Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder Audiobook Full 1/2
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens-and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war’s end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.
Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history.
From Booklist
If there is an explanation for the political killing perpetrated in eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, historian Snyder roots it in agriculture. Stalin wanted to collectivize farmers; Hitler wanted to eliminate them so Germans could colonize the land. The dictators wielded frightening power to advance such fantasies toward reality, and the despots toted up about 14 million corpses between them, so stupefying a figure that Snyder sets himself three goals here: to break down the number into the various actions of murder that comprise it, from liquidation of the kulaks to the final solution; to restore humanity to the victims via surviving testimony to their fates; and to deny Hitler and Stalin any historical justification for their policies, which at the time had legions of supporters and have some even today. Such scope may render Snyder’s project too imposing to casual readers, but it would engage those exposed to the period’s chronology and major interpretive issues, such as the extent to which the Nazi and Soviet systems may be compared. Solid and judicious scholarship for large WWII collections.
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The honesty of this book should be taught in schools
What a joke
Cant do that now🤫
I had to vote against bills in Colorado that wanted to take the atrocities of ww2 out of history books. It was being pushed by a group ironically called “moms for liberty”.
It’s is as an elective in colleges and universities
@@krakrtreacysr907I had to vote to keep these stories in history books in Colorado. The mom’s for liberty and other Republicans group wanted to take it out of history books along with slavery.
We people have no concept of the numbers of human suffering during ww2 this book is eye opening to me
USA had, what, 400,000 combat deaths in WW2? The USSR combined deaths, military and civilian, were like 20 million.
This book is a tour de force. Timothy Snyder is in impressive command of his subject, and he is always informative and engrossing. His prose style is flawless. Add to that his narrator, Ralph Cosham, who is absolutely perfect. Every audible author must dream of having someone like him narrate their book. As for the content, it’s mind-boggling. Hear for yourself.
Indeed he reads well. I read the book a few years ago and that introduced me to Mr. Snyder and It really was a "revelation" as the cliché goes. Read anything by him you can find. You won't be disappointed!
This gentleman is the perfect narrator for this weighty content. Distinguished, and dignified… the correct tone to honor the horrific, and the dead.
I totally agree. I listen to this performance once a year.
"tour de force"!!... you're such a wanker.. 🙄
it was OK, it was funny, but I have read a lot funnier!
In our current age this book should be required reading for all adults. You have to be able to identify these behaviors early to have any chance at stopping them.
You are arguing for “required reading?” You learned nothing the author intended.
@@josephmountford2292 they could require this to never be read I think that’d be worse. Requiring people to read this they would learn a lot like the author intended not to be silenced.
@@josephmountford2292 Rules are for those not in power.
@@josephmountford2292 p
Modern leftists have determined Hitler was never really a socialists and therefore not their problem, and all the death numbers from soviet Russia and Mao China were typical seasonal famine deaths or western intelligence agency disinformation. Our schools and politicians are doing an amazing job.
chapter one : 01:14:47
chapter two 02:56:41
chapter three 04:14:00
chapter four 05:31:53
chapter five 07:04:30
chapter six 08:27:11
chapter seven 09:58:11
chapter eight 11:10:28
1: The Soviet Famines 1:14:45
2: Class Terror 2:56:39
3: National Terror 4:14:07
4: Molotov-Ribbentrop Europe 5:31:50
5: The Economics of Apocalypse 7:04:27
6: Final Solution 8:27:08
7: Holocaust and Revenge 9:58:08
8: The Nazi Death Factories 11:10:28
Thank you.
Thanks
Thank you also, you are also truly are a special person
Ah, well done.
Your information is greatly appreciated!
Auf Wiedersehen.
Thank you.
Oooh boy. This is going to be a tough book to get through. Tough but important.
Very tough
Dude, someone else is reading it. You don’t have to read it should be super easy. People are so lazy these days.
@@Ricardoslips emotionally tough, you absolute idiot.
@Ricardoslips for some people, like myself, with a Jewish heritage, reading this is an emotional journey, but a must-read. The toughness lies in the images of human suffering that are conjured up.
Many other books and documentaries total up the body counts and the material expense of war to measure the cruelty of those two dictators. This book gives voice to the human suffering, which can not be totaled so neatly like a body count.
Perfect audio book..Massive without bombarding us with details. An art to pull of and a sign of being a great author and writer..
Combined with a great voice,you can't go wrong listening to this...
The devil is always hiding in details.
@@gancarzpl nein
@@DaveSCameron b I it u LG x Z r u mm I 6😊oh I a b ya it y
I listened to this on my drive from New York City to Boca .....thank you for a lesson that needs to be a mandate in education for all.
