Nikita Khrushchev: The Red Tsar - Full Documentary

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Nikita Khrushchev was a statesman and reformer who brought Russia and the world to the brink of catastrophe. Stalin’s Great Terror, de-Stalinization and the worst crises of the Cold War are closely linked with his name. Learn about the life and legacy of leadership of Nikita Khrushchev through interviews with his children.
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[@DGill48]

Sergei Khrushchev came to Woodstock Academy in Connecticut as a speaker while I was a teacher there, in the early 80's. He spoke for an hour and our students listened attentively. Towards the end, someone said "why didn't your Dad try to do something about Stalin?"......his face turned angry, he shouted out: "WHO SAID THAT ?" there was total silence for several seconds......then he laughed....and said: "that's why"

[@unamis022]

One of my relatives in the US was able to see that. But I forgot how they are called, all I know is they are dead by now after a shootout

[@laurenjeangreenbean6301]

Absolutely beautiful. I will remember that. thanks for sharing!

[@irmantaspakinkis3231]

@@laurenjeangreenbean6301 😆😘🥰

[@spheremechanicaldmartini224]

Exactly …that’s the way the world works in Soviet Union…

[@KeithWilliamMacHendry]

Brilliant!! 😁👍🏻✊🏻

[@ebiyeyanga8003]

While kruschev was speaking,a heckler shouted that he was with Stalin and did not oppose him. Kruschev asked who said that and the hall went quiet.He then proceeded to answer "now you know why I never challenged him".

[@ivanzamudio5333]

Not only did he not opposed him he helped and took opportunities to better his career. F him and his family. At least they killed their own Russians they think they are the best bunch of slaves

[@MrHermit12]

Stalin's grip of fear has always amazed me. Not even Hitler had that much fear over his inner circle.

[@sebastiang7394]

Hitler while off course being one of the biggest monsters in history seems to have been generally quite nice to the people around him. Many of his underlings seemed to have really loved him. That’s totally different from Stalin who was hated and feared by everybody around him. Except for the Röhm-Putsch in the beginning the Nazis also usually didn’t went after their own. Generals and politicians that got in an argument with Hitler were usually simply let go and not shot like under Stalin. Very different styles of “leadership“ and reigns of terror.

[@ebiyeyanga8003]

@@sebastiang7394 Thanks brother.You just said it all.

[@maxoconnor5087]

@@sebastiang7394 Stalin was arguably worse than Hitler

[@JOHN-ZOV]

One thing this documentary failed to mention was that the United States stationed nuclear missiles in Turkey, and as a result of that the Russians stationed their missiles in Cuba, Khrushchev didn't just come up with a great plan to start a nuclear missiles crisis in Cuba. He was looking for a opportunity to get even with the US for placing nukes in Turkey. So when Fidel Castro asked Khrushchev for help that's when Khrushchev saw opportunity to get even with the US,and have the Nukes removed from Turkey. Khrushchev was successful in that regard.

[@F_Bardamu]

Yeah go Nikita!

[@Anthony-hu3rj]

@@F_Bardamu It's not a soccer match.

[@ID-pw8zb]

@@Anthony-hu3rj it’s not called soccer.

[@s.marcus3669]

You are correct, this is a very oft-overlooked tidbit of fact in the whole Cold War/Cuban Missile Crisis story!

[@xzqzq]

Reportedly, early in his Administration, JFK ordered the missiles removed from Turkey, but it was not done....

[@johnschlesinger2009]

My father told me that when Krushchev and Kennedy met, Kennedy said that Americans had freedom of speech: you could stand outside the White House and say "president Kennedy's an idiot", and nobody would mind at all. To which Krushchev retorted that if somebody said that outside the kremlin, nobody would mind in the least!

[@djengoelv]

Sergei, his son, is a formidable story teller. He chooses the words carefully and also in a funny manner, making this documentary even more interesting,

[@loganzamanwalker8763]

Soviet blood m8!

[@myassizitchy]

Yeah he's on many many documentaries even he knows how. Bad Russia sucks. Now and then

[@Max-kw2hp]

Ze legend!

[@irmantaspakinkis3231]

@@loganzamanwalker8763 -What did You wanted to say for this?!!🙃 What the sun of Nikita is homosovieticus, was'nt You?!!😊

[@chobblegobbler2536]

Ya totally lead by facts 😂😂😂

[@alexodonnell6191]

6 minutes in and I am absorbed...and I have studied this area EXTENSIvELY ... brilliant, thank you from the bottom of my heart..

[@timkbirchico8542]

You need to read about the US led NATO had strategic nuclear weapons in Turkey before the Cuban missile crisis. This vid is subtle propaganda for those who are not educated about these issues.

[@StephiSensei26]

Documentaries like this are of such immeasurable value, because for too long we have been lead to think of our counterparts and adversaries as really terrible people. No one and no one system is perfect. Permit me to paraphrase: Winston Churchill: "Democracy is probably the worst system there is, but it's the best we have now".

