Being a third-generation Hungarian it's important to me that you put up this video my grandfather was raised in the gulag camps until the age of 12 he lost both his father and his mother to the camp. He never spoke much about it and sadly passed away before I was born. No one talks about the gulag. People need to know.
Billy Kauker I'm the same. my great-grandfather was on the gulag and survived because he found a polish guy with whom they shared a jacket to sleep on. In Canada now they would say that they were homosexuals. they slept on a wooden bed with no mattress and it was increadibly cold in the shack. they would have frozen if they don't share the jacket and each other's heat. eventually the polish guy got taken home and my great-grandfather knew that he would not survive alone. he had a small wound on his knee and on purpose he opened it one night causing a rumpus the next day because he couldn't perform his job. they wanted to shoot him in the spot but the doctor saved him - telking thst he needs just meducal care and he will be fine. he stiched the knee and my great-grandpa opened it again. then the doctor said it's an infection and because they had a wagon going back to the society - they sent him back. from niezmij Novgorod or where - he got taken to kiev and then to Hungary. and when the train arrived the tv was there broadcasting it and stating: the students of the great communism have returned home. apparently his knee never got better resulting an amputation later. and even eight years later when the doctor asked him what had caused the knee problem, he wanted to tell him but the moment he said "siberia" the doctor indicated: ok don't say more please.
@Larrydavid I think the point here was to illustrate that even if you escaped prison you were still in a miserable country where life wasnt much better than the facility you just escaped from.
Michael Thomas most people fail to recognize that the USSR at this point was still a 3rd world country and most people don’t realize that most “fact” about this time was really just hear say from your mother’s friend’s boyfriend’s mother’s other child. Even anti Stalinist researchers who have looked at the opened Soviet archives over the past 20 years say that some things are plain out false.
My grandfather was in the Red Army and was captured a bit west of Stalingrad. He was moved westward from camp to camp as the Soviets advanced. He was lucky enough to be tipped off after his liberation by the Americans that going back to Russia would be a really, really bad idea. Sometimes I wonder who that guy was who tipped him off. Without him, I wouldn't be here.
Dudes, the funniest movie ever about stalin is called The Death of Stalin. With Steve buscemi as kruschef. And Tambor and them. It's a comedy that scares you how scared everyone was of stalin.
@Max Smith I can answer that. America is an empire, not in the traditional sense like Spain and Britain were, but more in the sense like the Soviet union was. How the soviet union absorbed the Baltic states. A state is also technically a country. The USA is kind of fifty countries. It could be called the United countries of America. They're federalized under Washington DC. That, and they have military bases on like 180 of like the 200 countries on earth. That's pretty empirey. Not saying empire in a negative way either. Before 476 a.d., the roman empire was called pax romana, meaning roman peace. Before Rome fell. Then Europe had the dark ages again. Today is called by some pax Americana.
@Max Smith No, you are correct! WE were an Empire with our Tzars! My Gr. grandfather was in the Imperial Navy. When I refer to US as empire, I don't mean it as empire by definition. The US has no need to invade and assimilate nations to be under her control. Nations invited US to exists within their Sovereignty...of course with benefits! Why invade when countries can benefit from US protection, US Dollars when needed, but like tumor, the US' influence and might grows to a point when that Sovereign State becomes a "slave". If they refuse her will (like in Germany, Turkey, Iraq, soon Ukraine and the US' biggest slave...NATO) the Oval Office simply opens his closet of rods to punish with. Some fav rods to punish nations are to hunger them into obedience, so "...let me see...sanctions...mmm....perhaps decrease financial contributions...how about replacing the Leader?..." As in WHO, Global Heating etc...just threaten and stop any contributions towards it. Wait...this closet has some nasty punishments "...let's see...Lets make some naughty country obedient, so CIA have some nice goodies like "Rits-for-Hire", they burn cities, crops even rent proxy militias to take blame!...and THIS one...send Military!" The US is more than empire. It's foul breath can be smelled globally...but...I know of an EMPIRE from who NOTHING evil can be hidden. Like I said, it will end badly, and NOT by the hands of men! Burning wheat crops, huh? Starving and shooting kids! I cannot wait for my Empire to charge!
@@zacnieprawisz9171 uneducated people believe educated people defend communism, somehow, as an excuse to feel superior to people who have been through university and justify their refusal to attend college
Architecture Rios- maybe I’m mis- reading your comment, so forgive me if I misunderstood, but what are your thoughts on Jordan Peterson’s views on the left wing mindset of college professors and lecturers etc? His whole argument is that it’s going down a dangerous road of authoritarian socialist ideology. You don’t agree?
@@liammorgans7329 I'm glad we can most likely disagree and yet not go at each other's throats. I don't watch jordan peterson. However, in all my years of university, not once have any of my professors said anything positive of communism nor fascism, and none of them agreed with any form of authoritarianism, but they incite dialogue between sides.
Free man, yes during the war America was a workers paradise, but ever since it has become worse and worse and as you say now America is hell on earth for the working class.
The problem is that those socialist idealists give the goverment way too much power and shut down the free market. Power corrupts, even if those socialists start out with a genuine goal of making life better for the less endowed, they will turn into ruthless dictators eventually. Thats why presidents have terms, leave them with power for too long and things go wrong.
I think it's always useful to watch things like this for summary. And to get a richer understanding you read longer works. If you can't summarise a topic then you probably don't understand it.
@@agneebh23 so you have to go to the USSR to speak on the generally known evils that go on there I mean exactly Orwell know how much unnecessary lives were lost or how the ussr collapsed or how dysfunctional the whole communist system was But oh yeah it wasn't " *real communism* "
@@agneebh23 socialism IS communism, just a different name. The left likes to separate and segregate 🤷♀️ so they love to have all these different "titles". Stalinism, Leninism, Nazism, Maoism,....Socialism, Communism.. whatever you wanna call it
they've made a few. Check out The Inner Circle (1991). It's about a film projector technician who by basically chance (he happens to be there when stalin is screening a movie and there's an issue with the projector he fixes, Stalin is a huge movie buff so she takes a linking to him and he winds up a part of Stalin's inner circle in way over his head). Or the more recent dark comedy loosely based on the real history of the fight to be Stalin's successor after his death between Beria and Khruscev, The Death of Stalin (2018)
@Ordinary Sessel You could find any number of tragedies, genocides, etc. that have not received treatment by hollywood or have not entered into the american public consciousness. There are a lot of historical reasons why the Holocaust entered into the public consciousness and has been depicted by artists, filmmakers etc. What's your point?
@Ordinary Sessel Ordinary Sessel I wrote out a lengthy reply, but it went too long and I couldn't post it. I suppose youtube isn't the format for detailed conversations. Summarizing, I never made the statement that you seem to want me to defend. I gave historical reasons why that was the case. I also made the point that North Korea was somewhat post-communist, in the direction the Soviet state probably would have gone had Stalin lived longer and established his own succession. It no longer refers to itself as communist, but as "Juche" a Korean term which historically meant something like the European equivalent of absolutism.
My grandfather and his family were exiled to siberia during stalin's reign. Grandfather was only 12 yo at that time (he had 3 little older siblings). They lived a few kilometers from the nearest town, had two neighbours. When my grandfather returned home from wherever he had been that day, he saw his mother weeping, one soldier sleeping at the table and another one negotiating with his father (judge or a lawyer). They convinced the soldiers to allow to slaughter their pig for meat (with a share to soldiers as well). They packed their stuff and drove off with a car to the train "station". They were placed in cattle wagons with a hole at one end for peeing and pooping. No chairs/beds, all people were PACKED inside and locked inside. (as for being reported, its highly unlikely. All neighbours were very friendly and worked together hand in hand for 2 generations before. Once some relative shot dead my grandfather's relative who lived nearby... nobody reported anything, to save the entire families from being executed. The dispute was resolved, shooter was sent off to live elsewhere, friendliness was continued.) When in siberia, Grand grandfather was continuously sent to work in lumbering 100-300 km away for months. Grand grandmother was being sent away for weeks at a time as a cook or tailorer. All the children were unattended the entire time. The living conditions were horrible ofc. Wooden baraks with few windows, no insulation, no ROOMS, draping cloths for walls... Possibly no tap water and sanitation as well. After having built a new home in siberia, growing some crops and vegetables, having domestic animals etc. their family were finally allowed to go back to our country. But they had no place to go. The house back there which has been built by their family was just given away for some other people... and to return to their home, they had to BUY it back from that other family. After living another 2 years (after being accepted back to their home country), selling all their stuff and saving money, they finaly came back and bought back the house... which was almost completely ruined and infested with rats. The exile never went away. The entire family was forbidden from education. My grandfather could not be accepted to universities (even though he had the best marks and gold medal for studying). He went on to become a blacksmith. Through the years he worked as blacksmith in thread factory and at home, making countless adjustments and building several machines (which he tried to patent, but was only given "awards" of small amount of money for each of them), in his workshop he made certified hunting knifes for hunters with issued permissions, crosses (for home decoration) and metal ornamented fences. During his career, my grandfather served as a volunteer firebrigadesman, won a few times in competitions. Once saved the whole factory from burning when a propane tank was lit and was spewing fire from the whirling loose hose. He ran in and closed the valve before it could explode or burn more of the place. 1/3 of his body was burned severly, he was carried to a hospital with a plane, and spent about 2 years there. Fully recovered, retired. He died at age 61 in 2005 (not due to burning). As for his siblings: His sister became an accountant, His first brother died at age 40, another brother is in pension. Successful to an extent given the challenges they had endured. To note one more idiocy of soviet union: Most of my relatives did not have any ID, any personal document. People born were not considered "people" or something that belonged in the area. That means nobody could ever find you or know you existed if they didnt know it directly.