1: The Soviet Famines 1:14:45
2: Class Terror 2:56:39
3: National Terror 4:14:07
4: Molotov-Ribbentrop Europe 5:31:50
5: The Economics of Apocalypse 7:04:27
6: Final Solution 8:27:08
7: Holocaust and Revenge 9:58:08
8: The Nazi Death Factories 11:10:28
you are a gift to society. bless your beautiful heart for posting these time stamps
Thanks for taking the time and effort to do this. I wish the audiobook uploaders would do it.
Thank you.
Thank you
Chapter 2 is alive and well on the left in America.
I read and studied this for a class. Be ready to get depressed
Thank you so much for this complete reading in the public domain ♥
Professor Timothy Snyder has taught me so much with his Yale lectures on 'The Making of Modern Ukraine' and by listening to this audio book. ♥
Timothy Snyder is one of the most invaluable social/historical intellectuals we have these days
You should look up their lectures on the early Middle Ages, if you haven't already done so.
Over 7k views over last 14 days. These are challenging times. This is a hard essential listen. Peace and Love to all.
Behave yourself and gerron Rirhi!
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Oh shuddup.
@@a.nelprober-rl5cf you shuddup
Who has time to keep track of video view stats… wow… get some friends… oh myyyy
Have been listening for 2-3 hours now and have to stop at the start of chapter 5 in order to not become benumbed to feeling human. The depravities, inhumanities are enough to scar the soul. Will continue with the listening in a while.
Just wanted to say thank you for uploading your book
@Drumslav Czechisenko the book is available for free on Overdrive, I'm guessing Snyder is okay with the content being digested my as many people as possible
@Drumslav Czechisenko 55ptt
@Drumslav Czechisenko 55ptt
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@Drumslav Czechisenko its like Xbox live they give away free games when a sequil in the series is about to be released, great way to get people interested
I'd been looking for a book for a long-time that broadened my viewpoint of the Second World War. I found it in this book and my god it has saddened me,so much death and pain. The truth is far from what we believe it to have been.
I really recommend "Savage Continent" by Keith Lowe as a sequel to this in terms of understanding how the violence and turmoil continued into '47 and later in some parts of the regions that Snyder discusses in this one.
Thank you Lady Dynamyte7 I will look for this book.
@@KingLouieJones I cannot recommend it enough for precisely that reason. It goes into such detail about the nuances and complexities and the parts of that period in that region which cannot be put into an easy narrative.
I suggest the readings from the non "Victors" of the war. Though few and far between, they give an insight that's not commonly told.
It is?
It's hard to imagine the depths of depravity that humans are capable of! Not even animals do such terrible things to their own kind, only us.
You believe human beings are not animals? We are primates. Do you believe animals would not exterminate one another in such ways if they had the ability to do so? What would stop them? Morality? Ethical concerns? The only thing stopping genocidal mass destruction in other animal populations is the lack of the practical ability to undertake the planning and the invention of the weapons necessary.
Animals aren't smart enough to imagine the ways we destroy ourselves
It's almost as if humans are the animals. I guess in many ways they are😢
I never knew there was audiobooks on youtube, it's fantastic.
Yah, wonderful stuff. Amazing how deep the content goes.
They’re not supposed to be here, though.
A channel with a wealth of audiobooks on Nazi Germany and WW2 got deleted sometime ago...
Treasure em while you can, lol.
@@bigbluebuttonman1137 Yep, youtube deletes anything that casts the Soviet Union in bad light and anything nazi related is usually banned. Lots of great historical content was deleted a few years back.
Yeh, I just found this as well!
@@lloydchristmas1086 nonsense ! Its to do with copyright you fool of a took and you know it. Stop suggesting conspiracy where there is none and try thinking for yourself for a change.
Just to think behind each number is a human life with dreams, loves, hates, relationships, ambitions, talents and experiences.......murdered by a state apparatus...... unspeakably sad but not forgotten.
Thankyou. I read your excellent book, and now i am revisiting it.
Finally so important information in English! Thank you!
Probably the best book I've ever listened to. The narrator is perfect
Ralph Coshem was one of the best audiobook narrators ever, imho...he died 10 years ago at age 78...I miss him...
Thank you very much for putting this on here.
Society needs to listen, learn and understand wtf went on here.
To better guide us in our future,what is that saying-lest we forget ?!
The narrator is excellent u can't beat the British for narrations
Very true
Also hard to beat snyder’s scholarship.
It's the guy who voiced Martin Septim!
Is it AI
chapter one : 1:14:47
chapter two 2:56:41
chapter four 5:31:53
chapter five 7:04:30
Chapter 3 4:14:00
Chapter six 8:27:11
chapter seven 9:58:11
chapter eight 11:10:28
Penis.
