Stalin & Mind Control: I

[DNAsGhostzHouze]

I love it at the beginning when the guy says that Roosevelt was cowering to them. Kinda funny, considering Harry Truman was the President in 1953... FAIL!

[genldoz]

@DNAsGhostzHouze I think Ike was President when Stalin died.

[wizzzer1337]

Red Alert 2

[Waterflux]

History is rather boring, but myth feels better. Hence, myths feel more 'real' than actual history. I doubt that the hangover on Stalin is going to go away any time soon. To do away with this hangover, the Russians must revise quite a bit of their own 20th century history. I doubt this will happen in our lifetime.

[KapStuf]

A crude propaganda film...about crude propaganda.

[yaahme]

Same techniques are being used in America on it's people today, we see it clearly used for example with the Man Made-up Global Warming propaganda...anyone who questions it is sidelined and are being called "racists" by Al Gore!

[Colstonewall]

Lenin sounds a lot like Obama, in terms of his campaign speeches.

[Nguli34689]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt couldn't crawl on his belly in 1953 as described by a demonstrator at mark 1:50 - 1:56.

[steel7112]

Stalin was an European and American banker puppet.

[nardnardn]

Those who forget history are bound to repeat it. Ask those who suffered in his camps of death. As the time goes on, the severity of many crimes become diminished. People forget and therein lies the tragedy. Thankfully, so far the modern Russian leaders have steered away from this destructive path and have judged Stalin's life for what it is worth. Otherwise the misled and hallucinated Russians would have brought back another Stalin. Or is it the ghost of Stalin that is still haunting the natio

[RussiaTrue]

Why Stalin still in russians mind - all simple - total chaos, lawless and corruption in modern Russia. Only criminal has good live.

PS: And is you say us about terror and kills, when thousands of peacefull people died in Lybia from your bombs (or your TV news says is terrorists). Afganistan, Irak (where not find any weapons, what your goverment says about to invade)

You invade to ANOTHER country, USA even on another CONTINENT!

"Bomb them all" - now its call, democracy? hell yeah.......

[SeventhSun]

@RussiaTrue

There were many people who lived and enjoyed a simpler, stabler life under the socialist system not unlike that in China, but the only bad thing is the communists in both countries destroyed and suppressed spiritual faiths and practices, which is pretty disrespectful and stupid.

[RussiaTrue]

Who say about cult of personality - tell us about UK Queen, and wedding madness etc., Pope's etc. .... so most of tellers never live in Russia and even can imagine and understand whats going on....

[votumseparatum1]

@RussiaTrue You can't argue a debate by pointing out other's faults if the focus is on the opposite. This was a film MADE by RUSSIAN filmmakers so it's not a propaganda piece or anything.

[ButherLi55ett]

@RussiaTrue I agree with what you say. However it is not to the extent. People don't go around carrying pictures in their wallets of the Queen like they apparently did of Stalin. However there are social and economic reasons for this. Monarchy is the remnants of feudalism and we are not living under a feudal mode of production. In this sense the new Stalins are so-called celebrities. Everyone thinks RT News is good but it neglects the barbarism in Russia and gives lots of foreign criticism.

[linkinetherlands11]

stalin the hero of moscow and the case of hitler´s suicide

[silvermaniamania1]

the voice of God, radio! TV, God!

[theflorgeormix]

Stalin started to feel like a God and he wanted to keep Feeling like an addict, very dangerous because anyone who disturbs that feeling, Off to the Gulag 

[quicklern818]

public forgetfulness is a politician's best friend

[foxterrier65]

He may have been a cruel, tyrannical ruler, but he looked good doing it. Lol.

[nobodymuch]

can't beat a bit of propaganda

[ef6854]

Russia is such a miserable country, god has forsaken it long ago

[HelenaXVI]

@ef6854 Have you been there?

[rimfa123]

I would argue that this video is as much an implement of mind control as any of Stalins propoganda, from the biased slant on history to the male voice with the affluent accent.

[AcePilot101]

Stalin's greatest accomplishment: Agent Obama!!

[karlkarlkarl1234]

This is happening in America at this exact moment. Tyranny is there. And the UK and most of EU.

[glaxev]

haha 2:00 is like eurotrash

[DerBlitzStag]

Freedom returns? Russia has no history of freedom.

[kadeem121]

properganda 101

[HokiesAndDawgs]

The Russian Archives says different.

[wizzzer1337]

Yuris Revenge

[snoopster000]

at 1:40 a citizen says that in 1953 roosevelt and churchill werecrawling on their bellies to russian power. he must be a victim of his countries own propaganda, by 1953 roosevelt was dead and churchill had been re-elected after the dismal performance of his socialist opponent elected in 1945. ignorance is bliss

[joejjohnston]

well, actually Clement Attlee is still held in high regard and his reforms are some of the most successful Britain has ever seen;most of which are still intact. I agree with the rest of what you said though.

[joejjohnston]

even churchill didn't oppose most of the reforms.

[paintmonkey61]

look some people STILL love hitler...it's no wonder then that Russia is no stranger to stupid people as well

[thiscantbesustained]

How can people hear the word GULAG and still defend stalin?

[LudvigAlm]

this seems a little bit biased...

[backtotheday]

LOL! A film about propaganda is biased? How much historical footage and facts does one need? All those dictators with similar policies had similar outcomes; Mao, Castro, and Chavez is just getting started. Chavez is shutting down opposition TV - and the propaganda starts.

