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The number of Russians killed in the 20th century will never be known, however it had to be a staggering number. Through revolution, civil war, oppression, terrorist attacks, wars with other countries, starvation and being worked to death, surviving to an old age only got better toward the end of the century.
Scratch out “Wars with other countries”, “starving people to death”, and “working people to death.” First off, the Wars were largely wars of defense. (You would try to defend yourself IF traitors and Fascists tried to sabotage the socialist experiment. Then you’d do it again when Nazis and 5th Columns were surrounding you.) “Starving people to death…” That’s Nazi propaganda from the 30’s, 50’s, and 80’s. There were a myriad of contributions to lead to a famine in 1928, as well as 1932. (The better remembered one is 1932.) However, one TEENY TINY little problem with it: The narrative *began in 1935* After William Randolph Hearst made a deal with Nazi Germany worth several million Marks for newspaper distribution in August, 1934. The Holodomor was first recorded in “Black Deeds of the Kremlin” Vol. 1. (A book that features SEVERAL Nazi collaborators within the 500-page book.) Historian Anne Applebaum *cited this book 10 times,* and LIED about the work of Douglas Tottle’s “Fraud, Famine and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard.” Then comes the last of the three… There were no written orders for such treatment of camp prisoners. In fact, most prisoner deaths were committed by the Nazis after Operation Barbarossa took place. The rest is largely spun fiction. The sources to many of the claims *do not lead to primary evidence* of any sort. Most just lead to anecdotal evidence or dead-ends.
He was a Refusenik and was persecuted as well as imprisoned for his activities. His Nation were for decades the under dogs in the Middle East but are now the dominant regional power, increasingly intolerant and oppressive towards those that share the same territory but not the same Ethno-Religious origins. Yes, we need courage in the " free " World to see Evil but also more importantly to call it out and combat it before it is allowed to become a Totalitarianist Dictatorship. People need to Walk the Talk. " The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors." - Paolo Freire
@@JAG8691 "His Nation were for decades the under dogs in the Middle East but are now the dominant regional power, increasingly intolerant and oppressive towards those that share the same territory but not the same Ethno-Religious origins." Because those proclaim daily how they want to eradicate the people in question. And they also try to do it constantly!
it’s bc the bolsheviks were predominantly jewish, they fund our education and make the holocaust mandatory for “education”, but they omit the part where bolsheviks genocided 20 million christians, we’re also never taught about zionists, that’s the power of pushing a narrative, having control over information, and indoctrinating kids with atrocity propaganda at a young age, the group you’re not even allowed to criticize is who rules over you
Dzerzhinsky, who rarely drank, is said to have told Lenin - on an occasion in which he did so excessively - that secret police work could be done by "only saints or scoundrels ... but now the saints are running away from me and I am left with the scoundrels
Dzershinsky was shot and succeeded by Yagoda who was shot and succeeded by Yeshov who was shot and succeeded by Beria who was shot succeeded by ....I forget , but you get my drift ?
"Once a government is committed to silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of repressive measures until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens, creating a country where everyone lives in fear." President Harry S. Truman.
@@Sindicat-soldat At least nowadays anyone (theoretically) have the chance to join the ruling class. In the past only if you were born into it or EXTREMELY lucky...
My ancestor survived holodomor and traveled to Brazil to live better. I recently learn the true motivation was the massacre of Holodomor. The hystory of my grandparents told me was terrible.
Kinda sounds like what's going on in the US now. The demand for racists and extremists, of a certain narrative, has exceed the supply. So the definition expands and more are created.
@@12vscience True. Eventually they will ran out of enemies. And start to cannibalize each other. We seen the cracks already. Between groups in the left.
@@EroticOnion23 Like who? The ones that I know aren't white supremacists. Like prime minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, Virginia governor Ralph Northam, host Jimmy Kimmel? What I mean is people like Jussie Smollett hiring two Nigerians to stage a hate crime on him. He was found lying and was charged for it, but the DA dropped it. This isn't the best video but YT isn't being very helpful with the search results between Smollett and Kamala Harris trying to get her "anti-lynching" bill passed: th-cam.com/video/FUpAMm9DCq4/w-d-xo.html Or the feds involved in an abduction plot: th-cam.com/video/QHjgvQxpcgk/w-d-xo.html
@@HistoryHustle in the states our department of justices is purely political, and they’re entirely above the law. The DOJ controls the FBI, the ATF, and other political organizations.
At least the jacobins were eliminated, these others managed to expand in the world (with help from some guys that tought that contrast them with corrupt/brutal dictatorships was the only way)
What’s to like. They are already turning on each other in DC and Hollywood. You are never communist enough. They all live in constant fear. The wall is still up the razor wire is on top reinforced with concrete blocks and protected by a vetted army that has sworn an oath to an illegitimate president instead of the Constitution of the united states of America.
Well, some Germans did. But the bourgeois preferred to look down their nose at the lowborn but loyal German worker. But you have to feed a dog if you want to keep it under your porch.
“How can you make a revolution without firing squads?” Very telling. Also, I did not realize the first head of the Cheka was a “Social Democrat”; that seems worth remembering.
That's how one history channel should work without bias on any subject and that's one of purposes of history as a science, giving non biased judgement and taking all diverse interpretations into consideration . Thumbs up! 👍🥇
History is properly an art, not a science, as it cannot be tested by the scientific method. Aside from that I agree. It's very nice to see data points put out without ideological bent.
The Bolsheviks banned trade union strikes a few years after the 1917 revolution they then sent all moaning dissidents to the gulags and put on starvation diets with hard labour which killed many hundreds of thousands of people... Strange but True extremely wealthy financiers in Wall Street New York helped finance the Bolshevik revolution and carried on helping with military hardware, food and money right til the end of ww2.... Well documented and all online... The Cheka ranks were filled with easterners (not Europeans) so they could oppress the disarmed Russians when the Russians started to realise what was going on.
The amount of people who died in the 20th century due to violent means in my mind makes this century the most barbaric time period in all of human history.
@@juliantheapostate8295even if you adjust it for population , the 20th century was the bloodiest in known human history. Wild that humans can be so mentally manipulated they pull these atrocities on innocent civilians.
@@RJStockton You don't need to read it watch my Playlist and you will have all the details but the copy is around think i have link to full pdf in my discussion sec.
"You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I know some people down in Chicago who's grandparents/great grandparents who were taken out in the streets and were killed by the Cheka in Ukraine. Sad thing is that there are lots of young people who think that Lenin was this great guy who was fighting for equality and what not. They have no idea about this. And even if you did show them this, they'd probably deny that it ever happened. Good video, cheers!
Between 1918 & 1921 many Ukrainian Jews were massacred by Ukrainian nationalists & White Russians. Once Ukrainian nationalists lost to Bolsheviks, Cheka took its revenge. I am told 2/3 of those Chekas who operated in n Ukraine where Jews Sadly this video didn't address; although everyone knows it.
My Great-grandfather's family were land owning peasants and were partly wiped out. My ancestor had disagreed with his father's remarriage, so left Russia before 1914. Some family made it to the States following the Revolution.
@@HistoryHustle My Left wing Boomer parent spins it as they "Deserved" it somehow. This is all of a parcel with some Americans being very disinterested in antecedents, and others being Americans of their time & place.
@@HistoryHustle not really. These groups are definitely in favour of the destruction of the current system and as we have seen they will commit violence
Another great episode. I really liked the story and video of your visit to a former Cheka building. Stefan, your dress/character style relating to the subject of the episode you are hosting is really cool and noted. Long Live the Driving Cap! May it never go out of style.
Thank you, Thomas. I glad I could use this footage. Back in 2019 I just recorded it with the idea of one day use it in a video. Two years later I finally did :)
fun fact: most of the Red Terror (1918-1921) activists had been ruthlessly eliminated during the Big Terror (1936-1938) by Stalin "Revolution devours its children" (C)
@@HistoryHustle Also, Stalin had some kind of hatred against political prisoners of tsarist times. After the revolution in the USSR, Dzerzhinsky created a society of former political convicts, a public veteran organization uniting former political prisoners and exiles, quite often these were various anarchists and socialists not from the Bolshevik party. During the Great Terror, Stalin executed many of these people. Probably he did not like the presence of people who had more experience of being in the revolutionary movement or were more persecuted by the authorities.
I mean even Lev Trotsky got purged. Even though it is mainly because of him that the Bolshevikhs even survived between 1917-1920. Same story for the Kronstadt sailors. Bolshevikh terror targeted anyone, including its own most valuable members. Stalin would probably have purged Lenin if he was still around.
My major professor in grad school was a Russian history specialist. He has been published several times on the topic. What I saw from his courses and personal conversations with him about late Imperial Russia leaves me seeing a lot of parallels in America today -- comparable with late 1860s to 1880s Russia. It's not a direct parallel, of course, but it is very similar. Someone once said, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme." I hear a lot of rhyming.
The Bolsheviks banned trade union strikes a few years after the 1917 revolution, they sent all moaning dissidents to the gulags where they had a starvation diet and hard labour which killed many.... You don't go from one extreme to another.... Fun fact, some extremely rich high financiers in Wall Street New York financially helped the Bolsheviks and carried on helping them until the end of ww2 with military hardware, food and money.. Strange but True.
@@johnmacaroni105 My professor, Richard Spence wrote a book on that: Walls Street and the Russian Revolution: 1905-1925. It's not too pricey on Amazon, if that interests you.
Dave, I think some Wall Streeters would go to the gulags and some others wouldn't (the question is, which one's?) .... Lenin the Bolshevik revolutionary spent a great deal of time before the 1917 Bolshevik revolution living in Switzerland (Lenin spent six-and-a-half years in total in Switzerland. Between 1903 and 1905 and in 1908 he lived in Geneva, from 1914 to 1915 he was resident in Bern and from 1916 to 1917 he lived in Zurich) the home of bankers today and also back then, Switzerland always managed to stay neutral in two world wars, During 1815's Congress of Vienna, they signed a declaration affirming Switzerland's “perpetual neutrality” within the international community. Switzerland maintained its impartial stance through World War I and 2, *Switzerland benefited from its neutrality during World War II by purchasing vast amounts of gold from Allied and Axis powers* ... During World War I and World War II, Switzerland maintained armed neutrality, and was not invaded by its neighbors, so their Gold, Diamonds and other merchandise like works of art remained safe ...... The 1940 Nazi invasion plan, Operation Tannenbaum, was not executed, and SS Oberst Hermann Bohme's 1943 memorandum warned that an invasion of Switzerland would be too costly because every man was armed and trained to shoot...
