Stalin's Great Purge | Armchair History TV Original

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[@taylorlibby7642]

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[@taylorlibby7642]

@@HighOnPoint412 YT has censored me 3× so far just replying to this comment.🙄

[@brennanleadbetter9708]

Bunch of wusses

[@SteelFlesher]

you're not the only one 😢​@@taylorlibby7642

[@arandomspaceenthusiast7304]

To tell you just how ridiculous the charges could get, here's how my Georgian great aunt (so 3 generations back) almost got sent to a gulag, or even worse: She owned a tractor manufacturing factory, and since you could just write an unsigned accusation letter at the time, she got accused of being an ennemy to the state because she allegedly put _plane engines_ instead of tractor engines. Fortunately, a friend of hers worked in the police and was able to see the letter before anybody else and quickly discarded it. I don't remember every detail (it is my great aunt after all), but I remember this did indeed happen. EDIT: Just talked to my mother and, like many of you pointed out, you were right, she didn't own the factory. Instead, she was chief engineer and oversaw production (from what I understood). Didn't think this would blow up, so I hadn't really checked.

[@sunsolar2138]

She OWNS a tractor manufacturing factory? Do you realize that's already an anti-people thing? And a lawful order was ignored because of cronyism. Especially since you didn't say she wasn't innocent, especially since you know it from her and of course she told the whole truth. All those convicted from their word are not innocent but lied to.

[@Namooro]

@@sunsolar2138 She was probably a head of the factory, and not the owner. There was zero possibility to own something like factory in 30s since everything belonged to the People and therefore was government owned. Still doesnt change the fact of how ridiculous accusations were

[@Maximilien1794]

@@Namooro What you say is false. Not everything was owned by the State. There were many cooperatives in the USSR, like sovkhoz and artels.

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

@@sunsolar2138 this has got to be satire... no way you can be commenting this on a video literally talking about the murders of hundreds of thousands to feed one mans paranoia and be serious

[@sunsolar2138]

@ASlickNamedPimpback no, just the stories about this man's paranoia are not serious. All lies from unreliable authors caught lying many times. And stories about hundreds of thousands dead. Horrible, we had a civil war and its aftermath, and in war people die, that's how the discovery is made

[@TurtleChad1]

It's absolutely soul crushing to think about how many people within the Soviet Union were _murdered_ just to satiate the ego of this one megalomaniac.

[@PCLprecutlion]

Man I've seen you're profile for like 10 times now🤔😂, But true tho

[@atomicblitz7706]

​@Precutlion.9 yeah I see this man everywhere

[@nbewarwe]

Somethings never change in Russia.

[@christopherchartier3017]

Sounds a lot like another mustache man

[@l3uIletpoints]

The man lived by what he said. "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic". Absolutely crazy!

[@The_whales]

Meanwhile a hoi4 player: fails to manage paranoia and gets all their good generals killed, and lose the moment Barbarossa begins

[@enriqueperezarce5485]

The Soviet Union would’ve lost if not for western support and Nazi policy in the east (basically huge racial annihilation

[@ohmygodpleasehalp3984]

One of my buddies did this playthrough, and decided to sack all of the Navy to save his good generals. “We are losing the land war, *GET ME THE HEAD OF ANY ADMIRAL. NOW. THEY MUST SUFFER FOR THEIR INCOMPETENCE.*”

[@MaximilianoAedo]

This was truly by far one of Stalin's worst decisions, and it bit him in the ass hard when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

[@Maximilien1794]

How? Why?

[@MaximilianoAedo]

@@Maximilien1794 Because the purge took out a huge chunk of the Red Army's officer corps, and it affected the performance of the Red Army itself, especially when it fought Finland in the Winter War, which explained the high casualty numbers suffered by the Soviets.

[@Maximilien1794]

​@@MaximilianoAedo Is that why Zhukov failed to beat the Japanese at Khalkin Gol? Actually, he didn't. I guess the Japanese should have purged their own army as well. The Soviet purges allowed to promote young and clever officers like Zhukov. If France had purged its own army, there would have been no betrayal and old fascist officers like Huntziger (the most experienced officers of their time) would have been replaced by younger, skilled and open-minded officers like De Gaulle. This is just obvious, but keep pretending that Stalin purged his own army just to please his sadistic mind.

[@TheResilient5689]

@@Maximilien1794He removed far too many people from the officer corps and even the lower-ranking soldiers of the Red Army. So unfortunately, when the Nazis came knocking during Operation Barbarossa, the Soviet armed forces were both unprepared and under-manned.

[@manipulatortrash]

@@Maximilien1794 Typical missing the forest for the trees framing. One good leader has no bearing on the overall situation.

[@kban77]

Wtf. And how quickly people forget history.

[@Anglomachian]

Who’s forgotten the purges? Except maybe the Russians, given how Putin deals with things.

[@smyaeer6746]

​@@Anglomachian пиздец.... Блин, как так 😢

[@stereomachine]

I've seen plenty of people who remember this but attempt to justify it

[@Puti-Destroyer]

The Tik history has made a video about the purges , you guys should Watch it .

