious anti-communist, I have to recognize this fact.

[@katherinecollins4685]

Enjoyed this

[@k9spike235]

Your videos are outstanding 👌.

[@martinphilip8998]

My dad and brother used waxed milk cartons to start a fire in the hearth. My dad would say one was Kruschev’s dacha and my brother would call the other one Castro’s cabana. It was 1960 and I was five. I miss the Cold War days.

[@7basement]

very well presented

[@jcarey568]

It's interesting that a man of humble origins was able to do so well. When was the last US president to have been born poor? Lincoln?

[@bjr4567]

Harry Truman I would say. William McKinley before him wasn't born to a sliver spoon either. Hard to top Lincoln however.

[@zeppelin0110]

Excellent documentary

[@zingwilder9989]

He was simply a survivor under the Stalin regime and did what he believed he had to do to stay alive. Nonetheless, he was a player in that time of filthy and desperate Stalinist politics. He was neither intelligent, nor an International diplomat. He was brash, aggressive and made a multitude of mistakes along the way. He was a dictator. However, he did end mass executions and shut down the Gulags. For that, one must give him credit.

[@bjr4567]

He had to an advanced degree what one could call a "peasant's cunning." To survive as well as he did under Stalin, and then prosper as well as he did beyond that - and against all odds - was evidence of this.

[@SamLeoer]

Great channel, could you do one about howard hughes?

[@IAM-zu9nx]

Haven't seen this yet, but I'm old enough to remember Cruschev saying that America will destroy itself from within and when I see what's happening in this country I think Nakita was right

[@RolfLoth]

Interesting biography of Nikita Khrushchev, but I expected to hear some details why he gave the Crimean Peninsula to the Ukraine.

[@howardkahn4330]

HE WAS AS GOOD A MAN AS POSSIBLE DURING THOSE DAYS

[@fredbays]

18:50- Usaid near the front. He was a lot more then just near the front. He was the one who rally the 1st Guards Tank Army after it had fled the field before the Germans and joined it with the 5th Tank Army to stop the Germans. So kid get it right he was a real "hero" of the USSR by anyone standards. The man weas not afraid to get shot at.

[@jamesellsworth9673]

Nikita Kruschev appears to have been good at organization and motivation. Looking back, he felt he needed to replace bombs and bullets with Bluster.

[@luh.garcia6413]

11:51 is that Beria on the right ( left if your facing their direction)

[@lynnwood7205]

@ 34: This report of Mao Zedong's swimming invitation to Krushchev and the resulting athletic performance of Mao in the swimming of laps about the pool as Krushchev struggled to to stay above water, this bit explains the relativity of the alleged photo of Mao swimming the Yangtze in 1966 as he joined 5,000 other swimmers in an annual competition. This point was not explained by the Western Press at the time and so its relevance just left most Americans baffled.

[@shawnespinoza9300]

I think he played the Stalinist game until he could gain power and change the rules. Look at his contentious stance towards Mao and his Stalin like polices. He warned Mao against trying to industrialize too quickly because it would cost lots of suffering and death of the poorest in China. I would go so far as to say he hated Stalin.

[@zzygyy]

The gulags. The poverty. The alcoholism. The absolute control over the population.

[@yournamehere5926]

1:04:25 who is the tall man in the group photo? He must be 7' or taller .

[@demiurgo4505]

can you made one video about Felix Dzerzhinsky?

[@tm13tube]

i remember him. He always sounded angry. Hitler sounded angry, too.

[@vitamc1213]

You got to feel sorry for this guy. I mean, sure, he blundered quite a lot. But, he was clearly acting in good faith.

[@Peasant7559]

che or kruschev who' s great?

[@PromorteD]

Ordering the deaths of innocent thousands is not a blunder, nor in good faith

[@vitamc1213]

@@PromorteD Correct. But, the reason I say what I said is because any of us that were in his situation, would have done the same thing.

[@thorthewolf8801]

​@@vitamc1213 Im glad you think so little of humanity.