[@jarretc110]

except all this information is available elsewhere and in greater detail...

[@toriidawdy8456]

Aspects of daily like I remember in DDR were civic and touching . Watching an old frau get a sketchy citizen of season award was a sense of community I have never had here

[@toriidawdy8456]

"Let's go help collect the harvest" friendly wholesome comrades , mocha fix , and wonderful sandwichs oh.... No school on that day . It wasn't sleazy but somehow they paired up with a fetching field worker , I needed the state in those concerns

[@FJBFRFR]

I think the people we've labeled monsters like Stalin and Hitler truly believed they were acting in a noble manner which would ultimately serve to benefit people. This doesn't vindicate them completely but it gets forgotten. On the other hand, the ideologies they implemented were void of any true moral substance. It should serve to remind us about the dangers of promoting a Godless society.

[@Ghostshadows306]

@@TheFriendlyFascist That’s exactly right and “terrible” is the biggest understatement of all time history to describe Stalin and the policies of that regime at that time.

[@adamwatson6916]

Krushev did some great things for the Soviet Union . One of the biggest was improving housing for families . Before Krushev many families lived in communal housing often in just one room . He gave families the privacy of their own living space

[@jjr1728]

He was a far better man than Stalin, that's for sure. Educated or not: he could see how normal Russians were living and had a dream that their conditions would be better than before. He did well, considering being torn between the old regime and his newer direction whilst keeping his usurpers and competition at bay so they don't get rid of him. He had to appeal to old and new.

[@krishnachaitanya1220]

@@Spielen2 do you know which country have the highest rate of per capita incarcination .. TIA

[@snackoman1577]

@@Spielen2 rent free

[@krishnachaitanya1220]

@@snackoman1577 😁😁😁

[@evankulak5468]

He started to move the USSR away from the horrors of communism.

[@vectorfox4782]

History often forgets great leaders who inspired generations of peace through the mundane ambiguity of everyday life, but it is those very leaders that have let life continue to thrive. Thank you Mr. Khrushchev, it is because of you I am proud to be a Russian.

[@olliefoxx7165]

I can see why Khrushchev would be regarded well, especially after Stalin's reign.

[@frankpaya690]

@@olliefoxx7165 In Vladimir Putin there's a Stalin wannabe.

[@exstazius]

Still a criminal for estern europe.

[@haroldcampbell3337]

Hilarious

[@chesterswortham5197]

Lol

[@mclaggen6144]

"I can destroy you once that's enough for me" is probably the best comeback i've ever heard

[@fredh999harris8]

Yeah, I liked that one, too!

[@johnbarnett6924]

Men who influenced great change, since 1945,the year of My Birth,has become my latest passion,IN THEIR OWN WORDS,OR MOST RELIABLE SOURCES, Thanks for this post, John❤

[@JayeEllis]

The guy who compared him to the court jester forgot one key thing about court jesters - they were the ONLY one allowed to mock or dissent from the king.

[@bosmerfromcanada3878]

How true...and still keep their tongue...or their head afterwards.

[@Hothouse_flowers]

Lol 😆 🤣 and Stalin did just that!

[@oleriis-vestergaard6844]

All in all a group of psycopats the lot of them - and the worst killer of the all was the Georgian terrorist going under the name of Stalin , Djugasvilly was his real name , killed own family and son captured 1943 at minsk and he avoided exchange of prisoners thereby signing his death warrant - generally death was a steady partner around Stalin and would think that he was ignorant and did not care of any humans .

[@felixbaxter352]

Wow. What balls. That little talk to the Germans? Incredible.

[@andykerr3803]

He was not wrong or exaggerating. He certainly played a major role in their defeat. To call them "the remnants" was as funny as it was cruel... The brutal truth to this day.

[@ohioskane363]

Owning up to mistakes and wrongs that he committed and apologizing for them is a laudable quality. Imagine any of our (U.S.) Presidents doing that!!

[@Kathakathan11]

Won’t happen ever, the true dynasts are in America, they will defend their legacy at any cost

[@tylerclayton6081]

@@ohioskane363 ​ This documentary never mentioned how he put everyone in little Khrushchyovka’s and called it a great deed. Search them up, most Russians still live in these sh*t hole Khrushchyovka’s. Meanwhile everyone in the US owned a house, two cars and a washing machine and didn’t have to wait in bread lines, all rare luxuries in the great USSR.

[@tylerclayton6081]

@@ohioskane363 And The US doesn’t make mistakes, you don’t become the richest, most influential, and most powerful empire in History by making mistakes. Show some Patriotism or you can get out of this great country feller, move to Russia or China, get a taste of reality in those hellholes

[@DeltaStar777]

Please don’t compare the totalitarian Soviet with the democratic US with freedom never allowed in Soviet union

[@Ghostshadows306]

The wrongs of Kruchev’s predecessor he served under may be the worst in human history so owning some of the “mistakes” in condemning millions of their own people to death, can’t even be compared to any American President. You being older like myself should know that. You gave your opinion, I gave mine. No hard feelings, just realistic.

