Stalin: part 3 of 3

[@oasis6767]

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[@beatyea5711]

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[@ToddiusMaximus]

Thank you for posting this video!!! Best documentary I’ve ever seen on Stalin!

[@mincerification]

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[@oasis6767]

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[@sebastianmartinescu1987]

You are fabulous historians, producers, firectors....And you also have a wonderful narrator. Thank you from Romania 🇷🇴.

[@anUntouchable]

Thank you for the upload, great content as always!

[@andrewg.carvill4596]

3.41 "Stalin paid heavily for this error of judgement". Stalin didn't pay anything for it. The Russian people and later on most of eastern Europe paid.

[@marycarson3579]

Absolutely agree

[@melflo4651]

Andrew G. Carvill >>> please watch the film a little bit longer.

[@Ivan_Glamdryng]

Thank you keeping WWII relevant.

[@quinnlance9487]

Hooray! I've been waiting eagerly for this. Thank you!

[@davefletch100]

Ah been waiting for this, thank you Alan.

[@iconoclast1399]

An incredible series, many of the interviews are almost unbelievable.

[@deg00gleurself91]

The death toll relating to any statistic on Stalin are staggering, beyond belief. How can anyone deal with so much blood on their hands is beyond me.

[@Cinnabunbuns]

I can promise you 100%, hes not in hell. Simply his soul was banished forever. No afterlife, nothing...

[@marshallallensmith]

One of the most despicable and evil people in all of history but at the same time one of the most interesting that a lot of people would do well to study both for the historical understanding as well as a case study on how easily power can corrupt and how effortlessly human beings seem to both go along with it and quickly forget afterwards.

[@Garbeaux.]

Agreed. He was a monster but on the flip side if it wasn’t for him we might not have won the war. He has an extremely complicated legacy. Unlike Mao or Hitler, Stalin actually advanced his country even though barbaric it was.

[@rudrajeet814]

So you must also study about the purges of britain in India 35 million indians died in British rule of 200 years 3 million in 1943 in Bengal ( Britain was a democracy at that time under Winston Churchill )

[@croakingfrog3173]

And the incredible importance of a caring and secure relationship with one's parents (the first thing that went wrong and possibly the foundation of the rest of the insanity).

[@bjr4567]

​@@Garbeaux. Not sure how you can say Stalin advanced his country, regardless of how it was done, while Mao and Hitler didn't. Shortsighted much?

[@liveandletotherslive.5458]

Thank you so much for this video. It was very interesting to watch this historical events happening.

[@Stevos-oo2vd]

Thank you Dr Brown, been awaiting this :-]

[@Kalvin5]

Thank you for posting this. Its good to learn more about these figures in history. That was a very powerful program, so heartbreaking to see all suffering that took place in Stalin's Russia. A future program on the horrors of America's prison & medical systems will look similarly disturbing.

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.

[@jpmaya7284]

Brilliant.. this series is compulsive watching delivered by world authorities in a clear and compelling way... thank you for sharing

[@jesuisravi]

but wait...Stalin wasn't really evil, he was just flawed. No? Where have we heard something like that before? I'm not sure but it was quite recently, I believe. But really, Stalin was unimaginably dangerous because he was not only without a hint of hesitation before the prospect of mass murder, but he was also a born administrator and organizer. Unlike Hitler, he enjoyed the nuts and bolts of governing. Hitler was a great orator, but a lazy executive. Exactly the reverse was the case with Stalin, he was good at detail work, but a very mediocre speaker. They were both crazy, but Stalin's craziness gave him just enough wiggle room to know what he needed to do to survive.

[@bjr4567]

Stalin was paranoid, and infinitely more brutal.

[@georgimavrodinov4500]

O please, stop telling, that Stalin has won the battle against the fascism alone!!!! The Stalin"s allies against the fascism were: The Russian winter, the American aid and the US soldiers and the soldiers of Europe as well. And of course, the stupidity of Hitler to send His troops unprepared for a winter war. Stalin is the last person, who has destroyed the fascism.