As well written and narrated this has been, I find it very painful to listen to, but human kind needs to come clean with its history regardless of emotions.
Well said. I discovered my Jewish Heritage relatively late in life. This book has been both horrifying and fascinating.
Very staid, and lacks passion but evidently such human traits are not required to destroy a race...
A very thorough look at this human catastrophe. Really well read... good reader this man.
Very well written. I'm listening here in 2022 as Russia just invaded Ukrain such sad times
This truth, more macabre than anything that any human could ever fabricate, is pure horror. If you choose to listen, know that it will change you.
How wise and eloquent. You were waiting for the perfect video to drop that comment on , weren't you?
I think that some people should read this. Then they might better understand what is happening in eastern Europe right now.
No it is not.
@@tonyromano6220 it's not what?
Jason you truly are a simpleton. There is no comparison. Don't even bother with books just stick to mainstream media for your info it's all your brain is capable of digesting.
Sad and horrifying. One would be incredibly naive to think that these things couldn't happen again, if not worse.
Darfur, South Sudan, Tigray, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Rohingya, Rwanda, Bosnia, Syria, just to name a few.
Sadly I believe we are very close to this.
@@jamesmilichich6693 Minnesota
@@tonyromano6220 Yeah, genocide in the tens of millions in Minnesota🙄 Such a narrow world view.
@@tonyromano6220 No, not Minnesota. Those people in Charlottesville and January 6th.
So often , in discussions about the Nazis and the Holocaust, someone occasionally interjects something about the Russians and Stalin and they do so in a way that, it appears they believe, what they bring up about Stalin will, somehow, mitigate what Hitler and the Nazi did.
This book mentions both Germany and Russia without the whataboutisms. It lays out the causes of each human catastrophe, in each country, without the fool's undertaking of attempting to weigh one's sins or suffering against the other.
Well said.
Communist Russia sounds absolutely horrific.
@theculturedthug6609 yes, and Nazi Germany was no picnic either. Seriously, what I admire about this work is that it illustrates the horror of Hitler and Stalin in its proper context. Too often, people try to use the evil works of one to mitigate the evil works of the other. This work doesn't go there. When either them had the opportunity to kill jews or whoever got in their way, they did it.
It needs to be brought up because Stalin faced no consequences for what he did. In fact, he got rewarded for starting WWII with Germany. He got way more than he wanted.
Eastern Europe lived through that hell and now Russia is attempting to do the same thing. When does it end?
@henriikkak2091 bringing it up is fine. Both Hitler and Stalin are evil. The only difference between them is that Stalin and the Soviet government had more time, and targets of opportunity on their own soil, than Hitler and the Nazis had. The fact that Hitler had lower totals of civilians killed is not the result of Hitler being even one tiny bit better than Stalin, as some people I have known would like to argue.
I give your books for birthday and Christmas presents, because history is important.Thanks for this audiobook.
Not the happiest of presents:) But some things are more important then momentary happiness.
@Hayes Dabney
You give wonderful, lasting gifts. While other gifts are long laid by and forgotten, a book never stops giving, and in so many ways. The loved ones on your list are fortunate indeed.
A lovely Christmas present 🎁 ☺️
There are no words to say about the horror and terror. Only a sea of tears 😢
The level of evil is unreal.
did this audiobook really make you cry? honestly? plenty of words here. 11 bloody hours worth.and where was god when they needed him? day off i guess. pity is no good as a concept. hinders not helps. love thy enemy? kill them. all.
@@goodnightvienna8511
Such horrific atrocities do rightly make one question the existence of a God. After all, it's hard to see a benevolent ruler over our world when malevolence and cruelty abound across the land.
Nevertheless, I still believe in Him for a variety of reasons. I wish I could explain them all here, but that would take days.
Regardless, hopefully I'm right, because if I am, then the people who suffered under Hitler and Stalin didn't need to be afraid for long, for all that awaited them after death was their loving Father in Heaven ready to welcome them home.
@Goodnight Vienna you must be real fun at parties.
@@goodnightvienna8511
I think my other comment got shadowbanned, I'll shorten it to this:
Let's hope there is a God. It would make these terrible tragedies a lot less horrifying because the innocent will have gone to Heaven.
Whenever I talk about this time and place in history, people think I'm lying.
I pity their ignorance. They have to go through life frustrated, not understanding why the world is the way it is today.
Same here
It's those blasted Marxists. They lie about their ideology's history and pretend that it was anything other than a pathetic economic experiment, moral outrage, and absolute bloodfest.
And to this day, they continue to extend the suffering. North Korea carries on the blood-soaked legacy of Socialism. It can't fall soon enough.
Do you mention the western powers invading Russia after Great War ?