[@ShitterMcGavin]

That was so very well done and just an absolute pleasure to get to enjoy. Thank you!

[@clawsoon]

What Khrushchev accomplished with the Cuban missile crisis was getting American missiles out of Turkey.

[@Remuf]

True, but sadly not mentioned very often.

[@chrisbrown8640]

The Jupiter Missiles were faulty and wouldn't have worked anyway....😄

[@toriidawdy8456]

Preventing a hugh calamity to this thing we call humanity is another. Kennedy had no idea about the tactical nukes castro had , or his desire to use them.

[@ryanthompson2893]

@@chrisbrown8640 I know an old man who was an engineer on the Jupiter program. He HATES those things

[@thornil2231]

Now we want to put them in Ukraine...

[@alanaadams7440]

My friend went to Russia in the eighties she broke her ankle there. She went to a hospital. She needed an x-ray they brought in a portable xray machine that was pre- world war 2. That is a tell tale sign of how far behind the Soviet Union is

[@rcyadav9746]

​@@igurtsmajority malnourished politician billionaire owner of nation communism

[@anapezo3330]

Most excellent documentary about Nikita Khrushchev !!! Congratulations !!! Thank you so much for this valuable information !!!

[@andrewdeen1]

my favorite documentary on this channel so far. the more cold war stuff the better, this is fantastic!

[@alberthessler4047]

Just turn on the TV. Deja vu

[@websterboose6003]

@@alberthessler4047 ⁰

[@absoluterefusal]

Not bad at all. I don't generally like well-produced, formulaic Western documentaries (eg history channel, etc) as they tend to be at least somewhat propagandistic. However, I do think this one was relatively unbiased.

[@cbhlde]

Well, you got what you wanted: new cold war incoming! :)

[@giannb5145]

I think he was very creative and bold on foreign policy (abandoning rigid communist dogma, gaining allies among Arab states such as Egypt, Algeria, Iraq and Syria, making India and Yugoslavia essentially partners (both remained non-aligned, but by the 1960s both were closer to USSR than the West), and promoting trade and better relations with a range of countries that were politically anti-Soviet but were willing to collaborate on some issues (from De Gaulle's France to the Shah's Iran).

[@ralphsanchico2452]

You can do business with your enemies, just make sure, your resources are more plentiful and more valuable than his!

[@tylerclayton6081]

He lost China though, which was the best ally the USSR ever had

[@giannb5145]

@@tylerclayton6081 Yes, but I think it was mostly due to Mao's decision to be independent, rather than anything Khrushchev could have done. Khrushchev actually increased economic and technical aid to China during the 1950s, but Mao wanted to drag him to a nuclear confrontation with the Americans over Taiwan. Also, Khrushchev had a lot of faith in leaders like Nehru and Nasser who were not Marxists, but were willing to ally with the USSR, while Mao believed in backing violent revolution and guerrilla struggles.

[@Ghostshadows306]

Well whatever you say Kruchev did it amounted to nothing because his fundamental philosophy was doomed from from the beginning. Namely Communism which may be sustainable for China, Vietnam, Cuba and North Korea, but wasn’t for the former USSR and the individual countries that were part of it. Kruchev was a true believer that Communism was a better system than Democracy, Capitalism or any other and he was categorically proven to be dead wrong. The USSR collapsed under communism and in some ways has never recovered from the thinking of Stalin, Kruchev and even Brezhnev. To portray Kruchev in some way that suggests he did anything significant that resulted in a better life for the people he governed over other than not being Stalin, is a distortion of the truth that is well documented. Isn’t that what the leader of a country is supposed to do? Provide a better life for the people who are citizens of it?

[@ManteIIo]

Well, well... if you were more educated than biased, you'd know it didn't collapse on it's own, but rather everything was being done by the west to bring it to an end.

[@tobyihli9470]

“Putting an end to mass murder makes him a great leader,”. Agreed

[@anggaramadaalfatih4764]

tapi tunduk sama persiden saya berasal dari indonesia sukarno di printah kan untuk mencari makam imam bukhori klau di temu kan baru berkunjung ke uni sofyet

[@anggaramadaalfatih4764]

kerna persiden saya negara indonesia sama sama tidak menyukai blok barat/nato /pbb,tidak menyukai negara amerika .runtuh nya negara unisofyet oleh amerika dgn propoganda seperti negara indonesia dgn bersama nya jatuh dan terpecah merasa ketakutan nya negara amerika oleh idiologi komunis berkuasa atas menang nya perang dgn nazi .di situlah memain kan propoganda amerika untuk menjadi polis dunia dgn ada nya negara adidaya .amerika sangt takut ada nya kerja sama mencipta kan senjata nuklir di negara indonesia untuk menghancurkan amerika kerna indonesia tidak menyukai negara amerika

[@jhonfamo8412]

@@anggaramadaalfatih4764 peace on 🌎

[@jhonfamo8412]

All politicians fail in the end. Or they die in office

[@threatassessment606]

@@jhonfamo8412 FDR

[@squamish4244]

For all his faults and foibles, Khrushchev was the right man at the right time. Unlike his predecessor, he had a soul.

