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Berezhkov, Valentin M. At Stalin's Side: His Interpreter's Memoirs From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Dictator's Empire (United States: Carol Pub. Group, 1994).
Conquest, Robert. The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties (Ontario: The Macmillan Company, 1968).
Kuromiya, Hiroaki, The Voices of the Dead: Stalin’s Great Terror in the 1930s (United States: Yale University Press, 2007).
Lee, Stephen J. European Dictatorships 1918-1945 (United Kingdom: Routledge, 2016).
Whitewood, Peter. The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Soviet Military (United States: University Press of Kansas, 2015).
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Or how the British invented them during the second Boer War?
Unfortunately seems like the code isn't working 😢
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TH-cam's unneccesary censorship is going to be it's downfall
*its
But yes
It's just going to keep getting worse before the election. After, who knows?
@@HighOnPoint412 YT has censored me 3× so far just replying to this comment.🙄
Bunch of wusses
you're not the only one 😢@@taylorlibby7642
It's absolutely soul crushing to think about how many people within the Soviet Union were _murdered_ just to satiate the ego of this one megalomaniac.
Man I've seen you're profile for like 10 times now🤔😂,
But true tho
@Precutlion.9 yeah I see this man everywhere
Somethings never change in Russia.
Sounds a lot like another mustache man
The man lived by what he said. "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic". Absolutely crazy!
To tell you just how ridiculous the charges could get, here's how my Georgian great aunt (so 3 generations back) almost got sent to a gulag, or even worse:
She owned a tractor manufacturing factory, and since you could just write an unsigned accusation letter at the time, she got accused of being an ennemy to the state because she allegedly put _plane engines_ instead of tractor engines. Fortunately, a friend of hers worked in the police and was able to see the letter before anybody else and quickly discarded it. I don't remember every detail (it is my great aunt after all), but I remember this did indeed happen.
EDIT: Just talked to my mother and, like many of you pointed out, you were right, she didn't own the factory. Instead, she was chief engineer and oversaw production (from what I understood). Didn't think this would blow up, so I hadn't really checked.
She OWNS a tractor manufacturing factory? Do you realize that's already an anti-people thing? And a lawful order was ignored because of cronyism. Especially since you didn't say she wasn't innocent, especially since you know it from her and of course she told the whole truth. All those convicted from their word are not innocent but lied to.
@@sunsolar2138 She was probably a head of the factory, and not the owner. There was zero possibility to own something like factory in 30s since everything belonged to the People and therefore was government owned. Still doesnt change the fact of how ridiculous accusations were
@@Namooro What you say is false. Not everything was owned by the State. There were many cooperatives in the USSR, like sovkhoz and artels.
@@sunsolar2138 this has got to be satire... no way you can be commenting this on a video literally talking about the murders of hundreds of thousands to feed one mans paranoia and be serious
@ASlickNamedPimpback no, just the stories about this man's paranoia are not serious. All lies from unreliable authors caught lying many times. And stories about hundreds of thousands dead. Horrible, we had a civil war and its aftermath, and in war people die, that's how the discovery is made
This was truly by far one of Stalin's worst decisions, and it bit him in the ass hard when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
How? Why?
@@Maximilien1794 Because the purge took out a huge chunk of the Red Army's officer corps, and it affected the performance of the Red Army itself, especially when it fought Finland in the Winter War, which explained the high casualty numbers suffered by the Soviets.
@@MaximilianoAedo Is that why Zhukov failed to beat the Japanese at Khalkin Gol? Actually, he didn't. I guess the Japanese should have purged their own army as well. The Soviet purges allowed to promote young and clever officers like Zhukov. If France had purged its own army, there would have been no betrayal and old fascist officers like Huntziger (the most experienced officers of their time) would have been replaced by younger, skilled and open-minded officers like De Gaulle. This is just obvious, but keep pretending that Stalin purged his own army just to please his sadistic mind.