Incubus99 , what exactly was the point of you telling this story? Just to give us a glimpse into what life was like back then? It was a very interesting story.
Communist subversives in the west found Hitler to be a very useful distraction from their own failures and atrocities which massively outweighed Adolf’s. That’s why Hitler is remembered while Stalin and Mao are completely ignored.
Animal Farm may have been about Stalin, but it is easy to see resonance in that allegory that extends to many other dictators and their regimes, even to the current day. By the time people realize what is happening, it can be extremely difficult to get rid of them and undo the damage that they do to too many willing people.
Orwell was anti-authoritarian but it's hilarious when right wingers quote him. Orwell was a socialist and belonged to socialist party. He also wrote an interesting book about Catalonia 👀
Zacnie prawisz Orwell was more than anti-authoritarian, he was passionate about individual thought and liberty. Perhaps he learned something as a policeman in Burma during the Raj. Our news media have become a propaganda machine for the Left. And don’t get me going on those dangerous clowns.
I was only 8 years old when Stalin karked it, and it didn't mean a lot to me at the time, but I knew it was important. But didn't think much about it much either. But when Churchill died in 1965, it meant a lot more to me then.
Not YET! ALL are resurrected on JUDGMENT DAY! NOW, the dead are sleeping except or those in union with God's Son! *Judgment Before the Great White Throne* Rev 20:11 Next I saw a great white throne and the One sitting on it. Earth and heaven fled from his presence, and no place was found for them. Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, both great and small, standing in front of the throne. Books were opened; and another book was opened, the Book of Life; and the dead were judged from what was written in the books, according to what they had done. Rev 20:13 The *sea gave up the dead in it; and Death and Grave (including Stalin) gave up the dead in them;* and they were judged, each according to what he *had done!* (and WHAT EVIL did Humans do!?) Rev 20:14 Then Death and Grave (Sh'ol) were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the second death-the lake of fire. Rev 20:15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the Book of Life was hurled into the lake of fire. Most people in this comment section are also going there! С уважением, Saint Mikhail Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian Orthodox)
Not so fast.... there is a lot of skepticism of Putin, especially in the younger generations who have had access to the internet, and have found ways around Russia’s censorship. Access to western literature, news, pop culture and music, like rap, has brought new awarenesses, and demands of younger generations that Putin cannot wisk away, as he does not have the ability to commit atrocities of Stalin, even if he wanted to, due to everyone having a camera (their phone) and nothing is secret anymore in the world. Russia is also very capitalist and materialistic now as well, so also influencing Russian culture. Russia wants to change its image, to encourage investment by global corporations and businesses to expand works there.
@Tom W North Korea, is the last truly communist state in world. China has the control of its people’s image and behavior like a communist state, and utilizes that to create the best combination of vulture capitalism, undermining the worlds economy and enriching the country though being the cheapest labor with least amount of labor and environmental regulations, as individual health rights like acres to clean air and water, or fair work conditions are nothing in collectivist hive culture.
I am from Ukraine - there were no dances, sure people were happy because of stopping killing lists, but instead it was very dangerous times to dance on the street
@@robertmarino2666 Is your friend 80 years old? My grandfather is 82 and the whole country cried at the death of Stalin. You can watch the footage from that time. Hundreds of thousands of Moscow residents took to the streets when they found out. This man turned the backward agrarian Russian empire, ravaged by war and famine, into a superpower and the second economy in the world.
My grandfather survived one of those forced labour camps in Siberia then lived to be 100. Even escaped at one point, was recaptured, tortured, and sentenced to death. Thankfully, the execution never took place.
It is interesting that Mao copied Stalin's moves right down to the enormous mistakes like collective farming and quotas and blundering sacrifices in the name of industrialization. Some people give Stalin credit for industrializing Russia and military superpower, but at what cost? Russia never really became anything close to an economic success and all the military build-up during the cold war never brought Russia any wealth despite the enormous human suffering and death toll during Stalin's rule. The exact same can be said for Mao.
He'd need to do a top 20 because Mao was far worse than Stalin. At least the Russians had an insulating Culture of Christ to temper the violent from becoming absolute. The Chinese were not as lucky. Thus, China suffered far worse horrors and humiliations.
Why not do videos on the Brit, French, Portuguese, Spanish colonial empires? There is plenty film evidence of the bloody histories of those places. And they didn't have the 'excuse' that they were rushing pre-industrial people[s] into the modern world.
Khrushchev did not immediately succeed Stalin. Georgy Malenkov held the post of Premier until ousted by Khrushchev, who had taken control of the Party. In two years he had become the effective ruler, Malenkov was demoted and later expelled from the Party. He died shortly before the Soviet Union collapsed.
My family came from lithuania when it was part of the u.s.s.r and the stories passed down to me were just horrible. My great grandfathers family members had a nice farm that was seized and they were so scared of being taken or killee that they would talk about how lucky they were that they were left with so much
Could you do something about Bismarck or Frederick the Great? They are like my top 2 favorite people in history. Napoleon, Charlemagne and Otto the Great are close too.
Provides interesting insight into why General Patton wanted to extend the war to Russia following the liberation of Germany. That and the fact Patton lived for war!
@@Logang007 Patton did not want war, he just knew of the nessicity of war. This world would be a vastly different place, in a negative way, if Germany won the war. World war II was nessacary!
@@josephfacey2596 No not WW2, WW2 was completely necessary to save the world from the brown plague (Fascism) I’m talking about Patton wanting to invade the Soviet Union
The clapping scene is real. People fainted, their hands bloodied, until one guy decided it was enough, and ordered the clapping to cease. He went to the GULAG and got the advice never to be the first to stop clapping.
Stalin was extremely paranoid (a trait shared by all dictators). He was, for sure, a paranoid psychopath; ruthless and violent. At the end of his life, he was left agonizing for a couple of days: everybody, doctors and politburo members alike, was scared shitless of entering his bedroom. His agony is meagre consolation considering the considerable harm he'd done.
Man fought marxists, zionists, trotskyists, international socialism movement, NEP, mass terror of NKVD, political democracy opponents and party nomenclature. All his political life was a war for people, no wonder he was paranoid.
@@canoeadventures-riverlandk1536 these two options doesn't exclude each other. He fought for one side of people against other side of people. I admire the fact he took side, which nobody ever took in all of the russian history.
@@edgars112233 Interesting. Personally I can't see that being responsible for the murder of 10s of millions of people on suspicion that they might oppose you could be considered fighting FOR people. Sounds more like a bloodthirsty tyrannical dictator.
Man of Steel? You can't just choose your own nickname... Comrade Stalin: "That's why they call me _The Man of Steel!"_ Comrade Trotsky: "Who calls you that?" Comrade Stalin: "Guards...!" True story.
Sibire Whittney It wasn’t communism, as communism is per definition a stateless and classless society. And the union of sovjet States sure as hell wasn’t stateless. Try reading some literature before you speak on the topic
It's not just Russia. The communist poison confuses the mind, dilates judjemnent. After some time the mind is becoming wrecked and occupied by the ideology. You are blinded. It's like a ghost. All the host wants is to reenforce the beliefs. It works in the devils ways. It leaves you a slave that "fights for working class rights"., proud of it. You want no more freedom that to serve the party, "the cause.". A zombie. Yet with a raging phony psyco's smile in the face...
I saw an interview with a gulag survivor and he said, people in the camps were saying "someone should tell Stalin: he will put a stop to this", without realising they were there at his order.
you should have also mentioned, not only did millions of them mourn his death, hundreds were crushed to death just trying to attend his funeral. insane yes, but definitely powerful :D
@Matricx700 If no one could read then the reds wouldn’t have had a bloody revolution l. Holodomor was a famine cause by forces collectivism and bismark created healthcare.Capitalism doesn’t make slaves thats against capitalism . I’m not brainwashed I just smart because I know capitalism is better an communism will always fail and be followed by idiots like you and the fact you used your dead friend to make your argument sound better shows communists are inhuman
Who the hell gives these videos thumbs down? These are amazing and informative lessons of some of the most prolific people in world history. This is my favorite channel and often gets me through work. THANK YOU! I have no problem with contributing to your patreon!
While I care not to participate in the faux vote thumb thing, the down votes were most likely due to this video being as purposefully inaccurate prop as a ‘based on true events’ hollywood movie.
Millions of bankers, landlords, and other parasitic enemies of the human race. No point debating this with you - a born slave, willingly serving his masters.
@@rodrigomercader1275 if working in for youre own wealth in a capitalist sociaty is being a slave il take being slave 100 procent of the time specaialy if the alternative was living in a opresive comunist society or socailist remeber venezuela
@@michaekrynicki8330 Venezuela didn´t became poor because of Chavez, like Cuba they have locked economy by USA When socialism don't have open economy, they collapse into African countries Nixon ordered the CIA: "Make the Chile's economy scream" That why make you think Allende would turn Chile into Venezuela 2.0 but in reality he wanted to put the economy policy of USSR in the 60s For Example: Soviet Union didn't opened its economy like China or Vietnam, it was matter of time to stagnate. Lenin knew it, that's why he put on track the NEP (New Economic Policy) similar to China, but future leader didn't follow that. “The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.” --- Simon Bolivar
After the war, Russian POWs being sent back to Russia were being put onto ships at Liverpool docks. When they saw NKVD officers on the deck, many killed themselves rather than be handed over.