[@johnchristophersutton9706]

He may have had a soul, but he also had blood on his hands.

[@clickbaitcabaret8208]

Completely omitted the deal the Soviets brokered with the US to withdraw missiles from Cuba in exchange for the US withdrawing missiles from Turkey. It was a brilliant piece of diplomacy that allowed both sides to save face & a rare example of foreign policy decisions during the cold war actually working out.

[@ManteIIo]

It's always like that, history getting either rewritten or omitted purposefully. I can assure you that less than single percentage of Americans would know the cost of price winning ww2 for the Soviets who had the main brunt of it and suffered over 30 million casualties, instead they portrait it as they are the heroes who came and 'suddenly' ended the war.. when in fact they joined very last year when it was already more than obvious about inevitable Germany's fall. Not giving credit and omitting history always been rampant and wide-spread. That's a lesser degree like of using propaganda, due to the same effect it provides when people form a better opinion/view not based on whole picture but rather on biased one.

[@leeannarose6384]

Yes, and I believe President Kennedy was killed by CIA for working toward peace

[@canoaslan1011]

Absolutely right, Krushchev didnt back down, he was able to convince Kennedy Admin agree to pull the missiles from Turkey. Never done before and after that. Not that the nukes were ever pulled from Turkey. Till this day they are still at the base in Adana Incirlik, regardless. if anything thats a win for Niki I say

[@jeremylamovsky942]

I saw a picture from Nikitas trip to the US. It was him holding a hotdog saying "in the soviet union, we too have fine sausages" . "We will live better than you I can promise you that". It's 2022 and we're still waiting.

[@angor4748]

i mean is the other way around they are waiting for us to get under their level, and how things are going, there wouldn't be waiting a long time

[@deadpool981]

I like how this just skips over how we put nukes in Turkey first pointed at russia before the Cuban missile crisis. And then how america also secretly agreed to remove those missiles

[@haroldcampbell3337]

I like all the Marxist apologists here

[@deadpool981]

@@haroldcampbell3337 Marxism is simply a critique of the economic system capitalism. Talking about how the US escalated us to the point of almost global nuclear annihilation with their foreign policy has zero to do with being a Marxist apologist. Facts don’t care about your feelings

[@saltruis2432]

@@deadpool981 zzzzzzzz

[@deadpool981]

@@saltruis2432 cry about it

[@tylerclayton6081]

@@deadpool981 Putting Missiles in Cuba is far more escalatory, it almost resulted in direct military conflict between the USSR and the US with nuclear armed ships and Submarines staring right at one another. Putting missiles in Turkey didn’t do that. And those missiles in Turkey were old and obsolete, most wouldn’t work anyways. Russia is the one that escalates not the US. Putin hides behind nukes even now and makes nuclear threats pretty regularly. If you’re going to criticize the US from a nonsensical point of view than you get off our social media and GTFO of the western world. Go live in Russia or China, maybe then you’ll get a dose of reality about those authoritarian hellholes

[@johnfromdownunder.4339]

To destroy is as easy as breathing, never be proud of destruction,it's creation that is the real wonder.

[@jimmorelli2478]

Wow. One of the best hours I've ever spent on KZbin. Amazing. Well done.

[@Boatperson]

Fascinating - thank you.

[@121hmike]

one of the best documentaries about Khrushchev … as I seen many about him

[@gunaseelan53]

President Krushev with Bulkanin along with our PM Nehru visited our city Coimbatore in South India. Me as an elementary school student was standing in the croud along the road side We all waved hands and were happy to see tbe great leaders

[@adriansfreimanis]

I liked this documentary a lot, thank you!

[@hypnophonz]

Excellent documentary. Very well produced. I subscribed.

[@bubb5225]

Whatever you think about Khrushchev, you’ve gotta admit, he was pretty entertaining. For proof, read “Nikita Khrushchev’s Journey into America,” 2019, by Schoenbachler & Nelson.

[@marleengevers]

There's a documentary "Khrushchev goes America" - it's really entertaining and interesting. It shows how the US wanted to make him look bad, but the public loved him for his staight talking. In the end he even gave his watch to a bystander.

[@theemirofjaffa2266]

@@marleengevers now that's something I'll b interested in..lol

[@marleengevers]

@@theemirofjaffa2266Thanks for your comment Emir ! The man who received the watch thought it might be very valuable, so he had it expertised. It proved to have a worth of 5 dollar, what even in the sixties was next to nothing. I find this so funny, iin the US it was about the money/worth, for Khrushchev it was about knowing what time it was. It says more about Americans than anything else.

