Stalin's radio broadcast to the Soviet people (3 July 1941) [Subtitled]

In the pre-dawn hours of 22 June 1941, German army and aviation detachments numbering more than 3.8 million men-in-arms crossed the frontier of occupied Poland to initiate “Operation Barbarossa,” Adolf Hitler’s master plan to vanquish the USSR and secure total mastery over the European continent.
The invasion could not have come at a worse time for Stalin’s Russia. Caught in a period of institutional transition and still reeling from the bloodletting unleashed by the 1937-38 purge of the officer corps, the Soviet military was disastrously unprepared for war. The attack caught the country’s military commanders, citizens, and political leaders by complete surprise.
In the days and weeks that followed the launch of the invasion, Red Army and Red Air Force units melted away. Chaos reigned along a front stretching for more than 1,000 miles between the Baltic States and the shores of the Black Sea. Within less than two weeks, advance units of the German Wehrmacht had occupied the territories of Lithuania and Latvia, captured the city of Minsk, moved into central Russia, and made rapid progress toward the key agricultural and industrial centers of Ukraine. In the process, they killed or captured hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers.
Worse yet, the USSR’s military collapse was accompanied by political paralysis. The country’s “Great Leader,” Josef Stalin, had disappeared…
Historical accounts of Stalin’s activities from 22 June until the first days of July differ. Some have claimed the Soviet dictator was seized by panic and fled to his suburban summer home (dacha / дача) where he took comfort in a drunken binge - while awaiting arrest and summary execution at the hands of his underlings. Others have argued that the “Boss” (vozhd’ / вождь), though shocked by events, continued working diligently in an effort to undo unfolding disaster. The truth probably lies somewhere in between.
One thing is certain. Soviet citizens would not hear from the “Father of Peoples” until the USSR’s war with Hitler’s Germany was eleven days old.
On 3 July 1941, Josef Stalin re-emerged to deliver a radio address that was broadcast to the entire nation.
This is what Soviet citizens heard that day…
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[@christone1989]

"History shows that there are no invincible armies nor have there ever been"- Iosif Stalin

[@silvesby]

christone1989 and he was absolutely correct.

[@Didier-Drogba1337]

@@Timmy-ug3sc LOOOOL communist dogs xD you communist dogs need to get a grip

[@donatas3563]

@@Didier-Drogba1337 is a capitalist pig.

[@björntyp]

@@Didier-Drogba1337 fuck u i will get you

[@Justme-fz1ng]

@@Didier-Drogba1337 drogba is a grt player.U however have just said pure nonsense.

[@zglg123]

I'm always fascinated by just how thick Stalin's Georgian accent was.

[@arktzen]

was it? i don't understand russian or georgian

[@frankmark787]

It’s very much known that he has a significant Georgian accent. Every documentary of WWII brings it out when the part of speeches comes.

[@kiba3x]

No accent. The enemy is just implying he is Georgian, not Russian which shows they don't have basic knowledge about different nations in Russian Empire/USSR.

[@arktzen]

@@kiba3x well, he was georgian and not russian.

[@drpoundsign]

Yeah...he sounds like a peanut farmer.

[@ijsmikasa703]

"History show that there are no invicible army" Joseph Stalin 1941

[@m0zA2T]

@namn200 BADUM TSSS

[@hochspannunglebensgefahr5339]

IJS Mikasa I can fucking hear it the video you don’t need to comment. There are subtitles too, dumbass

[@jonangorman6341]

@@hochspannunglebensgefahr5339 who need to die if you still dont understand what this comment is about.

[@hochspannunglebensgefahr5339]

Jonan Gorman you seriously have no subscribers? Fuck off, weaboo trash.

[@michinomiyahirohito2746]

@@hochspannunglebensgefahr5339 Their subscriber count is completely irrelevant to this and mentioning it doesn't make anything you say any more valid. Using it to try and discredit their argument is also just sad and makes you look very petty.

[@K.I.A22]

Stalin was surprisingly humble about past conflicts. He did not brag about Russia's victory over napoleon, or grumble about Russian performance in ww1. He even included the French, English, and even Germans when he spoke about napoleons invincible army.

[@Mfields4517]

He didn’t brag about it because he spent decades tearing down the achievements of the former Czars. It would be as if Putin invaded modern day USA and Biden would make a speech to his LGBT armies about the achievements of the founding fathers that were straight white males. It would undermine the party platform

[@petrholpuch7545]

Today, he would be jailed for discreditation of Russian army after such speech. In accord with Putin indoctrination, Napoleon was beaten only by Russian army (as well as all the other russian enemies). Not mentioning his ruthless audacity to speak about the ribbentrof-molotov pact. The fact, that USSR started WWII in 1939 as Hitler´s greatest ally by attacking Poland, is in Russia systematicly denied/hidden in these days. Russian kids are just taught, that WWII started in 1941, when Germany attacked USSR.

[@Mentol_]

​@@petrholpuch7545world war is conflict of coalitions. Ussr didnt join to axis coalition in 1939. Instead during polish campaign soviet government declared its neutrality (in ww2). Ussr made attempt to join to german coalition in november 1940, but without any result.

[@hatrick3117]

He was not bragging because those are the victories of the Tsarist regime that was (as revolutionaries claimed) oppressive af...

[@MeinungMann]

@@hatrick3117 true. At least the part that he didn't find it possible to metion pre-revolution Russian victories. You want to know why? Becase those were the victories of Russian nation. And bolsheviks didn't like to show Russian that there are special. Google Korenizatsiia. Bolsheviks did their best to divide Russians into different ethnicities. But it wasn't possible to keep going with this Russophobic rethoric forever. When shit hit the fan and Stalin and other commies realised that people weren't willing to die for their international-bullshit ideology, they prompty uplifted ban on Orthodox church, returned trarist shoulder straps, started to mention victories of Russian nation. Compare this speech with speech from the end of the war when he drank for the well-being of Russian people

[@hamzak2181]

Imagine hearing this as a civilian or a young man of fighting age? Scary....

[@drpoundsign]

If you were a young Soviet Grunt in 1941-chances were you wouldn't survive the War.

