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As a Ukrainian, my heart broke when I heard the stories of the witnesses. My grandmother was a surviver of a massive hunger during this years. Truly dark times. Can’t even imagine, 2nd world war and then this. She was the strongest person I knew and I owe her everything. Rest In Peace, granny.
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Dr Alan Brown Your absolutely Wrong just because they have ‘Socialism ‘ derived in the name don’t mean nothing , Hitler was a Facist and very Far Right . Hitler used big giant private companies the Communists did not , they are two different entities , I have read many historians views and they all agree there two different ideologies .
The British Murdered over 150 Million in there Empire and invented the Concentration camp and are the biggest murders on the planet fact with there Imperialism.
"How Socialist was National Socialism." You mean how Socialism of (?) type is National Socialism. I think you are trying to say Nazism was Socialism which no one denies unless they don't have a brain, They are an American Communist or a American/Other Neo-Nazi.
Thanks for putting up the documentaries. Absolute hell on earth yet people went on pumping out babies like they do in every historical tragedy. I’ll never understand man.
Every citizen on earth should see this documentary to be warned about the horrors of the "socialists paradises" Why is not it shown on the main TV chanels?
It's about Stalinism. "Warning about" socialism by showing documentaries about Stalinism/Communism, is like "warning about Trump" by showing documentaries about Mussolini or Franco. [See: false equivalency]
So Soviet leaders, after Lenin's death, thought that in choosing Stalin over Trotsky they were choosing the "lesser evil,". Most woud live to regret it it. Most would not survive
Finally got notifications again. For some reason UA-cam has not notified me of your uploads even though I am subbed and have the bell checked so anyway maybe they got it together now. Thanks for the uploads.
Thanks, Marshall. I think UA-cam has got so big now that the software struggles to cope sometimes. Many comments and notifications go missing, even my own. Regards, Alan.
That sounds plausible and I have also noticed that on my own channel which is 100% aviation and simulation that some people say they don't get certain videos notified while others do so I think it could be UA-cams filter and automated censoring algorithms which may mistaken perfectly benign words etc. as a no go if they happen to fall into some magical order. Your videos do feature a lot of less than lovable members of the human race from history hahaha but obviously in a purely historical context and not in any sort of malicious way. Anyway thanks again and we may both have put the mystery together as it could be a combination of both overloading of their systems as well as the increasingly strict riles and massive amounts of things deemed "offensive". Happy holidays by the way.
Sadly the programme continues Stalin's ghastly, smear description of kulaks as 'prosperous' peasants.. They were anything but. By prosperous they owned three cows or rented an extra field to feed the local, hugely rising population. Up to 1914 the Russian peasant worked incredibly hard - and successfully fed the rising populations in the burgeoning cities. They were essential to Russia's survival. When they were sent to Siberia mass famine became an on-off ritual for the Soviet Empire, with or without the Germans, until the late 1950s.. Another two lies are also expressed: first, that agriculture was 'inefficient' when it was the opposite under the peasants, and second, that the industrialisation programme 'necessitated' the Gulag system. No other advanced nation used slave labour to create its industrial revolution. The Russian Communist Party inflicted a dreadful system - and nearly all of the Gulag's industrial projects turned out to be total economic failures. It was the worst possible system, with the worst consequences: complete madness..
What trips me out is, if this was supposed to be a revolution against what was before it, please tell me how this was supposed to be so different from having a monarchy? How is this life/rule any better!?
Nobody expects this. It incrementally increases over the course of years. The revolutionists lie and say they’re giving power back to the people. Never happens. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, pol pot, etc.
@Miles Negley The monarchy would have succeeded, which is the reason they were murdered. The Bolshevists knew that after the war the monarchy would have bounced back to popularity.
There is a reason that later generation in Soviet Union lost their ideological zeal, or for that matter, plenty of people did not believe Communism in general from the start (thus civil war). My father loathed marxist leninist classes, for example, as a waste of time. And concepts like ''advanced'' socialism leading to communism was a butt of jokes.
This is cheap British propaganda. The archives are open for a long time and available to serious historians. In the peak of the repressions there were 1.8 million prisoners in the Gulag, a bit more than *one percent* of the population and most of these were plain criminals.
@@binslick1000 Who's praising him in the West? It's common knowledge he was an authoritarian thug. The only thing that might be mixed here is that some people think he was better than Hitler because he was less racist, but he killed more and had just as little regard for human lives.
"Nothing says more about the character of a nation than its prison system." "The percentage of americans in the prison system has doubled since 1985." I believe that was said in 2001.
19:00 Saddest story I ever heard. Sorrow fills me. That a mother should be left to make such a choice is a testament of the evil Stalin represented. May his soul rot in hell
20:16 This also happened in 1960s Mao's communist China. Mao hated Stalin for supporting the Wang Min clan before WW2, but became Stalin's loyal bastard after 1946, when Stalin gave him the entire stock of WW2 Japanese weapon and the arsenal in Dalian (Port Authur) to usurp the throne of China. After 1949, Mao followed every move of Stalin and turned China into the Yellow Russia (Mongoloid Russia), until Mao's death when Deng Xiaoping (a de facto Nationalist/Kuomingtang at least from economy perspectives) followed Kuomingtang's pro-America policies. Unfortunately, the current CCP leader Xi Jinping is yet another Stalin's bastard.
What is the substantial difference difference between Hitler and Stalin? One chose a specific race-Judaism-and the other all who became the subjects of the USSR? Answer: not much.
It is easy to forget that Nazism was not solely directed at Judaism, but against "inferiors" (sic./propaganda) as a general policy. It incl. the sick and weak (euthanasia) and Roma, as entire entities (collective guilt), to name just a few.
@tophernolastname2378 Oh, please. How to tell you this, well - out with it straight on, like ripping off a bandaid, I suppose: There were few blacks in Nazi Germany to begin with and hardly anything at all is known about their lives, for good reason. What is known is that they were as persecuted as the Jews, the gays, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the communists and other political dissidents, and everyone else not up to Nazi standards who were persecuted by the Nazis for being substandard and not human. Blacks were murdered, harassed, and evidently not even worth putting into a work camp. They were considered inferior to that “ideal” Nazi Aryan race. “Nazi” and “Aryan” pretty much sums up Hitler’s Germany, wouldn’t you say? Where on earth do you get your information? Not that the rest of your comment bears upholding in the way that you intend either, but to say that blacks were held in esteem in some way in Nazi Germany, the pure Aryan Nazi Germany, with Hitler? Your marbles have all fallen out, man. You can’t even google or wiki ‘blacks in Nazi Germany’ without ‘persecution’ popping up big and bold faster than you can type it in. You know what Hitler called blacks? The ‘n’ word. With utter distaste and extreme prejudice. When Jessie Owens won the four golds at the 1936 Olympics Hitler got up and fast walked out. There’s footage of that. He got up after Owens’ beat out the “unbeatable Aryan” absolutely furious because “that n_____” won. Please don’t take my word for it, do look it up. Do some research on geopolitics from the end of WWI. There are reasons for “alignments” as you say, but Hitler was ‘aligned’ with almost anyone who hated the Jews and didn’t ‘align’ themselves against Hitler and Nazi Germany. You’ve completely skirted geopolitics and thus the actual history of your “alignments.”