@@BobDingus-bh3pdthank goodness for your brain😂😂
Such a revealing and depressing book. Listened to it twice. Everyone should be required to learn of these historical facts.
Ghastly, horrific. A thoroughly miserable listening experience, exposing the darkest heart of man. I don't know if I can finish this audio book. That's not to say that I am not grateful for the truth to be exposed.
honestly it cheers me up- because as bad as we might like to see the world today its a lot better than it was 80 years ago. sometimes we study the darkest parts of human history to remind us of how good we have it.
just think- you can criticize the government and you won't have secret police knock on your door in the middle of the night- you don't have to consider the prospect of cutting up one of your children to feed the others, you don't have to worry that the government will consider your race to be the enemy of the state who needs to be eradicated. At least not yet- because just because things are not bad now does not mean it can't go back to this if people today are foolish.
@@williamt.sherman9841 Well said, good comment.
Remember cambodia killed 20% ò it's population in 3yrs and that Pol Pot and the Kama Rouge were supported by the US government.
@@williamt.sherman9841 100%
World history gives the ultimate perspective. I now understand why General Patton wanted to go after the USSR after the Allie’s victory in Europe.
IRAQI AFGANISTAN SYRIA KILLING FIELDS?
benetaue that isn’t what this book was about. If you’d like to drop a link to a video about that I’d love to learn about it. How many Jewish refugee’s from WW2 we’re killed my Muslims in the Middle East? About a million from what I have read. Is that the killing fields you are referring to?
We did indeed defeat the wrong enemy.
I really think they whacked paton in germany bc he knew if we didnt attack the ussr they would be our greatest threat for yrs to come
He wasn’t on his own Billy, Churchill would’ve backed him
This book is wrought with gray skies and chilly winds. And the odd thing about Stalin was that he has been rated the most admired leader by Russian folks multiple times, according to many polls, including Gallup, since the late 1990s. And most of the respondents were orthodox xtians.
Well, it's not like Stalin wanted to be seen as anything other than a kind and compassionate hero. He worked hard to construct a positive image of himself.
Pretty much every dictator ever has wanted their people to think of them as loving and gentle.
If you were a Russian, and someone called to poll whether you approves of the job Putin or Stalin was doing or had done, would you fear someone was listening in to your answers and that you might face consequences if you gave the wrong answer?
@@andreamays7585 How can one determine a "wrong answer?"
@@hhvictor2462 Very easily if some nitwit decided you made disparaging remarks. After all a Russian father has had his daughter put into a children's home as she, apparently, made a picture of the "SMO" at school.
Amazing you allow it to be up here for free, thank you 🙏
Excellent book, that is all I have to say
Thank you for uploading - well researched, written and skillfully narrated. I wouldn't have read or known the depth of depravity of this story otherwise. Imagine living then and there - what a horrible thought. I kept thinking: "It is amazing anybody survived at all." Casual murder on an unbelievable scale and savagery.
D.A., J.D., NYC (lawyer/writer)
And what's worse is that many people these days are seduced by the happy message that Communism broadcasts before it knifes you in the back. It makes me feel sick whenever I see someone's social media account has the hammer and sickle in their portrait. They casually deny every single atrocity committed by Communists like Lenin and Mao and say that it's all Western propaganda. Some of them go even further and glorify in the slaughter of those who are against their ideology.
That's why they have to be stopped, and why the rest of us need to learn about the bloodsoaked history of Socialism and Communism in order to prevent it from returning.
I understand exactly almost what they went through. I have been fighting for my life for over two years now. Covid hit all the Doctors office were clised. I was extremely suck kept going to our Emergency room suck. They kept dismissing me. One last Dr told me I was abusing the E D she believes I was going in for pain pills she told me my life was not worth her time. I lost all hope. I was slowly starving to death. They just kept sending me home. I was ready to give up and end all my suffering. By the time my daughter got me to Albuquerque I was almost dead at 89 lbs . I was hospitalized for almost two months. I had to have a feeding tube out in and I was in it for five months. There is so much to my case it's hard to explain. I had read The Tatooist Of Aushwitz while I was sick. Lolie was a new picked to tatoo. All his fellow Jews brought in. It's a story of love and survival. My Dr came in one day to talk to me about reintroducing me to food again. I told him I had just read the book and I knew I had to go sliw. Lolie. After they were liberated seen that some were dying and just knew it was because they were just eating like craxy . You have to be take it slowly because it could kill you going to fast. My Dr did yes that's where they got the medical information about having to go slowly because it could kill you. When they say starving someone to death is one of the most worse form of torture he's not lying. This book is hurting me hard at the moment because nobody should ever have to go through that. It's a sad world sometimes.