[@torpedocat91]

@@drpoundsign well, considering the outcome of the war, I would have shit my pants if I was a Nazi invader

[@comissar8953]

@Craig Jones *Soviet

[@Anonymous-nj6of]

@@drpoundsign see

[@crcanassr]

In the West, specially the EEUU, people think that it was the western allies the ones that defeated Germany. They forget about Operation Bagration, the Soviet June 1944 offensive, that broke the back of Nazi Germany and its allies, and that led to its defeat in 1945. D day, and the battle of the Bulge, were just side shows if compared with the massive Soviet offensive.

[@SysKeyJS]

Stalin tells it to them like it is. "We are loosing horribly, and our Army is suffering tremendously. but there is still hope and resistance if you rise up and defend the homeland" Could put it briefly

[@YorkerEli]

Did he actually say that?

[@Vahe345]

It's amazing how frank he is talking to his people. It's hard to imagine another leader being so straightforward with the facts during a war they are losing. And still it is a very inspiring speech.

[@ChristopherMarshburn]

He was very frank to the 20 million killed as the result of his repression.

[@Vahe345]

@@ChristopherMarshburn what does that even mean other then your vague hate for Stalin. I just stated a fact that he was speaking very frank in the speech. The deaths during his time, if they were his responsibility and 20 million as you say have nothing to do with being frank, it was collectivization and a class war with the kulaks. They didnt expect the Kulaks to burn the grain they wanted to use limited machinary for big state run farms and achieve the same gains they got industrially with agriculture but failed. They didnt frankly say we are coming to kill 20 million people. What are you British?

[@ChristopherMarshburn]

@@Vahe345 no my disgust for Stalin and all he stood for is actually quite specific and based on the historical record.

[@Vahe345]

@@ChristopherMarshburn we are listening to historical fact in this video. Everything else requires serious objective analysis. You have to ask yourself why Stalin has had good and bad images in the world and the west at different points for political reasons and the "facts" are not always presented to you in a clear way. Speak to people who lived under Stalin yourself and you will be surprised how high his approval rating was. Ask the same question of British subjects around the world like in India, Africa, Canada, islands all over. Indigenous populations have been deliberately and systematically culturally and in human terms exterminated or nearly exterminated. The British need to judge themselves more and maybe take down their own Queen Victoria statues before the British make their own judgements about the lands they failed to conquer and control.

[@matthewepshtein9026]

@@Vahe345 whatsboutism drinking game

[@dnickaroo3574]

Anna Louise Strong, an American journalist who lived in the USSR from 1927, described this speech: The words with which he began were very significant. “Comrades! Citizens!” he said, as he has said often. Then he added, “Brothers and Sisters!” It was the first time Stalin ever used in public those close family words. To everyone who heard them, those words meant that the situation was very serious, that they must now face the ultimate test together and that they must all be closer and dearer to each other than they had ever been before. It meant that Stalin wanted to put a supporting arm across their shoulders, giving them strength for the task they had to do. This task was nothing less than to accept in their own bodies the shock of the most hellish assault of history, to withstand it, to break it, and by breaking it save the world. They knew they had to do it, and Stalin knew they would. For several minutes after Stalin had finished the silence continued. Then a motherly-looking woman said, “He works so hard, I wonder when he finds time to sleep. I am worried about his health.” That was the way that Stalin took the Soviet people into the test of war.

[@mateuszmazurek7991]

he was fortunate that war make his atrocieties pale in comparison

[@tima3542]

@@mateuszmazurek7991 His "atrocities" were fabricated to smear the name of a great leader. As Marshal Zhukov wisely said, "We liberated Europe from fascism and they will never forgive us for it."

[@briandelaney9710]

He knew if they didn’t fight for him , Stalinism was over. It wasn’t out of love but self preservation. Many Ukrainians welcomed the Germans at first because they suffered under Stalin’s regime

[@adonis7626]

@@briandelaney9710 This is fascinating to see Fascist propaganda being spread on KZbin.

[@StripesHistoryHub]

​@@briandelaney9710many more Ukrainians resisted the German invaders anyway they could.

[@ethanbarnett8563]

To give such optimism, reason and motivation in the face of extreme adversity is not only historic but timeless. Ordinary people doing extraordinary things. How we need that in this day and age.

[@JCinerea]

They didn't exactly have a choice. Had the Nazis won, they would have enslaved every Russian that they could. And if Russians refused to fight, their own government would enslave them in a gulag.

[@jimdake6632]

How incredibly ironic that we are indeed seeing such things again - in Kiev and throughout resisting Ukraine - and because of a vicious invasion from Moscow no less. The incredibly heroic legacy of the Great Patriotic War has been so brutally tarnished… Except in thrice-brutalized Ukraine.

[@Diwana71]

Yes we are witnessing the west / NATO just like Hitler with his Nazis invading and taking over Russian lands /Ukraine and Russia rising again to liberate these lands from Ukro Nazis and NATO . Victory will be Russia 's again.

[@aggebojkalos6518]

@@jimdake6632You disgust me. The Ukrainian people were some of the bravest defenders of the USSR. What fascistic states are in the place of once truly democratic regimes now represent nothing the Soviet people fought for.

[@socire72]

@@jimdake6632Don’t compare this to the Great Patriotic War. There is no comparison. We see two capitalist regimes fighting, and for what? More dead regular young men.

[@ComradeBenjamin]

I didn’t expect his voice to sound like that. He was direct, clear, and straightforward and in doing so he was able to led his people to victory against fascist imperialism. Gives me a lot to think about.

[@luispereira5177]

To expand his own imperialism.

[@materialmanners]

@@luispereira5177ah yes, a socialist state that practiced marxism-leninism, an anti-imperialist ideology, spreads imperialism. What a dumb take.

[@luispereira5177]

@@materialmanners that's because you read about it somewhere and now like to speak about "imperialism" on internet with an Android or iPhone from the "imperialism".

[@materialmanners]

@@luispereira5177 so when a feudal lord rebels against the king asking for something like the Magna Carta, all the king has to say to the feudal lord is that he shouldn't be talking because the land they own is given to them from the King's conquests, got it. Never question and want to improve society!

