Museum of Communist Terror
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Photos of innocent people about to be executed - The Great Terror in the Soviet Union.
These are people who were executed soon after these photographs were taken. The pictures were taken by the NKVD, the Soviet secret police during the Great Terror of 1937-38. At the moment the photographs were taken, many of them will have understood or suspected that they would soon be shot. All the individuals shown were "rehabilitated" 15 or more years after their execution. In other words, none of them was guilty of any crime. The Great Terror was part of the way Stalin maintained the power of the Communist Party and himself. People were encouraged to denounce each other. Sometimes they denounced others out of malice. Sometimes they did so out of fear that otherwise they would be denounced themselves. Local officials had to fulfill quotas of executions. They would sometimes exceed their quotas - killing yet more innocent people - In order to demonstrate their loyalty to the party.
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КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @Pisti846
    @Pisti846 3 дні тому

    Mr. Forgas reminds me of my grandfather, especially his boyhood picture.

  • @prahamama8915
    @prahamama8915 10 днів тому

    I wish. I was. Hoping. My. Kids. Listen. To. Me. ……useless. Me.

  • @erzsebetnilsson580
    @erzsebetnilsson580 12 днів тому

    They LIBERTATED HUNGARY and the current cigany minister is robbed the country along with those BETREADERS JEWS who tuned and fooled the US for them self to come in the power and be able to establish FEADUALISM where the WHOLE HUNGARY is given and is in the NAME OF THE ORBAN FAMILY which is cigany > MAY GOD ROT THEM ALL and give the countries properties BACK TO THE PEOPLE and not to the CIGANY TERROR AS IT IS NOW> CIGANYS ARE LIKE A RATS OF HIS KIND and these current bulshit time . REMEMBER ! THE US DO NOT HELP EVER and ANYONE! THEY KILL IN THE WORLDS CRUELLEST WAY ! that is ONLY they have brain too.

  • @ulyanov17
    @ulyanov17 14 днів тому

    How do we know they were innocent?

    • @museumofcommunistterror
      @museumofcommunistterror 13 днів тому

      As stated at the end of the video, all these individuals were "rehabilitated" after Stalin's death. In other words, it was officially confirmed by the government that they had not committed a crime.

  • @alexspuswiss
    @alexspuswiss Місяць тому

    Thing is that Winnie the Pooh wants to be that dog Mao.

  • @attilatasciko4817
    @attilatasciko4817 Місяць тому

    😶‍🌫️🤔🤫🫣😵‍💫😵😱🥶 = russians liberated hungary from germans ‽ Just like a joke , un forces liberated germany from nazi germans .= OCCUPIER FORCES " LIBERATEING COUNTRIES ‽ THE RUSSIANS LIBERATED HUNGARY FROM 1945 TIL 1992 ! COMMON NOW ! OR WHAT THE GERMANS TOLD , NOT LIBERATED BUT OCCUPIED GERMANY THE INVADORS . Etc... Ps : Who knows what would be if dictator hitler not invade russia . Etc...

  • @jackhadroom4540
    @jackhadroom4540 Місяць тому

    I recommend the epic documentary, Ceausescu: The King of Communism (now on youtube and on DVD iirc).

  • @Heegooat
    @Heegooat 2 місяці тому

    The strongest of wills

  • @SagittarianArrows
    @SagittarianArrows 2 місяці тому

    West needs to accept that China has risen - Kishore Mahbubani ua-cam.com/video/Hu2RHPuFZWY/v-deo.html

  • @SagittarianArrows
    @SagittarianArrows 2 місяці тому

    We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. - Mao Zedong Kishore Mahbubani REVEALS China's Strategy to Counter the US ua-cam.com/video/B6reZTScNIs/v-deo.html

  • @SagittarianArrows
    @SagittarianArrows 2 місяці тому

    We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. - Mao Zedong Kishore Mahbubani REVEALS China's Strategy to Counter the US ua-cam.com/video/B6reZTScNIs/v-deo.html

  • @alexslootsky5476
    @alexslootsky5476 2 місяці тому

    …my grandfather was one of them; arrested in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in 1937 and executed few days later. Among half a million people executed only this one year in Leningrad.

  • @ryanharris6045
    @ryanharris6045 2 місяці тому

    Rehabilitated not exonerated, it looks like the government has a ways to go.

