Stalin: Britain's Unlikely Hero Of World War Two? | 1941 & The Man Of Steel | Timeline 

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

The writing on this show with this particular narrator is fantastic. What a difference good writing is with documentaries. This is history. Any other show uses essentially the same back drop, but these shows are superior to a lot of others. Well done.

16:24 a big factor which decided Hitler's decision to attack Russia was the poor performance by Russia in their war against Finland.

Stalin never had a “breakdown”. The Kremlin logbooks, made available since the opening of the Soviet archives, confirm that Stalin worked full time from the start of Operation Barbarossa.

The statement that Napoleon used the French Revolution to jump from corporal to emperor in grossly inaccurate. First, Napoleon newer was a corporal. His fist grade was lieutenant and by the time the French Revolution came to be he was already a captain. Second, when he become emperor the French Revolution was over for over five years.

Amazing how many people mistakenly believe he was Russian.

Lol! in the opening remarks, I thought our host was describing Churchill))

Correction: Molotov refrained fom voting on hiw wife's arrest, marking the only time the Politburo did not vote unanimously

Not inaccurate- However, I'm always surprised how the Brits gloss over one thing that did save their skin in WWII... I'd argue Britain's colonies/dominions is what propped them up. They'd have 25% less pilots in the Battle of Britain, the U-Boat threat would have been MUCH worse with no Canadian Merchant Marine/RCN, the economic roles of Africa/Middle Eastern holdings, South Africa's role in the early African campaign, Indian manpower, Australian presence in the Pacific... The British really owe *A LOT* to their former empire for their freedom.

1941 was a very dark year for all the allies.

11.19: Actually Tukhachevsky was one of the leading proponents of Deep Operations (the development of Special Forces) to operate behind enemy lines and he realised earlier than the West the advantages of ballistic missiles.

"never intrupt a enemy while he is making a mistake"

I do not agree with Mr. Reynold's particular perspective on Churchill and Stalin specifically, but I certainly do enjoy his passionate and unique interpretation of the leaders and their handling of the events of the Times. Mr. Reynold's enthusiasm perks my interest to study this content more closely! Love it!

There are some inaccuracies. Napoleon was a second lieutenant and not a corporal at the beginning of his carrier. Molotov abstained from voting when his wife was condemned.

I gotta respect the fact that he applied order 270 to his own son and his daughter-in-law. At least he was a honest tyrant.

I've seen a few documentaries from this guy and I just love the passion he puts into them. Another guy I really like is David Starkey.

Utterly fails to make the point to which the title alludes.

I remember them interviewing a woman who live through the Stalinist regime. She said when he died she cried as bad as it was she thought I was about to get even worse.

Stalin May Be Terrifying and Ridiculously Cruel, But He is Extremely fascinating To Learn About.

Staline didn’t care to look good or make mistakes and certainly couldn’t afford the luxuries of the west.that gave him a sharp edge over the rest.

10.50. Napoleon Bonaparte never "Jumped from Corporal to Emperor". He was never a corporal but "Upon graduating (from military academy") in September 1785, Bonaparte was commissioned a second lieutenant in La Fère artillery regiment."

Young Josef Stalin resemble a lot like Sergio Ramos

Stalin was 169 cm according to his arrest records. That is actually 5'6".6

loved it thnx

Right at the start: "Britain likes to think their survival came from their finest hour" -- you already lost me with that kind of smug condescending frame and tone. Everyone in that war fought their best. Britain in particular was one of the only allies to declare war out of a sense of obligation, rather than as a response to being attacked, and was also the last and final one out from the war. Their "finest hour" was exactly that, and "never before in history have so many owed so much to so few". If you're going to start off downplaying this in the first 2 minutes of video then I have a bad feeling about the rest from this point on.

That slow turn and stare in the title card. *Shudders*

Very interesting, I am very fascinated by these kinds of documentaries 👍👍👍

uh, looks like 3:35 is footage from France: the words on the signs are clearly not in Russian. Oh well....

Stalin had spectacular hair when he was young.

Napoleon was commissioned a second lieutenant after graduating from the French Ecole Militaire. He was never a Corporal.

"We have to fight this war, comrades, and our first priority is to save the British!" - Yes. Right.

Literally every one of those opening remarks is true of Churchill too 😂

34:26 that's how we usually use cannon...as an instrument 😈😈😈

Molotov "abstained" from voting against his wife.

Professor Reynolds has a great way of presenting and a typical British sense of humour. Rated 9.6/10!

Documentary title: "How Stalin Saved Britain" Documentary content: "Britain who?"

This is a truly wonderful documentary, only 10 minutes of watching and it has fantastically interesting info, the kind history books usually don't hand out. Who can I thank for this, the film commentator superior Professor David Reynolds(5 stars), the british producers and/or filmmakers or simply the greatest free university in the world: AKA RU-vid?