@@Maximilien1794He removed far too many people from the officer corps and even the lower-ranking soldiers of the Red Army. So unfortunately, when the Nazis came knocking during Operation Barbarossa, the Soviet armed forces were both unprepared and under-manned.
@@Maximilien1794 Typical missing the forest for the trees framing. One good leader has no bearing on the overall situation.
Here before the tankies start talking about all the "Good things Stalin did"
Yup,stalin was so aggressive towards ethnic grops,civiilans and the army at the point other commies(or bolshevics) said to stalin into calm down and those fucking tankies say stalin is a good guy
heh, love the jokes
but he won the war 😭
B- but stalin wasnt a heavy drinkwer
Honestly considering how thin the German army were spread and how hard pressed they were it is likely that NS-G would have lost anyway
Considering Lenin's means of dealing with those who opposed his revolution, I think we can safely say this ruthless "phase" was by no means new.
Lenin's regime was brutally evil, but Stalin took it to a whole new level.
considering that the french did the same during their revolution , this is not new
@@Commissar_4735 You mean, a group of rich and powerful people manipulating the masses into taking over previous rich and powerful people? That reminds me of yet another revolution, or a lot of them, actually. Fascinating =D
@Commissar_4735 obviously it's not new lol but the fact that this much brutality and bloodshed happened in the 20th century is ridiculous. The Russian revolution and its consequences made Nazi Germany's atrocities look like a microscopic blip in comparison
@@Commissar_4735 it's not new to the world although the numbers can be, but we're talking about it being not new to the Russian communist revolution
Just as Stalin praised Hitler's "night of long knives", Mao Zedong called Stalin a great man and copied his methods almost to the letter 30 years later.
Donald Trump thinks all you mentioned are great. Trump's definition means the person was successful in their extremism and results, not wonderful people. This is public knowledge btw.
and then Pol Pot after Mao
@@venturatheace1polpot was literally supported by the CIA… he was an American dictator
That never happened
@@tharealKDHDyes it did. Hush child, adults are talking.
Wtf.
And how quickly people forget history.
Who’s forgotten the purges? Except maybe the Russians, given how Putin deals with things.
@@Anglomachian пиздец.... Блин, как так 😢
I've seen plenty of people who remember this but attempt to justify it
The Tik history has made a video about the purges , you guys should Watch it .
У нас по разному к этому относятся
The best book on this that I've found is "The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-destruction of the Bolsheviks". It's full of frightening documents that historians pulled straight out of the Kremlin from that era after the Soviet Union collapsed and they showed how Stalin temporarily reduced oppression to trick potential troublemakers into revealing themselves. They even found confessions that had blood stains on them.
Of course when Stalin reduces oppression it is "to trick potential troublemakers into revealing themselves". Even a child wouldn't accept such nonsense. Once must have gone through a lot of anticommunist propaganda to believe such idiotic conspiracy theories.
Stalin Great Purge was because his Father used to Punish him Serverly
Hahahaha...I know an Oversimplified reference when I see one!
Europe came to Russia few times in XX century because they love to be punished
I think it was because his Mother didn't breast feed him.
Also, “your dad beat you like a dog and now you’re evil”
Epic rap battles of history, you guys should see it, thank me later.
Ahh a fellow man of culture
Meanwhile a hoi4 player: fails to manage paranoia and gets all their good generals killed, and lose the moment Barbarossa begins
Here’s an interesting Soviet tidbit:
One of the creative methods of torture used by Soviet interrogators is actually feeding their defendants with tons of food! This was their way of swaying accusations of human rights violation, as they can have plausible confirmation that they are feeding their prisoners well
The only catch is that all the food is very salty and there were no drinks to wash it down (except for the extremely salty soup known as balanda); the interrogators will offer the overstuffed defendant water IF they sign a confession letter, which most of them probably do after feeling too groggy from all the salty meat and bread
Also one of the interrogation method i remembered read somwhere (From the book "Gulag Archipelago" I think), which seems not painful yet equally horrible: The defendands not allowed to sleep for a few days, then they ordered to sit on comfortable sofa with the interrogators (Still not allowed to sleep).