[@smyaeer6746]

У нас по разному к этому относятся

[@AntonPavlovich2000]

Rokossovsky, one of the greatest WW2 generals, was purged and put in the camp. Later, in 1940 if i'm not mistaken, they freed him as the red army personnel had doubled and they were lacking talented officers. He was beaten, lacked food etc. Later on, he would keep his total loyalty to Stalin after his death and would strongly oppose destalinization campaign.

[@luanasari5161]

Crazy stockholm syndrome

[@HappyVibes535]

Also, he was an ethnic Pole, ironically enough.

[@ilyasharin1976]

Does that not sound suspicious to you? If he was severely beaten so bad and tortured why would he be so against destalinization? Because what you just said was nonsense. What actually happened was that he was rehabilitated and found not guilty (according to the documents of his case).

[@AntonPavlovich2000]

@@ilyasharin1976 Я знаю, что его восстановили и признали невиновным. Только сел он в 1937, а вышел в 1940. 2.5+ года он находился в местах не столь отдаленных, занималось им НКВД. Это не самое приятное времяпрепровождение.

[@MikhailTukachevsky]

​@@ilyasharin1976Rokossowski was a fierce stalinist, and blamed the experience on the officers and not Stalin.

[@xiphoid2011]

Just as Stalin praised Hitler's "night of long knives", Mao Zedong called Stalin a great man and copied his methods almost to the letter 30 years later.

[@Mark-gg6iy]

Donald Trump thinks all you mentioned are great. Trump's definition means the person was successful in their extremism and results, not wonderful people. This is public knowledge btw.

[@venturatheace1]

and then Pol Pot after Mao

[@tharealKDHD]

@@venturatheace1polpot was literally supported by the CIA… he was an American dictator

[@tharealKDHD]

That never happened

[@falconmclenny7284]

​@@tharealKDHDyes it did. Hush child, adults are talking.

[@morgant.dulaman8733]

Considering Lenin's means of dealing with those who opposed his revolution, I think we can safely say this ruthless "phase" was by no means new.

[@natekaufman1982]

Lenin's regime was brutally evil, but Stalin took it to a whole new level.

[@Commissar_4735]

considering that the french did the same during their revolution , this is not new

[@justalonesoul5825]

@@Commissar_4735 You mean, a group of rich and powerful people manipulating the masses into taking over previous rich and powerful people? That reminds me of yet another revolution, or a lot of them, actually. Fascinating =D

[@Gameprojordan]

​@Commissar_4735 obviously it's not new lol but the fact that this much brutality and bloodshed happened in the 20th century is ridiculous. The Russian revolution and its consequences made Nazi Germany's atrocities look like a microscopic blip in comparison

[@JoaoPedro-ol7sl]

​​@@Commissar_4735 it's not new to the world although the numbers can be, but we're talking about it being not new to the Russian communist revolution

[@youngmasterzhi]

Here’s an interesting Soviet tidbit: One of the creative methods of torture used by Soviet interrogators is actually feeding their defendants with tons of food! This was their way of swaying accusations of human rights violation, as they can have plausible confirmation that they are feeding their prisoners well The only catch is that all the food is very salty and there were no drinks to wash it down (except for the extremely salty soup known as balanda); the interrogators will offer the overstuffed defendant water IF they sign a confession letter, which most of them probably do after feeling too groggy from all the salty meat and bread

[@haikalmiftah2529]

Also one of the interrogation method i remembered read somwhere (From the book "Gulag Archipelago" I think), which seems not painful yet equally horrible: The defendands not allowed to sleep for a few days, then they ordered to sit on comfortable sofa with the interrogators (Still not allowed to sleep). Not harming physical body much, but I think enough to cause phsycological breakdown.

[@normieloser6969]

You can get a seizure if you have too much salt and die, actually. Don't know if that happened in any of those cases

[@ilyasharin1976]

​@@haikalmiftah2529 That book is bs that was written by an alcoholic.

[@ilyasharin1976]

Another person that's read too much Gulag Archipelago nonsense...

[@youngmasterzhi]

@@ilyasharin1976 Actually, this one is from Danzig Baldaev, a former prison guard who documented prisoners’ life in the gulag through a series of secret drawings; he was once caught and interrogated for drawing tattoos of prisoners, but the Soviets decided to keep him, so they can easily identify Russian criminal gangs

[@scottlarson1548]

The best book on this that I've found is "The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-destruction of the Bolsheviks". It's full of frightening documents that historians pulled straight out of the Kremlin from that era after the Soviet Union collapsed and they showed how Stalin temporarily reduced oppression to trick potential troublemakers into revealing themselves. They even found confessions that had blood stains on them.

[@Maximilien1794]

Of course when Stalin reduces oppression it is "to trick potential troublemakers into revealing themselves". Even a child wouldn't accept such nonsense. Once must have gone through a lot of anticommunist propaganda to believe such idiotic conspiracy theories.

