Joseph Stalin, Leader of the Soviet Union (1878-1953)

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КОМЕНТАРІ • 10 тис.

  • @retardedgayasspatrick3723
    @retardedgayasspatrick3723 5 років тому +7099

    "His mother wanted him to become a priest" Oh boy, that went well

    • @savagedarksider5934
      @savagedarksider5934 5 років тому +82

      With use of the Atom bomb; the allies did not need help from the soviet union in defeating japan.

    • @csabaweisz8791
      @csabaweisz8791 5 років тому +342

      She wanted his son to become a priest, the son almost destroyed the whole russian orthodox church

    • @thatyounghistorian2038
      @thatyounghistorian2038 5 років тому +157

      @@savagedarksider5934 Fun Fact: The Japanese surrendered to the allies after the Soviet Union was planning to move in on them. An atomic bomb was the equivalent of firebombing a city during those times and such were not seen as that big of a deal. The Japanese feared the communists more than the Americans

    • @thatyounghistorian2038
      @thatyounghistorian2038 5 років тому +42

      Tokyo was bombed intensely during the pacific war and if I gave you a picture of Tokyo and Nagasaki during the pacific war you would not be able to tell the difference

    • @bonecrusher3248
      @bonecrusher3248 5 років тому +10

      @@thatyounghistorian2038 hiroshima not Tokyo.

  • @fidenemini4413
    @fidenemini4413 5 років тому +6243

    Lenin on his death bed:"Joseph, what if the people don't follow you?"
    Stalin:"...then they will follow you"

  • @alexs7189
    @alexs7189 3 роки тому +3380

    I wonder if there is a parallel universe, in which Stalin became the pope, and Hitler a successful painter like Picasso

    • @ZeitgeistGaming69
      @ZeitgeistGaming69 2 роки тому +389

      Actually, Stalin would be Orthodox, which doesn't have a Pope. He could become the Patriarch though; it is essentially the same position that the Pope has in Catholicism but in Orthodoxy.

    • @havel6060
      @havel6060 2 роки тому +149

      good ending achieved

    • @susactivities_
      @susactivities_ 2 роки тому +148

      Here we have Georgian Pope Joseph and famous Austrian painter Hitler

    • @ZeitgeistGaming69
      @ZeitgeistGaming69 2 роки тому +43

      @@susactivities_ Georgian Patriarch

    • @eliasjojo4723
      @eliasjojo4723 2 роки тому +30

      And then Poland dtarts ww2

  • @fridayyy.2102
    @fridayyy.2102 3 роки тому +2164

    Stalin's mother: *my son will become a priest*
    Stalin: *abolishes religion in the USSR*

    • @elicentric
      @elicentric 2 роки тому +41

      yes because creating a secular state and rehabilitating religions oppressed by the tsardom = "abolishing religion" B)

    • @cesaralvarado775
      @cesaralvarado775 2 роки тому +62

      Eli B Stalin didn’t “abolish” religion, but it wasn’t “secular” either. The USSR actively endorsed “scientific atheism” by funding the Militant Atheists and funding museums of atheism, etc. I agree that religious persecution in the USSR is not discussed honestly. Yes the Soviets seized their private property and (stolen) wealth. But they were Communists, ALL private property and wealth was outlawed and seized. Religious resistors were killed or jailed, but ALL resistors were killed or jailed. But you’re right, under the Imperial Monarchy, Russian Orthodox Christianity was the official religion, and heresy was brutally persecuted. Heretical literature was banned. Under Czar Alexander, a million Muslim Circassians were exterminated-men, women, and the boys. The young girls, faired a different kind of deprived violence.

    • @elicentric
      @elicentric 2 роки тому +5

      @@cesaralvarado775 what would make a secular state different from “scientific atheism”? /gen

    • @cesaralvarado775
      @cesaralvarado775 2 роки тому +22

      Eli B Secular states are neutral on matters of religion. The USSR has a secular constitution, but in practice it actively promoted atheism. After WW2 Stalin drastically stoped promoting atheism and rehabilitated the Orthodox Church. So during this period, you might call it quasi-secular. But the State still maintained tight control.

    • @user-pf2co1uu6j
      @user-pf2co1uu6j 2 роки тому +2

      I AM FROM GEORGIA CAUCASIA

  • @MikeHunt-sh6vz
    @MikeHunt-sh6vz 5 років тому +15167

    When you want your son to become a Priest but instead he becomes the Dictator of the Soviet Union.

  • @jaric6474
    @jaric6474 4 роки тому +3835

    Stalin: i want to become leader
    Stalin: has rivals
    Stalin: wow they just dissapeared that's so weird

  • @annashoemaker1705
    @annashoemaker1705 3 роки тому +903

    Lenin: Dead.
    People: we want trotsky
    GOverment; wait wheres trotsky
    Stalin: wow thats soooo weird well looks like i have to rule sooo sad

    • @kong7319
      @kong7319 3 роки тому +38

      literally no one wanted trotsky

    • @rodoespinosa4680
      @rodoespinosa4680 3 роки тому +34

      @@kong7319 literally all intelligent people (intellectuals marxists) like Trotsky and happens exactly like Marx: propaganda against them put them undervalued

    • @kong7319
      @kong7319 3 роки тому +10

      @@rodoespinosa4680 what?

    • @someguy-bv3il
      @someguy-bv3il 3 роки тому +13

      All high ranking bolsheviks hated trotsky

    • @rodoespinosa4680
      @rodoespinosa4680 3 роки тому +10

      @@someguy-bv3il all the Bolsheviks were assassinated by Stalin, and a lot were the “left opposition” lidered by Trotsky, jesuschrist. I hate Historical ignorance 🤦🏻

  • @Dont-Watch-My-Vids-U-Regret-it
    @Dont-Watch-My-Vids-U-Regret-it 3 роки тому +951

    Soviet population: *exists*
    Stalin: *peace was never an option*

    • @Michal-mc6co
      @Michal-mc6co 3 роки тому +3

      What?