[@AkiraNakamoto]

Without US-supplied SPAM, Stalin's red army would starve to death as late as 1943. This is what Khrushchev admitted in his autobiography. Hitler took Ukraine, the food court of Soviet, in 1941 Operation Barbarossa. Stalin's red army ate up all food reservation in 1942. In 1943 they had no food, without the lend-lease aided food, everywhere in Russia would be like replica of Leningrad - no food, cannot run even for a hundred yard, thus impossible to counterattack. And the commie thugs claim that Soviet won the war all by themselves.

[@vinrusso821]

The loan, lease program is what kept the Red army afloat. The US lent billions of dollars of equipment, food, transportation, aircraft, artillery, lorries, 200,0000 jeeps, massive amounts of rations.

[@bjr4567]

American lend-lease is the lesser told, lesser publicized turning point in the war, not Stalingrad or Kursk.

[@bronxmosthated1]

Thank you for the voice-over

[@thegreathadoken6808]

One thing I can't stand it's people who don't enable comments, especially academics who presumably profess to encourage discussion on such subjects. Well done for enabling comments here, at least.

[@matty_o]

A lot of comments are people throwing fire at each other and no intellectual discussion. If it’s colonialism,WW2 and civil war, it becomes keyboard battles so sometimes comments being turned of is best.

[@robertbennett9949]

Yes indeed. I have been at so many lectures by 'academics' who simply make a speech that has been carefully prepared and then allow only 2 or 3 questions afterwards. Many times I get the impression that that while their one hour prepared material is impressive, their overview is weak.

[@skipmichaels6184]

One of Stalin's favorite sayings - "no man , no problem".

[@robertlevine2827]

He preceded that with, "Death solves all problems."

[@blueshirttail]

“Quantity has a quality all of its own.”

[@dougruscoe8664]

25:56 -- watch for 7 seconds -- that priest is a time traveler. He looks exactly like the guy in the next shot.

[@Kyanzes]

Yes, he is teasing us with that scene. Also, the church scene happened after the interview. He left immediately after it ended.

[@dutchschultz3076]

Exactly

[@epicmanthatisntadog5661]

Enjoyed you teaching us! -Adam

[@janethayes5941]

This was one of the best docs I've seen. People can keep their communist ideals, I'll take a big pass.

[@pearlharbour3300]

liquidated ..such a chilling word now used in failing busineses...hunans really do live on death...what a tormenred bunch we are.

[@jglammi]

Min 39: The West DID start a 2nd front : a year before Normandy there was invasion of Italy. That was summer of 1943. It is interesting to think about the motivation for the false claims.

[@roysterfutrell8889]

And before that Africa.

[@TheRocknrollmaniac]

Perhaps in order to emphasize the other side, the good (however scant they are) sides of Stalin. And one must admit, being appalled is okay and everything but it ultimately narrows down our perspective. I actually think that false claim is here on point, with a justified motivation.

[@myassizitchy]

Amen. !! Where they come up with " stalin wanted to beat Eisenhower to Berlin cause WE faced no resistance in the western front"

[@bjr4567]

@@myassizitchy The only reason the Reds got to Berlin first was because Eisenhower held back his armies to let the Soviets drive forward. It was ignorance and shortsightedness of the highest order from the American commander.

[@minhthunguyendang9900]

@@roysterfutrell8889 The Sicily landinds happened in the middle of the Kursk battle. Hitler ordered 2 SS panzer to leave the Eastern Front for Italy.

[@sanibel624]

The documentary has excluded what the Polish were doing to the Germans in what was German land prior to WWW1. Germans were forced to stay in acquired German land after WWW1 and then were murdered and tortured. After refusal of Hitler's request for the release of German prisoners living in the stolen land controlled by Poland and to stop the German massacre, that is when Germany was forced to fight Poland.