[@Alfonse-dm6ht]

Can't Be Joking Around When You Are Leading A Multi Ethnic Super Nation-State And Trying To Hold Everyone In Line And Trying To Do It After Incurring Negativity From The Populace

[@scottlarson1548]

@@Alfonse-dm6ht wHAT iS wRONG wITH yOUR kEYBOARD?

[@Alfonse-dm6ht]

@@scottlarson1548 What The Prob

[@АлександрЛюбавин-э9ъ]

Both are garbage and you're a clown. And documents aren't stored in Kremlin.

[@dude97x]

10:50 it was tragically ironic, that many of the Finns who fell victim to the purges were from America where they had emigrated. But when the Soviet Union was created in 1922 many thousands of them decided to emigrate again, to Soviet Russia because they genuinely wanted to go and live in communist/socialist and take part in building the workers paradise society. The Kolkhoz's or farming collectives run by Finnish communities were apparently very successful but just by being Finnish they were "suspicious" and as told, great numbers of them were executed or send to gulags.

[@jokodihaynes419]

Stalin paid the price for his foolishness during operation Barbarossa the pudge come back to bite him

[@tapultanul97]

Truly.

[@kzm1934]

In the end it just meant more needless deaths, like he’d care.

[@ggbb5621]

You know even during Barbarossa he continued his purges but eventually stopped because there were simply not enough competent military officers

[@Commissar_4735]

he actually made sure that treason would never happen during the war

[@danieltoth9742]

Stalin didn't pay. His people did.

[@capobvious6999]

7:45 Yagoda was the leader of NKVD, not just a prominent communist party member. His successor, Yezhov was also purged

[@rishav_killerx6011]

Stalin Great Purge was because his Father used to Punish him Serverly

[@compassknows]

Hahahaha...I know an Oversimplified reference when I see one!

[@raketny_hvost]

Europe came to Russia few times in XX century because they love to be punished

[@natel9019]

I think it was because his Mother didn't breast feed him.

[@macleunin]

Also, “your dad beat you like a dog and now you’re evil” Epic rap battles of history, you guys should see it, thank me later.

[@Drengr19]

Ahh a fellow man of culture

[@Sweet_Pup_g]

Here before the tankies start talking about all the "Good things Stalin did"

[@aliakber775]

Yup,stalin was so aggressive towards ethnic grops,civiilans and the army at the point other commies(or bolshevics) said to stalin into calm down and those fucking tankies say stalin is a good guy

[@NKVD.Officer]

heh, love the jokes

[@giorgijioshvili9713]

but he won the war 😭

[@aliakber775]

B- but stalin wasnt a heavy drinkwer

[@Mortarion-xt9wp]

Honestly considering how thin the German army were spread and how hard pressed they were it is likely that NS-G would have lost anyway

[@irishtank42]

Goodness this feels like such a short summary of such a deep topic.

[@andrewjgrimm]

12:53 This video ended rather abruptly. Should we thank KZbin for that?

[@ThatsGuy-ri6ul]

For the record. Purges are BAD.

[@Maximilien1794]

Why?

[@itz_ic21gaming97]

They are

[@kingofcards9]

Unless you're a dictator who wants to keep power.

[@Maximilien1794]

@@kingofcards9 Or someone who wants to avoid giving power to the Germans.

[@potatosalad9085]

@@Maximilien1794 I think the purge actually put them closer to gaining power than anything

[@Jasper118]

The fact that we have to plug a censorship free alternative to KZbin on a video about Stalin would be comically ironic if it wasn’t so depressing. The censoring of history is just criminal. Keep up the excellent work!

[@Mark-gg6iy]

You conflate the use of some language with ideas.

[@Jasper118]

@@Mark-gg6iy what are you talking about?

[@mrs.shootingstar-garcia4799]

​@@Jasper118 He says that you're trying to be sound intellectual when you're yapping... That's the blud thought

[@Jasper118]

@@mrs.shootingstar-garcia4799 well did I say something incorrect? And what did I say that was trying to sound “intellectual” haha?

[@falconmclenny7284]

​@@Mark-gg6iyno, he didnt. Marxists really out here trying to tell you not to believe your lying ears.

[@micahistory]

Last time I was this early, Stalin was alive!

[@MHGA235]

Yes I'm alive.

[@YourLocalPlushAddict]

Bro is winston Churchill

[@keirpatrick3045]

bro finally a really unique video here

[@micahistory]

@@keirpatrick3045 yes

[@Astro_bot-m3y]

​@@MHGA235 Stalin i hate you because you attacked Finland

[@tjal8709]

I just got to 9:40 on the video. In that fragment you state that there were 669.000 arrests, and whilst the screen shows the number 376.000 w/ regards to the executions, you state that there were 776.000. Tiny error there, but that is all really. Great video, outstanding quality :)

[@RainbowIsAPromise]

Reminiscent of when they got NATO wrong. Simple things like this is unacceptable especially when all that's on the screen is a GIANT 376,000.