    • @acanadiancapitalist2107
      @acanadiancapitalist2107 3 роки тому +16

      @@Michal-mc6co he is right. Life must have been horrible

    • @user-cc9fb3zg4r
      @user-cc9fb3zg4r 3 роки тому

      Option of peace? Is there any option of peace during WWI? Civilian war in Russia? WWII, in fact WWI being continued several years after. Peace treaty after WWI had a lot of reasons to start a new war. Those who signed this peace treaty didn't make this a secret, that they will restore their armies to declare a new war, even deadlier. Peace was not an option for any country, WW2 is the evidence.

    • @emed07-
      @emed07- 3 роки тому +19

      you mean:
      *population was never an option*

    • @arstotzkaninspector1161
      @arstotzkaninspector1161 3 роки тому

      Do i need to reply it?

  • @Stalin-vq7gc
    @Stalin-vq7gc 4 роки тому +4811

    Hitler:tell me a joke.
    Stalin:Moscow!
    Hitler: I didn't get it
    Stalin: exactly!

    • @user-td9lt9vp9r
      @user-td9lt9vp9r 4 роки тому +150

      Stalin 1945 Stalin’s son was captured by the Germans and the Germans wanted to exchange him for a captured German officer, but Stalin said, “I won’t exchange soldiers for officers.” Stalin had 3 tunics and 3 boots all his life, Stalin did not live in luxurious houses and passed away in military uniform leaving Russia with a nuclear bomb

    • @Stalin-vq7gc
      @Stalin-vq7gc 4 роки тому +40

      @@user-td9lt9vp9r why did I say something like stalin was living in luxury? AND I KNOW THAT HIS SON WAS CAPTURED BY THE NAZIS

    • @charlesancer6101
      @charlesancer6101 4 роки тому +4

      @@user-td9lt9vp9r cool

    • @RE-zl7sy
      @RE-zl7sy 4 роки тому +36

      I didn't get it):

    • @epic_tygo
      @epic_tygo 4 роки тому +2

      *N O*

  • @R4KT1M
    @R4KT1M 5 років тому +2853

    Lenin : after my death don't let Stalin.....
    Lenin : *dies*
    Stalin : I guess, I am in-charge now

    • @R4KT1M
      @R4KT1M 5 років тому +25

      @UfOjaCkal we all know politics

    • @Secount
      @Secount 5 років тому +78

      Don't worry i give a home for you
      The name its "GULAG"

    • @mdbr155
      @mdbr155 5 років тому

      ahahhah

    • @JosephStalin-nq1pu
      @JosephStalin-nq1pu 5 років тому +17

      @@Secount Hello comrade.

    • @PennyDreadful1
      @PennyDreadful1 5 років тому +38

      Lenin was no angel but he thought Stalin abit too brutish...and he was right. Trotsky was relatively decent for a communist.

  • @NicholasBarton2005
    @NicholasBarton2005 3 роки тому +139

    Workers: *Don't work enough*
    Stalin: I'm about to end these guys careers

    • @XXStrong1
      @XXStrong1 3 роки тому +15

      *lives

    • @historyeditz8326
      @historyeditz8326 2 роки тому +3

      Proceeds to betray Marx ideas by exploiting workers lke bourgeois.

    • @mikhailalmaz
      @mikhailalmaz 2 роки тому +1

      @@historyeditz8326 ???? Wdym? What about the 5 hour day??? What about the improving living conditions???

    • @mrcool2107
      @mrcool2107 2 роки тому

      It's fake. In real stalin treated them well

  • @jessemojica3933
    @jessemojica3933 3 роки тому +208

    Someone in my history class said “like Atlanta, Georgia?” and I am questioning society

    • @awika1
      @awika1 3 роки тому +8

      He is from Georgia 🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪

    • @nikainjgia2334
      @nikainjgia2334 3 роки тому +7

      Georgia -"Sakartvelo"

    • @TheIndogamer
      @TheIndogamer 2 роки тому +12

      Americans and their lack of geographic knowledge

    • @sirgurnsalot4044
      @sirgurnsalot4044 2 роки тому +11

      @@TheIndogamer I’m not American and for like a mini second I was wondering if it was the state of Georgia too.

    • @superdude899
      @superdude899 2 роки тому +2

      No, no. Fair question

  • @mdbr155
    @mdbr155 5 років тому +2667

    Trotsky: Now that Lenin passed away, I'm the new leader
    Stalin: hold my vodka

  • @catherinelanosolamillo3053
    @catherinelanosolamillo3053 5 років тому +687

    DC - superman "man of steel"
    Russia DC-Stalin "man of steel"

  • @Hersgory372
    @Hersgory372 3 роки тому +314

    The order to defend Stalingrad was given because of the strategic importance of the city on the Volga river, not because of its name, and Kirov was killed by Stalins enemies

    • @pubefaceIV
      @pubefaceIV 3 роки тому +25

      Yes if they lost Stalingrad the nazis would be able to seize large amounts of desperately needed oil/fuel south of the city

    • @HarshGupta-oe1hv
      @HarshGupta-oe1hv 3 роки тому +5

      The way Kirov died was kinda suspicious 🤔

    • @muhammadsaadurrehman5341
      @muhammadsaadurrehman5341 2 роки тому +4

      All the big bolsheviks killed by Stalin wanted to kill Stalin.

    • @ruturajshiralkar5566
      @ruturajshiralkar5566 Рік тому +6

      Kirov was eliminated by Stalin himself (i.e on Stalin's Orders). Stalin was greatly jealous of Kirov's popularity and hence saw Kirov's death as a way to eliminate any threat, perceived or otherwise, to his absolute Power.

    • @Ricardo_Rick
      @Ricardo_Rick Рік тому

      thanks, it's hard to find sane comments in videos so obviously biased against communism and it's key figures

  • @Chqdom1r
    @Chqdom1r 3 роки тому +571

    Hitler: Hey, Stalin, wanna hear a joke?
    Stalin: Да? ("Yes")
    Hitler: Berlin
    Stalin: Ох, ай гет ит. ("Oh, I get it" in broken Russian)

    • @mrcool2107
      @mrcool2107 3 роки тому +52

      Russian words look like when English words are upside down

    • @ananditotugarisman9122
      @ananditotugarisman9122 3 роки тому +9

      Translate pls, I wanna know the joke too

    • @Chqdom1r
      @Chqdom1r 3 роки тому +83

      @@ananditotugarisman9122 Hitler:Hey, Stalin, wanna hear a joke?
      Stalin: Yes.
      Hitler: Berlin
      Stalin: Oh, I get it.