[@ralphbernhard1757]

LOL Sorry, but Hitler said himself that lebenstraum was the goal, and "poor Poles" were in the way of the riches that beconed in the east .(Ukraine, the "food basket" and raw materials it contained) The "poor Germans" were the excuse. Whenever you hear a "poor people" argument, a "land/power/domination grabber" is never far off...

[@davidwoods7408]

Thank you Dr. Brown.

[@mawas6801]

Summary of the episode: Stallin was scared, but somehow he was able to repel the Nazi invasion. Stallin was ruthless, killed its own soldiers, but somehow The Red Army outran the entire eastern Europe and Berlin. Stallin was incompetents, but somehow he asserted the allies to comply on his terms. You'd make this guy really happy if u can explain this "somehow"

[@aleksklaby4819]

Bravo! I no longer hoped to find a comment of a thinking person!

[@ilietudor6878]

Thanks, mr. Brown!

[@granskare]

and the German army only had summer clothing.

[@sherirobinson5112]

Good series!

[@billscannell93]

Geez, isn't it kind of pathetic that modern Russians think of him as a hero? He was a ruthless psycho whose vast crimes apparently affected every family in the nation. Who cares if he made them a super power if the lives of the people meant nothing to him? (It's also interesting, I've now heard from several sources that the West--including Germans in WWII--found it appalling how callous these Communist states were in their treatment of their own soldiers and attitudes toward mass casualties.) Apparently to this day Russians do not care much about their own kind, at least as individuals. Rather sad.

[@SeattlePioneer]

Stalin was certainly ruthless by anyb standard, but not psychotic. Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky were highly ideological Communists. They stood entirely outside the norms of ordinary western society. Stalin did the things that won the war against Germany. If you don't fault him for that, don;t fault him for devising and using the methods that allowed USSR to win the war. Britain and the United States set aside ordinary morality to massively bomb civilians by air, and bomb Japan with atomic weapons. Britain and the United States used the methods available to them to defeat Germany and Japan. So did Stalin. They were all hugely ruthless in nthe pursuit of victory.

[@lazyakers]

Good stuff!

[@jo69ma]

Very important 3 parts documentary because today’s socialists in China, Cuba, Viet Nam, and Russia don’t teach the forgotten Reality of evolutionary Communism to their new generation of students the reality of Communism and Fabricated Socialism.

[@MarxxxxExpo69]

About time, Dr. Brown! Especially after Putin's demagogued so called democratic re-election once again. LOL

[@deoglemnaco7025]

He was a wise man to rid himself of his enemies. Because he was the leader, what he did was not illegal. He was a conflicted man with feelings to be sure, but there were valid threats against his life

[@bjr4567]

99.9% of which were imagined and not real. He thus cast millions of innocents to their graves without merit.

[@davidbooth3285]

The reference to General Uborevicha,should read Uborevich! Uborevicha is the feminine form of the name!

[@TranscendianIntendor]

I am reading "Stalin, Vol. 1" by Stephen Kotkin. Of the 800 page book I am not yet to the war. In Kotkin's book the misery of Stalin's youth is not as horrible as it is generally said to have been here. Whatever Churchill & Stalin had in common is likely to have developed as a result of the relationships they had with their mother's, who invested a great deal in their sons. My birth certificate is the only deed I own comes to my mind as I study the actions of the states. It is a wonder to me that the UN does not issue to the stateless bronze birth certificates or the really necessary passport of modern civilization. What is the most coveted passport?

[@jinmo2821]

34:37 The German POWs paraded in Moscow are ones captured during Operation Bagration in the summer of 1944, not at Stalingrad in 1943.

[@bjr4567]

Indeed. The unfortunate soldiers captured at Stalingrad were basically marched to their deaths, destroyed by exhaustion, hunger and disease. The Bataan death march utterly pales by comparison. Those who survived were then worked to death.