[@luispereira5177]

@@materialmanners well in feudalism at least you could be a land owner. Good example you gave.With Stalin you couldn't ask shit.

[@ZOGGYDOGGY]

I like the way he identifies the enemy as the fascists, not the Germans in general. The USSR needed to buy an extra year and half, that;s why it signed the Non-Aggression Treaty. It had signed one with fascist Italy earlier in the 30s. It would sign a neutrality pact with Japan which allowed them to move troops to the front to blow the fascists away from the walls of Moscow at the close of '41.

[@josephstalin2647]

Finnaly someone know this fact

[@thomaspropst2705]

Not to mention the fact that the pact gave them a free hand to invade Poland (well, only half of Poland) and Finland (things didn't go so well there) and annex Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Besarabia, etc., all while supplying Hitler with food, oil and raw materials while he invaded Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium, (maybe Luxembourg, not sure) and France. Stalin sent the fascist leader a nice note of congratulations after he had done those wonderful things. Oh, and Stalin continued his good relations with the "Fascist" while they were waging the Battle of Britain, the Battle of the Atlantic, The North Africa campaign, and the Yugoslav and Greek Campaigns. Stalin was a fink.

[@bellorusso]

@@josephstalin2647 This has been known to any serious historian.

[@wxman2003]

if it wasn't for Hitler's stupidity in wanting to destroy Stalingrad, the German forces would have seized Moscow. Stalingrad was meaningless, and if he listened to his generals they would have both taken Moscow and Great Britain. Bombing London gave the British the chance to rebuild its air forces which save the island nation. 2 mistakes changed the outcome of the war.

[@bellorusso]

@@wxman2003 Ok, Nazi.

[@nikolapetrovic3502]

just look at the dictate. he is the leader. he forms questions, and then answering them, he creates a standing point of view for all individuals. he also justifies his tesses, including not only himself as a judge, but also as a matter of historical means and also as a logical proove. he first cracks on all possible arguments which could have overrun his theory, then explains why and tells the message. very much based. i strongly admire him

[@srdjanpapic3464]

When germans captured his son, they wanted to trade him for a general, and Stalin said that " cant trade officers for generals". Whatever you think about him and his policies, he really was a true communist, and true to his words.

[@socire72]

@@srdjanpapic3464Yes. Why should his son deserve better treatment than the millions of already dead sons? Great leader

[@rafaeldemaupas6055]

Actually it’s just some smart rhetoric astuces 😅 to contradict itself and the explain why the opponents argument is wrong

[@petergusev999]

@@rafaeldemaupas6055 Mhm, of course, Stalin must be a dunce and you must be a genius mastermind. Very 105 IQ behaviour.

[@kazohinia5751]

This is no typical inspirational speech, it's a call to action to people whose lives and livelihoods are about to be destroyed, for some in a matter of days and others in a matter of weeks, until the collapse of the central government; after all, in France it only took one month for the entire country to be subjugated by Germany. By the time of this speech, millions of Soviet citizens had already been absorbed by Nazi Germany's advance. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of planes had been lost by this point, and if the country failed to fully mobilize now, they wouldn't survive Blitzkrieg. The world's first workers' state would have been swiftly relegated to the dustbin of history and the bulwark against fascism in the world would disappear. The heroism and self-sacrifice of the Soviet people in response to this dire threat against themselves and the world is almost unparalleled in world history. There are few times in history that a whole nation so fully mobilized itself, reorienting all aspects of everyday life for defense against an invader. Their contributions to the defense of the progress of human history should be recognized and commended by everyone alive today.

[@flyingchimp12]

It’s a shame Moscow didn’t fall

[@rodrigoroa6753]

@@flyingchimp12 stay mad little bitch

[@Average_Slav]

​@@flyingchimp12 it's a shame you're able to read and write, we would be better off without people like you.

[@YorkerEli]

@@flyingchimp12 Found the Nazi.

[@samusaran13372]

@@flyingchimp12 Amen brother. Stalingrad too.

[@parsil8158]

Still sounds better than the kid in cs:go

[@corbinglenn2567]

Parsil lol

[@hemprope4326]

blyat

[@blauwbeer556]

both in audio quality and in the way of his words.

[@sooryan_1018]

Ofc, they are somewhat his "Inheritants" lmao

[@muksimulmaad7413]

russians have an automatic static to their voices in recordings everyone can fact check that

[@stalker4474]

so many people hate him or love him, but dont know how his voice was.

[@mateuszmazurek7991]

only imbecils love him

[@jack2nd305]

"This army, (Wehrmacht) has not yet encountered serious resistance on the continent of Europe". Totally true. No one but the red army could fight them till then. This and the analogy of Napoleon's army failure was like a premonition of what would happen to the germans.

[@Gkm-]

General winter and Hitler stupidity saved Russia

[@jack2nd305]

@@Gkm- russians saved themselves and of course the stupid cape hitler.

[@dnickaroo3574]

German Forces got to just 5 miles from Moscow. Reinforced by divisions from Siberia and the Far East, on 5th December the Soviets counter-attacked and drove the Nazi Army into the wastes of Winter. In June 1941, most believed that the fascist Army would succeed in its attack against the Soviet Union, considering how successful they had been before that time.

[@hl5584]

@@dnickaroo3574 "most believe" meaning the cowards in US and UK who funded and supplied Hitler right up until (and during) USSR

[@deason2365]

@@hl5584 what drugs are you on

[@faithfaithmashavira5387]

No matter what they want to say about Stalin,his Leadership prowess played a pivotal role in the Victory over Nazis.He was with the people when the Nazis were closing in,many leaders would have left.He refused to negotiate over his son Yakov whilst he was in Nazi captivity.That was exceptionally Patriot

[@phillipellis2119]

Thank you for this surprising (to me) and critical piece of history. Stalin roused the entire country, and he also was exactly right in his forecast of the defeat of the Nazi armies. If I were a citizen hearing this at the time, I believe I would have been roused into action

[@alexleibovici4834]

> Stalin ... was exactly right in his forecast of the defeat of the Nazi armies In the previous year he forecast the defeat of the Anglo-American imperialism by the then-friendly "great German Armies"...

