It's sad but Putin is reverting the poor, ever suffering Russian people back to the bad, KBG days.That clique live the good life and enslave everybody else to serve their lavish lifestyle.
people compare stalin with hitler, but i think he is more reminiscent to Kissinger.No one knew of their bloody deeds until it cam out much later. Secretive, power hungry and manipulative- maybe i'm wrong
@fcgfgcfg Some similarities maybe in terms of both being Machiavellian ... but Stalin was pretty unique in having zero value for human life I think so the comparison can't be stretched too far
Why did not the free world US and UK invade Eastern Europe and Russia and liberate these nations soon after the world war II ? Anyways US was too powerful for the soviet union then? US had a superior army and of course the atom bombs too? Because of the nukes Soviet would have got scared anyways, and surrendered. Eastern Europe. No war would have been more worthwhile than such a war where half the world would have been saved from the tyranny that followed for another half a century. Thanks
@sonny19xx My understanding is that General Patton wanted to take US forces into the Soviet Union to evict the Soviets from Central and Eastern Europe, but was not allowed to do so by the U.S. president and Patton's superiors in the War office.
@sonny19xx Britain was economically exhausted by the war, and the US had no intention of fighting an opponent with comparable economic power. Thousands of US soldiers would have died, and the US would have had to have been the agressor.
Instead, the US fought the Cold War and defeated the USSR with dollars. For US citizens, this was a good deal. For the citizens of Eastern Europe or the Ukraine, not so much.
Stalin did not necessarily focus on one race of people (Kulaks are not a race- that is class war), unlike Hitler with the Jews. Therefore, I believe that Hitler's motives were worse than Stalin's, because he was attempting to liquidise an entire ethnicity. Stalin's main motive was rapid industrialisation, and with it came the huge loss of life, which is inexcusable and callous. Stalin's Russia was a huge divergence from Marx's egalitarian vision. Stalin and Hitler are in the same category- evil.
Also with both characters there seems to have been paranoia and insecurity which I don't think can be overlooked... That, and having no concept at all of the value of human life
Wow this is whats happening in the US since 2001, where did GW get his ideas? Even Stain's executions with over 20000 Poles at Katyn, the Russian dissident deaths still outnumbered him killing anyone else. This is the only sympathy Russians will get. Stalin did deserve Hitlers betrayal for being also greedy and invading Poland on the eastern side, though Hitler should have waiting for spring.
Well, the number of Stalins victims depend on how many of the people in WW2 (military) he sent to their deaths, and if you count those. Even germany only lost 4 million military, whereas stalin lost 8 million, and 11 million civilians during that time period. (Mostly due to starvation and disease).
the Great Purge of 1937-38 encompassed the entire Soviet Union and all categories of people. Its goal was to sweep away all of Stalin's real and imaginary enemies and to infuse all levels of Soviet society, especially upper echelons, with a sense of insecurity and abject dependence on and obedience to the "Great Leader." In a series of sensational show trials, almost all the "founding fathers" of bolshevism (and the potential rivals of Stalin) were discredited and subsequently executed.
From grain shortages in the 30s thru the late 40's, to the Doctor's Plot and the Purges on 37-39...
It's estimated that Stalin (and/or his policies) was responsible for around 20 million soviet deaths.
He was the worst of the worst and the world is a better place to be rid of the evil man. He was a lying scoundrel... I don't have the words to describe him really. Just the worst of the worst.
ps - he liked onion soup, one of the only things about him that doesn't sicken a moral human being
No-oen mess with Comrade Iosif!!! If you mess then Iron Fist!!! Such a glorios leader is Comrade Iosif we worship his glorios and sacred memory!!! Fatherlan socialism or DEATH!!! Remember: is need a Fist of Iron, hard hand to control and lead a nation at the same time triturating the oligarchy!!!!
All the commies posting messages below, just get over the fact that you were worse than Nazis, and that you have killed far more innocent people than Nazis.
@CCCPSovietSoldier Yea exactly, that was my thought too when I heard he killed 20million+ people. He wouldnt even have enough people in his military to have any threat towards any one.
Obama (real name Barry Sahtoro, an Indonesian citizen, groomed by the leader of the Marxist 'Weather Underground', agent of the Federal Reserve private banking system, and enemy of the constituional republic of USA) is more socialist than Stalin ever was.
Hilary Clinton has praised the work of Stalin and Mao.
US now = "The Socialist States of the North American Union."
America doesn't exist anymore, the people there are too fat & cowardly to stand up to the socialist subversion.
Stalin claimed to have upheld Communism but he is an embarrasement to everything Carl Marx strived to create. Not that I support Communism or any type of socialism but they seem to have worked, In theory. But the truth is anything and everything is corruptible, when everyone is declared equal for a small time they work as a group, then those that lead them become mad with power and the system eventually collapses due to the nature of humanity. A republic is the only true sustainable system.
Stalin claimed to have upheld Communism but he is an insult to everything Carl Marx and Lenin strived to create. Not that I support Communism or any type of socialism but they seem to have worked, In theory. But the truth is anything and everything is corruptible, when everyone is declared equal for a small time they work as a group, then those that lead them become mad with power and the system eventually collapses due to the nature of humanity. A republic is the only true sustainable system.
American propaganda is funny. How could Stalin, "evil" man made USSR such powerfull state, where 95% of population was considering them selfs very happy and USSR was in reall very powerful country under his rule.