Timmy Syder always showed potential, even in his Andover days
It is just stunning, yes, that anyone survived at all. Moreover, what is truly unbelievable are the parallel lines of WW2 raging and the genocide occurring with just as much ferocity, determination and zeal by the Nazis and Communists.
How could this have happened in the 20th Century?
It defies belief.
Lol, you're such a tool "DA, J.D, NYC (lawyer/writer)" What a joke.
This is amazing. Thank you so much for your warnings and brilliance.
The opposite ò love is not hate...it's indifference and thêre are bucket loads of it going around
Fantastic book. Highly recommended.
A beyond twisted part of human history. Truly unbelievable. Such an abstract form of cruelty, progressively abstract solutions that distort and ignore reality and thus end in the death and suffering of literally millions.
If anybody is looking at today's news and wondering if Ukraine has the stomach to fight Russia to the death, read about Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s. Absolutely heart-wrenching.
Anybody looking at todays news to understand what is really happening in the world is the most ignorant of simpletons. What's heart-wrenching is watching the west be destroyed while its incompetent brainwashed masses of sheep believe every word of prop o ganda.
BTW, Russia is no longer communist, genius.
@@VectorOfKnowledge no.
I was born in Germany and my grandmother was the daughter of a Russian Jewish family.
Lucky my great grandmother died just before kristall night.
My father had a hard time in the army, I am living in Australia now for a long time and before in England, I knew quite a bit about Stalin and Hitler but not how bad it was, all young people in Europe should read this book, so never to forget the horror and understand why Ukraine is fighting for its existence
Slabsp
Oh shut up.
There's a terrible psychic weight of bearing witness to such brutality, and I can't imagine that Snyder got through this unscathed.
And one can assume that he knows a lot more.
@@consequences5638 👍
Very grounded, realistic, unsentimental account
Thank you for uploading this,.. The sad thing that this part of history is pretty much forgotten, it's not just NATZI Germany that commited crimes against humanity.
its not really forgotten has over 30 k views. Even if youtube takes it down doesn't mean its forgotten.
Yes that is what I was thinking. Stalin, the communist, gets a pass for the most part, as did Mao. No one to beat the drum for them. The squeaky wheel got all the oil.
@Nobby Barnes The media and modern day culture has given them a pass. Youth openly wear soviet union pins and carry flags in places like Seattle and Portland. If those were nazi flags they would be shunned from society for life.
Communists have killed many more.
@@lloydchristmas1086 Germany invaded Western Europe & the Soviet Union & the Soviet Union annihilated Germany. As bad as Stalin was he didn't start the world war. The German's got what they asked for. Now they want to take the United States. Not going to happen.
Read by Ralph Cosham
00:55 Preface
29:11 Introduction Hitler and Stalin
1:14:43 Ch 1 The Soviet Famines
2:56:38 Ch 2 Class Terror
4:14:07 Ch 3 National Terror
5:31:50 Ch 4 Molotov-Ribbentrop Europe
7:04:28 Ch 5 The Economics of Apocalypse
8:27:08 Ch 6 Final Solution
9:58:08 Ch 7 Holocaust and Revenge
11:10:08 Ch 8 The Nazi Death Factories
Thank you very much!
Very helpful, very thoughtful!!!
The film ‘Mr. Jones’ is the story of Gareth Jones’ trip to try and interview Stalin. He didn’t get that chance, of course; upon his arrival he learns of the death of his friend in journalism, attributed to a ‘robbery,’ which was just a cover up for the Soviet secret police’s involvement. Gareth secretly takes a train through parts of Ukraine to see for himself what he knew of that was happening. He was hunted down and murdered by the Soviet secret police a few years later when he traveled to China to investigate the starvation there at the hands of the communist regime.
Truth is appreciated. It is Light.
The Polish military organization haunts my every thought
To paraphrase Thatcher "The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's grain"
Are you for real, Thatcher no less 😂😂😂😂
Interesting and very well written, but a truly horrible story. So sad.
it is not a sad story it is not a noval they are historical facts!!!!!!
it is not a sharp comment on you, i know what you mean
I thought I knew a good bit about the depth of suffering in Europe around this time, but I'm hardly 3 hours in and unsure if I want to continue listening. Horrible beyond comprehension.
