The Soviet Union | Part 1: Red October to Barbarossa | Free Documentary History

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The Soviet Union was officially formed in 1922, a country, a political experiment, an ideal, a great scar across history…
Officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR was a one-party state, governed, controlled, and tormented by a single-party rule. That of the Communist Party. No nation has inflicted such destruction on its own population in the name of progress. Power corroded the leadership, leaving the masses to suffer in the name of history. The very people who were supposed to be governing themselves.
There are many factors that affected the Soviet Union’s turbulent history, but the sheer ungovernable vastness of the country was inescapable. It was a nation the size of a continent stretching from Moscow to Vladivostok and from Leningrad to Stalingrad. What we might consider European Russia was dwarfed by the reaches of Siberia. Enacting any kind of policy took force. Complicated, contradictory figureheads would come and go, men, who held this impossible country it seemed by sheer will. Stalin the despot-hero whose cruelty knew few bounds united a nation to defeat Hitler. Khrushchev the crafty libertarian, who preached reform yet allowed an arms race to escalate. Brezhnev, that unreadable member of the old guard, sent history backward. And of course, Gorbachev, who brought vast change, modernization, and détente, yet saw the Soviet Union collapse under his rule - the untenable nation.
Over many painful years, this vast country locked itself away from the rest of the world, paranoid, economically uncertain, and repressive, while still casting a vast shadow across the world. The 20th century was shaped by its convulsions, its purges, its wars, and its leaders.
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[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

Power corroded the leadership, leaving the masses to suffer in the name of history. The very people who were supposed to be governing themselves. There are many factors that affected the Soviet Union’s turbulent history, but the sheer ungovernable vastness of the country was inescapable. It was a nation the size of a continent stretching from Moscow to Vladivostok and from Leningrad to Stalingrad. What we might consider European Russia was dwarfed by the reaches of Siberia. Enacting any kind of policy took force. Complicated, contradictory figureheads would come and go, men, who held this impossible country it seemed by sheer will. Over many painful years, this vast country locked itself away from the rest of the world, paranoid, economically uncertain, and repressive, while still casting a vast shadow across the world. The 20th century was shaped by its convulsions, its purges, its wars, and its leaders.

[@DrCruel]

Power was the purpose of socialism, specifically the power to make the masses toil and suffer for the enrichment and grandeur of the Bolsheviks. The proletariat was never meant to govern themselves. The Romanovs found the whole of Russia ungovernable through their archaic methods, but the Bolsheviks impose modern socialist methods of coercion, exploitation and terrorism to put an iron grip on the whole of their vast nation. In the process they crushed a young democracy under Kerensky, replacing it with a despotic socialist tyranny that crippled the Russian nation and set their political development back centuries. The United States, the great rival of the Bolshevik Empire, proved that a vast state could be rule democratically and for the goo of the common people. Instead the Bolshevik Empire, like all socialist regimes, was ruled for the goo of only a hereditary few. The dream for something better prove impossible for the Bolsheviks to kill, even as they starved the democratic soviets in their crib. Ultimately a kleptocracy of thieves became impossible to rule. Thus a great nation that had existed for centuries as a united whole fell to pieces due to Marxist socialist criminality, corruption and stupidity.

[@52daytripper]

power did not corrode the leadership, the leaders were murderous evil heinous people, the power they obtained just allowed them to perpetrate their evil on the population

[@Olga-de3ru]

Очередной безумный антисоветский скетч, достойный разве что Геббельса. Все больше убеждаюсь в том, что Запад -- природный очаг геббельсизма (и eo ipso гитлеризма, ибо это две стороны одной медали).

[@vidyanandbapat8032]

What happened to the dictatorship of the prolatariat? The dream of working class of the world?

[@MichaelEdwardWright1]

Enacting any kind of a policy took force? Nope. Murdering people and their Free markets took mass murder.