[@moistymeyer4672]

very insightful

[@antidepressant11]

This was an awesome doco

[@martinhaughey5745]

This is an incredible documentary.

[@petermendoza1170]

This was informative. Thank you. When one wants to be knowledgeable about history, the best source is through 'biographies '.

[@glps6167]

Excellent.

[@gordonduffett5138]

What an excellent documentary.

[@jaimejaimeChannel]

fascinating - thank you.

[@SammyB-Habebe]

Amazing documentary thank you 🙏

[@get.factual]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@malamuteaerospace6333]

And he was a great Soviet. Fought 2 world wars. Got rid of Stalinism. He's a great moral man who thought of his peoples suffering and did something about it. Peace my friend.

[@toriidawdy8456]

Right don't forgot being the only leader that cuba wasn't worth war . Kennedy was under alot of pressure and castro wanted escalation. His knot of war letter to kennedy was awesome

[@toriidawdy8456]

One last thing "Malamute Aerospace" is a great handle and even better concept!

[@demef758]

Thank you for your comment, Senator Sanders.

[@toriidawdy8456]

I knew "yosemite sam " had idealogical purity ! It is rare in the cynical Realpolitik of warner brothers or the real cartoons of the loyal opposition. Humor as political commentary ? I wonder if it is either? Bugs bunny did seem to frustrate the old man. That was humor!

[@stonefireice6058]

Did you lived under Khrushchev? I did. He was no better than the rest of them: playing political, reckless games, to ingratiate themselves. Teachers, engineers, scientists from big cities had to be brought to farms, to work and produce at least something, while local farmers were either drunk, or spent their days working on their own plots, so their produce could be sold in big cities at inflated prices. Shelves in stores were half empty, to buy anything we had to stand in long lines after all day work, and that was every day! To buy milk for children, women had to form lines at the store at 3am! Only few of us had fridges, never mind cars. My dad had to wait in line for 5 yrs to buy a car. Most of people in Leningrad ( where Im from) or Moscow lived in communal apartments, sharing a kitchen and a bathroom with 2 or even 5 other families. But being a Communist party apparatchik, would allow you to have a spacious, modern apartment, all amenities, a car and a summer home. One of my uncles was one of those- the Kremlin insider, in charge of all of their supplies. He knew Nikita, he new Gagarin. He and his wife traveled abroad as many times, as Bolshoi did. If you ever could see the Khrushchevs apartments ( he approved architecture)- concrete chicken coops with peeling walls, without insulation;, cracks with wind blowing inside;leaky roofs; rationed heat during cold months. I could go on, but, please, don’t praise a thief for not stealing more from you than he did.

[@hans-jurgenmuller9148]

THX!

[@galapagos4154]

Keyifle izlediğim bir çalışmaydı. Türkçe alt yazı desteği için teşekkür ederim 🙏

[@SY-jq4yw]

Kruchev was no fool when he executed Beria.

[@andykerr3803]

They are still digging up murdered young women in Beria's former gardens... The full truth will never be known. For that action alone Krushev was an angel, a godsend. Imagine if Beria had succeeded Stalin...

[@SY-jq4yw]

@@andykerr3803 Absolutely, Russia can’t afford another Stalin, however Putin is becoming one.

[@historyeditz8326]

@@SY-jq4yw well to be fair Putin has point as nato expanded even after 1997 promise towards Russia but he should consider dialogues rather than an invasion.

[@frisianprideworldwide]

@@historyeditz8326 russia also promised Ukraine to not invade them if they gave up thier nukes

[@sorryi6685]

@@SY-jq4yw Beria would have made Stalin look like a saint. No women in USSR would be safe

[@surinderjitsingh8954]

Great documentary

[@martinampang3505]

Thank for sharing this

[@get.factual]

Our pleasure :)

[@LalaShwante]

Very very interesting story you provide us. Thank you.

[@wiggom]

This is a brilliantly told political story of my time. Well put together, this is an intriguing tale for all political junkies.

[@pietrietveld1842]

verry impressed document realy thanks for sharing .

[@get.factual]

Glad you liked it!

[@withapulse2000]

just stumbled across this channel and now subscribed. Absolutely fascinating. I do wonder how much domestic mainstream television advertising revenue is utterley wasted and lost as I'm sure i'm not the only person to only watch the first 15 mins of tv for the evening news only then just switch to You tube for the rest of my night's informartion and entertainment. Talking to friends almost no one watches TV anymore.

[@knockitdown20]

This documentary skipped over malenkov and how kruschev kicked him out. It was Malenkov who succeeded stalin before krushchev

[@mikeshinoda2093]

Watch the movie "The death of stalin"

[@siegridthomas9674]

I r ememer that...lived in Germany at the time...