@mikeplay007 So how did the people vote? did the people flee to or from the Soviet Union?
Everyone will act happy if they have a pistol to their heads. Of course they would say that they were happy since if they wouldn't they would be sent to a gulag.
USSR was powerful because they spent all their GDP on the military. the soviet lost track of how much they actually spent cause most of the spending when through secrets account. Soviet union fell apart because it went bankrupt.
@mikeplay007 So how did the people vote? did the people flee to or from the Soviet Union?
Everyone will act happy if they have a pistol to their heads. Of course they would say that they were happy since if they wouldn't they would be sent to a gulag.
USSR was powerful because they spent all their GDP on the military. the soviet lost track of how much they actually spent cause most of the spending when through secrets account. Soviet union fell apart because it went bankrupt.
@mikeplay007 Well, a lot of the people that are speaking out now against them are Russians who were living under his rule. He's dead so they don't have to worry about getting killed for speaking out against him.
the comentator said - he will (in time) become Dzerzhinsky replesment.
Dzerzhinsky and Yagoda knew each other for years, doing Cheka and OGPU times Yagoda was his first deputy and II-deputy, also member of Cheka Presidium and a head of a Osobyj Otdieł (OO-Special Department military counterintelligence) of Secret Operational Directorate [SOU] of the OGPU. When all-soviet NKVD was made Yagoda was in charge of it as a In 1934 he was a People's Commissarr for Internal Affairs, (minister)
Well poor Felix was just too excited after meeting with the 'great genius fearless leader' Stalin and it was too much for his heart. It appears 'heart problems' were to be a popular ailment in the USSR and people just seemed to disappear. Hmm..
Putin, check this out maybe a few more 'heart attacks' can help in bringing back the glory of mother Russia.
Salomon Morel was a jew who ran the Zgoda death camp in Poland where multitudes of Germans and Poles were tortured and killed in 1945. When communism faltered in 1989 the killer Morel fled to Israel while his awful crimes against humanity were being investigated. The apartheid state of Israel then rejected numerous requests over 15 years by Poland to have Morel extradited so those refusals made the Israelis guilty of WW2-era war crimes against humanity.
I heartily agree. Not only Solzhenitsyn's experience, but the eye-witness experiences of hundreds of other victims of the terror. AND a masterpiece of literature.
@Philobeddoe12 fyi none of solzy's books are factual. they are novels written which give the impression he was really there, which he never was. he did meet with real survivors though
As anticomunist propaganda this really is of low level (montage music, bloods (colorated at end), surprise for violence inside a dramatic revolutions like idiots baby)
I wouldn't qualify this as anticommunist propaganda at all. It's historically true, for one; and I think you do communism a disservice by lumping the crimes of Stalin and Lenin (who gets a free pass often only due to how much his crimes pale only in comparison to Stalin's) with communism. I'm not a communist (nor a leftist at all) but if I were I'd be objecting to equating the Soviets with Communism.
Mind you, I don't think it's entirely improper to do, either.
Occidental power do all possible for destroing the born and the progress of URRS, only a strong state under a strong leader can survie. the State (any) has the violence monopole.
Hitler and Mussolini was helped and tolerated because the great hope of Churcill was to use Nazi and Fascism against comunism..Churchill was the bigger idiot of last century
Thanks for posting this series. Sad, but not unique to the Soviet Union. The treachery, deceit, and the gullibility of the populace are all too common a thread throughout human history. There was nothing particularly imaginative or sophisticated about Stalin's approach. It is all quite mundane and primitive...but effective. Stalin was able to delude himself. Did you know before the Nazi's blitzrieg of his country he was told numerous time Operation Barbarrossa was coming and denied it.
There's a mistake with this part of the documental. If you check in Wikipedia or any other source, the Dzezhinsky's sucesor wasn't Genrikh Yagoda but Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, who stay about 8 years like Soviet Secret Police chief.
@Tavare8 yes, but the comentator said - he will (in time) become Dzerzhinsky replesment.Dzerzhinsky and Yagoda knew each other for years, doing Cheka and OGPU times Yagoda was his first deputy and II-deputy, also member of Cheka Presidium and a head of a Osobyj Otdieł (OO-Special Department military counterintelligence) of Secret Operational Directorate [SOU] of the OGPU.
the once free democratic western world is now being populated by dictators and dictatorships and their respective new(para)(military) police force creating the new world order something Stalin would be envious of
Would you please explain further your comment, please? I would like to know more about your reasons and thoughts behind your statement. Would you also please supple sources of information? Thank you.
Defending Hitler on that basis is objectively pro-fascist, whether or not you agree with that ideology. There's simply no basis in fact for all of the slander that has been levelled at Stalin since his death. In terms of body count, the U.S. has killed far more in both Iraq Wars alone than died in the USSR under Stalin. They have more people imprisoned than the USSR ever did, and the US does this without the threat of constant invasion.
@Envier82 stalin's speech in 1941, he said those who were opressed by the Germans in Europe would recive freedom by the soviet union. But before Stalin aided Europe, he needed to free his own people from his own opression.
@Envier82 I don't think Stalin was worst than Hitler and it could be argued that Pol Pot was next in line to Hitler as being one of the cruelest rulers.
@emckethern That is no doubt that Pol pot was the most cruel ruler than them all. After pol pot comes Stalin , this guys killed their own people in mass im talking cambodians and russians, Hitler was an angel compared to this guys.