One of the more chilling Lenin quotes I've seen (from his address to the meeting of the All-Russia Extraordinary Conference of Workers & Peasants, on 12 November 1918) that illuminates his thinking on this matter: "Terror's nature is such that it does not operate like a sniper's rifle, or even the hosing stream of bullets from the barrel of the machine gun. So long as it is directed by rational decision, according to information provided by the naked eye, the telescopic sight, or the information of spies, then it (terror) can be avoided... True terror, mass terror, terror instituted not just by Soviet authorities, or by secret police, or Red Guard, or by militant unionists, but terror boiling up from the very ground, pouring through the holes in society like lava from a volcano, is the sole way to effectively cow our enemies! One of the key mistakes of all past revolutions has been not to shoot too many, but not to shoot enough."
This is the shit west coast kids agree with. I just seen a comment on reddit the other day saying the Bolshevik's did not kill enough people. It's funny that some of the most spoiled people from capitalism that own i phone's, designer clothes and every other material thing pretend like they are living in 3rd world conditions and life is so bad so they want to destroy the hand that feeds. The Bolshevik's were the same deal. Thankfully we are one of the very few countries that have a second amendment so it will be much harder for them to do the same in the U.S. If they win they would pay dearly for it unlike where they just steam rolled defenseless people in other countries. Greed/capitalism can be bad i get it, but how anyone can think killing someone just because of their social class or income is a better alternative is just plan evil
The Soviet Union wasn't exactly established on the principle of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This video enlightens us about the terrible early years of the Russian Revolution. It's no wonder Hitler thought he could knock it apart in 1941, at least until the Soviet people found out his regime was even worse.
Except that the Nazi Regime had far reaching support before it was clear that the war was lost. Comparing the Soviets to the Nazis does not fit at all imo. because the Nazis did not come into power via continous genocide of everyone opposing them like it happened with the soviets. The Nazis genocide did not happen because of its necessity to stay in power but because of ideology.
@@cptpayday2080 Hitler used the same methods as the Bolsheviks to consolidate power: "The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933. In the weeks after the Nazis came to power, the SA (Sturmabteilung; commonly known as the Storm Troopers), the SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons-the elite guard of the Nazi party), the police, and local civilian authorities organized numerous detention camps to incarcerate real and perceived political opponents of Nazi policy." The Germans did support Hitler to a remarkable degree after that. No doubt a lot of it was genuine admiration for Hitler's aggressive agendas; the rest being ginned up by relentless propaganda plus the fear of execution if the slightest hint of dissent was expressed in public. Stalin was also beloved by many Russians for the same reasons; at least until the full details of his tyranny were let loose by Khrushchev after his death.
@@HistoryHustle i wish Russians could bother to learn HALF as much about this and about their own history as you do. And EVERYone- so history would NOT repeat itself, at least not in the case of communism, or, even worse- "technocracy" . Thanks again
Claiming that Lenin did not know of or condone the Red Terror is just as implausible as claiming Hitler did not order the Holocaust. Communism and Nazism are two sides of the same evil coin.
Patton made many nonsensical statements. Even bordering on antisemitism. A general despised by many and who contributed to Allied war crimes. Furthermore he was a general and not a politician, so he had no authority on this. And even if he was a politician, just one person stating this bizarre thing is not a valid argument. Revisionists often use his quote for their own agenda. Please watch this video: th-cam.com/video/vB2zZWk9TfU/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/dWL0Nz4g5yk/w-d-xo.html
One was national socialist expanding its territory eastwards.The other was authoritarian socialist exporting its Marxist ideology to every part of the world. Sure, the west would become the next target of NAZI Germany if it defeated USSR.Especially America was harbouring Jews NAZIs vowed to completely eliminate from the earth.
@@HistoryHustle Patton was right about Russia though. He wanted to storm Russia immediately after the Germans were defeated. We would of won and westernized the country. Now look at what Putin is doing. If we followed pattons advice, we could have avoided a war that could turn nuclear which it probably will because all dictators go insane and Putin is no different
"People need to remember how communism played out" Remember? People need to learn it, and then learn it from multiple sources since some sources are sanitized and some are probably total fiction.
People that secretly believe they're justifiably going to be part of the ruling elite. Or, out of envy, seek to take away and confiscate better lifestyles of better off people. Envy is so sad.
George Orwell apparently was thinking of the Russian Revolution when writing Animal Farm. In fact, you can figure out who is what; Snowball (the less evil pig) represents Leon Trotsky.
"You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Orwell was a socialist. He literally wrote in Wigam that everything he wrote was with the intention of furthering socialism. Gotta love right wingers quoting people like Orwell, truly hilarious.
Russia was at relative peace with itself for 500 years as an Orthodox Christian nation before it absorbed Poland and a certain tribe of people with a long history of creating strife and conflict within other nations and kingdoms started their usual agitations. Of course, some will argue that the Romonovs were never really Russians, and were imposters taking the throne from the Rus, but that's another documentary altogether.
Good morning from down under. I always enjoy your videos. I have been binge watching the ones I missed from joining your channel only recently. Keep bringing out the excellent content. Cheers
Hey man, I'm new to your channel. This was a really good video. I mainly watch alternate history videos, but it's always nice to step back into reality once in a while.
But that wasn't "real" communism Seba. They just need to try one more time to get it right. They dont see us as human so a few billion sacrificed is nothing to them.
@@HistoryHustle how is it exaggerated? Are you a secret communist? If America went FULL communist over night there would be a HUGE revolt from armed American people. But no, they have to slowly implement this to dumb us down and leave us docile. How is this over exaggerated? Have you listened to yuri bezmenov?
Coming to a Western country near you! Thanks for the video. Great stuff!! The only good thing was that Trotsky got his. Revolutionaries always consume their own.
One must never forget the basis of the Bolshevik revolution was the will to have power by a certain bourgeoise class mostly Jewish and intellectual using the resentment of the masses of Russian poor ignorant people. One would never be able to reach power without the other. Being this a great lesson on how the manipulation of the ignorant and resentment can become a nightmare.
I get this comment a lot. I always quote Orlando Figes (A People's Tragedy): "It must never be forgotten that while many revolutionaries were Jews, relatively few Jews were revolutionaries. It was a myth of the anti-Semites that all the Jews were Bolsheviks." Your comment comes across an insinuating semi-antisemitic assertion I'd like to distance myself from. Another commentator with a distorted view of history. So sad that there are so many of these people. Wonder what their education was like...
@@HistoryHustle that is true and I know certain people have the tendency to over simplify the truth but it's also true that Lenin and Trotsky were. Like I said above it was a mix of Jewish ideologists and intellectuals, with peasants and factory workers full of resentment all using to their ideological or personal benefit assassins to ''clean'' Russia from any different opinion.
@ History Hustle, we wish it were not so, as well, but my own personal amateur scholarship regarding the involvement of Secular Jews ( I take pains to emphasize the secular component because it is relevant) in revolutionary movements shows a clear over-representation of this element beyond their percentage of the general population in these sorts of radical endeavors. There is a persistent theme in all of their literature regarding the failed notion of somehow being desirous of remaking society in such a way as to mitigate what they perceive as unjust or destructive tendencies in the way people think so as to create a “better world” that disregards the obvious fact that human nature itself is flawed and is the cause of injustice in life and not the particular political situation one lives under.
Fascinating upload. 'This disgusting murderer who is only temporarily on our side. And now the purges are somehow forgotten.' George Orwell commenting on Stalin and the Soviet Union's entry into WW2.
I very much agree with that. The problem with extremists of any kind is if they actually read some history they are likely to read it like the devil reads the bible.
@@helmortkuper2626 I think I know more American friends that would think that way, not to their fault, but rather than my russian, whose families had experience with this past and way of life already
Hello History Hustle! I am a new subscriber and I want to congragulate you for this great channel. I have a sugestion: can you make something about Romania in WW2? I am Romanian so it would be pretty interesting. Thank you very much!
Hi there, thanks for your reply. I made a video about Romania during WW2 couple of years ago. Therefore it's not as indepth as my current content, but feel free to check it out: th-cam.com/video/nMryKjtF9g0/w-d-xo.html
Have a look at the book "The Guillotine at Work" by Maximov, published by Cienfuegos Press. A book published in the USA after the anarchist author fled there after being released from a Bolshevik prison in 1921.
History is the reflection of a fractyl that repeats itself endlessly but each time around appears to be unique and entirely different. Rule by fear still seems to be nature of the rod we are still ruled by. Many thanks for the perspective without the rose coloured glasses.🙏
My Great Great Grandmother escaped the bolshevik revolution. After 50yrs she had a bullet removed from her hip in SF a russian doctor from the soviet era flew in to accompany the surgery, he cried his eyes out when the bullet came out and he saw that it was indeed a bullet from the massacre...
This was very interesting. Lenin was a narcissist who had a chip on his shoulder. That's why he was so brutal. Stalin was simply a psychopath. Russia has such a long and fascinating history. I look forward to more. Thanks Stefan.
Or maybe he grew up in a state that had executed his brother, sent him to Siberia then into exile, then had to fight a war on all fronts while face constant internal uprising. Not to mention when one looks at the fate of the Paris commune in which when the people marched out they were fired upon and how the army slaughtered 10s of thousands in the streets over the course of days afterwards. Look at who he was fighting as well, the whites were also carrying out a terror at the time and Russia was in a state of total chaos, in times like this such measures aren’t shocking and it should also be noted that every revolution has its terror including the American revolution (which is where lynchings came from and commonly had tarring and feathering) as well as the French Revolution.