    • @ananditotugarisman9122
      @ananditotugarisman9122 3 роки тому +10

      @@Chqdom1r lmao thx for the translation

    • @dalliskal4827
      @dalliskal4827 3 роки тому +21

      U.S: hey Russia want to here a joke
      Russia: ok
      U.S: good allies
      Russia: i don't get it
      U.S: and you never will

  • @Bastogne1944
    @Bastogne1944 6 років тому +2734

    When the going gets tough, the gulag gets going. - Joseph Swolin.

    • @MikhaelAhava
      @MikhaelAhava 6 років тому +12

      ok

    • @JamesBond-ns8di
      @JamesBond-ns8di 6 років тому +30

      I see you everywhere with your quotes. Are you following me

    • @GAZAMAN93X
      @GAZAMAN93X 6 років тому

      James Bond sub to me

    • @Bastogne1944
      @Bastogne1944 6 років тому +21

      James Bond I am a rezidentura, a Russian not, who's main mission is to post divisive fake news on the internet and send kompormat back to apparatchiks in the kremlin.
      ( *I am not paid by CNN* )
      You frequently see my comments because we most likely have the same subscription base.

    • @JamesBond-ns8di
      @JamesBond-ns8di 6 років тому +11

      General S. Patton aaaaah that explains everything. Can i join your fake news clan?

  • @bishop2985
    @bishop2985 3 роки тому +1455

    Song: Russia with love

  • @CheddarMannn
    @CheddarMannn 3 роки тому +131

    Lenin on dying bed:
    Tell the guy that gives job, to not let Stalin take over. Btw - who did I give the job of giving jobs?
    Doctor:
    That'd Stalin, sir.
    Lenin:
    *dies*

    • @HeadFunny
      @HeadFunny 3 роки тому +2

      Did you know Stalin's son conned him by replacing ice hockey players with fakes, because they died in a plane crash that he was responsible for? ua-cam.com/video/XU23R_AI57Q/v-deo.html

    • @halbgefressen9768
      @halbgefressen9768 2 роки тому +2

      @@HeadFunny dying in a plane crash before 1924 ahh yess very likely happened

    • @user-rf8lp8ho5k
      @user-rf8lp8ho5k 2 роки тому

      Упощенная ссылка.

    • @IloveRumania
      @IloveRumania 2 роки тому

      Haha
      Edit: I got the reference.

  • @thecoopinater
    @thecoopinater 3 роки тому +25

    Lenin: Stalin won’t lead the ussr
    Stalin: “how about I do anyway”

    • @luke.4317
      @luke.4317 3 роки тому +1

      that document is fake lol

  • @SerggK
    @SerggK 4 роки тому +1371

    Stalin: Dark humour is like food, not everyone gets it

  • @alexsal2737
    @alexsal2737 6 років тому +631

    I'd like to learn more about the Chernobyl nuclear accident, year was 1986 I think.

  • @shelbymartinez7248
    @shelbymartinez7248 2 роки тому +18

    This was the very first video I watched from simple history about the same day it came out and I became drawn into their other videos especially for a history nerd like me hope y’all keep up the good work with these videos been subscribed to you guys since 2018 always brings me back memories when I watched this video all those years ago and many others at that time

  • @mohdzairul1158
    @mohdzairul1158 3 роки тому +41

    "No work?
    G U L A G"
    -Stalin

  • @dragindeeznuts2525
    @dragindeeznuts2525 4 роки тому +1401

    I just went out of the room , and my boy made such a mess .

  • @cloroxbleach4534
    @cloroxbleach4534 5 років тому +1766

    My little pony.
    Russia: Our little Poland.

  • @reems10
    @reems10 3 роки тому +4

    Simple History you're my favorite UA-camr! Keep up the work!

  • @JeanValjean875
    @JeanValjean875 3 роки тому +40

    3:28 If you read Stephen Kotkin's Stalin biography, he states that most of the purged officers were NOT "talented," they were incompetent. Not that that justifies what Stalin did to them, but it didn't effect the war effort that much.

    • @gruesomewolfgaming4735
      @gruesomewolfgaming4735 2 роки тому +5

      You must have never heard of tukachevsky.

    • @vanshstalin1402
      @vanshstalin1402 2 роки тому

      Stephen Kotkin is leftist propagandist . What happen to tukhachevsky ,yakir, smultsky. They were civil war heroes ,fought against japanese

    • @dominusdone5023
      @dominusdone5023 3 місяці тому

      and how did it not impact? Many of the officers he executed were great war veterans which isnt saying much but they had experience in war

    • @t.bo.e2487
      @t.bo.e2487 2 місяці тому

      How convenient lol 😂

    • @JeanValjean875
      @JeanValjean875 22 дні тому

      ​​@@dominusdone5023But the Soviets still won the war despite Stalin's purges. So the purges couldn't have had that much of an impact if they won anyway.

  • @longwlenguyen4214
    @longwlenguyen4214 3 роки тому +1745

    Psychiatrist: "Stalin, why do you behave this way?"
    Stalin: "My father used to punish me severely."

  • @benski7407
    @benski7407 5 років тому +2125

    Who would win
    50 million people
    Or
    1 mustache boi

  • @amitasingh9281
    @amitasingh9281 2 роки тому +12

    Fun Fact- In Stalinist Russia, food was like humour, not everybody got it.

    • @sukanachuj_7897
      @sukanachuj_7897 2 роки тому

      Bro i love dark humor

    • @lombardia1509
      @lombardia1509 2 роки тому

      In America it is the Great Depression, but in the USSR it is for some reason the Holodomor. It's funny how they deceive you, and you don't even think about it.

  • @iakobmtchedlishvili1595
    @iakobmtchedlishvili1595 11 місяців тому +6

    Simple History: Stalin is bloody dictator.
    Winston Churchil: Hold my whiskey

  • @quibdib9930
    @quibdib9930 4 роки тому +1887

    Stalin:*Shoots his last good officers and generals*
    Stalin: why don’t I have any more good generals

    • @kmv-2
      @kmv-2 4 роки тому +55

      Zhucov,Rokossovskiy,Chuycov,Voroshilov? No?

    • @heidetenchavez9911
      @heidetenchavez9911 4 роки тому +19

      No. Not enough...

