Stalin in WW1 - Quebec - Scottish Home Rule I OUT OF THE TRENCHES
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he went from getting gulag'd to gulaging
He definately learned from the best.
“Let me show y’all amateurs how it’s done”
Sounds just about accurate 🤣
I read the title, and my mind first jumped to "Stalin was active in Quebec and Scotland during the first World War??"
My mind has since been fired and shamed.
Lol
Same....
Weird Stalin had to defend the same city twice
Tsaritsyn/Stalingrad/Volgograd is perhaps the most strategically important city in Russia. It connects the two biggest rivers in west Russia, the Volga and Don by a canal, which also connects it to the Caspian Sea and thus the oil fields of Azerbaijan, which was the source of over 70% of all the oil in the Russian empire and later the USSR.
Well, in reality there was 4 battles of Tsaritsyn during Civil War. So that would be 5 times altogether...
Hitlers desire to conquer Stalingrad partially came out of the name itself. Having the city named by your leader conquered by enemie troops really hits on your moral.
@@FwendlyMushwoom The canal wasn't built until the 5 year plan, after the Civil War, but it was a key connection between Russia and the Caucases, and important for control of the Don/Cossasck region
@@josephmoore4764 Plus with or without canal it always was a connection between the two river basins, just a "little" travel by foot. The vikings probably even transport their own ships via land there.
Quebec's history during the WW1 would deserve it's own video to be honest. It caused major social crisis that are still felt today. Also, the was a U-Boat in the St. Lawrence River
0:46 Men with hairstyles like this have a 1917% chance of seizing your girl's means of reproduction.
I think this might be the best comment I have ever seen on this channel.
You just won OUR internet
You sir are a genius and I hereby nominate you for president
Thank you and I accept your nomination. ;-)
Tom Boerstra Beautiful
Watch a video from 2014 and watch a video from 2018. This channel has come a long way
Mâle Blanc québécois de souche 😂😂😂
I hope it has the next world war
The scary part is, Indy never aged a bit since then.
The Picture of Indoriana Gray? (Dramatic chord)
The maps and animation changes are insane!
Hi Indy and Crew,
You're all doing fantastic work however you missed out on mentioning the Red Clydeside movement in Glasgow during the war where a socialist uprising nearly took place. After the war the british army deployed tanks to the center of Glasgow against further workers uprising.
Keep up the great work!
Great research in this, Indy.
In Stalinist Russia, the episode watches you.
"If you want to see our special on Ireland before and during the First World War, you can click right here"
No I can't!
Ville Hammar 👏
The Irish thumbnail link got its independence and is gone.
Nothing like waking up to the Great War
Huh, big world. I'm about to go to bed, it's 10:45 PM
*wakes up to an artillery bombardment in a mud-caked dugout somewhere in France which I can't find on a map*
Speak for yourself.
Fuzzy Dunlop “wake up in saudi arabia”
wood1155 it’s not that bad unless you’re a woman
wood1155
It's not really a bad country, they still have everything (food, water, economy, somewhat stable government)
It's just the censorship and Islamism that is holding the country back.
2:29 "Единая Россия" (Edinaya Rossiya) which is written on the artillery means "United Russia".
True
With regards to Québec, I think it would have been important to specify that French-Canadians had no choice of enrolling with the French army, which the person asking the question implied was possible. All French-Canadian soldiers would serve as part of the Canadian army under British command. Great Britain had always found its French-Canadian subjects to be a problem for social order in Canada and had done all it could to isolate them from the French and try to drown them in British immigration in order to assimilate them. So that explains the lack of loyalty to, and lack of desire to fight for, both Great Britain and France. In 1917, Canada had an election, largely run on conscription. The Conservatives allied with pro-conscription Liberals and swept English-Canada, with 150 seats out of 170... but winning only 3 seats out of 65 in Québec, where they got less than 25% of the vote. It got so bad the Québec provincial government almost backed a bill saying that if the rest of Canada saw Québec as an obstacle to the development of Canada, then Québec was willing to withdraw from the Confederation, but the premier withdrew his support to it at the last moment. English-Canadian soldiers would end up firing on the crowd in Québec City, killing 4 and wounding dozens.
quebec has always been a problem for canada, thats a country that needs to build a wall and be done with those smelly snail eaters.
You got the stereotype all wrong, dumbass.
And then you wonder why some of us feel unwelcome in the rest of Canada. Why can't we all just get along?