You'll probably get a variety of opinions to that question,.based on what standards people use to measure crimes. I think that Stalin was worse than Hitler because he killed more people (estimates ranging from around 20-50 million), while Hitler's victims are usually estimated at around 11 million. In that sense, Stalin was worse than Hitler, Hitler worse than serial killer Jeffery Dahmer (17 victims), and Dahmer worse than John WIlkes Booth, who assassinated 1 man--Abraham Lincoln.
I think it is impossible to say if Stalin was worse or not then Hitler. Yes, it is true that Stalin killed more people. But his regime lasted much longer and he also ruled over a much bigger country. Besides, Hitler didn't killed much people because he lost the war. Otherwise, his killing machine would have continued. But then again, Stalin also had planed another great purge before his death. So like I said, it is nearly impossible to say which was worse.
Stalin killed 50-65 million people of his own while his buddy Mao Zedong killed 70-80 million people of his own, while both performed ethnic and cultural genocide on every single minority group in their country and even destroyed their own peoples' culture. They also falsified history like no other human being before.
So yes indeed, Stalin and Communism in general was FAR worse.
Not to mention that the Holocaust is grossly exaggarated anyway.
@woodbineRed Stalin murdered more people probably because he was in power for longer (1922 - 1953). So some people might argue that they were both equally bad in there intentions, but Stalin had a longer amount of time to commit his crimes.
Hitler was worse than Stalin? Where did you get that idea? Just because Stalin's terror wasn't race based, didn't make him less worse than Hitler. Killing people is killing people. And Stalin killed more people than Hitler did. Before Hitler even came to power as chancellor in 1933, Stalin had already killed millions of his own people through his economic plans. Stalin killed 20 million people and Hitler killed 9-10 million people total in the "Holocaust". Stalin was worse than Hitler.
@medwards8820 That depends, Hitler killed anything unusual because he didn't like it, and Stalin killed everybody because he didn't like them. Consider the morals behind the holocaust vs. Stalin letting his troops starve, that's the main debate.
Don't waste much time on it though, because both deserved to die horribly.
@TurnerEckhardt totally correct stalin might have got away with on earth but he didnt get away with it when he met his maker , the final judge jesus christ there is a hell and stalin is in it forever
That's right, Turner. Commie tyrants thruout history thruout world. Watch out for tyrants in the making -- it's nothing more than a political machine and a very sneaky illegal one at that. /~\\
hey guys i read this book young stalin and it was pretty good. Now I'm reading this Radzinski who goes with this "Stalin worked for the Ohkrana" thing. What do you guys think of Radzinski? I'm a little skeptical of him.
russia need a new stalin, and this should be a good thing, and if you dont understand why, then your perception is limited, and dont juge this decision. russia need a stalin, with the great economic and humanist-collectif vision, but not cruel like stalin, but dictatorship is the best thing during a crisis time, and it's a crisis time, america, will lost his international influence, and it's for the best, your vision of economic is a poison, we cant continu like this, i am not comunnist
I agree that we are in a crisis, especially economically. The problem with dictatorship, though, is that by definition it puts absolute power into the hands of one person. If that person is corrupt or incompetent, he doesn't have to answer to anyone for his mistakes, and can't be removed from power. Leaders ought to have a healthy fear of the citizens, and citizens a healthy mistrust of their leaders.
Dzerzhinsky's allusion to Stalin as the "gravedigger of the revolution" raises an interesting point--that Stalin was ultimately responsible for the demise of the Soviet Union.
Certainly the makers of this documentary believed he did, as did Solzhenitsyn (mentioned in 'Gulag Archipelago').. I don't find it hard to believe that Stalin informed on other Bolsheviks, when one considers that when in power he continued to purge anyone he viewed as a threat. Through the Okhrana, he could keep himself safe, and get rid of potential rivals at the same time.
The composer of this music is Vladimir Dashkevich, who has done a lot of composition for Russian film & television. I don't see reference to 'Stalin' in his IMDB credits, but he does have a profile on Wikipedia. It's possible that the theme was not composed especially for 'Stalin'. Google "Владимир Сергеевич Дашкевич" & "Vladimir Dashkevich" & you might find an email address & ask him yourself :-)
The profile of Stalin it was very interesting to find out about what actually happened instead of those stupid history text books that only give you like a paragraph about that kind of stuff! Also to find out about a piece of my heritage but it is a tragedy what happend! By the way does anyone know the name of the theme music playiing I actually like it its so evil and creepy lol! So if someone stumbles on the name can someone INFORM ME PLEASE THANKYOU VERY MUCH!
It's sad but Putin is reverting the poor, ever suffering Russian people back to the bad, KBG days.That clique live the good life and enslave everybody else to serve their lavish lifestyle.
69arden 4 days ago
Communism could be a great thing. People don't understand what communism is
cockywatchman1976 1 month ago
not in stereo omgomg
weisse007 1 month ago
The USSR was more like a crazy house than a socialist country
nicopopoify 3 months ago 4
at about 7:00 ... I guess that's the mother kissing the lips of her dead son? that's just heart wrenching.
