Worst case , arrested atnd tortured during the purges of the army before wwii , released and sent to a punishment battalion after Germany attacked , taken pow , survived concentration camp ,returned to Russia, interned and tortured , sent to the gulag for twenty years .
they we amenitied in 1953 after stalin died, however they couldn't receive veteran benefits, higher education or get management level positions in farms and factories
No wonder the Soviet Union collapsed, they could only disenfranchise so many of their own people before everyone was equally miserable and had no will to preserve such a system.
@@geigertec5921 Yeah you can bet an american will pull nonsense out of his axx before he reads a book and gives people the impression he actually knows what he is talking about. Trash.
Propaganda aint got shit to do with the fact tht communism is garbage I could care aless abt how happy the ppl were the system just dont wrk and yea a good bit of the ppl got shit on bcuz of policies the system implemented ,
Thats why so many ukrainians were happy in the beginning that the germans invaded they thought no one could be worse than stalins soviet union especially since stalin did planned and preventable starvation in ukraine during his 5 year plans the ussr treated them like absolute shit but then when they get invaded try to change there tone to some patriotic bs its no surprise modern day ukraine wants nothing to do with russia tired of being a pawn of russia
My grandfather, who was born into a German minority in Siberia, knew that when he was captured, there was no way back. In German captivity he also was threatened to be delivered to the Gestapo for interrogation and execution, if he not would change allegiance and become a German soldier. In the end of the war he was captured by the British. German POW comrades helped him to change his identity, so his real identity was first discovered some years after the war had ended (by the American forces in the denazification process). By that time the cold war had started, so it was politically unwise to send him back to the USSR. He lived in his new identity until the early 1990s in fear of getting executed by KGB in Germany (as there had been alike stories like his but with a deadly end). My sister found in the 1990s his family (which where bought / resettled back to West Germany during the Cold War). Half a year before his death he met his 2 surviving brothers. His (first) wife (now in a state of widow, as she never married again) also survived and had moved to Germany. Nobody dared to tell her the truth about his survival, as her health at that time was very weak. They had married 2 days before he went into war... and that is just a brief version of his life's tragedy.
@@long-hair-dont-care88. I fully understand. She was like the "widow in black" in this family structure.... a quiet big family as they all were menonites, so the families were like a big community
And here is today ruZZia doing the same...what a broken country, if can be called country...how many more similar situations are forgotten...only North Korea does the same...ruZZia...it's even at lower level than NK...
It’s not just one person. It’s an entire ideology. Interestingly, when media nowadays speak of German atrocities during ww2, they put the blame on “Hitler” and “the nazis”. Fair enough! But atrocities committed by the Soviet Union are blamed on Stalin (yes) but also on “dictatorship” or “totalitarianism”. They NEVER blame it on communism itself.
Not true- Nobody was more brutal than the Nazis. Nazis killed 6 millions of Soviet prisoners just by starving and torturing them. Also the fact that Germans tortured and gassed babies and small children tells you that they were the most diabolical people that ever existed.
@@cardinalbuoyify Read a few books written by Solzhenitsyn which will give you a good idea as to the number murdered by Stalin . Another good read is Nikolia Tolstoy's - The Victims of Yalta
My grandfather was a Wehrmacht Panzerjager. They had a defensive position that incorporated a small Russian village. The Russians pushed his unit back and occupied that village. When his unit counter attacked and retook the village a week later what they saw shocked even the most jaded soldier. The Russians executed every citizen of that village. Men women children. Around an old man’s neck was a sign that said . “This is what happens to traitors who help the Germans”
Plenty of Soviet soldiers who were released by the Allies did not want to go back to the USSR, but they were made to go back all the same. I guess they knew what was waiting for them.
the soviets captured by the allies after d day where loaded into landing craft and handed over to stalin churchill knew what would happen to them but did it anyway stalin killed more of his people than hitler did he had a lot longer time to do it
Stalin insisted that all citizens of the USSR, military and civilian, be repatriated to the USSR, regardless of any reluctance they might have. Churchill had grave misgivings about this, knowing what would likely happen to them, but was unable to persuade Roosevelt to object to this so Stalin got his way.
my great grandfather was a legit traitor to the rotten Sovietunion, working as a dolmetscher for the Wehrmacht when they occupied Kiev and later got evacuated to the Reich (ie deported with his family to concentration camps) somehow they all managed to avoid getting caught up during Operation Keelhaul and stayed in Germany........would have been defo years of Gulag for them and most likely the firing squad for great gramps....
