Russia, Soviet Union and The Cold War: Stalin's Legacy | Russia's Wars Ep.2 | Documentary

Russia's turbulent history shows a series of devastating wars and merciless rulers. From the rise of the Bolsheviks to Stalin's deadly purges - power and violence shaped Russia and the Soviet Union for decades.
1917 marked a turning point when Lenin and the Bolsheviks seized power by force in the October Revolution. The chaos led to a civil war in which Trotsky founded and brutally formed the Red Army. Stalin later establishes a cruel rule characterized by famines such as the Holodomor and massive purges. The Second World War brings new challenges as the Red Army fights against Nazi Germany and eventually takes Berlin. After the war, the Soviet Union remains a global superpower, embroiled in proxy wars and the Cold War, before suffering a humiliating defeat in the Afghan War and finally collapsing.
Documentary: Russia's Wars: Soviet Union | Ep. 2
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[@robert-parsifal-finch]

Tsarist Russia was such a nice and happy place for everyone to live in, that there was a revolution to overcome it!

[@borninvincible]

Yeah right 😂

[@thekingofkingsrp]

Proof the grass is not always greener.

[@chacesimpson2856]

Thanks to the jews they ruined it

[@hannibalbarca4372]

Revolutions never happen where people have descent life...

[@deb310red]

Tsarist Russia was better than the USSR

[@Thorismond]

Why not a single word about the annexation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina from Romania by the USsR? That was also in the Ribbentrop Molotov Pact...

[@debrakleid5752]

Can’t imagine living there during this time. My dads side was from Russia

[@terryeustice5399]

Very good documentary on the Soviet Union. And its demise. Thank you for sharing! 💯👊👍

[@Hunter_Nebid]

I was a young soldier stationed in Bavaria when the Iron Curtain fell. I remember the huge celebrations and hopeful spirit that seemed to sweep the world... it amazes me how quickly the lessons of the Cold War were completely forgotten and the world we have today is far worse and far more dangerous. Like Hegel said, the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

[@deb310red]

Do you think that Russia 🇷🇺 is worse now than it was under the Soviet Union?

[@williambarr3551]

The people were not Russians. The people Stalin starved in 1932 & 1933 were not Russian, they were Ukrainian. How Russians treated Ukrainians is why Ukraine fights today.

[@Chaldon-hl6yk]

russians absolutely immune for famine

[@Вивсівідстій]

During de-Stalinization, Khrushchev should have posthumously promoted Trotsky to Marshal of the Soviet Union and awarded him Hero of the Soviet Union.

[@Clem_Fandango11]

Why?....Trotsky himself ordered and planned mass murder. He was evil as well. Ironic he was assassinated in such a fashion.

[@Zayden.]

deStalinization didn't mean the elimination of bureaucratism, which Trotsky heavily criticized.

[@michaeltischuk7972]

It wasn't the 5th Army that surrendered in Stalingrad, it was the 6th, (34:10)

[@relevanthistorynow]

yeah how did they get that wrong? Paulus's 6th army

[@Joe-ym6bw]

This is what happens when one man takes control of the government

[@cameronbuckley3356]

what ? it becomes the strongest country in the world ? the only force against the west domination ? he did everything he could to keep the su in power but his predecessors painted him as a criminal and ruined the su from within

[@Real-Ruby-Red]

@@cameronbuckley3356 you must be trolling or too stupid to understand what you’re praising…

[@jaredcarrick3468]

Europa: The Last Battle

[@shaiaheyes2c41]

Thank you for this excellent documentary, thank you!

[@robertsansone1680]

Excellent. Thank You

[@chrisdfx1]

How do they not bring up the Soviet/Latin American invasion of the United States in 1984? That was probably the most important event that caused the collapse of the Soviet Union and they don't even mention it once. Well, the US remembers, and we celebrate the sacrifice of those brave kids in Colorado every year.

[@robzilla730]

"WOLVERINES!!"

[@theshamanarchist5441]

Everyone knows Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen single handedly took down the Soviet Union.

[@RaisedxFist]

​@@theshamanarchist5441 Exactly😅‼️

[@billm.819]

I visited the memorial on the internet and paid my respects. I also saw the movie

[@RaisedxFist]

@@chrisdfx1 Remember the Alam, oooh wrong movie !!

