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Berezhkov, Valentin M. At Stalin's Side: His Interpreter's Memoirs From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Dictator's Empire (United States: Carol Pub. Group, 1994).
Conquest, Robert. The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties (Ontario: The Macmillan Company, 1968).
Kuromiya, Hiroaki, The Voices of the Dead: Stalin’s Great Terror in the 1930s (United States: Yale University Press, 2007).
Lee, Stephen J. European Dictatorships 1918-1945 (United Kingdom: Routledge, 2016).
Whitewood, Peter. The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Soviet Military (United States: University Press of Kansas, 2015).
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@HighOnPoint412 21 день назад

RU-vid's unneccesary censorship is going to be it's downfall

@rob6850 21 день назад

*its But yes

@taylorlibby7642 21 день назад

It's just going to keep getting worse before the election. After, who knows?

@taylorlibby7642 21 день назад

@@HighOnPoint412 YT has censored me 3× so far just replying to this comment.🙄

@brennanleadbetter9708 21 день назад

Bunch of wusses

@Daddy_Steel 21 день назад

you're not the only one 😢@@taylorlibby7642

@arandomspaceenthusiast7304 21 день назад

To tell you just how ridiculous the charges could get, here's how my Georgian great aunt (so 3 generations back) almost got sent to a gulag, or even worse: She owned a tractor manufacturing factory, and since you could just write an unsigned accusation letter at the time, she got accused of being an ennemy to the state because she allegedly put _plane engines_ instead of tractor engines. Fortunately, a friend of hers worked in the police and was able to see the letter before anybody else and quickly discarded it. I don't remember every detail (it is my great aunt after all), but I remember this did indeed happen. EDIT: Just talked to my mother and, like many of you pointed out, you were right, she didn't own the factory. Instead, she was chief engineer and oversaw production (from what I understood). Didn't think this would blow up, so I hadn't really checked.

@sunsolar2138 21 день назад

She OWNS a tractor manufacturing factory? Do you realize that's already an anti-people thing? And a lawful order was ignored because of cronyism. Especially since you didn't say she wasn't innocent, especially since you know it from her and of course she told the whole truth. All those convicted from their word are not innocent but lied to.

@Namooro 21 день назад

@@sunsolar2138 She was probably a head of the factory, and not the owner. There was zero possibility to own something like factory in 30s since everything belonged to the People and therefore was government owned. Still doesnt change the fact of how ridiculous accusations were

@Maximilien1794 21 день назад

@@Namooro What you say is false. Not everything was owned by the State. There were many cooperatives in the USSR, like sovkhoz and artels.

@ASlickNamedPimpback 21 день назад

@@sunsolar2138 this has got to be satire... no way you can be commenting this on a video literally talking about the murders of hundreds of thousands to feed one mans paranoia and be serious

@sunsolar2138 21 день назад

@ASlickNamedPimpback no, just the stories about this man's paranoia are not serious. All lies from unreliable authors caught lying many times. And stories about hundreds of thousands dead. Horrible, we had a civil war and its aftermath, and in war people die, that's how the discovery is made

@just_a_turtle_chad 21 день назад

It's absolutely soul crushing to think about how many people within the Soviet Union were _murdered_ just to satiate the ego of this one megalomaniac.

@PCLprecutlion 21 день назад

Man I've seen you're profile for like 10 times now🤔😂, But true tho

@atomicblitz7706 21 день назад

@Precutlion.9 yeah I see this man everywhere

@nbewarwe 21 день назад

Somethings never change in Russia.

@christopherchartier3017 21 день назад

Sounds a lot like another mustache man

@l3uIletpoints 21 день назад

The man lived by what he said. "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic". Absolutely crazy!

@MaximilianoAedo 21 день назад

This was truly by far one of Stalin's worst decisions, and it bit him in the ass hard when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

@Maximilien1794 21 день назад

How? Why?

@MaximilianoAedo 21 день назад

@@Maximilien1794 Because the purge took out a huge chunk of the Red Army's officer corps, and it affected the performance of the Red Army itself, especially when it fought Finland in the Winter War, which explained the high casualty numbers suffered by the Soviets.

@Maximilien1794 21 день назад

@@MaximilianoAedo Is that why Zhukov failed to beat the Japanese at Khalkin Gol? Actually, he didn't. I guess the Japanese should have purged their own army as well. The Soviet purges allowed to promote young and clever officers like Zhukov. If France had purged its own army, there would have been no betrayal and old fascist officers like Huntziger (the most experienced officers of their time) would have been replaced by younger, skilled and open-minded officers like De Gaulle. This is just obvious, but keep pretending that Stalin purged his own army just to please his sadistic mind.