@@hughmungus1767 I believe Churchill didn't bother trying to persaude Roosevelt too hard, as the Soviets were still holding large numbers of 'liberated' Western POWs.
@@johnhatchel9681 I see you know little about actual communism. Communism is no state/government, no classes and no money. Soviet Union was an one-party authoritarian state, and a brutal dictatorship under Stalin. Nothing in communist ideology promotes treating former POWs like that. But it is not uncommon behavior for a paranoid brutal dictatorship or authoritarian government, regardless their claimed ideologies.
Nathan how bad were they can you imagine when the Russians found out how bad Stalin was they removed his body from Lenin’s tomb he even ordered the slaying of the village he came from in Georgia this man was Brutal I for sometime worked for a Latvian Carpenter who at that time suffered being annexed by USSR he had to join the Red Army conscripted the immediately imagine he escaped from the red army joined Germanys sixth division he was 1 of 1.4 million to go into Stalingrad and one of 100000 odd to get out lucky man he always kept his papers he was able to escape from Germanys army and then join the US army I tell you some of the things he told me about over the years would make you shiver I wish I was a Hollywood film director we could make a very good horror movie
Absolutely. At least Hitler did not persecute those Germans who were loyal to him and the Nazi regime. On the contrary, Stalin's purges claimed the lives of millions of Soviet citizens just for nothing. I am from Tbilisi, Georgia and three members of my immediate family were arrested and supposedly executed in 1937-1939. That means, they simply disappeared after being arrested. We do not know precisely when or where they were executed, where there bodies were buried and so on. Millions who were relatively luckier, were sent to GULAG. People in the West cannot imagine how evil the Soviet Communist regime was, especially in the times of Ulyanov-"Lenin" and Jughashvili-"Stalin".
All those Polish Officers that were massacred too. For decades after the war the Soviets blamed it on the Germans. But the truth came out after the USSR fell apart. It was the Russians that did it. They’re absolute monsters.
It was the Soviets, not the "Russians". The Soviets were not too kind to Chechens, Karachays, Tatars, Ingush, Kazakhs, Uzbeks and many others. FTR, Stalin/Dzhugashvili was Georgian. Ignorance is a choice - Choose wisely.
It's well documented. Stalin's view was that anyone who surrendered was a traitor. Despite many frontline soldiers in the early days being insufficiently resourced. After the war, many Russians who were forced labour in German factories, as well as POWs, searched for Red Cross refugee camps from where they tried to get to other countries as a refugee. Always trying to stay one step ahead of Soviet agents. In June 1945, the British handed over to the Soviets over 30,000 Cossacks, many of whom were never seen again. All this from a man (Stalin) who reportedly hid under his desk and locked his door for a week when he learned that Hitler had betrayed him.
The “hiding under a desk” thing is probably false. Stalin was well-aware of Operation Barbarossa from its conception. Besides, Hitler never “betrayed” Stalin, he merely realized (too late) that the Soviets were a threat after they seized Bessarabia.
@@salvatorepitea5862 you have to. If you don't, you will be labeled by the soviet regime as a "traitor" and "an enemy of the state" and be sent to the gulag or shot.
I distinctly recall in my high school civics class during a discussion comparing communism to our democratic republic my teacher showed us an article about how Stalin had something along the lines of 100,000 repatriated pows executed and buried in mass graves. Stuck with me.