A sample of world history amongst many. This one with a zest of British flavour and a Christmas pudding decoration on the top. Even Napoleon didn’t escape a titled he never had in the first place except as a familiar name by the troops of Napoleon while in campaign. What is not known or impossible to know is easily filled in with the imagination of the commentator and called history. The real name is human imagination and the human race is extremely good at it.

Loved this video

The narrator lowkey roasting my man Staling when describing him😂

Early already know that Stalin was a monster. Love these documentaries. Wonder if they're going to touch on how much Stalin was a monster, starving his people

Soviets motto: “ then it got worse”

Learned a lot.

Saying Stalin was looking out for "national interest" seems a bit of a stretch. He was interested in keeping his power and control over the Soviet Union, no matter what the cost

This video didn’t really explain what the title alluded to... disappointing if that was the intention of the makers of the documentary but frustratingly misleading if the channel decided to title it that!

Churchill wasn't "ready to meat Stalin halfway".. he was on his knees begging, as he had been for the last 12 months.

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Just really interesting. Thank you

At the start where he said the invasion of Russian started here you saw remnants of a bridge then in the footage you see what looks like that exact same destroyed bridge as the Germans drove past it at first in color. So first at 3:13 then in B & W at 3:20 it definitely looks like the same blown bridge is still there.

this narrator guy: u renew my hunger of new found information, strikes me hard with your "fact/research/opinion" hence makes me wanna *BUST* out and learn more:-) thanks for the upload!

I got a feeling the title of the original documentary is different from the one the uploader put.

Always a pleasure to watch such documentaries , thank you .Please keep them coming .

43:26 that battle was like a mini Khe Sahn

Both of my grandfathers fought in the WWII. One was died the other was badly injured

Starlin didnt say 1 death is a tragedy 1 million is a statistic it was a German pacifist.🤯

Germany misjudged the Soviet state on many levels--the size of their military, for example, and their industrial capacity, as well as the devastating T34 tank and other very fine weapons systems (which took time to generate in mass numbers to be sure). That the gauge of Soviet railroads was different meant German logistics (never their strong suit) became a nightmare, depending upon horse-drawn transport. More, they simply did not properly consider the impact of the weather (although they thought they had) nor realize their estimates of Soviet strength were almost entirely guesswork.

Whenever this professor journalist speaks I nervously move to the edge of my chair!

@40:50 Thanks to the master of the masters spies *Richard Sorge* meticulous intelligence work in Japan.

From crisis to crisis and almost had a nervous breakdown, yet saved the UK, that was Chamberlain.

A friend of my Dad's told me that on the morning of 22nd June 1941 he was leaving an army camp and just as his jeep reached the barrier he saw someone burst out of the HQ building frantically gesticulating to him. So he turned back and got the news that the Germans had invaded Russia and his reaction was 'THANK GOD!'

This was excellent! The 'Warlords' series is also superb, well worth checking out.

Lol when you said "one of the biggest mass murderers in history" I was still going "yup, Winston Churchill."

Absolutely brilliant narration

From 🇬🇧 with love

Каждый мнит себя стратегом видя бой со стороны...Everyone thinks of themselves as a strategist seeing the fight from the side...

Say what you want about Churchill but the lines he came out with were great. Like corny movie lines but he actually said them.

"A withered arm and a club foot, scars on face, and who was regularly beaten by his shoemaker father"

“You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.” Bro

The soldier who defeated fascism returned from the war. He returned to the destroyed, scorched earth. All his property fit in a duffel bag. From clothes - only what is on it, from food - what is in it. His son doesn’t even have shoes. And after twelve years, we were the first to conquer space ... The memory of the feat of our people in the war is still, thank God, still alive. But few today speak of the second feat of our people, which he performed immediately after the first. Veterans and yesterday's rear workers not only rebuilt a huge country from scratch after such a terrible war, but also overtook many countries that did not fight. How could this happen? What a miracle? Many who returned from the war simply had nowhere to return to - neither at home, nor relatives, nor work, nothing. Many, moreover, were taken to the front right after school and did not have any specialty or any skills. And the war, to put it mildly, did not increase physical health. For good reason, so many veterans died in the sixties and seventies, before they reached old age. And despite this, people not only did not give up, but completed another titanic feat, immediately from the front taking up the restoration of the country. Veterans at the factories replaced teenagers who worked there throughout the war, began to rebuild the destroyed cities, bridges, roads, power lines, factories, factories, schools and hospitals. Everyone went to where he could bring the greatest benefit to the country. Without any holidays and many days of celebration The people lived in poverty. But somehow new houses gradually got up, factories and factories started working, the children went to the newly built schools, free medicine started working in the normal mode, food appeared in stores, hunger disappeared. In 1947, food cards were canceled! Europe could not believe. And a year before, in 1946, when the cards were still valid, Soviet athletes at the European Championships in Oslo in 1946 won six gold medals. And at the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952, the USSR took second place! Yesterday’s war veterans, with the consequences of serious injuries, including former prisoners of fascist concentration camps, defeated their healthy rivals. By the mid-fifties, there were no longer any streets destroyed by the war, left on the sidelines of roads of broken military equipment, uncontrollably staggering street children. The country recovered simply in fantastic terms, and what efforts veterans had to make for this - only they know. And already in 1957 we went around the United States in a space race, and in 1961 we launched a man into space. Remember this when you see a veteran. He not only defeated fascism, he rebuilt our country from scratch. Wounded, half-starved, having lost his home and relatives, he built it for you and me.