[@pauldodson2018]

Hi Dr. Brown, Thank you for uploading this rare look into the Soviet Union. I was just curious' what year did the BBC produce this documentary? Most of the people interviewed most have been very old then. -Paul

[@human151]

The people who gleefully carried out his orders are just as evil. Without them , none of this would have been possible.

[@bjr4567]

It's a bit more complicated than that. Many involved were young and idealistic, full of fervor (and naivety), while others were afraid for their own hides (meaning comply, or they might be next). And as it turns out, often times they were!

[@luciousnarwhal1992]

Russia wouldn’t have fallen if Moscow fell, Stalin was going to put every man woman and child in between him and the nazis. They would’ve fought all the way to the Far East of Siberia. No matter what, they would win.

[@Realliberal]

Thank you for your pointing out the obvious. Stalin had the USA protecting him. FDR volunteered young American men get killed on the second front at Omaha Beach to weaken Germany and in the Pacific Theatre to keep Japanese off Stalin's back. FDR gave Stalin Churchill supplies that Americans in the Philippines should have gotten. Stalin after all those deaths still had the biggest land army in the war and logistical supply line. Germany had over extended itself had no production was blockaded by the west and bombed to hell every day. Apparently FDR wanted communism to take over Europe and all of Asia. FDR/WC in a way was more evil than Stalin because they knew Stalin was a mass murderer.

[@McIntyreBible]

29:00, the remembrance of her brother's death 40 years later still brings tears to this woman eyes!

[@richardshiggins704]

A most evil man . Yet one is intrigued by these freaks of nature . One is fascinated by the Great White Shark and less so by a beautiful Angel fish

[@zarasbazaar]

Sharks are neither evil nor freaks of nature. And Angelfish can be carnivorous and aggressive.

[@Neapoleone-Buonaparte]

Caesar NEVER humiliated vanquished opponents!

[@g.l.5072]

Uh you have never heard of ventgrioux

[@croakingfrog3173]

I think there is some over-hate regarding Stalin's policy towards Hitler early in the war. Almost every other world leader also underestimated Hitler's appetite for conquest and imo Stalin was justified in thinking Hitler would not attack the SU. It was a dumb thing for Hitler to do, therefore it made sense to think that Hitler wouldn't have done it.

[@bjr4567]

Stalin was a pragmatist when it came to Hitler, and he feared him. He figured if he couldn't beat him, why not join or at least partner up with him. This notion paralyzed him from preparing for the worst. He also didn't want to provoke Hitler.

[@AshesHereos]

@The History Room Hey, any chance of this KZbin channel uploading more historical videos?

[@budwyzer77]

Good God, Stalin's grandson looks just like him at 33:32.

[@lepee5830]

This what happens, when man thinks he is God!

[@chriswilde7246]

Agreed and there are so many throughout history that have gone down that route, very strange how it happens....

[@KienyejiChicken]

Stalin was the man who could push Russians to the limits of their abilities. And the Russians did not disappoint. They smashed Nazis and their evil and became superpower.

[@Sgreenenov13]

Stalin was just as evil

[@bjr4567]

Stalin never saw a Russian (or German, or Pole) he wouldn't mind torturing and/or shooting. No exclusions, even among his friends and family. Keep in mind, Molotov, Voroshilov and Beria were about to be next on his hit list. And the Jews.

[@richardshiggins704]

The only opportunity of ridding themselves of this monster was in June '41 when he was at his most vulnerable having given the key of the front door to Hitler . Trotsky if alive would have dealt with him . Richard Sorge , the master soviet spy in Japan had given him 2 vital pieces of information , one that Japan would not open a second front in the East and secondly the exact dates of the German invasion . The former he heeded the latter he ignored . Well done . I would strongly recommend "The Court of the Red Tzar"

[@bjr4567]

He only heeded the former due to Zhukov and a few other Stavka principals pressing him on the matter.