If we can have the Nuremberg Trials, why not trials after the fall of communism in Russia in 1991? It's like we've only learned half of 20th century history and have amnesia of the other half.
These trials didn't happen because: a) The USSR didn't got destructed by an enemy force, but imploded from within. b) By the time the USSR imploded the crimes of Stalin were decades in the past. Sure, many of its former henchmen might be still alive at that time, but I guess Russia had bigger problems at that moment.
@@HistoryHustle communism should be given the same treatment as Nazism, meaning being one should be socially unnaceptable, flying it's flag should be illegal and denying it's crimes should be punishable.
Admiral Kolchak was executed when acted ban on the death penalty. The best example of criticism of the official Bolshevik statistics during the revolution and civil war.
From 1917 through 1920, the Bolsheviks were almost entirely occupied by trying to hold back the English, French, and Americans who were helping the displaced aristocracy (the Whites). Eventually the White counter-revolution fizzled and then Lenin, and later Stalin, got busy trying to build a Russian economy. Please note, my reading of this history is very different from that of History Hustle, and a lot more fair minded.
Your grasp of history is poor. The English, French, and Americans were paltry in number and did not directly attack the Bolsheviks. The Americans were just there to make sure some of the trains kept traveling to the East to protect their interests. The Bolsheviks got more help from the New York City bankers giving them gold then they were ever impeded by a few token American forces who were under instructions not to get too involved.
You're nuts, and extremely misinformed, if you think the Bolsheviks spent 3 years fighting the French, English, and Americans. Ignorance is not "fairmindedness."
This is nice, I know a bit about the military history of the civil war and the defeat of the whites, but I'm not too familiar with the bolshevik "terror" or their early behavior before Lenin died, although I've heard of it I never looked into the terror... so I guess the argument that "all the bad stuff was under stalin, Lenin was okay" doesn't hold up lol...
The argument that Lenin is some kind of monster doesn't hold water either since this man is neglecting to talk about the white terror the equally bloody or actually worse terror whuch involved pogroms against Jews. Red terror was in response to sabotage, espionage and a brutal civil war. Terrible conditions call for terrible measures. You cannot compare Stalin'swanton destruction with Lenin's 'crimes'. Even one American general noted that In the far East the whites killed 100 person for every 1 the reds killed. This is merely thinly veiled propaganda.
@@JacenSolo0 You are trying to justify Lenin. Someone who organizes a secret service with assassins in order to defend his one party at all costs (as the only way out of the revolution) cannot be judged with softness, nuance and euphemisms. The fact is that Lenin forcibly imposed his own organization and did not respect any opposition, whether on the left or on the right, nor did he even respect the popular will by denying the validity of an electoral result unfavorable to the Bolsheviks. Therefore, Lenin was not only a result of external pressures from the context of the time, but was also a product of his own internal will, typical of his party (and which continued with Stalin).
@@yurifreis2598 Lenin imposed nothing on anyone. The Russian working class by late 1917 had been overwhelmingly pro-Bolshevik. The opposition as you very well know formed the White Movement and unleashed a wave or terror that grew into the civil war. I'd say that pretty much eliminated all prospects of peaceful dialogue, especially after 17 armies invaded and an Allied starvation blockade was implemented. The Bolsheviks had the overwhelming support of the democratically-elected soviets in the factories and farmlands, the only democratic institutions that existed. The Constituent Assembly was illegitimate.
In fact, Lenin said the opposite: it is better to allow 100 guilty people to escape responsibility than 1 innocent person will be convicted. How this was implemented in practice is another question. But he never openly admitted that he was an ogre.
@@HistoryHustle That's right, that's why Lenin did not say that it is necessary to convict 100 innocent people in order to catch one guilty person, in his published books everything is the opposite. Lenin did not want to be considered a villain. He even published an article saying that they had convicted and executed the murderers of the royal family (but this was a fake).
Imteresting to note that the leading Bolsheviks were transferred from Switzerland to Russia by the German High Command in 1917. The Germans hoped that the Bolsheviks would remove Russia from WW1 (which they did) The first two leaders of the forerunners of the KGB were both Polish. Felix Dzerzhinsky and Vyacheslav Menzhinsky. The first commander in chief of the Red Army was Latvian Jukums Vācietis (also Commander of Lenin’s Latvian Riflemen
We need more videos covering this topic because people need to know that Lenin was just as much of a bloodthirsty psychopath as Hitler. Finding people who celebrate Hitler takes effort. There just aren't that many of them. But finding supporters of Lenin is easy. A mere search of his name online or on TH-cam will uncover many people who proudly champion him as some kind of hero. But how can a man be a hero when he works to terrorize a whole country into submission and allows his police and soldiers to do anything they want without reprocussions?
"it breaks my heart to see this kind of ideology alive and well in the US" So where are the frozen arctic gold mines that American prisoners are being sent to?
My grandma survived 1937 and 1946-47 famines , and a good part of her village and some relatives where deported in Siberia , USSR under Stalin was evil on earth .The village where she is from is a small village in west south ukraine, when Romanians and germans came ,we meet them with flowers because they restored the rule of law , and churches . Did you knew that in soviet times Christmass and easter ,the two most important christian orthodox hollidays were banned in USSR ? they could literaly arrest you for celebrating it ,also when stalin finnaly died ,one month if i remember nobody was allowed to celebrate anything or have parties , weddings etc . I know Germans did evil things to russiand and belarusians ,but to ukranians and romanians in soviet occupied lands they were saviours .
I understand it. Thanks for sharing your family's history. Can you share more about your grandma her experiences? How did she reflect on the war itself? Feel free to share this.
@@Taureantiger888 because the ideology of communists was marxism and atheism , read Lenin and Stalin , they were talking that religion is like cancer and popes are scum and thieves . The thing is , they were not just burning churches , and banning religious gatherings and hollidays ,but also books, and religious traditions , somewhere more severe , somewhere not ,but this was systematically done .
@josephdifrances859 Gestapo is the twin of Cheka? Gestapo participated in the holocaust where 17 million were killed, Cheka may have killed hundreds of thousands…
Brilliant coverage of a difficult period. Ive never read to much on the post revolutionary period because its so depressing. Nonetheless I'm getting educated now. Applying to do my PGCE age 53 years!
Red terror lasted from 1918 to 1953 non-stop, only interrupted by nazi terror in 1941-1945 (-27 million people). The number of Soviet terror victims is unknown. The number of victims in 1990-s (unemployment, alcoholism, drug-addiction, mafia wars, general chaos), the aftermath of Soviet regime, after they disintegrated and robbed Russia can be compared to the number of WW2 victims. And the WW2 itself happened only because the Bolsheviks signed that peace treaty with Germans in 1918. Descendant of Siberian Cossacks.
I'm afraid to say this, your comment lacks any historical nuance. Please read a book and don't make such overgeneralizations. This is a history channel not a I-am-so-angry-so-I-am-gonna-write-a-very-non-nuanced-historical-response channel.
Let me try to explain (however by the fierceness of your comment style I doubt if I can): history is about nuances without whitewashing things. Stating the Red Terror was from 1918 till 1953 is not true since historians state the Red Terror was mostly in 1918. If you mean red terror in general sense I'd call it: Soviet oppression. This had its highs and lows. For example: the period from Lenins NEP until the moment Stalin launched his collectivization saw relatively less executions. For example: Stalins first years didn't see as much executions as during the Great Purge (1936-8). The biggest forms of oppression ended with Stalins death. "And the WW2 itself happened only because the Bolsheviks signed that peace treaty with Germans in 1918." No. WW2 happened mostly due to the treaty of Versailles. If you mean the Soviets by 1939 were angry they lost all the territory back in 1918 (Brest-Litovsk), well no, because after the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact most of that (except parts of Poland and except Finland) was back under Russian (Soviet) rule.
@@HistoryHustle Well, you can call it oppression, you can even call it Stalin been nice to people times, I don't care about the terminology you use, but what they did to people was: executing and sending them to GULAG and great construction projects, like Belomorcanal, where people died in thousands. And don't forget millions of victims of famine of 1932-33, which was a result if "decossackization" and "collectivisation" programs. As for the WW2, don't forget, that Hitler started the war from annexation of Sudetenland and the rest of Czechoslovakia, which Soviet Union opposed, but couldn't help, as Poland would not let Soviet troops through it's territory. Would it be a strong Russia next to Czechoslovakia, Hitler would never attack it, but the Bolsheviks gave all the western Russian lands including Poland away.
I agree with the fact that Stalin was a ruthless leader. You second paragraph comes across as revisionism. I distance myself from that and stop replying.
I lived and worked in the former Soviet Union. My wife was born and raised in Kharkov (now Kharkiv). We still have an apartment there and visit several weeks per year. (except 2020 due to covid) To this day if you are asking people things that are really none of your business, they will say "Who are you? A Checkist?" Basically to say...mind your own business!!!!!!!! Have you visited the History Museum in Kharkiv? Very interesting. It was refurbished in 2013. Also I recommend visiting the "Memorial of Glory", the memorial gardens to the 274,000 residents of Kharkiv killed during WW2.
Also not even close to a million. It can't be higher than 50k and they werent normal working class people. They were rich people and white army supporters and counter revolutionaries. Maybe some mistakes happened here and there but it was generally rule by fear of the bourgeoisie not the proleteriat
@@shrektheintelllectual3615 - THE SEARCH for FALSE EQUIVALENCE and the DISCONTENTS of NEGATIONIST ANTI-COMMUNISTS | Correct, but those facts are irrelevant to contemporary Murican ideologues, lads and lassies who very much try to re-introduce the word "Communist" as a political insult that gives the white-winger an excuse to shoot unarmed women and old people, e.g. the Neo-Nazi James Alex Fields who needed a car to kill Heather Heyer, at Charlottesville in 2017; the Neo-Nazi Dylann Roof who killed old people as they prayed in a Black church in 2015, and Kyle Rittenhouse who went hunting wabbits and Communists at a Wisconsin Black Lives Matter rally in 2020. The wannabes I have mentioned are the type of racist white people for whom Republican ideologues herein seek FALSE EQUIVALENCE between the Bolsheviks' post-revolutionary purging of Russian society and the Republican Party's Neo-Nazi white supremacy in response to having lost an election.