A woman speaking is identified as the "daughter of Comrade Lenin." I didn't know that Lenin had a daughter. It is my understanding that Lenin and Krupskaya never had any children. Of course, I don't know whether or not Lenin had a child through an extramarital relationship.
Gosto Muito dos Documentários sobre as Guerras que já aconteceram ao longo da História da humanidade, desde as mais Antigas quanto as mais recentes, Como ex: guerras Napoleônicas, a Primeira Guerra Mundial 1914 - 1918, As Grandes Batalhas nas guerras do Império Romano, as Conquistas e Vitórias de Alexandre o Grande, as Batalhas nas Guerras do Império de Genghis Khan. na América do Sul tivemos duas Guerras Importantes a Guerra das Malvinas em 1982 e a Guerra do Paraguay em 1864 - 1870. OBS: muitas foram guerra civil entre o próprio povo, as mais Conhecidas e estudadas guerras civis da História são a Guerra civil Americana 1861 - 1865 e a Guerra civil Russa 1918 - 1921. No Brasil tivemos várias a mais marcante delas foi a Guerra dos Farrapos 1835 - 1845. Enfim são muitas Guerras e Conflitos entre Nações que já aconteceram. Gosto de ler livros, e TUDO sobre estas Grandes Guerras, e assistir a Muitos Documentários sobre elas. Mas sem SOMBRA de DÚVIDAS nenhuma destas guerras entre Nações que já aconteceram, chama tanta atenção e Curiosidade, tanto dos Historiadores quanto das pessoas Comuns, quanto à ( Segunda Guerra Mundial ) pois além de ser uma Guerra que envolveu uma boa parte dos Países do Globo, seja de forma Direta ou Indireta, ela mudou o Curso da História em muitos Sentidos, vou citar só às Quatro Principais: 1°) antes da Segunda Guerra Mundial, as Maiores Potências mundiais inclusive Militar, eram Inglaterra, França, e Japão, Mas depois da Segunda Guerra Mundial a MAIOR Potência econômica e Militar do Planeta passou a ser os Estados Unidos, sendo a Maior potência até hoje. OBS: a Alemanha só se tornou de Novo uma Grande Potência militar e Econômica somente alguns anos antes da Segunda Guerra mundial, com a Chegada de Adolf Hitler ao Poder em 1933. 2°) logo após os Estados Unidos ter se Consolidado como a Maior potência Econômica e Militar, logo depois da Guerra o idioma ( Inglês ) passou a ser Considerado o idioma mais importante naquele momento no mundo e continua até os dias de Hoje. e O Dólar Americano passou a ser usado como uma moeda mundial valendo muito, em praticamente todos os Países e continua até os dias de Hoje. 3°) após a Segunda Guerra Mundial a influência nos países do Globo, passou a ser disputada entre duas Potências mundiais, de um lado liderando o Bloco Capitalista os Estados Unidos. do outro liderando o Bloco Socialista ou Comunista como preferem chamar alguns, a União Soviética q emergiu como uma Grande Potência após a Guerra. 4°) após a Segunda Guerra Mundial foi criada em 1947 a ( ONU ) Organização das Nações Unidas, que tinha como Principais Objetivos criar leis e regras rígidas no mundo tais como Comércio, migração de pessoas a outros países, entre outras coisas; mas o Principal Objetivo da criação da ONU era o de impedir novas Guerras, Sempre buscando em Primeiro lugar o Diálogo entre as Nações, mas caso o Diálogo não funcionasse a ONU tbm criou diversas leis para EVITAR ao máximo Guerras, e TODOS os países tinham que seguir estas leis. Mas uma coisa q NÃO entendo até Hoje e não entra na minha cabeça de jeito nenhum, É, Porque a " História " insiste em reconhecer a França como um dos Países Vencedores da Segunda Guerra Mundial? Pois isso É uma Grande MENTIRA ensinada nas escolas, Faculdades, livros, revistas, Documentários, e etc... sendo que o próprio estudo da Segunda Guerra Mundial através dos livros, revistas, artigos de Historiadores imparciais, e até nos Documentários nos ensina diferente ou Seja que a França foi na Verdade Derrotada pela Alemanha Nazista em menos de Seis Semanas. logo após a Derrota os Franceses foram humilhados pelos Alemães q os obrigaram a assinar os termos da Rendição no MESMO Vagão de Trem, que a Alemanha tinha assinado sua derrota na Primeira guerra mundial anos antes. Que humilhação! Entre as exigências Absurdas exigida pelos Alemães aos Derrotados Franceses, era de que eles criassem um Governo Colaboracionista, inclusive com a França entregando todos os Judeus recidentes no País, Sem contar q França foi Dividida em duas zonas de influência uma Controlada pelos Nazistas Alemães, e a outra " Controlada " pelo Governo Colaboracionista da França. Portanto colocar a França como uma das Potências Vencedoras da Segunda Guerra Mundial, Não É apenas um Absurdo e " piada sem graça ". mas tbm uma Afronta à própria História q nos Mostra os ( EUA, a URSS e a Inglaterra ) como os VERDADEIROS Vencedores da Segunda Guerra Mundial. a França até hoje deveria agradecer de Joelhos, a Inglaterra e Principalmente os EUA e URSS pela Vitória. Portanto NÃO entendo porque que ainda a Maioria dos livros, Documentários e etc.. insiste nesta Grande MENTIRA em colocar a França como uma das " potências" vencedoras, se ironicamente os próprios livros e Documentários sobre a Segunda Guerra Mundial nos mostra a Verdade de forma contrária ao que está sendo mostrado, pelo menos nesta questão dos Países Vencedores.
Ummmm, am I losing my mind? I keep hearing the soundtrack for Bram Stoker’s Dracula!!!!! Someone tell me if I’m actually hearing it, or if I’ve officially lost my mind.