WintersWar 4 months ago
Do you think these people looked forward to the 'withering away of the state'?
comprehensiveboy 4 months ago
3:57 stalin had a death note
urantiruslan 5 months ago
I find the history of Russia very interesting.
thebearjew145 5 months ago
Посмотрели фельмец и думаете что все знаете? )
GGXzxz 5 months ago
people compare stalin with hitler, but i think he is more reminiscent to Kissinger.No one knew of their bloody deeds until it cam out much later. Secretive, power hungry and manipulative- maybe i'm wrong
fcgfgcfg 6 months ago
@fcgfgcfg Some similarities maybe in terms of both being Machiavellian ... but Stalin was pretty unique in having zero value for human life I think so the comparison can't be stretched too far
whirmark 4 months ago
Why did not the free world US and UK invade Eastern Europe and Russia and liberate these nations soon after the world war II ? Anyways US was too powerful for the soviet union then? US had a superior army and of course the atom bombs too? Because of the nukes Soviet would have got scared anyways, and surrendered. Eastern Europe. No war would have been more worthwhile than such a war where half the world would have been saved from the tyranny that followed for another half a century. Thanks
sonny19xx 6 months ago
@sonny19xx My understanding is that General Patton wanted to take US forces into the Soviet Union to evict the Soviets from Central and Eastern Europe, but was not allowed to do so by the U.S. president and Patton's superiors in the War office.
woodbineRed 6 months ago 5
@woodbineRed perhapts they had some part in it
Gaffer213 2 months ago
@sonny19xx Britain was economically exhausted by the war, and the US had no intention of fighting an opponent with comparable economic power. Thousands of US soldiers would have died, and the US would have had to have been the agressor.
Instead, the US fought the Cold War and defeated the USSR with dollars. For US citizens, this was a good deal. For the citizens of Eastern Europe or the Ukraine, not so much.
zemplenbe 1 month ago
best documentary series about Stalin ever!
xn117 8 months ago
Glory to Lenin and Stalin. Long live the Cheká and NKVD
camarrrrada 8 months ago
Can you imagine many Russian young people want Stalin back? Ignorant fools...
kingofqwerty 8 months ago 15
@kingofqwerty
They care about a strong Russia, not a new Gulag.
inferno0020 8 months ago
@kingofqwerty normal people want hitler!
chtovimenitebemojem 5 months ago
@kingofqwerty They loved him, his approval ratings were somewhere around 135%
cdoftx 1 month ago
@cdoftx thats funny 135% approval for stalin.lol
SuperKojim 1 day ago
Stalin did not necessarily focus on one race of people (Kulaks are not a race- that is class war), unlike Hitler with the Jews. Therefore, I believe that Hitler's motives were worse than Stalin's, because he was attempting to liquidise an entire ethnicity. Stalin's main motive was rapid industrialisation, and with it came the huge loss of life, which is inexcusable and callous. Stalin's Russia was a huge divergence from Marx's egalitarian vision. Stalin and Hitler are in the same category- evil.
XxjohnFTWsquirexX 9 months ago
@XxjohnFTWsquirexX
Also with both characters there seems to have been paranoia and insecurity which I don't think can be overlooked... That, and having no concept at all of the value of human life
Cainstennett 8 months ago
Why is it that it's always the crazies and loonies that rule the world? You'd think that people would start electing men/women of peace by now.
Gamer4672 9 months ago
How do these people live with themselves? I also see some similarities to Saddam Hussein. Saddam loved Stalin. Sick freaks.
walkingoneggshells 9 months ago
stalin a free mason. tried the Great Plan. will try again. XD
silvermaniamania1 9 months ago
Hitler's national socialism and Marxist socialism where just the same , just diffrent name and tyrants.
280GTXXX 9 months ago
Wow this is whats happening in the US since 2001, where did GW get his ideas? Even Stain's executions with over 20000 Poles at Katyn, the Russian dissident deaths still outnumbered him killing anyone else. This is the only sympathy Russians will get. Stalin did deserve Hitlers betrayal for being also greedy and invading Poland on the eastern side, though Hitler should have waiting for spring.
freedomisfromtruth 9 months ago
rulers allways find a reason to kill.
Wrong class,race,colour ,religion.
all over the world its the same.
Curse our rulers to Hell from whence they came.
354sd 10 months ago
Well, the number of Stalins victims depend on how many of the people in WW2 (military) he sent to their deaths, and if you count those. Even germany only lost 4 million military, whereas stalin lost 8 million, and 11 million civilians during that time period. (Mostly due to starvation and disease).
AnarcticPanda 10 months ago
the Great Purge of 1937-38 encompassed the entire Soviet Union and all categories of people. Its goal was to sweep away all of Stalin's real and imaginary enemies and to infuse all levels of Soviet society, especially upper echelons, with a sense of insecurity and abject dependence on and obedience to the "Great Leader." In a series of sensational show trials, almost all the "founding fathers" of bolshevism (and the potential rivals of Stalin) were discredited and subsequently executed.
leonRao 10 months ago
Hey if some could tell me the composer and the song of the beginning into that would be greatly appreciated thanks!
Mdobri14561 11 months ago
Hey if some could tell me the composer and the song of the beginning into that would be greatly appreciated thanks!
Mdobri14561 11 months ago
Hey I was wondering if someone could give me the name of the composer and the song at the beginning into. I would greatly appreciate it thanks!
Mdobri14561 11 months ago
i cant understand while people out their still like this man. they act like he was the greatest leader ever.
historyman9 11 months ago
From grain shortages in the 30s thru the late 40's, to the Doctor's Plot and the Purges on 37-39...