[@henryseidel5469]

Stalin was a very complicated personality because on the one hand he was the leader of the communist world system. On the other hand he supported all anti-fascist systems - including the US.

[@Chainyanker007]

@@alexleibovici4834- Stalin had not yet been double-crossed by Hitler. Then Hitler attacked the Soviet Union despite their peace pact. Stalin had to do a 180.

[@alexleibovici4834]

@@Chainyanker007 I have to jump to Stalin's defense and say that he was not so naïve as to believe in a signature on a piece of paper.

[@The-Enemy-Medic]

​@@alexleibovici4834at the time of polish attack, it looked like Hitler was simply reclaiming europe with German majority. Danzig was German, sudethenland was German, austria was German. Seeing a pattern in his claims, Stalin could have thought Hitler to be just a nationalist trying to reclaim German borders. This idea was probably reinforced when in the ribbentropt pact, Hitler suggested to give slavic half of poland to USSR because of the Slavic majority in the Soviet union.

[@unicornpearlz]

Wow. Thank you for sharing. I think it's time for people to learn, to know, what has happened. To identify trends in human behavior.

[@User5759-h6m]

As russian I can confirm that there is a little bit terrible in Stalin's voice. And yes, it's terrible to hear this as I understand that we will pay 27 million lives for victory and peace. The war touched every Soviet family and my family. My grandma was in Leningrad at that time, she knows what hunger is. My grandpa fought in the Battle of Kursk. He didn't return. Rest in peace all people who died in this war.

[@norikofu509]

I'm so sorry for hearing that man

[@aby110]

❤

[@VinnyUnion]

Additionally he was really p√ssed at the negations and every leader was at their toes because everyone knew the USSR did the most and sacrificed the most too. In his own words "the USSR is in ruins" and he demanded harsh reparations as a result.

[@aliyraniaali3241]

Дурак ты напуганный,ужас в голосе?я только услышал акцент он все таки грузин

[@mo7798]

Ist das schön, das waren noch Zeiten...

[@JanJohanssonmusic]

Thanks for sharing this, Scott.

[@rexfrommn3316]

Stalin skillfully used patriotic themes of defending Mother Russia and defending the Motherland. Most importantly Stalin prepared his people for a long hard bitter fight. The appeal to partisan attacks in the occupied territories became harsh realities for German rear arrea troops. Stalin made appeals to the major ethnic groups in the Soviet Union. People's militia's played big roles in most battles. Stalin was quite humble in his speech admitting the German Army was strong with tanks, warplanes bombing Rusian cities while occupying large areas of the western frontier.. The thing Stalin got right in this speech was his appeal for national mobilization and national resistance. Stalin plainly said the Germans wanted to reintroduce slavery for the Russian people in a new form of tsarism. Soviet Army political officers did an excellent job of making newspaper articles about Nazi atrocities in the occupied territories. Photographs in newspapers of German atrocities from liberated areas after the battle of Moscow of mass graves, mass hangings, raped women and girls and burned out towns and villages showed no mercy was to be expected from the Nazis. Interviews of survivors in these newspaper articles spoke of harrowing terrible German mass executions, sadistic rape of little girls and old women, and the burning and slaughter of entire villages of people by German troops. These newspaper articles were spread far and wide across thhe Soviet Union and in all the Soviet military units, farms and factory floors. These newspapers just showed the truth of the bestial cruelty of the Nazi's across the entire nation. These political officers with their newspapers did much to unite the Soviet people in their resolve to fight the Germans until the bitter end if need be. Workers in factories typically worked 12 hour shifts. Small boys and women worked many of those shifts to free men to fight at the front. The only thing that mattered to a Soviet citizen was national resistance to the bestial fascist hordes. Life under communism, while at times harsh, for the most part had improved most of the people's lives. The Russians were better fed, much better educated and literate, had improved medical care, better clothing and housing than under Tsarist times. The Soviet Union was an industrial power in its own right. Hitler changed his opinions about the Soviet soldier during the heavy fighting around Smolensk. Many Soviet soldiers when encircled under the harshest conditions just kept fighting, charged German positions at night fighting with hand to hand combat with sharpened spades, bayonets, grenades and any ammunition they had left. Many Soviet soldiers broke out of these encirclements or becamme partisans. German infantry casualties soared from this ferocious resistance in the summer and autumn of 1941. The Russian mud and winter slowed down the Wehrmacht but the Soviet soldier did all the killing all the way back to Berlin.

[@thomaslove6494]

"Life was at times harsh under communism" yeah that's the understatement of the century... 😅. 1\3 of the entire population were informants to the Government... That means that if you were living in a family of 6.. 2 of your family members could rat you out to the authorities if you showed any sign less than full patriotic ferver. If you were Ukrainian life was more than a little harsh... Like when Stalin starved 6 million of them a decade before this broadcast. By this time the gulag archipelago was in full swing and forced labor camps of political prisoners were one of the only things allowing sustainment of Soviet goods and production.... Millions of people working for free so the Soviet system could continue and even still shortages were a daily occurrence... The life under communism was more than a little harsh....

[@petergusev999]

@@thomaslove6494 Ask yourself how realistic this actually is, where this statistic is pulled out of, what it actually means by 'informant' and so on. Use your brain.

[@thomaslove6494]

​@@petergusev999 you use your brain... Informing on people was incentivised .... If you wanted an apartment the easiest way to remove the current tenant was to rat on him or her. How do you think the gulags filled up all over the country... People were ratting the future inmates out of course...

[@samparticle]

​@thomaslove6494 "gulag archipelago" the author admitted to making up figures and attributing war casualties to "starvation"

[@haldir3120]

Probably the most important speech in history of man kind. Imagine how the world would look if the Eastern people just gave up like the rest

[@borninjordan7448]

What about Britain?

[@haldir3120]

@@borninjordan7448 in terms of giving up? They ditched the continent 15 days after the battle for France started. They were the worst of all.

[@borninjordan7448]

@@haldir3120 True, but they didn't have a lot of options.