Thank you for this amazing video prof. Stefan!!!! Ya know it’s amazing to think of comparing the Cheka to the Gestapo. In essence the Gestapo were doing the same thing to the exact opposite walks of life politically that is. Going after anyone who posed a threat to The Nazi regime which they saw mainly in the communists. The Cheka were representing and going after anyone not a communist. Two polar opposite ideals in secret police but with similar and brutally extreme tactics. Hope that made some sense lol kind of hard to articulate in writing.
They were more like the CIA than guestapo. If they targeted non communists then they would have needed to nuke all of russia since actual communists were a minority supported by the will of the majority. They mostly cracked down on people who supported the white army( which the SRs did ).
Years ago I read an interview of a Polish man who had been interrogated by the Gastapo and then later by the NKVD. When asked which ordeal was worse, he said that they were both equally bad. He stated that the only difference was that the Gestapo wanted to know the truth. The NKVD didn't really care about the truth at all !!!!
Fun fact, the Bolsheviks were primarily Jews, the Cheka was almost exclusively Jewish, as were the "Revolutionary's" to the left of Lenin,.like Ms Kaplan.. many never identified as being Russian..
The 1000th antisemite on the platform. I get this comment a lot. I always quote Orlando Figes (A People's Tragedy): "It must never be forgotten that while many revolutionaries were Jews, relatively few Jews were revolutionaries. It was a myth of the anti-Semites that all the Jews were Bolsheviks."
@@HistoryHustle Resorting to the lowest form of argument.. The Ad Hominem .. Mudslinging.. "Anti Semite" doesnt negate the fact that i spoke the truth.. Jewish apologists like yourself tried using that same smear against Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn... You're a poor excuse for someone who fancies himself a historian.
@@HistoryHustle I'm glad your covering the Bolsheviks and you aren't distorting the truth unlike some people on TH-cam. I had a teacher and she viewed Winston Churchill as a mass murder but she said Lenin was a product of his time.
I wish people in the USA who find communism appealing would actually look into even a little bit of history on the subject!! Thanks for bringing some of it to TH-cam!
Orthodox Russian Church destroyed by the "Russian revolution" inspired by insiders. Ottaman Islamic empire destroyed from insiders and external actor's namely Freemasonry and Zionists Congress led and bank rolled by Rothschild and theodor Hertzel . Zionist Congress also turned on Germany during WW1 as per the Balfour declaration
Read Soljenitsyne : "Two centuries together"... Also Stolypine : "the providers of the Goulag", T. I (maybe only in French?) And Sutton/Quigley of course, + "between the Reds and the White", Edwin Erich Dwinger.
Check out the playlist of REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA:
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Dank je! Thank you! Obrigado!
I liked your videos so much your channel is my favourite in TH-cam your videos are so much knowledgeful and educative your channel is a inspiration for other history TH-cam channels I get various
Knowledge from your videos I am your old supporter and subscriber from 5k so I have a humble request for you can you make a video on Skanderbeg please please
Thanks for your replies y'all :)
@@kaushiksheshnagraj7176 Skanderbeg is not really my niche, sorry.
@@Fahadshamqasim13 sure something for the future.
The number of Russians killed in the 20th century will never be known, however it had to be a staggering number. Through revolution, civil war, oppression, terrorist attacks, wars with other countries, starvation and being worked to death, surviving to an old age only got better toward the end of the century.
Russia indeed suffered greatly during the 20th century.
And the "work" camps were dismantled, unlike the Nazi camps. All in the name of the best of intentions.
About 100 mill. socialist revolutions cost a lot.
Scratch out “Wars with other countries”, “starving people to death”, and “working people to death.”
First off, the Wars were largely wars of defense. (You would try to defend yourself IF traitors and Fascists tried to sabotage the socialist experiment. Then you’d do it again when Nazis and 5th Columns were surrounding you.)
“Starving people to death…” That’s Nazi propaganda from the 30’s, 50’s, and 80’s. There were a myriad of contributions to lead to a famine in 1928, as well as 1932. (The better remembered one is 1932.) However, one TEENY TINY little problem with it:
The narrative *began in 1935* After William Randolph Hearst made a deal with Nazi Germany worth several million Marks for newspaper distribution in August, 1934. The Holodomor was first recorded in “Black Deeds of the Kremlin” Vol. 1. (A book that features SEVERAL Nazi collaborators within the 500-page book.)
Historian Anne Applebaum *cited this book 10 times,* and LIED about the work of Douglas Tottle’s “Fraud, Famine and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard.”
Then comes the last of the three… There were no written orders for such treatment of camp prisoners. In fact, most prisoner deaths were committed by the Nazis after Operation Barbarossa took place. The rest is largely spun fiction. The sources to many of the claims *do not lead to primary evidence* of any sort. Most just lead to anecdotal evidence or dead-ends.
@@Kikasitsu So you are right and the rest of the world is wrong? Are you a ccp troll?
"In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil"
- Nathan Sharansky
Nathan Sharansky book: The case for Democracy
Sounds like an interesting read.
He was a Refusenik and was persecuted as well as imprisoned for his activities. His Nation were for decades the under dogs in the Middle East but are now the dominant regional power, increasingly intolerant and oppressive towards those that share the same territory but not the same Ethno-Religious origins.
Yes, we need courage in the " free " World to see Evil but also more importantly to call it out and combat it before it is allowed to become a Totalitarianist Dictatorship.
People need to Walk the Talk.
" The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors." - Paolo Freire
@@JAG8691 "His Nation were for decades the under dogs in the Middle East but are now the dominant regional power, increasingly intolerant and oppressive towards those that share the same territory but not the same Ethno-Religious origins."
Because those proclaim daily how they want to eradicate the people in question. And they also try to do it constantly!
Nathan was a Zionist. He was lucky He was not living during the Stalin era ortherwise he would have been shot for anti Soviet activities.
Imagine being taught about WW2 5 separate times but never being taught this in 13 years of primary and secondary education.
Crazy..
I was taught the horrors of the USSR in 10th Grade World History here in California
Even in college
it’s bc the bolsheviks were predominantly jewish, they fund our education and make the holocaust mandatory for “education”, but they omit the part where bolsheviks genocided 20 million christians, we’re also never taught about zionists, that’s the power of pushing a narrative, having control over information, and indoctrinating kids with atrocity propaganda at a young age, the group you’re not even allowed to criticize is who rules over you
I was taught that communism isn't bad in the 90s from my history teacher.
Dzerzhinsky, who rarely drank, is said to have told Lenin - on an occasion in which he did so excessively - that secret police work could be done by "only saints or scoundrels ... but now the saints are running away from me and I am left with the scoundrels
Yes, I've read that too. Upcoming Wednesday more on the topic.
Interesting quote.
Dzershinsky was shot and succeeded by Yagoda who was shot and succeeded by Yeshov who was shot and succeeded by Beria who was shot succeeded by ....I forget , but you get my drift ?
@@uhuhuuuhhh9883Dzershinsky died by a heart failure...
@@nagybenny5979 Yes , thats correct .
"Once a government is committed to silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of repressive measures until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens, creating a country where everyone lives in fear." President Harry S. Truman.
Fair point.
Wow great qutoe
The state is an instrument of violence by the ruling class.
Boy that sure sounds familiar.
@@Sindicat-soldat At least nowadays anyone (theoretically) have the chance to join the ruling class. In the past only if you were born into it or EXTREMELY lucky...
My ancestor survived holodomor and traveled to Brazil to live better.
I recently learn the true motivation was the massacre of Holodomor.
The hystory of my grandparents told me was terrible.
They got away luckily since the years after the Holodomor wasn't much better either: first the Great Purge, then WW2.
Lazar Kaganovic work.
Sorry for yours family.
Did your ancestor live under the military dictatorship?
Ukrainian famine was not a genocide
Its a nazi fiction
@@davidstrelec2000 it was not a special genocide of ukrainian people, it was cleansing of peasants across entire ussr with millions of deaths
With revolution you need enemies and when you run out of enemies to keep the revolution going you create more enemies
Interesting statement!
Kinda sounds like what's going on in the US now. The demand for racists and extremists, of a certain narrative, has exceed the supply. So the definition expands and more are created.
@@12vscience True. Eventually they will ran out of enemies. And start to cannibalize each other. We seen the cracks already. Between groups in the left.
@@12vscience White supremacists in blackface?? 0.o
@@EroticOnion23 Like who? The ones that I know aren't white supremacists. Like prime minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, Virginia governor Ralph Northam, host Jimmy Kimmel? What I mean is people like Jussie Smollett hiring two Nigerians to stage a hate crime on him. He was found lying and was charged for it, but the DA dropped it. This isn't the best video but YT isn't being very helpful with the search results between Smollett and Kamala Harris trying to get her "anti-lynching" bill passed: th-cam.com/video/FUpAMm9DCq4/w-d-xo.html
Or the feds involved in an abduction plot: th-cam.com/video/QHjgvQxpcgk/w-d-xo.html
The Cheka was above the law? It sounds like our Department of Justice.
Which is?
@@HistoryHustle in the states our department of justices is purely political, and they’re entirely above the law. The DOJ controls the FBI, the ATF, and other political organizations.
@@HistoryHustle America.
"It sounds like our Department of Justice." When the American DOJ disappears a hundred thousand Americans, then we can consider it a comparison.
@@thomasmaughan4798 fair point.
Same as the jacobins in the French Revolution, and like that they turned on themselves . Never like a communist or Marxist
Actually the Bolsheviks erected a statue of Robespierre.
At least the jacobins were eliminated, these others managed to expand in the world (with help from some guys that tought that contrast them with corrupt/brutal dictatorships was the only way)
@@alessiodecarolis well what about Americans they are supporting terrorist organisation till date.