It's estimated that Stalin (and/or his policies) was responsible for around 20 million soviet deaths.
He was the worst of the worst and the world is a better place to be rid of the evil man. He was a lying scoundrel... I don't have the words to describe him really. Just the worst of the worst.
ps - he liked onion soup, one of the only things about him that doesn't sicken a moral human being
SamJuanIDunno 11 months ago
I recommend you read H.G.Wells account of his private meeting with Stalin in his autobiography.Then read his non-fictional books.
lipoicacid 1 year ago
No-oen mess with Comrade Iosif!!! If you mess then Iron Fist!!! Such a glorios leader is Comrade Iosif we worship his glorios and sacred memory!!! Fatherlan socialism or DEATH!!! Remember: is need a Fist of Iron, hard hand to control and lead a nation at the same time triturating the oligarchy!!!!
hugocaracas2021 1 year ago
@hugocaracas2021 I'm sure the Ukrainians under Holodomor would've agreed with you.
Boldenberg 11 months ago
@Boldenberg I'm sure they would be surprized if someone told them in 1934 about Holodomor.
tagaphon 11 months ago
The lust for power is an evil, terrible thing.
TheAnn2shoes 1 year ago
All the commies posting messages below, just get over the fact that you were worse than Nazis, and that you have killed far more innocent people than Nazis.
Godzhur 1 year ago
how anycunt can praise stalins regime needs to get their heads looked at
MrJconnolly1916 1 year ago
Lol Western Propaganda 20 million is a Western lie.
Stalin killed in between 5 to 9 million not 20 million.
Look at the Soviet Union demographics and killing 20 millions after WW2 would have caused great population disbalance.
Also Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a Jew and a Western Puppet
CCCPSovietSoldier 1 year ago
@CCCPSovietSoldier No serious person takes people like you seriously. Remember that.
Dominick629 1 year ago
@CCCPSovietSoldier Yea exactly, that was my thought too when I heard he killed 20million+ people. He wouldnt even have enough people in his military to have any threat towards any one.
MikeBNumba6 1 year ago
hitler killed more
CommunismRulez 1 year ago
@CommunismRulez Nope.
BadassBigBoss 2 months ago
YEAH BLAME THE USSR AGAIN AMERICA ALSO EXECUTED ALL COMMUNISTS DURING THE COLD WAR
CommunismRulez 1 year ago
Oh man why is the audio only on 1 ear
travis30384 1 year ago
He didn't care about communism. he just wanted the power so that he could carry out his evil plans. He was a maniac.
intresseklubben 1 year ago 2
... well ! ... that was Stalin ... !
MusicPredominates 1 year ago 2
joeseph stalin murdering bastard with a load of blood on his hands
mufc1970ok 1 year ago
watch the bloody history of communism .
username0u812ic 1 year ago
And we may see this Here !
Roddyoneeye 1 year ago
in fact he wasnot monster .......he was evail ..... but has a human body ...he came from the hell....
mozmoz52 1 year ago 6
Stalin used Communism. Gave the ideology a bad name..
He and leaders as Kim Jong iL, Pol Pot and Mao (In some parts).
Sandberg95 1 year ago
Obama (real name Barry Sahtoro, an Indonesian citizen, groomed by the leader of the Marxist 'Weather Underground', agent of the Federal Reserve private banking system, and enemy of the constituional republic of USA) is more socialist than Stalin ever was.
Hilary Clinton has praised the work of Stalin and Mao.
US now = "The Socialist States of the North American Union."
America doesn't exist anymore, the people there are too fat & cowardly to stand up to the socialist subversion.
karlkarlkarl1234 1 year ago
Stalin claimed to have upheld Communism but he is an embarrasement to everything Carl Marx strived to create. Not that I support Communism or any type of socialism but they seem to have worked, In theory. But the truth is anything and everything is corruptible, when everyone is declared equal for a small time they work as a group, then those that lead them become mad with power and the system eventually collapses due to the nature of humanity. A republic is the only true sustainable system.
davedavedaveannoy1 1 year ago
Stalin claimed to have upheld Communism but he is an insult to everything Carl Marx and Lenin strived to create. Not that I support Communism or any type of socialism but they seem to have worked, In theory. But the truth is anything and everything is corruptible, when everyone is declared equal for a small time they work as a group, then those that lead them become mad with power and the system eventually collapses due to the nature of humanity. A republic is the only true sustainable system.
davedavedaveannoy1 1 year ago
@davedavedaveannoy1
It depend's on who rules it.
Look at Cuba. The "best" country in world to live in(If you don't think about non free-press and non free-civil opinions) but it works.
And Democraty is flouding good to.
Sry my English.
Sandberg95 1 year ago
they stole the children
alphafirstoneyou 1 year ago
American propaganda is funny. How could Stalin, "evil" man made USSR such powerfull state, where 95% of population was considering them selfs very happy and USSR was in reall very powerful country under his rule.
mikeplay007 1 year ago
@mikeplay007 So how did the people vote? did the people flee to or from the Soviet Union?
Everyone will act happy if they have a pistol to their heads. Of course they would say that they were happy since if they wouldn't they would be sent to a gulag.
USSR was powerful because they spent all their GDP on the military. the soviet lost track of how much they actually spent cause most of the spending when through secrets account. Soviet union fell apart because it went bankrupt.
shodan78 1 year ago
@mikeplay007 So how did the people vote? did the people flee to or from the Soviet Union?