@@OneBirdAllStoned @Seth graham Just because Stalin's rule was bad doesn't mean that people should stop complaining about the US, that is stupid. If you stop complaining about your country it will fall into stagnation, never getting better, only getting worse. If you knew history you would know that
An interesting and little known story is that of Americans working in the USSR in the 30s that were "purged" or sent to the Gulags under Stalin, among them, former Ford employees that went there to set up and run the truck factory that Ford sold to Russia. Suggest reading "The Foresaken" by Tim Tzouliadis.
I read a book about that, I think it was called DANCING FOR STALIN. The author was an American daughter of a Ford employee who was arrested. She was eventially also arrested.
@@beastlypear2594 I agree they're not Communist but they are Democratic socialist and Socialism has two definitions the second being "the beginning stages of communism" so you can't really blame someone for being scared of them or what might come after them.
@@Rangerman69420 yes socialism is indeed defined as a transitionary stage toward communism. but the ussr wasnt communist, it was socialist. communism is when classless stateless moneyless. parties are communist, people are communist, but not countries. a communist country is an oxymoron.
Stalin was a Georgian, and I don't mean the US state. It's doubtful he cared at all about native Russians of any kind. And so was Breshnev and Gorbachev. Go figure.
Stalin was georgian and an enormous nationalist. Only the georgians lived happy lives during his reign including his henchman beria who was also georgian.
@@drunkensailor112 Russians only lived happy lives in their Imperial State at the expense of Georgians, for centuries. Russians are no different than Mongols.
Russians only lived happy lives in their Imperial State at the expense of Georgians, for centuries. Russians are no different than Mongols, just pillaged and displaced ethnic populations, but have foreigners rule and build their modern state.
Dear Top Tenz, you forgot another brutal reality : Hitler-Stalin Pact on 23rd August 1939. With this Pact, Soviet-Russia and Nazi-Germany agreed to start WWII together.
Poland suffered, but most of the other Eastern Europeans ended up joining Germany in the invasion of the USSR, that's how much they hated Stalin and/or communism.
@annonymous2223 yes, man >U, who "actually care about what really happened" and take numbers out of thin air. >Me, some russian (nope) madman... -(there was another word here that better describes me, given your love of attributing people to certain groups without really thinking, but the comment with it was immediately deleted) - ...who is "in insane mental state" just because I don’t tell scary stories about 1337 million victims. nice logic, man.
I mean, the most likely estimates of deaths in the gulags specifically range from about 1.5 to 2 million. Though if you add in the deaths from the famine caused by Stalins policies, you're looking at the most likely estimate being around 6.5 million. All in all though when you add together all causes, Stalin's reign and practices likely led to the deaths of 9-10 million Russians. Those are just the deaths caused by his policies directly and indirectly. Add in WW2 deaths and that number jumps a LOT higher, but I digress. While he did directly or indirectly cause millions of people to die, let's not blow those stats put of proportion when the reality is already horrific enough.
@@semaj_5022 Since you are saying not to blow those stats, then please indicate the source from which you take them. I mean, honestly, it gets boring to hear about "several million deaths in the gulag" and "millions of people who died because of Stalin," when the numbers are taken literally out of thin air, but served as "true".
History has a tendency to repeat itself time and time again, history should be taken seriously and not as novelty, not just a story. Keeping your senses open is crucial.
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Stalin, like many powerful leaders was very short. He was also physically deformed from being run over by a cart when a kid. Photo of him used lighting and angles to hide his acne scarred face...... he was a real winner.
Alfie Solomons from Peaky Blinders always says that you never give power to the little man. Historically speaking you and Alfie have a point. Guy saying hitler was 6ft idk
This video is a perfect argument for the second amendment,the right to bear arms.The first thing all dictators have in common is to prohibit or disarm the populace . So yes America does have people that misuse the right but by and large the majority of gun owners are responsible citizens.
@@Phil-ui4tm when the Japanese attacked Peal Harbor there was consideration for attacking and landing troops on the west coast,one of their biggest concerns was the fact that American citizens were armed. Remember we defeated the best army in the world at that time ,the British in our war for Independence.
I am Russian, born and raised in the USSR. I was old enough to do my military service before the USSR ceased to exist. It was a bad country by ALL, ALL means, and I in my 20s celebrated when it collapsed and Russia got a chance to renounce it's past and become part of the civilized world. Unfortunately, we blew that chance. Putin's regime is no better than Stalin's with the difference that 1) Putin is errr...let's put it this way... much less smart than Stalin, and 2) His regime is much less powerful and much more dependent on the West, than that of Stalin's. For now, the second point makes it a bit less terrible than the Stalin's. However, Putin is definitely trying to resurrect the USSR and not without some success. Modern Russia is a dictatorship, it's still a huge prison and threat to all intelligent people in Russia and all neighboring countries. The world must not forget what the USSR was and what Russia is trying to become now. Thank you for the video.
@@theoraciasilva9236 I support all former countries of the Warsaw block in their effort to turn West and run away from the GULAG. I cannot blame them for not willing to be slaves any more. Run for your life, brothers! It's especially hard for former Soviet Republics, like Ukraine, because they had been poisoned by the fruit of the Evil Empire worst. Now they have rotten ex-communist elite and to add insult to injury the aggression of the degenerate KGB rat Putin, who I call "Stalin Light", on their plate. Unfortunately, his bloody ambitions would not be possible to aсaccomplish without support of many brainwashed supporters in Russia. In the 70 years of the Soviet regime the people of the USSR had become an obedient and coward herd. The best people were killed in wars, GULAG; the lucky ones just left the country. Reforms don't come easy to the Ukraine, but I believe in their success and wish them luck. Georgia and Armenia are going through similar changes. I wish them the best too! Ethnicity doesn't matter for me, for Good and Evil are beyond ethnicity.
Kim Jong Il, Sung's son, studied in a western university where he found religion though not as a convert. You'll see all these fantastic stories about a new star appearing in the sky and a magical change of season upon his birth, the invention of the hamburger and so on. These stories were not created until Kim Jong Il became his father's chief propagandist. He is the one who dialled the preexisting cult of personality up to 11 into what we see today.
Every country has a cult of personality, check out US and their four presidents engraved in rock lol. 3/4 owning slaves and were elected when women, native Americans, and blacks were prohibited by law to vote
It amazes me that Stalin's inner circle didn't revolt, knowing they could be purged at any moment. Why would anyone want to be close to a paranoid murderer?
It's simple human psychology. Everybody was suspicious of everybody. Nobody dared to even reveal what they thought of Stalin lest the other might leak it to Stalin. Stalin was a genius.
Those who weren't being carted away and worked to death for their views or anything else were given free houses and healthcare so they closed their eyes to the atrocities
Left or right, Imperialism is Imperialism, however leaders always have blood in their hands wherever ideology they have Look out USA mass incarceration per capita, so called "Land of Freedom" has higher percentage of prisioners than Stalin and China ever had
I'd rather be a prisoner here because I was convicted by a jury of my peers, than a "free" peasant in a country that is starving me to death on purpose, or a prisoner in Russia sent to the gulag because I disagree with the government. Pick your poison.
My church had a guest pastor a couple years ago who was from Russia. While I don't think he lived under Stalin, he was arrested and told to renounce his faith and he could go home. He refused the "offer" and was sent to the Gulags where he spent 7+ years and his feet beaten so badly that he could never wear shoes and could walk only short distances without pain.
Unbelievably cruel and evil man among many in history. Many years ago i was lucky enough to meet a man who had been on the Arctic convoys to Murmansk in Russia. I remember him saying how surly and unfriendly the Russians were. Looking at it, its no surprise. The Soviet workers paradise must have been overrated, the poor sods.
@George Floyd The Monkey On Meth hmmm I wonder why the USSR had a bad economy, oh right maybe bc they were recovering from Imperialist Russia and they had lost many young men and their citys were bombed alot in WW2. Also not to point out Americas industrial citys weren't affected from WW2. Listen bud, the USSR had flaws but adapting Communism vastly improved Russias economy and in the end the Soviet Unions people actually had food, infact Soviets consumed more food than Americans except the USSRs food was more nutritious than western food, until they adapted western food in the 80's. I'm not here to argue just saying it's a little biased to judge the Soviet Union which actually had well fed civilians and a stable economy when America (a country which had very little rights for people of color at the time) had not taken any mainland damage during WW2 and was not recovering from an imperialist economy.
And also it's crappy to downplay the fact America doesn't have free healthcare, think about people in hospitals who have to go in debt for the rest of their lives just to stay alive.
The funny thing is you ask old people from the old Soviet Union about Times then and they miss it and say things weren’t as bad as people in the west assume and no one went hungry and life was better .. they prefer it over today ....
the capitalist west and their sycophant media talking heads are quick to point out how the 'other system' was bad but never look at the conseuqnces of capitalist exploitation : 1)genocide of the native americans 2) wealth/capital accumulation via centuries of slavery 3) the 3rd reich 4) the millions dead in WW1 5) the millions dead in WW2 6) the millions dead in capitals dirty wars in africa, asia and latin america during the 20th century 7) 50,000 annually dying from lack proper nutrition TODAY 8) the annual 35,000 opioid deaths TODAY 9) the millions dying annually from lack of basic health care/medications 10) YOU GET THE PICTURE
The transition to capitalism was a free for all dominated by mobsters and former kgb thugs. Like the American old west. Regulations and law enforcement were lax or worse, corrupted.