[@jebbroham1776]

Up until a few weeks ago I had a Russian made Mosin Nagant made in 1937 at the Tula Arms Works. It was most definitely used in the Purges because it actually had notches carved into the rifle butt, 27 in all. I can only guess that it belonged to an NKVD soldier.

[@justinrichardson4456]

What happened to it?

[@blyatman3725]

@@justinrichardson4456he got caught by the kgb

[@jebbroham1776]

@@justinrichardson4456 I sold it to buddy of mine for $400 so I could pay for a new water heater when my old one went out.

[@JuleyC]

It could also have been used in WW2

[@robzilla730]

I have one. It's stamped 1941.

[@MrRikki52b]

The sixth army not the fifth 😮

[@drbrainstein1644]

😂

[@ChristopherSaindon]

Soviet death tolls are just staggering. 10 million in the civil war, 5 million in Holodomor, unknown hundreds of thousands -- perhaps millions -- in "the terror," 27 million in WW2! I have no idea how many have died in the current war.

[@jaredcarrick3468]

66 million Russians murdered by the communists from 1918-1957. 16 million from the 3 different Holodomors

[@robertjelinski5113]

Outstanding documentary, one of the very best! Thank you.

[@magdalenachadrys9437]

Thank You. ❤

[@davefleming1117]

Great program.. very informative

[@marvwatkins7029]

Trotsky got his well deserved comeuppance in Mexico.

[@davidcoleman2796]

100%

[@asullivan4047]

Unfortunately diabolically destructive Stalin didn't.

[@robert-parsifal-finch]

You are completely unimaginative. There are probably 'better' words for you.

[@katherinecollins4685]

Well presented and researched

[@denfoot1111]

He called them the German 5th army and nobody caught it that made the documentary 😢 34:09…also at 34:18 who or what is that person in back left of the photo😮

[@cusematt23]

What an illustrious and beautiful history

[@dh1380]

He said war and prostitution are both professions better undertaken by amateurs? 😅 well then that's him written off as a beacon of enlightenment right away 😅

[@victorperfecto7472]

Trotsky had blood in his hands as well. But not to the level of the tyrant stalin. Also, it cannot be denied that under his leadership, the Red Army successfully repelled its internal and external enemies

[@pmtspmts8441]

Excuse me Trotsky good looking? This guy is needing glasses checked

[@paulchogudo1866]

Stalin was simply amoral... emotionless, not discrimination between Man and animal

[@Smudgeroon74]

Operation Barbarossa was a 6 nation attack, involving Germany, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Italy(60,000), Finland[known collectively as the Axis powers] and there was 47,000 Spanish volunteers that left their homeland to fight against the communists[Spain experienced the worst of Reds support during the Spanish civil war, as the Soviets supported the Republican side]. Also 2 divisions of Belgian troops joined.. the fact of the matter was that the Red army had 170 divisions of soldiers bunched at Germany's eastern front.. they were preparing to invade Europe. So Operation Barbarossa was a pre-emptive strike against Russia, in order to destroy the threat of Bolshevism forever.

[@dmitryletov8138]

You are delusional in 1941 USSR had total 6 mln troops, AXIS had 13 mln troops in Europe and 5 mln in Asia. How USSR could invide Europe having 6 mln troops vs 18 mln Axis troops???

[@hazelwray4184]

Operation Barbarossa/General Plan Ost was genocidal and took its cue from the what happened in the US to the Native American population.

[@mikeappleget482]

That’s some really weird revisionist history going on right there. Very impressive.

[@papadocsamedi2544]

OMG. Still historians are calling it paranoia. What a simplistic analysis.

[@Aboaye6163]

34:12 the German 6th army surrendered not the 5th 😂

[@cragjones1799]

Feb 45 battle of berlin? Lol

[@florinvoicu7801]

I find it amazing that this documentary is presented by Germans . I looked at their faces when they mentioned Reichstag building, the Germans that's fought in Stalingrad , and other mentions . You can see a glimpse of nervosity

[@donbraugh185]

Yes definitely. Germans are some of the most overall educated Europeans and culturally aware, so it's not surprising to me, an American German.