[@haldir3120]

@@borninjordan7448 Yes, they had. That is why they did not fight. Despite the Western front being open for years since 90% of the Nazi soldiers were on the Eastern front starting from June 1941.

[@marcelbork92]

@@haldir3120 We would certainly not live in that utter chaos we are in now. There would be no "climate of crisis", there would no "gender" blah. The existence of the white folks would be safe. And so on and so forth.

[@Ali-Basheer04]

An ignorant American: so basically they won because of winter...

[@SomeOne-oh7cg]

Damm 170 divisions.......Germany really be Fully mobilizing their Armies....hmm Stalin ain’t wrong after all

[@buffaloc20]

Yeah they weren't fucking around for context operation overlord used 7 divisions

[@kiandrah8517]

Not what I thought Stalin's voice would sound like.

[@User17901]

yeah, he had a thick georgian accent

[@anindyamajumdar4088]

It was an outstanding speech from a. Man who knew it his country and armed forces faced a most perilous time with an uncertain future. His compelling plea to his people despite all that he had done was to let them know that he was depending upon them and all was NOT lost despite having suffered an early seatback.

[@socire72]

“We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.” - Josif Stalin, 1931 Exactly 10 years later, the German Reich broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and invaded the USSR. Had Stalin not commenced the Five Year Plans, increased military production, and doubled the size of the Red Army from 1939-1941, the USSR would’ve been annihilated, and the world subjugated under the Facist darkness.

[@alancantu2557]

Imagine being a fly on the wall in Stalin’s office while this was broadcasted. The intensity and frightening uncertainty about the future must have been indescribable. Stalin was a once in a generation leader. Only he could have kept morale high and inspired the peoples of the Soviet Union.

[@a.p.3004]

Although he was a dictator before he comes to the end of his speech, he makes what seems to him and to the Soviet people a "question and answer" situation. He gave analytical answers (yes politically suiting him) but nevertheless you can understand that he knows and understands the questions which are in the average citizen's mind. He tries to make up for past mistakes by this question-answer monologue. He does a chronological explanation, and refers to the allies in the correct way given the fact that when he made the speech the USSR was being beaten on all fronts. He understood the strengths and weaknesses of his people and his forces. No leaders today, eithet democratically elected or not have that capability today, to know their people deeply.

[@meryemyardmc6340]

are you lost your mind? what you mean dictator? we are talking about 1941 and those years.. wasnt roosevelt a dictator too? come on you pink ass, where is democracy? in usa, slavery was officialy exist even until the end of 1960's!! even today, still in some states of usa, unbelivable discriminative laws for black people.. this can you call democracy? remember truman age in usa.. was it democracy?, half of the europe still using africa as a colony ( british, french ) is it democracy? can you say that democracy exist in Britain :)?? it is funny. it does matter that if the president has cruel style, may be you can name as a "dictator" , but even today, here is no real democracy and to be honest, democracy is bullshit, i whole fake term in order to hide coloialism, modern slavery, synical racism. there is no "real" difference btw. china, eu , and usa..

[@carlosreyes5371]

@@meryemyardmc6340 Against Black people, really? Even with a Black President...go back to eastern Tourkia, you filthy Khazar...

[@koskevic4830]

@@meryemyardmc6340 the era of wwii was about neither country having democracy, you're right

[@sgtreznov9869]

@@carlosreyes5371 america is still racist

[@electrom.1703]

SGTreznov 98 oh my fucking god. Oh yeah, the blacks lives movement gets a free pass on everything. Damn, AMERICA IS RACIST!

[@bharathidilipan.t9486]

Stalin's patience and intelligence is incomparable

[@danielescalantedemedeiros.]

He said that WW2 was less stressing that collectivization. Just imagine...

[@TEUTONIC__ORDER699]

Stalin wasnt really intelligent , but he was patient

[@petergusev999]

@@TEUTONIC__ORDER699 Yes, I'm sure you are smarter than him.

[@enzobet7979]

So many things are said about the non-aggression pact and Stalin says it all in a couple lines.

[@ComradeRick]

Сталин задолго до войны знал к чему всё движется, советская власть понимала, что фашизм, который взращивали в Европе натравят по итогу на советы. Советы не сидели сложа руки, а готовились к войне, ждали пока Германия нападет первой, если бы это сделали советы, то весь мир бы обрушился на СССР с критикой.

[@bottimax]

Il patriottismo che ha saputo trasmettere in questo discorso al popolo sovietico ha contribuito fortemente a salvare non solo l'Europa ma tutta l'umanità dalla barbarie nazifascista.

[@Tonyx.yt.]

ok kompagno :clown_face:

[@fendiputraasaprilana1667]

fun fact, this is the first time Stalin address the citizens of Soviet Union as 'Brother & Sister'

[@mikemurray2027]

Is it? I think he underlines the fact that this is a 'Patriotic' war against a murderous invader, not an ideological war for communism. That's why this approach was taken.

[@crcanassr]

@@mikemurray2027 Stalin was trying to arose patriotic feelings and a sense of unity on the people to face the danger. That is why he used familiar terms.

[@edmundlubega9647]

@@mikemurray2027 even the Orthodox Church was invited to participate in boosting morale

[@mikemurray2027]

@@edmundlubega9647 Yes, indeed. It's odd how propagandists have used this patriotism as a way to attack Stalin. As if successfully rallying the country in a war effort, which US/UK also did, was hypocrisy or a betrayal of his principles (which they hated and opposed). I remember being confused as a child when I was told that people digging defences outside Moscow were 'forced' to do it, as if they really wanted the Nazis to win! Also that soldiers had to be 'forced' to fight! What nonsense we've been fed down the decades!

[@bman6065]

Actually it was the first time most people in the Soviet Union ever even heard his voice.

[@jeffreyg4626]

Great. Thank you...

[@ДианаВерюжская]

Организатор Победы Советского народа в ВОВ -- генералиссимус Сталин Иосиф Виссарионович. Каждое его слово было воплощено в дело разгрома врага.

[@RedArmy1946]

помним!

[@The_Last_Norman]

At the time this was being recorded it probably seemed like Germany would have taken over the world.