@DjRawd0g stupid idiot. They were in the east because almost no one lived there. Same for the camps in siberia. Do you think north koreans have their camps in or around Pyongyang?
@nemis010 you do realize it doesnt change the fact that communism is inevitable gonna fail. Lenin were just as guilty as stalin. He was arresting and executing people too. In 1929, while he was in power, dam near all religous figures were arrested/killed. Lenin said russia needs to collective rid the insects that are causing it down fall. Insects were all railroad union cabinet members Most religious members, The Democratic party all were "insects".
Picking up leftover grains in a field and not handing them into the 'collective' would see you serving 10 years. Do it with friends and it became 'organized crime', add another 10. This also applied to children.
Russian atomic weapon technology was stolen from USA by the US socialists (socialism sympathizers). Without these traitors' help, Stalin's henchmen could not deliver atomic weapons before Stalin's death.
@@МатвейМещеряков-ц7ф Try out the authors Solzhenitzen, Robert Conquest, and 'The Black Book of Communism.' I hope you aren't shot or imprisoned for seeking these books if you live in the former USSR.
As a Russian I have to be honest Stalin was a bad evil person.But you can not blame us russians because stalin was not a true Russian. He was a bad human.Also Stalin was originally was from Georgia. Even nower days in russia people don't like him. P. S:Russia is not communist anymore
Really interesting video! My Polish grandmother allegedly escaped from a train going to the gulags. Don’t know much about it as there’s no-one to ask but the extended Polish half of my family really hated the Russians.
Being a third-generation Hungarian it's important to me that you put up this video my grandfather was raised in the gulag camps until the age of 12 he lost both his father and his mother to the camp. He never spoke much about it and sadly passed away before I was born. No one talks about the gulag. People need to know.
Billy Kauker I'm the same.
my great-grandfather was on the gulag and survived because he found a polish guy with whom they shared a jacket to sleep on.
In Canada now they would say that they were homosexuals. they slept on a wooden bed with no mattress and it was increadibly cold in the shack. they would have frozen if they don't share the jacket and each other's heat.
eventually the polish guy got taken home and my great-grandfather knew that he would not survive alone. he had a small wound on his knee and on purpose he opened it one night causing a rumpus the next day because he couldn't perform his job. they wanted to shoot him in the spot but the doctor saved him - telking thst he needs just meducal care and he will be fine. he stiched the knee and my great-grandpa opened it again. then the doctor said it's an infection and because they had a wagon going back to the society - they sent him back. from niezmij Novgorod or where - he got taken to kiev and then to Hungary.
and when the train arrived the tv was there broadcasting it and stating: the students of the great communism have returned home.
apparently his knee never got better resulting an amputation later. and even eight years later when the doctor asked him what had caused the knee problem, he wanted to tell him but the moment he said "siberia" the doctor indicated: ok don't say more please.
Tabiri Petrovich Thank you both for sharing those stories. Have you read The Gulag Archipelago?
I don’t believe I could read it.
Fascinating stories you come across in the comments hidden among the noise. My hat is off to you both and your forefathers who suffered.
No one talks about it for a reason...
Agree so much history not taught.
Worst part about escaping prison in Russia? you're still in russia.
Astin Martin unless you’re Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
@Larry David Well that's a random and suspect factoid!
@@painhertz yeah
@Larrydavid I think the point here was to illustrate that even if you escaped prison you were still in a miserable country where life wasnt much better than the facility you just escaped from.
Michael Thomas most people fail to recognize that the USSR at this point was still a 3rd world country and most people don’t realize that most “fact” about this time was really just hear say from your mother’s friend’s boyfriend’s mother’s other child. Even anti Stalinist researchers who have looked at the opened Soviet archives over the past 20 years say that some things are plain out false.
My grandfather was in the Red Army and was captured a bit west of Stalingrad. He was moved westward from camp to camp as the Soviets advanced.
He was lucky enough to be tipped off after his liberation by the Americans that going back to Russia would be a really, really bad idea.
Sometimes I wonder who that guy was who tipped him off. Without him, I wouldn't be here.
Toast Nipples how did he avoid being sent back? Where did he wind up?
Until we know we can believe in an Angel
Lobotomizer You mean stalin sucks, the bolsheviks just wanted better lives without the tyranny of the tsar
EP114587 What?
EP114587 1 The bolsheviks were communists and they didn’t suck
2 the tzars weren’t gone in ww1
3 what are you talking about
Imprisonment of most of his veterans after ww2 was more than cruel
“More than cruel” is the story of his life
But the worst thing is that after that he ate their children
@@Ивашка-ф9з WHAT!!??
Most?
@@antona.4572 all of them
Dudes, the funniest movie ever about stalin is called The Death of Stalin. With Steve buscemi as kruschef. And Tambor and them.
It's a comedy that scares you how scared everyone was of stalin.
Joe Cook can confirm, great movie.
I see new movie about "Implosion of American Empire"! It is based on True Story showing in cinemas soon!
@Max Smith I can answer that. America is an empire, not in the traditional sense like Spain and Britain were, but more in the sense like the Soviet union was. How the soviet union absorbed the Baltic states. A state is also technically a country. The USA is kind of fifty countries. It could be called the United countries of America. They're federalized under Washington DC. That, and they have military bases on like 180 of like the 200 countries on earth. That's pretty empirey. Not saying empire in a negative way either.
Before 476 a.d., the roman empire was called pax romana, meaning roman peace. Before Rome fell. Then Europe had the dark ages again. Today is called by some pax Americana.
@Max Smith No, you are correct! WE were an Empire with our Tzars! My Gr. grandfather was in the Imperial Navy. When I refer to US as empire, I don't mean it as empire by definition. The US has no need to invade and assimilate nations to be under her control. Nations invited US to exists within their Sovereignty...of course with benefits! Why invade when countries can benefit from US protection, US Dollars when needed, but like tumor, the US' influence and might grows to a point when that Sovereign State becomes a "slave". If they refuse her will (like in Germany, Turkey, Iraq, soon Ukraine and the US' biggest slave...NATO) the Oval Office simply opens his closet of rods to punish with. Some fav rods to punish nations are to hunger them into obedience, so "...let me see...sanctions...mmm....perhaps decrease financial contributions...how about replacing the Leader?..." As in WHO, Global Heating etc...just threaten and stop any contributions towards it. Wait...this closet has some nasty punishments "...let's see...Lets make some naughty country obedient, so CIA have some nice goodies like "Rits-for-Hire", they burn cities, crops even rent proxy militias to take blame!...and THIS one...send Military!"
The US is more than empire. It's foul breath can be smelled globally...but...I know of an EMPIRE from who NOTHING evil can be hidden. Like I said, it will end badly, and NOT by the hands of men! Burning wheat crops, huh? Starving and shooting kids! I cannot wait for my Empire to charge!
@@mikhailalexandrovichrimsky5501 nice comment, dude.
This should be required viewing for high school and college students.
This is basic stuff from high school, so what is your point?
@@zacnieprawisz9171 uneducated people believe educated people defend communism, somehow, as an excuse to feel superior to people who have been through university and justify their refusal to attend college
Architecture Rios- maybe I’m mis- reading your comment, so forgive me if I misunderstood, but what are your thoughts on Jordan Peterson’s views on the left wing mindset of college professors and lecturers etc?
His whole argument is that it’s going down a dangerous road of authoritarian socialist ideology.
You don’t agree?
Zacnie prawisz It use to be. No longer.
@@liammorgans7329 I'm glad we can most likely disagree and yet not go at each other's throats. I don't watch jordan peterson. However, in all my years of university, not once have any of my professors said anything positive of communism nor fascism, and none of them agreed with any form of authoritarianism, but they incite dialogue between sides.
funny how "workers paradise" always ends up like hell on earth...
humans
Communism
Free man,
yes during the war America was a workers paradise, but ever since it has become worse and worse and as you say now America is hell on earth for the working class.
@@mtsenskmtsensk5113 I think that depends on who you ask - I'm fine and continue to do fine...
The problem is that those socialist idealists give the goverment way too much power and shut down the free market. Power corrupts, even if those socialists start out with a genuine goal of making life better for the less endowed, they will turn into ruthless dictators eventually. Thats why presidents have terms, leave them with power for too long and things go wrong.
Between this channel and Bio Graphics, I've learned more than I ever did in school.
Is that really true haha
It’s very true. Simon isn’t pushing a narrative. Much like books and teachers today. He shows facts not feelings.
I think it's always useful to watch things like this for summary. And to get a richer understanding you read longer works. If you can't summarise a topic then you probably don't understand it.
Im sorry your education was subpar. School isnt supposed to teach you everything. Learning is something that is lifelong
Daniel Gomez You and me both. At the very least I didn't have to pay for the four years at university. That would've been a HUGE rip-off.
"All animals are equal, but some are more equal then others."
animal farm
Funny
@@agneebh23 so you have to go to the USSR to speak on the generally known evils that go on there
I mean exactly Orwell know how much unnecessary lives were lost or how the ussr collapsed or how dysfunctional the whole communist system was
But oh yeah it wasn't " *real communism* "
@@agneebh23 socialism IS communism, just a different name. The left likes to separate and segregate 🤷♀️ so they love to have all these different "titles". Stalinism, Leninism, Nazism, Maoism,....Socialism, Communism.. whatever you wanna call it
@@agneebh23 not literally 🙄 Socialism works very much like a communist regime
Let's see hollywood have the backbone to make a movie about THIS...
"Child 44" with tom hardy and gary oldman.
Edit: the book is far better.
Listen to Al Stewart’s “Joe the Georgian”
they've made a few.
