The Ballad of Stalin - Ewan MacColl (1951) Lyrics

[@alexanxiety05]

Stalin's mistake was stopping at Berlin

[@bobmcgahey1280]

u bet zhukov shoul have kept going till he reached san francisco

[@zloycommentator83]

​@@bobmcgahey1280why exactly San Francisco?

[@gohangohan3873]

​@zloycommentator83 это западное побережье США

[@lasttarrasque6223]

Na as Mao said, 70/30.

[@Valkirya-qn6wn]

Absolutely !

[@tasoskou5527]

You cannot just be a based chad sigma marxist leninist musician englishman in the 1950's. You have to have steel balls.

[@noveled_1]

more like tungsten balls, MacColl couldnt have been more based from what i can tell

[@caleblebaron1179]

hes a boot licker with balls

[@scotsbol]

Balls of steel, like the Man of Steel. 😂

[@Christian-bv7el]

and a brain of 💩

[@CountryboyU96]

@@noveled_1 stalinium balls new type of russian strong metal

[@neillovesey1969]

Me: I'm not going to get political Me 3 drinks later:

[@TuurVanderheyden]

this song was before the bullshit about Stalin being a ruthless mass murderer began.

[@zloycommentator83]

What's even more sad is that the fact this song is still not removed by KZbin is miracle (judging by which side KZbin is on)

[@Tailssonic1999x]

Are you saying he wasn't a murderer?

[@TuurVanderheyden]

@@Tailssonic1999x yes

[@makingmemesat3AM]

@@TuurVanderheydenain’t no way this guy denies the Holodomor and the Great Purge happened

[@goosem944]

​@@makingmemesat3AM holodomor happened because Ukraininans burnt their own crops in protest

[@jinclay4354]

Stalin was no saint, just as no one has ever been. Stalin was a disciplined comrade who upheld the proletarian revolution and the workers' State to the farthest extent of his personal power. Can't say the same about revisionists, opportunists, bureaucrats and counterrevolutionaries of that same time. Comrades, uphold his legacy, organize and fight for the revolution! Read "What Is to Be Done?"! The Soviet Union was not in vain!

[@JohnBrownsBody]

He shot tens of thousands of committed and disciplined comrades and made a mockery of party democracy. Thank god Khrushchev spoke up.

[@jinclay4354]

@@JohnBrownsBody Bureaucrats, counterrevolutionary agitators, western spies, kulaks, terrorists, literal nazis. (Were there mistakes? Yes. Which is why I currently don't support the death penalty even under socialism.). Khrushchev was an opportunist and the leading figure of a liberalizing counterrevolutionary movement within the Party that culminated on Gorbachev and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

[@mahbodbaghdadi5713]

Salute dear comrade

[@Themeatball123]

What about the labor camps?

[@mahbodbaghdadi5713]

@@Themeatball123 Gruesome conditions in some cases, pretty chill in others, just like any other prison during its time. However have you seen the sentencing? The worst sentences for the worst enemies of the soviet union was like 8 years at max. How long has the US been keeping people indefinitely?

[@Tailssonic1999x]

Ewan Maccol perspnally performed for Stalin at the Kremlin Ballad of Ho Chi Mihn by Maccoll is also good

[@loslingos1232]

How did I not find this until now??

[@noveled_1]

based pfp

[@BelfastIsRed]

@@noveled_1fact✊🇵🇸

[@bobmcgahey1280]

i don't think it was posted until last year I missed it also

[@SwedishDrunkard5963]

I have found your comments on so many videos I have now just subscribed to you

[@seductive_fishstick8961]

real af

[@arda7895]