[@Theghostdiaries]

definitely, it was the German high-water mark

[@cripppton]

Truth said like he seen the future. Stalin actually have always said the truth. Also thinking that Stalin wanted to attack Germany is dumb. He would have never invade Germany

[@koskevic4830]

There are documents of the pre-war five year plan that considered attacking Germany, but anyway I can agree that stalin didn't lie much in this speech. Anyways that's the dictator that scorched our country, as well as all the communist clique did in the 20th century to my country

[@dimas3829]

@@koskevic4830 every country have plans against all of it's neighbors, that's a given if your rulers are not stupid. USSR have built numerous houses, hospitals and schools in every of it's new subjects, what exactly do you mean by "scorched"?

[@lpi3]

Red terror. Gulags.

[@thefacelessstranger4983]

@@lpi3 Man, those gulags with their 8-hour work days and sentence reductions for exemplary performance were just horrible. The american justice system is so much better. Please tell me, oh great future leader, what would you do to keep a country that has, at great cost, emerged victorious from two wars and is under economical attack from the rest of the world? What would you do with the actual bandits, spies and traitors in your ranks? Or do you genuinely believe that gulags were just full of innocents wanting to speak out against Communism?

[@lpi3]

@@thefacelessstranger4983 stalin = hitler. Ask germans about what would you do. F idiot

[@timoaksel9320]

This is a great speech.

[@tomryan4501]

If it were not for russia we would be living under the fascists now.we should never forget this.thank you russia.

[@waverunner7063]

Was the alternative really much worse?

[@tehkaihong5328]

​@@waverunner7063 yes.

[@buurmeisje]

@@waverunner7063 Yes.

[@Intel-i7-9700k]

If the Bolshevikhs didn't destroy and take over the Russian democra y in 1917 then Nazi Germany would not even have existed.

[@hautoa1513]

@@waverunner7063 100%

[@jimc.goodfellas]

Can you imagine you're an average citizen of Russia and then the Germans attack and then he delivers this message? Unreal to think about, being in that situation

[@petera4813]

Can you please upload Stalins radio broadcast of 31 of January in 1943?

[@stuartbarclay7940]

"Those had been the fighting words of the Russian leader, Joseph Stalin, in which he declared the German's intent to fight a war of annihilation would be met by a similar campaign from the Motherland. A most prophetic speech, many brutal battles were fought between the two superpowers, culminating in the disastrous siege of Stalingrad, and about a month prior to that, the Germans suffered an equally devastating defeat at El Alamein. This put Rommel's forces on the run, and throughout the beginning of 1943, we chased them across North Africa. This truly was the beginning of the end for the Nazi regime, but, I'm sorry to say, they still had plenty of fight left, and more than a few tricks to play…" Edward, The Stories of War

[@velcranoxofficials9970]

I heard somehwere thst during the initial days of the war Stalin worked for 22 or 20 hours straight barely getting any sleep during the first week of the war

[@alexleibovici4834]

This is true.

[@ahmadalhaaj9629]

في هذا الخطاب تتجلى عبقرية وشجاعة وباس الزعيم العظيم الرفيق ج.ف. ستالين.فتعسا لمشنعيه الأنذال.

[@ahmadalhaaj9629]

لقد استجابت الشعوب السوفياتية لنداءه الملهم وحققت النصر المؤزر على كافة أعداءها المجرمين

[@2020sII]

May all allied soldiers who fell in WWII be remember forever. As an American thank you to the Soviets who sacrificed so much to defeat N Germany

[@plotsky_]

Napoleon: invades russia in winter and loses Hitler: *im gonna do what's called a noob gamer move*

[@francois-mariearouet9379]

He didn't invade Russia in the winter. He just took too long and winter arrived.

[@yamnayaseed356]

Neither Napoleon or Hitler invaded in winter but both underestimated how long it will take to march on Moscow and defeat it

[@luigi7720]

A noob did not take half of Europa...

[@jmarlow2153]

Naloleon invaded Russia in June,dumb ass

[@petergusev999]

Should have known there would be on idiot who was going to add something about the 'rUsSiAn WiNtEr!11'

[@yipengguo3100]

Soviet Union is and will be the greatest warrior in human history. She was the only one who was capable and brave enough to face the nazis directly. Soviet Union was born for dreams and blood... she looked cruel and cold blooded, because what she aimed was higher than any of our sights...

[@enthalpiaentropia7804]

Yiping Guo they won but they lost 11 millions soldiers & 16 millions civilians ...!

[@user-PoltanovDmitriy]

@@enthalpiaentropia7804 Civil people were not LOST, but TORTURED by nazis. That's the reason, why germans run from Soviets and surrended to Americans & Britts...

[@thomaspropst2705]

Spare me ~ Britain had been battling the Nazis for two years (and one year all alone) before the S.U. was dragged into the war. The British people never wavered. And Stalin was supplying the Fascist all that time.

[@whatever7645]

Thomas Propst What the OP meant was that the Soviet Union fought them directly, as in ground combat. While the British people were brave and withstood the german Luftwaffe for a very long time, they never faced the Wehrmacht to the extent the Soviet people and military did, it is simply incomparable, the extent of death, suffering and destruction that occurred on the Eastern Front.

[@dervolksdeutscher1846]

Biggest murders and rapists

[@billysoccerboypayne]

Excellent statement. Raw words but never the less optimistic.

[@kyleseageruberalles2222]

I never heard stalin's voice, so this was really cool

[@olivertwist7699]

Slava Stalin and great people of Soviet Union.

[@williamcurtin5692]

The great people of the Soviet Union, yes. Stalin was one of the twin monsters of the last century.

[@thesuperostrich]

@@williamcurtin5692no Stalin wasn’t

[@Chanell0078ff]

Slava Stalin

[@Triantafyllos_Strantzalis]

To hell with Stalin

[@danielescalantedemedeiros.]

Slava Stalin.

[@zainmudassir2964]

Good broadcast. Great wartime leader against Fascism

[@brucemcdonald6677]

Based on the comments Im reading you would think Stalin was a great man. He was anything but. In fact, he was silent for weeks after Germany invaded and paralyzed in fear. He gutted the army leadership, starved tens of millions to death in the Gulags, led by terror and secret police (NKVD). The glory belongs to the Russian people not that dictator.