Check out The Inner Circle (1991). It's about a film projector technician who by basically chance (he happens to be there when stalin is screening a movie and there's an issue with the projector he fixes, Stalin is a huge movie buff so she takes a linking to him and he winds up a part of Stalin's inner circle in way over his head).
Or the more recent dark comedy loosely based on the real history of the fight to be Stalin's successor after his death between Beria and Khruscev, The Death of Stalin (2018)
@Ordinary Sessel You could find any number of tragedies, genocides, etc. that have not received treatment by hollywood or have not entered into the american public consciousness.
There are a lot of historical reasons why the Holocaust entered into the public consciousness and has been depicted by artists, filmmakers etc.
What's your point?
@Ordinary Sessel Ordinary Sessel I wrote out a lengthy reply, but it went too long and I couldn't post it. I suppose youtube isn't the format for detailed conversations.
Summarizing, I never made the statement that you seem to want me to defend. I gave historical reasons why that was the case.
I also made the point that North Korea was somewhat post-communist, in the direction the Soviet state probably would have gone had Stalin lived longer and established his own succession. It no longer refers to itself as communist, but as "Juche" a Korean term which historically meant something like the European equivalent of absolutism.
My grandfather and his family were exiled to siberia during stalin's reign. Grandfather was only 12 yo at that time (he had 3 little older siblings).
They lived a few kilometers from the nearest town, had two neighbours. When my grandfather returned home from wherever he had been that day, he saw his mother weeping, one soldier sleeping at the table and another one negotiating with his father (judge or a lawyer). They convinced the soldiers to allow to slaughter their pig for meat (with a share to soldiers as well). They packed their stuff and drove off with a car to the train "station". They were placed in cattle wagons with a hole at one end for peeing and pooping. No chairs/beds, all people were PACKED inside and locked inside.
(as for being reported, its highly unlikely. All neighbours were very friendly and worked together hand in hand for 2 generations before. Once some relative shot dead my grandfather's relative who lived nearby... nobody reported anything, to save the entire families from being executed. The dispute was resolved, shooter was sent off to live elsewhere, friendliness was continued.)
When in siberia, Grand grandfather was continuously sent to work in lumbering 100-300 km away for months. Grand grandmother was being sent away for weeks at a time as a cook or tailorer. All the children were unattended the entire time.
The living conditions were horrible ofc. Wooden baraks with few windows, no insulation, no ROOMS, draping cloths for walls... Possibly no tap water and sanitation as well.
After having built a new home in siberia, growing some crops and vegetables, having domestic animals etc. their family were finally allowed to go back to our country. But they had no place to go. The house back there which has been built by their family was just given away for some other people... and to return to their home, they had to BUY it back from that other family.
After living another 2 years (after being accepted back to their home country), selling all their stuff and saving money, they finaly came back and bought back the house... which was almost completely ruined and infested with rats.
The exile never went away. The entire family was forbidden from education. My grandfather could not be accepted to universities (even though he had the best marks and gold medal for studying). He went on to become a blacksmith. Through the years he worked as blacksmith in thread factory and at home, making countless adjustments and building several machines (which he tried to patent, but was only given "awards" of small amount of money for each of them), in his workshop he made certified hunting knifes for hunters with issued permissions, crosses (for home decoration) and metal ornamented fences.
During his career, my grandfather served as a volunteer firebrigadesman, won a few times in competitions. Once saved the whole factory from burning when a propane tank was lit and was spewing fire from the whirling loose hose. He ran in and closed the valve before it could explode or burn more of the place. 1/3 of his body was burned severly, he was carried to a hospital with a plane, and spent about 2 years there. Fully recovered, retired. He died at age 61 in 2005 (not due to burning).
As for his siblings: His sister became an accountant, His first brother died at age 40, another brother is in pension. Successful to an extent given the challenges they had endured.
To note one more idiocy of soviet union: Most of my relatives did not have any ID, any personal document. People born were not considered "people" or something that belonged in the area. That means nobody could ever find you or know you existed if they didnt know it directly.
+Incubus99 Why do you bury the lead? Your family was Volga German? Polish? What?
USSR made those that did not belong before belong in a new society. It was not perfect, because nothing can never be perfect.
Thank you for sharing your family's story.
Incubus99 , what exactly was the point of you telling this story? Just to give us a glimpse into what life was like back then? It was a very interesting story.
If your grammar wasnt dogshit awful this fiction would have been a nice read.
George Orwell’s Animal Farm was about Stalin, not Hitler. And he was the monster behind the face of Big Brother.
Communist subversives in the west found Hitler to be a very useful distraction from their own failures and atrocities which massively outweighed Adolf’s.
That’s why Hitler is remembered while Stalin and Mao are completely ignored.
Animal Farm may have been about Stalin, but it is easy to see resonance in that allegory that extends to many other dictators and their regimes, even to the current day. By the time people realize what is happening, it can be extremely difficult to get rid of them and undo the damage that they do to too many willing people.
Orwell was anti-authoritarian but it's hilarious when right wingers quote him. Orwell was a socialist and belonged to socialist party. He also wrote an interesting book about Catalonia 👀
Zacnie prawisz Orwell was more than anti-authoritarian, he was passionate about individual thought and liberty. Perhaps he learned something as a policeman in Burma during the Raj. Our news media have become a propaganda machine for the Left.
And don’t get me going on those dangerous clowns.
Like Obama was for eight years.
Mao Zedong: "Hold my Beer"
It was Tsingtao😂
)))policy of UK made Mao as he is
@@pilot747andrey5 Long Live The British Empire 🇬🇧
ancient blue dream sounds sarcastic , but I like it
@@pilot747andrey5 "gets stabbed by bayonet"
Funny how we never got to learn this in school
You didnt?
Its the American system putting mental barriers to us but history and the world its self
My school glorified the alliance more than anything tbh
Not funny nor surprising
I learned it in school you probably just didn’t pay attention in school.
I was only 8 years old when Stalin karked it, and it didn't mean a lot to me at the time, but I knew it was important.
But didn't think much about it much either.
But when Churchill died in 1965, it meant a lot more to me then.
Trillock 1945 thanks for sharing
I think Joseph Stalin got a first class ticket to Hell.
And I a third one :3
But Stalin did not beleive in hell.
@@eddyshluger9332 he does now!
@@eddyshluger9332 he may not Believe but ,but he will have to go
I hope so.
He woke to a painful place he can't escape.
Not YET! ALL are resurrected on JUDGMENT DAY! NOW, the dead are sleeping except or those in union with God's Son!
*Judgment Before the Great White Throne*
Rev 20:11 Next I saw a great white throne and the One sitting on it. Earth and heaven fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.
Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, both great and small, standing in front of the throne. Books were opened; and another book was opened, the Book of Life; and the dead were judged from what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
Rev 20:13 The *sea gave up the dead in it; and Death and Grave (including Stalin) gave up the dead in them;* and they were judged, each according to what he *had done!* (and WHAT EVIL did Humans do!?)
Rev 20:14 Then Death and Grave (Sh'ol) were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the second death-the lake of fire.
Rev 20:15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the Book of Life was hurled into the lake of fire.
Most people in this comment section are also going there!
С уважением,
Saint Mikhail Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian Orthodox)
@@mikhailalexandrovichrimsky5501 calm down he just said something
Hell?
Nobody:
Absolutely Nobody:
Stalin: So... you ALL have chosen death.
The scary thing is that he is revered by many today in Russia. And they are on the verge of repeating history
Of course.
He did right and killed nobody!
@@sovietheart3883 I hope you are trolling 😐
Not so fast.... there is a lot of skepticism of Putin, especially in the younger generations who have had access to the internet, and have found ways around Russia’s censorship. Access to western literature, news, pop culture and music, like rap, has brought new awarenesses, and demands of younger generations that Putin cannot wisk away, as he does not have the ability to commit atrocities of Stalin, even if he wanted to, due to everyone having a camera (their phone) and nothing is secret anymore in the world.
Russia is also very capitalist and materialistic now as well, so also influencing Russian culture.
Russia wants to change its image, to encourage investment by global corporations and businesses to expand works there.
@Tom W North Korea, is the last truly communist state in world.
China has the control of its people’s image and behavior like a communist state, and utilizes that to create the best combination of vulture capitalism, undermining the worlds economy and enriching the country though being the cheapest labor with least amount of labor and environmental regulations, as individual health rights like acres to clean air and water, or fair work conditions are nothing in collectivist hive culture.
Correction: At 8:40 you say Germany defeat on "May 1941" I think you meant to say 1945. Operation Barbarossa started in Jun 1941.
Ivan Khmel I know this guy doesn't really know the history..
The captions say its "1945"
Hes the host. The author is in credits
Details...
I mean he wasn't wrong
This comment has been taken down by our glorious leader Stalin, for deposing the USSR. This man will be re-educated
A Ukrainian fried said that they danced in the streets when Stalin died
Yeah, they feared him and nkvd and danced in the streets at the same time, sure, sounds very realistic
@@Cripalani My friend was there YOU were not ....
@@Cripalani Well, when he died, the NKVD didn't have much control over society.
I am from Ukraine - there were no dances, sure people were happy because of stopping killing lists, but instead it was very dangerous times to dance on the street
@@robertmarino2666 Is your friend 80 years old? My grandfather is 82 and the whole country cried at the death of Stalin. You can watch the footage from that time. Hundreds of thousands of Moscow residents took to the streets when they found out. This man turned the backward agrarian Russian empire, ravaged by war and famine, into a superpower and the second economy in the world.