    • @josephstalin9302
      @josephstalin9302 3 роки тому +23

      Я признаю, что это была ошибка ...

    • @kevin8712
      @kevin8712 3 роки тому +16

      @@kmv-2 Konev?

    • @scarlett3205
      @scarlett3205 3 роки тому +9

      @Wavygeronimo It translates as "I admit that it was a mistake"

  • @Meme-o-Taur
    @Meme-o-Taur 5 років тому +476

    Who would win?
    The czar of Russia
    -----------
    A book

  • @stephenscribbles
    @stephenscribbles 3 роки тому +5

    Worker: *is exhausted and therefore gradually works less*
    Stalin: I diagnose you with treason

  • @Pompomatic
    @Pompomatic 3 роки тому +24

    I can personally recommend the book under further reading: Geoffrey Hosking's "Russia and the Russians". It's a great book, and as far as I can tell, very objective.

  • @frederickiithegreat3919
    @frederickiithegreat3919 5 років тому +2580

    Shhhhhh,simple history, or do you want to go in gulag?

    • @localextremist2839
      @localextremist2839 5 років тому +185

      WHATS THIS? AN IMPOSTER?

    • @frederickiithegreat3919
      @frederickiithegreat3919 5 років тому +185

      @@localextremist2839 what? I am the Real stalin,you are the western spy

    • @localextremist2839
      @localextremist2839 5 років тому +124

      @@frederickiithegreat3919 No u i am sitting in my KV2 aiming at you

    • @delxsm
      @delxsm 5 років тому +48

      @@localextremist2839 guys dont make me get shaggy on you

    • @Palladium001
      @Palladium001 5 років тому +32

      Just 1v1 with t-34s. The survivor is the real stalin

  • @benmchargue8150
    @benmchargue8150 5 років тому +1006

    *sees Stalin dying of a stroke*
    Are you ok?
    Stalin: GULAG

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 2 роки тому +1

    I love your channel keep up the great stuff

  • @vasilijepapovic9092
    @vasilijepapovic9092 Рік тому +2

    Nice video

  • @zashazaikov
    @zashazaikov 6 років тому +1076

    Stalingrad was not defended so viciously just because it bore Stalin's name. But because it was a strategic transit road from the Caucuses to the rest of the Union and the USSRs primary source of Oil. Germany just needed to be starved of oil, so they could not let them turn the tables by taking the caucuses. It simply was a very strategic position. Saying that it was defended viciously just in his name is just an uneducated revisionism of historical facts and documentation.

    • @user-ov3iu7gu2f
      @user-ov3iu7gu2f 6 років тому +76

      OZX7S You are completely correct, but I think that Stalingrad had more symbolic meaning to Hitler than to Stalin. Military historians say that Stalingrad was city no different from any other that Germans conquered earlier in their campaign, it could've been easily surrounded and cut of the Russian supplies and reinforcements and would have to surrender in a short time, but luckily for us, the good guys, Hitler had no clue in tactics and wanted to conquer the city, as I remember from documentaries, with air bombings and frontal assault... and that story ended in Berlin in 1945...

    • @doughnutsandcoffee8622
      @doughnutsandcoffee8622 6 років тому +9

      OZX7S finally someone who also knows

    • @doughnutsandcoffee8622
      @doughnutsandcoffee8622 6 років тому +25

      Драшко Дашић, Stalin did not care about Stalingrad as much as Hitler did, Hitler compared to Stalin... Hitler was an over-enthusiastic child, Stalin...
      a heartless monster, who feared no one.

    • @eduardkeandreisolina1502
      @eduardkeandreisolina1502 5 років тому +1

      yeah sure your very correct, but he said that after saying "it has stalin's name"

    • @viysnjor4811
      @viysnjor4811 5 років тому +16

      well actually he feared everyone, which is why he killed so many people in his purges

  • @AllisonDeereVR
    @AllisonDeereVR 6 років тому +463

    Demonetized

    • @AllisonDeereVR
      @AllisonDeereVR 6 років тому +1

      Jonathan Mottern its just a joke tbh

    • @jcmottern
      @jcmottern 6 років тому

      Heath George Well that went over my head. Thanks for the explanation. With UA-cam it wouldn't surprise me with how they are these days.

  • @evolutionsanders4534
    @evolutionsanders4534 3 роки тому +11

    "As Stalin created a cult of personality"
    *Cue CM Punk's entrance music*

    • @kouroshrm7
      @kouroshrm7 2 роки тому +1

      Like Mussolini and Kennedy

  • @kenc9236
    @kenc9236 3 роки тому

    Great vids condensed history but to the point. Good job.

  • @doctorvladandhisbluejaysd2802
    @doctorvladandhisbluejaysd2802 4 роки тому +330

    Is no-one gonna talk about the fact that Stalin means Man of Steel

  • @jdwin504
    @jdwin504 4 роки тому +1126

    Simple history : Stalin is a ruthless dictator .
    Mao zedong : hold my gun .

    • @SoldierOfFate
      @SoldierOfFate 4 роки тому +87

      You mean "Hold OUR gun!"

    • @ra6667
      @ra6667 4 роки тому +17

      Mao zedong? Brb gotta look up something.

    • @toannguyenhuu1693
      @toannguyenhuu1693 4 роки тому +52

      Western capitlism: hold my zionist global warming

    • @cakebear9534
      @cakebear9534 4 роки тому +1

      @Toan Nguyen Huu Nazbol gang Nazbol gang

    • @toannguyenhuu1693
      @toannguyenhuu1693 4 роки тому +2

      @@cakebear9534??

  • @eulersinyinza1748
    @eulersinyinza1748 3 місяці тому +2

    Stalin is a way of thinking. He found Russia with a wooden plough and left it with nuclear weapons

  • @donttakeitpersonal8704
    @donttakeitpersonal8704 4 місяці тому +3

    from becoming a priest to someone who needs a priest.

  • @trycoldman2358
    @trycoldman2358 6 років тому +3717

    *I love the smell of Gulag in the morning*

  • @MD_Hooligan
    @MD_Hooligan 6 років тому +1140

    “You know what they say -
    Your servers have lag,
    You go to Gulag”
    - Stalin, 1943.

  • @nathannowicki112
    @nathannowicki112 11 місяців тому

    cool vid bro - learnt lots!