[@Thorismond]

And why not a single word about Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina annexed by the ussr in 1940?

[@ionel461]

Muta-te in rusia, boule ..

[@strfltcmnd.9925]

In 2024, Brandon and his Bullshivks are trying to destroy America.

[@davidcoleman2796]

Trudeau in Canada

[@godstomper]

Pluto in taurus energy.

[@victorperfecto7472]

At least leon did field checks during the Russian civil war.Unlike stalin who hid in his dacha during the early phase of operation barbarossa

[@saidsuleiman3909]

Its the 6th Army that surrendered at stalingrad not 5th as said

[@randstahl4869]

Factually illuminating video essay -- one that touches (Hooray for heroic women) and saddens a heart. Taken away is not so much a sense of enlightenment but undoubtedly an increased insight. The candid and gritty presentation of recent history educates and (ironically) entertains.

[@robert-parsifal-finch]

The ignorance of these speakers is stupendous.

[@MolapiAndriesTlouamma-cg7jq]

History repeat itself at Ukraine

[@GeneralSulla]

So, what happened to Trotsky in Mexico was just desserts.

[@toddmartino5398]

What the he'll is that at the 34 minute 19 second frame?

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Hell en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell

[@malamuteaerospace6333]

This is why Russian people are the toughest people on earth. Look at what they've been through and survived.

[@cragjones1799]

Africans?

[@Nomaswearefull]

​@@cragjones1799not even close

[@cragjones1799]

@@Nomaswearefull I dunno man, The Congo and The Sudan seem pretty ragged to me.

[@Post-321]

Just a countinue our realàtion

[@alexsolo2647]

Interesting video. Great Thank's. Stalin & Truth... SPrangER.

[@gabrielalvarado1504]

Just because trutski looks like you (the narrator) doesn’t mean he’s handsome 😂😅😂

[@jonniheinisto9825]

Soviets had more casualties than that in the Winter War. Just saying....

[@donbraugh185]

The main thing I can fathom only in my imagination is the fact of replenishment of the multi millions in the Russian Civil War through the fall of the USSR. How do you replace 100 million citizens? I can't get that

[@omoruyiomorogieva2319]

Nice documentary but you omitted the moon race

[@TheGreatDarkLightLP]

36:08 February? who wrote this script lmao

[@MikeHunt-fo3ow]

im seeing what happened that month...Ecuador declared war on germany and japan lolen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1945%E2%80%931991)

[@ghostsignal]

How many people did the American 'forefathers' relocate, exile, starve, and flat-out murder in the creation of their empire?

[@deb310red]

Ask an Indian.

[@Post-321]

Just a countinue our realation

[@dimamikhaylov3474]

Shall I ask a question ? If it is a video about criminals where is video about president Bush junior and Macarthur?

[@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip]

A US president can't go to war without congressional approval (Unless your name is Obama)! Democrats controlled both houses and voted overwhelmingly in favor for the war!! Nice try though

[@arbentashko7005]

Using different criteria for an event may give opposite interpretations. This is why people fail to understand each other. Analyst need to choose carefully the criterion and sometimes use the criterion used by the other side and explain why their criterion is better to use. Only during the war it can't happen, but during negotiations it can be taken under consideration.

[@donrump461]

Stalin poisoned lennin!

[@deb310red]

Yes. I think he did.

[@Post-321]

Just a ciuntinue our realation

[@hansloos3284]

The guy in German on the background is disturbing

[@datruth66392]

Take your meds😂

[@PhilipShawn]

Verdicts previously decided

[@hugosophy]

The music at 11:10 is from the movie werewolf a hilariously bad movie shown on mst3k directed by Tony zarindast

[@kevincaldwell4707]

Dictators never care about their people, as long as they have the power the rest of their country can suffer

[@thesuperostrich]

Stalin cared very much about the people

[@deb310red]

​@@thesuperostrichDid Stalin care about the people he sent to the gulags?

[@stanislav7920]

25:42 Notice the Austrian insignia on the helmet. Though, the Austrians keep claiming that they never been Nazis. 🙂 Hypocrites!!