Joe Stalin was a mighty man, a mighty man was he, He led the Soviet people on the road to victory. All through the revolution he fought at Lenin's side, And they made a combination till the day that Lenin died. He said, "Come all you people, we will work with brain and hand." And then one day the Nazis came into the Soviet land, They plundered to the Volga, to Stalingrad, and then Joe Stalin said, Come on, me boys!" and he kicked them out again. Joe Stalin was a southerner, in Georgia he was born Where the oranges grow thick and fast and fields of waving corn; And Joe he was a farmer, his fingers they were green And he has planted the biggest crop the world has ever seen. One day he looked upon his map and frowned and shook his head, "There's too much brown and not enough green," these are the words he said; "We'll have to change the weather, boys," he said and then he smiled, "So let's begin by planting trees along three thousand miles." Joe Stalin rolled his sleeves up and he said, "Come on, let's start! The Volga river and the Don they are too far apart. I think we'd better join them, so come and help me, pal, And we'll build a mighty waterway, the Volga-Don Canal." One day he went into the North and there saw rivers three All emptying their waters into the Polar Sea; "Now that's not right," Joe Stalin said, "these rivers they are ours, We'll turn 'em 'round and make 'em work to give electric power." There was a range of mountains that was standing in the way So Stalin put his hand out and he smoothed them all away; For Joe he was determined to make the land all green And that's the biggest project that the world has ever seen. Joe Stalin was a mighty man and he made a mighty plan; He harnessed nature to the plough to work for the good of man; He's hammered out the future, the forgeman he has been And he's made the workers' state the best the world has ever seen.

[@ulyanov17]

funny how people think, that believing US Government propaganda is somehow intelligent and not naive 😂

[@DeVolksrepubliek]

So so so real

[@zaviersyed8483]

“Woahhh the medias lying to us man, we gotta overthrow the establishment! But not with communism cuz according to the US State Dept., Stalin killed more people than Hitler with his giant spoon”

[@what_theactual1984]

As a Russian, I'm very thankful for the Volga-Don canãããããl

[@itacom2199]

LOL

[@zloycommentator83]

Базировано

[@rafaelmedinacastillo4090]

I'm not a Commie but I have to recognise McColl's balls to do this in the middle of the 50s

[@sophiehatter3111]

he did a bit of trolling

[@xibalbalon8668]

You ain't done nothing if you ain't been called a red

[@ju87stukadivebomber87]

​@@xibalbalon8668in my opinion if you haven't been called a nazi or a facist, directly or indirectly, something's wrong. Im not saying nazism is good, I'm saying the far left calls anything right of left far right.

[@MattMelo-bc3is]

I'am

[@Codename_Thumblesteen]

Stalin was actually very popular in the 50s. Wasn't until the late 80s when they started publishing books from Nazi veterans that people began believing in the bullshit about him.

[@bence1917.]

This is one of the greatest song I ever heard!

[@bobmcgahey1280]

great song though I think his song about Ho Chi Minh is better "mighty man" true enough "but deep sea sailor" is more poetic not making any political judgerments here just aesthetic

[@jamiemcintosh3030]

And Hrushchev and the other revisionist had to mess it all up!

[@hejhej111]

This is probably the best song about stalin I have ever heard.

[@kevingm9109]

Why doesn't this have more views!?

[@sinekonata]

Because dangerous.

[@augustopaterno3163]

Porque de a poco la gente inteligente entendio lo que fueron Stalin y el comunismo

[@LimeMortar]

because this song is bullshit

[@Hypogean7]

@@augustopaterno3163 O tal vez por todos los muertos en gulags.

[@kS67rg]

@@Hypogean7 Idioten glauben gerne den MSM die der Bourgeoisie gehört.

[@paulmatters2641]

Thank you for providing this. Didnt know the great man had written and recorded this.

[@captderichelieu2280]

We must not forget that for many millions of Russians he is the savior of Russia and it is unlikely that anyone will be able to rewrite their heroic centuries-old history,.....

[@rifatsyed9220]

Amazing tribute.

[@JimmyWhisperBackInAction]

I ❤ Stalin

[@MarxyMarxAndTheFunkyBunch]

Here from Proles Pod.

[@jamiemcintosh3030]

As am I, Comrade!

[@sandramorey2529]

This is a take on stalin I've never heard. After all, not only did he perform for Stalin, but he was not allowed into the US for a good long time. btw: Shirley Temple was photographed sitting on Stalin's knee. Times change.

[@ntmybcobalt]

Hello from Russia🇷🇺!

[@Diamat1917]

Red Salute Comrade 🚩

[@nicoruppert4207]

🚩🫡

[@b0mby1]

Don't forget to check the original recording of the song! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaS8m3-jgraBfsksi=PsSVJ8qKTZvZItre

[@WorkingProleinc]

Slava Stalin,Slava Lenin,Slava Mao😊❤

[@Aaleeyuh]

this man and his daughter were such brilliant people and musicians 🚩✊❤️❤️

[@LastSonOfThanagar]

Was looking for this

[@goosem944]

Bring back Stalin they keep deleting my comments

[@goosem944]

Oof just found out he was a Zionist :(

[@EnverHalilHoxha1917]

​@@goosem944prolly cuz of what he witnessed in his life. The Pogroms and the germans must have blinded him. I dont blame him.