[@vitamc1213]

@@thorthewolf8801 Well, it's either do the atrocities or be relegated to nothingness, whether that be irrelevent career or death.

[@paultaylor9477]

Really enjoyed this. Its my view that the world is divided into three types of people. 1. People that are very competent 2. People that are very incompetent. 3. people who have eniugh comptence not to get fired for incompetence. Khuschevstrikes me as a 3.

[@tacioob2337]

Great Nikita ❤

[@visweswarbk7611]

He was a good man - compared to the other soviet leaders ! After the dark stalin era, he acted as a balm for the soviet union. though his erratic and volatile nature undermined his good efforts !

[@terrybardy2848]

Your fantastic videos are great! How about for contrast to Lenin and Stalin, air about the last Tsar of Russia Nicolas the Second?

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

God Save The Tsar

[@richardque1036]

He was the last true believer.

[@stevehartman1730]

Lenin kruschev and Gorbachev i think were thr 3 most influential soviet leaders. Kruschev said he liked JFK n was saddened by the assassination. I think he was telling the truth

[@Marc816]

Little Nikita was a Marxist fanatic, but he had one good bit of philosophy: "Life is short. Live it up".

[@Peasant7559]

castro or kruschev

[@Peasant7559]

@@mericesin83 castro is better than kruschev bro

[@mericesin83]

@@Peasant7559 I agree. Castro was better than Kruschev. Kruschev was a betrayer and enemy of socialism. He was in that respect a continuation of us-president Truman.

[@Peasant7559]

@@mericesin83 and che is better than castro are you agree too?

[@mericesin83]

@@Peasant7559 Yes. I do agree.

[@makhnovite]

Marx never differentiated between socialism and communism as such, that was an invention of later Marxist theorists. Marx viewed communist revolution as a process - a 'real movement' - which begins with a workers revolution and the establishment of a class dictatorship capable of suppressing the former ruling class. Communism emerges after a long period of economic transition after which the state withers away once there are no longer class contradictions to mediate.

[@owenlindkvist5355]

It's an interesting fantasy rather than a theory.

[@anairenemartinez165]

Which will never happen. See our Socialist Bernie has 2 mansions and millions in the bank.

[@bjr4567]

It's a rather bizarre concept in its most naked form, and never truly workable in the end -- as history has proven time and again. Unless you prefer a lot of bloodshed and mass repression.

[@kanlee9667]

I get the sense, though not so much from this documentary, that life in the Soviet Union reached its peak during the Khrushchev years. Not up to Western standards economically or in terms of freedom, but the average Russian have had to endure misery from time immemorial.

[@Inna-ih7nv]

Kalinivka is a town in Vinnyts'kyi region, Ukraine.

[@gw1284]

Interesting to know some Russian history. He was powerful, but his erratic behavior showed that his intelligence was not very high, or emotionally unstable

[@danielpasterp5837]

I read that he was considered highly intelligent but uneducated.

[@justindavis4609]

I’d like to see a doc on Beria.

[@justindavis4609]

😂 Never mind. I just saw it. Thanks for all your work. These are great.

[@Julia-gl7zu]

20:11 just wanted to point out that the OUN originally worked WITH the nazis but changed their political image over the course of the war for their own benefit. regardless they were a far-right org. closely modeled after fascism.

[@Hoyllandgeorge-qc5uz]

I use to love Nikita he was such a good political entertainer manly with J,Kennedy,lots of fun !!!!👍

[@BlynnDanyow]

difficult choice because the first instinct is to survive because at that time to anger Stalin could mean his life

[@denisthemenace.]

He only killed a few hundred thousand innocent people. That's nuthin

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Thou Shalt Not Kill

[@anandmohan4657]

thanks

[@johnfalstaff2270]

Nikita Khrushchev was not a Premier. He was the First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. His position was equal to President. He was a Chief leader of the USSR. There was no presidential position in Soviet Union at those times. Who was a premier I do not remember.