[@wreckagevic]

I’ve been waiting for this. Thank you

[@joeyanny8018]

One of the most outstanding documentary films on the subject matter I’ve seen. Bravissimo!!! Thank you!!! I’ve passed to many friends. Bless you. Joe

[@johneze6693]

It's garbage, Nothing like Ukraine during this time

[@alonelyfridge]

I love history and this channel is amazing at explaining it thank you

[@diegodiniz-zw9fn]

Thanks for broadcasting it!This represent a significant era for all over worldwide's politic,so it must be called on of course that one we have learnt through of history,also our mistakes that were made in name of political fanatism.The history can be showing it,right now. History is the past that influency the present!Here is its importance today.

[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

I know. Lets open the southern border.

[@diegodiniz-zw9fn]

@@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858 What is the concept of border for you?I think it was created to feed the inequality among nations.

[@nigggaaaaaaaaaaaa]

This documentary just explained all the stuffs... Appreciations

[@DanielAldous-yu7kj]

💀💀💀

[@paulmarsh5325]

I CAN NEVER GET TIRED OF LEARNING ABOUT RUSSIA!!!

[@smisomajola3098]

Outstanding documentary, thank you

[@The_dude_channel]

this was incredibly well done

[@arkady714]

Brilliant and compelling. Thank you for posting this excellent video. One small note: It was a pleasure and, dare I say, a relief to watch 45+ minutes of documentary without once hearing the (now meaningless) word "iconic."

[@augustusomega4708]

But they are Iconic!

[@marinatopal7616]

if you speak about Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact why don't you say a word about Munich Agreement?

[@kkanjiro]

A fair point but I'd not have an expectation of them to speak of such matters since they're the winners.

[@user-nr5tp2jo3u]

No, because it contradicts global agenda

[@colemcclain7319]

I thoroughly enjoyed this

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

excellent. Always very happy to hear that

[@olgashekhanina4818]

Жили мы в СССР в 60 - 80-е годы как и не снилось гражданам капиталистических стран: бесплатное всеобщее образование, бесплатная медицина, бесплатное жилье, мирное время. По принципу: человек человеку друг, товарищ и брат. Сейчас мы в диком капитализме.

[@anastaziajade4604]

It’s Called God given freedom

[@Smittron]

Someone has to pay for all of the free stuff.

[@thulean_mysteries]

Дефицит/отсутствие: туалетной бумаги; одноразовых шприцов; женских прокладок; таких обыденных для наших современников, фруктов, как бананы, гранат, апельсины, ананасы, манго и т. д.; молока и молочных изделий, вроде йогуртов; мяса и мясных изделий; холодильников; телевизоров; стиральных машинок, автомобилей и пр. И да, бесплатного жилья не было, нет и никогда не будет. Вообще нет ничего бесплатного. В Советское время, это выглядело так: стоимость жилья, заранее входила в зарплату гражданина (а работать был обязан каждый). Какую страну потеряли… 😢

[@olgashekhanina4818]

@@thulean_mysteries 😮

[@dimzyk4134]

Тебе бы главное пожрать от пуза?При СССР был мир,вот что главное и то,чего сейчас так не хватает.Зато жрачки полно теперь@@thulean_mysteries

[@wimdefoort7698]

Very good and new insights

[@donofon1014]

The Tsar fell ... and then Lenin ? Not one tip of the script to the "February Revolution" or Kerensky or the Bolshevik coup called the October Revolution. That would have burned up a minute or two.

[@dorkthrone]

And after Lenin, Stalin just kind of shows up. Very in depth stuff.

[@jakhr1729]

@@dorkthroneHe just felt like it

[@WorldUnity-dq4ln]

It’s funny that the West refuse to talk about the deaths outside Bengal during the Bengal famine because Bengal was not the only place devastated by the famine. Other parts of India were affected as well.

[@jon82489]

Because it was Churchills famine

[@Someone-mq7hc]

I am not even 14 or smth like that, since 2 years, i was addicted to history, so i learned pretty much things that my classmates dont even know about

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

that’s how I started. Reading and watching everything I could. I’m working toward my PhD in history.