@TheResilient5689 21 день назад

@@Maximilien1794He removed far too many people from the officer corps and even the lower-ranking soldiers of the Red Army. So unfortunately, when the Nazis came knocking during Operation Barbarossa, the Soviet armed forces were both unprepared and under-manned.

@manipulatortrash 21 день назад

@@Maximilien1794 Typical missing the forest for the trees framing. One good leader has no bearing on the overall situation.

@morgant.dulaman8733 21 день назад

Considering Lenin's means of dealing with those who opposed his revolution, I think we can safely say this ruthless "phase" was by no means new.

@natekaufman1982 21 день назад

Lenin's regime was brutally evil, but Stalin took it to a whole new level.

@Commissar_4735 21 день назад

considering that the french did the same during their revolution , this is not new

@justalonesoul5825 21 день назад

@@Commissar_4735 You mean, a group of rich and powerful people manipulating the masses into taking over previous rich and powerful people? That reminds me of yet another revolution, or a lot of them, actually. Fascinating =D

@Gameprojordan 21 день назад

@Commissar_4735 obviously it's not new lol but the fact that this much brutality and bloodshed happened in the 20th century is ridiculous. The Russian revolution and its consequences made Nazi Germany's atrocities look like a microscopic blip in comparison

@JoaoPedro-ol7sl 21 день назад

@@Commissar_4735 it's not new to the world although the numbers can be, but we're talking about it being not new to the Russian communist revolution

@The_whales 21 день назад

Meanwhile a hoi4 player: fails to manage paranoia and gets all their good generals killed, and lose the moment Barbarossa begins

@kban77 21 день назад

Wtf. And how quickly people forget history.

@Anglomachian 21 день назад

Who’s forgotten the purges? Except maybe the Russians, given how Putin deals with things.

@smyaeer6746 21 день назад

@@Anglomachian пиздец.... Блин, как так 😢

@grapesurgeon 21 день назад

I've seen plenty of people who remember this but attempt to justify it

@shrawloveshistory2277 21 день назад

The Tik history has made a video about the purges , you guys should Watch it .

@smyaeer6746 21 день назад

У нас по разному к этому относятся

@scottlarson1548 21 день назад

The best book on this that I've found is "The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-destruction of the Bolsheviks". It's full of frightening documents that historians pulled straight out of the Kremlin from that era after the Soviet Union collapsed and they showed how Stalin temporarily reduced oppression to trick potential troublemakers into revealing themselves. They even found confessions that had blood stains on them.

@Maximilien1794 21 день назад

Of course when Stalin reduces oppression it is "to trick potential troublemakers into revealing themselves". Even a child wouldn't accept such nonsense. Once must have gone through a lot of anticommunist propaganda to believe such idiotic conspiracy theories.

@Alfonse-dm6ht 11 дней назад

Can't Be Joking Around When You Are Leading A Multi Ethnic Super Nation-State And Trying To Hold Everyone In Line And Trying To Do It After Incurring Negativity From The Populace

@scottlarson1548 11 дней назад

@@Alfonse-dm6ht wHAT iS wRONG wITH yOUR kEYBOARD?

@Alfonse-dm6ht 11 дней назад

@@scottlarson1548 What The Prob

@user-nm6op6uq9u 13 часов назад

Both are garbage and you're a clown. And documents aren't stored in Kremlin.

@AntonPavlovich2000 21 день назад

Rokossovsky, one of the greatest WW2 generals, was purged and put in the camp. Later, in 1940 if i'm not mistaken, they freed him as the red army personnel had doubled and they were lacking talented officers. He was beaten, lacked food etc. Later on, he would keep his total loyalty to Stalin after his death and would strongly oppose destalinization campaign.

@luanasari5161 21 день назад

Crazy stockholm syndrome

@HappyVibes535 20 дней назад

Also, he was an ethnic Pole, ironically enough.

@ilyasharin1976 15 дней назад

Does that not sound suspicious to you? If he was severely beaten so bad and tortured why would he be so against destalinization? Because what you just said was nonsense. What actually happened was that he was rehabilitated and found not guilty (according to the documents of his case).