What’s to like. They are already turning on each other in DC and Hollywood. You are never communist enough. They all live in constant fear. The wall is still up the razor wire is on top reinforced with concrete blocks and protected by a vetted army that has sworn an oath to an illegitimate president instead of the Constitution of the united states of America.
@@historyeditz8326 "well what about Americans" I do not understand whatabout questions but many videos exist about Americans.
So it doesnt come as a surprise that Germany tried to defeat this system.
Many nations tried to defeat it. Some more successful than others in the end.
Well, some Germans did. But the bourgeois preferred to look down their nose at the lowborn but loyal German worker. But you have to feed a dog if you want to keep it under your porch.
Both systems were socialists.
@@vladimirraysh7009
Yes, but Nazi socialism was focused more on ethnicity while Soviet socialism was focused more on class.
Well, in a sense the Germans also created it. Lenin was funded stock and barrel by the Germans. He imploded Russia from the inside out.
“How can you make a revolution without firing squads?” Very telling.
Also, I did not realize the first head of the Cheka was a “Social Democrat”; that seems worth remembering.
Think you should rewatch the video again: Dzerzhinsky was a FORMER social democrat turned communist.
@@HistoryHustle yes, that's what 'was' means
It was more of a natural step. Rules for thee but not for me and control everyone so you are all equal as disenfranchised slaves. Same as today.
@@HistoryHustle Feel the need to defend commies much? Like lol watch your own video.
"The goal of socialism is communism"
That's how one history channel should work without bias on any subject and that's one of purposes of history as a science, giving non biased judgement and taking all diverse interpretations into consideration . Thumbs up! 👍🥇
Many thanks Zoran! 👍👍
Unbiased? My man literally cited some random shirtless ukrainian guy lmao.
History is properly an art, not a science, as it cannot be tested by the scientific method. Aside from that I agree. It's very nice to see data points put out without ideological bent.
The Bolsheviks banned trade union strikes a few years after the 1917 revolution they then sent all moaning dissidents to the gulags and put on starvation diets with hard labour which killed many hundreds of thousands of people... Strange but True extremely wealthy financiers in Wall Street New York helped finance the Bolshevik revolution and carried on helping with military hardware, food and money right til the end of ww2.... Well documented and all online... The Cheka ranks were filled with easterners (not Europeans) so they could oppress the disarmed Russians when the Russians started to realise what was going on.
The amount of people who died in the 20th century due to violent means in my mind makes this century the most barbaric time period in all of human history.
It's insane indeed.
17th century comes close. Remember You have to adjust by population size
@@juliantheapostate8295even if you adjust it for population , the 20th century was the bloodiest in known human history. Wild that humans can be so mentally manipulated they pull these atrocities on innocent civilians.
@@juliantheapostate8295it's coming one even bigger.
Dang this episode was insane
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Read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for the details '200 yrs together'
@@RJStockton You don't need to read it watch my Playlist and you will have all the details but the copy is around think i have link to full pdf in my discussion sec.
"You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators."
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
This is coming for us in the US, brothers. When they come for you, do not go gently into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light
I know some people down in Chicago who's grandparents/great grandparents who were taken out in the streets and were killed by the Cheka in Ukraine. Sad thing is that there are lots of young people who think that Lenin was this great guy who was fighting for equality and what not. They have no idea about this. And even if you did show them this, they'd probably deny that it ever happened. Good video, cheers!
Thanks for your reply.
Isn't it strange how a lot of "revolutionaries" tend to be part of the well off class, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Marx.
Exactly! First they lie and tell them everything they want to hear. Then it becomes rules for thee and not for me. Every time!
@@Evanmonster1 Very true
Between 1918 & 1921 many Ukrainian Jews were massacred by Ukrainian nationalists & White Russians.
Once Ukrainian nationalists lost to Bolsheviks, Cheka took its revenge. I am told 2/3 of those Chekas who operated in n Ukraine where Jews
Sadly this video didn't address; although everyone knows it.
My Great-grandfather's family were land owning peasants and were partly wiped out. My ancestor had disagreed with his father's remarriage, so left Russia before 1914. Some family made it to the States following the Revolution.
Sad story, but luckily some of the family made it out.
@@HistoryHustle My Left wing Boomer parent spins it as they "Deserved" it somehow. This is all of a parcel with some Americans being very disinterested in antecedents, and others being Americans of their time & place.
lol good to hear
@@georgeli4989 ?
@@tomfrazier1103 that's so sad. The worse part is that atrocities are not remembered. Those people who died without a thought
The same *SYMBOL* is now up all over in the USA under a new name
The UK too.
Little bit exaggerated don't you think.
@@HistoryHustle not really. These groups are definitely in favour of the destruction of the current system and as we have seen they will commit violence
@@HistoryHustle yeh.....ok mate.
You can also find people flying nazi crosses in the US.
Yearly marches and all
Another great episode. I really liked the story and video of your visit to a former Cheka building. Stefan, your dress/character style relating to the subject of the episode you are hosting is really cool and noted. Long Live the Driving Cap! May it never go out of style.
Thank you, Thomas. I glad I could use this footage. Back in 2019 I just recorded it with the idea of one day use it in a video. Two years later I finally did :)
fun fact: most of the Red Terror (1918-1921) activists had been ruthlessly eliminated during the Big Terror (1936-1938) by Stalin
"Revolution devours its children" (C)
That's what happened yes.
@@HistoryHustle Also, Stalin had some kind of hatred against political prisoners of tsarist times. After the revolution in the USSR, Dzerzhinsky created a society of former political convicts, a public veteran organization uniting former political prisoners and exiles, quite often these were various anarchists and socialists not from the Bolshevik party. During the Great Terror, Stalin executed many of these people. Probably he did not like the presence of people who had more experience of being in the revolutionary movement or were more persecuted by the authorities.
I mean even Lev Trotsky got purged. Even though it is mainly because of him that the Bolshevikhs even survived between 1917-1920. Same story for the Kronstadt sailors. Bolshevikh terror targeted anyone, including its own most valuable members. Stalin would probably have purged Lenin if he was still around.
My major professor in grad school was a Russian history specialist. He has been published several times on the topic. What I saw from his courses and personal conversations with him about late Imperial Russia leaves me seeing a lot of parallels in America today -- comparable with late 1860s to 1880s Russia. It's not a direct parallel, of course, but it is very similar. Someone once said, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme." I hear a lot of rhyming.
The Bolsheviks banned trade union strikes a few years after the 1917 revolution, they sent all moaning dissidents to the gulags where they had a starvation diet and hard labour which killed many.... You don't go from one extreme to another.... Fun fact, some extremely rich high financiers in Wall Street New York financially helped the Bolsheviks and carried on helping them until the end of ww2 with military hardware, food and money.. Strange but True.
@@johnmacaroni105 My professor, Richard Spence wrote a book on that: Walls Street and the Russian Revolution: 1905-1925. It's not too pricey on Amazon, if that interests you.
@@johnmacaroni105 isn't it ironic because wall streeters would be the first ones sent to the gulags
Dave, I think some Wall Streeters would go to the gulags and some others wouldn't (the question is, which one's?) .... Lenin the Bolshevik revolutionary spent a great deal of time before the 1917 Bolshevik revolution living in Switzerland (Lenin spent six-and-a-half years in total in Switzerland. Between 1903 and 1905 and in 1908 he lived in Geneva, from 1914 to 1915 he was resident in Bern and from 1916 to 1917 he lived in Zurich) the home of bankers today and also back then, Switzerland always managed to stay neutral in two world wars, During 1815's Congress of Vienna, they signed a declaration affirming Switzerland's “perpetual neutrality” within the international community. Switzerland maintained its impartial stance through World War I and 2, *Switzerland benefited from its neutrality during World War II by purchasing vast amounts of gold from Allied and Axis powers* ... During World War I and World War II, Switzerland maintained armed neutrality, and was not invaded by its neighbors, so their Gold, Diamonds and other merchandise like works of art remained safe ...... The 1940 Nazi invasion plan, Operation Tannenbaum, was not executed, and SS Oberst Hermann Bohme's 1943 memorandum warned that an invasion of Switzerland would be too costly because every man was armed and trained to shoot...
One of the more chilling Lenin quotes I've seen (from his address to the meeting of the All-Russia Extraordinary Conference of Workers & Peasants, on 12 November 1918) that illuminates his thinking on this matter: "Terror's nature is such that it does not operate like a sniper's rifle, or even the hosing stream of bullets from the barrel of the machine gun. So long as it is directed by rational decision, according to information provided by the naked eye, the telescopic sight, or the information of spies, then it (terror) can be avoided... True terror, mass terror, terror instituted not just by Soviet authorities, or by secret police, or Red Guard, or by militant unionists, but terror boiling up from the very ground, pouring through the holes in society like lava from a volcano, is the sole way to effectively cow our enemies! One of the key mistakes of all past revolutions has been not to shoot too many, but not to shoot enough."
Many chilling quotes were made back then yes.
Love how Seattle has his statue, they deserve it...
Looks fake, got a source for it ?
This is the shit west coast kids agree with. I just seen a comment on reddit the other day saying the Bolshevik's did not kill enough people. It's funny that some of the most spoiled people from capitalism that own i phone's, designer clothes and every other material thing pretend like they are living in 3rd world conditions and life is so bad so they want to destroy the hand that feeds. The Bolshevik's were the same deal. Thankfully we are one of the very few countries that have a second amendment so it will be much harder for them to do the same in the U.S. If they win they would pay dearly for it unlike where they just steam rolled defenseless people in other countries. Greed/capitalism can be bad i get it, but how anyone can think killing someone just because of their social class or income is a better alternative is just plan evil
@@konstantinkelekhsaev302 keep watching 😂😂😂the video
“Yeah, but that wasn’t real communism”
-some 14 year old on social media
Ok 🧐
almost no one ever says that unironically, but it was real communism and it was great
The Soviet Union wasn't exactly established on the principle of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This video enlightens us about the terrible early years of the Russian Revolution. It's no wonder Hitler thought he could knock it apart in 1941, at least until the Soviet people found out his regime was even worse.