[@ggbb5621]

As a post Soviet country, 50 percent of what we learn in our schools about 20th century in our history is cruelty of Soviet politics. We suffered two periods of hunger which resulted in a loss of half of native population because local authoritarian decided to confiscate 90 percent of our cattle (and our diet is heavily based on meat) during collectivization. Our best minds (writers, poets) executed (almost entirely). We had system of labor camps, the most famous one of which is ALZHIR - Akmola (city name) camp for wives of nation's "traitors", where completely innocent wives of purge's victims had too suffer for years.

[@akend4426]

You might want to prepare for all the edgy, moronic tankies who will undoubtedly screech about how everything you just said is “western imperialist propaganda” or other such nonsense because they can’t stand their deluded pipe dreams about the Soviet Union being hit with reality.

[@melhiorlector2680]

очередная жертва голодомора?)

[@ggbb5621]

@@melhiorlector2680 а что ты хочешь сказать что его не было?

[@melhiorlector2680]

@@ggbb5621 конечно не было, был голод. И пострадали не только вы бедные и несчастные казахи с украинцами, пострадала большая часть РСФСР. Но орёте громче всех почему то, только вы. Ну и самыми древними величаете себя тоже вы) одни Москву спасли от гитлера и её же основали, Наполеона до самого Парижа гнали, а другие чёрное море ложками выкопали и вообще Иисус был украинцем)

[@ggbb5621]

@@melhiorlector2680 может потому что погибло около 2 млн человек при населении 4 миллиона? Ну да это же всего лишь половина че париться то

[@oliversherman2414]

It's nice of you to upload one of your Armchair TV videos here to give people a taste of the great content you post there

[@5-but-3-idiots67]

Code "Nocensorship" is BASED

[@artos9406]

sub russian opinion rejected

[@5-but-3-idiots67]

@@artos9406 unfortunate, but once under the light the truth shall be revealed

[@b1battledroid287]

Quite interesting that they never went over this in history class, a unit on how stalins cruelty was inspired by hitler, and how that played out and made his people suffer, would be fun to learn about.

[@ExtantPerson]

In AP World History, this is gone over in pretty strong detail, along with Mussolini’s crimes and sometimes Francisco Franco’s depending on the teacher.

[@Valpo2004]

In my experience history classes are very generalized because they want to cover a lot. Of course I think this only serves to hurt people's interest in the subject because a lot of the most interesting things in history are the details.

[@tjanderson5892]

Hitlers Night of the Long Knives didn’t inspire Stalin. He had started purging his officers in the early 1930s before Hitler became Chancellor and had the chance to enact his purge of the SA in 1934. Stalin just later said he respected Hitler for taking the steps needed to solidify his power as a leader. But he had already been a murderous lunatic. That was all actually learned in HS WW2 history. Not as common anymore I guess

[@Anglomachian]

Every history class on this period I took mentioned the purges, if only in passing. Some went into detail.

[@Gameprojordan]

​@@Anglomachian yeah a quick sentence about how Stalin purged some officers in the military, never went fully into detail about all the civilians murdered

[@ianblake815]

Stalin always checked his list twice

[@avraamanysiadis8121]

May i add, that among the people purged by the Soviets were also Greeks. Those who found shelter from Ottoman and latter Turkish oppression in today Ukraine and Russia were purged again only a few years later as enemy's of the state simply for being Greeks (and Greece fought against communist in Ukraine in 1919) they were deported almost all of them to Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan with thousands perishing on the way there. Only after the collapse of USSR were allowed to return with most of them preferring to come to Greece. Those people were mainly if not all of them from Pontos (north eastern part of Turkey). Thank you for well documented historical videos.

[@Comrade_Blanc]

My great grandfather was executed for unknown reasons. He was German but lived in a german village in Russia

[@Smudgeroon74]

@Comrade_Blanc what was his name?

[@Bowtiethesilly2023]

His name????

[@popeo1973]

@@Bowtiethesilly2023 bro he just lair for likes

[@Bowtiethesilly2023]

@@popeo1973 what

[@Bowtiethesilly2023]

@@popeo1973 tf you talking about

[@theworldwidechannel]

The Armchair Historian is probably some of the best historical content you can find on KZbin

[@AOT_HxH95]

One of the most tragic group of victims were the Russians from Harbin, Manchuria. Those that left after the Japanese takeover were targeted in the purge. Those that stayed in Harbin would eventually become victims of Unit 731. So these people had it bad either way.

[@AmFuture]

The fact that so many youths today actually view Stalin and communism with great pride and support is absolutely disgusting

[@tapultanul97]

The ones supporting such things are brainwashed and easy to twist and manipulate

[@Deplorable-Dingo]

And they will always refute criticism with "that's not real communism"

[@kenoby2330]

@@Deplorable-Dingo because communism never existed, it was socialism I dont expect you to understand that because you are clearly too ignorant to

[@taylorlibby7642]

@@Deplorable-Dingo "It's never really been tried."