I doubt it. Even many ROA Army veterans survived though all got sent to gulags. And ROA was the unthinkable - Russian soldiers under Russian general Vlasov command fighting alongside Hitler against mother Russia (some even defended...Berlin). So - I doubt regular POW got executed into mass graves.
There is a movie, "Enemy At The Gates" in which there is a scene where Soviet sniper Koulikov (Ron Perlman) explains how he lost all of his teeth. He says he was sent by Stalin to Germany for some reason and that when he returned, they tortured him and beat him and knocked out his teeth because "everybody who had contact with the Germans were suspected as spies", I'm paraphrasing here. It didn't matter that Koulikov went to Germany on Stalin's orders. Simple contact with Germans was enough to make a person a suspected spy. The same held true with POWs returning from German captivity. They had been "corrupted by contact".
That’s classic narcissistic behavior by dictators. It shows how dangerous they are, and how they’re actually the last and the worst of mankind to rule over the people. And yet, people always allow tyrants to gain power, even though they’ve seen the signs of how ruthless they will be. And once they get power, WE THOUGHT HE WOULD BE DIFFERENT, blah blah blah!!!😱😤
Solzhenitsyn, who was a captain in the artillery of the Red Army during the last months of the war, said it soon became common knowledge among all soldiers that if you were ever captured and managed to escape, your only chance of survival was to say that you had gotten lost and it took a while to find your way back to your own troops. Admitting to being captured, even for an hour, guaranteed that you would be considered compromised. Apparently, Stalin and his minions considered it extremely likely that you could be "turned" into a Nazi sympathizer in only a few minutes.
Loss of teeth also happened under NKVD interrogation to (later Marshall) Rokossovsky) - one of the most successful Soviet commanders. Utter idiocy and typically Soviet.
@Maelli535 Exactly. The fact that their most competent general in my opinion, Marshal Rokosovsky was treated like this, is just shameful. Thank goodness the British and Americans have never behaved like this
@@scotttracy9333 Yes, Rokossovsky was one of the better guys, I too have a certain admiration for him. He wasn't very popular as minister of defence in his native Poland, but that's a different story.
Once inside the Gulag, the former Soviet solders formed an unlikely alliance with German and Japanese POWs. These ad-hoc "units" soon crushed the criminal gangs that had been so dominant in the camps.
@@Maelli535 I've read numerous books on the Gulag system......"The Forsaken" by Tim Tzouliadis, "Gulag" by Anne Applebaum, "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and others. In most of the camps the new gangs of ex-soldiers - tens of thousands of disciplined, unit-oriented combat veterans - became the dominant force among the prisoners, squashing most of the criminal gangs. Not all, but most. The organized crime gangs never had the same influence that they had prior to 1945-46.
@@Maelli535it certainly is true. During the great purges in the 30s, political prisoners of the gulag mainly consisted of ordinary citizens and members of the “intelligentsia” who Stalin deemed as the biggest threat to his regime. This included doctors, scientists, teachers, politicians, writers and artists etc. These political prisoners were utterly defenceless against the non-political prisoners (convicted criminals such as petty thieves, rapists and murders) who had free reign to do whatever they wanted to terrorise the ordinary prisoners and were doing Stalin a favour by making life hell for those he considered the true enemies of communism, i.e. the “counterrevolutionaries”. They took whatever they wanted from the politicals and did unspeakable things to them - often in front of their own family members who could do nothing but watch the horrors unfold. There’s even stories of the criminals playing cards with each other and when one of the criminals had gambled away all his money, he would bet a random political prisoner’s ear or finger and use that to pay his debt if he lost the next round. The scales began to tip the other way when the war began and the political prisoners now also included hardened veterans of the eastern front who could fight back and wouldn’t stand passive and watch the criminals take any more liberties on the poor innocents.
@@chrisstucker1813 No, I wasn't doubting the horrors of the Gulag, just needed some evidence re. the ex-soldiers. Thanks anyway, nice interesting comment!