  • @ObmalizeKeyrings
    @ObmalizeKeyrings 2 місяці тому

    The kind of society the woke left wants to impose on the West. Already taking shape in the UK as we speak.

  • @johnryan2193
    @johnryan2193 3 місяці тому

    What a brilliant talk , thanks.

  • @damascusrose7369
    @damascusrose7369 3 місяці тому

    Beware of the couple of tankie trolls in this comment section, praising the supposed benefits of communism: they are probably party members who live much better than the rest of the citizens jnder the boot of communism. I know because two family members from Moldova were party members.

  • @gyurmethlodroe1774
    @gyurmethlodroe1774 3 місяці тому

    CCP today likes to put the blame on cutural revolution for 1 .2 million Tibettans deaths ( one sixth of the population) but let me tell you most of them died during the invasion in the 1950s. Cultural revolution came only in the 1960s

  • @zsoltmolnar750
    @zsoltmolnar750 3 місяці тому

    Communism itself is a very dangerous system. In some counties it wasn't so hard but dangerous. I've experienced it. NEVER AGAIN!!!!!

  • @Xandil
    @Xandil 3 місяці тому

    The Gulag Archipelago volumes expose communism for what is really is. Those are life changing books. However, it seems few have learned the hard lessons of the 20th century, those paid in blood, and willingly buy the lies still today. What uneducated fools we have in the West.

  • @peterfekete2636
    @peterfekete2636 3 місяці тому

    The world still does not understand of the Real Nature of Communist, how evil and corrupt can be.

  • @georgemurray2901
    @georgemurray2901 3 місяці тому

    Coming to the USA from MAGA 2025

  • @estelleadamski308
    @estelleadamski308 3 місяці тому

    Stalin wanted ppl to denounce ea. other? Well that is what happened during the pandemic, snitch lines were set up so a friend , relative or neighbor could call a hotline and inform the authorities about a misdeed they saw committed. So it has already started here in America. We have to be alert & not vote for politicians who support this.

  • @Grace.allovertheplace
    @Grace.allovertheplace 3 місяці тому

    1:14:14 She’s Ukrainian 🇺🇦🫡so yes she is strong 💙💛

  • @романсафронов-п9п
    @романсафронов-п9п 3 місяці тому

    Рассчитано на идиотов, неспособных читать первоисточники!

  • @Norm363
    @Norm363 3 місяці тому

    Stalin killed over 15 million people but almost nobody knows that. Its always about the 6 million......

  • @robharris6874
    @robharris6874 3 місяці тому

    Stalin murdered well over 20 million of his own people in the name of communism!

  • @Hernando_de_Soto
    @Hernando_de_Soto 3 місяці тому

    Marx didn't say anything about killing people. The URSS was a dictatorship.

  • @charlemagne9449
    @charlemagne9449 3 місяці тому

    read 200 years together

  • @clenildecosta5272
    @clenildecosta5272 3 місяці тому

    Os responsáveis estarão queimando por toda a eternidade. Nada fica impune.

  • @Rusikulya
    @Rusikulya 3 місяці тому

    Abaninath Mukherjee was an Indian Communist in Russia. He cofounded the Communist Party of India (Tashkent Group). But was shot on 28 Oct 1937. Soviet Union acknowledged his death only in 1955.

  • @antonimohedanolopez169
    @antonimohedanolopez169 3 місяці тому

    ¡Viva Stalin! Héroe de los trabajadores. Por mucho que le tiren toneladas de mentiras sobre su tumba seguiremos defendiendo a quién desarrolló la Unión Soviética y mejoró enormemente el nivel de vida de la población, aplastó al fascismo y salvaguardó la revolución de los enemigos del pueblo. Que no se note que os financia el Tío Sam.

  • @begisss
    @begisss 3 місяці тому

    Это типо как то должно обличать коммунизм или что?

  • @shanescott8717
    @shanescott8717 3 місяці тому

    Never forget the scourge of collectivism and communism.

  • @Dada-rh1xs
    @Dada-rh1xs 3 місяці тому

    Wow they fund soviet union and they blame soviet union (namely German Empire is the prime reason soviet union appear in the first place bcs they literally funded the revolution)

  • @mwol5473
    @mwol5473 3 місяці тому

    Watch Europa the last battle

  • @eysgxdh
    @eysgxdh 3 місяці тому

    А минусы будут?