Except that the Nazi Regime had far reaching support before it was clear that the war was lost. Comparing the Soviets to the Nazis does not fit at all imo. because the Nazis did not come into power via continous genocide of everyone opposing them like it happened with the soviets. The Nazis genocide did not happen because of its necessity to stay in power but because of ideology.
@@cptpayday2080 Hitler used the same methods as the Bolsheviks to consolidate power: "The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933. In the weeks after the Nazis came to power, the SA (Sturmabteilung; commonly known as the Storm Troopers), the SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons-the elite guard of the Nazi party), the police, and local civilian authorities organized numerous detention camps to incarcerate real and perceived political opponents of Nazi policy." The Germans did support Hitler to a remarkable degree after that. No doubt a lot of it was genuine admiration for Hitler's aggressive agendas; the rest being ginned up by relentless propaganda plus the fear of execution if the slightest hint of dissent was expressed in public. Stalin was also beloved by many Russians for the same reasons; at least until the full details of his tyranny were let loose by Khrushchev after his death.
Stalin and the communists were worse than Hitler
Lenin went to the extreme and Stalin even further.
@@cptpayday2080 --- Review the definition of "genocide".
Thank you! More history here than in a US public school history class.
Great!👍
Impressive that a key topic such as this is covered by a non-Russian. Thank you for remembering, and for doing such a fine job!
Thank you for your reply!
@@HistoryHustle i wish Russians could bother to learn HALF as much about this and about their own history as you do. And EVERYone- so history would NOT repeat itself, at least not in the case of communism, or, even worse- "technocracy" . Thanks again
@@JohnDoe-id1es ignorance is bliss
Unfortunately Leninists are still active today
So are other extremists.
They wouldn’t hesitate to do all this again either.
Claiming that Lenin did not know of or condone the Red Terror is just as implausible as claiming Hitler did not order the Holocaust. Communism and Nazism are two sides of the same evil coin.
Hebrew Bolsheviks
aaaaaand dont forget the Trotskyists, Stalinists, and Dzerzhinskyists.
Saturday night at school with Stefan! Another valuable lesson, thank you.
@Chris Garcia
Saturday night?
Thanks again, Surin!
Surperior lecture Professor. It is good to hear lectures again about this dark part of history. Btw I have a BS in Soviet Studies, pre-glastnost
Cool! Thanks for sharing. Glad you found the video interesting.
And, How's that working for you?
"We fought the wrong enemy" - General Patton
Patton made many nonsensical statements. Even bordering on antisemitism. A general despised by many and who contributed to Allied war crimes. Furthermore he was a general and not a politician, so he had no authority on this. And even if he was a politician, just one person stating this bizarre thing is not a valid argument. Revisionists often use his quote for their own agenda.
Please watch this video:
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He was wiser than many of his contemporaries .
One was national socialist expanding its territory eastwards.The other was authoritarian socialist exporting its Marxist ideology to every part of the world.
Sure, the west would become the next target of NAZI Germany if it defeated USSR.Especially America was harbouring Jews NAZIs vowed to completely eliminate from the earth.
Nazi and Commi both are enemies
@@HistoryHustle Patton was right about Russia though. He wanted to storm Russia immediately after the Germans were defeated. We would of won and westernized the country. Now look at what Putin is doing. If we followed pattons advice, we could have avoided a war that could turn nuclear which it probably will because all dictators go insane and Putin is no different
Good video. People need to remember how communism played out
Indeed.
100 million people were murdered. And the number is still increasing each day.
Marxism means murder. Every time.
@@themsmloveswar3985 go touch some grass
@@gnas1897 It appears you have already smoked lots of it.
"People need to remember how communism played out"
Remember? People need to learn it, and then learn it from multiple sources since some sources are sanitized and some are probably total fiction.
Its disgusting there's still people glorifying the USSR
Some do, but the USSR wasn't always as ugly as in the years of Lenin and Stalin.
@@HistoryHustle still pretty repressive and undemocratic in its entire existence
@@HistoryHustle are meaning to tell me, that, the USSR wasn't all that bad? You're serious?
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 it was bloody horrible
People that secretly believe they're justifiably going to be part of the ruling elite. Or, out of envy, seek to take away and confiscate better lifestyles of better off people. Envy is so sad.
Animal farm situation
Replacing one evil with a greater one!
That's where it came down to.
George Orwell apparently was thinking of the Russian Revolution when writing Animal Farm. In fact, you can figure out who is what; Snowball (the less evil pig) represents Leon Trotsky.
"You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators."
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
@@scottcantdance804 Thats a hard cope.
Orwell was a socialist. He literally wrote in Wigam that everything he wrote was with the intention of furthering socialism. Gotta love right wingers quoting people like Orwell, truly hilarious.
Ahhh Russia, a land determined to never be at peace with itself💔
Perhaps one day,...
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Russia was at relative peace with itself for 500 years as an Orthodox Christian nation before it absorbed Poland and a certain tribe of people with a long history of creating strife and conflict within other nations and kingdoms started their usual agitations. Of course, some will argue that the Romonovs were never really Russians, and were imposters taking the throne from the Rus, but that's another documentary altogether.
@@jackprecip5389 good points 👍👍
@@jackprecip5389 facts 💯
Great job.
Thank you, Kimberly!
“Killed the czar & his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain”
Sympathy for the Devil
Ok.
Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name.
Good morning from down under. I always enjoy your videos. I have been binge watching the ones I missed from joining your channel only recently. Keep bringing out the excellent content. Cheers
Hey man, I'm new to your channel. This was a really good video. I mainly watch alternate history videos, but it's always nice to step back into reality once in a while.
Great, welcome to the channel!
The warning signs are in the USA already. Almost identical to what me and my family fled from.
Exaggerated I think.
@@HistoryHustle He says it because of experience
But that wasn't "real" communism Seba. They just need to try one more time to get it right.
They dont see us as human so a few billion sacrificed is nothing to them.
@@HistoryHustle how is it exaggerated? Are you a secret communist? If America went FULL communist over night there would be a HUGE revolt from armed American people. But no, they have to slowly implement this to dumb us down and leave us docile.
How is this over exaggerated? Have you listened to yuri bezmenov?
@UnusualBug You don't get it. Could be your age. But you just don't get it.
So Happy I've found this awesome channel, it's like a breath of fresh air regarding everything military! Cheers 🍻 from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Thanks for your reply, Deon. Welcome to the channel!
Very intresting and informative! Thanks!
Greets, T.
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Coming to a Western country near you! Thanks for the video. Great stuff!! The only good thing was that Trotsky got his. Revolutionaries always consume their own.
Let's hope it doens't come to us then..
@@HistoryHustle to those in solitary confinement in DC lubyanka after 1/6 it becomes reality..
He was every bit as bad as Stalin was, maybe even worse.
@@wttw4381 Fuckin Camp Dust. All of them. Good Riddance to the "Useful Idiots"
It's here!
💪💪Excellent Nuggets of bridging Historical Facts, Stephon!!! My Best Always, 🚒🚒Jesse
Thank you for sharing your research & Knowledge 👍👍
Thank you, Jesse!
One must never forget the basis of the Bolshevik revolution was the will to have power by a certain bourgeoise class mostly Jewish and intellectual using the resentment of the masses of Russian poor ignorant people. One would never be able to reach power without the other. Being this a great lesson on how the manipulation of the ignorant and resentment can become a nightmare.
I get this comment a lot. I always quote Orlando Figes (A People's Tragedy):
"It must never be forgotten that while many revolutionaries were Jews, relatively few Jews were revolutionaries. It was a myth of the anti-Semites that all the Jews were Bolsheviks."
Your comment comes across an insinuating semi-antisemitic assertion I'd like to distance myself from.
Another commentator with a distorted view of history. So sad that there are so many of these people. Wonder what their education was like...
@@HistoryHustle that is true and I know certain people have the tendency to over simplify the truth but it's also true that Lenin and Trotsky were. Like I said above it was a mix of Jewish ideologists and intellectuals, with peasants and factory workers full of resentment all using to their ideological or personal benefit assassins to ''clean'' Russia from any different opinion.
@@joaocarlosferro Great observation, we are witnessing the same tactics being used today in the West..
@ History Hustle, we wish it were not so, as well, but my own personal amateur scholarship regarding the involvement of Secular Jews ( I take pains to emphasize the secular component because it is relevant) in revolutionary movements shows a clear over-representation of this element beyond their percentage of the general population in these sorts of radical endeavors. There is a persistent theme in all of their literature regarding the failed notion of somehow being desirous of remaking society in such a way as to mitigate what they perceive as unjust or destructive tendencies in the way people think so as to create a “better world” that disregards the obvious fact that human nature itself is flawed and is the cause of injustice in life and not the particular political situation one lives under.
@@CSUnger When they talk of creating a 'better world', I'm quite sure they were talking about for themselves only.
13:10 You're reenactment of Lenin flying into a rage deserves an Oscar award.
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Leerzaam! Ik wist nauwelijks wat van de Chekha. Leuk om je vandaag te ontmoeten, Stefan, rustig aan!
Ja top! Deze woensdag meer over de Cheka!
Fascinating upload.
'This disgusting murderer who is only temporarily on our side. And now the purges are somehow forgotten.'
George Orwell commenting on Stalin and the Soviet Union's entry into WW2.
Thanks for your reply.
One of your best videos Stefan.
A lot of stuff I didn't know about.
Thanks!
Great to read. Glad you found the video interesting.
Thanks Stefan
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Really great job Stafan...many thanks from Canada
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Thank you so much for your excellent lectures. Cheers from Paris.
Merci bien!
Do wish the modern sympathisers of Communism would read history.
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I very much agree with that. The problem with extremists of any kind is if they actually read some history they are likely to read it like the devil reads the bible.
They will say ut's "western lies" or that it was legitimate to do this
We do VEEERY THOUROUGHLY
@@helmortkuper2626 I think I know more American friends that would think that way, not to their fault, but rather than my russian, whose families had experience with this past and way of life already
Hello History Hustle! I am a new subscriber and I want to congragulate you for this great channel. I have a sugestion: can you make something about Romania in WW2? I am Romanian so it would be pretty interesting.