[@Someone-mq7hc]

@@FreeDocumentaryHistory :)

[@kurzeful]

What a blessing to watch this informative video about my favourite country in the history of mankind

[@hillarious2393]

At 02:58 autor says "The Roman dinasty has fell" - but nobody says that not are bolsheviks overthrew the Tsar, but his allies - deputie of russian parlament mr Shulgin at 02/03/1917 after when the tsar abdicated the throne at that date, monarch has been arrested by non comenistic deputies of russian parlament.

[@manikandank2538]

Interesting documentry 👍

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@taylorclark2100]

Part two when

[@TopTrend89083]

Good

[@user-yj6mk9cb7j]

Good Morning Kelly.. Again.... Thanks NYPD

[@user-xj5mx5my4z]

Last photo of Lenin was truly Gastly. His skin was totally charcoal colored, and the night before his death, he was howling at the moon saying "weiter weiter" .

[@a.z.b.1916]

Good documentary but impossible to watch. Without adblocker youtube is worst than television now.

[@Sandman2007]

Cry a little more.

[@kimberlybrown5348]

It's about $10 for premium. No ads

[@bongo9384]

​@@kimberlybrown5348Much too expensive for me. But a slight better than cable.

[@crushtheserpent]

You're using the wrong browser. I have no such problems

[@motojunkie8348]

Why didn't you talk about the Romanov family and how they were all brutally murdered including the children? That seems pretty important.

[@jeffreyval9665]

They were already deposed and irrelevant. Probably wouldn't of made any difference what happened to them in the end.

[@Cris-if8kf]

That information is irrelevant at this point

[@asullivan4047]

Why not they were no more important then the rest of the millions whom were murdered. They were the sole reason for the revolution.

[@TreyMessiah95]

They wore angels themselves they wore just as corrupt, and also they wore already gone at this point.

[@eldios831]

Maybe you should talk about the people they murdered...by your logic we should have forgiven Saddam and his son's and given them honorary American citizenship😂😂😂😂

[@EngPheniks]

Salute to USSR, India's good and true friend during Indo-Pakistani war

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

"Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of then." -- Roger Zelazny

[@ericbush3399]

Yes, it should. The populace is just that weak. Is the government still murderous? Are you that afraid of saying anything disparaging?

[@informedtraveler3014]

@drewpballz6794 more like Putin is trying to bring back Imperial Russia

[@dsadawrware]

soviet union had 15x russia's GDP

[@ericbush3399]

@@dsadawrware ....but you couldn't buy a loaf of bread.

[@dimzyk4134]

@@ericbush3399 This already happened under Gorbachev (let him burn in hell) who brought the country to destruction.

[@jayspik6498]

I’d like to see the same documentary made by Russians 🇷🇺 and see the difference between the two, people would be surprised

[@EmanTheWeedMan]

Such as?

[@KneGros-nc1ss]

Putin increasing the budget by 700mil dollar equivalent and the documentary claiming Zero deaths in gulags with the population shocked he denied "brotherly slaughter" happening to russians themselves due to the USSR. Thats my guess

[@Goom-lg5fp]

i was thinking the same thing, let Russia tell the story from their perspective

[@marinasinelnikova5876]

Russians have a lot of differing views about their own history, so you'd need at least three documentaries. Or five. Or one, but with experts fighting each other.

[@Soulslike420]

You do know that you have Russians that loved and that hated the USSR.

[@donaldbraugh2314]

Did anyone notice the bottle of spirits Stalin was drinking while speaking from the lecturn or was it l'eau minerale? Wow

[@tomservo75]

This was very enlightening. I was hoping for a more detailed look at how the USSR first formed, rather than a more broad history. Still entertaining.

[@kambigbad]

What is the source of the video at 00:11?

[@bevanabrey7865]

"Stalin is an unnatural man"....I think it was Anthony Eden who said that...that's hitting the nail on the head, using few words.

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

At 8:20: "Him and Lenin worked out the question of the nationalities," eh? Are you planning on doing a version of this documentary in English any time soon?