Everyone will act happy if they have a pistol to their heads. Of course they would say that they were happy since if they wouldn't they would be sent to a gulag.
USSR was powerful because they spent all their GDP on the military. the soviet lost track of how much they actually spent cause most of the spending when through secrets account. Soviet union fell apart because it went bankrupt.
shodan78 1 year ago
@mikeplay007 Well, a lot of the people that are speaking out now against them are Russians who were living under his rule. He's dead so they don't have to worry about getting killed for speaking out against him.
blossom114 1 year ago
yip it was yagoda, yezhov, Beria.
yezhov1 1 year ago
When all-soviet NKVD was made Yagoda was in charge of it as a In 1934 he was a People's Commissarr for Internal Affairs, (minister)
majorRajn 1 year ago
the comentator said - he will (in time) become Dzerzhinsky replesment.
Dzerzhinsky and Yagoda knew each other for years, doing Cheka and OGPU times Yagoda was his first deputy and II-deputy, also member of Cheka Presidium and a head of a Osobyj Otdieł (OO-Special Department military counterintelligence) of Secret Operational Directorate [SOU] of the OGPU. When all-soviet NKVD was made Yagoda was in charge of it as a In 1934 he was a People's Commissarr for Internal Affairs, (minister)
majorRajn 1 year ago
Well poor Felix was just too excited after meeting with the 'great genius fearless leader' Stalin and it was too much for his heart. It appears 'heart problems' were to be a popular ailment in the USSR and people just seemed to disappear. Hmm..
Putin, check this out maybe a few more 'heart attacks' can help in bringing back the glory of mother Russia.
burko890 2 years ago 2
Salomon Morel was a jew who ran the Zgoda death camp in Poland where multitudes of Germans and Poles were tortured and killed in 1945. When communism faltered in 1989 the killer Morel fled to Israel while his awful crimes against humanity were being investigated. The apartheid state of Israel then rejected numerous requests over 15 years by Poland to have Morel extradited so those refusals made the Israelis guilty of WW2-era war crimes against humanity.
CondensedHistory 2 years ago 3
what about KGB today: the hidden hand by john baron... can anyone tell me if its good to read im new in this topic,, please help thanks
vanilah88 2 years ago
We need to be very vigilant here in the West so the same thing doesn't happen to us, and don't think in can't happen.
Be sure you know what you believe in and with whom you can trust your government.
Philobeddoe12 2 years ago 3
Read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago" for a first hand account of the whole sorid mess.
Philobeddoe12 2 years ago 20
I heartily agree. Not only Solzhenitsyn's experience, but the eye-witness experiences of hundreds of other victims of the terror. AND a masterpiece of literature.
woodbineRed 2 years ago
@Philobeddoe12 fyi none of solzy's books are factual. they are novels written which give the impression he was really there, which he never was. he did meet with real survivors though
s0673451 1 year ago
@Philobeddoe12 Also 'Darkness at Noon' by Koestler
vikramkrishnan 1 year ago
@Philobeddoe12 Where can i read about notorious Tule Lake concentration camp?
steelhelex 4 months ago
How Stalin was better then Hitler I would like to know.Becouse America said so?
derwolfpack 2 years ago
stalin was worse than the nazis. nazis didn't kill who was loyal to them while stalin killed everybody he suspected can be dangerous.
Pupak30 2 years ago 4
read donald rayfields book titled stalin and his hangmen
tenirpaslager 2 years ago
read donald rayfields book titled stalin and his hangmen
tenirpaslager 2 years ago
the idiots would call him a hero
tom123ek 2 years ago 4
As anticomunist propaganda this really is of low level (montage music, bloods (colorated at end), surprise for violence inside a dramatic revolutions like idiots baby)
sergiorgio2000 2 years ago
sergiorgio2000:
I wouldn't qualify this as anticommunist propaganda at all. It's historically true, for one; and I think you do communism a disservice by lumping the crimes of Stalin and Lenin (who gets a free pass often only due to how much his crimes pale only in comparison to Stalin's) with communism. I'm not a communist (nor a leftist at all) but if I were I'd be objecting to equating the Soviets with Communism.
Mind you, I don't think it's entirely improper to do, either.
va3svd 2 years ago 4
Occidental power do all possible for destroing the born and the progress of URRS, only a strong state under a strong leader can survie. the State (any) has the violence monopole.
Hitler and Mussolini was helped and tolerated because the great hope of Churcill was to use Nazi and Fascism against comunism..Churchill was the bigger idiot of last century
sergiorgio2000 2 years ago
@sergiorgio2000
Well, Churchil wasnt in power back then. He wasnt responsable for british suport of hitler & mussolini.
skepticaldemocrat 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this series. Sad, but not unique to the Soviet Union. The treachery, deceit, and the gullibility of the populace are all too common a thread throughout human history. There was nothing particularly imaginative or sophisticated about Stalin's approach. It is all quite mundane and primitive...but effective. Stalin was able to delude himself. Did you know before the Nazi's blitzrieg of his country he was told numerous time Operation Barbarrossa was coming and denied it.
kentucy9999 2 years ago 2
Russian authors, american money - at least so it sounds
cookml 2 years ago
down with kgb putin
tom123ek 2 years ago
There's a mistake with this part of the documental. If you check in Wikipedia or any other source, the Dzezhinsky's sucesor wasn't Genrikh Yagoda but Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, who stay about 8 years like Soviet Secret Police chief.