Thank you very much!
Hi there, thanks for your reply. I made a video about Romania during WW2 couple of years ago. Therefore it's not as indepth as my current content, but feel free to check it out:
th-cam.com/video/nMryKjtF9g0/w-d-xo.html
@@HistoryHustle o ok, thank you!
Have a look at the book "The Guillotine at Work" by Maximov, published by Cienfuegos Press. A book published in the USA after the anarchist author fled there after being released from a Bolshevik prison in 1921.
Sounds interesting!
Not a very trustful resource
Better check the book ,,Protocols of the Soviet elders" by Grigory Klimov.
@@ХристиянХристов-ч8з link please
History is the reflection of a fractyl that repeats itself endlessly but each time around appears to be unique and entirely different.
Rule by fear still seems to be nature of the rod we are still ruled by.
Many thanks for the perspective without the rose coloured glasses.🙏
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My Great Great Grandmother escaped the bolshevik revolution. After 50yrs she had a bullet removed from her hip in SF a russian doctor from the soviet era flew in to accompany the surgery, he cried his eyes out when the bullet came out and he saw that it was indeed a bullet from the massacre...
Unbelievable. Luckily she survived.
This was very interesting. Lenin was a narcissist who had a chip on his shoulder. That's why he was so brutal. Stalin was simply a psychopath. Russia has such a long and fascinating history. I look forward to more. Thanks Stefan.
This Wednesday more on the Cheka itself.
@@HistoryHustle I can't wait Stefan. Such a fascinating history.
Or maybe he grew up in a state that had executed his brother, sent him to Siberia then into exile, then had to fight a war on all fronts while face constant internal uprising. Not to mention when one looks at the fate of the Paris commune in which when the people marched out they were fired upon and how the army slaughtered 10s of thousands in the streets over the course of days afterwards. Look at who he was fighting as well, the whites were also carrying out a terror at the time and Russia was in a state of total chaos, in times like this such measures aren’t shocking and it should also be noted that every revolution has its terror including the American revolution (which is where lynchings came from and commonly had tarring and feathering) as well as the French Revolution.
@@nestormakhno9266 by the way Lenin's reasoning was clearly psychotic.
@@nestormakhno9266 Weird that someone with that username would be defending Lenin.
Would love to see content on the allied occupation of Murmansk , Archangel and vladivostok. You work hard to bring us this content !
Hope to cover the Allied interventions in the future.
@@HistoryHustle cool . The lost czechs too I hope
If we can have the Nuremberg Trials, why not trials after the fall of communism in Russia in 1991? It's like we've only learned half of 20th century history and have amnesia of the other half.
These trials didn't happen because:
a) The USSR didn't got destructed by an enemy force, but imploded from within.
b) By the time the USSR imploded the crimes of Stalin were decades in the past. Sure, many of its former henchmen might be still alive at that time, but I guess Russia had bigger problems at that moment.
@@HistoryHustle communism should be given the same treatment as Nazism, meaning being one should be socially unnaceptable, flying it's flag should be illegal and denying it's crimes should be punishable.
@@ryeguy7941 great idea but it will never happen because the tribal truth will come out.
@@theabsorbingman2492 Oy Vey!
Now you know where that red fist has been.
Ok.
“Only 1,000 executions between December 1917 and the summer of 1918.”
"Only".
Ye ye ye. 1000. Aha.
Admiral Kolchak was executed when acted ban on the death penalty. The best example of criticism of the official Bolshevik statistics during the revolution and civil war.
That’s common place in revolution. Executions occur. And the bloodier the Revolution, the higher the count. See how logic works.
let's go with the slaughter of some estimated 70 million Christians
From 1917 through 1920, the Bolsheviks were almost entirely occupied by trying to hold back the English, French, and Americans who were helping the displaced aristocracy (the Whites). Eventually the White counter-revolution fizzled and then Lenin, and later Stalin, got busy trying to build a Russian economy. Please note, my reading of this history is very different from that of History Hustle, and a lot more fair minded.
What makes your approach more fair minded?
Your grasp of history is poor. The English, French, and Americans were paltry in number and did not directly attack the Bolsheviks. The Americans were just there to make sure some of the trains kept traveling to the East to protect their interests. The Bolsheviks got more help from the New York City bankers giving them gold then they were ever impeded by a few token American forces who were under instructions not to get too involved.
You're nuts, and extremely misinformed, if you think the Bolsheviks spent 3 years fighting the French, English, and Americans. Ignorance is not "fairmindedness."
This is nice, I know a bit about the military history of the civil war and the defeat of the whites, but I'm not too familiar with the bolshevik "terror" or their early behavior before Lenin died, although I've heard of it I never looked into the terror... so I guess the argument that "all the bad stuff was under stalin, Lenin was okay" doesn't hold up lol...
Yes. Lenin is another criminal.
Lenin went to the extreme and Stalin even further.
The argument that Lenin is some kind of monster doesn't hold water either since this man is neglecting to talk about the white terror the equally bloody or actually worse terror whuch involved pogroms against Jews.
Red terror was in response to sabotage, espionage and a brutal civil war.
Terrible conditions call for terrible measures. You cannot compare Stalin'swanton destruction with Lenin's 'crimes'.
Even one American general noted that In the far East the whites killed 100 person for every 1 the reds killed.
This is merely thinly veiled propaganda.
@@JacenSolo0 You are trying to justify Lenin. Someone who organizes a secret service with assassins in order to defend his one party at all costs (as the only way out of the revolution) cannot be judged with softness, nuance and euphemisms. The fact is that Lenin forcibly imposed his own organization and did not respect any opposition, whether on the left or on the right, nor did he even respect the popular will by denying the validity of an electoral result unfavorable to the Bolsheviks. Therefore, Lenin was not only a result of external pressures from the context of the time, but was also a product of his own internal will, typical of his party (and which continued with Stalin).
@@yurifreis2598 Lenin imposed nothing on anyone. The Russian working class by late 1917 had been overwhelmingly pro-Bolshevik. The opposition as you very well know formed the White Movement and unleashed a wave or terror that grew into the civil war. I'd say that pretty much eliminated all prospects of peaceful dialogue, especially after 17 armies invaded and an Allied starvation blockade was implemented. The Bolsheviks had the overwhelming support of the democratically-elected soviets in the factories and farmlands, the only democratic institutions that existed. The Constituent Assembly was illegitimate.
Great job I am looking forward to hearing more about the russian revolution and the state it created
Great! Hope to cover more after Summer. This Wednesday there's one more episode about the Cheka.
In fact, Lenin said the opposite: it is better to allow 100 guilty people to escape responsibility than 1 innocent person will be convicted. How this was implemented in practice is another question. But he never openly admitted that he was an ogre.
He made sure he wasn't associated with the terror.
@@HistoryHustle That's right, that's why Lenin did not say that it is necessary to convict 100 innocent people in order to catch one guilty person, in his published books everything is the opposite. Lenin did not want to be considered a villain. He even published an article saying that they had convicted and executed the murderers of the royal family (but this was a fake).
Thank you for every vid you make it's been very helpful :)
Thanks for your reply! Glad you found it interesting.
"Better to arrest 100 innocent people than let one guilty man go free" -- Lenin. Coming soon to an American city near you.
Lets hope not.
Imteresting to note that the leading Bolsheviks were transferred from Switzerland to Russia by the German High Command in 1917. The Germans hoped that the Bolsheviks would remove Russia from WW1 (which they did)
The first two leaders of the forerunners of the KGB were both Polish. Felix Dzerzhinsky and Vyacheslav Menzhinsky.
The first commander in chief of the Red Army was Latvian Jukums Vācietis (also Commander of Lenin’s Latvian Riflemen
We need more videos covering this topic because people need to know that Lenin was just as much of a bloodthirsty psychopath as Hitler.
Finding people who celebrate Hitler takes effort. There just aren't that many of them. But finding supporters of Lenin is easy. A mere search of his name online or on TH-cam will uncover many people who proudly champion him as some kind of hero.
But how can a man be a hero when he works to terrorize a whole country into submission and allows his police and soldiers to do anything they want without reprocussions?
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Lenin was Hitler before Hitler.
Love your videos, keep up the good work.
Thank you!
Lenin had criticized the French revolution as a failure because enough violence wasn't used.
I have finished about 75% of the gulag archipelago its a tough read, it breaks my heart to see this kind of ideology alive and well in the US
Okay
"it breaks my heart to see this kind of ideology alive and well in the US"
So where are the frozen arctic gold mines that American prisoners are being sent to?
Love to know as well.
@@thomasmaughan4798 They will appear shortly after communists take control !
You clearly didn't understand the book then.
My grandma survived 1937 and 1946-47 famines , and a good part of her village and some relatives where deported in Siberia , USSR under Stalin was evil on earth .The village where she is from is a small village in west south ukraine, when Romanians and germans came ,we meet them with flowers because they restored the rule of law , and churches . Did you knew that in soviet times Christmass and easter ,the two most important christian orthodox hollidays were banned in USSR ? they could literaly arrest you for celebrating it ,also when stalin finnaly died ,one month if i remember nobody was allowed to celebrate anything or have parties , weddings etc . I know Germans did evil things to russiand and belarusians ,but to ukranians and romanians in soviet occupied lands they were saviours .
I understand it. Thanks for sharing your family's history. Can you share more about your grandma her experiences? How did she reflect on the war itself? Feel free to share this.
Why was religion banned?
@@Taureantiger888 because the ideology of communists was marxism and atheism , read Lenin and Stalin , they were talking that religion is like cancer and popes are scum and thieves . The thing is , they were not just burning churches , and banning religious gatherings and hollidays ,but also books, and religious traditions , somewhere more severe , somewhere not ,but this was systematically done .
@josephdifrances859
Gestapo is the twin of Cheka?
Gestapo participated in the holocaust where 17 million were killed, Cheka may have killed hundreds of thousands…
To Ukrainians nazis were saviours? To the nazi collaborators perhaps… but they killed tens of millions in the occupied USSR
thanks for posting this. The atrocities of the bolsheviks and spanish red terror are hardly ever mentioned. Only what their adversaries did.