[@user-yc5um2pl5v]

Well, the Soviet system of power was complicated so no-one actually succeeded Stalin as such. There were different positions of power and there was an authority of one person. But yeah, Malenkov's absence is a weak point as his was a different strategy of reforms to the one Khrushchev pushed. It would've made a tale more nuanced. But it seems to have been centered on the external politics, so no place for that interesting discussion.

[@typenull3367]

@Z80 Hahahahaha like communism is democratic

[@amcespana2150]

Kruchev poisoned Stalin, murdered Beria and then got rid of the weak-hearted Malenkov

[@wot1fan885]

One of the greatest documentaries. Fair ans balanced opinions.

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

The best things to watch at 2 AM Edit 11 months later. No edit, just 11 months

[@nhungtran-uo2ud]

He truly believed in the system of communism. I’m quite moved by his candid analysis of the huge contrasts between him and John F. Kennedy.

[@willyD200]

Khrushchev was a exceptional leader for the Soviet Union at that time. I believe he would have accomplished even greater achievements had he not followed directly after the despot ,Stalin. Imagine trying to make decent decesions with peers who were still influenced by the Stalin system . Fair little doc. , well done.

[@Magik1369]

What exactly did Krushchev accomplish besides sending the Soviet Union down the path of its own self destruction and bringing the world to the brink of nuclear catastrophe? Go ahead. List 1 positive thing that the commie Khrushchev accomplished. Khrushchev was a loser like all Soviets.

[@sorryi6685]

@@Magik1369 Abolished Gulags, reduced censorship.

[@thunderbird1921]

Some wonder if the Cold War would have been near its intensity if Stalin died in 1946 (he was in poor health around that time) and a man like Khrushchev had taken over. Relations between the Soviet Union and United States probably would have still been rough and at times sour, but the most provocative actions were mostly done by Stalin (Berlin Blockade, enabling the Korean War, etc.). But Stalin died in 1953. Alas, what can be said? The tyrant sent the world on a 40+ year journey of chaos, tyranny and feuds.

[@brianarbenz1329]

Khrushchev was the first Soviet or Russian leader whose foibles and vulnerabilities were clear to the outside world. In that sense, he helped transform the picture those of us in the west had of the USSR from an irresistible power to a purely fallible state hamstrung by human limitations.

[@stonefireice6058]

About Cuban crisis. From August of 1961 through1963 my brother was teaching course of Electric Engineering at Havana University as one of several specialists from Russia. I remember his letters and photos from 1962, when he was describing all happenings around Cuba. His classes were dismissed for over a month with all his students taken to defend Cuban Revolution. At exactly the same time, my husband( future husband) - a US Air Force officer, was sitting in his B52, with all engines running, waiting for the command to fly to Cuba. I thank providence and level- headed resolution of the crisis: I have my beloved hubby and my brother alive!

[@SILOPshuvambanerjee]

This is called luck

[@chiragmehta8212]

Wow

[@kxkxkxkx]

The "Level headed resolution" was when Lee Oswald shot JFK's head level with the ground 🚩 Kennedy was planning to invade Cuba again in early 1964 with Manuel Artime

[@sanagirlqueen]

Extremely great documentary bro supremely awesome kidoss

[@borkokostic4388]

N. Hruschev take Crimea from Russia and give to Ukraine in 1956 !

[@phillymathguy8142]

An anecdote I remember from a newspaper article many years ago: Khrushchev commented about all the automobiles parked at each airport as he flew in. He said that the Americans must be moving them from the previous airport to the next airport before his arrival. He did not believe the explanation that, no, all of the vehicles were actually parked at each airport.

[@christianherrmann8853]

der KGB hätte ihn informieren können. .....wie der Amerikaner so lebt .... aber auch er hat der eignen Propaganda vertraut.

[@williamusrex6417]

That was excellent. Thank you.

[@get.factual]

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@armwrestling-like-the-vide6030]

50:20 "No, No; I don't know what to call people who take the side of a man who murdered his own people. Because it would mean encouraging those who want to repeat that. And it is possible if we do not remain vigilant". ~ Nikita Khrushchev

[@davidlafleche1142]

How do we know Khrushchev DIDN'T do that?

[@martinmarcinkevic3893]

I love how Western people perceive this guy as an outstanding leader, but real Russians don't think like that at all, he worked against his county...

[@giannivandecasteele5267]

@@martinmarcinkevic3893 could you please explain.

[@exstazius]

@@giannivandecasteele5267 he is a criminal for the whole eastern europe and Hungary in particular. Staljin or Krushchev no difference. Dictators

[@LathropLdST]

@@martinmarcinkevic3893 in a sense, so did Gorbachev and Yeltsin, right?

[@Meta3301]

I love the background score at the end.

[@henryweaver667]

During final exams in hi school..our English teacher when we finished our paper....said...an extra grade Bonus........Spell the word.....KHRUSHCHEV.....No One could.😢....