A woman named Natalya Rykova is identified by this documentary as the "daughter of comrade Lenin." But Lenin and his wife never begat any children. Did they adopt Natalya? Did Lenin father a child by a woman other than his wife Krupskaya? Or did the makers of this documentary simply make a mistake?
This is why I have such a difficult time extending any respect or seriousness to modern day Russia. Why in the world would they choose this form of " government " ?
“It was a cannibalistic system”... indeed it was. Thank you for this upload. I have always been against communism and these sort of revelations only cement my anti-communist views.
HA! I thought the exact same thing! It does go well with it though, doesn't it? I guess that Stalin was a sort of vampire in a very abstract way though, sucking the blood of freedom from his own people..
It does work quite well. I think it's a testament to the compositional brilliance of Wojciech Kilar. Documentaries often go for this soundtrack when depicting something vile, horrific, and unabashedly evil. It fits Stalin perfectly.
There's no excuse for him to be allowed to have spearheaded this much suffering...those around him in power owed it to humanity to remove stalin from power in some form of a coup. I realize there were attempts but he could not have murdered so many without help and compliance from cowards
I think I would die in that gulag camp but would atleast take one secret police to the death gates. After all death was sure so better to arouse the people working inside to drive out fear from within and be ready to die but do something to stop this. The fear in the minds of the gulag camps prisoners was the greatest strength of the enemies. If that was driven out from the minds of people there would be great revolution.
I'm curious as to what would have happened if instead of Trotsky being exiled it was Stalin, and Trotsky ran the party.. I'm sure it couldn't have been any worse
the soviets gave the idea of the concentraction camps to the nazis there were no camps in germany until the death of richard incrich end after his death himler visits the soviet union end create the camps after his visit
Stalin is a men of his time and during the wars and the revolution they need a men such Stalin and that time is long gone now only the future count good video 👌👌👌
Forced famine, the execution of a country's top military officers, and purges of anyone who Stalin didn't like was not needed. People who try to argue that are idiots still brainwashed by propaganda.
You might be bale to argue that when they under threat of invasion from Germany in terms of calling it a necessary evil (that still doesn't mean such extreme action were the only option even in such a war) but he started his crap way before WW2
I will have to disagree and not sure how to still be in the region of politically correctness. Khruchscov's son said communist Jews would have been the next target if Stalin would have live longer. Well, the above is avoiding with a lot of ability the historical fact that Soviet Union (Stalin) was the first state to recognize the independence of Israel, long before allies... Let's just respect history.....
Communism and its offshoots, like Stalinism or Maoism, did not discriminate against races, ethnicities, language groups, etc. Communism *only* acknowledged and rewarded loyalty. The "alpha male" was communism. If it could be perceived that an individual had another master, like religion, or an affinity to ethnicity, you were automatically branded as unreliable and ripe for the Gulag or Siberia.
So because Stalin felt like recognizing Israel, that's quite all right that he was the cause of 20 million Soviet citizens to die? I guess it doesn't matter that he signed a pact with Hitler to split up Poland? I don't suppose it matters that he brutally subjugated the Balkan states? All that doesn't matter because you want to "respect history."
A quick history lesson. Stalin's paranoia knew no bounds. Though he often belittled Jews in private, he didn't do so in public, and saw no reason to encourage pogroms. He also had a number of Jewish lieutenants. But that all changed as time went on. More and more he came to distrust them, and towards his last years was preparing to "settle the score" with them en masse. Only his death prevented this from occurring.
I've lived through the world supposing to end at least 3 separate times, maybe more. It ends when it ends. Didn't happen in 99 new year's, didn't happen after the Mayan calendar said so in 2012, didn't happen on the day of the 3 blood moons.
Trotsky's killer Makarda was an assistant of George Orwell (real name Erik Blair), who was a British spy. Blair was sent by the MI6, the British spy agency to Spain to infiltrate the socialist army in the Spanish Civil war.
The first attempt top kill Trotsky,as ordered by Stalin in 1937 was by Shpigelglas .The next attempt was handed personally by Stalin to Pavel Sudoplatov. Sudelplatov told Stalin he was not able to carry out the job personally because he couldn't speak Spanish,as Trotsky was in mexico. He suggested to Stalin,And Beria who was present at the meeting , that he use Spanish guerrillas who had been so helpful during the Spanish civil war.Stalin Replied " It is your Job to and party Duty to find and select suitable and reliable personnel to carry out the assignment. You will be provided with what ever assistance and support you need .Report directly to Comrade Beria and nobody else,but the full responsibility for carrying out the mission remains with you .You should personally make arrangements to dispatch a task force to Mexico from Europe and report on it only in your own handwriting". Sudelplatov had a friend who was part of the Spanish Operations, Eitingon .Eitingon had been under surveilance by another department ,the operations department and was naturally fearful of his life. Given this, beria got him to join Sudelplatov because of his experience in the Spanish 'operation' . Eitingon suggested that the operation to Kill Trotsky be called Operation Utka (Duck). In Russia, besides it's normal meaning, is a term for Disinformation "when the ducks are flying" means the MSM is printing disinformation .This plot was so well orgaqnised that Trotskys secretary in Norway and went with him to mexico, Maria De la Sierra was in fact a plant by Sudoplatovs NKVD. Eitingons idea was to use communist agents already in place, David Alfaro Siqueiros,the Mexican painter and known to Stalin , and an organizer of the mexican communist party (wait for a statue of him to be erected now that mexico has a communist leader) .Another illegal net work was established,headed by Caridad Mercader (not Makader !) .She was a Spanish aristocrat.Her middle son Ramon, was unknown to Trotskyites .He had been set up by Eitingon to give the Appearance of rich spoilt playboy living a profligate lifestyle .His role was simply to act rich and take no part in political movements or discourse. His code name was Motherc. In Addition to mercader ,Sudoplatov had an important agent code named Harry ,actually an Englishman named Morrison who was unknown to Orlov or Shpigelglas. Harry was instrumental in stealing the operatinal records of the Trotsky organisation in 1939. Eitingon aslso suggested that the operation be shielded from the NKVD operatives in the united States. (!) Sudoplatov was initimately involved with the subsequent training of Mercader and Ramon ,teaching them spycraft etc although both had extensive military experience in the Spanish Civil war. The plot to kill Trotsky revolved arond the two aforementioned groups . One was to attack the villa and shoot everyone in sight,while Ramon,who was unaware of the other group was to infiltrate the Trotsky secretariat. . The villa Trotsky was living in was owned by the Mexican painter Diego Rivera. Ramon had used the classic honey trap to start an affair with Sylvia Ageloff,Trotskys secretary .The raid on May 23 1940 failed,because although the gate to villa had been mistakenly opened by the guard Sheldon Harte , the killers were not used to personal up close killing ,machine gunned a closed door and Trotsky had escaped death by hiding under his bed. Stalin and Beria knew of the failure through TASS. as it was reported on the news.To Ensure that the next attempt succeeded , Ramon Mercader then used the excuse that Trotsky had tried to prevent the marriage between Mercado and Ageloff, to attempt to kill him with a small pickaxe to the head on August 20 1940.Trotsky was only partially injured because at the last instance as Ramon went to strike the killing blow,he moved his head to the side. he died the next day in Hospital. At no time was George Orwell ever involved in the killing of Trotsky as the operation was carried out entirely by the NKVD under Pavel Sudoplatov using Spanish ,Mexican ,French and American illegal operatives (Spies)There are obviously more details to this but this would require far too much typing.