[@putra6106]

The only gripe is that this channel doesn't provide the english subtitles. Auto generated is useless.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

Thank you for the input - I’ll bring it up with the team to see if we can improve

[@putra6106]

@@FreeDocumentaryHistory Thank you very much Sir. 💝💝💝

[@krakowski-ruch-katolikow]

It's a little surprising the documentary doesn't mention the Miracle of the Vistula in 1920 - the battle in which Joseph Stalin was one of the commanders. The invading Red Army heading towards the West was stopped at the gates of Warsaw. There's no telling how much further they would have reached had they not been stopped there, for their original plans included going as far west as Italy. The name of the battle comes from the fact that a Polish communications officer forgot to cypher his message. The result was that the Polish battle plans got into the hands of the Red Army. For some reason their generals assumed, that it was an attempt to trick them. The Polish army was thus able to deal a defeating blow to the Red Army. The key battle took place on the 15th of August, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, venerated as the Queen of Poland.

[@juliusraben3526]

Oooooh noooooo, ive seen many docus about the soviet union. All of them didnt mention it. How can i ever look at the same way at the soviet union...................

[@sandrama22]

Poland grabbed lands of Russia while it was in great turmoil. Poland should stop crying- it’s hyena of Europe.

[@phil__K]

Yup, its very rarely remembered in western historiography

[@williamgill5286]

@@juliusraben3526 u will dont worry

[@bobdollaz3391]

They would've been stopped by the Stahlhelm and Freikorp.

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Lenin 😈 was a clever/astute/opportunist whom patiently waited in exile. Upon his return to Moscow's chaotic political situation. Connected with Stalin to finalize the Kremlin revolution. With the assistance of the disillusioned Bolsheviks. Many whom were murdered or imprisoned. After Stalin 😈 had an iron clad communist ideology syndrome over Russia. Lenin was the lesser of two evils being diabolically paranoid Stalin 😈.

[@anggvoagg7881]

I had this for sega

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

The thing about Uncle Joe is that you never knew where you stood.

[@user-hq7nf7tp1e]

Sa digmaan laging panalo ang marami ngunit ang totoo mas marami ang mga mamamayan ng bawat lupain na ayaw ng digmaan. Mag ingat kayo

[@chadczternastek]

24:00 in these times where the poorest people still have leftovers every night, its hard to wrap your brain around an entire country that's literally dying by the hundreds of thousands because food is just not there. I cant imagine how that must if been, torture wise. Watching yout wife, husband, son, daughters, just breaks me humans can be so ruthless and hate each other.

[@johnmesser522]

What's scary...these food shortages can happen rapidly and we are not immune... here and now !!

[@Sandman2007]

Collectivism in a the most basic form.

[@jerrymartin4450]

Please can anyone tell me the name of the man on the right-side of stallin, with a suit and glasses at 21:03?

[@Chaldon-hl6yk]

Leo Bronshtein

[@eaccou4270]

@@Chaldon-hl6yk No, it's not. It's Lev Kamenev

[@myassizitchy]

Kamanev

[@PuerAeternus56]

It's Mikhail Kalinin

[@SusieDaw-ix6pv]

No audio. Sad :(

[@garrettcohen365]

Turn up the volume

[@myassizitchy]

Yeah. Turn it up a tad. Its there

[@shahzadiqbal219]

Russia's vastness is it's defence

[@arturamatuni5801]

Lenin to vere a Jewish by he's mother side. Moters last name was Blank

[@SymphonyBrahms]

His family was aristocratic.

[@thulean_mysteries]

Yes, the revolution as a whole was made by Jews.

[@GooseGumlizzard]

no he wasn't. There is an argument that his mother's father may have been Jewish and converted to Christianity, but its not a fact, and even if it was that would only make him 1/4 Jewish and Jewishness is matrilineal anyway.

[@ouroborosnagyok9306]

@@SymphonyBrahmslol

[@cicaizrogace8054]

Vredi pogledati. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@The_Ninedalorian]

27:05 GEE THAT SOUNDS SO FAMILIAR! What does that remind you of, Jack?.... Jack? Patty, have you seen Mr. Smith? "He's in Washington, sir. Uncle Joe had a task for him" OH... damn too familiar.

[@josephleonard1724]

42:20 did he though??....

[@willboudreau1187]

Trotsky was sent off to do pheasant shooting while Stalin stayed put and engaged in peasant shooting. A bitter symmetry.