Beria was also a Georgian like Stalin and Yagoda and Trotsky were Jewish. Surprising how few ethnic Russians there were in the Soviet hierarchy.
They’ve been in Russia for generations wdym? And I can’t find anything that says Stalin’s Jewish, just a atheist.
They hated the russians
@@mikey1717 jewish can also be a race
trotsky was ukrainian
@@ПиероВессел no his great maternal grandfather was jewish
My grandfather survived one of those forced labour camps in Siberia then lived to be 100. Even escaped at one point, was recaptured, tortured, and sentenced to death. Thankfully, the execution never took place.
It is interesting that Mao copied Stalin's moves right down to the enormous mistakes like collective farming and quotas and blundering sacrifices in the name of industrialization. Some people give Stalin credit for industrializing Russia and military superpower, but at what cost? Russia never really became anything close to an economic success and all the military build-up during the cold war never brought Russia any wealth despite the enormous human suffering and death toll during Stalin's rule. The exact same can be said for Mao.
Beyond ridiculos.
Hows trump going for yous? 😂
@Danielle Adair The USSR was the first empire in the history of the planet that did not allow exit to its citizens. That should tell you something.
@@CameraMystique And rightly so! When friends from America came to us, AIDS and gays, debauchery and immorality came to our country with them.
@@ИринаДавыдова-ф3в i would easily choose to be gay rather than go to a Gulag/vote for putin.
Now do a video on Chairman Mao
And that little red book everyone had
Yup. The Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution was a bloody slaughter of the Chinese People
He'd need to do a top 20 because Mao was far worse than Stalin. At least the Russians had an insulating Culture of Christ to temper the violent from becoming absolute. The Chinese were not as lucky. Thus, China suffered far worse horrors and humiliations.
Why not do videos on the Brit, French, Portuguese, Spanish colonial empires? There is plenty film evidence of the bloody histories of those places. And they didn't have the 'excuse' that they were rushing pre-industrial people[s] into the modern world.
Mao sounds like a classy man!
Khrushchev did not immediately succeed Stalin. Georgy Malenkov held the post of Premier until ousted by Khrushchev, who had taken control of the Party. In two years he had become the effective ruler, Malenkov was demoted and later expelled from the Party. He died shortly before the Soviet Union collapsed.
This video should be mandatory viewing for all high school students.
Not likely
Lady Cat terrorist?
Along with election videos and other propaganda from both sides. Or better "Enemy at the Gates" or "The Death of Stalin", why not?
My family came from lithuania when it was part of the u.s.s.r and the stories passed down to me were just horrible. My great grandfathers family members had a nice farm that was seized and they were so scared of being taken or killee that they would talk about how lucky they were that they were left with so much
.. because so many farmers were murdered, so they were lucky. Delia Morris
Maybe Lithuania should now give Wilno (Vilnius) back to Poland, after Stalin took the city away from Poles and gave it to lithuanians.
@@antona.4572 my grandfather was born in Vilnius when it was apart of Russia
@@YourFav_Anastasia01 ok, and your point?
Could you do something about Bismarck or Frederick the Great? They are like my top 2 favorite people in history. Napoleon, Charlemagne and Otto the Great are close too.
Kaiser Wilhelm mein kaiser, what are you doing watching videos about this monster! (Pulls a pickelhaube on)
I vote for Bismark. Nations are made of blood and iron.
Provides interesting insight into why General Patton wanted to extend the war to Russia following the liberation of Germany. That and the fact Patton lived for war!
Oh Patton wasn’t aware of it most the world wasn’t until the 1990s Patton just wanted war
@@Logang007 Patton did not want war, he just knew of the nessicity of war. This world would be a vastly different place, in a negative way, if Germany won the war. World war II was nessacary!
@@josephfacey2596 No not WW2, WW2 was completely necessary to save the world from the brown plague (Fascism) I’m talking about Patton wanting to invade the Soviet Union
The clapping scene is real. People fainted, their hands bloodied, until one guy decided it was enough, and ordered the clapping to cease. He went to the GULAG and got the advice never to be the first to stop clapping.
Stalin was extremely paranoid (a trait shared by all dictators). He was, for sure, a paranoid psychopath; ruthless and violent. At the end of his life, he was left agonizing for a couple of days: everybody, doctors and politburo members alike, was scared shitless of entering his bedroom. His agony is meagre consolation considering the considerable harm he'd done.
Man fought marxists, zionists, trotskyists, international socialism movement, NEP, mass terror of NKVD, political democracy opponents and party nomenclature. All his political life was a war for people, no wonder he was paranoid.
@@edgars112233 Just noticed something you might have worded wrong by mistake: "All his political career was a war AGAINST people..."
@@canoeadventures-riverlandk1536 these two options doesn't exclude each other. He fought for one side of people against other side of people. I admire the fact he took side, which nobody ever took in all of the russian history.
@@edgars112233 Interesting. Personally I can't see that being responsible for the murder of 10s of millions of people on suspicion that they might oppose you could be considered fighting FOR people. Sounds more like a bloodthirsty tyrannical dictator.
hmmmm.. 438 dislikes.
Must be college students.
Ot those disappointed that he brought up the same things any highschooler would know instead of something mostly unknown of...
Putin's trolls
Fear of intellectuals and universities. Sounds like Stalin to me.
YES I AGREE ALL INDOCTRINATED BY LABOUR LEFTIST COMMIE CORBYN SUPPORTERS ... IN UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGES THROUGH OUT THE UK ....
- 437 viewers due to their poor command of English misunderstood and thought the video was praising the USSR;
- 1 viewer - Putin.
Why you should never, EVER, trust your government without question. Keep your weapons, land and freedom.
Man of Steel? You can't just choose your own nickname...
Comrade Stalin: "That's why they call me _The Man of Steel!"_
Comrade Trotsky: "Who calls you that?"
Comrade Stalin: "Guards...!"
True story.
Do you know what "Stalin" means?
Ahahaha! See! Other like me!
Me: uh nuh you bad. Communisim is be-
No. Let's not start this again. Anything but the discussion.
Bakunin predicted it. "Give an ardent revolutionary absolut power, within a year he's worse than any czar."
"bUt tHAt wAsN't REaL cOMmUnIsM"
Sibire Whittney It wasn’t communism, as communism is per definition a stateless and classless society.
And the union of sovjet States sure as hell wasn’t stateless.
Try reading some literature before you speak on the topic
@@yourlocaltoad5102 People who correct jokes and memes should be sent to a gulag.
@@mikethunder84 then don't correct him, he's the best joke in this comment section
@@katatastrofa6136 I'm not, the guy above me is tho.
@@mikethunder84 thats what i said
Stalin's "creatures". Perfect description.
Thanks for reading my Wikipedia article Comrade, I couldn’t have did it myself!
Biden, take off that Stalin mask, you ain't fooling nobody.
@@jimbob5487 Biden i was thinking that Putin is playing dress up
"The 10 laziest and most widely circulated shock-jock lies about life in Stalin's Russia." Fixed your title.
Thank you for everything, Koba ❤
@Dagoth Ur Next gulag inmate detected.
@@undercoverbrother67Bootlicker.
What's amazing to me is that there are still some people in Russia today that think that Stalin was a great guy.
Communists modernized Russia, made women equal with men, shortened the working day, eliminated the illiteracy of the population, etc.
it's impossible for a russian to hate communism
Nobody is innocent
Ones who had regular work and never came into the hands of the KGB. I could have survived the system by behaving, does not make it right. Delia Morris
It's not just Russia. The communist poison confuses the mind, dilates judjemnent. After some time the mind is becoming wrecked and occupied by the ideology. You are blinded. It's like a ghost. All the host wants is to reenforce the beliefs. It works in the devils ways. It leaves you a slave that "fights for working class rights"., proud of it. You want no more freedom that to serve the party, "the cause.". A zombie. Yet with a raging phony psyco's smile in the face...
My great grandfather died in one of these. He rolled his eyes and paid the price.
Sacrifices must be made.
vbobkovsky After he had a child (????)
+nihl hinz The. chicken came before the egg ?Then how that chicken came to be ?
Hey short crazy stalin I'm i right?
There's a 75% chance of your great grandfather being a filthy grain hoarder.
I saw an interview with a gulag survivor and he said, people in the camps were saying "someone should tell Stalin: he will put a stop to this", without realising they were there at his order.
you should have also mentioned, not only did millions of them mourn his death, hundreds were crushed to death just trying to attend his funeral.
insane yes, but definitely powerful :D
Great video and I love your Biographics channel!
Can you imagine that there are still people celebrating this man, Lenin and all his followers....
@Tylenol PM That's the consequence of the amount of liberalism and more importantly decadence of the last decades.
@Matricx700 You seriously going to defend them?
@Matricx700 You mean historical fact of how brutal communism is
@Matricx700 So holodomor and the red terror were lies? Capitalism helped billions while communism and socialism helped billions into poverty
@Matricx700 If no one could read then the reds wouldn’t have had a bloody revolution l. Holodomor was a famine cause by forces collectivism and bismark created healthcare.Capitalism doesn’t make slaves thats against capitalism . I’m not brainwashed I just smart because I know capitalism is better an communism will always fail and be followed by idiots like you and the fact you used your dead friend to make your argument sound better shows communists are inhuman
Never in your life will you meet a more freedom loving patriotic U.S. citizen than an immigrant that lived in the USSR.
Very true
Who the hell gives these videos thumbs down? These are amazing and informative lessons of some of the most prolific people in world history. This is my favorite channel and often gets me through work. THANK YOU! I have no problem with contributing to your patreon!