[@McHobotheBobo]

​@goosem944 Sort of, the USSR initially supported Israel against the British - this position rapidly reversed when the Israelis showed their true face, but it was nonetheless one of his genuine mistakes

[@lasttarrasque6223]

Remember that the Soviet Union and Stalin are not one and the same, there where many reactionary within the soviet government that gained power from time to time .

[@EnverHalilHoxha1917]

@lasttarrasque6223 yeah, but I never got to touch his toes 😥😓😢😞😦😧😫

[@jovanmandic1228]

Underrated

[@seductive_fishstick8961]

Based af song

[@bussesandtrains1218]

does he know?

[@RyRy2057]

very very interesting that this song focuses on the Transformation of Nature, it's called "the Ballad of Stalin" and the revolution and WWII take up only one verse each!

[@blueduncan9522]

Rest in Power Uncle Joe ✊🚩

[@npickle54]

Daddy stalin

[@nmociahfgow]

Hey! this is great, are you able to point us in the direction to find the videos you used in this video?

[@seltsimeess]

Спасибо Великому Сталину!

[@Vermn123]

Anyone got the tabs?

[@blueduncan9522]

Stalin was the man, who carried on Marx’s theory and Lenin's direction of action weaning out imperialism scrap. Long live peace in our life time! Long live socialism in our era!

[@Hypogean7]

Wasn't Stalin a massive imperialist by installing a bunch of puppet governments in the Warsaw Pact?

[@emeriusjones]

The Mississippi and the volga are too far apart 👹

[@russel-nb2fp]

Absolutely awesome 😂

[@TheTsarsTailor1910]

Heh. I enjoy Ewan MacColl's music.

[@DimaRus-mw5zp]

Za Rodinu Za Stalna ❤

[@kieronseth]

Did he write a song about the Holodomor?

[@Robofussin23]

Great song

[@dmman33]

So this is about Paul Bunyan, right?

[@zloycommentator83]

🤦‍♂️

[@nenomiusdasbevolkuet9327]

Beautiful

[@itacom2199]

LONG LIVE STALIN! VIVA BAFFONE!

[@bussesandtrains1218]

he's dead

[@itacom2199]

@@bussesandtrains1218 He lives forever.

[@andrewpritt8739]

W

[@scotsbol]

Red salute, to you, comrade. 🚩

[@hsjshdhsjshsh958]

A great tribute, quite funny at times as well

[@ThatEgyptianYoutuber]

WHY DOES THIS SONG SLAP?!?!

[@Hdkaidjjaksjsiuq]

Wrong Georgia? 😂

[@mob-kw9hz]

😂

[@charleselindberg]

It's a pun, because Stalin's Georgia is also to the south of the Soviet Union haha

[@kategrant2728]

@@charleselindberg they also the only part of the soviet union that could grow citrus so even that part about the oranges was a true joke

[@user-hy8uo5ig9o]

never fight up hill me boys

[@TheAgProv]

If he was alive now, would he be writing stuff like this for Kim Jong-Il?

[@nicoruppert4207]

Probs for Kim Il sung, I don't know enough about Kim Jong Il though. But as far as I know his DPRK was an extremely chill place to live in pre 90's.

[@SwedishDrunkard5963]

​@@nicoruppert4207 NK was doing extremely well for itself upp until the 90s when the USSR colapsed and the famine hit. before the 90s they where developing at the same speed as south korea, they might have been equaly as technologicaly and economicaly advanced as the south rn if it wasnt for the sanctions and embargos which left them complestly alone when the USSR fell. and the famine on that made it worse, and they didnt have resourses and stuff to stop the famine (becouse the embargoes and sanctions)

[@DeVolksrepubliek]

@@SwedishDrunkard5963I agree with everything you said, but Kim Jong-Il was a serious revisionist and his only real good accomplishments are that the DPRK didn’t collapse like every other country in COMECON (except for Cuba and Vietnam) and that the DPRK acquired nuclear weapons.