Not harming physical body much, but I think enough to cause phsycological breakdown.
You can get a seizure if you have too much salt and die, actually. Don't know if that happened in any of those cases
@@haikalmiftah2529 That book is bs that was written by an alcoholic.
Another person that's read too much Gulag Archipelago nonsense...
@@ilyasharin1976 Actually, this one is from Danzig Baldaev, a former prison guard who documented prisoners’ life in the gulag through a series of secret drawings; he was once caught and interrogated for drawing tattoos of prisoners, but the Soviets decided to keep him, so they can easily identify Russian criminal gangs
Last time I was this early, Stalin was alive!
Yes I'm alive.
Bro is winston Churchill
bro finally a really unique video here
@@keirpatrick3045 yes
@@MCMH5.23 Stalin i hate you because you attacked Finland
Stalin paid the price for his foolishness during operation Barbarossa the pudge come back to bite him
Truly.
In the end it just meant more needless deaths, like he’d care.
You know even during Barbarossa he continued his purges but eventually stopped because there were simply not enough competent military officers
he actually made sure that treason would never happen during the war
@@Commissar_4735didn’t stop millions of Soviet soldiers getting encircled and surrendering to Germans
As a post Soviet country, 50 percent of what we learn in our schools about 20th century in our history is cruelty of Soviet politics. We suffered two periods of hunger which resulted in a loss of half of native population because local authoritarian decided to confiscate 90 percent of our cattle (and our diet is heavily based on meat) during collectivization. Our best minds (writers, poets) executed (almost entirely). We had system of labor camps, the most famous one of which is ALZHIR - Akmola (city name) camp for wives of nation's "traitors", where completely innocent wives of purge's victims had too suffer for years.
You might want to prepare for all the edgy, moronic tankies who will undoubtedly screech about how everything you just said is “western imperialist propaganda” or other such nonsense because they can’t stand their deluded pipe dreams about the Soviet Union being hit with reality.
Rokossovsky, one of the greatest WW2 generals, was purged and put in the camp. Later, in 1940 if i'm not mistaken, they freed him as the red army personnel had doubled and they were lacking talented officers. He was beaten, lacked food etc.
Later on, he would keep his total loyalty to Stalin after his death and would strongly oppose destalinization campaign.
Crazy stockholm syndrome
Also, he was an ethnic Pole, ironically enough.
Does that not sound suspicious to you? If he was severely beaten so bad and tortured why would he be so against destalinization? Because what you just said was nonsense. What actually happened was that he was rehabilitated and found not guilty (according to the documents of his case).
@@ilyasharin1976 Я знаю, что его восстановили и признали невиновным. Только сел он в 1937, а вышел в 1940. 2.5+ года он находился в местах не столь отдаленных, занималось им НКВД. Это не самое приятное времяпрепровождение.
One of the most tragic group of victims were the Russians from Harbin, Manchuria. Those that left after the Japanese takeover were targeted in the purge. Those that stayed in Harbin would eventually become victims of Unit 731. So these people had it bad either way.
Stalin always checked his list twice
The fact that we have to plug a censorship free alternative to TH-cam on a video about Stalin would be comically ironic if it wasn’t so depressing. The censoring of history is just criminal. Keep up the excellent work!
You conflate the use of some language with ideas.
@@Mark-gg6iy what are you talking about?
@@Jasper118
He says that you're trying to be sound intellectual when you're yapping...
That's the blud thought
@@mrs.shootingstar-garcia4799 well did I say something incorrect? And what did I say that was trying to sound “intellectual” haha?
@@Mark-gg6iyno, he didnt.
Marxists really out here trying to tell you not to believe your lying ears.
Goodness this feels like such a short summary of such a deep topic.
If I was this early in any other aspect of my life, my room would be tidy and my body in shape!
For the record. Purges are BAD.
Why?
They are
Unless you're a dictator who wants to keep power.
@@kingofcards9516 Or someone who wants to avoid giving power to the Germans.