[@richardshiggins704]

You may take the man out of the bog but not the bog out of the man . Sergei , his son seems refined and well educated . In politics make sure to have a dog because he will be your best and unquestioning only friend in the end . Excellent documentary .

[@dodge-ut6ti]

IT'S like what President Truman said If you want a friend in Washington get a dog.

[@nicog7975]

Wtf is a bog??

[@bretthowell5592]

@@nicog7975 A swamp person

[@itsolivier]

@@bretthowell5592 INDEED. Bog the origin of the european imagination

[@Ghostshadows306]

Who’s the dog and what a does a bog have to do with it? Are you saying that Kruchev and his son couldn’t get their dog out of a bog? Or that Kruchev’s son was in a bog and couldn’t take his dad or his dog?

[@patienceboafo1998]

Very interesting and informative 👌 danke

[@daisieb7547]

Thanku

[@MikeJones-rk1un]

Some of the most believable parts of history don't become known for 70 years or more, if ever.

[@douglasthompson8927]

try 100

[@theemirofjaffa2266]

Yup. There's a reason for that, apparently.

[@frankpaya690]

@@theemirofjaffa2266 What would that "reason" be?

[@esrefcelikcelik8789]

He seems much more approachable and saner than putin. At least he smiles and laughs.

[@Perririri]

Ironically, Khrushchev gave Crimea to the then Ukrainian SSR; but Putin took it back!

[@esrefcelikcelik8789]

@@Perririri Russians have written and writing innumerous bloody chapters in the history. I thought those horrible wars and massacres were over. Thanks to Putin, I lost my belief in peace and hope.

[@robertowarren7007]

I think Putin is a robot... 😉

[@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022]

Putin does smile and laugh. It’s just usually creepier…

[@sonye-jin6737]

@@Perririri Yup 😎🇺🇦

[@sifridbassoon]

very interesting! especially the comments by his granddaughter.

[@likklej8]

Don’t forget he gave Crimea to the Ukrainian soviet socialist republic.

[@toriidawdy8456]

I heard that for the first time just this year I will the first to admit the academic silo of the american university gave little insight to the ethnic and issues of nationality of the ussr during my studied

[@likklej8]

@@toriidawdy8456 I think Nikita Khrushchev was a Ukrainian? If I’m wrong feel free to correct me I think it was in 1951/2?

[@toriidawdy8456]

@@likklej8 ethnic russian father who moved his brood to Ukraine to work the coal mines

[@toriidawdy8456]

I am pretty sure of this . Taubmans book and Mcnamara fog of war.... I source

[@likklej8]

@@toriidawdy8456 thanks that goes on my reading list

[@thestreamoflife1124]

Excellent documentary

[@wooddog007]

@3:25 ... so interesting to hear Khrushchev's son say "America has to treat us as equal" ... 1959 or 2023 ... Russia is still making this ridiculous demand.

[@krishnaraoragavendran7592]

Kennady: I can destroy you several times over. Khruschov: Once is enough for me to destroy you.

[@SILOPshuvambanerjee]

Beautiful quote

[@Sulurianxx]

How a documentary discussing the cuban missile crisis doesn't mention the removal of U.S. missiles from Turkey which I learnt about over 30 years ago in university is beyond belief.

[@BavonWW]

38:26 There are newsreels that quite clearly show Krushchev banging the desk with his shoe. What happened to those newsreels? Now you are making me question my own memory. "Get Factual" what's with the either or reportage?

[@Protagonistt]

Worth watching doc. ♥️

[@sanagirlqueen]

Great guests everyone specially William tuman

[@king_cobra5492]

excellente

[@goldenschlong4846]

He’s not keeping people out He keeps people in

[@johnobrien8398]

How sad it is to have those beliefs and wanting to control millions of people with fear but you yourself live like a king 👑

[@rakhimukerji7937]

That happens in So called free world.and often people move money to avoid.paying tax

[@markprange4386]

Great picture of him at 8:57!

[@sarcasmo57]

Super interesting

[@get.factual]

Thanks for watching!

[@nhungtran-uo2ud]

He was certainly a very interesting character .

[@FJProenza]

You should indicate the provenance of this excellent documentary.

[@jaymudd2817]

Was not Malenkov briefly in charge?

[@roadgent7921]

Khrushchev: "We want a peaceful world" USA: "forget that"

[@Ghostshadows306]

Bullsh-t

[@roadgent7921]

@@Ghostshadows306 Many people would think differently in Vietnam, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Haiti, Venezuela. What angle are you coming from?