@AntonPavlovich2000 15 дней назад

@@ilyasharin1976 Я знаю, что его восстановили и признали невиновным. Только сел он в 1937, а вышел в 1940. 2.5+ года он находился в местах не столь отдаленных, занималось им НКВД. Это не самое приятное времяпрепровождение.

@MikhailTukachevsky 11 дней назад

@@ilyasharin1976Rokossowski was a fierce stalinist, and blamed the experience on the officers and not Stalin.

@xiphoid2011 21 день назад

Just as Stalin praised Hitler's "night of long knives", Mao Zedong called Stalin a great man and copied his methods almost to the letter 30 years later.

@Mark-gg6iy 21 день назад

Donald Trump thinks all you mentioned are great. Trump's definition means the person was successful in their extremism and results, not wonderful people. This is public knowledge btw.

@venturatheace1 21 день назад

and then Pol Pot after Mao

@tharealKDHD 21 день назад

@@venturatheace1polpot was literally supported by the CIA… he was an American dictator

@tharealKDHD 21 день назад

That never happened

@falconmclenny7284 21 день назад

@@tharealKDHDyes it did. Hush child, adults are talking.

@AOT_HxH95 21 день назад

One of the most tragic group of victims were the Russians from Harbin, Manchuria. Those that left after the Japanese takeover were targeted in the purge. Those that stayed in Harbin would eventually become victims of Unit 731. So these people had it bad either way.

@micahistory 21 день назад

Last time I was this early, Stalin was alive!

@MCMH5.23 21 день назад

Yes I'm alive.

@YourLocalPlushAddict 21 день назад

Bro is winston Churchill

@keirpatrick3045 21 день назад

bro finally a really unique video here

@micahistory 21 день назад

@@keirpatrick3045 yes

@Finland-z9j 21 день назад

@@MCMH5.23 Stalin i hate you because you attacked Finland

@ianblake815 21 день назад

Stalin always checked his list twice

@ggbb5621 21 день назад

As a post Soviet country, 50 percent of what we learn in our schools about 20th century in our history is cruelty of Soviet politics. We suffered two periods of hunger which resulted in a loss of half of native population because local authoritarian decided to confiscate 90 percent of our cattle (and our diet is heavily based on meat) during collectivization. Our best minds (writers, poets) executed (almost entirely). We had system of labor camps, the most famous one of which is ALZHIR - Akmola (city name) camp for wives of nation's "traitors", where completely innocent wives of purge's victims had too suffer for years.

@akend4426 20 дней назад

You might want to prepare for all the edgy, moronic tankies who will undoubtedly screech about how everything you just said is “western imperialist propaganda” or other such nonsense because they can’t stand their deluded pipe dreams about the Soviet Union being hit with reality.

@melhiorlector2680 13 дней назад

очередная жертва голодомора?)

@ggbb5621 13 дней назад

@@melhiorlector2680 а что ты хочешь сказать что его не было?

@melhiorlector2680 13 дней назад

@@ggbb5621 конечно не было, был голод. И пострадали не только вы бедные и несчастные казахи с украинцами, пострадала большая часть РСФСР. Но орёте громче всех почему то, только вы. Ну и самыми древними величаете себя тоже вы) одни Москву спасли от гитлера и её же основали, Наполеона до самого Парижа гнали, а другие чёрное море ложками выкопали и вообще Иисус был украинцем)

@jokodihaynes419 21 день назад

Stalin paid the price for his foolishness during operation Barbarossa the pudge come back to bite him

@tapultanul97 21 день назад

Truly.

@kzm1934 21 день назад

In the end it just meant more needless deaths, like he’d care.

@ggbb5621 21 день назад

You know even during Barbarossa he continued his purges but eventually stopped because there were simply not enough competent military officers

@Commissar_4735 21 день назад

he actually made sure that treason would never happen during the war

@danieltoth9742 21 день назад

Stalin didn't pay. His people did.

@irishtank42 21 день назад

Goodness this feels like such a short summary of such a deep topic.

@youngmasterzhi 21 день назад

Here’s an interesting Soviet tidbit: One of the creative methods of torture used by Soviet interrogators is actually feeding their defendants with tons of food! This was their way of swaying accusations of human rights violation, as they can have plausible confirmation that they are feeding their prisoners well The only catch is that all the food is very salty and there were no drinks to wash it down (except for the extremely salty soup known as balanda); the interrogators will offer the overstuffed defendant water IF they sign a confession letter, which most of them probably do after feeling too groggy from all the salty meat and bread

@haikalmiftah2529 21 день назад

Also one of the interrogation method i remembered read somwhere (From the book "Gulag Archipelago" I think), which seems not painful yet equally horrible: The defendands not allowed to sleep for a few days, then they ordered to sit on comfortable sofa with the interrogators (Still not allowed to sleep). Not harming physical body much, but I think enough to cause phsycological breakdown.