[@Mentol_]

You need to find information about the records of visitors to Stalin's office. Because the information that Stalin was paralyzed by fear is an old myth.

[@supertrinigamer]

Why is there a german E57 siren as the picture

[@adolfhitler7684]

USSR has fallen to Troisieme Reich

[@johnaugsburger6192]

Thanks

[@anaverageperson6744]

Fascist aircraft - Joseph Vissioronovitch Stalin

[@ErvinSev]

Vissarionovich

[@Dreadly]

Look up Lev Bronstein for a fun fact.

[@ismailmukooza2005]

Oh I love it 🎉

[@VinnyUnion]

A voice that every mom would love. What a lil gremlin

[@ritasys7129]

I am a granddaughter of 2 Soviet soldiers of the World War 3, like most of my country people, I am greatly thankful for the victory and a few great decades of a life in a Soviet country. Now, in 2024, again, Russia is under a treat of a World War 4, again we have foreign armies (NATO) by our borders. But we have a good training, like we won over Napoleon, Kaiser, and Hitler lead armies, we will win this war, we did not start!

[@Lobertherp]

I like the soviets and all but the radio sounds like the loud bass meme

[@papanutt1327]

I don’t think you should like Stalin

[@risingsun4]

@@papanutt1327 Yes they should.

[@papanutt1327]

@@risingsun4 he killed millions of his own people, I wouldn’t like him if I were you

[@risingsun4]

@@papanutt1327 Says who? The CIA? Nice try pal, learn history. I used to hate on Stalin as well. I understand where you come from. But believe me, you know nothing.

[@papanutt1327]

@@risingsun4 bro tell me one websit where I can see what you are trying to tell me

[@aby110]

Remember what Stalin said in his speech at the Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I. We are currently living in the darkest era of reaction which he spoke of.

[@mikethespike7579]

That speech was in the early days of Hitler's invasion with German forces still rapidly advancing towards Moscow, Stalingrad and Leningrad against little or even no resistance. Things look extremely dire for the Soviet Union at the time and the government was already preparing to flee Moscow.

[@DoktorDoof-c6u]

"little or no resistance" - lol. 400,000 Germans were lost until end of 1941. The German soldiers did not even have a tank that could compete with the T34.

[@mikethespike7579]

@@DoktorDoof-c6u Utter rubbish. Stop peddling fake history. I personally knew Germans who had taken part in operation Barbarossa. They all told me they didn't even see any fighting in the first 6 months. They were just advancing forward while the Red Army pulled back. The casualties started to rise enormously middle of 1942 when the Germans had reached Stalingrad and the Red Army began putting up a fight. The T34 was a cheap knocked together load of junk and was no match for any of the German tanks. Even the Russians will tell you this. The big advantage of the Soviets were their shear numbers of tanks and that they could manufacture them far faster than the Germans. German tank commanders stated that for every Russian tank they took out ten more appeared. In the end German tanks were running out of ammo. and a shortage of fuel didn't help either.

[@Mentol_]

​@@mikethespike7579German losses must be looked at according to statistics, and not according to the statements of individual people. According to statistics, daily German losses in 1941 were higher than in 1942. Open the book of Rudiger Overmans and check.

[@mikethespike7579]

@@Mentol_ There are enough reports of the first 6 months of the invasion. They all clearly tell of the Germans meeting almost no resistance. In most cases Wehrmacht soldiers tell of a walk in the park with hardly any enemy engagement and of finding 100s of soviet tanks and armoured vehicles left abandoned. The Baltic states and many Ukrainians even welcomed them. The Russians were clearly taken by surprise. This misled the German high command to at first think that the Red Army had been vanquished and they only needed to reach and occupy Stalingrad, Lenningrad and Moscow and the war would be over.

[@packisbetter90]

I mean they were moving fast from June til about November. Started stalling out in November December right before Moscow before retreating. Then made their furthest advance farther south in the summer fall of 1942. After Stalingrad they never recovered

[@user-sinoptik198]

Thank you

[@ΑθηνάΠάνου-ι3ζ]

Враг будет разбит ,победа будет за нами !☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

[@mateuszmazurek7991]

slava ukrainie!

[@khokhe]

Slava america!

[@JesseDapo]

​@@khokheyou didn't still get American visa so relax 🤝💔😐

[@francismuiruri9064]

This man Stalin intrigues me i think the available media projects only his negative side.

[@345mrse]

So true. The available media never mention Stalin’s positives like executing hundreds of thousands of small land owning peasants for their grain. Or fomenting paranoia and terror in the politburo and central party committees so Communism can thrive.

[@alexleibovici4834]

@@345mrse > Stalin’s positives like executing hundreds of thousands of small land owning peasants for their grain... 😁So true!

[@ЮрийЮрко-ч1н]

Иосиф Виссарионович! Благодаря Вам мы выиграли войну! Я родился при Леониде Ильиче! Но уважение к Вам привили мне мои родители! Хрущ-предатель!

[@Klee99zeno]

It's clever, He says we're winning even though we're losing territory every day and the enemy continues to advance

[@kieranororke620]

As terrible as Stalin could be, and was, and as oppressive, totalitarian and murderous of innocents his NKVD were, I find it impossible not to admire the enormous sacrifices, determination and bravery shown by the Soviet peoples in this most titanic and deadly of struggles. Also, while a Soviet victory in the east meant the occupation and subjugation of half of Europe, the alternative of a Nazi victory would have been unthinkable and would have made the Iron Curtain regimes look like Sunday schools in comparison. If one of the two most appalling totalitarian regimes in European history had to win, then it was far better that it was the Soviets rather than the new Dark Age of Hitlerism.

[@smddsi]

It is remarkable to read again and again tha soviet union was not prepared to the war when one think that France considered at the time as one of the strongest army in the world was beaten in a very short time! The same with other traditional sentence as "the soviets" profited of the winter. But the german generals said thanks to the freezing of the mud we could restart our tanks.