[@talhanazir3399]

Stalin was lucky in the second W war like a hero when he return back from escaping from rail station Moscow ,someone said to him come back Boss Winter made it don't escape

[@donaldmacfarlane7325]

Sebag-Montefiore makes an odd statement for a historian: "The West was not able to provide him with any guarantees or security" in June 1941? Perhaps he has forgotten that Hitler and Stalin were allies up until June 1941 and had, together, dismantled Poland? Odd history this. Together with: Austria and the Sudetenland FELL to Hitler. They didn't fall. Their citizens CHOSE Hitler. Also Stalin's negotiations with Britain and France were "unproductive"? What on Earth does that mean? Britain and France ganged up with Poland and Germany and Russia were, more or less, forced to compact with two powers and a puppet against them. Not a fantasy. It was Poland's fantasy that Britain and France would save it in the event of a German Invasion and that they would defeat Germany. But it was not 1920 against Russia. They had to endure a double Invasion and 50 years of Soviet dominance for their stubborn naivety.

[@Mentol_]

USSR and Germany were not allies in 1939.

[@robertlevine2827]

@@Mentol_ Well, that's when they became allies. OK, even w/the pact they weren't allies so much as they agreed to split Poland and not to interfere w/each other's territorial ambitions. They certainly were not on friendly terms before that.

[@josebarberena9564]

I am a firm believer that a countries sovereignty must never be violated but the nations who had within their power the ability to stop the terror Stalin brought to his country and Europe in general and did nothing about it are also guilty for just turning their eyes away while millions upon millions were dying as a result of one mans murderous means and policies to secure power. Greed is one of the most disastrous defect of man because it leads to everything we see in Stalin and still to this day.

[@alexander3543]

‘I feel no hatred’ - Russian people are too kind...

[@bjr4567]

They were already numb to such aggression from their own.

[@lawrencembugua2695]

Imagine the current leader of UK vs Churchill

[@bjr4567]

Churchill was nothing special. He destroyed the British Empire.

[@MrBITS101]

12:25 the decision to kill the Polish Officers had it's origins back in the war between Poland and the Bolsheviks, it was all about revenge. At Tsaritsyn, Stalin was in command at the time and the Poles defeated him.

[@ralphbernhard1757]

Maybe it played a role, but it was part of something much bigger... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_repressions_of_Polish_citizens_(1939%E2%80%931946) Stalin simply "got rid of" potential opposition (mainly the intelligent and educated) to his communist takeover, and colluded with the Nazis from 1939-41 to achieve that.

[@bjr4567]

Perhaps. But one was on the battlefield, army against army, solider against soldier, all armed -- and the other was fully unarmed officers against NKVD executioners with pistols.

[@richardlawson4317]

It is not "VON" in German. It sounds like "FN". V is F. W is V.

[@tuxnoel]

25:57 the person looks same as that in archived footage .😳

[@Blastanker]

FINALLY!!!

[@oasis6767]

I know, I know, Tyler... A thousand apologies!

[@mrkyprits]

Hello Dr. Thanks for your efforts

[@robertbennett9949]

There is Mr. Montefiori speaking about 'Russians' rather than Soviets invading Poland. Russians were a minority in the Soviet Union.The Soviets returned the eastern Polish border to the Curzon Line. as decided at Versailles.

[@ralphbernhard1757]

Well, Moscow did a bit more than "just taking what belongs to us". They also invaded Romania, Finland, and politically overpowered (one might as well say "invade") the Baltic States. Estland, Lettland, Lithuania.

[@theodorsebastian4272]

If only the politburo actually have arrested him in 1941.

[@McIntyreBible]

21:25, the brutality & inhumanity of Stalin against his own troops!

[@bjr4567]

And his Generals and officers before that, and fellow Bolshevik politicos before that, and entire ethnic groups before that, and Kulaks and peasants before that...

[@Jeffagarcia66]

A HA FINALLY THANKS DOC BROWN!