Tavare8 2 years ago 8
You're right. Good catch!
woodbineRed 2 years ago 4
@Tavare8 yes, but the comentator said - he will (in time) become Dzerzhinsky replesment.Dzerzhinsky and Yagoda knew each other for years, doing Cheka and OGPU times Yagoda was his first deputy and II-deputy, also member of Cheka Presidium and a head of a Osobyj Otdieł (OO-Special Department military counterintelligence) of Secret Operational Directorate [SOU] of the OGPU.
majorRajn 1 year ago
@Tavare8
If you listen you hear the narrator say "In time Yagoda will replace Menzhinsky"
syro666 1 year ago
@Tavare8 The documentary didn't claim that Yagoda was Dzerzhinsky's successor, but rather one who would eventually assume his position.
afroninja515 8 months ago
the once free democratic western world is now being populated by dictators and dictatorships and their respective new(para)(military) police force creating the new world order something Stalin would be envious of
ENDEUARABIA 2 years ago
Would you please explain further your comment, please? I would like to know more about your reasons and thoughts behind your statement. Would you also please supple sources of information? Thank you.
rexmiles77 2 years ago
wrong.
SirHappyThe1st 2 years ago
Right. Stalin was worse than Hitler. Get over it.
Envier82 2 years ago 43
or atleast as bad
ionrocket 2 years ago
Defending Hitler on that basis is objectively pro-fascist, whether or not you agree with that ideology. There's simply no basis in fact for all of the slander that has been levelled at Stalin since his death. In terms of body count, the U.S. has killed far more in both Iraq Wars alone than died in the USSR under Stalin. They have more people imprisoned than the USSR ever did, and the US does this without the threat of constant invasion.
p1nkfl0yd 2 years ago
False; even by iraqi statistics, Stalin killed far more than the U.S did in the Iraq war.
Noahthebeast09 2 years ago 2
@Envier82 he was more successful and stayed in power.
xn117 1 year ago
@Envier82 stalin's speech in 1941, he said those who were opressed by the Germans in Europe would recive freedom by the soviet union. But before Stalin aided Europe, he needed to free his own people from his own opression.
m1grand70 10 months ago
@Envier82 I don't think Stalin was worst than Hitler and it could be argued that Pol Pot was next in line to Hitler as being one of the cruelest rulers.
emckethern 9 months ago
@emckethern That is no doubt that Pol pot was the most cruel ruler than them all. After pol pot comes Stalin , this guys killed their own people in mass im talking cambodians and russians, Hitler was an angel compared to this guys.
xhoi96 9 months ago
I need to find out something here. Was Stalin worse than Hitler?
medwards8820 2 years ago 3
You'll probably get a variety of opinions to that question,.based on what standards people use to measure crimes. I think that Stalin was worse than Hitler because he killed more people (estimates ranging from around 20-50 million), while Hitler's victims are usually estimated at around 11 million. In that sense, Stalin was worse than Hitler, Hitler worse than serial killer Jeffery Dahmer (17 victims), and Dahmer worse than John WIlkes Booth, who assassinated 1 man--Abraham Lincoln.
woodbineRed 2 years ago 8
I think it is impossible to say if Stalin was worse or not then Hitler. Yes, it is true that Stalin killed more people. But his regime lasted much longer and he also ruled over a much bigger country. Besides, Hitler didn't killed much people because he lost the war. Otherwise, his killing machine would have continued. But then again, Stalin also had planed another great purge before his death. So like I said, it is nearly impossible to say which was worse.
speedy3702 2 years ago
Stalin killed 50-65 million people of his own while his buddy Mao Zedong killed 70-80 million people of his own, while both performed ethnic and cultural genocide on every single minority group in their country and even destroyed their own peoples' culture. They also falsified history like no other human being before.
So yes indeed, Stalin and Communism in general was FAR worse.
Not to mention that the Holocaust is grossly exaggarated anyway.
FFulmenTheFinnish 2 years ago 3
wrong
SirHappyThe1st 2 years ago
FFulmenTheFinnish you have 100% reason,they were not hero or great leaders,only criminals!
ArturoAlejandroS 2 years ago 2
Thanks for the upload.
SirHappyThe1st 2 years ago
Very good documentary. Very englightening. Thanks.
SirHappyThe1st 2 years ago 2
@woodbineRed Hitler also aimed his attacks on specific groups. Jews, Gays, Gypsies, etc. I think Stalin was a bit more indiscriminant.
blossom114 1 year ago
@woodbineRed Ted Bundy was worse than Dahmer with over 40 women raped and murdered.
johnnecron 1 year ago
@woodbineRed Stalin murdered more people probably because he was in power for longer (1922 - 1953). So some people might argue that they were both equally bad in there intentions, but Stalin had a longer amount of time to commit his crimes.
TolsmaLMC 9 months ago
@woodbineRed I thought he was responsible for over 100 million deaths
OmnomTheDevourer 9 months ago
Hitler was worse than Stalin. Stalin intention was just personal power whereas Hitlers intention was the extermination of whole races of people.
Stalin wanted terror to perserve power hitler wanted terror to rid the world of what he considered inferior human beings.
Stalin killed 20 million and hitler started a war that killed 27 million russians and if he had his way more would have died.