  • @adjeiboateng6720
    @adjeiboateng6720 2 роки тому +6

    One of the worst creatures who ever walked the surface of the Earth

  • @evanlol05
    @evanlol05 6 років тому +1927

    Where’s that soviet anthem?

    • @danny2327
      @danny2327 6 років тому +104

      Instant gulags!

    • @Crankiebox99
      @Crankiebox99 6 років тому +20

      your uncle in gulag

    • @achaemenes9064
      @achaemenes9064 6 років тому +40

      The channel is capitalist don’t expect them to put soviet anthem 😒

    • @evanlol05
      @evanlol05 6 років тому +22

      Achae Menes it’s a joke. Have you ever seen a meme about communism or soviets?

    • @achaemenes9064
      @achaemenes9064 6 років тому +1

      your uncle did you just said a meme? When in earth communism was a joke ?

  • @Gregornmy
    @Gregornmy 4 роки тому +752

    Stalin: *kills his doctors*
    His dead doctors: right back at ya buckeroo!

  • @joehitlerLaden
    @joehitlerLaden 2 роки тому +6

    "I trust nobody, not even myself"
    -Joseph Stalin

  • @jamesboone3678
    @jamesboone3678 2 роки тому +47

    My favorite part of him was he was extremely ruthless, but a coward as well. I love history and he was by far my favorite to study when I did history classes.

    • @benedek8259
      @benedek8259 2 роки тому +8

      What do you mean by coward?

    • @WisdenWard
      @WisdenWard 2 роки тому +7

      @@benedek8259 Lol. You don't know history, do you?
      He was constantly afraid of being assassinated.
      He was afraid of Trotsky.
      He was scared of his generals being more powerful than him and that they would take control of him.
      He was afraid of Capitalism.
      He was afraid of free market.
      He was afraid of private property.
      He was afraid of nuclear bombs.
      He was afraid of USA.
      He was afraid of Hitler
      He was afraid of bugs
      He was afraid of boiling water.
      He was afraid of heights.
      He was afraid of darkness.
      He was afraid of peanuts.
      He was afraid of milk because he was lactose intolerant.
      He wad afraid of stroke.

    • @chocolateneko9912
      @chocolateneko9912 2 роки тому +2

      @@WisdenWard his paranoia led to his death lol

    • @sigmaduck69420
      @sigmaduck69420 2 роки тому

      average brainwashed kid in western talking about the greatest chad in the world

    • @MB2.0
      @MB2.0 2 роки тому +16

      @@chocolateneko9912 paranoia isnt cowardice. You can't run a country surrounded by vicious officials as a coward lmao

  • @EA-js1me
    @EA-js1me 6 років тому +1119

    Isn’t it crazy how many crazy dictators do not even come from the great country they led? Napoleon was from Corsica, Stalin was from Georgia, Adolf was from Austria... keep an eye on charismatic and influential foreigners, folks!

    • @doggyrusev627
      @doggyrusev627 6 років тому +176

      EA 333 oh boi time to be a Canadian dictatorship

    • @zoofan9280
      @zoofan9280 6 років тому +8

      EA 333 true

    • @Confucius_76
      @Confucius_76 6 років тому +45

      Philip of Macedon was from... Macedon.... but he expanded the Greek world

    • @admiralofcrimson9618
      @admiralofcrimson9618 6 років тому +88

      Corsica still is and was part of France also Georgia was part of Russia during all of Stalin's lifetime. And I wouldnt call Napoleon a crazy dictator but a monarch what he did helped France the wars he caused were mostly in defence or to maintain other nations to keep fighting Britain. He did do megalomaniac things like invading Spain though. I also even though stalin was evil it helped protect Russians from a bigger genocide since all of them would of been killed by Hitler.

    • @5oa8in2wr
      @5oa8in2wr 6 років тому +16

      If Stalin would be crazy some German burger would have some nice boots made of your skin.

  • @djmutt2000
    @djmutt2000 5 років тому +377

    Stalin = Man of Steel
    dammit DC Comics...

  • @PetrKometa
    @PetrKometa 3 роки тому +63

    Dear author! I understand that you probably cannot have other sources in your country that would not write about Stalin in a negative way, but I have to note many mistakes that only denigrate Stalin. Starting with the nonsense that the workers could be sent to the Gulag for not working out the norm. And ending with the fact that Stalingrad was defended only because the city bore the name of Stalin. Stalingrad was not defended because of this (why, then, was Stalino - now Donetsk not so stubbornly defended?) The reason for the defense of Stalingrad was that its loss would cut off the Caucasus from the rest of the USSR and free up some of the German divisions for operations in the Caucasus. And by the way, it was along the Volga that almost the entire UNION was supplied with fuel. So I advise you to check the sources.

    • @superdude899
      @superdude899 2 роки тому +5

      Unrelated, but that Civ 6 pfp is pretty cool

    • @Roman-iw9sq
      @Roman-iw9sq 2 роки тому +14

      Смысл им что-то доказывать когда у них Солженицына просто боготворят и верят каждой его лжи. Жаль конечно что они никогда не узнают за этой завесой лжи и обмана от пропаганды что на самом деле этот человек не был злодеем как его описывают.

    • @OUR_RED_ARMY
      @OUR_RED_ARMY 2 роки тому +9

      Многим бесполезно что-то доказывать, их пропаганда хорошо делает своё дело, заставляя поверить в несуществующие вещи. Это очень грустно, особенно учитывая то, что сейчас в интернете каждый может найти подтверждение реальных событий, но очень мало людей этим занимается

    • @dominusdone5023
      @dominusdone5023 3 місяці тому

      @@Roman-iw9sq lmfao executing millions and sending them to gulag camps for any reason he found isnt villian?

    • @dominusdone5023
      @dominusdone5023 3 місяці тому

      workers could be sent to the gulag for not working the quotas lmfao where did you get this give me the source

  • @pessimistkai5569
    @pessimistkai5569 10 місяців тому +5

    The original user of the death note.