[@rwdyeriii]

That's because communists control the education systems in the Western World.

[@ryanMaistry-vu2yd]

Last time i was this early. Trosky didnt have an axe in his head

[@Maximilien1794]

It was a pike axe.

[@Commissar_4735]

4:03 Semyon Budyonny (second guy on the left) was not purged , he was one of the best general both in the civil war and ww2

[@Maximilien1794]

Let us sing the march of Budyonny.

[@Keilee-kk9py]

Later, as the Great Purge continued, the NKVD came to interrogate and arrest Budyonny; Budyonny's response was to arm himself with his service Nagant M1895 revolver and call Stalin to demand he have the agents removed.Stalin complied and the event was not discussed again.

[@MominEnjoyer]

If I was this early in any other aspect of my life, my room would be tidy and my body in shape!

[@jakederik]

One of my relatives on my grandmother's side was a prison warden for Nizhny Novgorod, and was apart of the purges. It's always interesting to look upon history especially knowing family history and seeing multiple sides of a story.

[@collin1401]

It’s interesting that Lenin didn’t want Stalin to lead Russia.

[@HerrKurt]

So true

[@merafirewing6591]

Lenin was pragmatic to begin with.

[@Anonymous-ht5dg]

He felt that stalin would become a problem if he had that much power.

[@taylorlibby7642]

@@collin1401 Lenin was just as bad and conducted his own purges.

[@Maximilien1794]

Lenin did appoint Stalin.

[@TheNewOrder-DaysOfConflict]

Trotsky and Stalin: fighting Bukharin: you guys forgot me or what ?

[@Bowtiethesilly2023]

Bukharin my beloved Bukharin died 😭💔

[@waltergameing4208]

of course its from a tno pfp 💀

[@OrbitalKineticbombardemnt]

Got an ad for Adventure communist, the irony couldn’t be better

[@caffeinatedgamer.4576]

That thumbnail goes so hard.

[@Viper_Vic]

I'd never heard of the Asharshylyk before. Everyone focuses on the Holodomor. The communists sure did love their manmade famines.

[@sunsolar2138]

they were dying just to kill everyone. The climate has been negotiated to create a drought.

[@justalonesoul5825]

So despite this whole video, you still havent understood that it was absolutely not about communism, but about the paranoia and megalomania of a single man? With the mass executions of everyone who basically had a spine and could make things work, succesful farmers included, everything turned to crap. It's not communism in or out of itself that made that happen. Totalitarianism is quite the opposite of communism. Stalin kept the name but emptied the concept.

[@Viper_Vic]

@@justalonesoul5825 That's like saying "the Holocaust had nothing to do with national socialism. Hitler was just a bad guy who did bad things." Evil ideologies attract evil people. You're fooling yourself if you think Stalin was the exception and not the rule.

[@leonsclsm]

@@Viper_Vic You again dont get the argument. Marx, Engels, later Lenin, Luxembourg, Bukharin and many other communists wrote their opinions on the world. Never was there stated that you have to kill every political opponent, nor do you have to force collectivize everyrhing to a point, where people would starve. Some people even became reformists, improving the lifes of millions of workers across europe. Hitlers National Socialism on the other side, did exactly what you discribed. He dreamed of an evil ideology, of forcing every other ethnicity to become subject to the german race and give up their territory for lebensraum, and at the end force everything through a great war, cleansing everything in site. In short words: National Socialism is inherently wrong, racist and genocidel, while the insanely big range of socialst/communist ideoligies did also do disgraceful things to human society, while NOT being inherently wrong. Or do you hate democracy because of the atrocities of the US? I dont think so , since it would make sense at all :)

[@ronjones-6977]

@@justalonesoul5825I sent your name to The Fat Electrician. He's putting you at the top of HIS list.

[@digameme4316]

You got a new AH Tv subscriber, its channels like this that need to be rid of censorship so people can gather such important knowledge

[@chancegalster3509]

Babe wake up. Armchair historian dropped a vid on Stalins purge

[@CARL_093]

the backfire on this when operation barbarosa started they had luck of experienced commanders in the battle filed all generals mostly ended in the purge

[@Robot_GEANT]

Have fun watching everyone !

[@anthonyvita886]

I was actually debating subscribing to AHTV. Thank you for convincing me to get it!

[@RandomGuy-xq5ku]

7:50 I'm sorry but Yagoda was NOT Japanese

[@nigelbagguley7606]

Never has the fact that the purpose of torture being to elicit false confessions rather than actual truth been more clearly delineated than Stalin's show trials.

[@lolafk1738]

Lenin think Stalin is too soft and got too many hesitation when he deal with rivals, he would make compromises till the politcal situation cannot be solve by any means but a huge purge which is why in public eyeLenin has more soft impression than Stalin but in truth Lenin is way more decisive when it comes to political rivalry, Lenin would end any opposition in a really early stage

[@Hyde_Hill]

Clockwork orange and 1984 reference all in 2 frames? Nicely done.

