KYRGYZSTAN: Did Stalin really deport entire nations? 

This channel is so underrated...

Great job professor. My grandfather was a construction engineer working on projects around the USSR and central Asia post ww2 and witnessed first hand the horrors of these deportations. Was always amazed, but also saddened by his stories. Am interested to hear your take on controversial topics like 19th and early 20th century Balkan history. Greetings from Bulgaria.

Thank you for the presentation, I always like how you did these in the areas relevant to the topic itself

One Man crusade to teach history .... Thank you Professor 👍🏼.

Thank you for spreading knowledge about this topic!

Brilliant content as always

Beautifully explained and great content

Love the channel and history. I do not understand why it is so scarcely watched.. By the way, you look like Leonardo di Caprio as well man. Keep up the work!

Stalin was a brutal dictator but the Chehchens have a history of surviving brutality.

Wowww.. What information.. Thanks a lot professor

Your explanation is so awesome 👍 Best channel.

Feels weird hitting "like" on a video about genocide. Need a third button. Maybe a "I recommend this to counter the western university downplaying of Soviet crimes against humanity" button. Too specific?

Communism indeed did not turn out the way it was expected. Karl Marx never believed that countries should turn into one party states, nor should totalitarianism be on the rise. In theory, everyone is supposed to be of the same socioeconomic status, while in reality, it was only the people of the government that were benefiting.

This channel is excellent. The professor is highly informed, excellent grasp of history. Good job Sir!

These numbers are crazy. What was Russia before 1905? That is never really told to us... Looking gorward to a video of yours about the real history of Russia and of its' far east.

You could also have used the trail of tears as an example. It's not just the Eurasian continent.

I’ve read that the figures were more like 18-20 million. That’s both Russians and other ethnic groups within the Soviet Union.

Stalin's death was probably one of the few events in the USSR's history that had a positive impact on its peoples 😕

I am so great full for your hard work to know the historical information about different countries you have traveled. I had very little knowledge about tatar people's exodus from tataristan as their main home land . This fascist communist have destroyed many cultures and millions of people around todays Russian territory. Totalitarianism is the soul of pseudo communism.

great, as always

Thanks for the tip comrade. Viva revolution

As soon as you compared Stalin to Hitler I had to thumb this one down...

Hey, do you have some general advice for someone who wants to travel Central Asia? :-)

Yes he did. Anybody who denies this is making a damn fool of himself.

Paranoia with the Army of the White🤷🏻‍♂️ Kalmyks aka Cossaccks were rounded up by NKVD and shipped to Siberia while we were fighting at Volgograd 😖

The reason Stalin deported so many people is not because he was bad. One needs to understand communist ideology and their analysis of history. Whenever you have a revolution that can affect the power or property rights of the elite, they organise to resist that change. Stalin did not deport based on ethnic issues, but on social status, to prevent those elites from making an army to resist. Whether this was right or wrong can be debated, but it is worth mentioning that the USSR was the first socialist republic and they were not sure what was the best way to prevent the elites from starting a war against them. If you would have been in their position, with Germany and the Russian elites waging war against the revolutionaries, with resources lacking everywhere, you would have done exactly the same.

Fear those that fear diversity.

You need to also do videos of what people and culture are like now where you are not just stand in the country and talk about the past. That you can do from a hallway closet

Such centralisation of power and erasure of diversity is being done in India now. Modi's regime is forcing Hindi on non-Hindi regions and usurping all state powers

That's interesting. To think this whole time i thought a strong centralized government would take care of me....

Is deported really the correct term here? Deported implies they left the Soviet Union. It might have been the term used by the Soviets to describe people being moved from one Soviet Republic to another, but this sounds more like forced relocation, like a thousand little trails of tears.

Please make video on Hindu Bengali brutal mass genocide of almost 6 millions people in East Pakistan(Former Bangladesh) as of now until date.

Of course, the British did terrible things in places like Australia to the indigenous peoples treating them as little more than animals to hunt (No, Stalin never did that. He was trying to build a united Russia albeit brutally) Britain, like the US, the bastard of Britain, did the same but for ignoble greed, exterminating the Native Americans and deporting them to barren reservations to die (let's not mention Hawai or slavery/segregation). The British banned the Irish language and executed anyone in Ireland for wearing the colour green (The national colour) giving Irish land to Scottish protestant settlers brought in to displace the indigenous Catholic Irish and subdue them. So, like all western academics they are selective in their reading of history...truth won't get your books published or promoted or get you tenure in the racist colleges of the UK and US. And Russia is always the bad guy...hmmm...no bias then. Stalin ended the 1000 year long 4/5 year cycle of famine in Russia an Ukraine with collectivisation of farming. 1931/2 was the last of these famines. So, is Stalin responsible for saving millions? Churchill gave orders to remove Indian grain which resulted in a famine killing a million (he hated the Indians, he was a racist) Vindictive murder or expediency?

I wonder when some basic mind is going to feel triggered and start bringing up Holocaust or other genocides as worse because this and that. And then call thi channel not fact based and complot theorist

Crimean Tatars wasn't the native or indigenous people in The Place called Crimea

kurds? how

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To talk of Chechen experiences of oppression and suffering without mentioning the fact that they provoked a 2nd war with Russia for no logical reason, nor the infamous career of Shamil Basayev, is rather disingenuous.

What does one call a video by a "Professor" that ignores the basics of historical study? Disregards historical sequences of events, ignores cause-effect in history, takes events out of historical context, ignores the historical context, leaves out facts that don't fit the purpose of the narrator? Had the narrator approached the subject of his study in a serious and objective way, I would have applauded him. However, I can not respect study being replaced by pathos for the sake of playing to the public. Especially, by someone calling himself a "Professor". Dislike!