[@DeVolksrepubliek]

Probably not. Kim Jong-Il was pretty shitty, but he also died 13 years ago, so your snarky comment is inaccurate af

[@justacat2]

@@nicoruppert4207kim il sung was a great leader, his son however... he had NO political experiences whatsoever and was more busy eating expensive foods while his people were starving

[@portland9880]

Slava!!!!

[@kaosix1275]

❤

[@mininoble2253]

If only it didn't cost so much in blood to get there, maybe it would have been worth it.

[@StevePetrica]

Wow. "Useful idiots..."

[@EnverHalilHoxha1917]

R u one of em

[@covkid52]

Surely the most naive song ever!

[@connorscanlan2167]

*informed

[@covkid52]

@@connorscanlan2167 How do you think all this work was done? It was done on the backs of slave labour, and complete suppression of human rights.

[@connorscanlan2167]

@@covkid52 And how did you reach that conclusion? Where did you read it?

[@covkid52]

@@connorscanlan2167 I have relatives who lived through it!

[@connorscanlan2167]

@@covkid52 You have living relatives who were adults during the Stalin era and were "slaves" during these specific projects. Right. And what do they say, specifically?

[@twujstary856]

I thought it's satirical, I waited for the drop, it never came, comes out it's actually braindead

[@MLMenjoyer]

What do you know about Stalin?

[@twujstary856]

@@MLMenjoyer I don't really want to talk with communists because I could equally debate a dog. I came to laugh at you, not to answer

[@twujstary856]

@@MLMenjoyer I guess it's some kind of a provocative question, if you want to know about Stalin, just look up the internet. If you want to argue with a fact that he was a mass murderer and that praising him is vile, there's no point in talking with you

[@MLMenjoyer]

@@twujstary856 what would I look up exactly?

[@twujstary856]

@@MLMenjoyer Don't play dumb

[@NS88crew]

В музыкальном плане песня прекрасна. Но, как русскому, я испытываю жутчайший испанский стыд за этого англичашку 😁

[@kawaichka5828]

а почему тебе, русскому, должно быть стыдно за грузина? или ты соя, платишь и каешься?

[@zloycommentator83]

Я тоже испытываю испанский стыд за тебя, ибо ты несмотря на то что в одной ветке коментов написал что Солженицын был откровенным обманщиком, всё равно считаешь что Сталин был "диктатором" 🤦‍♂️

[@NS88crew]

@@zloycommentator83 А кем же он был? Вы, ностальгирующие по совку, позворите русских на весь мир.

[@zloycommentator83]

@@NS88crew да да да, именно мы позорим а не кое-какие индивиды которые все возможно оскорбляют Россию и Русских,и которые хотят чтобы мы стыдились своей истории и вообще мы же "страна рабов, Мордор бу бу бу" 🤦‍♂️

[@Слышьты-ф4ю]

Веришь Геббельсу и США?

[@MrHL5]

lol

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

He left out some funny stuff the ussr did with germany 1933-1941

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

Don’t ask the nazis who trained their tankers and invaded poland with them

[@basedcomrade1595]

​@@West_Coast_MainlineThe pact was only two years not eight, and it was far from an alliance. Poland ceased to exist after the German invasion, and the Soviet action halted German eastward expansion. Hitler was actually really pissed at how the Soviets used the pact against him.

[@kawaichka5828]

and what about some funny stuff with GB, France, Nazi Germany, Italy and Czechoslovakia in 1938?

[@nicoruppert4207]

It's always the same. Either communists fight against imperialists and they are branded evil or they cooperate and peacefully coexist with imperialists and are branded as evil. I just wish everyone else was held to as high a standard as communists.

[@hsjshdhsjshsh958]

The USSR sought to form an anti-German coalition with the Western Allies but was rejected. They were the last country in Europe to sign a treaty with fascist Germany, as by then they had no choice but do so in order to buy time for further industrialisation and militarisation

[@joshmaxwell7968]

Ewan McCall wrote some great songs... this was not one of them.

[@EvAndLydia]

i disagree

[@LumièreRoteFahne]

@@EvAndLydia im with you comrade

[@connorscanlan2167]

You're right. This wasn't a great song. This was an AMAZING song.

[@SoupyMittens]

The lyrics and the song in general are good, but uh... Stalin is most certainly not the type of person you want to write a song about in good faith.