Excuse the wall of text to come -
It’s an extremely difficult book to take in. Unless you’re familiar with texts of this sort it’s best to take things in small doses and stop reading/listening when it’s too overwhelming. When I first read this I did stop in many places because it is so dark a recent chapter of humanity. Europe has gone from one war to the next, one evil to another, which has of course gone on for centuries. But this book, what’s occurred within just the last hundred and twenty years, is something that we all should be very aware of. America has never seen wars and famines of this nature on our soil. The last terrible war was the Civil War. It was horrifying in itself. But we’ve had no evil, maniacal monster like a Hitler and a Stalin (though less than average minds wrongly try to compare recent presidents to one or both). The world has always been harsh. Knowledge and attempting to understand how these things are allowed to happen is our best hope that we won’t allow it to happen again. For this read - baby steps. Stop even for a few days before picking up where you left off if you need. I’ve read this book a number of times and I can say that the more I read it, the harder it becomes with every re-read. I’ll never wrap my head around the whys and what ifs. I make things almost worse almost by adding all the documentaries, and even some films that are actually factually correct, such as ‘Mr. Jones.’ Occasionally Hollywood does something alright. Well, rarely - but it happens. When I was in high school or maybe even junior high, we were assigned Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ to read. What we were not taught was the history behind the book. To me that book made little sense until I began reading history for myself later on. I dare say the instructor of the class knew what exactly the reason the book was written. We knew nothing about the Holodomor, or the evils of WWII for that matter, except brief paragraphs here and there. History such as that never made the curriculum, but it should have. At least an attempt, some sort of introduction to this needed to be taught. That was decades ago, not even half a century after the occurrences. Probably no real numbers were even yet known at the time, so not even a footnote appeared. Take small numbers of pages at a time and give yourself a break when it’s necessary, but read this book. Recommend it to others. None of this should ever fall by the wayside. If people were forced to endure these things, we owe it to their memories to know what happened and if possible, try to shed light on the darkest of corners. Let this be known. Let nothing be forgotten. And do watch ‘Mr. Jones.’ It’s an important film. I think it’s even on a couple of UA-cam channels. Find the uncut one with the full two hours. You’ll be totally dismayed by a Pulitzer recipient (Walter Duranty). Should’ve been revoked.
Wait till you see what the leaders in Europe and America have in store for their populations in the next 10-15 years.
I knew nothing of Auschwitz , Treblinka and Sobibor until my High School years but not from school . I live in the biblebelt . Most of my history and science curriculi were run through a religious sieve . I learned about the camps through movies that were popular on TV . The fate of non christians was given cursory mention but not dwelt on . I was taught that the Civil war was about states rights and that slaves were well cared for and happy . No lie , I watched Roots . They could not lie to me . Never under estimate the power of media . I learned from Network TV what my school board wanted to gloss over or lie about .
How incredibly ironic! UA-cam comments always make me lose faith in humanity.
What do you think the show Hogan's Heroes was all about? Do you think they were playing it all for laughs? Ok, well they were, but that's not the point. We had a substitute teacher in 6th or 7th grade about how we were supposed to be offended by this show. We all poo pooed it with groans and laughs. It's not like she could stop us from watching it. And we were not watching reruns, this was the original broadcasts. That's how long ago it was. Do you think for a minute we would have gotten information like what you are listening to back then? No way, the author was watching the same episodes of Hogan's Heroes as we were.
Very strong on the treatment of Soviet POWs. New info there. Also very interesting on the Minsk ghetto.
The Minsk ghetto was worse than any concentration camp
I'm listening in 2022 as Russia and Ukrain are at war sad times . Sorry I hope my edit is satisfactory.
Indeed
@@HeadhuntexGamer they say history has a way of repeating itself. With this book I had to put it down in certain spots to process it. Like when they were describing the starving to death parts and what they did to try to survive 😭
@@HeadhuntexGamer I have actually fighting for my life for almost three years. I got extremely Sick as the pandemic started and all doctors offices were closed. I had no other choice but to go to our local hospital emergency room. They would give me a IV a pain shot and send me home without even bothering to see what was causing my extreme abdominal pain. I had to keep going back and one dr a female told me that I was just going in for narcotics and my life was not worth her time. I lost all hope I was 145 before I got sick and after my daughter to me four hours away to the only level five trauma center in our state I was 80 pounds and hours away from death. I was hospitalized for two months and came home on a feeding tube for five months. I had acute cholangitis and my body was slowly poisoning itself. I had septic shock . I should be dead my doctors over there said. I know when the day starving to death is one of the worst forms of torture they are not lying . I cried listening because I felt those peoples pain.
@@rmilkyswife I'm so sorry. Seems like humans didnt learn anything
Good luck and God bless you, Stephanie.
I am glad you finally got the help you needed.
This should be mandatory reading for all ex-Soviet citizens. You think the UK is unreconstructed colonialism etc, and then you read the recent history of USSR and Ukraine...Russia is sooo unreconstructed. Its thinking increasingly restricted, Molotov Ribbentrop pact illegal to speak about...
It occurred to me that I have been listening to this book to fall asleep for the past week. Sleep brings release from listening to the awful stories.
A book for sweet dreams 🤯
Thank god for a good reader.
Important parts.