    • @justacat2
      @justacat2 Місяць тому

      the funny thing is that he litteraly wrote on books who he wanted to be executed 😂

  • @slaughterghoul3662
    @slaughterghoul3662 6 років тому +100

    1 MILLION YEARS GULAG.

  • @Luna-vp6gm
    @Luna-vp6gm 3 роки тому +4

    I just hate all these comments for every reason

  • @entarte2610
    @entarte2610 3 роки тому +16

    when i realize wikipedia made on america : W E S T E R N M E D I A

  • @bazly3522
    @bazly3522 5 років тому +118

    Party Member: *"Coughs"*
    Stalin: "Execution List +1: Random Innocent Man"

    • @reek4062
      @reek4062 5 років тому +2

      what a merciful man

  • @josefjung2080
    @josefjung2080 6 років тому +172

    Food is western propaganda!

    • @Crankiebox99
      @Crankiebox99 6 років тому +19

      Josef Jung Famine is communists *PROPAGANDA*

  • @markospasic5253
    @markospasic5253 3 роки тому +47

    So, I really love how you skipped the part where his very brutal nature lead to Europe being freed of the nazies, and also how you basically accused him of being the only culprit for the Cold War.

    • @wyattmcgee1
      @wyattmcgee1 3 роки тому +25

      Freed from the Nazis, only to be enslaved by the Soviets.

    • @raggy5328
      @raggy5328 3 роки тому +5

      @@wyattmcgee1 ^ This

    • @wyattmcgee1
      @wyattmcgee1 3 роки тому +3

      @@raggy5328
      Beg pardon?

    • @raggy5328
      @raggy5328 3 роки тому +10

      @@wyattmcgee1 What you said was true

    • @MB2.0
      @MB2.0 2 роки тому

      @@wyattmcgee1 That's the superior alternative tho

  • @user-nj6kh2se5r
    @user-nj6kh2se5r 3 роки тому +18

    How dare they assume I am dead.

  • @steveharvey7916
    @steveharvey7916 6 років тому +306

    The Battle of Leningrad

  • @alifaldynugraha9805
    @alifaldynugraha9805 4 роки тому +308

    Workers: i cant work anymore
    Stalin: there's only two way, funeral or gulag

    • @deformissimia6935
      @deformissimia6935 4 роки тому +4

      Stalingrad is the best way.

    • @oannamphuong6373
      @oannamphuong6373 3 роки тому

      no,I think 3rd option is miltilary

    • @greatestshowmen9306
      @greatestshowmen9306 3 роки тому +2

      So in the USSR, for the first time, the working day was reduced to 8 hours, and in the 1930s, at some hazardous enterprises, to 6 hours.

    • @Dimad817
      @Dimad817 3 роки тому +2

      @@greatestshowmen9306 also sending in gulag 20 mlj people is not true

    • @greatestshowmen9306
      @greatestshowmen9306 3 роки тому +3

      @@Dimad817 2.5 million workers passed through the GULAG. The gulag is not a concentration camp, in the gulag they received the minimum wage and after their release they could live in the settlement or return to their homeland, get an education and work. After all, Korolyov was a prisoner of the GULAG because of the waste of funds, but then he was able to make the USSR a pioneer in space

  • @daniealdecobray3774
    @daniealdecobray3774 3 роки тому +7

    "Man of steel" - maybe it means a sequel is coming up

  • @G-NAROZA
    @G-NAROZA 3 роки тому +5

    Stalin real birth date is 6 Dec 1878, Gori, Georgia. At the beginning he was known as a poet in Georgia. His poem "The morning" is what almost every Georgian knows.

  • @jackmcirvin5415
    @jackmcirvin5415 6 років тому +403

    The way Stalin died was actually pretty funny because he had stoke and was on the floor of his office but none of his guards would go in to help him because they were to scared of him.

  • @lucasavila3089
    @lucasavila3089 5 років тому +739

    Lenin starts revolution.
    Russian people:so we are free now?
    Stalin:Well yes, but actually no.
    ☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭

    • @reek4062
      @reek4062 5 років тому +24

      to the Gulag with you

    • @devpitcher5096
      @devpitcher5096 4 роки тому +22

      @The Despair Man Not at all he was NOT

    • @catwithaknife198
      @catwithaknife198 4 роки тому +12

      @@devpitcher5096 Yes he was, if not for him the Nazis would do a coup and take over the country and we would all be speaking German.

    • @WM-gf8zm
      @WM-gf8zm 4 роки тому +2

      @@devpitcher5096 its called proletarian dictature. vanguard leads masses & uses state as tool against bourgeoisie

    • @NickO.-uz1re
      @NickO.-uz1re 4 роки тому +3

      @@catwithaknife198 I'd rather be speaking German

  • @sandrinhasantos4962
    @sandrinhasantos4962 3 роки тому +1

    I love you person who put subtitles in Portuguese I love you

  • @pipo0730
    @pipo0730 10 місяців тому +4

    Didnt the cia admit that stalin wasnt a dictator

  • @Simplehistory
    @Simplehistory  6 років тому +669

    Meet one of the most evil figures in history, Stalin. What historical figure do you want to see next?

  • @Alexander_the_Wise
    @Alexander_the_Wise 5 років тому +376

    Intelligent and interesting comments - 0.001%
    GULAAAG BLYAT CYKA, bla bla bla - 99.999%

    • @Gianello73
      @Gianello73 5 років тому +17

      Lot of this information comes from the anticommunist propaganda.... Is kind of sad, the USSR had a lot of data about the number of the murders and deaths (wich existed, and the Gulag was indeed a thing, but not this abomination people talk about). Anyone can *blindly* speak about TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE (btw back in the day there wasnt as much population as today) killed by Stalin without spending a single minute on searching about it or contrasting the information.

    • @user-bq9ek7vu1c
      @user-bq9ek7vu1c 5 років тому +9

      @@Gianello73 это единственный нормальный и адекватный комментарий, который я пока что видел. Действительно, если вы хотите изучить реальное количество репрессированных "сталинским режимом", то советую просмотреть работы историка Земскова, который пол жизни посвятил изучению репрессий в те времена. И среднее значение этого числа примерно 5 миллионов человек (расстрелянных было намного меньше). Также антикоммунистическая пропаганда любит брать числа из воздуха. А ещё такие люди, к сожалению, не смотрят в архивные записи, а додумывают сами.
      Если вам интересно, то 70% российского населения положительно отзываются о правлении Сталина

    • @user-ij9rz4df5b
      @user-ij9rz4df5b 5 років тому +2

      @@user-bq9ek7vu1c да и то, эти документы были опубликованны при хрущеве, а вы знаете как он относился к Сталину

    • @awddfg
      @awddfg 4 роки тому +1

      *_Thinks Communism isn't intelligent and interesting. Off to Gulag._*

    • @dontspeaktoelectrohead1491
      @dontspeaktoelectrohead1491 4 роки тому +1

      Rush B

  • @cc55thegodofbread69
    @cc55thegodofbread69 2 роки тому +1

    For all of you wondering the song name in the background, it's "From Russia, with love" from one of the James Bond movies.