[@variain]

"from out of nowhere, Vladimir Lenin..." ???

[@salvadorvizcarra769]

Yup... In this video talk about the Communist Russians, as if these Russians were not Russians. That's confusing. The "Communist" Russians are Russians. They are as Russian, as the Russians of all Russia are equally Russian. These Russians did not come from underground, nor did they come from outer space. They are Russians of Russia and therefore, they do have every Right to claim the sovereignty of Russia. So, why call these Russians "Communists" or "Soviet"? They are RUSSIAN!

[@joesalyers]

Pretty good documentary. But I wish these documentaries would look deeper into Stalin before the revolution outside of the normal things that are said. Before he was Stalin he was called Koba which for those who don't know is because he was the highest ranking member of the Georgian Mafia this is why Stalin never went after the criminal elements of the Vory (Russian Mafia) during his dictatorship. Stalin was basically the equivalent to what westeners would understand as a Mafia Godfather. He robbed banks and used union muscle to call for protests and strikes. Stalin nearly single handedly kept money in the Bolshevik coffers up until the revolution. He lived in lavish places. So when the opportunity to move into real political power outside of criminality he took it. This is how he was able to maneuver around the quote "smarter politicians". Stalin outsmarted them with street smarts and common sense something that the political dreamers and upper class socialists never saw coming. These things are rarely covered sine its the intellectuals that write about Stalin and they see him in exactly the same way his contemporaries saw him which was utterly misguided and wrong. It would be like John Gotti or Al Capone becoming Secretary of State in the USA and everyone brushing them off because they are just petty common folk and not a part of the political class. I'm not a communist but I find Stalin fascinating. He's basically the Russian version of Lucky Luciano except he came from being a mob boss to ruling half of the world before his death. He was more powerful than any Tsar or Caesar and ruled an Empire larger than Genghis Khan or the Romans. All while intellectuals take about how dumb and ignorant to politics Stalin was. From where I'm sitting he seems like the smarter politician than everyone else in the Bolshevik regime. His rise to power is actually fascinating but you really have to look at Russian post 1991 biographies to get a feel for who Stalin really was! Cheers!!!

[@samlazar1053]

Traditionally Russian politics evolved on Keeping a good relationship whit either France or Germany but also a safe distance from the slaughter hause that Europe historically was.. But what made Stalin suddenly want to subdue all of Europe. And I think it was about fundamental changes russia was experiencing internally and the Complete Collapse of all European empires in World war 1.( plus a Russian civil war. That anger gave rise to Stalinism

[@stanleyquaye8851]

Trosky real name was Lev Davidovich Bronstein

[@GooseGumlizzard]

ok? Lenin's real name was Ulyanov. Stalin's real name was Dzhugashvili

[@valvlad3176]

In 1922 Soviet Union was born" I see you have some abilities beyond but it was 1924. I know, two years of my country's life means none to you, but that was a lot for 200 mil people living there then and it means a lot for me now still. Check the history of early 20s in Asia - mean Russia and China - and you'd better understand what is going on now. Including names, personalities, chains of events.

[@ouroborosnagyok9306]

@@drewpballz6794stop capping

[@hyperionsixzeroeight5064]

The Ruse of the Kosher Kabal union to be precise.

[@dasritzoo9234]

Lenin was a genius, and I encourage everyone here to read State and Revolution.

[@52daytripper]

an evil genius perhaps

[@AmericanProletariat161]

Vladimir Lenin is the reason why I understand the class struggle living in an imperial United States.

[@Sandman2007]

@@AmericanProletariat161says the person who has no skills to pay the bills.

[@1965Grit]

😂😂😂 Imperialist nation😅😅, We are not an empire, in fact, we are becoming more like a Socialist State.

[@AmericanProletariat161]

@1965Grit Profit market economy is not becoming a socialist state. Right now, we have corporations in the back pockets of politicians on both aisles that are passing bills through legislation that benefits the big wigs, not the working class.

[@Smittron]

Thank you for this video series. I wonder what poison Stalin fed Lenin to get him out of the way?