Même à cette époque il y avais des preuves d'un profond mépris enver les canadiens français . Hélas ça n'a pas vraiment changé ..
Wolf De bon cours d'histoire s'impose pour toi mon ami .
I am a Quebecois. I don’t know much about my family’s history during WW1, but during WW2 my father’s father was in the Italian campaign and my mother’s father was interned in Dachau, surviving the war. Great to see a little love thrown our way!
Mâle Blanc québécois de souche.
Legion Forester - Got something against Quebec?
Slowjam Sliver they are French the only people worse than the english
TheSatanicTicTac I am from mexican
Go Habs.
My great great uncle Eugene volunteered for the french army and died in 1915
I’m french candian. Although it is true that perhaps we weren’t supportive as a whole of the war, due to cultural and political reasons, we did contribute greatly and our royal 22nd regiment was one of if not the best candian regiment and they sacrificed a huge amount of lives to defend their language and prove the oppressive anglophones that we were worthy.
How were anglophones oppressive?
@@cloudysummers9970 Because they invaded Quebec in 1757 and ensured anti-French sentiment that stemmed from hundreds of years of British relations with them were passed on in the form of anti-French language policies in government, education and social life. Dude, Indy even mentions it halfway through the video, that is reasons why Québécois were not keen on the war.
@@cloudysummers9970 yep, the anglophones never oppressed anyone ever.
When I saw the title for this video. I thought this video was about to talk about Stalin somehow being in Canada during the Great War. Silly me. Oh well. Still was a great video. It was really informative. Great job.
Yes we all get it I’m amazing
Stalin defended the revolution by commanding battles of the civil war: the defense of Tsaritsyn against the troops of ataman Krasnov, the defense of Petrograd from General Yudenich, the capture of Kiev.
Thank you GW ...keep up the great job your doing
Have a great day!
For the man asking about the young Stalin, you should read the fascinating book Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore. Even if you don’t like Stalin (I don’t), you can’t help but admire his early revolutionary career as a terrorist bank robber. The author uses many sources found in the archives of the former Georgian Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It’s quite an excellent read with a few poems written in his seminary days. I highly recommend it as the author immerses you in the details of pre revolutionary Georgia and the Russian Empire.
Hey Indy. Just to specify a few things about Quebec since I study a lot in military history in general. Like you said languages was not noted on recruitment, but there was a lot more of french-speaking people in provinces other than Québec since the government only recently tried to assimilated them (the law preventing french to be a primary-school language in Ontario, a province with a large minority of frenchspeakers, was passed in 1913). Also, even if we wanted the success for our troops, we had remotly no feelings of attachment toward either France or GB since it abbandoned us/tried to assimilated us and conquered us, and with recoil the great world war was a massive waste of lives by european empires. On top of it, the pm swore that conscription would not come effect and went back on his on word while we were a rural population who needed all the hands we could get working our fields. Ontario tried to be exempted of the draft virtually as much as Québec, yet we hear that only Québec's population applied to dodge the draft. Why would we join the army in the first place at all? Only thing we could hope for is die like a peon since we were denied the brass from our language. And even though we were meeked out by the anglos, we went and won courcellette with our bravery and were there at vimy too. It's not like Canada tried to make Québec in better disposition toward the war, quite the contrary. The Québécois have a long and forgotten military History from the 7 years war and 1812 when we repelled americans in our woods, the first world war where we sharpened our teeth and we triumphed in the second world war, it dosen't mean we all ignore it and that we are not proud of it.
Just watched your first episode of the Between Two Wars project, and very much enjoyed it! Looking forward to the proper Second World War start in September.
How exactly can we see or listen to that interview with the Canadian historian by Flo? I don't see a link to specifically that.
Note that the well-known (in Quebec, at least) French-speaking French Canadian battalion, the 22nd (the "Van Doos"), was formed in 1915. Also, Henri Bourassa was speaking against French Canadian support for the war by 1915, insisting that “the enemies of the French language, of French civilization in Canada are not the Boches [the Germans]…but the English-Canadian anglicizers…”
Forgot the put in the link to the podcast page, it's now there.
I mean, he wasn't wrong. Quebecois have been pretty antagonized ever since, and why fight for an empire that conquered you, or the empire that abandoned you?
Love this channel!!
A few months ago I made a google slides presentation about Stalin, our teacher had us do a biography on someone of our choice, and for some reason I choose Stalin.