Why is it that all we hear is about the Jewish Holocaust for years and NEVER hear about the Holocaust of Russian soldiers? This is a rhetorical question....
Stalin should have treated himself the same way he treated the families of Soviet soldiers who were captured by the Germans,he should have resigned as the leader,had himself arrested and charged as an enemy of the state,then he should have been sent to the worst gulag,or executed.
& there are folk in UK & parts of Western Europe, say it was great & want to have it back everywhere! They say it won't happen again. We'll get it right next time!
@@alexreid-wh9gq Communism can never work, but they'll kill or enslave or imprison millions trying to force it to work anyway. It's a philosophy that belongs on the ash heap of history. They whine about the misery of the poor but they never hesitate to inflict their own, more drastic misery on everyone trying to make the world "better".
That Stalin was a real gem. “Since I’m a paranoid psychopath, I’ll liquidate most of my qualified military officers. Then I’ll ignore all of the reputable obvious intelligence that the Germans are about to attack us. Then instead of listening to the competent senior officers (the ones I didn’t have killed) that advised an organized fighting retreat to buy time, I’ll insist on every soldier standing his ground which causes millions of Red Army soldiers to be killed or captured unnecessarily. Then, in spite of all my blunders, when the Soviet people grind out a victory, I’ll order millions of those captured soldiers and civilians (the ones that survived) to be sent off to the gulags because I’m not totally sure that they’re reliable”.
It infuriates me that the west allied with the soviets. It completely nukes any moral high ground the allies claim to have had. The soviets invaded Poland just a few days after Germany did, yet the allies only care about Germany. Soviets invade Mongolia/China at Khalkin Gol, allies don't care, Soviets invade Finland, allies don't care, Soviets invade Poland, allies don't care. Germany invades Poland, this is worth a world war to stop them. Soviets invade Estonia, allies don't care. Soviets invade Latvia, allies don't care. Soviets invade Lithuania, allies care so little they just outright join up with the soviets to help them take on Germany. It was BS politics and nothing more. The soviet union was 100 times more evil than Germany ever was and the west financed them, supplied them and allied with them. Absolutely disgusting.
Thats right , Ive read where Stalin decided that there were far too many handicapped war veterans so ordered a round up of them to be put on barges and sunk at sea .
@@victorhorvat1386 I have never read about that before, so I doubt it. I read that crippled veterans were asked to stay at homes so that their horrible looks do not depress working people.
God did not permit such insanity to prevail. The Soviet Union is gone! Let this be a warning to all other monsters who prey on humanity! Inflict your pain, but “You will not endure” 🌺☦️🌺
I worked with one when a student. He fled to the U.S. because he couldn't return to the USSR after being freed from a German POW camp. He was a lab tech, but I figured he could easily have completed an engineering degree based on his knowledge of the instruments.
Imagine. Fighting for a Cause is bad enough, but imagine having to fight because you feared your own government, and feared for what your government would do to your family back home. What motivation.
In general, it seems to me that many ignore the fact that during the 1941-1945 war, a huge number of Soviet citizens joined the army VOLUNTARILY. Many teenagers from 14 to 17 years old ran away from home, forged documents to be accepted into the army.
I was friends with an old Russian that had moved to Australia after the war, his tank had been blown up and all he had left was his side arm so he took that out to fire at the German tank that had done all the damage and as he did so he saw the HMG point directly at him. He threw the hand gun away, put up his hands and yelled "Comrade!". For this act of treason he could never go home without being executed.
I never understood why the Russians treated their own citizens so poorly. Those citizens looked on their German occupation forces with more favor than the Russians who "liberated" them. Now I know why.
The leadership of the Soviet Union were foreign revolutionaries. From America, Eastern Europe and Palestine. Their ethnicity was.............. I my comment will be removed if I name them.
@@londonberry2180 Surely, but the pillaging was carried out by the troops on the ground. I understand there were all kinds of folks in the army at that time Kazakhs, etc. They didn't have any problem treating the villagers they liberated as "objects for use". I just didn't understand why until this was explained.