1:46:30 - 1:47:20
5:00:40
6:23:14
Sad to see so many people trying to revive Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky on the left, and so many people trying to revive Hitler, Mussolini and Franco on the right...our species never learns
Dont compare Franco with hitler or stalin
@@Marcelo-Caruccio lmao
This is probably one of the worst takes ive seen in a long time. Thank you so much
I've seen far, far fewer people glorify Hitler and Mussolini than I have people who glorify Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky. The way I see it, the radical Left is a much greater threat than the radical Right.
And as for Franco, I've never even heard of him. Let alone seen anyone praise his name.
@@warrioroflight6872 all authoritarians are equivalent threats, if you don't see that your susceptible. The first step to becoming a right wing authoritarian is thinking left wing authoritarians are more threatening, the first step to becoming a left wing authoritarian is thinking the right wing authoritarians are more threatening. In reality they're the same thing with a different coat of paint.
Lenin rose to power off the back of a fear of re-emergence of Tsarist authoritarianism. He declared an emergency and started a civil war, basically saying the provisional government wasn't strong enough and promising to give the soviets power (he didn't). Hitler and Mussolini then rose to power by playing off of fears of Marxist Leninism. They declared emergencies as well, only the communists were the threat.
They're both cancer and if you don't see that you'll end up with cancer yourself.eft and right are meaningless when it comes to power structures, you control people in the name of basically anything if you get them scared enough, and that's what both sides do.
Btw I was checking out the fascinating audiobook "Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory That Shaped World War II." I was about to delve into Part Two but seemed like the host "Red Baron" disappeared from YT. Too bad. there was a large collection of interesting audiobooks in the library.
So that's why I can't find them? The channel is gone? I was at the back end of the Battle of Kiev when it disappeared from my watch history. I work from home so these are great to listen to.
@@DisgruntledHippo check out Red Current. Think thats what the Baron has renamed himself. Love his audiobooks.
@@fraudebs8786
Yes Baron is Red Currant now.
Truly frightening considering current affairs .. we appear to be incapable of learning.
I keep trying to finish this book and I just can’t it’s so depressing and sad. Its proof that evil is real and here on earth.
I agree, a most dour read and there’s quite a lot that’s questionable despite the appalling toll that war brought upon these people such as the despicable, murderous policies of sowjet Russia with whom the naive Roosevelt felt he’d got the measure of . We either learn or repeat,🙏☘️📚
... Are Monsters real ? ... Yes. This is the story of the two greatest monsters of the Twentieth Century.
Thank you for the book upload. Very informative and oddly interesting, almost seems unbelievable. But a definite peace of interesting history.
OMG! It was a martyrdom what the Poles went through.
12 hours of saying it’s bad for your health to disagree with Stalin and Hitler.
This was positively harrowing.
It hardly seems appropriate to give this a thumbs up 😢
And yet I see ppl on the news complaining about the united states. Most if not all wouldn't survive a week outside of the U.S
Yea. The revolutionary war, civil war and expansion into Native American territory had its fair share of evils. But good god are we fortunate not to have experienced anything close to this in the last century.
I’ve survived 36 years outside of the United States… it’s not hard when you live in a better, friendlier, healthier and less corrupt country.
@@BobDingus-bh3pd
America has its problems, but we've never had to build a wall to keep our own people inside.
@@VladimirVladimirovich1952
Which country do you live in?
@@warrioroflight6872 Russia federation.
Everyone needs to hear this. This part of European history is still not very well understood, and what role it plays in Russo-Ukrainian relations today.
Horrible on all fronts for All the people at those times, and should be lessons to hear for the generation , the sad part we still repeat same mistake to this day.
My grandma's relatives in Poltava region of Soviet Ukraine witnessed in 1933 how some of neighbors ate up their children, gone insane and then hang up themselves in their huts.
The worst part about all this is that there are still people who try to bring back Socialism and casually deny all its atrocities. Those people make me sick.
But they want a different Communism..thats the answer when you mention every failed murderous communist state..no real communism, or...proper communism, or...no ours will be different. If your recipe has a cake base, regardless of the flavour, it's still a cake
@@ozdavemcgee2079
I have spoken with Communists and Socialists online and almost all of them were bitter, cruel, arrogant, and disgustingly self-righteous. All they did when I spoke with them was insult and demean me in terrible ways. They're the last people I would ever want to run a society. I doubt that such people, who also happen to glorify the Soviet Union and say that monsters like Lenin and Stalin were benevolent heroes are capable of building anything better than what the Communists of the past built.
Even those few who admit to the catastrophic failures of past Communist states and are decent, polite people are still woefully ignorant. How could these people, no matter how kind and well-intentioned, ever succeed when all others like them failed in scores of countries across the world?