[@johnrose3799]

Here is your daily reminder that if trotsky won the power stugle, it would have been just as bad.

[@sharky7002]

If I know correctly that man wanted to bring the revolution to the entire planet he would have single handily united the world against him

[@endrankluvsda4loko172]

Yeah, back when I was young and dumb (or rather dumber), I used to admire communism and Trotsky. Then when I hit my 20's and the thinky thinky parts of my brain started to work, I was like oh wait, those are all bad ideas and Trotsky was just as bad as the rest of them.

[@johnrose3799]

@endrankluvsda4loko172 If you ever read what trotsky said about stain while in Mexico, he basically says that he would have just done it better or a slightly different way

[@capncake8837]

Cool to see Armchair Historian make a video about this topic.

[@didierdenice7456]

the Soviets beat Nazi Germany NOT thanks to Stalin... but DESPITE of Stalin ! 🤔

[@TheBasedAustrianPainter]

Who's staline? Do you mean Stalin?

[@tbnrwolff3354]

World War II started because both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union people tend to forget that both of them invaded Poland

[@lohtupottu]

@@TheBasedAustrianPainter That's the French way of spelling his name. It's just has to do with the orthography; Stalin would be pronounced quite differently. To provide another example, Putin's surname is written Poutine just so the pronounciation matches.

[@TheBasedAustrianPainter]

@@lohtupottu thanks for clearing that up, I'm bit of a grammar nazi

[@taylorlibby7642]

​@@lohtupottuSomehow I kinda prefer thinking of him as cheese curds and gravy over fried potatoes.😂🤣

[@2packrm781]

Thank you Chris Griffin for doing small upload & covering this topic that I haf mo idea what else was going. Plus, there's still more to Stalin's purification man-hunt of potential threats to his rule. Also, keep up the good work too🙂

[@treykeith652]

This Is Why I Love Democracy..

[@ТигрТигр-я2я]

It's far from perfect, yet, at the very least, the Democratic states don't erect walls preventing folks from escaping, as one person once said. What's more, some said states are compelled to build up walls so that some interesting people couldn't infiltrate, heh))

[@sword_of_sanghelios]

@@ТигрТигр-я2я europe should Monarchy excluding Russia becouse socalism worked better for them

[@Game_Hero]

To future contrairians hiding in the replies of this comment : Do you consider yourself in a minority opinion opposed to the status quo where you live? Have you ever been put in prison if it involved criticizing those in power? Were you ever T word into giving false confessions to crimes you didn't commit because you expressed your minority opinion? Can you put videos on KZbin showing these views without consequences? That's great, the equivalent of your minority opinion in the places you worship doesn't and isn't allowed to exist without these consequences, you're literally enjoying privileges and double-standards your equivalents against the status quo in those places don't have.

[@sword_of_sanghelios]

@@Game_Hero heathen i only worship god all mighty and your demoracy wants destroy christianity and i respect people like costantine the great , justnian and joan of arc queen isebella of spain charles martel and so on

[@sword_of_sanghelios]

@@Game_Hero bot

[@mx_untitled2376]

3:08 Source of that quote?

[@mathijsgames992]

Can you upload your old yt video's on your website

[@markgarrett3647]

And during the public viewing of Lenin's corpse a certain Nguyen Ai Quoc was so grief-stricken that he queued up so long out in the harsh icy environs of Moscow that he was nearly frostbitten and at risk of catching pneumonia. He would also later order the ruthless liquidation of the Trotskyists in his country.

[@falconmclenny7284]

He was a quoc that bloke.

[@markgarrett3647]

@@falconmclenny7284 That quoc was a celibate too.

[@rickwong9049]

Beria: "Anyway im gonna spike his drink soon."

[@Partizag]

Проблема всей это чистки была не в том, что это само по себе плохо, для молодого и только только сформировавшегося режима, кардинально нового, на самом деле это была вынужденная мера, как с демократией, на её ранних этапах формирования. А скорее проблема в том, что некоторые люди перебарщивали с этой самой чисткой, вспомнить тот факт, что на счету и следующего лидера СССР, Л. Хрющёва, было самое наибольшее количество репрессированных людей. В то время он был ещё одним заурядным чиновником, который просто хотел сделать свою работу лучше всех, и не важно какими методами. Да, и в то время мало что поменялось со времён гражданской войны, государство только только начало формировать какую-то внятную форму правления, также было в 90-ых, мы только только что-то пытались формировать, только в 90-ых была конкретная война, а при Сталине этого не произошло, всех просто заранее тихо убрали.

[@Alex-bs1iu]

Stalin was a great man and a great leader, most of his actions as leader of the Soviet Union were beneficial for the Soviet state and even justified when you look at the events that unfolded around the world outside of the Soviet Union. With a world that is very hostile to your country and seeks to undermine and destroy it, then it takes a strongman to have a hardline attitude and policy in shaping his country to be as strong and mighty as possible.

