Stalin & Mind Control: I

When the Soviet Union fell in 1991, Russians gained unprecedented access to the KGB archives. This documentary series, produced in 1992 by Russian filmmakers, contained film and photos that had never been seen by the public before.

WARNING: Some images are disturbing.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Soviet
• Stalin
• Russia
• gulag
• propaganda
• cinema
• Maxim
• Gorky
• Meyerhold
• documentary

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[genldoz]

@DNAsGhostzHouze I think Ike was President when Stalin died.

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!