[@Ghostshadows306]

@@roadgent7921 Well that may be true but to be honest I wasn’t thinking about the US part of your comment and was thinking about the Kruchev part in stating he wanted a peaceful world. This is a comment section regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis and to say the man that caused it wanted a peaceful world is totally ridiculous. Remember now, I didn’t say the US wanted a peaceful world and I didn’t say Kruchev didn’t want a peaceful world. YOU said these things and I said it’s bullsh-t because your comment is I’m sorry. It’s stupid to say either country wanted a peaceful world because most all leaders want a peaceful world as long as the world suits their needs and desires. Which it never has and probably never will for whatever reason and Kruchev with his threats and actions such as putting nuclear missiles in a country hostile to America 90 miles off the coast, is the last leader anyone should claim wanted peace. Where are you coming from because in many of those countries you mention the US was there in support and not to conquer or take anything for themselves. That doesn’t make the mistakes right the same as it doesn’t make the mistakes of other countries right. I was also against the Iraq invasion, the Vietnam war and going to Afghanistan.

[@hannahdyson7129]

​@@roadgent7921 Many would say the same about Syria , Afghanistan, Georgia Ukraine and Chechnya . Russia has not wanted world peace ethier. They want to rule it

[@kshitizsiwakoti6982]

He did improve the lives of his citizens through his communal housing policy

[@authorizeduser485]

He also helped Stalin during the purges of the 30s by signing thousands of execution orders on their own citizens.

[@kshitizsiwakoti6982]

@@authorizeduser485 yes I agree with you.

[@haroldcampbell3337]

That's not saying much

[@user-yc5um2pl5v]

Not by much, though.

[@joeblow2069]

You folks like Steve Buscemi's depiction of Khrushchev in the death of Stalin? An outstanding film.

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[@alfredawomi2340]

WoW, never saw any Leader's Of The World getting that type of reception which Soviet Leader Nikita Kruschuv got.

[@itsolivier]

Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez

[@haroldcampbell3337]

@@itsolivier Hilarious

[@dumitruflorin]

Ceaușescu

[@johnathan7249]

After watching this video, and think about Viet Nam, my conclusion is: For a guy such a military background, how poor Eisenhower was at foreign policy. Seems to me that the Cuban Missle Crisis and the Berlin Wall were the mistakes of Eisenhower. Can't blame Nakita for feeling betrayed by Eisenhower. And of course, the war in Viet Nam goes without saying.

[@jimcanadian494]

Eisenhower had invited Kruschev to the U.S. he accepted and toured the U S ...I believe that Eisenhower later visited Moscow...Kruschev was invited a 2nd time to the U S ......but a month later was betrayed by the U S when Eisenhower sent a U2 SPY PLANE to spy on the U S S R ....so the Russians shot it down and jailed the pilot temporarily....Kruschev was furious and never trusted the Americans again. Check your history..l remember that incident...lt was aBIG DEAL at the time

[@baroquebeatz]

I love the “Man of Steel” style soundtrack!

[@GiediPrime1337]

Does someone know where the music from the start comes from ?

[@wiesiarybicka5891]

He was put into power as because he was considered an easily manipulated harmless idiot by those powerful who everybody feared. Instead he skillfully out maneuvered and the rest and grabbed whole power by himself.

[@TheOtherOtherJoey]

Precisely like Putin

[@sorryi6685]

But ultimately he was desposed in 1963

[@martinmarcinkevic3893]

@@TheOtherOtherJoey Putin way more clever than this guy

[@gregorywhite9095]

And that's how the Soviet system worked for the benefit of the people. Just wonderful.

[@gerrelldrawhorn8975]

Putin is a case of Dunning-Kruger. He thinks that he knows it all. That allows him to have only a handful of advisors. NK was initially aware of his educational deficiencies. But by the 1960s he became arrogant, but he did retreat from making "Only I can save Russia " statements. And went quietly into retirement...perhaps to save his life.

[@HikoBenny4ever]

Despite my dislike for Russia I cannot help but admire a few of their leaders. Khrushchev is one of my favorite.

[@geoffgane7550]

If only Tsar Alexander II hadn't been assassinated in 1881.

[@427max]

This American historian is also honest and and amazing

[@Cba409]

Mr. Kruschev! Paint this wall red!!

[@jeffreymcfadden9403]

Nikita asked to go see the poorest section in New York City. So they took him there and drove around in the limo. Nikita became agitated. He insisted they take him to THE poorest section. They had done so. Nikita insisted that this was not the poorest section since all the homes/apartments had TV antennas.

[@starguy2718]

When Nikita toured an IBM factory, he wanted to know who owned all those late-model automobiles, in the parking lot. Told the cars belonged to the hourly workers, Mr. K refused to believe that ordinary working stiffs could be paid so well. USSR factory workers certainly weren't paid that much.

[@bob494949]

America. Where the “poor” have nice cars, expensive cell phones, and big screen TVs. And their kids get so much free food at school, they’re fat.

[@user-yc5um2pl5v]

@@starguy2718 The exhibitions of the US domestics in the USSR in late 1950s were like something from a different planet for Soviet people. It in one fell swoop showed the gaping distance in living standards. The Americans could dispense with ideological weapons (radio stations etc) after that, nothing could harm the "kommie dream" more.