@@Maximilien1794 I think the purge actually put them closer to gaining power than anything
4:03 Semyon Budyonny (second guy on the left) was not purged , he was one of the best general both in the civil war and ww2
Let us sing the march of Budyonny.
Quite interesting that they never went over this in history class, a unit on how stalins cruelty was inspired by hitler, and how that played out and made his people suffer, would be fun to learn about.
In AP World History, this is gone over in pretty strong detail, along with Mussolini’s crimes and sometimes Francisco Franco’s depending on the teacher.
In my experience history classes are very generalized because they want to cover a lot. Of course I think this only serves to hurt people's interest in the subject because a lot of the most interesting things in history are the details.
Hitlers Night of the Long Knives didn’t inspire Stalin. He had started purging his officers in the early 1930s before Hitler became Chancellor and had the chance to enact his purge of the SA in 1934.
Stalin just later said he respected Hitler for taking the steps needed to solidify his power as a leader. But he had already been a murderous lunatic. That was all actually learned in HS WW2 history. Not as common anymore I guess
Every history class on this period I took mentioned the purges, if only in passing. Some went into detail.
@@Anglomachian yeah a quick sentence about how Stalin purged some officers in the military, never went fully into detail about all the civilians murdered
Code "Nocensorship" is BASED
sub russian opinion rejected
@@artos9406 unfortunate, but once under the light the truth shall be revealed
It’s interesting that Lenin didn’t want Stalin to lead Russia.
So true
Lenin was pragmatic to begin with.
He felt that stalin would become a problem if he had that much power.
@@collin1401 Lenin was just as bad and conducted his own purges.
Lenin did appoint Stalin.
10:50 it was tragically ironic, that many of the Finns who fell victim to the purges were from America where they had emigrated. But when the Soviet Union was created in 1922 many thousands of them decided to emigrate again, to Soviet Russia because they genuinely wanted to go and live in communist/socialist and take part in building the workers paradise society.
The Kolkhoz's or farming collectives run by Finnish communities were apparently very successful but just by being Finnish they were "suspicious" and as told, great numbers of them were executed or send to gulags.
I just got to 9:40 on the video. In that fragment you state that there were 669.000 arrests, and whilst the screen shows the number 376.000 w/ regards to the executions, you state that there were 776.000. Tiny error there, but that is all really. Great video, outstanding quality :)
Reminiscent of when they got NATO wrong. Simple things like this is unacceptable especially when all that's on the screen is a GIANT 376,000.
May i add, that among the people purged by the Soviets were also Greeks. Those who found shelter from Ottoman and latter Turkish oppression in today Ukraine and Russia were purged again only a few years later as enemy's of the state simply for being Greeks (and Greece fought against communist in Ukraine in 1919) they were deported almost all of them to Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan with thousands perishing on the way there. Only after the collapse of USSR were allowed to return with most of them preferring to come to Greece. Those people were mainly if not all of them from Pontos (north eastern part of Turkey). Thank you for well documented historical videos.
The fact that so many youths today actually view Stalin and communism with great pride and support is absolutely disgusting
The ones supporting such things are brainwashed and easy to twist and manipulate
And they will always refute criticism with "that's not real communism"
@@Deplorable-Dingo because communism never existed, it was socialism
I dont expect you to understand that because you are clearly too ignorant to
@@Deplorable-Dingo "It's never really been tried."
That's because communists control the education systems in the Western World.
It's nice of you to upload one of your Armchair TV videos here to give people a taste of the great content you post there
I'd never heard of the Asharshylyk before. Everyone focuses on the Holodomor. The communists sure did love their manmade famines.
they were dying just to kill everyone. The climate has been negotiated to create a drought.
So despite this whole video, you still havent understood that it was absolutely not about communism, but about the paranoia and megalomania of a single man? With the mass executions of everyone who basically had a spine and could make things work, succesful farmers included, everything turned to crap. It's not communism in or out of itself that made that happen. Totalitarianism is quite the opposite of communism. Stalin kept the name but emptied the concept.