A humanitarian agenda would be more accurate. But if you really want to get at it --- remember, this was done in an atheistic//agnostic Regime. Find numbers of slaughter to match in any religious war. Even the Muslims aren't quite as cruel as this gulag stuff. They behead people yes, but it's over quickly, they don't grind their enemies to death over a lot of years very often. Which Religious war has cost 20 Million lives in a single country -- by forced labor...... The USA doesn't come close. From the years 1600-1865 at the end of our civil war, America only had 600,000 persons die in slavery. Try to compare 600,000 to 20 million -- it's not even close. That 20 million was over 10-15 years, the 600,000 was over 250+ years. Oh, and the US patriots are only responsible for the last 88 years of that. AND the amount of white people who died in the Civil War equals 630,000 by most estimates. I'd say the US paid its price. How do you think Russia has paid its price? What more could have been done to topple stalin? I'd like to know.
Well capitalism in Russia is no different. I hope that people understand that it is not systems that are cruel but the elites whom use it to suit their whims.
Stalin was one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century. He took a backward nation of agrarians - constantly invaded from the West - and built Russia into an industrial superpower in 10 years - and then he decimated Nazi Germany with that newfound power.
I must say that's a first lol.. The main thing I guess caught my eye was your statement giving credit for the decimation of the German to Stalin.. It was the Russian people that defeated the
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Dr Alan Brown AWESOME 👏
Another great documentary .
Bravo !
The History Room Where Is Part 3.?? It Says 3 Parts But this was Part 2..
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This is why people are very nervous about giving more power to any government
The woman’s story about her Father and the bedtime story was heartbreaking.
I love how they use the soundtrack of "Bram Stoker's Dracula"
Made me think how my life is so easy
As a Ukrainian, my heart broke when I heard the stories of the witnesses. My grandmother was a surviver of a massive hunger during this years. Truly dark times. Can’t even imagine, 2nd world war and then this. She was the strongest person I knew and I owe her everything. Rest In Peace, granny.
My grandparents fled Russia because of Stalin. So glad they did. Not sure that I would be here if they didn't.
A truly monstrous evil person.
Many people don't believe you. There are alot of fools who think this isn't true.
Thank you for posting and sharing your story.
My heart goes out to the farmers, even though they are old they still cry. 🙏🙏🙏🌹
Change “Stockholm Syndrome” to “Stalin Syndrome.” That makes the meaning more relevant.
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Thanks, Brad. Let me know in reply what you think of my argument. Happy Christmas to you and yours. Regards, Alan.
Dr Alan Brown Your absolutely Wrong just because they have ‘Socialism ‘ derived in the name don’t mean nothing , Hitler was a Facist and very Far Right .
Hitler used big giant private companies the Communists did not , they are two different entities , I have read many historians views and they all agree there two different ideologies .
The British Murdered over 150 Million in there Empire and invented the Concentration camp and are the biggest murders on the planet fact with there Imperialism.
"How Socialist was National Socialism." You mean how Socialism of (?) type is National Socialism. I think you are trying to say Nazism was Socialism which no one denies unless they don't have a brain, They are an American Communist or a American/Other Neo-Nazi.
Dr Alan Brown , “totalitarians” is what all those various forms bend up being. Politicians control everything... people control nothing.
It's so disturbing what humans can do to eachother
Every communism sympathiser should see this documentary
Devil in human form
Thanks, doc, for uploading this....as usual!!
Stalin never wore clothing with visible buttons, he believed they made perfect targets for a decent marksman.
The guy was so horrible, the poor Soviet people were scared of him even after he was dead.
Thanks for putting up the documentaries. Absolute hell on earth yet people went on pumping out babies like they do in every historical tragedy. I’ll never understand man.
Seth K it's hope. All the beauty of life existing, surviving in spite of man
I like the "Bram Stoker's Dracula" soundtrack.
Every citizen on earth should see this documentary to be warned about the horrors of the "socialists paradises"
Why is not it shown on the main TV chanels?
It's about Stalinism.
"Warning about" socialism by showing documentaries about Stalinism/Communism, is like "warning about Trump" by showing documentaries about Mussolini or Franco.
[See: false equivalency]
Channel 4 is one of the main TV channels in the UK. Its as big as the BBC in that country.
You prefer your mass-murderers to be capitalist I guess?
Does not fit the CCP narrative.
@@ralphbernhard1757 seriously? Trump is the best thing that ever happened to this country.
So Soviet leaders, after Lenin's death, thought that in choosing Stalin over Trotsky they were choosing the "lesser evil,". Most woud live to regret it it. Most would not survive
But do you think trostky was evil too ?would he also me a mass murderer?I know he would be lesser evil than stalin, of course.
This is extraordinary. Thank you for posting!
Finally got notifications again. For some reason UA-cam has not notified me of your uploads even though I am subbed and have the bell checked so anyway maybe they got it together now. Thanks for the uploads.
Thanks, Marshall. I think UA-cam has got so big now that the software struggles to cope sometimes. Many comments and notifications go missing, even my own. Regards, Alan.
That sounds plausible and I have also noticed that on my own channel which is 100% aviation and simulation that some people say they don't get certain videos notified while others do so I think it could be UA-cams filter and automated censoring algorithms which may mistaken perfectly benign words etc. as a no go if they happen to fall into some magical order. Your videos do feature a lot of less than lovable members of the human race from history hahaha but obviously in a purely historical context and not in any sort of malicious way. Anyway thanks again and we may both have put the mystery together as it could be a combination of both overloading of their systems as well as the increasingly strict riles and massive amounts of things deemed "offensive". Happy holidays by the way.