[@SymphonyBrahms]

And what Khrushchev did to Stalin to get him out of the way.

[@syourke3]

Lenin had a series of strokes and was all but dead when he actually died. Stalin was already running things by them.

[@PhoenixAscending]

Stalin was very smart to heavily industrialize the USSR, because if he hadn't, Germany would have completely demolished them. He was a very smart, shrewd man...but also cut-throat, sadistic, cruel, and evil

[@ouroborosnagyok9306]

this he had to, he wanted the USSR to survive if any other western nations leader does the same theyre considered a hero but stalin wears the red star so ooooh bad bad bad

[@minhtamvo4524]

The Soviet union once upon I love I love ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@jeansherwood2428]

Pairs nicely with The Death of Stalin.

[@comradestalin9442]

Sometimes I just feel like Tsar-lin

[@frankiefrank4853]

Centralized Power = The People are The Capital

[@russell2910]

Term oil

[@user-kg8ik1qq6l]

Read Timothy Synder's 2 books: Bloodlands, and Borderlands- for more indepth history of this mass murder state.

[@mattverville9227]

wonder what would have been different in world history if lenin would have lived longer.

[@billotto602]

My heart breaks for the Russian people. To live in horror about what your own government might do to you & your entire family for the smallest transgression. I wonder if they'll ever get the chance to live free & truly at peace. 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️

[@alekisp6814]

You must read, how majority of Russian people lived before October revolution. And after it you can understand, why people supported Lenin and Bolscheviks.

[@adamwatson6916]

You didn't even need to be guilty of a small transgression. Many were killed for fabricated transgressions or no transgressions at all .

[@alexeyb6129]

My heart breaks for the American people. To live under terror of its own army during miners strikes in 1920-x and under race segregation, to work 12 hours a day till 1938, to be black in labour camps is a hard torture.

[@zuibeckpulezon4626]

And u think you're free ??

[@franciasii2435]

Waka Waka, still happens, just not as bad(?)

[@coletrain6545]

Out of the frying pan and into the flame

[@mosesmanaka8109]

So-called Historians always forget to ask the important questions like, who funded Lenin and the Revolution?

[@blackadam6445]

Who did fund him? Deep pockets required

[@mosesmanaka8109]

@@blackadam6445 New York Bankers.

[@superduperwan]

@@mosesmanaka8109 is that the germany guy that helped japan, and the 'red shield'? 🤔

[@blackadam6445]

@@mosesmanaka8109 these New York bankers… could they use similar tactics to stage false flags in our own country? Whether it’s war in the Middle East or war in Europe it doesn’t matter. Makes money all the same in their eyes I’m sure

[@was1992]

French

[@dietrichschluter5562]

Stalin had 3 defense positions in russia, he was aware of an attack but thought it was impossible for the germans to break these lines.

[@dww-yo4xz]

The assertion that the collectivization caused the hunger is wrong. Crop failures happened in the Russian Empire every few years due the harsh climate. Actually, the collectivization was the measure to use agricultural machinery, so to level up the productivity and to end the hunger problems. . The issue was, when the drought came, the grain reserves were already contracted for the export, so the possibility for help was not big. Still, where collectivization was in progress, the people got centralized food help from the state, whereas otherwise it was depending from the local authorities some of whom were unintended to help or just corrupt. . That's why some areas were struck by hunger, and their neighbor areas were not. But the authors are biased themselves, so don't mention this fact.

[@jons4418]

Don’t stop lying, it suits you.

[@ouroborosnagyok9306]

@@jons4418keep being a mindless beta, it suits you

[@jons4418]

@@ouroborosnagyok9306 you don’t know from nothing you’re the bot

[@subratr5807]

Did that mf just called Lenin "Moonfaced Balding Dictator"?.. 😅😅😅

[@bertbaker7067]

The USSR wasn't perfect, but we need to try something new and build on what worked for them and fix what didn't. It doesn't take a genius to see that our current system is not working anymore.