  • @josephstalin2990
    @josephstalin2990 3 роки тому

    Hey thanks for the shoutout man!

  • @willlastnameguy8329
    @willlastnameguy8329 5 років тому +180

    "He adopted the name Stalin"
    Never tells us his real name.

    • @user-lk9kj2ow5b
      @user-lk9kj2ow5b 5 років тому +64

      Joseph Jugashvili,

    • @jemobolqvadze6905
      @jemobolqvadze6905 4 роки тому +21

      Joseph besarion jugashivili

    • @lordtrigon1733
      @lordtrigon1733 4 роки тому +3

      In their defense... it's not easy.

    • @PAK_FA
      @PAK_FA 3 роки тому +8

      Its Jugashvilli. But need to say, that on Georgian language - "Juga" means "steel" lika "Stal' " on Russian language.
      So i can say, that Stalin just make his name more russian

    • @willlastnameguy8329
      @willlastnameguy8329 3 роки тому +3

      @@PAK_FA Thank you for the additional information! Very interesting.

  • @rowdymg461
    @rowdymg461 6 років тому +303

    You have answered my prayers because I have a project on him. You are my number 1 go to history channel

    • @Simplehistory
      @Simplehistory  6 років тому +66

      Nice, good luck on your history project

    • @vire559
      @vire559 6 років тому +2

      You sacrifice him over your interest. He got demonitized by UA-cam now

    • @Maxcraft12
      @Maxcraft12 6 років тому +4

      Simple History what do you think about making a video about the germen Revolution of 1918 and/or a vidoe about the weimar republic? :)

    • @knowariddle9462
      @knowariddle9462 6 років тому +2

      Maximilian I would love a video about the German Revolution!

    • @Will-ce7tv
      @Will-ce7tv 6 років тому +1

      My dad just finished a book called 'young Stalin'. It's all about his background and early life, it'd be great for your project.

  • @fugumeister7563
    @fugumeister7563 3 роки тому +7

    Stalin didn't die on March 5th, 1953, or, rather, we aren't entirely sure. He died somewhere between March 4th and March 6th I believe. He was found dead in his office, but he had not been seen for a few days, around three days I believe. No one wanted to barge into his office or otherwise disturb him, because that could lead to a swift execution, so people waited for a long time to check up on him, and when they finally did check on him, he had died. So in short, he may have died on March 5th, but we're not entirely sure. Just a little something I wanted to add ;)

  • @xuehapiaopiaobeifengxiao4306
    @xuehapiaopiaobeifengxiao4306 3 роки тому +9

    I didn't realize I was so popular until today.

    • @khharkivsky
      @khharkivsky 3 роки тому

      No worries man you'll be more populair than anything

  • @spencerfaithfull9247
    @spencerfaithfull9247 3 роки тому +706

    Hitler, “I have an army.”
    Stalin, “I have winter.”

    • @mohnishdunaboina4555
      @mohnishdunaboina4555 3 роки тому

      f

    • @herrkraiss4746
      @herrkraiss4746 3 роки тому +21

      Or you could say
      Stalin, “I have an army with no winter equipment and they are poorly trained”
      Mannerheim, ” I have winter.”

    • @admiralleel6604
      @admiralleel6604 3 роки тому

      Spencer Faithfull
      „WE have winter!“

    • @abirhossen1890
      @abirhossen1890 3 роки тому

      I have winter clothing and tanks what do you have stalin

    • @spencerfaithfull9247
      @spencerfaithfull9247 3 роки тому +4

      S S Or you could say: Finland, “Am I a joke to you?”

  • @adolfhitler9374
    @adolfhitler9374 3 роки тому +589

    "Ill get revenge i swear"

    • @arnulfotapicjr8301
      @arnulfotapicjr8301 3 роки тому +40

      My Füher hello

    • @minjajovanovic6501
      @minjajovanovic6501 3 роки тому +12

      No Ur NoT aDoLf, U fOoL

    • @alvin2464
      @alvin2464 3 роки тому +22

      Steiner didn't have enough force...

    • @adolfhitler9374
      @adolfhitler9374 3 роки тому +38

      @Not Monika U BETRAYERS! U DIDNT WIN IN THE STALINGRAD IN THE D-DAY U WENT TO THE ACADEMY TO LEARN HOW TO EAT BY FORKS U DID NOTHING! U WERE ALL TRAITORS DURING THE BEGGINING "Its all over"

    • @ANTHONY-vg1be
      @ANTHONY-vg1be 3 роки тому +8

      Lmao ur dead L

  • @maddoxanimates7179
    @maddoxanimates7179 2 роки тому +6

    “Stalin just thought Ukrainians were immune to hunger that’s all..”

  • @mozey1539
    @mozey1539 3 роки тому +12

    Welcome to the gulag: win here and you go back onto the field

  • @eddie_terreno0621
    @eddie_terreno0621 4 роки тому +250

    Lenin died when he was 53 years old for a brain stroke.
    Stalin died after a brain stroke in the 1953.
    COINCIDENCES??

  • @camrynhendrixs
    @camrynhendrixs 5 років тому +301

    Did somebody say BirthMarks?

    • @dumonga9594
      @dumonga9594 5 років тому +48

      Shook hands with both Ronalds, Reagan and Mcdondald no doubt

    • @camrynhendrixs
      @camrynhendrixs 5 років тому +31

      I had the balls to let baryshnikov dance playa

    • @darthkarnage7538
      @darthkarnage7538 5 років тому +23

      Did somebody say real powah?