Documentary stated that Stalin was not an intellectual like other Bolshevics. In fact, considering literature and history terms was the most educated (he was reading constantly). In philosophical terms he was not as advanced as Lenin or Trotski but he had the ability to transform complex philophical terms in simple words that everyone can understand. To estimate his intellectual capability there was an interview to H.G Wells in 1934 www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1934/07/23.htm

do you have many sailboats in the Tacoma area? Any plans to add more?

Why do you add music? It only makes watching and listening so much more strenuous. FFS..

Odd how this video 'missed' the fact that the Germans fought the Battle of Britain with their planes largely run on Soviet fuel.

What a FANTASTIC documentary! Filled with fascinating anecdotes while telling the story in broad strokes alongside film footage from the time, this is a gem of a historical perspective on the tyrant. Loved the host, his flair for drama is much appreciated.

How a Click bait saves Timeline Documentaries.

I thought when, the narrator said, "....and he was one of the biggest mass murderers of the 20th century", he was going to say Churchill. Churchill was responsible for 3.5 million indian deaths by neglect in a terreble famine. He callously diverted food away from India, even the home office asked him to explain his callous disregard, to which he wrote, "I haven't killed Ghandi yet".

You know it’s bad when working in Soviet mines was considered to be a better alternative than the collective farms.

Corporal to Emperor ?Napoleon trained as a cadet officer(Artil)

Good one...

Greatful to all comments as my teachers teaching me valuable variations and comparative analysis

Wars and rumors of wars....

COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS TITLE, which is de-bunked within seconds on the beginning of the item. We switch from summer 1940 to summer 1941!! Madness.

Does anyone know the name of the background score that we hear around the 2:10 mark? It plays for nearly a minute.

We owe a lot to Russia, they're people suffered greatly and they're fight back was unbelievable, simply amazing

I love having spent years studying Soviet history and having lived in many nations of the former USSR having meet many Great Patriotic War vets I keep hearing how 'the Russian side is less known', for 100s of Millions of people it is the main story, and for anyone who studies the war it is Russia, the major battles of WWII all were German vs Russian with the US and UK only getting in the thick of things in the last year

Even if the soviets lost in late 41/42 the America naval power (along with the Royal Navy) would save the UK from any immediate German invasion. The build up of American industrial and military capacity would have cemented that position and meant more aircraft would be produced relative to Germany leading to the ability to sustain localised air superiority over Britain. While the joint US and Commonwealth forces may not be able to invade Europe without the USSR remaining in the war keeping Germany bleeding, the products of the manhattan project may have brought eventual victory (it may have taken several bombings more than Japan as the latter’s capitulation was influenced by the soviet invasion of Manchuria as well the atomic strikes).

I love the remark about Beria..." he liked to keep his hand in, by doing some of the torture himself"

Invasion of the Eastern front without properly tackling Great Britain was Hitler's biggest blunder

Always wondered why you never saw Stalin and George Formby in the same room. For the majority of the Russian people it certainly did not "turn out nice again"

Trotsky had built up the red army after the revolution so many of the officers respected Trotsky and liked him Tukhachevsky was especially close to Trotsky, that's why Stalin fears the army so much.

am l only one who been annoyed by that ringing telephone? 😂

Molotov - Ribbentrop pack included Finland too" The only country oh the back staying independent (and fighting for it).

The OST front was larger than any other war ever, bigger than WW1 or the rest of WW2.

Yet another excellent documentary-Well done "Timeline"-and thank you.

When is the next part being uploaded?

Can somebody please explain why the British and French let the Russians and Germans invade Poland yet only declared war on one? It's mentioned in every history book that they both invaded but the Soviet Union gets a pass.

"In the footsteps of Napoleon, the shadow figures stagger through the winter..." Al Stewart's "Roads to Moscow" tells about this from the viewpoint of a simple Russian soldier.

33:00 i hear familiar sounds...my anthem from Tchaikovsky 😈😈😈

His brown overcoat is nice

Anyone think he was talking about Winston Churchill at the beginning