[@sirvonhugendong]

Found another commie simp

[@Maks_Oniszk]

Stalin was literally a terrorist and that not even counting what he did as a leader

[@johndurham6172]

Stalin watching people through the window 🪟 😅.

[@johncrocker4209]

Glad to see you do a piece on this. It should be brought up as often as the holocaust.

[@The-Aviating-Gamer]

And thus. The dictators wrath

[@reverendnon5959]

Навыдуманные истории о которых невозможно молчать

[@ЖареныйКацап]

Ви все врети небило ваини била спецабсирация никакого нападения на Украине не планируется это фейк

[@danielwho6264]

О ниии, хароший сралин всьо делал для лудей, забирал у них всьо, но они не умирали, ведь перепис 1936 это ФИИИИИИЙК Никакова тэрора нибыла, ни писал сралин на бумагах "Увеличить расстрельные списки" и ни падписывать он их, не читая Вы чььто, пакта молатава-рибентропа нибыла, совмиснага парада в Бресте нибыла, лисивковщины(самая гениальная кампания в истории) нибыла, сралин ни знал о злой Ижов, каторый каждую неделю иму рапарт о тэрорэ писать Ничиво нибыла, я вирю, что камэнэв, зиновив и рыкаф диствитильно хотили убить сралина И галасавие 1934 в вкп тожи ФИИИИЙК(18 из 70 пережили 1937-38, но мы та знаэм, что тэрорэ нибыла)

[@J_Seneca]

Amazing production value, it’s crazy how much you’ve improved when compared to your older videos

[@DylanGevers]

Without a sponsor? Omg thank You (sarcasm)

[@dudrushpowerforce]

Bro made a portrait of ishowspeed and thought we wouldn't notice

[@michaellynes3540]

Skip to 2:23

[@meditation553]

🤩 You saved me!

[@shamsuaddinrachedi792]

the soviets traded a few decades of prosperity, for an (seemingly) eternity of decline "woe unto those who trade a short period of perfection for an extremely long period of mediocrisy" someone, probably (i made it up add it to the "unknown" part of quotes)

[@tigertankerer]

It is sad that today many people still see Stalin as great leader, especially in Russia.

[@TheTrueCaesar]

Bro This man Has a Cold Face When Describing The Full Horrors Of War

[@deepyamanchakraborty6400]

The real '1984' like society

[@avg6236]

I mean to be fair 1984 takes place in a communist country so yeah it makes sense where the similarities come from.

[@Demos_Jeff]

@@avg6236I don’t think IGNSOC is communist. They kind of mix a lot of ideologies to maximize power over the people.

[@KingAlbinauric]

@avg6236it doesn’t lol. the entire globe functions under (extremely similar) authoritarian regimes, all employing similar methods of suppression of their own people. Orwell viewed this reality as the natural progression of a lasting Cold War between the capitalist and communist blocs

[@somtochukwuobidegwu5426]

this is one of your best videos and is very rare to hear about Stalin and the ussr crimes and can you do a video about the Nigerian civil war and I hope KZbin doesn’t take down this video and Sorry my comment was deleted.

[@Crowson-Gaming]

Video actually starts at 2:33

[@ghost7344]

Video actually starts at 0:00

[@Crowson-Gaming]

@@ghost7344 if ya say so lady

[@kmarks97236]

You didn’t mention the doctors purge?

[@owlyon]

Stalin's great purge is something you hear referenced a lot but rarely discussed in detail. Overall it may have saved the soviet union from internal conflict...but at what cost???

[@Maximilien1794]

If it did save the Soviet Union, it also saved the world from nazism.

[@ajaysidhu471]

Read a book about it then. And not pro or anti Stalin rubbish. Actual Historian's work's.

[@natekaufman1982]

@@ajaysidhu471 the truth has an anti-Stalinist bias.

[@ajaysidhu471]

@@natekaufman1982 you think Getty has a bias? Well I guess he does but it's not exactly unfounded

[@TomsOnUK]

Really interesting video and is helping me with my A Level History

[@aliakber775]

6:15 is that a 1984 reference

[@u2boii878]

I was about to say that lol

[@aliakber775]

@@u2boii878 too bad hehehe :p

[@Michael-fi3uu]

I was looking for someone to say that.

[@roberta.ferrisesq.8938]

Glad you’re doing a documentary I’ll watch! Also I think a lot of people would subscribe to your pay page but man times are tough out there financially. Nobody can afford fun.

[@desertstorm272]

How could the Red Army, weakened by Stalin's Purge resist such a force? Nice. You should cover the battle of Kursk from a soldier's POV soon.

[@Maximilien1794]

Maybe because the purges actually strenghtened the Red Army. It's nonsensical to assume that the purges weakened the Red Army.

[@richmondlandersenfells2238]

I think I should mention that former General Nikolai Pepeliayev of the white army was also a victim of these trials. He was the last white resistance in siberia 1923 in the arban river. Pledged his allegiance to the Union and retired from political life as a common citizen. Unfortunately that didn't saved him from suspicion and being tried either.