And to you and yours, Marshall. "Less than lovable" - nice phrase!
Sadly the programme continues Stalin's ghastly, smear description of kulaks as 'prosperous' peasants.. They were anything but. By prosperous they owned three cows or rented an extra field to feed the local, hugely rising population. Up to 1914 the Russian peasant worked incredibly hard - and successfully fed the rising populations in the burgeoning cities. They were essential to Russia's survival. When they were sent to Siberia mass famine became an on-off ritual for the Soviet Empire, with or without the Germans, until the late 1950s..
Another two lies are also expressed: first, that agriculture was 'inefficient' when it was the opposite under the peasants, and second, that the industrialisation programme 'necessitated' the Gulag system. No other advanced nation used slave labour to create its industrial revolution. The Russian Communist Party inflicted a dreadful system - and nearly all of the Gulag's industrial projects turned out to be total economic failures. It was the worst possible system, with the worst consequences: complete madness..
Didnt the Soviets invent the term kulak?
Western economies did use slavery during their industrialising periods.
@@MackerelCat You have no idea what slavery means, except hyperbolically. Look up NKVD + Gulags for better clarity and enlightenment.
appreciate this again
Again Alan, good job uploading
I bet the farmers/common people wished they were still being ruled by Nicholas Romanov.
Stalin tought, that ideas are more powerful than bullets, so enemy has to be denied ideas, and not guns.
Sounds relevant today.
One of the saddest videos i have ever watched. People don't understand dictators are evil.
Some are better than others
@@fuuz642 Tito? He was probably the closest you could get to a fair dictator, but that's an exception to the rule
The lady at 3:30 dear sweet Jesus that lady watched the Berlin olympics from Moscow with them thick ass glasses
Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.
What trips me out is, if this was supposed to be a revolution against what was before it, please tell me how this was supposed to be so different from having a monarchy? How is this life/rule any better!?
Nobody expects this. It incrementally increases over the course of years. The revolutionists lie and say they’re giving power back to the people. Never happens. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, pol pot, etc.
@Miles Negley The monarchy would have succeeded, which is the reason they were murdered. The Bolshevists knew that after the war the monarchy would have bounced back to popularity.
There is a reason that later generation in Soviet Union lost their ideological zeal, or for that matter, plenty of people did not believe Communism in general from the start (thus civil war). My father loathed marxist leninist classes, for example, as a waste of time. And concepts like ''advanced'' socialism leading to communism was a butt of jokes.
This man was a horrid monster
This is the same monster that was praised by the west.
This is cheap British propaganda. The archives are open for a long time and available to serious historians.
In the peak of the repressions there were 1.8 million prisoners in the Gulag, a bit more than *one percent* of the population and most of these were plain criminals.
Just until 1945. As Churchill said, if Hitler invaded Hell, he would form an alliance with the Devil.....
@@binslick1000 Who's praising him in the West? It's common knowledge he was an authoritarian thug. The only thing that might be mixed here is that some people think he was better than Hitler because he was less racist, but he killed more and had just as little regard for human lives.
He was living terror for humanity what a devil
"Nothing says more about the character of a nation than its prison system."
"The percentage of americans in the prison system has doubled since 1985."
I believe that was said in 2001.
Not even close to the gulags.
Nothing on the Gulags or some African prisons I've seen.
Every country on earth has prisons. Very few if any have anything resembling the gulags of Stalin's era.
No bread on the table but a picture of Stalin on the wall ---- that about sums up the whole Stalin Era??? What a frigging monster.
Millions faced that very scene, right to their demise.
8:45 Lenin declared war on the peasants and kulaks too after the Revolution. Stalin was just more thorough
I've noticed all dictators are insecure. Rather quite fragile
Yeah, seems like extreme over-compensation for inadequacy for some of these dictators
Because of their narcissism...
They need therapy, everyone needs therapy
19:00 Saddest story I ever heard. Sorrow fills me. That a mother should be left to make such a choice is a testament of the evil Stalin represented. May his soul rot in hell
Great film 100% oke
20:16 This also happened in 1960s Mao's communist China. Mao hated Stalin for supporting the Wang Min clan before WW2, but became Stalin's loyal bastard after 1946, when Stalin gave him the entire stock of WW2 Japanese weapon and the arsenal in Dalian (Port Authur) to usurp the throne of China. After 1949, Mao followed every move of Stalin and turned China into the Yellow Russia (Mongoloid Russia), until Mao's death when Deng Xiaoping (a de facto Nationalist/Kuomingtang at least from economy perspectives) followed Kuomingtang's pro-America policies.
Unfortunately, the current CCP leader Xi Jinping is yet another Stalin's bastard.
10:08, an emotional testimony!
They rebelled/revolted and ended the monarchy to get this. From the pot to the fire.
Somehow nations had to go through tragic evolutions.
ah, the worker's paradise :)
The people 'If Stalin knew'... He sent them there...
Oh... so that's how they got there!
I always knew Stalin was Dracula.
What is the substantial difference difference between Hitler and Stalin? One chose a specific race-Judaism-and the other all who became the subjects of the USSR?
Answer: not much.
It is easy to forget that Nazism was not solely directed at Judaism, but against "inferiors" (sic./propaganda) as a general policy. It incl. the sick and weak (euthanasia) and Roma, as entire entities (collective guilt), to name just a few.
@tophernolastname2378
Oh, please. How to tell you this, well - out with it straight on, like ripping off a bandaid, I suppose: There were few blacks in Nazi Germany to begin with and hardly anything at all is known about their lives, for good reason. What is known is that they were as persecuted as the Jews, the gays, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the communists and other political dissidents, and everyone else not up to Nazi standards who were persecuted by the Nazis for being substandard and not human. Blacks were murdered, harassed, and evidently not even worth putting into a work camp. They were considered inferior to that “ideal” Nazi Aryan race. “Nazi” and “Aryan” pretty much sums up Hitler’s Germany, wouldn’t you say? Where on earth do you get your information? Not that the rest of your comment bears upholding in the way that you intend either, but to say that blacks were held in esteem in some way in Nazi Germany, the pure Aryan Nazi Germany, with Hitler? Your marbles have all fallen out, man. You can’t even google or wiki ‘blacks in Nazi Germany’ without ‘persecution’ popping up big and bold faster than you can type it in. You know what Hitler called blacks? The ‘n’ word. With utter distaste and extreme prejudice. When Jessie Owens won the four golds at the 1936 Olympics Hitler got up and fast walked out. There’s footage of that. He got up after Owens’ beat out the “unbeatable Aryan” absolutely furious because “that n_____” won. Please don’t take my word for it, do look it up.