[@simplicius11]

"And Britain and France declared war on Germany" And did absolutely nothing to help Poland, having more than hundred divisions on the German border, that was protected by 11 German divisions. Ah, I forgot, they mercilessly bombarded them with leaflets.

[@lawrence9506]

That was stupid.

[@SeattlePioneer]

Yes, Britain and France declared war on Germany for invading Poland. But not the USSR, which did the same thing.

[@granskare]

the American & Brits did not consider Berlin worth a single soldier although lower ranking generals were disappointed.

[@Lassisvulgaris]

Because they knew it would have to handed over to the Sovjets, according to their agreement.

[@bjr4567]

They could have spared the Berliners all the rape and pillage going on elsewhere, and also used it as a bargaining chip in subsequent negotiations, but Eisenhower was of the same mindset as Roosevelt in his imbecilic embrace of the Reds.

[@topdog5252]

A bundle of contradiction, as they called him at the end there. I wonder if the best people are just that. I cannot call Stalin good but is contradiction needed for goodness?

[@BIGNICKELL1]

Where is the rest? Stalin lived and ruled for almost 8 years after the war.

[@largeknockers7194]

More than 2/3rds of Soviet armaments came from the US and Britain

[@bjr4567]

Amen. The untold story.

[@BrianSmith-yq7ys]

Id have to say id didn't occur to me why Stalin didn't try to sovitize Poland and east germany. And what i mean is his old routine of mass deportations and turning civilians into slave laborers. How come he didn't comb the cities and the countryside in order to send people to the distant gold mines of Kolyma. You would have thought after the war there might be a Nazi insurgent movement in east Germany. It seems somewhat out of character of him to leave the germans alone after the war.

[@ralphbernhard1757]

First off, Stalin probably knew that at their core most Germans weren't "fascist" or "Nazis" (as the wartime propaganda constantly bleated out at the "sheep"), but mostly "socialist", or "Christian" in their mindset. All one would have needed to do was "convert" the system by cutting off the head, removing the deep state...and then to appeal to these core values. Like Hitler did :-) Basically, and even today, clever politicians "buy" their supporters, or use the age old "carrot and stick" method. To make a long story short. Stalin most likely did not want a long drawn out war with the West, and if the oppression had been too harsh, there would have been an incentive for resistance, which would then have been picked and supported by the West (aka "proxy infighting" = destabilized region). Stalin wanted halfway happy people, and a cordon of semi-independent puppets to protect the core of the communist empire (aka "buffer zone"). He "bought" the people with "a better life", or left others (like Finland) rule themselves, because it indirectly protected Moscow,

[@bjr4567]

Left the Germans alone after the war? Until he died he had countless Germans, mostly former soldiers, enslaved as forced laborers in Russia. In East Germany, they were under the oppressive thumb of Soviet occupation, then oversight.

[@kevinvalentinocasanova8416]

The Soviet just won because by numbers of men airplanes and tank and they got helped by the British usa and France to

[@chel3SEY]

Richard Overy seems so cold and dull.

[@coshyno]

Stalin was brutally efficient !

[@jameshotz1350]

Hitler under estimated the Russians, and never had a chance.

[@bjr4567]

Hitler underestimated American lend-lease far more than the Bolshevik state. If it hadn't been for that, he would have won.

[@dinadunlap3971]

What a wretched evil man😈

[@asoggycracker8773]