This at least partially explains the figure of 20 million dead now cast in stone as Soviet losses during the war. Churchill in his history of the Second World War quotes Stalin telling him losses numbered around 5 million towards the end of the war. When we add in the millions reputedly lost in the Holdomar, not sure if I’m spelling that right but I meant the Ukrainian genocide during forced collectivization of the farms in the 1930s things become clearer.
If you think Stalin was the sole ruler in the USSR, you are a fool. His right hand man was Lazar Kaganovich, who organized many of the atrocities, for instance.
It's also worth mentioning that most of the Soviet soldiers were Ukrainian and Belarusian. Although Stalin was Georgian, he was ashamed of what he saw as Georgian backwardness, and he favoured the Russification of all the Soviet Union. Using Ukrainians and Belarusians as cannon-fodder was part of that plan.
@@badofi Please do not try to dispute a credible post by coming up with some post 1991 backwards into 1941 mumbo jumbo crap. "Not necessarily a rascialist" wunnerful!
One of many points could be - when the did come home after the and they tell how they were captured was no supremacy of communism (lack of weapons and ammution, better german technis, Mistakes made by officers inculed Stalin and so on). After 25 years there will be not many surviers. And nobody will have an interest to listen. I recommend: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago.
Add to the Russian prisoners the 200-250K British, American and allied prisoners who were liberated by the Russians from German POW camps and shipped to Russia, China and even North Korea who were never released back to their respective countries!!!
Stalin's prisoner-of-war policy fully demonstrated his lack of confidence in the Soviet regime. He himself fully understood the mistakes and shortcomings of communism. This bad policy, after the end of the Korean War. The Chinese Communist Party also used it on the Chinese Communist soldiers who were captured by the Allied forces.
Why I want to backhand people who preach communism when they should know better. It’s undeniable at this point that communism is a damn cult, with all the brainwashing you would expect from one.
Also one of the reasons was: these ex soldiers have left the ‘glorious paradise of communism’ and have seen the world outside of the soviet union. Even the living standards in some german camps was higher than a soviet citizen had. These rumours could not be spread back home. It would destroy the paradise and undermine the soviet regime.
I like when somebody said the true about Stalin, Red army, USSR regime, ect. Because, we who lived under comunism regime we know that well. But, who never lived under that radical system he/she dont know that. Never again bolshevism on river Elbe and in 50% of european continent.
I read an article in Gung Ho magazine in the early 80s written by a former American officer in ww2 and he shared the responsibility to return Soviet POWs back to their country. I believe they were housed in army barracks the night before being transported by train. He indicated the POWs were also told in their country that if captured they would be turned and used to fight against their own country and would not be welcomed back. The officer described his shock and horror on finding the unfortunates who had used nails used to hang clothes ramming them constantly against their heads until it penetrated their skull and killing themselves. This was a firsthand account and he could scarcely imagine the fear it took to commit. I have read many other accounts of Russian brutality towards their people and others, all firsthand accounts. So what has changed in modern times as man dominates man to his injury?
Well, Stalin was a card-carrying sociopath (or is it psychopath?) and we know the kind of government he set up - one where *everyone* lived in terror. So he would do this where a normal human being might not.
Its telling to this day that through Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation, they have always had poor troops and terrible leaders. It seems like the last time Russia had anything good going for its military, despite technology, was the early to mid 1800's.
They might have had something good going for it’s military in the 1940’s if Stalin didn’t massacre his officer corps during the purges. Before the war they had many years of strong re-armament but the genius Stalin removed the brains needed to put it all to good effect. Funnily enough, when they eventually began to effectively employ Tukhachevksy’s “deep battle” theory during the end of the war, they saw a lot more success - as seen in Operation Bagration which annihilated army group centre and opened the road to Berlin. If the likes of Tukhachevksy weren’t purged before the war and was allowed to pursue modern innovative combined-arms tactics and ideas like German generals such as Guderian did, the Red army might’ve put up a better fight for when Barbarossa kicked off.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, "If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.'