Do some research on geopolitics from the end of WWI. There are reasons for “alignments” as you say, but Hitler was ‘aligned’ with almost anyone who hated the Jews and didn’t ‘align’ themselves against Hitler and Nazi Germany. You’ve completely skirted geopolitics and thus the actual history of your “alignments.”
the narrator voice's the same as in the movie dracula
11:30 such a sad story, really shows the impact on individuals, these are people not statistics
she doesnt say 'i am still waiting' - her father told her i prove my innocence and she repetes at the end 'he didnt prove, he didnt prove ...'
dafyduck79 «не доказав» in Russian means “did not prove” in Ukrainian “did not finish” it was meant the story, so the translation is correct
A woman speaking is identified as the "daughter of Comrade Lenin." I didn't know that Lenin had a daughter. It is my understanding that Lenin and Krupskaya never had any children. Of course, I don't know whether or not Lenin had a child through an extramarital relationship.
It said daughter of comrade of Lenin. I thought the same thing so I watched that part again
All happening in current day North Korea
danzig baldayev´s book worth reading.
2:55 OOOOOPS!!!!!!!
Pretty damn sad.
Gosto Muito dos Documentários sobre as Guerras que já aconteceram ao longo da História da humanidade, desde as mais Antigas quanto as mais recentes, Como ex: guerras Napoleônicas, a Primeira Guerra Mundial 1914 - 1918, As Grandes Batalhas nas guerras do Império Romano, as Conquistas e Vitórias de Alexandre o Grande, as Batalhas nas Guerras do Império de Genghis Khan. na América do Sul tivemos duas Guerras Importantes a Guerra das Malvinas em 1982 e a Guerra do Paraguay em 1864 - 1870. OBS: muitas foram guerra civil entre o próprio povo, as mais Conhecidas e estudadas guerras civis da História são a Guerra civil Americana 1861 - 1865 e a Guerra civil Russa 1918 - 1921. No Brasil tivemos várias a mais marcante delas foi a Guerra dos Farrapos 1835 - 1845. Enfim são muitas Guerras e Conflitos entre Nações que já aconteceram. Gosto de ler livros, e TUDO sobre estas Grandes Guerras, e assistir a Muitos Documentários sobre elas. Mas sem SOMBRA de DÚVIDAS nenhuma destas guerras entre Nações que já aconteceram, chama tanta atenção e Curiosidade, tanto dos Historiadores quanto das pessoas Comuns, quanto à ( Segunda Guerra Mundial ) pois além de ser uma Guerra que envolveu uma boa parte dos Países do Globo, seja de forma Direta ou Indireta, ela mudou o Curso da História em muitos Sentidos, vou citar só às Quatro Principais: 1°) antes da Segunda Guerra Mundial, as Maiores Potências mundiais inclusive Militar, eram Inglaterra, França, e Japão, Mas depois da Segunda Guerra Mundial a MAIOR Potência econômica e Militar do Planeta passou a ser os Estados Unidos, sendo a Maior potência até hoje. OBS: a Alemanha só se tornou de Novo uma Grande Potência militar e Econômica somente alguns anos antes da Segunda Guerra mundial, com a Chegada de Adolf Hitler ao Poder em 1933. 2°) logo após os Estados Unidos ter se Consolidado como a Maior potência Econômica e Militar, logo depois da Guerra o idioma ( Inglês ) passou a ser Considerado o idioma mais importante naquele momento no mundo e continua até os dias de Hoje. e O Dólar Americano passou a ser usado como uma moeda mundial valendo muito, em praticamente todos os Países e continua até os dias de Hoje. 3°) após a Segunda Guerra Mundial a influência nos países do Globo, passou a ser disputada entre duas Potências mundiais, de um lado liderando o Bloco Capitalista os Estados Unidos. do outro liderando o Bloco Socialista ou Comunista como preferem chamar alguns, a União Soviética q emergiu como uma Grande Potência após a Guerra. 4°) após a Segunda Guerra Mundial foi criada em 1947 a ( ONU ) Organização das Nações Unidas, que tinha como Principais Objetivos criar leis e regras rígidas no mundo tais como Comércio, migração de pessoas a outros países, entre outras coisas; mas o Principal Objetivo da criação da ONU era o de impedir novas Guerras, Sempre buscando em Primeiro lugar o Diálogo entre as Nações, mas caso o Diálogo não funcionasse a ONU tbm criou diversas leis para EVITAR ao máximo Guerras, e TODOS os países tinham que seguir estas leis. Mas uma coisa q NÃO entendo até Hoje e não entra na minha cabeça de jeito nenhum, É, Porque a " História " insiste em reconhecer a França como um dos Países Vencedores da Segunda Guerra Mundial? Pois isso É uma Grande MENTIRA ensinada nas escolas, Faculdades, livros, revistas, Documentários, e etc... sendo que o próprio estudo da Segunda Guerra Mundial através dos livros, revistas, artigos de Historiadores imparciais, e até nos Documentários nos ensina diferente ou Seja que a França foi na Verdade Derrotada pela Alemanha Nazista em menos de Seis Semanas. logo após a Derrota os Franceses foram humilhados pelos Alemães q os obrigaram a assinar os termos da Rendição no MESMO Vagão de Trem, que a Alemanha tinha assinado sua derrota na Primeira guerra mundial anos antes. Que humilhação! Entre as exigências Absurdas exigida pelos Alemães aos Derrotados Franceses, era de que eles criassem um Governo Colaboracionista, inclusive com a França entregando todos os Judeus recidentes no País, Sem contar q França foi Dividida em duas zonas de influência uma Controlada pelos Nazistas Alemães, e a outra " Controlada " pelo Governo Colaboracionista da França. Portanto colocar a França como uma das Potências Vencedoras da Segunda Guerra Mundial, Não É apenas um Absurdo e " piada sem graça ". mas tbm uma Afronta à própria História q nos Mostra os ( EUA, a URSS e a Inglaterra ) como os VERDADEIROS Vencedores da Segunda Guerra Mundial. a França até hoje deveria agradecer de Joelhos, a Inglaterra e Principalmente os EUA e URSS pela Vitória. Portanto NÃO entendo porque que ainda a Maioria dos livros, Documentários e etc.. insiste nesta Grande MENTIRA em colocar a França como uma das " potências" vencedoras, se ironicamente os próprios livros e Documentários sobre a Segunda Guerra Mundial nos mostra a Verdade de forma contrária ao que está sendo mostrado, pelo menos nesta questão dos Países Vencedores.