I consider Hitler to be possibly the only person more evil than stalin.
SirHappyThe1st 2 years ago
Hitler was worse than Stalin? Where did you get that idea? Just because Stalin's terror wasn't race based, didn't make him less worse than Hitler. Killing people is killing people. And Stalin killed more people than Hitler did. Before Hitler even came to power as chancellor in 1933, Stalin had already killed millions of his own people through his economic plans. Stalin killed 20 million people and Hitler killed 9-10 million people total in the "Holocaust". Stalin was worse than Hitler.
Envier82 2 years ago 4
@medwards8820 I think Stalin was MUCH worse than Hitler. He killed around 30 million people in Russia (own country). More people than died in WWII.
worras2007 1 year ago
@medwards8820 That depends, Hitler killed anything unusual because he didn't like it, and Stalin killed everybody because he didn't like them. Consider the morals behind the holocaust vs. Stalin letting his troops starve, that's the main debate.
Don't waste much time on it though, because both deserved to die horribly.
AnarcticPanda 10 months ago
what is the name of the song between 1:25 and 2:17 ??
Aterkomsten 2 years ago
Sorry that I can't help you. All I can tell is that it's a march beat. Maybe someone else can identify it...
woodbineRed 2 years ago
Michael Chertoff great grandfather worked for the checka.
tonylee1973 2 years ago
all of these neo cons are their heirs. Check out the Cheka video I made.
FinalWar1444 2 years ago
Obama is the perfect totalitarian dictator, with adoring masses who never question the official story of his life... not the real facts.
mark1234me 2 years ago
Criminal Bolsheviks
AntiquityCentury21 2 years ago 4
Stalin was nothing more than a gangster who abused a nation like a crome boss. Surely one of the darkest, evil men to have ever existed.
TurnerEckhardt 2 years ago 36
@TurnerEckhardt totally correct stalin might have got away with on earth but he didnt get away with it when he met his maker , the final judge jesus christ there is a hell and stalin is in it forever
mufc1970ok 1 year ago
That's right, Turner. Commie tyrants thruout history thruout world. Watch out for tyrants in the making -- it's nothing more than a political machine and a very sneaky illegal one at that. /~\\
evernetherall 1 year ago
Marx despite maniacs like Stalin is still correct. People are just too afraid and brainwashed to re-think him.
pilgrimsareillegal 2 years ago
This is very true, Leninism is the way forward.
FromLondonToHarlem 2 years ago
hate that nazi
andreworeilly1990 2 years ago
Wow Stalin seems like a nice guy killing all of those people (sarcasm)
PumaFau 2 years ago 2
hey guys i read this book young stalin and it was pretty good. Now I'm reading this Radzinski who goes with this "Stalin worked for the Ohkrana" thing. What do you guys think of Radzinski? I'm a little skeptical of him.
tonylee1973 3 years ago
russia need a new stalin, and this should be a good thing, and if you dont understand why, then your perception is limited, and dont juge this decision. russia need a stalin, with the great economic and humanist-collectif vision, but not cruel like stalin, but dictatorship is the best thing during a crisis time, and it's a crisis time, america, will lost his international influence, and it's for the best, your vision of economic is a poison, we cant continu like this, i am not comunnist
GJGJ654 3 years ago
I agree that we are in a crisis, especially economically. The problem with dictatorship, though, is that by definition it puts absolute power into the hands of one person. If that person is corrupt or incompetent, he doesn't have to answer to anyone for his mistakes, and can't be removed from power. Leaders ought to have a healthy fear of the citizens, and citizens a healthy mistrust of their leaders.
woodbineRed 3 years ago
Dzerzhinsky's allusion to Stalin as the "gravedigger of the revolution" raises an interesting point--that Stalin was ultimately responsible for the demise of the Soviet Union.
woodbineRed 3 years ago
do you think stalin worked for the Okhrana?
tonylee1973 3 years ago
Certainly the makers of this documentary believed he did, as did Solzhenitsyn (mentioned in 'Gulag Archipelago').. I don't find it hard to believe that Stalin informed on other Bolsheviks, when one considers that when in power he continued to purge anyone he viewed as a threat. Through the Okhrana, he could keep himself safe, and get rid of potential rivals at the same time.
woodbineRed 3 years ago
IF Someone Finds The Theme music Please Let Me Know!
Malk234 3 years ago
The composer of this music is Vladimir Dashkevich, who has done a lot of composition for Russian film & television. I don't see reference to 'Stalin' in his IMDB credits, but he does have a profile on Wikipedia. It's possible that the theme was not composed especially for 'Stalin'. Google "Владимир Сергеевич Дашкевич" & "Vladimir Dashkevich" & you might find an email address & ask him yourself :-)
woodbineRed 3 years ago
The profile of Stalin it was very interesting to find out about what actually happened instead of those stupid history text books that only give you like a paragraph about that kind of stuff! Also to find out about a piece of my heritage but it is a tragedy what happend! By the way does anyone know the name of the theme music playiing I actually like it its so evil and creepy lol! So if someone stumbles on the name can someone INFORM ME PLEASE THANKYOU VERY MUCH!
Malk234 3 years ago
You're very welcome!
woodbineRed 3 years ago
Very sad. It is a shame this ideology has now returned to us.
FinalWar1444 3 years ago
a magnificent documentary. Thanks much!
pinegrove33 3 years ago