Though there was resentment in the French Canadian communities and in Quebec during the war. There one particular unit that shined The Royale 22e Regiment(Regiment Canadien-Francais), Canadian Infantry (The Van-doos) distinguished themselves as part of the 5th Brigade, Second Division, CEF during the war and earning the Royal designation, in 1921 for their wartime service.
I had a great-great-(?)-uncle who joined the army in Quebec. There were no jobs and the regiment was told they would only be defending Canadian territory. He was MIA at the battle of La Somme. I have some of his last letters home.
This channel is fantastic, literally only discovered it last month but I get the benefit of seeing all of the content that has been released thus far and it is brilliant that it's still continuing. I have a question for the next out of the trenches ( if it hasn't already been done) how did the machine gun corps form and why was it disbanded not long afterwards? I'm asking this because I live near Belton house which was used as a training camp for the corps for the Manchester and Liverpool pal regiments
As an American, I always like seeing and hearing our Northern neighbors get mentioned for their role and experience in both World Wars.
Hello Indy and Team! I've been a fan of the show since late 2016 when one of your videos was randomly recommended to me on UA-cam. My question for Out of the Trenches: Is there a plan for making a special episode about the American "Lost Battalion" incident during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in October of 1918? If not could you speak briefly of the event on Out of the Trenches?
Indy and crew: Hats off to your wonderful series on The Great War. Have you done anything on the role of Lègion étrangère in the War? The Lègion fought in many critical battles on the Western front (e.g., Verdun) and deserves mention in your series as they were often used in a role similarities to Germany's storm troops. If you haven't done a show about them, I'd be happy to help craft one.
Way late to the party but two of my great-grandfathers were both in Canada during WWI and both were American citizens from Massachusetts. One carried the family name and so was French-Canadian American in Massachusetts while my mom's grandfather was deep rooted (1634 arrival) American.
That first photo has always suggested to me that the young Peter Ustinov could have played the young Stalin.
In my own family, two of my three WWI great-grandfathers were franco-américain. One was of Québécois descent and the other Acadien (who was given American citizenship because of his service during WWI). I thought I remembered reading somewhere, and I will have to look again, that more french-canadians (Québécois et Acadiens) served with the US Army during WWI than with Canada. The war was taking place right in the middle of a huge french-canadian immigration to the New England states (roughly 900,000 to one million french canadians came here from 1860-1930). It is true, at least in my experience, that us Franco-Américains and our québécois cousins feel no special relationship with France and we use the Fleur-de-lis as a symbol of our heritage and not the french Tricolore.
Before anyone roasts me, yes I know about the 22nd (Vingt-deux), Je me souviens! Québec was going through a tumultuous period in it's history at this time and there are many factors in the attitudes of it's population and leaders.
Merci et bonjour à mes cousins québécois et acadiens!
Daniel Dore Tu as bien saisi la réalité . Salutations de Montréal !
Take it from a Quebeker that we are not warmongers. People nust don't see it as a viable solution when diplomacy can be achieved and people here are usually well meaning and don't want to be forced to travel to another continent to kill people they have never met and never did anything wrong to them.
All thosr who volunteered sort of died in the first years of the war to. And the rest would not fight for an empire that considered them seccond class citizens to anglophones. It would be like asking a black to fight for the confederates.
Adolf Healer - yet, some blacks did fight for the Confederacy.
Shawn Gilliland Exactly. They weren’t treated well in the north, it was simply more economical to hire them and pay little than own them outright and be forced to house and feed them and their families
Could you make a video about the "Tirailleurs" from Senegal, Algeria, Indochina, Morroco, and Tunisia during WWI ? Thank you indi.
“Wow he’s known us for 104 years” Oml 😂
Just reading a book about Nikolai II, and there's an anecdote that when the War broke out many of the revolutionaries exiled in Siberia were overcome with apathy and depression as the empire was swept with patriotic fervour. One of those exiles was Stalin; sleeping in his bed for days, letting his dog lick his dishes instead of washing them.
When I was a kid I thought that if our dogs just licked my plate spotless it was clean, so Stalin and I have much in common!
He probably joined in!
Steve Kaczynski I read he enjoyed ice skating during his internal exile.
Thank you for your very interesting videos! I am looking for the history of the term "heavy rotation" as I have been of the opinion that its origin is military rather than musical. I would be grateful to hear any information you may have on this subject.