[@Endurokungen666]

I rest my case…

[@annehersey9895]

The Battle for Moscow WAS the Battle that changed the morale and confidence while Stalingrad cemented it and was the furthest East the Germans ever got! Why look at the Soviet Losses in WWII in this documentary? Russia in all its iterations have ALWAYS fought by just throwing meat waves at their enemies because of its huge population vs their enemies. They lost horrendous numbers in the Crimean War, WWI, the Civil War, WWII and today’s Russo-Ukrainian War. Russia is fighting today’s war with the very same meat grinder as they always have! It’s Zhukov’s plans over and over. followed by massive artillery barrages until the city is destroyed and then houses to house fighting in the mopping up.

[@ЮраСидоров-т4э]

Yes, but you in the West, I see over the centuries, have not gained either intelligence or self-criticism... Why are you talking about something you don’t understand at all?! Do you even understand that these words were invented by Goebbels, after him (after World War II) the liars in the USA began to repeat them, and now you believe this nonsense. Although this is literally nothing more than an outright lie and an insult to millions of dead soldiers? There were no meat storms. And the USSR never outnumbered the Reich. Here are the dry, REAL numbers: 1) The population of the USSR is 197 million Reich - 280 million 2) Total military losses of the USSR - 8.2 million Reich - 7.9 million And now it’s even more interesting. Battle for Moscow : Airplanes - USSR 680 units, Reich - 1390 units Soldiers - 1.25 million versus 1.98 Mortars - 7.7k versus 14k Tanks - 990 units versus 1700 units. All your cries about “General Frost” literally contradict the Germans themselves, who wrote that the cold HELPED THEM by freezing the dirt. You are ready for any meanness, any lie, just to humiliate those thanks to whom you were born in the first place. This is the essence of your entire “truth” about Russia. Lies and betrayal. And the final nail in the coffin of your words. Leningrad was fortified for 20 years. The Germans were unable to take it in 3 years. Königsberg was fortified for two hundred years. The USSR took it in three days.

[@abdifatahabdirahman9685]

Allies defeat in Stalingrad and Bagration were both brilliant tactical prowess by the Soviets

[@MikeHunt-fo3ow]

trotsky was murdered by an ice axe i thought?

[@drbrainstein1644]

Who the hell is he? Oh, you mean Lev Bronstein. Never mind

[@MikeHunt-fo3ow]

@@drbrainstein1644 yea him lol

[@alungiggs]

It was an ice-pick.

[@hugosophy]

No it was an ice axe. There’s pictures of it

[@joshuamathewson]

6th army

[@jaybobdoodles]

Unmedicated and lustful: what a world.

[@markbrisec3972]

2:58...WTF? Tell me that's not real.. Tell me the guy was punking his comrades by slapping a corn husk on his face....

[@marvwatkins7029]

(See looks pretty old - and just plain silly- to give flowers which was obviously staged for the camera anyway.)

[@yougalkumawat3831]

❤

[@paulchogudo1866]

Killing both real and imaginary enemies... you were not even allowed to think,to harbor any other opinion save that shoved your throat!

[@wildrose338]

Stalin was a Georgian jew he was not even russian

[@datruth66392]

And Lenin and Trotsky

[@woobiefuntime]

Stalin wasn't Jewish

[@Endurokungen666]

20th century witta USSR/Rus thouch

[@jaredcarrick3468]

The following is from a 2011 UK Daily Mail article: An extraordinary secret archive has revealed for the first time how thousands of Soviet citizens collaborated with German invaders during World War II. The cache of documents, some retrieved from the files of the KGB, shows how many viewed the Germans as Christian liberators - and their own masters as godless Communists. This view was reinforced when the soldiers of the Third Reich opened up 470 churches in northwestern Russia alone and reinstated priests driven from their pulpits by Stalin. In turn, the clergy cooperated closely with the Germans in betraying Communist officials and Jewish partisan resistance groups. Perhaps most astonishingly, the Germans even shipped numerous mayors, journalists, policeman and teachers back to the Reich to show them the German way of life.

[@jaredcarrick3468]

There still exists archived images and even video of Christian women giving blessings to Wehrmacht troops as they passed through their liberated Soviet Union villages during the initial part of Operation Barbarossa.