[@bjr4567]

No, not correct. Khrushchev was the First Secretary of the Communist Party from 1953 to 1964, and also Premier (Chairman of the Council of Ministers) from 1958 to 1964. He was the 7th Premier of Soviet Union, replacing Bulganin. Upon his ouster In 1964, Brezhnev became First Secretary and Kosygin served as Premier.

[@johnfalstaff2270]

@@bjr4567. I remember those times very well. In international politics only Khrushchev was recognized as the top Soviet figure. Khrushchev carried the biggest responsibility dealing with foreign governments regardless what position he actually held. The names of Bulganin I heard rarely. More often Gromyko. I am not Russian so I tell you what I heard and remember.

[@bjr4567]

@@johnfalstaff2270 Your recollections are indeed accurate. He was definitely the top dog once he outmaneuvered Malenkov and Beria, his only real rivals after Stalin's death. Malenkov proved no match for his peasant cunning, and politicos like Bulganin, Gromyko, Kosygin and Zhukov all walked in his oversized shadow.

[@scroogemcduck2820]

Do Andrew Jackson please.

[@sandraboyer9680]

Disney would not allow him to visit Disneyland in Anaheim. I grew-up in Anaheim.

[@AutomatedPersonnelUnit_3947]

Walt Disney would have never dreamed what would become of all things Disney today, sadly.

[@italianstallion9170]

Good on you Disney. I wouldn't want dirty,murdering commies in my fun fair as well. If he ever wakes up from his deep freeze someone shake his hand..wait until its defrosts first though, naturally.

[@kwakester]

Ironic that after Disney's death the franchise has taken the side of socialism/communism in the West.

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[@christianwagschal1962]

@@kwakesterdo you know how crazy you sound to say billionaires making huge profits are “communist”

[@meltdown1276]

Where are all your sources? Could you please give them?

[@JR-qz3zt]

Çould have been someone great. Became a murderer to save his own life. Deplorable.

[@nadya671]

Многие критикуют Хрущева за ошибочную политику в сельском хозяйстве. Те, которые считают Сталина успешным менеджером: как назвать эпоху коллективизации? Фраза: лес рубят, щепки летят, все объясняет. Хрущев оказался лучше общества!

[@russommeasho8508]

exvellent narration

[@hejla4524]

A bit free and easy with his nuclear threats... I bet the Soviet military was glad to see him go.

[@zingwilder9989]

Yes. He was erratic and exhibited little intelligence; and he was certainly no diplomat.

[@samsmet3121]

Good vid

[@masteryap3169]

Good job! He was a fellow traveler with Stalin, but did denounce him in the end. Though he miscalculated in placing nuclear missiles in Cuba he did back down and averted WW3. After his fall Nixon's policy of Detente followed and there was a period of Peace between America and the Soviet Union. Perhaps that should be his legacy.

[@firdauschong6163]

Can you please make one video about the biography of Indonesia's 2nd president - Soeharto . Please 🥺🥺🥺

[@petersweeney5777]

I like that they tried to rehabilitate those who already been executed……

[@eddieobrien9043]

Being rehabilitated after death would help any living family, being known as the son/ daughter/wife of a traitor would seriously affect your opportunities in life.

[@petersweeney5777]

@@eddieobrien9043 now it makes sense ty

[@eddieobrien9043]

@@petersweeney5777 It's not like in the UK or US where we have pardoned witches, who were killed 300 years ago, for a bit of social credit.

[@burakbasaranlar3128]

"During the Second World War, in 1940, the OUN split into two parts. The older, more moderate members supported Andriy Melnyk's OUN-M, while the younger and more radical members supported Stepan Bandera's OUN-B. On 30 June 1941 OUN-B declared an independent Ukrainian state in Lviv, which had just come under Nazi Germany's control in the early stages of the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union.[26] OUN-B pledged to work closely with Germany, which was described as freeing the Ukrainians from Soviet oppression, and OUN-B members subsequently took part in the Lviv pogroms.[27] In response to the OUN-B declaration of independence, the Nazi authorities suppressed the OUN leadership. Members of the OUN took an active part in the Holocaust in Ukraine and Poland."