Thanks a lot Dr. Brown - When are you going to upload part 3? Thanks a again.
After Christmas, Luka. Regards, Alan.
Where is Part 3....?
ewww pickled polar bear sounds some guuuuuyuuuud
Ummmm, am I losing my mind? I keep hearing the soundtrack for Bram Stoker’s Dracula!!!!! Someone tell me if I’m actually hearing it, or if I’ve officially lost my mind.
So many documentaries use the same music!
That lady laugh at 6:34 is priceless..RIP, wonderful Russian people
A woman named Natalya Rykova is identified by this documentary as the "daughter of comrade Lenin." But Lenin and his wife never begat any children. Did they adopt Natalya? Did Lenin father a child by a woman other than his wife Krupskaya? Or did the makers of this documentary simply make a mistake?
It labels her as "Daughter of comrade of Lenin" I think they're implying daughter of someone who was close to Lenin and not Lenin's actual daughter.
Yeah, I thought it identified her as Lenin's daughter too, but double checked.
It's called, "artistic license".
The informer denounced someone and both get arrested...
🤣😂😂 karma
More like the informer denounced someone, and later the informer was denounced. Only to be repeated over and over.
Everyone always says Hitler was the worst, he had nothing on this maniac
😳 they both were evil beyond comprehension.
More shocking is how we as Americans were led down the path of backing this guy instead of letting Hitler take him out.
Stalin: despicable monster
I have young children and the thought of a policy that starved millions of small children hurts my heart.
This is why I have such a difficult time extending any respect or seriousness to modern day Russia. Why in the world would they choose this form of " government " ?
It’s a dictatorship, the people had no sway in changing their government.
You do know the USSR collapsed right
This Stalin fellow seemed quite the rascal in my opinion.
Excuse me sir. Your train to Kamchatka has arrived.
Comments like that got Solzhenitsyn arrested when he was a Read Army commander. So best to tread carefully, eh.
“It was a cannibalistic system”... indeed it was. Thank you for this upload. I have always been against communism and these sort of revelations only cement my anti-communist views.
What is the name of the narrator?
I don't think that Dracula's movie sound track goes well with the documentary!
HA! I thought the exact same thing! It does go well with it though, doesn't it? I guess that Stalin was a sort of vampire in a very abstract way though, sucking the blood of freedom from his own people..
It does work quite well. I think it's a testament to the compositional brilliance of Wojciech Kilar. Documentaries often go for this soundtrack when depicting something vile, horrific, and unabashedly evil. It fits Stalin perfectly.
There's no excuse for him to be allowed to have spearheaded this much suffering...those around him in power owed it to humanity to remove stalin from power in some form of a coup. I realize there were attempts but he could not have murdered so many without help and compliance from cowards
Another Nero, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot cometh . . . it's so obvious to see.
that is called a dictator :)
Everyone around him is terrified of him. He died of stroke alone because everyone was terrified to enter his room. - He is the devil reincarnate
That dude at 27:55 is terrifying
THIS MAN WAS THE DEVIL HIMSELF
Looks like Saddam
Stalin was Saddam's role model
I think I would die in that gulag camp but would atleast take one secret police to the death gates. After all death was sure so better to arouse the people working inside to drive out fear from within and be ready to die but do something to stop this. The fear in the minds of the gulag camps prisoners was the greatest strength of the enemies. If that was driven out from the minds of people there would be great revolution.
You would have been too weak and worn to strike back.
Thankfully most of the most senior henchmen were themselves henched.
Too bad the vermin at 26:10 and 33:24 weren't included.
When was this documentary?
Not too old if it features Simon Sebag Montefiore hes still producing history books and programmes.
I'm curious as to what would have happened if instead of Trotsky being exiled it was Stalin, and Trotsky ran the party.. I'm sure it couldn't have been any worse
Almost unbearable to watch
Animal farm 😎
Napoleon the Pig
And the sheep blurted out, two legs good, four legs better'
Trockyi's grandson has perfect Mexican accent 😁
Stalin was unreal, what a mind.
Evil mind.
12:37, the Soviet also, like the Nazis, had concentration camps.
the soviets gave the idea of the concentraction camps to the nazis there were no camps in germany until the death of richard incrich end after his death himler visits the soviet union end create the camps after his visit
Oh come off it. If you're starving, you don't pickle before eating ffs.
My god are they all vampires
Putin's gotta be sneakier, and he is.
Who else here for history class?
I’m auditing.
Stalin is a men of his time and during the wars and the revolution they need a men such Stalin and that time is long gone now only the future count good video 👌👌👌
The time may be long gone, but the Russians have Putin now. Cut from the same cloth.
Forced famine, the execution of a country's top military officers, and purges of anyone who Stalin didn't like was not needed. People who try to argue that are idiots still brainwashed by propaganda.
You might be bale to argue that when they under threat of invasion from Germany in terms of calling it a necessary evil (that still doesn't mean such extreme action were the only option even in such a war) but he started his crap way before WW2
You are just as evil by the sounds of it.
@@informationyes You might also remember that Stalin was doing as much "invading" as Hitler was. Only he was infinitely more repressive.
I will have to disagree and not sure how to still be in the region of politically correctness. Khruchscov's son said communist Jews would have been the next target if Stalin would have live longer. Well, the above is avoiding with a lot of ability the historical fact that Soviet Union (Stalin) was the first state to recognize the independence of Israel, long before allies... Let's just respect history.....
Communism and its offshoots, like Stalinism or Maoism, did not discriminate against races, ethnicities, language groups, etc.
Communism *only* acknowledged and rewarded loyalty.
The "alpha male" was communism.
If it could be perceived that an individual had another master, like religion, or an affinity to ethnicity, you were automatically branded as unreliable and ripe for the Gulag or Siberia.
So because Stalin felt like recognizing Israel, that's quite all right that he was the cause of 20 million Soviet citizens to die? I guess it doesn't matter that he signed a pact with Hitler to split up Poland? I don't suppose it matters that he brutally subjugated the Balkan states? All that doesn't matter because you want to "respect history."
Nonsense he was an ally.
A quick history lesson. Stalin's paranoia knew no bounds. Though he often belittled Jews in private, he didn't do so in public, and saw no reason to encourage pogroms. He also had a number of Jewish lieutenants. But that all changed as time went on. More and more he came to distrust them, and towards his last years was preparing to "settle the score" with them en masse. Only his death prevented this from occurring.