Hitler never could of beat the Soviet Union. Germany couldn’t produce as much as the Soviets. And the longer he waited the faster the Soviets were producing. He didn’t believe that hitler would be dumb enough to fight a two front war. Hitler wouldn’t of been dumb enough to fight a war against someone wile starting to struggle with Britain. Funny enough hitler stokes at the best time for most damage, he attacked when the Soviets had torn down the bunkers to build new ones in Poland, catching them off guard. He wanted more time, and just refused I believe it. He wanted time so bad he told his men to accept defeat on the front and not fight. He did underestimate hitlers will to end communism. Hitler told his people he would have literal war against the communists. It was obvious. And I swear if they mention how close to defeat they were because of how close to Moscow, I’m going to flip my lid. The Soviets would of kept fighting past Moscow. Bomb the city. Burn it. Blow it up. It would of become a new Stalingrad. An new Leningrad, but with more meaning. Moscow had a lot of industry, but it wasn’t vital to creating weapons. Also Stalin ignited the easy victory and wanted to have a complex impressive invasion of Finland like Germany in Poland, and failed. He failed to realize that tanks don’t work well in forest. Bare minimum snow clothing, brown uniforms in a white background. Oh my god. It did say if Moscow fell it would fall. Bruh would the us end war if Attacked from the east and lost Washington. No.

[@bjr4567]

Moscow falling would have created large psychological implications for the Russians. That's why he stayed put! But it was American lend-lease that saved the Reds, more than their own supply chain. Without it they would have failed.

[@DC-jt9py]

Stalin- The American Progressive Left's Superman

[@johnmangele6758]

5 months doc

[@digitalrevolution6476]

Two maniacs....

[@TheLoyalOfficer]

Too bad they don't discuss Stalin from 1945-1953. Those are the least examined years of his rule - and they were a third of his years in power.

[@nohopeequalsnofear3242]

What is beyond evil is that they even killed the women....

[@Notthetimeforit]

Seriously?? So killing men is one thing but you cross a line when you kill women? I could understand if you had said children, but the fact you see women's and men's lives as having different worth is messed up.

[@alfredcollins2558]

They criticize Stalin for not exchanging his son for Paulus. Actually to me that seem the correct decision. War is cruel.

[@michaelm6045]

And he could not, even if he wanted to. He was father of the nation in peoples eyes. This image was more important for war afford, for him and for people. As a matter of fact whole regime was based on his and Lenin's image.

[@bjr4567]

He had arrested and shot so many of his former associates and members of their families that he would have looked particularly self-serving if he had. Besides that, he had no love for his family after his wife's suicide, except Svetlana.

[@jamesrey3221]

The Devil's Alliance Hitler's Pact with Stalin. The two devils agreed to partition Poland between them. Hitler taking the larger part - while he conceded the independent Baltics states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Finland and parts of Romania would fall under Stalin. Hitler invaded Poland, his armies, defeating the Polish army, while Stalin marched into the eastern part of the country. Stalin invaded the Baltics states.

[@simplicius11]

17:30 "He drives at his dacha... and for three days he stays there..." Where are you digging this crap from Mr. Montefiore? The protocol of the Stalin's visitors in Kremlin is publicly available. The only day he wasn't working was 28.06.1941, what doesn't mean he didn't have meetings at his dacha. i.imgur.com/kAD6vNU.jpg

[@bjr4567]

With all the rest of the manipulations the Soviets and NKVD did throughout his tenure, what makes you think these logs couldn't have been rewritten or "touched up"? He made his chief executioner disappear from a photo with him after all!

[@CarlosAlmeida1972]

I love your videos, so I'm asking you to please upload on alternative platforms. I'm deleting my KZbin account, because of the free speech restrictions. We should fight and defend free speech! I will miss your videos. Sorry for my unsubscribe!!

[@vasiliydmitriev3723]

First two parts of this documentary are very good, I am Russian and can judge about that. This 3rd part I haven't seen and do not want to. I suppose it would be the usual western story that Soviets occupied the eastern part of Europe and even compare it with Germans. But my dear western friends, yes, soviets established a communist regime in your eastern part, but was it similar to the nazi one? No, no, and no. There was no genocide of Jews, no any mass killings and so on. Well, the people there just lived a part of their history under so called "communism", nothing close to a tragedy. Why so much noise about that? But remember now and for all; you all owe to Soviets (Russians) for putting down the most represive regime in human history, the Nazi one.