"in our army it's more dangerous to go back than to go forward"- Stalin."the Devil is on my side,he's a good communist"- Stalin.He even sent Molotov's wife to a gulag.
And Molotov voted against his wife when she was expelled from the communist party and from the Politburo and sent to the forced labor camp , Gulag !! ( his wife was Jewish )
@@scotttracy9333 Once they told Stalin that the widow of Lenin ( Krupskaia, ) said something critical about him and he said--Tell her to shut her mouth , because if she don't, we gonna find another widow for Lenin ! Gabor Czirjak USA
the interresting part of the history in the 2. ww, and after is that we only focus on the crimes of the german during the war, despite that the ussr did the same
Hitler met Stalin in hell and asked why he was up to his neck in blood and Stalin only to his waist because he had murdered more people than him, Stalin replied because he was standing on the back of Beria.
Someone complained about the lack of coverage of the German treatment of Soviet POWs. The country of origin is responsible for feeding and sustaining their captured soldiers under international law. Since the USSR sent no support for their captured soldiers, they only got whatever the Germans gave them. Not so with US and UK troops who got parcels through the International Red Cross. Read the chapter entitled "That Spring" in Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" for a full treatment of this travesty.
Stalin did not sign the Geneva convention, so the International Red Cross could not go to bring help for the Russian prisoners , like they did to English and American and other allied prisoners. Stalin did this because he said who fell prisoner , is a traitor and had to be treated accordingly ! The sad thing is that Churchill and Roosevelt assisted to this, they had no objection ! Gabor Czirjak USA
@@gaborczirjak4172 That's right! The USSR sent nothing to aid their captured boys. The fact that it went through the Red Cross, not from the Red Cross, is irrelevant.
@@petefrys545 Solzhenitsyn says in his book "The Gulag Archipelago" that they only received what the Germans gave them, and I believe him. The Germans had tens of thousands of Soviet prisoners and the Red Cross did not have the resources to serve them all. No foreign nation stepped up to feed and clothe them.
A key factor in all this was Stalin's own paranoia, which got steadily worse over the years. He once confided in Beria, the last head of the secret police during Stalin's life that he (Stalin) was so paranoid that he even suspected HIMSELF of plotting against himself.
I read an excellent biography of Stalin (Simon Sebag Montefiore) and he comes across as both a genius but also a psychopath. Utterly cruel, ruthless and interested in nothing except his own power.
History repeating itself, Putin is so much like Stalin it's horrifying he's still alive, let alone in power. Speakingn of hideous monsters, Beria is right up there with him. Stalin got off free and easy dying naturally, so if you want some dark enjoyment, read about Beria's trial and execution. He went down snivelling like a baby all the way, nice irony given that he sent thousands to their deaths, let alone was a sadistic rapist and torturer.
After the war they were forced to return to the USSR. Churchill was opposed to the idea -- knowing what they were going home to -- but Stalin insisted on it, and Roosevelt was too naive to understand how evil Stalin was.
Winter war Finns get lots of prisoners. Their story was same. 10 -15 years Siberia. Even that they was captured when they were iced ( stuck). They try to fight, but couldn't move and Finns carry them to prison camp. When war was over prisoners go Sovjet Union by train. They stop train in border, take General out and shoot him. They want to show Finns how they do own peoples. That was not new, Finns now those brutal animals. Nothing has change there....
Moa did the same to the Red Guard when he won China and Vietnam went after former VC guerilla leaders for fear they would wise up and rise up later... Totalitarianism is a lesson in human depravity. Best to learn about it in books and videos then let bad people take control..
I wondered what happens to the few russian prisoners that went back under prisoner exchange with ukraine. Are you just talking about the training and equipment of recruit ivanovich.... or can you point to some specific information about those exchanged prisoners?
What else would you expect from a regime that deployed large numbers of KGB internal troops behind Eastern Front lines to shoot any troops making 'unauthorised' withdrawals ....?