@normieloser6969 21 день назад

You can get a seizure if you have too much salt and die, actually. Don't know if that happened in any of those cases

@ilyasharin1976 16 дней назад

@@haikalmiftah2529 That book is bs that was written by an alcoholic.

@ilyasharin1976 15 дней назад

Another person that's read too much Gulag Archipelago nonsense...

@youngmasterzhi 15 дней назад

@@ilyasharin1976 Actually, this one is from Danzig Baldaev, a former prison guard who documented prisoners’ life in the gulag through a series of secret drawings; he was once caught and interrogated for drawing tattoos of prisoners, but the Soviets decided to keep him, so they can easily identify Russian criminal gangs

@Commissar_4735 21 день назад

4:03 Semyon Budyonny (second guy on the left) was not purged , he was one of the best general both in the civil war and ww2

@Maximilien1794 21 день назад

Let us sing the march of Budyonny.

@Keilee-kk9py 12 дней назад

Later, as the Great Purge continued, the NKVD came to interrogate and arrest Budyonny; Budyonny's response was to arm himself with his service Nagant M1895 revolver and call Stalin to demand he have the agents removed.Stalin complied and the event was not discussed again.

@MominEnjoyer 21 день назад

If I was this early in any other aspect of my life, my room would be tidy and my body in shape!

@Jasper118 21 день назад

The fact that we have to plug a censorship free alternative to RU-vid on a video about Stalin would be comically ironic if it wasn’t so depressing. The censoring of history is just criminal. Keep up the excellent work!

@Mark-gg6iy 21 день назад

You conflate the use of some language with ideas.

@Jasper118 21 день назад

@@Mark-gg6iy what are you talking about?

@mrs.shootingstar-garcia4799 21 день назад

@@Jasper118 He says that you're trying to be sound intellectual when you're yapping... That's the blud thought

@Jasper118 21 день назад

@@mrs.shootingstar-garcia4799 well did I say something incorrect? And what did I say that was trying to sound “intellectual” haha?

@falconmclenny7284 21 день назад

@@Mark-gg6iyno, he didnt. Marxists really out here trying to tell you not to believe your lying ears.

@tjal8709 21 день назад

I just got to 9:40 on the video. In that fragment you state that there were 669.000 arrests, and whilst the screen shows the number 376.000 w/ regards to the executions, you state that there were 776.000. Tiny error there, but that is all really. Great video, outstanding quality :)

@FettermanGPT 21 день назад

Reminiscent of when they got NATO wrong. Simple things like this is unacceptable especially when all that's on the screen is a GIANT 376,000.

@rishav_killerx6011 21 день назад

Stalin Great Purge was because his Father used to Punish him Serverly

@compassknows 21 день назад

Hahahaha...I know an Oversimplified reference when I see one!

@raketny_hvost 21 день назад

Europe came to Russia few times in XX century because they love to be punished

@natel9019 21 день назад

I think it was because his Mother didn't breast feed him.

@macleunin 20 дней назад

Also, “your dad beat you like a dog and now you’re evil” Epic rap battles of history, you guys should see it, thank me later.

@Drengr19 20 дней назад

Ahh a fellow man of culture

@dude97x 21 день назад

10:50 it was tragically ironic, that many of the Finns who fell victim to the purges were from America where they had emigrated. But when the Soviet Union was created in 1922 many thousands of them decided to emigrate again, to Soviet Russia because they genuinely wanted to go and live in communist/socialist and take part in building the workers paradise society. The Kolkhoz's or farming collectives run by Finnish communities were apparently very successful but just by being Finnish they were "suspicious" and as told, great numbers of them were executed or send to gulags.

@Elongated_Muskrat 21 день назад

Here before the tankies start talking about all the "Good things Stalin did"

@aliakber775 21 день назад

Yup,stalin was so aggressive towards ethnic grops,civiilans and the army at the point other commies(or bolshevics) said to stalin into calm down and those fucking tankies say stalin is a good guy

@NKVD.Officer 21 день назад

heh, love the jokes

@giorgijioshvili9713 21 день назад

but he won the war 😭

@aliakber775 21 день назад

B- but stalin wasnt a heavy drinkwer

@Mortarion-xt9wp 21 день назад

Honestly considering how thin the German army were spread and how hard pressed they were it is likely that NS-G would have lost anyway

@collin1401 21 день назад

It’s interesting that Lenin didn’t want Stalin to lead Russia.