[@robert-parsifal-finch]

Has the word socialism not been demonised and lied about enough ?

[@markvolker1145]

It has been the causes of more death than any other form of government!

[@acepath3001]

We need a Stahlin in the the canadian parlament

[@xxvxxv5588]

Why?

[@Вивсівідстій]

@@xxvxxv5588Trudeau invited one of Hitler’s SS men to parliament and honored him as a hero.

[@xxvxxv5588]

@@Вивсівідстій Stalin and his surroundings commited much more crimes against Ukrainians than Ukrainians from SS or all right wing Ukrainians in general. Do you just hate ethnic Ukrainians?

[@xxvxxv5588]

@@Вивсівідстій Not a real problem. It's better to talk about crimes against Ukrainians committed by Russian supremacists in occupied Ukraine. Reminder that not just Putin but also Stalin responsible for genocide of Ukrainian people. There are many people with deeply anti-ukrainian way of thinking.

[@xxvxxv5588]

@@Вивсівідстій Is this a real problem compared with what Russia is doing now in occupied Ukraine?

[@charlesbingham]

KZbin STOP THE STIMMY CARD ADVERT UR SPAMMING PEOPLE TO DEATH

[@motherslittlehelper8055]

34:18 face left back. wtf is that? some sick joke?

[@antekknoll6568]

B

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

need God sovereignty before human choice

[@Suse-gl8xh]

What handsome an good looking😂

[@fridaybravo9370]

Had to have "represntation"? Suprised ye didnt find a black samaru

[@MarieDavis-xt7er]

The meth war machines across Russia and the world

[@LondoneNikeArdilla]

Berbagai type-jenis bom atom (nuklir) yang selama ini dibuat, dapat di gunakan untuk menghancurkan seluruh daratan china, hanya karena sifat diskriminasi terhadap orang tua kandung saya orang-orang yang berkaitan di Indonesia. Dapatkan menghentikan sifat-sifat diskriminasi terhadap pelaku-pelaku kegiatan fitnah yang selama ini maling harta benda hak milik orang tua kandung saya, dan mengembalikannya. Korban kekejaman pelaku-pelaku kejahatan yang selama ini terjadi semenjak lahir. 24-10-1993

[@badgeologist]

და ვისაც კიდე სტალინი გიყვართ!!!

[@Wargasm54]

Nobody except idiots

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

I really hate this documentary style. The 'can't be F'ed to actually write a script and pay a good narrator for two hours, so we'll just take a camera to a university somewhere and get some professors to babble on about it.' style.

[@datruth66392]

Funded by bankster cabal.

[@Pdmc-vu5gj]

Huh

[@jaygua8006]

Acuerdense mis Trokeros, nosotros pesamos 80,000 LMB leegal ;) Un carro 3, 000 LBS manejamos un TQNKE DE GUERRA sin ammunicion. Qganlos KAKKA Como el jugador de Futbol de Brazil.

[@Welsh2505]

Glory to Russia, the motherland 🇷🇺

[@claraoswald_121]

oh, look someone who needs attention 😂😂😂

[@Welsh2505]

@@claraoswald_121 ditto

[@Sanny-slim]

Rest In Pieces, Russian stock market.😂

[@dh1380]

Go back to the 1940s

[@ivanr4300]

The sheep rooting for Ukraine believing everything the media tells them. 🤣🤣

[@Jaffacall3251]

Slava soviert

[@cruzmizzl]

Stalin should had been kept at bay during WW2, as he proved to be as bad hitL3r- untill he was attacked. Most definetly not allowed to sit w/t Allies. Then the 'cold war' wouldve been 'luke warm'. Churchill tried to warn all.

[@JosephPercente]

There is a russian novel where a kulak is laying in the street dying of starvation and the local communist official walks by. The kulak asks him if this was all because i owned 2 horses? The official replies yes it was.

[@ajdukkazanova]

It's a lie! The Americans are the first one who's deployed atomic weapon in Turkey. After, for the answer on that move, the USSR sent atomic weapon to Cuba!

[@deb310red]

Was Stalin better than the tsar? Forced labor? Gulags?

[@deb310red]

What were the Soviets doing in Afghanistan?