French Canadians served in ww1 the royal 22nd regiment formed from Mostly French speaking troops from Quebec. Allot of French Canadian did not think this was there war because they had no allegiance to France and figured it was a British war and they were discriminated against at home from the English speaking Canadians. But allot did fight and did there duty for Canada and the crown.
Guy from thumbnail looks like Stalin
# Semon hm
Hmmm I wonder why that is?
No, it looks like the guy that was General Secretary of the USSR
# Semon No its cleary Churchill
# Semon what a familiar moustache...
Cool Indy👍👍👍🍐
You should have mentionned that during the pascal "riots" in Québec, the army shot down civilians with explosive bullets.
" Chair of Wisdom "
Your eyes are back!
Actually, the french canadian were more sensible toward France than the British Empire. During the war, the canadian propaganda switched it's slogans in Québec from "Save the Empire" to "Save France" in order to get more recruits. The unilingualism of the army and broken promises from politician who pledged against conscription are important factors too. Even today, french canadians are underrepresented in the Canadian army since historically they do not consider it as being "their" army.
Damnnnn Stalin looks like Lionel Messi with a stache in that pic.
Hi Indy and crew! Congratulations for your documentaries. I have a question for "Out of the Trenches". What was the role of Gibraltar in the war? Any important event there? Thanks and keep on!
Hey Indy, could yu do an episode on the Newfoundland regiment as I love the history of my province an dI would like more people to learn about it. Keep up the great woek and say hi to flow for me.
In the special episode on Canada, he brings up the royal newfoundland regiment and its devastation at the battle of the somme.
Can you do a special about Switzerland during the war? love your content by the way
TheTobinator watch the fall of the eagles.
They definitely need to do a Switzerland special I have read two books about Switzerland World War II experience and I am greatly interested in their previous problems
That would be interesting. All you generally hear is that they were neutral, in both WWs. But how they achieved that, and how neutral they actually were, and what the people in Switzerland thought about joining the war, and so on, wbgtk.
Well, the WW II stories are far more interesting, during WW I no swiss soldier actually saw combat. But still, economics, strategy and politics would be interesting to hear about.
My Grandmother was born in Switzerland in 1936. She told me a story of the Swiss having a large offering of cheese for the Germans stacked on a bridge in efforts to keep the peace. Also she told me the Germans would be stupid to attack Switzerland because Switzerland had the Germans' money.
Another story I have been told by my Grandmother was that my Great Great Grandmother had to defend herself with a pitchfork from a French cavalier who decided to charge at her while her husband was gone.
Indy, you're a marvel.
What was the impact of Canadian and Scottish gaels during the war? How were they treated before and after and during the war? I a lot of Gaels wrote poetry about the war; the most famous poem was An Eala Bhàn (the white swan) by Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna. But i don’t know much more about what Gaels did in the war
They joined up for the seven shilling and sixpence a week. And a free kilt,a lot died!
Welsh still is, many of the Welsh Regiments use Welsh for combat communications even today, especially those that recruit from North Wales or Pembrokeshire where the percentage of native Welsh speakers is very high.
Does depress me how people go on about the 'Gaels' and all too often forget the Welsh, not Gaels perhaps, but the last of the Brythionics.... Better PR in Ireland and Scotland I guess.
Hello Indy and crew; great show! A question; did stormtroopers ever use eyepatches like pirates used to? Covering up one eye for it to get used to the dark; and switching the patch once they entered a dark fort?
Or the other way around; if you were blinded by a flash, you could switch to the eye which hadn't been exposed?
Hello Indy and the others !
A question for OOTT:What was Hindenburg's contribution to decision making after becoming the chief of staff ?
It seems to me that the most operations are dictated by Erich Ludendorff ,a quartermaster general, whereas Falkenhayn was completely independent.
Keep up the great work !
To add a point to the reply about French Canadians, my great-grandfather had emigrated to Canada from France in ~1910 looking for work. When WW1 broke out, chose to fight as a Canadian, which scandalized his family to such a significant degree that his parents disowned him. They derided him for choosing to side with a British dominion over his country of his birth. He fought at Vimy Ridge and lived to see the birth of his grandchildren.
Hi Indy and crew. First of all, congratulation on a great channel, I'm a hughe fan of history and I've learned a lot with you. Now, I read about a 1915, attack of the dead inicident, where german troops laid siege to a russian fortress with poison gas and russian's last surviving soldiers hold their position, with great injuries because of the gas. Have you heard about this, can you elaborate a little about this siege.