@HerrKurt 21 день назад

So true

@merafirewing6591 21 день назад

Lenin was pragmatic to begin with.

@Anonymous-ht5dg 21 день назад

He felt that stalin would become a problem if he had that much power.

@taylorlibby7642 21 день назад

@@collin1401 Lenin was just as bad and conducted his own purges.

@Maximilien1794 21 день назад

Lenin did appoint Stalin.

@oliversherman2414 20 дней назад

It's nice of you to upload one of your Armchair TV videos here to give people a taste of the great content you post there

@capobvious6999 21 день назад

7:45 Yagoda was the leader of NKVD, not just a prominent communist party member. His successor, Yezhov was also purged

@b1battledroid287 21 день назад

Quite interesting that they never went over this in history class, a unit on how stalins cruelty was inspired by hitler, and how that played out and made his people suffer, would be fun to learn about.

@ExtantPerson 21 день назад

In AP World History, this is gone over in pretty strong detail, along with Mussolini’s crimes and sometimes Francisco Franco’s depending on the teacher.

@Valpo2004 21 день назад

In my experience history classes are very generalized because they want to cover a lot. Of course I think this only serves to hurt people's interest in the subject because a lot of the most interesting things in history are the details.

@tjanderson5892 21 день назад

Hitlers Night of the Long Knives didn’t inspire Stalin. He had started purging his officers in the early 1930s before Hitler became Chancellor and had the chance to enact his purge of the SA in 1934. Stalin just later said he respected Hitler for taking the steps needed to solidify his power as a leader. But he had already been a murderous lunatic. That was all actually learned in HS WW2 history. Not as common anymore I guess

@Anglomachian 21 день назад

Every history class on this period I took mentioned the purges, if only in passing. Some went into detail.

@Gameprojordan 21 день назад

@@Anglomachian yeah a quick sentence about how Stalin purged some officers in the military, never went fully into detail about all the civilians murdered

@5-but-3-idiots67 21 день назад

Code "Nocensorship" is BASED

@artos9406 20 дней назад

sub russian opinion rejected

@5-but-3-idiots67 20 дней назад

@@artos9406 unfortunate, but once under the light the truth shall be revealed

@avraamanysiadis8121 20 дней назад

May i add, that among the people purged by the Soviets were also Greeks. Those who found shelter from Ottoman and latter Turkish oppression in today Ukraine and Russia were purged again only a few years later as enemy's of the state simply for being Greeks (and Greece fought against communist in Ukraine in 1919) they were deported almost all of them to Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan with thousands perishing on the way there. Only after the collapse of USSR were allowed to return with most of them preferring to come to Greece. Those people were mainly if not all of them from Pontos (north eastern part of Turkey). Thank you for well documented historical videos.

@ryanMaistry-vu2yd 21 день назад

Last time i was this early. Trosky didnt have an axe in his head

@Maximilien1794 21 день назад

It was a pike axe.

@ThatsGuy-ri6ul 21 день назад

For the record. Purges are BAD.

@Maximilien1794 21 день назад

Why?

@itz_ic21gaming97 21 день назад

They are

@kingofcards9516 21 день назад

Unless you're a dictator who wants to keep power.

@Maximilien1794 21 день назад

@@kingofcards9516 Or someone who wants to avoid giving power to the Germans.

@potatosalad9085 20 дней назад

@@Maximilien1794 I think the purge actually put them closer to gaining power than anything

@jakederik 21 день назад

One of my relatives on my grandmother's side was a prison warden for Nizhny Novgorod, and was apart of the purges. It's always interesting to look upon history especially knowing family history and seeing multiple sides of a story.

@itamiyouji4057 21 день назад

I find it interesting that after the war ended in Europe, Gen. Patton went on record saying something to the effect of, "in this war, we fought the wrong enemy."

@2packrm781 21 день назад

Thank you Chris Griffin for doing small upload & covering this topic that I haf mo idea what else was going. Plus, there's still more to Stalin's purification man-hunt of potential threats to his rule. Also, keep up the good work too🙂

@TheNewOrder-DaysOfConflict 21 день назад

Trotsky and Stalin: fighting Bukharin: you guys forgot me or what ?