[@connorscanlan2167]

@@SoupyMittens If anyone's deserving of good faith, it's someone who's been smeared by pseudohistorians and pop-history for decades.

[@hughhanson9919]

God, how easily are people duped.

[@glebperch7585]

Agreed. Just look at all the people who think comrade Stalin was a bad person.

[@hughhanson9919]

Errr... I really don't know what to say. Oh! I know - "There's none so blind as those who won't see." Happy new year glebperch!@@glebperch7585

[@jawalahalanehru]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin @@glebperch7585

[@nicoruppert4207]

Stalin was a "bad" person sure. But he was better than any other world leader. You forget Jim Crow america was far worse than the Soviet Union even at its lowest points. Stalin and his Bolsheviks might seem bad to our modern sensibilities, but don't you remember what they did to Indian children in the US and Canada? Stalin was a saint compared to the liberal bloodthirst of his time.

[@zloycommentator83]

​@@glebperch7585LMAOOO YOU GOT HIM👌😂

[@dlee732ad]

Pretty mis- guided.

[@lysenkotheory3400]

No

[@AJ-gc5mp]

@@lysenkotheory3400standard based Lysenko Chad response

[@AJ-gc5mp]

You misspelled misguided. Stalin would make you go back to schoolag

[@david_porthouse]

Parodies itself.

[@LeonTheSmartass]

Finally a sane person in this comment section 😅

[@panzerbanz7296]

Biggest L song ever.

[@sasho_b.]

Maybe if you love nazis. I dont and i like the song.

[@OhioGrandma46]

[@historytales202]

I disagree with absolutely everything in this song… but

[@dicktoet5655]

The most stuppid song of all time.

[@connorscanlan2167]

Cope and seethe.

[@danielescalantedemedeiros.]

The songs that capitalism makes to keep the people of my age aligned is way more stupid, I guarantee you

[@seltsimeess]

Ты самый глупый человек на свете

[@MemorineBeddowes]

You mean "The Star-Spangled Banana"?

[@jamesthomas4841]

This song is McColl's worst. Politically naive to the point of stupidity.

[@sasho_b.]

Liberal spotted

[@WorkingProleinc]

Opinion imidietly Rejected 😊​@@sasho_b.

[@andyboi8399]

I actually piss on this fucking tyrant but, this is a pretty good song.

[@nicoruppert4207]

Funny, what about Nicholas? Does he deserve the same ire?

[@sasho_b.]

Who? This song is about Stalin, not about Churchill nor Hitler? Which tyrant?

[@Awoo-]

The gulags had a lower death rate in 1953 than modern US prisons and the US currently holds 20% of the entire global prison population singlehandedly. Modern america is 1000x worse than anything you have in your head about the USSR.

[@YakovyurovskyX]

Being continually elected to all of your positions and being extremely popular with the people does not make a tyrant.

[@Christian-bv7el]

Die stalinistischen Säuberungen hat er wohl vergessen

[@Слышьты-ф4ю]

These have been made up by Nazis, and repeated by Khrushchev's gang. Yeah, yeah, NKVD shot 1,3 man per minute, one-by-one, riding across the whole country, keeping it secret and hiding all the bones

[@newjerseyyouth4853]

Trotsky better

[@NovajaPravda]

It doesn't matter, Trotskism to me is as good as a banner to convince westerner to support Marxist-Leninism. Stalin in reality helped continue the revolution in Soviet Union and he is much preferable to capitalism

[@nenomiusdasbevolkuet9327]

Pickaxe

[@pairtineach1917]

A better friend of fascism perhaps

[@sarahluise3153]

@@pairtineach1917 How can he be a better friend of fascism than the man who agreed to M-R Pact?

[@pairtineach1917]

@@sarahluise3153 Because while Stalin by all accounts signed the pact anticipating war with Nazi Germany in order to buy time to build up the Red Army after the Western powers had rejected Stalin's proposed collective defence treaty against Nazi Germany, Trotsky was making agreements with the Nazis to hand over Ukraine when he takes power in the Soviet Union, having his followers spy on the Soviet Union for Nazi Germany, telling his followers to collaborate with the Japanese in China rather than side with the KMT, having his followers act as fascist police agents in Horthyite Hungary. The list of Trotskyite involvement with fascism goes on

[@николайигнатенко-у1э]

Рот Фронт!

[@nicoruppert4207]

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