[@jordanabraham1066]

9:46 776000 not 376000

[@baronghede2365]

Merry Christmas and i appreciate the knowledge.

[@eljefemaximo5420]

All of my comments are deleted

[@lemons_of_engineering]

i adore the creativity in this,recently your videos have had a lot of random stuff thrown in for visuals rather than anything original or relevant

[@adelkheir]

@10:20 Nice Khorne reference

[@jaredchacon2645]

Love your vids man

[@LiamSmall-ot4vz]

keep up the great work

[@ivannazarov7242]

Interestingly, there wasn't collectivization in poland but famine was at the same time as in ussr

[@falconmclenny7284]

Interesting to people finding any reason to try and lesson stalins evil i guess.

[@ivannazarov7242]

@@falconmclenny7284 Or just not all stailins evils are stalins evils, only a Sith deals in absolutes

[@falconmclenny7284]

@@ivannazarov7242 that quote makes less sense here than it did in star wars mate.

[@АлександрЛюбавин-э9ъ]

Famine was not only in the SU and Poland at that time, but in Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Germany, the US.

[@ДаниилКришнев-к5ь]

Khrushchev's de-Stalinization was the decisive moment of the USSR's loss in the Cold War in the long term, as it divided the unified communist union, losing China as an ally. He just wanted to get political points by pushing all the sins of repression on Stalin, although he himself was covered in blood because he was the head of Ukraine during the purge of 1937. Also, such a concept as the Holodomor is not only unreasonable, but also stupid. Many people in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Caucasus suffered from the famine of 32-33, due to drought, leadership mistakes and the activities of traitors. In addition, famine in those days was a normal phenomenon not only for Russia but also for other countries. Why don't you talk about the regular famine in the colonies of France and England in those years, but only about the famine in the USSR? is it really again "you don't understand this other thing?". Your hypocrisy is just sickening, so you talk about repression in the USSR, but why don't you say that repression against communists, their supporters and trade unions in America and Europe, that the actions of Poles against the Belarusian and Ukrainian population are not much different from the actions of the Nazis? in Russia and other post-Soviet countries, Stalin is respected, despite all that he did for the country, namely: from a backward agrarian power, he built a powerful industrial power with a strong army, an educated population, an economy capable of providing almost everything necessary for the life of its inhabitants. According to official data announced by Khrushchev, about 3777680 people were affected by the repressions in 1921-1954, of which 642980 were involved in capital punishment for 33 years!!! And in 1937-38, 1340000 were repressed, and it should be borne in mind that this list also includes real criminals: terrorists, murderers, saboteurs, traitors and their accomplices. And even if we take into account that every second person is innocent, it still amounted to about 1,888,000 people for all 33 years, and for 37-38,600,000 plus or minus.

[@Maks_Oniszk]

Lmao get owned im not reading your text wall

[@lance2465]

I go from great content creator to great content creator today. This is a great day for me.

[@RybunZee]

Не понравилось. Всё те же шаблоны, те же надуманные цифры.

[@theBOGDANBOBROVICH]

can you place amke a video about operation west inthe ussr

[@idkandidcandwhyareyouhere]

Its so sad how youtube's unnecessary censorship can damage a channel, keep up the good work man and ..... Glory to the Soviet Union!

[@PCLprecutlion]

*Soviet Anthem Intensifies*

[@tapultanul97]

Internationale RUNNING

[@Mark-gg6iy]

It's so sad that so many people intend and attempt to spread disinformation and lies under the guise of history (see Donald Trump & the USSR).

[@jaxon1913.]

I hope the last bit is satire

[@idkandidcandwhyareyouhere]

@@jaxon1913. bro

[@sontarian1634]

im so sorry mr armchair, i really do wish to use your website and im sure you are desperately trying to get us on their but i jus cant m'lord, i jus cant, i aint got the funds bossman, i cant keep going john ill hold em of from here, tough times gman. i jus cant. i hope you come back more fully to youtube but i do understand why you cannot. all love here.

[@sama1220]

It’s crazy that a good honest guy making incredibly detailed animated documentaries that make learning history fun and engaging has to worry about censorship. Keep up the good work love your docs

[@johnbrown8570]

He doesn’t have to worry about censorship. KZbin isn’t censoring any of his stuff. The algorithm just doesn’t catch this sort of amateur history stuff so it’s hard to beat other more popular types of videos. But KZbin isn’t trying to hide his stuff or make it hard for him to post such things. That’s all BS he says to get you to give him money directly on his website. It’s just not worth it because he makes so many mistakes and is basically telling you what DIDN’T happen lol. Emphasis on armchair.

[@vincentgiasullo]

@@johnbrown8570they’ve literally demonetized some of his videos

[@hoottasshell]

I'm already loving this new style of animation

[@itamiyouji4057]

I find it interesting that after the war ended in Europe, Gen. Patton went on record saying something to the effect of, "in this war, we fought the wrong enemy."