[@bjr4567]

I'm sorry to inform you that no system in modern history has been more utterly repulsive than the Soviet Communist one. The Stalinist system is second to none when it comes to wanton killing and widespread torture. Please wake up.

[@aliosman1406]

Why kil your own soldiers . Thats stupid. Or civilian

[@ryanb6047]

I seriously think the only possible way a free Republic can survive in the modern world is to create standards for voting. I believe everyone should have the potential to vote, but that there should be requirements to show the voter is educated in the policies they are voting for and that they are actively paying a certain percentage of tax. For example, how can somebody that doesn't pay a significant amount in taxes, or no income tax at all, be allowed to vote for a politician who wants to increase taxes or keep taxes high? How can you have an honest system where people on government assistance and also not paying taxes are allowed to vote? This will obviously create a country where people are only voting for politicians who will ensure their assistance keeps coming? If a voter doesn't have a basic understanding in the history of communism, socialism and capitalism, they won't be equipped with the knowledge to vote on policies that avoid or support those ideas. The reason I'm bringing this subject up on a Stalin documentary is because even today these communist and socialist politicians are getting elected in free western countries because of the same reasons Stalin came to power. They always come to power by making impossible promises to the low-income voter. They promise them wealth and they tell them they are getting screwed by the system. Somehow, someway this sales pitch still works. Regardless of the undeniable fact that nobody can make a person succeed except for themselves, people still believe otherwise. The Founding Fathers and architects of the greatest system on earth that created the best standards of living anywhere else in the world knew that educated voters and voters who were affected by the policies were crucial in maintaining that great free system of government. It shouldn't matter if you're a man, woman or what ethnicity you are, you should have the potential to vote, but there have to be standards.

[@cezra833]

Wow there is so much that is awful about your statement. 1- What about people who are living on government assistance because they are sick or disabled? Are they not allowed to participate in the running of their country? I ask because I haven't worked in several years due to ill health. I am educated, with a degree in European history and I have more than a basic understanding of the various isms you are throwing around. And yes I wouldn't vote for a party that decided that meeting my basic needs as a human being is bad, since I am not a fan of eugenics in general and especially when it would mean killing me. 2- Stalin didn't come to power based on promises of making people rich. He came to power after being apart of a revolution that overthrew a monarchy. People didn't want to be rich, they just wanted basic standards of living and not to be ruled by any idiot that happened to be born royal. Kind of seems fair to me. 3- America is NOT, I repeat NOT the greatest system on earth. I am always surprised by the 'America is the greatest' nonsense that a lot of Americans come out with. The propaganda spoon fed to Americans is truly horrifying. I'm not saying don't love your country and think that it has some cool stuff, but this blind obedience to the doctrine of 'We're the best' disallows any form of critical thinking. You can love your country and realise that there are things that need to change. 4- The checks and balance system of the American government is failing hard- especially at the moment with such partisan party politics. Never mind, the fact that Democracy itself is being undermined by voter suppression, gerry mandering and an Electoral College system which allows someone to be declared president even when they have lost the popular vote. 5- The standards of living in America are NOT even remotely the best in the world. The poorest often depend on food stamps and charity and still go hungry. Work insane hours for such low pay that they still can't afford the basics. A country were you can be bankrupted for getting sick. Where there isn't paid maternity leave. No paid vacation. Where you can be fired for being gay. Killed for being black. More people in prison per capita than anywhere else in the world. Chronic gun violence, etc etc. America is never in the top ten lists produced by organisations such as WHO because of the issues mentioned above and more. If you want the best look north to Canada or move to Scandinavia. Working class people in America ARE being screwed by the system. 6- I agree that if you don't work hard you won't make it, but the 'American Dream' is a complete myth. One in many millions make it through hard work, luck and opportunities. Without all three you're going nowhere. The trick that society uses to make people believe that they can 'be the one' is that if they just work hard enough it'll be them, and if it doesn't? Well they didn't want it enough to work for it enough. You honestly have a better chance of winning the lottery.