@Bowtiethesilly2023 20 дней назад

Bukharin my beloved Bukharin died 😭💔

@waltergameing4208 18 дней назад

of course its from a tno pfp 💀

@johndurham6172 20 дней назад

Stalin watching people through the window 🪟 😅.

@robotgeant9788 21 день назад

Have fun watching everyone !

@capncake8837 21 день назад

Cool to see Armchair Historian make a video about this topic.

@digameme4316 21 день назад

You got a new AH Tv subscriber, its channels like this that need to be rid of censorship so people can gather such important knowledge

@typicalperson6389 21 день назад

They don’t teach this one in college

@ethanschneider5628 21 день назад

did you take AP history?

@zinnsoldat6493 20 дней назад

What collage is this

@collinward1241 15 дней назад

My college did actually

@anthonyvita886 21 день назад

I was actually debating subscribing to AHTV. Thank you for convincing me to get it!

@OrbitalKineticbombardemnt 20 дней назад

Got an ad for Adventure communist, the irony couldn’t be better

@caffeinatedgamer.4576 21 день назад

That thumbnail goes so hard.

@CARL_093 21 день назад

the backfire on this when operation barbarosa started they had luck of experienced commanders in the battle filed all generals mostly ended in the purge

@roberta.ferrisesq.8938 21 день назад

Glad you’re doing a documentary I’ll watch! Also I think a lot of people would subscribe to your pay page but man times are tough out there financially. Nobody can afford fun.

@LiamSmall-ot4vz 21 день назад

keep up the great work

@andrewjgrimm 21 день назад

12:53 This video ended rather abruptly. Should we thank RU-vid for that?

@chancegalster3509 21 день назад

Babe wake up. Armchair historian dropped a vid on Stalins purge

@hoottasshell 21 день назад

I'm already loving this new style of animation

@Hyde_Hill 19 дней назад

Clockwork orange and 1984 reference all in 2 frames? Nicely done.

@The-Aviating-Gaming-Plane 21 день назад

And thus. The dictators wrath

@theworldwidechannel 21 день назад

The Armchair Historian is probably some of the best historical content you can find on RU-vid

@somtochukwuobidegwu5426 21 день назад

this is one of your best videos and is very rare to hear about Stalin and the ussr crimes and can you do a video about the Nigerian civil war and I hope RU-vid doesn’t take down this video and Sorry my comment was deleted.

@lemons_of_engineering 21 день назад

i adore the creativity in this,recently your videos have had a lot of random stuff thrown in for visuals rather than anything original or relevant

@Comrade_Blanc 21 день назад

My great grandfather was executed for unknown reasons. He was German but lived in a german village in Russia

@Smudgeroon74 21 день назад

@Comrade_Blanc what was his name?

@Bowtiethesilly2023 20 дней назад

His name????

@popeo1973 20 дней назад

@@Bowtiethesilly2023 bro he just lair for likes

@Bowtiethesilly2023 20 дней назад

@@popeo1973 what

@Bowtiethesilly2023 20 дней назад

@@popeo1973 tf you talking about

@Pikseliotso 21 день назад

The timing was perfect! I just visited a museum in estonia about the soviet occupation

@Maximilien1794 20 дней назад

You probably mean the Soviet liberation.

@vampi-chan3793 19 дней назад

@@Maximilien1794 I think you meant the soviet starvation.

@PresidentWashingtonFounder 21 день назад

Bro This man Has a Cold Face When Describing The Full Horrors Of War

@johnrose3799 21 день назад

Here is your daily reminder that if trotsky won the power stugle, it would have been just as bad.

@sharky7002 20 дней назад

If I know correctly that man wanted to bring the revolution to the entire planet he would have single handily united the world against him

@endrankluvsda4loko172 20 дней назад

Yeah, back when I was young and dumb (or rather dumber), I used to admire communism and Trotsky. Then when I hit my 20's and the thinky thinky parts of my brain started to work, I was like oh wait, those are all bad ideas and Trotsky was just as bad as the rest of them.

@johnrose3799 20 дней назад

@endrankluvsda4loko172 If you ever read what trotsky said about stain while in Mexico, he basically says that he would have just done it better or a slightly different way

@rickwong9049 21 день назад

Beria: "Anyway im gonna spike his drink soon."