Thank you very much, regards from Chile!
Hey just wanted to add to your bit on Quebec another reason for French Canada didnt want to go overseas. Another reason at the time quebec had most of the industry in Canada so many felt that although they where not fighting they where doing there part for the war by keeping the factories going.
Stalin:Government Official
Hitler:School drop out and a enlist in the military
What prime candidates for leaders in the upcoming next war
Hi Indy and team, may I know more about the relationship on Kaiser Wilhelm II,Nikolai II George V and Queen Vic?Thx from Hong Kong!
Could you make a video on Armando Diaz or Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy-Aosta?
Nice
Hi Indie and Crew I have a question for out of the trenches how efficient was the royal mail postal services across all front, and how much did they effect moral?
It is possible to get an idea of French-Canadian enlistment by noting the votes cast by enlisted men in francophone ridings in the 1917 election. In Quebec for example 15,000 military votes were cast while over 100,000 in Ontario. NB in 1914 farmer's sons were exempted but were later added by conscription, thereby setting the stage both for Quebec's and rural Canada's antagonism to how the war was being waged.
i could swear i alreadyh eard line about canadian french recruits somewhere in this channel, im only one who has this dejavu?
I have a question was there any other steam locomotive used for the ambulance train of WW1 other than the GWR city class?
Can you please do an episode on submarines particularly submarine aviation in ww1! thanks
Hi Indy i live in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, i know about the Newfoundland regiment at Beaumont-hammel but i don't really know much about any other battles the Newfoundland regiment fought in. could you tell me?
Re: Stalin, my understanding is that one of his arms was badly injured when he was hit by a car/carriage while a child/teen, which disabled it and he was thus ineligible to be drafted when WW1 started. So he never served in the military until suddenly commanding during the Tsaritsyn battle, and then later (nearly disastrously) in the Polish-Soviet War.
One arm was shorter than the other although I don't know the exact cause. It did prevent his call-up although he went on a long journey to a recruit reception centre to receive his medical check-up.
Stalin was also in Finland rallying Finnish reds to start mutiny and civil war against legal government.
Hi! Question: how did opposing troops react to the use of sub-machine guns which were fielded in the late stages of the war? For example the MP18 used by the germans against the Allies in 1918.
Only a few more months till Nov 11 armistice.
Will the great war continue with the treaty negotiations?
Could you make a video about Rudolf Maister
Hi Indy and crew! Love the show! I have A question for Out of the Trenches! In TV show and book series ‘Horrible Histories’ in the UK there is a section known as ‘Frightful First World War” and they mention that soldiers used to sometimes resort to Urine to cool down Machine Guns and Lose soldiers boots that have been giving soldiers blisters etc. My question is, did things actually happen and if so were there any other unique ways of dealing with situations like this?
Well,in the book "All Quiet on the Western Front" (read it if you haven't,it's awesome) German soldiers,having run out of water to cool the machine gun with, are shown urinating into a container,the contents of which they pour onto the barrel of the gun.
Can't say anything about the second question you asked.
LOL, it wasn't limited to the first world war ... ;)
Dear Indy and Crew, would you mind talking about the role the French Zouaves played during the First World War?
Like all the videos, any videos on the Black Tom explosion on July 30th 1916?
Quick question for OOTT: was smoking (cigarettes or the like) allowed on submarines? It was probably different from navy to navy of course, but was this a problem for soldiers? Was a solution found, or were addicted soldiers expected to simply tough it out?
Unlike modern subs, some of which can stay submerged for months, WWI and WWII era submarines spent most of their time surfaced until they made contact with enemy ships, so both the men and the diesel engines could breathe. The sailors could probably get some smoke breaks then.
Comic how same style of win the battle in Stalingrad was make by Stalin in 1917 and 1942 and how the Caucasus Front have the same big role in 1917 and 1942
I hope he talks about the Borden’s promise concerning conscription (in Canada and Quebec)
Hmm... Stalingrad that city 's name sounds familiar didn't it become really famous after a few decades of being renamed
Worst battle in human history +2m dead. but I assume you are being sarcastic.
Siege of Leningrad was even more deadly. Stalingrad was the turning point of the Second World War.
Do you have an episode or do you plan on doing an episode on the harlem hellfighters
we plan to do one.
Flo has a podcast!?
It better be called Go with the flo!
In other words, the way to more autonomy or even independence for Scotland was once more spoiled by non Catholics in the shape of Prussian protestants.