While I care not to participate in the faux vote thumb thing, the down votes were most likely due to this video being as purposefully inaccurate prop as a ‘based on true events’ hollywood movie.
And his death was simultaneously celebrated by millions more.
Millions of bankers, landlords, and other parasitic enemies of the human race. No point debating this with you - a born slave, willingly serving his masters.
Omg...🤣.
This comment.
@@rodrigomercader1275 if working in for youre own wealth in a capitalist sociaty is being a slave il take being slave 100 procent of the time specaialy if the alternative was living in a opresive comunist society or socailist remeber venezuela
Google the photos of Stalin's funeral.
Those tens of thousands of people attending his funeral were probably forced to come by evil KGB, lol
@@michaekrynicki8330 Venezuela didn´t became poor because of Chavez, like Cuba they have locked economy by USA
When socialism don't have open economy, they collapse into African countries
Nixon ordered the CIA: "Make the Chile's economy scream" That why make you think Allende would turn Chile into Venezuela 2.0 but in reality he wanted to put the economy policy of USSR in the 60s
For Example: Soviet Union didn't opened its economy like China or Vietnam, it was matter of time to stagnate. Lenin knew it, that's why he put on track the NEP (New Economic Policy) similar to China, but future leader didn't follow that.
“The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.”
--- Simon Bolivar
After the war, Russian POWs being sent back to Russia were being put onto ships at Liverpool docks. When they saw NKVD officers on the deck, many killed themselves rather than be handed over.
@@peterpunch8136 What a load of BS
Lol, surely it did happen
Never read that part. Would you provide a source please?
John Brennan Source please?
What were Russian POWs doing in Liverpool?
And people complain about the USA
Bc they dont know history
In the end we take a lot of stuff for granted in western countries. We forget how better off we are compared to others.
@@OneBirdAllStoned @Seth graham
Just because Stalin's rule was bad doesn't mean that people should stop complaining about the US, that is stupid. If you stop complaining about your country it will fall into stagnation, never getting better, only getting worse. If you knew history you would know that
Unfortunately we have Politicians like Bernie Sanders that admired Stalin and wants to bring his “Workers Paradise” to the United States
@@kennethhall289 Bernie Sanders is a social democrat not a socialist
An interesting and little known story is that of Americans working in the USSR in the 30s that were "purged" or sent to the Gulags under Stalin, among them, former Ford employees that went there to set up and run the truck factory that Ford sold to Russia. Suggest reading "The Foresaken" by Tim Tzouliadis.
The Fordsaken
@@donaldsonburrz zing
I read a book about that, I think it was called DANCING FOR STALIN. The author was an American daughter of a Ford employee who was arrested. She was eventially also arrested.
Soooo... who in the US wants this type of government?? Enlighten me
The garbage you put in your couch. Who in the US wants this type of government? Bernie Sanders and AOC.
john mcdonald both bernie and AOC are for reformed capitalism not communism where did you get that?
@@beastlypear2594 dumb right wing guy. Nothing to do here.
@@beastlypear2594 I agree they're not Communist but they are Democratic socialist and Socialism has two definitions the second being "the beginning stages of communism" so you can't really blame someone for being scared of them or what might come after them.
@@Rangerman69420 yes socialism is indeed defined as a transitionary stage toward communism. but the ussr wasnt communist, it was socialist. communism is when classless stateless moneyless. parties are communist, people are communist, but not countries. a communist country is an oxymoron.
Stalin was a Georgian, and I don't mean the US state. It's doubtful he cared at all about native Russians of any kind. And so was Breshnev and Gorbachev. Go figure.
Stalin was Georgian. Brezhnev was ukrainian and Gorbachev was ethnically russian.
The mainstream of the Soviet communist party is still ethnic Russian, no matter what the supreme leader's ethnicity is.
Stalin was georgian and an enormous nationalist. Only the georgians lived happy lives during his reign including his henchman beria who was also georgian.
@@drunkensailor112 Russians only lived happy lives in their Imperial State at the expense of Georgians, for centuries. Russians are no different than Mongols.
Russians only lived happy lives in their Imperial State at the expense of Georgians, for centuries. Russians are no different than Mongols, just pillaged and displaced ethnic populations, but have foreigners rule and build their modern state.
Dear Top Tenz, you forgot another brutal reality : Hitler-Stalin Pact on 23rd August 1939. With this Pact, Soviet-Russia and Nazi-Germany agreed to start WWII together.
Mike mancuso. One small forgotten detail Mike. The soviets didn't expect the nazis to attack. Well not quite so soon anyway.
Hitler...."I'm the worst leader that ever lived!"
Stalin..."Hold my Vodka, Adolf Wannabee, I'll show you who's far worse!"
Mao.... “I got this, Josef”
King Leopold II amtures
Genghis Khan: *UNHOLY LAUGHTER*
People were crushed to death by the millions, caught between 2 despicable tyrants, Hitler and Stalin.
Poland suffered, but most of the other Eastern Europeans ended up joining Germany in the invasion of the USSR, that's how much they hated Stalin and/or communism.
Many more than just a few million died in the gulags. Actual estimates range from 15 million to 60 million
why not 120 million?
Those numbers are obscenely false. They don't add up at all
@annonymous2223 yes, man
>U, who "actually care about what really happened" and take numbers out of thin air.
>Me, some russian (nope) madman...
-(there was another word here that better describes me, given your love of attributing people to certain groups without really thinking, but the comment with it was immediately deleted) -
...who is "in insane mental state"
just because I don’t tell scary stories about 1337 million victims.
nice logic, man.
I mean, the most likely estimates of deaths in the gulags specifically range from about 1.5 to 2 million. Though if you add in the deaths from the famine caused by Stalins policies, you're looking at the most likely estimate being around 6.5 million. All in all though when you add together all causes, Stalin's reign and practices likely led to the deaths of 9-10 million Russians. Those are just the deaths caused by his policies directly and indirectly. Add in WW2 deaths and that number jumps a LOT higher, but I digress. While he did directly or indirectly cause millions of people to die, let's not blow those stats put of proportion when the reality is already horrific enough.
@@semaj_5022 Since you are saying not to blow those stats, then please indicate the source from which you take them. I mean, honestly, it gets boring to hear about "several million deaths in the gulag" and "millions of people who died because of Stalin," when the numbers are taken literally out of thin air, but served as "true".
Love your videos
Thanks man, i was wondering how my nightmares could be a bit more vivid...
Thank goodness there’s someone online doing interesting stuff that tells the truth about communism.
History has a tendency to repeat itself time and time again, history should be taken seriously and not as novelty, not just a story. Keeping your senses open is crucial.
NEVER GIVE UP YOUR GUNS
Hitler is literally the worst!
Stalin: Hold my vodka, comrade!
King Leopold II: hold my congolese hands
Hitler: killed 12 million people
Stalin: killed 20 million people while fighting the Nazis
Me: salute Stalin
@@captainretro373 both still bad
I would rather be around Hitler than Stalin.
@@NapoleonBonaparte5 I’m out here preferring the company of uncle Winston Churchill
Han: Let him have it. It’s not wise to upset a Wookiee.
C-3PO: But sir. Nobody worries about upsetting a droid.
Han: That’s cause a droid don’t pull people’s arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookiees are known to do that.
C-3PO: I see your point, sir. I suggest a new strategy, R2. Let the Wookiee win.
Stalin, like many powerful leaders was very short. He was also physically deformed from being run over by a cart when a kid. Photo of him used lighting and angles to hide his acne scarred face...... he was a real winner.
Alfie Solomons from Peaky Blinders always says that you never give power to the little man. Historically speaking you and Alfie have a point. Guy saying hitler was 6ft idk
Hitler was 5'9".....not 6 feet. Most German men at the time were 6' or taller.
I hear it was smallpox instead of acne.
He was OK looking in photos as a young man, but the eyes says alot. His younger photos can be googled. Delia
"Socialism only works in two places. Heaven, where they don't need it and Hell where they already have it." - Ronald Ragen
Neoliberalism isn't exactly something better
Well done, sir!
This video is a perfect argument for the second amendment,the right to bear arms.The first thing all dictators have in common is to prohibit or disarm the populace . So yes America does have people that misuse the right but by and large the majority of gun owners are responsible citizens.
Vito Santo underrated comment...
and I’m not even American or live in America.
@@1035pm I believe US will soon have great problems with your 2nd Amnt. Wait and see. Ammo is already unaffordable, according to Fox!
Vito speaks truth.
Still no match for an army.
@@Phil-ui4tm when the Japanese attacked Peal Harbor there was consideration for attacking and landing troops on the west coast,one of their biggest concerns was the fact that American citizens were armed. Remember we defeated the best army in the world at that time ,the British in our war for Independence.
How can you blame Hitler for attacking such a man. With a neighbor like Soviet Union and a leader like Stalin you are never safe.
I am Russian, born and raised in the USSR. I was old enough to do my military service before the USSR ceased to exist. It was a bad country by ALL, ALL means, and I in my 20s celebrated when it collapsed and Russia got a chance to renounce it's past and become part of the civilized world. Unfortunately, we blew that chance. Putin's regime is no better than Stalin's with the difference that 1) Putin is errr...let's put it this way... much less smart than Stalin, and 2) His regime is much less powerful and much more dependent on the West, than that of Stalin's.
For now, the second point makes it a bit less terrible than the Stalin's. However, Putin is definitely trying to resurrect the USSR and not without some success.