  • @between666
    @between666 3 місяці тому

    War gods would of taken it all back from Stalin Hitler Churchill pol pot ECT..kind of a empty vessel after it's gone. Something the victims were spared. Live die then fade away is put to them.

  • @deblou7
    @deblou7 3 місяці тому

    This was called the Holodomor and it was carried out by bolshevik jews... stalin didnt lift a weapon he gave the orders

  • @tomoplt5437
    @tomoplt5437 3 місяці тому

    The question is who developed and implemented idea of communism in Russia as such. It was not Russians.

  • @karloman1
    @karloman1 3 місяці тому

    What EVIL EXISTED AND TILL THIS DAY SATAN IS IN CONTROL OF RUSSIA…. But not for long…

  • @MrPapaKUMAR
    @MrPapaKUMAR 3 місяці тому

    This is nothing to compare what happened in gulags !!!

  • @ВалерийАртемьев-о3и
    @ВалерийАртемьев-о3и 3 місяці тому

    More Russians died under Stalin than under Hitler. Gulag, Sibgulag, Nazi tragedy and this is just the tip of the iceberg. Europeans did not know all these tragedies, since there was an “Iron Curtain” in the USSR...

  • @mariaa.7624
    @mariaa.7624 3 місяці тому

    Commies will say this is AI generated or something. Anything but admitting they're wrong by supporting a criminal ideology.

  • @СтаниславБайков
    @СтаниславБайков 3 місяці тому

    What about the Museum of migrant Terror

  • @tata-galaxy
    @tata-galaxy 3 місяці тому

    Putin is kommunist from 1974

  • @HaiteLibbies
    @HaiteLibbies 3 місяці тому

    Communists tried to murder Trump

    • @insaneclownponies9599
      @insaneclownponies9599 3 місяці тому

      Trump acts more like a communist than any of the people that oppose him.

  • @Oli-YA
    @Oli-YA 3 місяці тому

    Настало время сальных 🐷 историй ... от дядюшки Сэма😂

  • @BRod1994
    @BRod1994 3 місяці тому

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 give me a break lol. What they fail to mention is how many of these people were guilty of treason, what crimes they committed, how many of them were working with the nazis and the oss to overthrow the government. How many of them were white army hold outs still plotting against the government? None of these things are ever mentioned, just Stalin committed mass murder. And theres literally and absolutely no way the number of people executed was anywhere near as high as they say because the population grew during Stalin's premiership minus 1941-1945. So answer how the population grows when there was a mass genocide of "80 million" people as they say. The fact a communist state went from a backwards, autocracy with no schools, doctors, roads, nothing for its people other than war to an industrial, 1st world, super power that was first in space in less than 40 years kills western elites because they know if people actually knew what can be accomplished they would lose their power.

    • @michaelfourie345
      @michaelfourie345 3 місяці тому

      So how many were executed under Stalins regime?...and what are your sources?

    • @BRod1994
      @BRod1994 3 місяці тому

      @@michaelfourie345 Depends on how many people wanted to over throw the government. I'm sure that is easy to get a number on. And my sources are the lack of sources for his "murders". All people can show is names and photos. You never show evidence of what they did. When you show me actual evidence Stalin murdered millions, we'll talk. Yes people were killed during the beginning of his premiership, there was a lot of shit going on from the revolution to the Civil War, WWI ended casuing problems. There was a lot of turmoil going on a lot of people wanting to take advantage of the what they thought was weakness. Stalin showed them, he nor the USSR was weak.

  • @alejandrovenegas4293
    @alejandrovenegas4293 3 місяці тому

    No al comunismo

  • @mariaevagrassi9300
    @mariaevagrassi9300 3 місяці тому

    El comunismo no existe más, a ver si dejamos de hablar tanta pavadas, no soy de izquierda, pero el socialismo, no es comunismo.

    • @michaelfourie345
      @michaelfourie345 3 місяці тому

      EXACTLY!!! The neoliberal capitalists have deliberately conflated those terms to frighten and control populations. Socialism is great...I live in the UK, a reasonably socialist state (for now).