Cannot understand what madness gripped the soldiers of Tsar to bring a unknown autocratic revolutionaríes -- bolshovics to power & continue with them thereafter .
This video guy forgot to mention that nearly one million Russian POWs were forced into the Todt organization+concretation camp guards+HIWI. The Todt was basically a slave labor Building group. The HIWI pressed troops who fought for the NAZIS. There were some Soviets soldiers who hated Stalin, but most Russian POWs wanted to avoid a slow death. 57% Soviet POWS died under the NAZIS.
I guess Stalin should have been in the front lines! That’s insane to do to your own people, let alone your child! Something was definitely wrong this that guy
and putin is trying to follow in his footsteps. he had planned mass deportations to siberia after he took over ukraine in 3 days. this has been proven.
You left out the part where the Soviets told the Germans they would treat their prisoners according to the Geneva Convention if they agreed to do the same with the Soviet prisoners. They were met with silence. In actuality the Soviets treated the majority of German POWs reasonably well and did not shoot them on the battlefield or work them to death in the Gulag. The death rate of German POWs was somewhere in the neighborhood of 8-15%. The Soviet death rate for POWs was much higher. It was part of Hitler's War of Annihilation in the East. The only place the German POW death rate was high was Stalingrad and that was due to the Germans being three quarters dead by the time the Soviets got their hands on them. The winter and disease did the rest. Of course there were abuses on both sides but the Germans were the worst when it came to treating POWs "in the east". They treated western POWs much better.
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@JaquesRabits the Nazis were definitely not the right team. It might have been better to let Stalin and Hitler claw each other to pieces and then annihilate the victor, though.
I have another topic for you. After WW2 Stalin decided that soviet veterans which were handicapped in a war,are now an "eyesore" and need to be removed from the streets of Moscow and other cities. They were gathered overnight and sent to remote islands in Siberia where they meant to live happily ever after from the plots of land they were given. All that end up badly and they simply died of cold and starvation.
The totalitarian madness of the second world war is reflected (albeit to a slightly lessor extent) in the Russia of today. Gorbachev was the Russians best chance to break free, but because their economy faltered under the changes, the people voted to return to what they know.
I feel sorry for the Russian people, they have never been free,they had a chance in the years following the collapse of the USSR,but when they put Putin in power that ended their chance to really be free of dictatorship.
Now let’s not forget people the Russian people themselves helped overthrow their government with the bolsheviks and so did a large part of the Russian military too they fought for this to happen to them I can’t feel sorry for them I do feel sorry for the kids of the Russian monarchy who were shot stabbed and had their heads beaten in the middle of the night!!
Thanks for the chuckle! You suggest that all who fought the tsar and the white russians had crystal balls and could see the future..... yet still allowed stalin to kill millions of them. With your crystal balls.... for how long have you been able to clearly see the future? Please let us know a few key answers.... such as when will the russia/ ukraine conflict end, when will mankind first land on mars, who will be the next elected leaders of the world's major western countries, the details on some winning lottery numbers, on what date will you die....etc It must be marvellous to have such forward vision....but a bit puerile to believe that everyone in history has the same forward vision. Catch the subtle humor there?
It’s true. Their entire history is one murderous Slav horror show after another. I mean, who else but the Russians would have leader with a name Like Ivan the terrible?
@@hairydogstailVietnam is doing ok. Cuba was a colony in all but name before the revolution, if I was cuban I would prefer a native dictatorship than a yankee one wich was what it was before 1959, of course by the time they had to ally with the enemies of their former masters and fight against the most powerful nation on the world and its money, kinda hard to suceed this way dont you think? History of cuba is the History of a master against its former colony. Ppl demonize now without even knowing or caring, anti-cuba propaganda is too strong. Im not communist at all, but each of these countries have their own history and reasons to be what they are, but common ppl dont care they are biased by capitalist propaganda, the hate on those nations is ztup1d asf. Also you mentioned China, lol, soon the biggest economy on the world is a failed one?😂 what a joke. the USA is worried asf trying to demonize the country already, they know their are losing the position number 1. Go back in time a some decades (boxer wars, opium wars) and China was divided into "spheres of influence" from many European powers, the USA and japan on their imperialistic greedy, and you ppl now complain that China is what it is now!? 😂 if I was chinese I would be proud.. if it is what it is the guilty ones are the outsiders, just like cuba in this case.