Modern Russia is a dictatorship, it's still a huge prison and threat to all intelligent people in Russia and all neighboring countries. The world must not forget what the USSR was and what Russia is trying to become now. Thank you for the video.
What do you think of ukrainian reforms?
@@theoraciasilva9236 I support all former countries of the Warsaw block in their effort to turn West and run away from the GULAG. I cannot blame them for not willing to be slaves any more.
Run for your life, brothers!
It's especially hard for former Soviet Republics, like Ukraine, because they had been poisoned by the fruit of the Evil Empire worst. Now they have rotten ex-communist elite and to add insult to injury the aggression of the degenerate KGB rat Putin, who I call "Stalin Light", on their plate. Unfortunately, his bloody ambitions would not be possible to aсaccomplish without support of many brainwashed supporters in Russia. In the 70 years of the Soviet regime the people of the USSR had become an obedient and coward herd. The best people were killed in wars, GULAG; the lucky ones just left the country.
Reforms don't come easy to the Ukraine, but I believe in their success and wish them luck. Georgia and Armenia are going through similar changes. I wish them the best too! Ethnicity doesn't matter for me, for Good and Evil are beyond ethnicity.
Kim Il Sung learn from Stalin and make a North Korean version of cult of personality.
Kim Jong Il, Sung's son, studied in a western university where he found religion though not as a convert.
You'll see all these fantastic stories about a new star appearing in the sky and a magical change of season upon his birth, the invention of the hamburger and so on. These stories were not created until Kim Jong Il became his father's chief propagandist. He is the one who dialled the preexisting cult of personality up to 11 into what we see today.
And Kim ll sung copied Stalin and had purges around his country
Every country has a cult of personality, check out US and their four presidents engraved in rock lol. 3/4 owning slaves and were elected when women, native Americans, and blacks were prohibited by law to vote
It amazes me that Stalin's inner circle didn't revolt, knowing they could be purged at any moment. Why would anyone want to be close to a paranoid murderer?
It's simple human psychology. Everybody was suspicious of everybody. Nobody dared to even reveal what they thought of Stalin lest the other might leak it to Stalin.
Stalin was a genius.
I don't understand why tyrants live so long. Cult of Personality?
Everyone was scared of everyone and all of them had blood on their hands.
anirban bhattacharya genius?
Because they themselves didn't want to be sent to Gulag?
The weird thing is that many older people in russia miss the Soviet Union. Maybe its from nostalgia.
Those who weren't being carted away and worked to death for their views or anything else were given free houses and healthcare so they closed their eyes to the atrocities
@@lewis123417 healthcare: let live.
@@rossbrumby1957??
Left or right, Imperialism is Imperialism, however leaders always have blood in their hands wherever ideology they have
Look out USA mass incarceration per capita, so called "Land of Freedom" has higher percentage of prisioners than Stalin and China ever had
I'd rather be a prisoner here because I was convicted by a jury of my peers, than a "free" peasant in a country that is starving me to death on purpose, or a prisoner in Russia sent to the gulag because I disagree with the government. Pick your poison.
Nice information thanks
My church had a guest pastor a couple years ago who was from Russia. While I don't think he lived under Stalin, he was arrested and told to renounce his faith and he could go home. He refused the "offer" and was sent to the Gulags where he spent 7+ years and his feet beaten so badly that he could never wear shoes and could walk only short distances without pain.
That is so sad.
Unbelievably cruel and evil man among many in history. Many years ago i was lucky enough to meet a man who had been on the Arctic convoys to Murmansk in Russia. I remember him saying how surly and unfriendly the Russians were. Looking at it, its no surprise. The Soviet workers paradise must have been overrated, the poor sods.
most people who lived under the soviet union much prefer it to todays capitalist russia
@@april-rf3pq are you on crack??
@@russianvalkyrie2358 No it's pretty known that most Russians today prefer the Soviet Union
@George Floyd The Monkey On Meth hmmm I wonder why the USSR had a bad economy, oh right maybe bc they were recovering from Imperialist Russia and they had lost many young men and their citys were bombed alot in WW2. Also not to point out Americas industrial citys weren't affected from WW2. Listen bud, the USSR had flaws but adapting Communism vastly improved Russias economy and in the end the Soviet Unions people actually had food, infact Soviets consumed more food than Americans except the USSRs food was more nutritious than western food, until they adapted western food in the 80's. I'm not here to argue just saying it's a little biased to judge the Soviet Union which actually had well fed civilians and a stable economy when America (a country which had very little rights for people of color at the time) had not taken any mainland damage during WW2 and was not recovering from an imperialist economy.
And also it's crappy to downplay the fact America doesn't have free healthcare, think about people in hospitals who have to go in debt for the rest of their lives just to stay alive.
I wonder if Russian history teaches how Stalin hid in his Dacha in disbelief when the Nazis started their invasion of the USSR?
Thank you for this vid. Well researched ad well presented.
The funny thing is you ask old people from the old Soviet Union about Times then and they miss it and say things weren’t as bad as people in the west assume and no one went hungry and life was better .. they prefer it over today ....
the capitalist west and their sycophant media talking heads are quick to point out how the 'other system' was bad but never look at the conseuqnces of capitalist exploitation : 1)genocide of the native americans 2) wealth/capital accumulation via centuries of slavery 3) the 3rd reich 4) the millions dead in WW1 5) the millions dead in WW2 6) the millions dead in capitals dirty wars in africa, asia and latin america during the 20th century 7) 50,000 annually dying from lack proper nutrition TODAY 8) the annual 35,000 opioid deaths TODAY 9) the millions dying annually from lack of basic health care/medications 10) YOU GET THE PICTURE
The transition to capitalism was a free for all dominated by mobsters and former kgb thugs. Like the American old west. Regulations and law enforcement were lax or worse, corrupted.
BUTT ITS NUT REUL GOMMUNIZM
Never forget that the winners write history. And always remember how we many truth were covered up by lies.
Yeah all the freaking gulags and dead are just invented history. Theres always an excuse for the commies crimes.
@DjRawd0g stupid idiot. They were in the east because almost no one lived there. Same for the camps in siberia. Do you think north koreans have their camps in or around Pyongyang?
Excellent!
When you base your government on a story book ( in this case the Communist Manifesto ), tyranny is inevitable.
@nemis010 you do realize it doesnt change the fact that communism is inevitable gonna fail. Lenin were just as guilty as stalin. He was arresting and executing people too. In 1929, while he was in power, dam near all religous figures were arrested/killed. Lenin said russia needs to collective rid the insects that are causing it down fall. Insects were all railroad union cabinet members Most religious members, The Democratic party all were "insects".
@@bornfree8073 In 1929 Lenin was dead.
Or the bible.
N.K.V.D stands for Not Killing Very Disscretly
Next topic: Ho Chi Minh
How many channels does this dude have?
TOOOOO many!! Cant stand his voice. I use CC.
I love history I read that during his rule a chef or cook was arrested for failing to put salt in some soup. Must have been a scary place to live.
Gareth Bertram How dare he forget the Salt!!! Just kidding, yeah they must have been terrified of him.
Kieran Morgan absolutely lol
Picking up leftover grains in a field and not handing them into the 'collective' would see you serving 10 years. Do it with friends and it became 'organized crime', add another 10. This also applied to children.
Philip Jones definitely some pretty scary things happened. Then ww2 started then it was out of the frying pan into the fire the russians.
Watch "The Death Of Stalin". Brilliant film. Black comedy at it's blackest.
Why Communism isn't as hated as Nazism is beyond me.
Who do you think defeated the Nazis?
Nazism wants people that are "subhumans" to go extinct. Communism is not bad compared to Nazism.
@@mqge2481 If a murderer kills a murderer, does the first murderer suddenly become a hero?
@@joninator7858 Communism wants ordinary people to go extinct.
@@user-ge4uk9ui8y maybe in your fantasy
Not very accurate to say Lenin favored Trotsky - Trotsky criticized Lenin publicly, and Lenin put Stalin into a very high position.
Always interesting. Thanks keep up the great work
You're not sending me to the Gulag.
*your'e
Stephen Keeler *you're but thanks.
The secret is to become the Count of Monte Cristo.
CC-2224 Commander Cody he's not , I will! Don't make this more difficult than it needs to be!
CC-2224 Commander Cody oh oh hoho, gulag for you now.
Stalin found Russia with the wooden plow, and left Russia with Atomic wepons
And 66M dead. Cute.
Russian atomic weapon technology was stolen from USA by the US socialists (socialism sympathizers). Without these traitors' help, Stalin's henchmen could not deliver atomic weapons before Stalin's death.
@@craiga2002 Can you please specify those deaths so I can clean this antihistorical mess?
@@МатвейМещеряков-ц7ф Try out the authors Solzhenitzen, Robert Conquest, and 'The Black Book of Communism.' I hope you aren't shot or imprisoned for seeking these books if you live in the former USSR.
@@AkiraNakamoto Like how Nazi Scientists founded NASA. Essentially all foreigners. Common practice.
As a Russian I have to be honest Stalin was a bad evil person.But you can not blame us russians because stalin was not a true Russian. He was a bad human.Also Stalin was originally was from Georgia. Even nower days in russia people don't like him. P. S:Russia is not communist anymore
Западный шпион!
Everyone needs to watch your videos!
Who on earth is disliking this video?? And why??
The So🅱️iet Union
Really interesting video! My Polish grandmother allegedly escaped from a train going to the gulags. Don’t know much about it as there’s no-one to ask but the extended Polish half of my family really hated the Russians.