[@Габриел-у5э]

That was a tough year for the soviets

[@ntokozosibanyoni1421]

4:10 Comrade Stalin was right on this one. By this point the Germans were overconfident but that was becuz they had yet to meet serious resistance

[@9iht6ihgt43rzhijj]

I have such an advantage listening to these recordings from Goebbels and Stalin...: I grew up in Russia and moved to Germany at the age of 9... I speak both languages perfectly/ very good (in the case of Russian).

[@100ich5]

...und hast die die Aussagen beider richtig verstanden , sowie auch deren Taten....

[@ifolkinrock]

I don’t speak Russian, but I can kind of hear Stalin’s strange foreign accent.

[@haydencaryofilles6379]

Bro Stalin smart

[@wovada]

Для советских людей это важная эпохальная речь Сталина!

[@giorgixergiani2681]

Слава Великому Советскому Нарду!Слава Великому Сталину!ура!

[@user-iw1vl7pv4u]

Now Putin acted against Ukraine like Hitler against soviets, same thing, concentrated troops on the border, got ready for the war but was talking peace and non-invasion.

[@alexleibovici4834]

> Now Putin acted against Ukraine like Hitler against soviets, same thing, concentrated troops on the border In fact, by June 1941, Stalin was also concentrating troops on the border and also for attack. He simply was a few weeks late.

[@ГрафКропоткин-н3о]

It was mesmerizing speech !!!! Cool !!!

[@christianvalenzuela225]

Great speech!

[@chrisb4419]

If it wasn't for Comrade Stalin and the soviets, we would be speaking German right now

[@CRAZYRUSSIANL9]

this speech unironically saved europe and after that the WORLD of hitler xddddddd

[@refoliation]

Thank you comrade Stalin and the soviet people.

[@ulshhtisaga2735]

Marking time points bc I'll need them 12:34 13:10 14:14 16:30 19:55 20:34

[@luxboss2388]

Stalin was very firm and that’s what I respected about him you talking about a straight up cold blooded killer that stood on business

[@Peyethon]

Fun fact: the Germans never bombed Moscow until July 22nd 1941 as army group center was approaching Smolensk.

[@user-be9rq5re2l]

Because why would they when they got plenty more better things to bom bom.

[@Orcram]

I love how people rip on the Molotov Ribbentrop pact when, One: it was not an alliance it was a non aggression pact along with a deal to someday split poland Two: The Soviets had spent Years trying to get the British and French into a cooperative defensive pact against Germany all of which they refused allowing Germany to expand unopposed. Three: The British and French GAVE HITLER AUSTRIA AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA why would the communist assume any different with their guarantees of poland. Four: The Soviets were not in any position to fight the most powerful nation on earth Military at the time. Five: The Germans were already going to invade Poland that is how they invaded 1 day after the Soviets signed the deal and got it through the Supreme Soviet. While it took the Soviets weeks to respond as they did not think they would invade for at least a year or two (I do not if this is accurate please fact check me if wrong). Six: FREE LAND INCLUDING OIL (Iraqi "Freedom" intensifies). Seven: Gave the Soviets the chance to expand their borders to protect against outside threat (Namely Japan and pushing the Finnish border a few KM back). Eight: Gave the Soviets the chance to deal with fascists and "rightists" in government (Tukhachevsky is a perfect example of someone who needed to be executed I would suggest reading about him it is pretty interesting). And Finally Nine: Where was the deal from the Brits or the French for a defensive pact or even a non aggression pact. You can not say that the British or French were not responsible for hitler's rise to power through allowing him to Remilitarize the Rhineland, Anschluss, expand the army, expand the navy, take the Sudetenland, take the entirety of Czechoslovakia, start to ally Italy (whom they also did nothing against in ethiopia), start pulling eastern nations to their side, And then finally the germans send a please do not invade me card to the Soviets in exchange for the Soviets to keep a portion of Poland and THAT is what is criticized. It is not my goal to justify the Soviet Invasion of Poland but to see people rip on the Soviets for it is laughable at best and disappointing at worst.

[@steveoshea50]

His voice seems shaky compared to his speech several months later in Red Square on the anniversary of the Revolution.

[@McIntyreBible]

I bet Stalin (when he addressed the nation) must have been humiliated by the blunder he made in trusting that Hitler wouldn't attack!

[@temukaxd2037]

He sure does know how to talk.

[@RicardoFinnigan]

So strange finally hearing his voice

[@alisleem8384]

Truly wonderful

[@jordanwaskelis4913]

Does anyone have a rough estimate as to how many Soviet households had a radio back then? Percentage wise.

[@alexleibovici4834]

There were also very many public loudspeakers.

[@czar6203]

11:06 in case you're from hoi4 and want to know where the speech is.

[@raulcalimann7738]

Thx dude

[@lukaswilhelm9290]

"With heavy Georgian accent, Stalin speak to his people the words he never said before. He called the Russians 'my brothers and sisters'".

[@KyrgyzstanYT]

guys where do i found the stalin speech that mappers put in ww2 videos?

[@hartingtherealone]

@Georgehello rickroll

[@rohanr.9714]

just look stalin speech 1945

[@KyrgyzstanYT]

@George thank you! This is what i was looking for!

[@KyrgyzstanYT]

@@rohanr.9714 im talking about when stalin speaks about the attack of germany

[@Gguy061]

Oration wasn't his strong suit

[@eduardobailon6796]

Nunca es bueno subestimar al enemigo ni tener un exceso de confianza, Hitler aprendió también esa lección con el coste de millones de personas muertas.Aprendamos del pasado para no cometer los mismos errores en el presente ni en el futuro.Saludos desde España!!.

[@thecatalanman9743]

Igual los soviéticos perdieron como 17 millones de soldados, mientras que los alemanes 3 millones en total 🤣

[@AnImperialGod]

​@@thecatalanman9743 Y Hitler y todo el liderazgo nazi terminó muerto o enjuiciado, bajo la ocupación aliada. En cambio, Stalin murió en condiciones totalmente distintas.

[@бананакар]

Имя Великого Сталина будет жить в веках. Как бы его не очерняли.

[@Batorr]

?????