Hi Indie and team! I was wondering what were the Gypsies doing during the war? Were thay allowed to continue to travel? Were they accused of espionnage or Something? thanks :)
hi, most French-Canadians never felt any form of loyalty to the british crown, even though they were conquered in 1760. in 1840 the Durham report stated that the population of quebec had no culture or history , it was better to assimilate them and quick. Quebec always felt that the british were trying to eradicate them. Most French-Canadians served in the American army, being affraid of being used as canon fodder. Great britain did try to make a whole regiment for French-Canadians to up their morale but did little for conscription.
Where is the link to the podcast you mentioned? I didn't see it.
It's there now.
I know Many French Canadians left Canada ( over time.) after the British took control after the French and Indian war. This implies to me that there were old animosities. My family left in the early 1800s.There were many reasons, but not liking the British was one.
Hi Indy I’ve been watching your show for a couple of years if I knew about t earlier I’d watch from the beginning. My question is a little premature if you’ll even cover it at all I’ve read on Wikipedia I know not the best site but it says that on the 20’s the British empire was looking to consolidate and wanted to give Canada its territories/colonies in the West Indies along with the Falkland and Newfoundland. They also said it would in some way make up for Canada’s contribution in the war like how Australia got German New Guinea, South Africa got south west Africa and New Zealand got somoa
I’ve tried posting a link but I don’t know how it’s under Canadian carribean relations under the heading British West Indies
Then we could say that uncle Stalin did nothing wrong
Hello Indy and team. Can you make a special episode about Polnischen wehrmacht and kingdom of Poland during WW1?
I hope I won't have to wait 21 years for this channel to get onto the Second world war. Although it would be cool that's too long to wait.
[Ieuan Hunt] They're starting it on a second channel 2019. 80 years after the events
Don’t worry I am Jake Fuentes and you are watching the Second World War
5:27
Am I blind or is that link not there?
Watching the comment section like it's Sarajevo, 1914.
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Hi guys, love the show and I have a question. At the start of the war my family name was O'Neil but this was changed to Neil when my great grandfather joined the Ulster Division. Maybe an attempt to sound more British? Do you know if this was common in any other nations with multicultural armies?
On a related note, my family did not have a surname until 1915, my Great Grandfather was born Rhodri ap Gwynn (ap meaning son of). It was not until he joined the army in 1915 that he decided to choose a surname, picking Edwards because he liked the sound of it. Makes tracing the family tree on that side of the family problematic at times :D.
I'm am by no means sure of the history of Scotland, but I am certain that the IRISH home rule bill was passed, but was ultimately postponed due to the outbreak of the war. Did the same happen for Scotland as well? Or was what was said in the video mixed up?
From what I remember, after an Irish rebellion in 1798, the Irish local government was stripped from them, and instead they had to send MP's to London. The home rule bill was an aim to get the local government back. I believe Scotland and Wales both had their own local governments as well, or why else would the Irish want theirs so much?
Stalin was a piece of work in a nutshell. He became quite good at playing all side against one another to the point in the end he held the reigns of power exclusively. Lenin didn't trust him though Stalin made them out to be two best buds. History showed what happened when you crossed Stalin just take what happened to Trotsky ended up with an ice pick to the brain in Mexico City in 1940. He was calculating and patient when dealing with his perceived objectives of course when his plans failed he'd blame any weak defenseless group for the failure have show trial then quickly move on. Once he became the general secretary of the party he knew it was just a matter of time before he would have total control. The purges he perpetrated were just extensions by which he could salvage a failed plan. Yes, Stalin was a piece of work.
Ioseb Jughashvili was a student alright, but was studying to become a Priest (!) of the Russian Orthodox Church at the Spiritual Seminary in Tiflis (now Tibilisi).
PS. In 1917 St. Petersburg was called Petrograd. ;-)
PPS. Today Tsaritsyn/Stalingrad is called Volgograd. :-D
Who's Volgo?
LOL, it´s the Volga river
I came out enlightened. Thanks.
Wasn't it Djugashvili?
I think it was after finding and reading a copy of "Das Kapital" that Stalin became an atheist, from that moment on.
Nah he remained a Priest!
What’s a Soviet? How did it start and what was it’s role in the revolution in 1917 and after?
Where’s the link for the podcast flo did?
Where's the podcast link that was mentioned? I can't find it in the description.
I can't seem to find the link that was mentionned about the podcast with the Canadian historian.
It's there now.