@historyfan6113 21 день назад

commenting for engagement if this video is monetized

@Ceejiye096 21 день назад

We need the long version 😢😢

@TomsOnUK 17 дней назад

Really interesting video and is helping me with my A Level History

@toututu2993 21 день назад

This truely is the best youtube channel there is. Professional sounding voice, good story telling, and great art and animation that bring life to the story that is told. You just cannot lack arts as it bring the greatest expression there is that doesn't make the video look and feel lazy like others

@mathijsgames992 20 дней назад

Can you upload your old yt video's on your website

@markgarrett3647 21 день назад

And during the public viewing of Lenin's corpse a certain Nguyen Ai Quoc was so grief-stricken that he queued up so long out in the harsh icy environs of Moscow that he was nearly frostbitten and at risk of catching pneumonia. He would also later order the ruthless liquidation of the Trotskyists in his country.

@falconmclenny7284 21 день назад

He was a quoc that bloke.

@markgarrett3647 21 день назад

@@falconmclenny7284 That quoc was a celibate too.

@Goodsdogs 21 день назад

Bravo! For making this

@ivannazarov7242 21 день назад

Interestingly, there wasn't collectivization in poland but famine was at the same time as in ussr

@falconmclenny7284 21 день назад

Interesting to people finding any reason to try and lesson stalins evil i guess.

@ivannazarov7242 21 день назад

@@falconmclenny7284 Or just not all stailins evils are stalins evils, only a Sith deals in absolutes

@falconmclenny7284 21 день назад

@@ivannazarov7242 that quote makes less sense here than it did in star wars mate.

@eljefemaximo5420 17 дней назад

All of my comments are deleted

@user-xh1li2dx4d 21 день назад

Awsome documentary

@adelkheir 21 день назад

@10:20 Nice Khorne reference

@johncrocker4209 21 день назад

Glad to see you do a piece on this. It should be brought up as often as the holocaust.

@treykeith652 21 день назад

This Is Why I Love Democracy..

@user-lu9vn3oj9w 21 день назад

It's far from perfect, yet, at the very least, the Democratic states don't erect walls preventing folks from escaping, as one person once said. What's more, some said states are compelled to build up walls so that some interesting people couldn't infiltrate, heh))

@Narses_the_aremnian 21 день назад

@@user-lu9vn3oj9w europe should Monarchy excluding Russia becouse socalism worked better for them

@Game_Hero 19 дней назад

To future contrairians hiding in the replies of this comment : Do you consider yourself in a minority opinion opposed to the status quo where you live? Have you ever been put in prison if it involved criticizing those in power? Were you ever T word into giving false confessions to crimes you didn't commit because you expressed your minority opinion? Can you put videos on RU-vid showing these views without consequences? That's great, the equivalent of your minority opinion in the places you worship doesn't and isn't allowed to exist without these consequences, you're literally enjoying privileges and double-standards your equivalents against the status quo in those places don't have.

@Narses_the_aremnian 18 дней назад

@@Game_Hero heathen i only worship god all mighty and your demoracy wants destroy christianity and i respect people like costantine the great , justnian and joan of arc queen isebella of spain charles martel and so on

@Narses_the_aremnian 18 дней назад

@@Game_Hero bot

@lance2465 21 день назад

I go from great content creator to great content creator today. This is a great day for me.

@max_vtv 21 день назад

Great video !

@michaellynes3540 21 день назад

Skip to 2:23

@RybunZee 19 дней назад

Не понравилось. Всё те же шаблоны, те же надуманные цифры.

@dudrushpowerforce 18 дней назад

Bro made a portrait of ishowspeed and thought we wouldn't notice

@Sir_Muttonstash 21 день назад

Chap literally has a sphere of influence of history youtubers

@lolafk1738 21 день назад

Lenin think Stalin is too soft and got too many hesitation when he deal with rivals, he would make compromises till the politcal situation cannot be solve by any means but a huge purge which is why in public eyeLenin has more soft impression than Stalin but in truth Lenin is way more decisive when it comes to political rivalry, Lenin would end any opposition in a really early stage

@Viper_Vic 21 день назад

I'd never heard of the Asharshylyk before. Everyone focuses on the Holodomor. The communists sure did love their manmade famines.

@sunsolar2138 21 день назад

they were dying just to kill everyone. The climate has been negotiated to create a drought.

@justalonesoul5825 21 день назад

So despite this whole video, you still havent understood that it was absolutely not about communism, but about the paranoia and megalomania of a single man? With the mass executions of everyone who basically had a spine and could make things work, succesful farmers included, everything turned to crap. It's not communism in or out of itself that made that happen. Totalitarianism is quite the opposite of communism. Stalin kept the name but emptied the concept.