Communism was tried in so many places with different cultures and backgrounds and it always resulted in failure because it is based on false and sometimes twisted presuppositions. Capitalism has problems, certainly, but Communism is not the solution to it in any sense.
The worst thing is that communism as an ideology and ussr were never punished for their crimes. Nazis lost WW2 and now Germany is a peaceful country with democracy. But ussr views, ideology, genocidal methods continued in present-day russion federation. Today's war is natural continuation of the war of the last century. Tolerance of the Soviet Union was a mistake and we have to deal with it's consequences
@@dima45ft93 Some of their state members are still in the Kremlin. The only justice they ever got was the fact that Soviet Union fell without a single bullet being shot towards its direction, the system failed by itself, breaking the utopia for good. The ideology died, but their imperialistic plans did not.
Narrated by Brother Joffrey RIP
Amazing voice; what a professional . I’m listening for the 3rd time and I’m learning from your brother. I’ll never get close to his level, but he is making me better.
Nice to see another Oblivion fan recognize Jauffre's voice.
12:56 is the thesis concept that shocked me the most, and appears correct
Preface: (from the beginning)
Introduction Hitler and Stalin: 29:11
1: The Soviet Famines 1:14:45
2: Class Terror 2:56:39
3: National Terror 4:14:07
4: Molotov-Ribbentrop Europe 5:31:50
5: The Economics of Apocalypse 7:04:27
6: Final Solution 8:27:08
7: Holocaust and Revenge 9:58:08
8: The Nazi Death Factories 11:10:28
After Stalin, WW2 and Chernobyl it's a wonder there are any Ukrainians left. 😰
Guess Putin wants to finish Stalin's vendetta. 👿
It’ll take more than that. Tough bunch.
Ukraine stronk
Chernobyl was a kindergarten party compared to the other two
@@jaxn13 l my m g
😂
The end of the recording doesn’t seem to be the end of the book. Is there a continuation?
It’s in two parts, the remaining chapters being approximately six and a half hours. Two different channels have had this book uploaded for quite some time now. Hope you’ve already found the second part by looking on the uploader’s channel.
@@mynamedoesntmatter8652 Thank you very much! Found it!
@@vitaliys5561
Glad you did! You’re most welcome.
I know a whole lot about WW2 and the Holocaust and the Poland rape and murder but I'm learning that some of these murders are just now being brought to light
God bless you, you saved my project
The worst thing is that communism as an ideology and ussr were never punished for their crimes. Nazis lost WW2 and now Germany is a peaceful country with democracy. But ussr views, ideology, genocidal methods continued in present-day russion federation. Today's war is natural continuation of the war of the last century. Tolerance of the Soviet Union was a mistake and we have to deal with it's consequences
We should have armed both the nazis and the Russians so They further destroyed themselves and then Nuke Moscow and St. Petersburg hundreds of times in 1945 or 1946 before the Russians had the bomb
Best audiobook ever,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Been looking for a book I could fall asleep to that would really, REALLY get down to the nitty gritty of the extermination camps. Not the Auschwitz-type camps, but the gas camps. Treblinka, chelmno etc. This book really gets down to it. Strap in.
The inhumanity!!!
Very good narrator.
3:15:45 - 3:18:00 Stalin rebrands the Communists into AntiFascists.
Should be REQUIRED reading/listening for all our starry-eyed college socialists .
Indeed. Not one woukd last a solitary week back in the USSR.... God they don't know how lucky they are.
I would prefer 1984 myself because there’s far too much of this that’s unproven and sensationalist and at least 1984 admits it’s a work of fiction and far more powerful.
Thanks for filling in the gaps!
I can't believe the Ukraine people suffered so much it is heartbreaking. And now in 2021 it's happening again Glory to Ukraine fight on 🤜🤛
During the entire WWII, they massively collaborated with Nazis. Every concentration camp in Poland had Ukrainian guards. They were the core of the staff in the extermination camps, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor. They provided security services for Germans living in Warsaw and in other cities around Poland. They instigated and participated in countless acts of genocide of Jewish and the Polish population. Ukrainian Uprising Army killed around 80 000 Ukrainians who opposed their policy of genocide.
@@gancarzpl Don't even try and educate these youtube comment section simpletons, they are hopelessly brainwashed.
8:41:41 she survived!! What she went through was horrific!!!
Many thanks.
Thanks a lot for this. Very generous.
*THATS THE DUDE FROM OBLIVION*
The male Breton voice actor. Who knew that he was such a bad@$$? He participated in one of the greatest games ever made and also narrated this gruesome history so that its victims would never be forgotten. If I make it to Heaven, I want to shake his hand!
its hard to imagine how anyone was left alive in this area when you add in all the deaths from the first world war aswell..