[@mattclark6721]

Famous last words. What you are not a fan on of crony captilisim? Getting more crony everyday

[@ouroborosnagyok9306]

@@mattclark6721its not crony capitalism wtf is that term, use your brain its just capitalism, its working exactly how its meant to

[@alexandercelevra2393]

This movie is very important and came at the right time as it captures accurate historical facts. In Russia, all school history textbooks have recently been rewritten. In Ukraine they were rewritten even earlier, a few years after 2014. Russian textbooks now contain an alternative version of history that does not contain inconvenient and bloody truths that can in any way denigrate or cast a shadow on Russia today, challenge its greatness, power or special historical role in establishing justice in the world. For public reporting of many reliable facts is now criminalized. Therefore, in Russia today history as a science no longer exists, and the study of history as a hobby and volunteering in archaeological excavations of mass graves of victims of Stalinist repression is dangerous. A few years ago, a criminal case of pedophilia was fabricated against a scientist who was the organizer of such excavations. In Ukraine, after the beginning of the conflict in 2014 and the change of the country's course from pro-Russian to pro-Western, history textbooks were rewritten with an emphasis on the idea of Ukraine's existence as a full-fledged independent state since ancient times and the ancient Ukrainian nation with its own language and culture. Throughout history Russia is presented as a neighbor-aggressor state living with wars of conquest and constantly encroaching on the integrity of Ukraine and pursuing a policy of genocide of Ukrainians during the Soviet period, which is called the period of Soviet occupation. Therefore, a professional scientific view from the outside like this documentary is what can save history, prevent its distortion for the pursuit of certain political interests and give people the opportunity to learn the truth about their country, their origins and themselves. People should have the right to know these

[@yewfei3324]

When we talk about the early founding years of the soviet union and compare the modern day state of russia which is stronger my answer is the former soviet union.

[@O-Mf-Faulk]

😊

[@DajeilGelian]

The Russian Revolution was the most succcessful Regime Change Operation ever. The German high command sought out poor Lenin in Zurich. He had been immersed in Karl Marx' ideology of communism. So they took Lenin, his books and gave him 5 Mio Goldmarks- and off on a train to Sankt Petersburg. The Operation was super successful and created the Sovietunion. So for all those who wonder who created the Soviet Union- it was not the Russians. It was the Germans based on a German ideology. But to understand complex systems and how they evolve one needs an intellect that can model such systems- and honestly very, very few can. :)

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

13:00 - Uncle Joe likely got the idea from the Ptolemies (imitatio Alexandri) - Lenin:Stalin = Alexander III The Great: Ptolemy I Soter

[@cliffgaither]

Lenin was not even in Russia when the Revolution happened.

[@aliosman1406]

Rip al innocent people of al wars

[@jordantynkler201]

Мы будем восхвалять Советский Союз, пока сможем.

[@livianegidius9772]

From stone age to supepower. And ideas that created Soviet Union will soon rise again.

[@firstal3799]

A thing to note is famines were a part of course for much of human populations until quite recently. And so was it in Russia of the time. I am not in a position to say if Russian state policies didn't contribute or exacerbate it, which it probably did. But we have to see it in context especially when we are aware of the tremendous ideological and competing bias against Soviet Russia

[@foxy_codone4779]

It wasn't just exacerbated, it was completely created by Stalin taking food from peasants and then hiding his doings from the larger cities. Drought or crop fail is not to blame, Stalin is.

[@1965Grit]

I try to explain that to people all the time, before anyone can judge what happened, you must first understand what the entire world was like at the time, we cannot judge people of the past based on today's standards, we should only judge them on the standards of the time in which they lived.

[@firstal3799]

Exactly.

[@paulmarsh5325]

I WONDER IF STALIN TALKED GEORGIAN AS WELL AS RUSSIAN.

[@jons4418]

Don’t wonder, he did

[@gts3004]

Why did he kill the kulaks?

[@raymondhartmeijer9300]

because they were sabotaging the economy by setting fields ablaze and killing lifestock. They were economic criminals

[@comradezy]

Because they resisted collectivization by sabotaging their own crops and livestock and thus caused the famine.

[@whisperware]

The older woman referred to socialism as an economy owned by the state, this is not socialism.