@Viper_Vic 21 день назад

@@justalonesoul5825 That's like saying "the Holocaust had nothing to do with national socialism. Hitler was just a bad guy who did bad things." Evil ideologies attract evil people. You're fooling yourself if you think Stalin was the exception and not the rule.

@leonsclsm 21 день назад

@@Viper_Vic You again dont get the argument. Marx, Engels, later Lenin, Luxembourg, Bukharin and many other communists wrote their opinions on the world. Never was there stated that you have to kill every political opponent, nor do you have to force collectivize everyrhing to a point, where people would starve. Some people even became reformists, improving the lifes of millions of workers across europe. Hitlers National Socialism on the other side, did exactly what you discribed. He dreamed of an evil ideology, of forcing every other ethnicity to become subject to the german race and give up their territory for lebensraum, and at the end force everything through a great war, cleansing everything in site. In short words: National Socialism is inherently wrong, racist and genocidel, while the insanely big range of socialst/communist ideoligies did also do disgraceful things to human society, while NOT being inherently wrong. Or do you hate democracy because of the atrocities of the US? I dont think so , since it would make sense at all :)

@ronjones-6977 21 день назад

@@justalonesoul5825I sent your name to The Fat Electrician. He's putting you at the top of HIS list.

@user-tm8ws7th9t 15 дней назад

You have a mistake in the 4th minute. Budyonny was not shot (2nd portrait on the left, which is with a mustache )

@Thermoniter 21 день назад

*Time to repost this if it goes down*

@didierdenice7456 21 день назад

the Soviets beat Nazi Germany NOT thanks to Stalin... but DESPITE of Stalin ! 🤔

@TheRapeFanatic 21 день назад

Who's staline? Do you mean Stalin?

@tbnrwolff3354 21 день назад

World War II started because both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union people tend to forget that both of them invaded Poland

@lohtupottu 21 день назад

@@TheRapeFanatic That's the French way of spelling his name. It's just has to do with the orthography; Stalin would be pronounced quite differently. To provide another example, Putin's surname is written Poutine just so the pronounciation matches.

@TheRapeFanatic 21 день назад

@@lohtupottu thanks for clearing that up, I'm bit of a grammar nazi

@taylorlibby7642 21 день назад

@@lohtupottuSomehow I kinda prefer thinking of him as cheese curds and gravy over fried potatoes.😂🤣

@desertstorm272 21 день назад

How could the Red Army, weakened by Stalin's Purge resist such a force? Nice. You should cover the battle of Kursk from a soldier's POV soon.

@Maximilien1794 21 день назад

Maybe because the purges actually strenghtened the Red Army. It's nonsensical to assume that the purges weakened the Red Army.

@BoliceOccifer 21 день назад

3:03 lmaoooooooooooo

@sladetuner8661 20 дней назад

Stalinator 2:Gulag Day

@AmFuture 21 день назад

The fact that so many youths today actually view Stalin and communism with great pride and support is absolutely disgusting

@tapultanul97 21 день назад

The ones supporting such things are brainwashed and easy to twist and manipulate

@Deplorable-Dingo 21 день назад

And they will always refute criticism with "that's not real communism"

@kenoby2330 21 день назад

@@Deplorable-Dingo because communism never existed, it was socialism I dont expect you to understand that because you are clearly too ignorant to

@taylorlibby7642 21 день назад

@@Deplorable-Dingo "It's never really been tried."

@rwdyeriii 21 день назад

That's because communists control the education systems in the Western World.

@aliakber775 21 день назад

6:15 is that a 1984 reference

@u2boii878 21 день назад

I was about to say that lol

@aliakber775 21 день назад

@@u2boii878 too bad hehehe :p

@Michael-fi3uu 21 день назад

I was looking for someone to say that.

@Nobody.exe50 15 дней назад

Nice 1984 reference with the door number

@shamsuaddinrachedi792 21 день назад

the soviets traded a few decades of prosperity, for an (seemingly) eternity of decline "woe unto those who trade a short period of perfection for an extremely long period of mediocrisy" someone, probably (i made it up add it to the "unknown" part of quotes)

@owlyon 21 день назад

Stalin's great purge is something you hear referenced a lot but rarely discussed in detail. Overall it may have saved the soviet union from internal conflict...but at what cost???

@Maximilien1794 21 день назад

If it did save the Soviet Union, it also saved the world from nazism.