[tom123ek]

20 000 000killed

[Vilarum]

This propaganda video tries to claim that all intelectuals and artists left the Soviet Union. This is obviously a lie - take for instance the great writer Maxim Gorky, who returned from exile to the new Soviet State and hihgly praised Stalins achievments!

[woodbineRed]

If you watch this episode to the end, you'll see that they mention several artists & intellectuals who remained in the USSR. "Stalin & Mind Control: IV" in particular goes into detail about Maxim Gorky & his experience under Stalin's regime.

[17noembri]

stalin= biggest enemy of bourgoisie

[prayfortruejustice]

Are we talking about Lennon at 2:40 or Obama?

[seltra]

he was a brutal, and the most brutal dictator wich the world has ever seen, its irrelevant to the fact that he made the SU a global power.

[seltra]

the fact that he turned the soviet union into a global superpower doesen't mean that he is a good man, i personaly belive that it was his brutality and ruthlesness and his abillity to lead and organize wich gave him such a power that he could control the faction of the SU, and therefore more easely build up the country's millitary and industry.

[atheistamr]

just a question, if Stalin was so bad, how he succeeded in transforming Russia into an industrial nation and superpower?

[woodbineRed]

What was bad about Stalin was the way his industrialization was carried out. It was inefficient, even murderous in the forced labor camps where ordinary people were worked to death under administrators who were often hard-core criminals. If instead of executing or imprisoning them, Stalin had encouraged Soviet engineers to devise machinery to replace the back-breaking labor, that would have been smart leadership. Solzhenitsyn tells about this in great detail in Gulag Archipelago II.

[pianopolitics]

Yeah, if Hitler was so bad, why did he bring his country out of hyper-inflation, revived their national spirit, and made them a world-class industrial power capable of taking on the world?

The results do not qualify the means.

[benjathome]

Based on its size, population and resources of Russia it's astonishing how backward and unsuccessful the economy has been under Stalin and since.

The Gulag (forced labour camps) system was used in an attempt to exploit much of the natural resources of Russia and build the economy.

One of the key problems they had was that the Gulag system was never profitable - slaves never work as well as free men, irrespective of how many there are (20 million passed through the Gulag system).

[crisiordan]

What a glory, built on murder, lies and megalomany! And Russia was already a superpower before communists.

[warsovereign]

Russia was a superpower before communist? It was not industrialized like the Western power was at the industrial revolution, 80% of its population was peasants, and was beat by the Germans like a dog during WWI. Superpower? Even it was, it was only because it had massive land which cannot be neglected by other powers.

No matter what's the personality of Stalin was, he brought the country industrialization, that's a fact. Under five years plan, USSR became the 2nd industrialized power worldwide.

[Obasiliasfilosofos]

@warsovereign If it was done by a Tsar what would you say?

[ronny888san]

just an answer , because he killed 36.000.000 people for it and while Russia has nuclear power ,in many other aspects it's a 3th world country .Sorry to say this comes from a person with great respect for Russia ,his writers ,cultural heritage ,but the truth is the truth and no growth is worth so many death

[europeandrifter]

@atheistamr He deliberately starved 7million Ukrainians ... cant be good eh ?

[lipoicacid]

@atheistamr Antony Sutton.

[SuperRenata23]

@atheistamr please sto talking rubbish are that narrow-mined or WHAT!!!What about those  20 mln people he killed for no reason!! I don't but some comments here are s....o stupid!!

[siralucard19]

The rise of lies, that what Stalin started. He was never loved so he wanted to be the most loved and most powerful, all those who dare to disagree or even complain and joke about it must be destroyed. Never before in history something like this ever happened so people belived what they were tolled, they started to believe the lies and myths and some,sadly,do even till today. The ones who knew the truth were the ones in the gulags and who worked for Stalins dirty deeds.

[cbradley1391]

@atheistamr stalin built the soviet empire the same way rome did, sheer brute force that would scare anyone away from opposing him. Murder is the worlds most profitable business, if you hold the unconstricted power to do so.

[quicklern818]

@atheistamr oh it wasn't too hard, just a complete lack of humanity, an unhealthy dose of zeal mixed with pragmatism, paranoia (and with good reason) of neighboring rival countries, slave labor on a country-wide scale, the sacrifice of millions, the constant use of political terror, roaming death squads, a disregard for adequate working conditions, utilizing the natural resources of the largest country in the world, propaganda. Just to name a few ways he succeeded.

[capsource1]

Even Lenin warned people about the psychotic Stalin

[Skiine]

Lenin wasn't excatly an angel himself.

[FesteredBastard]

@capsource1 he wasnt psychotic

[Losertarian]

Stalin did one good thing, he pushed the development of the AK-47. Cant think of anything else he did worth mentioning, well except for the millions he murdered, and the non-aggresion pact he signed with HItler.

[EsotericDesi]

These Ruskies are mistaken... world wasn't at its knees down to Soviet Power... it was ahead... there was more food on plate in other nations than there ever was in USSR... :-\

[LeHuyAnh]

What you said is true and false....cause don't forget, in a twisted world like that of the USSRs- with it's system of class struggle and reward- some people over there were wealthier than most in the west.

[randywilharm]

This documentary has the best music score of ANY

film I have seen in my life.

I taped this entire doc once, it was stolen, and

I thought I lost it forever until now.

I never rate videos except this one.

I'll give every one of these 5 stars

and a permanent place in "favorites" as well.

[woodbineRed]

Thank you--you made my day!

Incidentally, the composer of this music is Vladimir Dashkevich, who seems to have done a lot of composition for Russian film & television.

[pinegrove33]

thanks, fantastic documentary indeed