Thanks for your reply. Hardly mentioned where?
Thank you. another great history video.
Thank you, Mike!
Brilliant coverage of a difficult period. Ive never read to much on the post revolutionary period because its so depressing. Nonetheless I'm getting educated now. Applying to do my PGCE age 53 years!
1992 The Chekist directed by Alexsandr Rogozhkin.
Excellent movie but very haunting.
Yes, I have seen it. Very haunting film.
Red terror lasted from 1918 to 1953 non-stop, only interrupted by nazi terror in 1941-1945 (-27 million people). The number of Soviet terror victims is unknown. The number of victims in 1990-s (unemployment, alcoholism, drug-addiction, mafia wars, general chaos), the aftermath of Soviet regime, after they disintegrated and robbed Russia can be compared to the number of WW2 victims. And the WW2 itself happened only because the Bolsheviks signed that peace treaty with Germans in 1918. Descendant of Siberian Cossacks.
I'm afraid to say this, your comment lacks any historical nuance. Please read a book and don't make such overgeneralizations. This is a history channel not a I-am-so-angry-so-I-am-gonna-write-a-very-non-nuanced-historical-response channel.
@@HistoryHustle You wrong, man, no one is angry. That's the truth. You can check all the facts, it's easy. Which of my points seems wrong to you?
Let me try to explain (however by the fierceness of your comment style I doubt if I can): history is about nuances without whitewashing things.
Stating the Red Terror was from 1918 till 1953 is not true since historians state the Red Terror was mostly in 1918. If you mean red terror in general sense I'd call it: Soviet oppression. This had its highs and lows. For example: the period from Lenins NEP until the moment Stalin launched his collectivization saw relatively less executions. For example: Stalins first years didn't see as much executions as during the Great Purge (1936-8). The biggest forms of oppression ended with Stalins death.
"And the WW2 itself happened only because the Bolsheviks signed that peace treaty with Germans in 1918." No. WW2 happened mostly due to the treaty of Versailles. If you mean the Soviets by 1939 were angry they lost all the territory back in 1918 (Brest-Litovsk), well no, because after the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact most of that (except parts of Poland and except Finland) was back under Russian (Soviet) rule.
@@HistoryHustle Well, you can call it oppression, you can even call it Stalin been nice to people times, I don't care about the terminology you use, but what they did to people was: executing and sending them to GULAG and great construction projects, like Belomorcanal, where people died in thousands. And don't forget millions of victims of famine of 1932-33, which was a result if "decossackization" and "collectivisation" programs.
As for the WW2, don't forget, that Hitler started the war from annexation of Sudetenland and the rest of Czechoslovakia, which Soviet Union opposed, but couldn't help, as Poland would not let Soviet troops through it's territory. Would it be a strong Russia next to Czechoslovakia, Hitler would never attack it, but the Bolsheviks gave all the western Russian lands including Poland away.
I agree with the fact that Stalin was a ruthless leader. You second paragraph comes across as revisionism. I distance myself from that and stop replying.
I lived and worked in the former Soviet Union. My wife was born and raised in Kharkov (now Kharkiv). We still have an apartment there and visit several weeks per year. (except 2020 due to covid)
To this day if you are asking people things that are really none of your business, they will say "Who are you? A Checkist?" Basically to say...mind your own business!!!!!!!!
Have you visited the History Museum in Kharkiv? Very interesting. It was refurbished in 2013. Also I recommend visiting the "Memorial of Glory", the memorial gardens to the 274,000 residents of Kharkiv killed during WW2.
Thank you. Haven't visited the museum but hope to do so one day in the future.
As an African man just learning about this shit it’s amazing how we never really talked about this in school so many fucking people died my god
Great video. Always wanted more info on this topic.
Great! 👍
Millions of people slaughtered because others just loved the thrill of it !!
Sad story.
No one enjoyed it , it was definately harsh times
Diptastik --- Not so; that was the Nazis; the ideologies are unalike.
Also not even close to a million. It can't be higher than 50k and they werent normal working class people. They were rich people and white army supporters and counter revolutionaries. Maybe some mistakes happened here and there but it was generally rule by fear of the bourgeoisie not the proleteriat
@@shrektheintelllectual3615 - THE SEARCH for FALSE EQUIVALENCE and the DISCONTENTS of NEGATIONIST ANTI-COMMUNISTS | Correct, but those facts are irrelevant to contemporary Murican ideologues, lads and lassies who very much try to re-introduce the word "Communist" as a political insult that gives the white-winger an excuse to shoot unarmed women and old people, e.g. the Neo-Nazi James Alex Fields who needed a car to kill Heather Heyer, at Charlottesville in 2017; the Neo-Nazi Dylann Roof who killed old people as they prayed in a Black church in 2015, and Kyle Rittenhouse who went hunting wabbits and Communists at a Wisconsin Black Lives Matter rally in 2020.
The wannabes I have mentioned are the type of racist white people for whom Republican ideologues herein seek FALSE EQUIVALENCE between the Bolsheviks' post-revolutionary purging of Russian society and the Republican Party's Neo-Nazi white supremacy in response to having lost an election.
Thank you for this amazing video prof. Stefan!!!! Ya know it’s amazing to think of comparing the Cheka to the Gestapo. In essence the Gestapo were doing the same thing to the exact opposite walks of life politically that is. Going after anyone who posed a threat to
The Nazi regime which they saw mainly in the communists. The Cheka were representing and going after anyone not a communist. Two polar opposite ideals in secret police but with similar and brutally extreme tactics. Hope that made some sense lol kind of hard to articulate in writing.
Thank you Nick!
More on the Cheka this Wednesday!
They were more like the CIA than guestapo. If they targeted non communists then they would have needed to nuke all of russia since actual communists were a minority supported by the will of the majority. They mostly cracked down on people who supported the white army( which the SRs did ).
Years ago I read an interview of a Polish man who had been interrogated by the Gastapo and then later by the NKVD. When asked which ordeal was worse, he said that they were both equally bad. He stated that the only difference was that the Gestapo wanted to know the truth. The NKVD didn't really care about the truth at all !!!!
Fun fact, the Bolsheviks were primarily Jews, the Cheka was almost exclusively Jewish, as were the "Revolutionary's" to the left of Lenin,.like Ms Kaplan.. many never identified as being Russian..
The 1000th antisemite on the platform. I get this comment a lot. I always quote Orlando Figes (A People's Tragedy):
"It must never be forgotten that while many revolutionaries were Jews, relatively few Jews were revolutionaries. It was a myth of the anti-Semites that all the Jews were Bolsheviks."
@@HistoryHustle Resorting to the lowest form of argument.. The Ad Hominem .. Mudslinging.. "Anti Semite" doesnt negate the fact that i spoke the truth.. Jewish apologists like yourself tried using that same smear against Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn... You're a poor excuse for someone who fancies himself a historian.
@@mikeborrelli193 it's funny how he verified your info, but you're the bad guy for not liking it.
@@HistoryHustle he didn't say that all the Jews were Bolsheviks
@@HistoryHustle how is he being an anti semite? did he say ALL Bolsheviks are jews? no!
This channel is amazing
Cheers 👍🏻
I did know but many do not, so thanks for posting this.
Thank you, Rod!
Great video! Makes you feel that terrible fanatism. Everyone should learn what Communism does.
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@@HistoryHustle I did!
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A lot of people don't want to know the truth .
This makes me think Lenin was no better then Stalin and deserved to be locked up forever.
Stalin expanded the terror greatly.
@@HistoryHustle I'm glad your covering the Bolsheviks and you aren't distorting the truth unlike some people on TH-cam. I had a teacher and she viewed Winston Churchill as a mass murder but she said Lenin was a product of his time.
Lennin got a well deserved early death at the age of 53 for killing the czars family and for ordering the red terror that killed 200,000 people.
Great page of history... Great job!
Thank you.
Thanks for the video.
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I wish people in the USA who find communism appealing would actually look into even a little bit of history on the subject!! Thanks for bringing some of it to TH-cam!
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they are too lazy to do it themselves. typical socialists.
Look up Richard Wurmbrand, a Romanian Jewish Christian pastor who spent 14 years in a Communist prison. He exposed Marx as a Satanist.
@@connorhenry9599 yes calling the opposition a satanist has always been trustworthy
This guy is terrible actually. He literally cited a shirtless ukrainian guy as one of his sources lmao.
How many Bolchaivic leader's had Jewish background ?
Trotsky , Lenin , Karl Marx
Sure not a majority.
careful
Orthodox Russian Church destroyed by the "Russian revolution" inspired by insiders.
Ottaman Islamic empire destroyed from insiders and external actor's namely Freemasonry and Zionists Congress led and bank rolled by Rothschild and theodor Hertzel .
Zionist Congress also turned on Germany during WW1 as per the Balfour declaration
@@HistoryHustle tha majority dude
Lenin had mongolic ethnicity not Jewish
And the same thing goes on in Russia and China today.
Both countries to some extent but not as extreme as in 1918.
lol. No it doesn't. At least not in Russia.
I'm less informed about China.
Read Soljenitsyne : "Two centuries together"...
Also Stolypine : "the providers of the Goulag", T. I (maybe only in French?)
And Sutton/Quigley of course, + "between the Reds and the White", Edwin Erich Dwinger.
You mean?
Superb video, thanks! :) Subscribed.
Awesome!
Watch the first hour of Europa: The Last Battle
I dismiss that as revisionism.
It's was a great documentary which will never be talked about openly and we know why but in the end they will be crushed.
Looks like where the US is heading now
Little bit exaggerated don't your think.
Notice how eager to disarm the American people they are ? There's never been a communist takeover without the people being disarmed !!!
Cold War anti-communist slaughter by Washington and CIA was carried out on millions of unarmed civilians around the world, very "freedom eagle".
My family is here in the US because of that!
Interesting. Thanks for sharing this.
Great video!
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Man I’m happy I stumbled on this channel great stuff 🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙
Welcome Jon!