[@52daytripper]

actually yes it is, it is where the state runs everything

[@whisperware]

@@52daytripper Nope, that's a lie the american government has been consistently feeding you since McCarthy. You've never read socialist theory, I'd bet the bank on it.

[@KneGros-nc1ss]

State owns everything. All matches up. Just because it didnt come out an utopia does'nt mean you can deny its real identity.

[@whisperware]

@@KneGros-nc1ss All socialism says is that the worker owns his labor. That's it. This idea that all socialism is, is a planned economy is not only a lie, it's entirely outside of the realm anything socialism is attempting to do. Socialism recognizes that centrally planned economies don't work. Stalin purged his offices of dissenters after he inherited an agrarian empire to create a country in his own image, directly a contrarian to a democratically owned workplace. If you ask me, the way our economy runs today through lobbying and paid politics is closer to a centrally planned economy that the soviet economy had, the only difference is, instead of organizing raw materials into weapons of war, it's graduated, in peacetime, to insider trading, nepotism, and most importantly of all, class warfare. I mean really, when the Ruso-Ukrainian war began, the headlines called Russian leadership oligarchs, as if we don't have a small group of the wealthy elite, making a bi-partisan effort to buy America every four years. Bootlick all you want, you don't even understand what you disagree with.

[@Sandman2007]

@@whisperwarethe worker wants to own the means of production, without putting in the risk. If you despise the US so much, then immigrate to China. But I know you won’t, because secretly you love this corrupt country and our luxuries. And our rights.

[@PinkyJujubean]

Russia's rapid industrialization was a separate genocide unto itself. The appalling working conditions, abuse, danger, etc cost a whole lot of lives

[@dietrichschluter5562]

Stalin knews what he did

[@samlazar1053]

Remember..in times of chaos and Desperation. A people will find their Messiah....the Fhurer the Duce the Vozdah.

[@vishnur1437]

❤🔥💪😘

[@mtawali13]

Russia never disappoints 😂

[@stevefisher2553]

Exactly what is happening in the former United States of America

[@marccru]

???? What?

[@pyatig]

One can only hope

[@SymphonyBrahms]

Nothing is happening to the U.S.A. Socialism will not happen here. Neither will faschism. The American people don't like either of those philosophies.

[@stevefisher2553]

@@SymphonyBrahms we are fighting fascism.

[@stevefisher2553]

@@SymphonyBrahms hope you are right

[@marcosmatul6513]

soviet union is the greatest power

[@jons4418]

The Soviet Union is dead, defunct, extinct, and what’s more, no longer extant.

[@markjonelotico3455]

All of us look alike🧑‍🚀🏧🔒

[@bangyahead1]

LOL If the Soviet Union was to define the entire 20th century, then, logically, by that definition, the entire 20th century was an EPIC FAIL.

[@gfNavy731]

Precisely

[@americaneclectic]

The cruelty under the Soviet Regime cannot be left underestimated-Robert Conquest gives a carefully accumulated total for the Stalin years (at least 20,000,000 killed) 7 ; and in his samizdat translated into English, Dyadkin, a Soviet geophysicist, did a demographic analysis of excess Soviet deaths, 1926 to 1954, and concluded that Soviet repression killed 23,100,000 to 32,000,000 ...

[@Mentol_]

This is fake numbers which not confirmed by documents.

[@manishpatel2525]

128 ethnic groups to be exact.

[@TinTaBraSS777]

этнических групп всего 4 словяне тюрки ромская и семитская )

[@wadewillsayit...]

This is sad

[@maapaa2010]

Evil outcast. Clearly he was a madman.

[@migueltarrero3333]

Terror, blody, they dark side....walt Disney movie

[@patrickdesimone8310]

Everyone of us no matter how important you think you are will be Judged at death by THE ULTIMATE JUDGE ,WHO IS ALSO MERCIFUL ,THANK THE LORD , JESUS HAVE MERCY ON US JESUS HAVE MERCY ON US ,JESUS HAVE MERCY ON US !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@hapham7479]

Quốc khánh nước cộng hoà nhân dân Cuba 1959 cũng mở ra tranh sử sáng