But that wasn't REAL communism!
17:17 Did he say 18 or 80 millions?
Stalin was crazy but I admire him still.
More Than A Conqueror he was a beauty.
Admire? He wasn't crazy. He was a psychopath!
iam not saying something of end of days i am saying something huge biblacal going to happen by 2030 so in the next 10 lutturly years truth
I've lived through the world supposing to end at least 3 separate times, maybe more. It ends when it ends. Didn't happen in 99 new year's, didn't happen after the Mayan calendar said so in 2012, didn't happen on the day of the 3 blood moons.
Trotsky's killer Makarda was an assistant of George Orwell (real name Erik Blair), who was a British spy. Blair was sent by the MI6, the British spy agency to Spain to infiltrate the socialist army in the Spanish Civil war.
The first attempt top kill Trotsky,as ordered by Stalin in 1937 was by Shpigelglas .The next attempt was handed personally by Stalin to Pavel Sudoplatov. Sudelplatov told Stalin he was not able to carry out the job personally because he couldn't speak Spanish,as Trotsky was in mexico. He suggested to Stalin,And Beria who was present at the meeting , that he use Spanish guerrillas who had been so helpful during the Spanish civil war.Stalin Replied " It is your Job to and party Duty to find and select suitable and reliable personnel to carry out the assignment. You will be provided with what ever assistance and support you need .Report directly to Comrade Beria and nobody else,but the full responsibility for carrying out the mission remains with you .You should personally make arrangements to dispatch a task force to Mexico from Europe and report on it only in your own handwriting". Sudelplatov had a friend who was part of the Spanish Operations, Eitingon .Eitingon had been under surveilance by another department ,the operations department and was naturally fearful of his life. Given this, beria got him to join Sudelplatov because of his experience in the Spanish 'operation' . Eitingon suggested that the operation to Kill Trotsky be called Operation Utka (Duck). In Russia, besides it's normal meaning, is a term for Disinformation "when the ducks are flying" means the MSM is printing disinformation .This plot was so well orgaqnised that Trotskys secretary in Norway and went with him to mexico, Maria De la Sierra was in fact a plant by Sudoplatovs NKVD. Eitingons idea was to use communist agents already in place, David Alfaro Siqueiros,the Mexican painter and known to Stalin , and an organizer of the mexican communist party (wait for a statue of him to be erected now that mexico has a communist leader) .Another illegal net work was established,headed by Caridad Mercader (not Makader !) .She was a Spanish aristocrat.Her middle son Ramon, was unknown to Trotskyites .He had been set up by Eitingon to give the Appearance of rich spoilt playboy living a profligate lifestyle .His role was simply to act rich and take no part in political movements or discourse. His code name was Motherc. In Addition to mercader ,Sudoplatov had an important agent code named Harry ,actually an Englishman named Morrison who was unknown to Orlov or Shpigelglas. Harry was instrumental in stealing the operatinal records of the Trotsky organisation in 1939. Eitingon aslso suggested that the operation be shielded from the NKVD operatives in the united States. (!) Sudoplatov was initimately involved with the subsequent training of Mercader and Ramon ,teaching them spycraft etc although both had extensive military experience in the Spanish Civil war. The plot to kill Trotsky revolved arond the two aforementioned groups . One was to attack the villa and shoot everyone in sight,while Ramon,who was unaware of the other group was to infiltrate the Trotsky secretariat. . The villa Trotsky was living in was owned by the Mexican painter Diego Rivera. Ramon had used the classic honey trap to start an affair with Sylvia Ageloff,Trotskys secretary .The raid on May 23 1940 failed,because although the gate to villa had been mistakenly opened by the guard Sheldon Harte , the killers were not used to personal up close killing ,machine gunned a closed door and Trotsky had escaped death by hiding under his bed. Stalin and Beria knew of the failure through TASS. as it was reported on the news.To Ensure that the next attempt succeeded , Ramon Mercader then used the excuse that Trotsky had tried to prevent the marriage between Mercado and Ageloff, to attempt to kill him with a small pickaxe to the head on August 20 1940.Trotsky was only partially injured because at the last instance as Ramon went to strike the killing blow,he moved his head to the side. he died the next day in Hospital. At no time was George Orwell ever involved in the killing of Trotsky as the operation was carried out entirely by the NKVD under Pavel Sudoplatov using Spanish ,Mexican ,French and American illegal operatives (Spies)There are obviously more details to this but this would require far too much typing.
Stalin was an ally of the USA
Stalin was an ally of Roosevelt and his regime, not the American people.
It appears this video has a religious agenda.
A humanitarian agenda would be more accurate.
But if you really want to get at it --- remember, this was done in an atheistic//agnostic Regime.
Find numbers of slaughter to match in any religious war. Even the Muslims aren't quite as cruel as this gulag stuff. They behead people yes, but it's over quickly, they don't grind their enemies to death over a lot of years very often.
Which Religious war has cost 20 Million lives in a single country -- by forced labor...... The USA doesn't come close.
From the years 1600-1865 at the end of our civil war, America only had 600,000 persons die in slavery.
Try to compare 600,000 to 20 million -- it's not even close. That 20 million was over 10-15 years, the 600,000 was over 250+ years. Oh, and the US patriots are only responsible for the last 88 years of that. AND the amount of white people who died in the Civil War equals 630,000 by most estimates. I'd say the US paid its price.
How do you think Russia has paid its price? What more could have been done to topple stalin? I'd like to know.
Well capitalism in Russia is no different. I hope that people understand that it is not systems that are cruel but the elites whom use it to suit their whims.
Only with the help of willingly evil people.
How, after watching this, can you write such drivel? Of course the system of communism is evil, just as the system of Naziism was.
Stalin was one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century. He took a backward nation of agrarians - constantly invaded from the West - and built Russia into an industrial superpower in 10 years - and then he decimated Nazi Germany with that newfound power.
I must say that's a first lol.. The main thing I guess caught my eye was your statement giving credit for the decimation of the German to Stalin.. It was the Russian people that defeated the
You wouldn't have such praise if you had lived there and he destroyed your life.
You have no clue what you’re talking about. The Soviet Union would have been screwed if the US and Britain hadn’t intervened.
That stuff could have been achieved naturally, even by Tzarist or democratic Russia, without such a bloodshed.
Erm acktually communism made Russia great even though they had a couple growing pains(20 million people) 🤓