    • @Chor1op
      @Chor1op 5 років тому +28

      @@darthkarnage7538 da! You want to mess with me I spit hot borsch

    • @kilyanryegarcia458
      @kilyanryegarcia458 5 років тому +4

      Lol

  • @terraincognita3310
    @terraincognita3310 2 роки тому +7

    давно мне не встречалось настолько отборной клюквы. даже похвалить хочется

  • @pureradio5655
    @pureradio5655 6 років тому +64

    "And wanted him to become a Priest" HAHAHAHA

    • @metalkingconqueror
      @metalkingconqueror 6 років тому +10

      He actually went farther with that than this video explains. As a teenager he attended the priest's school but his father kept taking him from there to work in a shoe factory (his father was a shoemaker and wanted him to follow his footsteps).

  • @Swellizard
    @Swellizard 3 роки тому +333

    Hitler: Moscow is mine
    Stalin: Hold my vodka

    • @imthatjay
      @imthatjay 3 роки тому +7

      Actually Moscow is OURS

    • @DragonBallzMoviesHD
      @DragonBallzMoviesHD 3 роки тому

      Hahaha

    • @robberhans9307
      @robberhans9307 3 роки тому

      @Iosif Stalin from 30 million soldiers 17 of them have been killed by wehrmacht

    • @godzilla281
      @godzilla281 3 роки тому

      No stallin is georgian hold my wine

    • @jorgecandaneira1611
      @jorgecandaneira1611 3 роки тому +1

      As a fun fact, Stalin didn't drink vodka. He pretended to, but drinking water instead. You can find this in Shtemenkos biography, who discovered the trick, drinking from Stalin's jar when he wasn`t watching. During a dinner, Shtemenko wanted to know what kind of liquor (vodka, he wondered) he was mixing with his wine. But Stalin noticed what happened (perhaps because the position of the jar, perhaps because of Shtemenkos face) and, smiling, he whispered: "careful, it's a very strong drink".
      Stalin was an amazing actor.

  • @KelvinThePatriot
    @KelvinThePatriot 2 роки тому

    Thank you for this video. I'm doing my research project and I needed to know when his funeral was held.

    • @ingridalexander1492
      @ingridalexander1492 Рік тому

      read any books ever?

    • @KelvinThePatriot
      @KelvinThePatriot Рік тому

      @@ingridalexander1492 yes. Just cant find any at my library that was on this topic or about Stalin. Plus i couldnt order the books because it would’ve arrived after the project was due

  • @aliencatcrew3336
    @aliencatcrew3336 3 роки тому +4

    5:15 after that happened you heard "Stalin, Stalin STALIN!!!!!" BEING YELLED FROM HIS COFFIN LOL

  • @MD_Hooligan
    @MD_Hooligan 6 років тому +163

    Before the video:
    *Gulash*
    After the video:
    *Gulag*

  • @w4gd169
    @w4gd169 5 років тому +522

    Thx mate

    • @leonxrdd
      @leonxrdd 5 років тому +13

      Nibb aint you dead??

    • @sovietmoth2401
      @sovietmoth2401 5 років тому +19

      hey............................ bro...........................uncool

    • @sovietmoth2401
      @sovietmoth2401 5 років тому +12

      ok....but, ill sand you in gulag, comrade

    • @Mate-vg2ft
      @Mate-vg2ft 5 років тому

      Privyet comrade Stalin you grace are comment section.

    • @veltroxicity553
      @veltroxicity553 5 років тому +1

      Wait why did you just say MATE blyat?

  • @ARM4170
    @ARM4170 3 роки тому +15

    Fun Fact: Stalin became an Atheist after reading Charles Darwin's book, "On the Origin of Species" and I believe "The Descent of Man"

    • @paulwalker1617
      @paulwalker1617 3 роки тому +2

      That's literal horseshit. Stalin was a Lamarckist. He literally condemned to death any and all darwinists including the famous Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov. And he employed Lysenko instead!!

    • @ARM4170
      @ARM4170 3 роки тому +1

      @@paulwalker1617 I am pretty sure a madman who massicured the disabled and the elderly because they did not contribute to our survival and reproduction, the purpose of life according to Darwinism, was indeed a Darwinist.
      Plus, the Soviet scientists were the most militant-Atheist and Darwinist ones by far, and welcomed a theory that contradicts Christian Theology.

    • @paulwalker1617
      @paulwalker1617 3 роки тому +3

      @@ARM4170 You literally keep on incrementing the absolutely boneheaded horseshit. Again, as I said, I CALL BULLSHIT. And, as I aforestated, he was a Lamarckist. And, I don't know what kind of nonsense you have been fed, but there is no “purpose of life” to darwin's theory-it is simply an inescapable fact of biology and population mechanics. Pure science, maybe even philosophical at times. Also, that has absolutely nothing to do with your Christian theology. If science offends you, either get a thicker skin or get f*cked, I couldn't care less either way.

    • @ARM4170
      @ARM4170 3 роки тому

      @@paulwalker1617 not even a Chtistian or an Atheist, just someons stating facts and that has no problem with science.
      If you have a problem with facts that prove Atheists will massicure the human race if they get power, *then get a thicker skin or get f*cked, I could'nt care less either way*
      early in his life, Stalin experienced a dramatic change of career. While studying at the Tiflis Theological Seminary, he began to read the works of Charles Darwin. He developed a critical mind and revolutionary bent. One of his friends later said in a book-which was published in Moscow while Stalin was still in power-that when Stalin began to read Darwin's works, he became an atheist.

    • @ARM4170
      @ARM4170 3 роки тому

      @@paulwalker1617 and it's really ironic that you're defending Stalin and your name is Paul B-)

  • @JosephStalin-hm3dx
    @JosephStalin-hm3dx 3 роки тому +3

    Simple history,well hello!I am honored for being featured!Thank you very much (please do not feature me arresting traitors pf the nation and putting them in the gulags!

  • @dimasikivanov496
    @dimasikivanov496 6 років тому +89

    No. This is just a myth, that Stalin told to deffend Stalingrad at all costs. However, he said to protect the city at all costs. Because if they'd lose the city, Germany would get Caucasian oil, which is southern part of USSR, and Soviet oil industry would be destroyed. Which meant complete failure for USSR.

    • @megadwarf4714
      @megadwarf4714 5 років тому +3

      Dimasik Ivanov the Germans actually could have just bypassed the city, the diverted needed resources to Stalingrad away from the causcaus