Stalin fue un GIGANTE de su tiempo. Iósif Stalin vivió en una época histórica, en donde el mundo requería de liderazgos fuertes. Así que tuvo que ser un dirigente enérgico. Severo. ¡Imponente! O, de otro modo, la “Madre Rusia” hubiera desaparecido del mapa. Stalin fue lo que tenía qué ser: Un Gran Líder. Un Gran Estadista. Stalin heredó un país yermo, rural, preterido, analfabeta, hambriento, supersticioso, deprimido, insalubre, carente de todo y, para colmo, delirantemente desamparado. Rusia era entonces, un país de “Siervos” (Esclavos), y Stalin lo convirtió en una súper potencia industrializada y poderosa, que puso a temblar al mundo. Rusia estaba atrasada en 100 años con respecto a Occidente y, superadas las precariedades y todas las devastaciones que causó la Guerra, él, Stalin, el “Fundador de la URSS”, puso en marcha el primer Programa Aero-Espacial del mundo. Seis años después en 1957, lanzaron el Sputnik I. Eisenhower, al saber de semejante hazaña, creó la NASA en 1958. Kennedy inauguró el primer vuelo tripulado hasta 1961. ¡Jáh! Stalin recibió una Rusia que estuvo en guerra casi 30 años. (Empezando con la humillante derrota frente al Imperio de Japón, 1904-1905. Revolución Rusa, 1905. WWI, 1914-1918. Revolución Bolchevique 1917-1922. Guerra Civil contra los “Rusos Blancos”, 1922-1927. De nuevo, Guerra contra Japón, en 1939. WWII 1940-1945… Más la Pandemia de la mal llamada “Fiebre Española”, en 1918-1920. Después les llegó el brote de la “Peste Bubónica” en 1926. ―En 1932-33, Stalin implementó una campaña general de vacunación contra la viruela, la cual, en 1936, propuso que fuese una campaña a nivel mundial. Iniciada por Stalin y secundada por todas las naciones del planeta, la viruela se erradicó en 1980―. Y, además el “Crack Financiero de Wall Street”, de 1929-1937). O sea que, Stalin, asumió el poder de un país golpeado por las guerras, enfermo por la Pandemia y, económicamente quebrado por la crisis mundial. Estas calamidades dejaron una Rusia desposeída y miserable. Stalin la rescató imponiendo disciplina y trabajo. Ni antes ni hoy, nadie en el mundo puso en duda su ENORME LIDERAZGO. Stalin fue genial; magnífico, cultísimo y astuto. Fue un Titán con mano de hierro. Amado por su pueblo y temido por sus enemigos. Hace más de 70 años que Stalin murió y, la Propaganda Occidental, no afloja en denostarlo. ¿Con qué propósito? ¿Ya como para qué? ¿Cuál sería su utilidad ahora? ¿Stalin se convirtió en un “Fantasma Ideológico” que causa temor? [*Y, acá, aparte, va un dato que dimensiona la grandeza de Stalin. Joseph Stalin, fue nominado DOS veces al Premio Nobel de la Paz (en 1945 y 1948), con el apoyo de múltiples instituciones universitarias de Reino Unido, Irlanda, Francia, Italia, Suiza, Bélgica, y Grecia. Esas nominaciones fueron tomadas en serio por el Comité en Oslo. A él se le acabó su tiempo a los 75 años. Stalin murió en 1953, sin recibir nada de nadie, pero sí, todo el reconocimiento de su propio pueblo amoroso y agradecido.].