@@justalonesoul5825 That's like saying "the Holocaust had nothing to do with national socialism. Hitler was just a bad guy who did bad things." Evil ideologies attract evil people. You're fooling yourself if you think Stalin was the exception and not the rule.
@@Viper_Vic You again dont get the argument. Marx, Engels, later Lenin, Luxembourg, Bukharin and many other communists wrote their opinions on the world. Never was there stated that you have to kill every political opponent, nor do you have to force collectivize everyrhing to a point, where people would starve. Some people even became reformists, improving the lifes of millions of workers across europe. Hitlers National Socialism on the other side, did exactly what you discribed. He dreamed of an evil ideology, of forcing every other ethnicity to become subject to the german race and give up their territory for lebensraum, and at the end force everything through a great war, cleansing everything in site. In short words: National Socialism is inherently wrong, racist and genocidel, while the insanely big range of socialst/communist ideoligies did also do disgraceful things to human society, while NOT being inherently wrong. Or do you hate democracy because of the atrocities of the US? I dont think so , since it would make sense at all :)
@@justalonesoul5825I sent your name to The Fat Electrician. He's putting you at the top of HIS list.
7:45 Yagoda was the leader of NKVD, not just a prominent communist party member. His successor, Yezhov was also purged
Here is your daily reminder that if trotsky won the power stugle, it would have been just as bad.
If I know correctly that man wanted to bring the revolution to the entire planet he would have single handily united the world against him
Yeah, back when I was young and dumb (or rather dumber), I used to admire communism and Trotsky. Then when I hit my 20's and the thinky thinky parts of my brain started to work, I was like oh wait, those are all bad ideas and Trotsky was just as bad as the rest of them.
@endrankluvsda4loko172 If you ever read what trotsky said about stain while in Mexico, he basically says that he would have just done it better or a slightly different way
Trotsky and Stalin: fighting
Bukharin: you guys forgot me or what ?
Bukharin my beloved Bukharin died 😭💔
of course its from a tno pfp 💀
The Armchair Historian is probably some of the best historical content you can find on TH-cam
One of my relatives on my grandmother's side was a prison warden for Nizhny Novgorod, and was apart of the purges. It's always interesting to look upon history especially knowing family history and seeing multiple sides of a story.
Stalin watching people through the window 🪟 😅.
Не понравилось. Всё те же шаблоны, те же надуманные цифры.
Have fun watching everyone !
I find it interesting that after the war ended in Europe, Gen. Patton went on record saying something to the effect of, "in this war, we fought the wrong enemy."
Навыдуманные истории о которых невозможно молчать
Ви все врети небило ваини била спецабсирация никакого нападения на Украине не планируется это фейк
О ниии, хароший сралин всьо делал для лудей, забирал у них всьо, но они не умирали, ведь перепис 1936 это ФИИИИИИЙК
Никакова тэрора нибыла, ни писал сралин на бумагах "Увеличить расстрельные списки" и ни падписывать он их, не читая
Вы чььто, пакта молатава-рибентропа нибыла, совмиснага парада в Бресте нибыла, лисивковщины(самая гениальная кампания в истории) нибыла, сралин ни знал о злой Ижов, каторый каждую неделю иму рапарт о тэрорэ писать
Ничиво нибыла, я вирю, что камэнэв, зиновив и рыкаф диствитильно хотили убить сралина
И галасавие 1934 в вкп тожи ФИИИИЙК(18 из 70 пережили 1937-38, но мы та знаэм, что тэрорэ нибыла)
They don’t teach this one in college
did you take AP history?
What collage is this
My college did actually
Last time i was this early. Trosky didnt have an axe in his head
It was a pike axe.
Tankies coping and seething right now.
Cool to see Armchair Historian make a video about this topic.
Thank you Chris Griffin for doing small upload & covering this topic that I haf mo idea what else was going. Plus, there's still more to Stalin's purification man-hunt of potential threats to his rule.
Also, keep up the good work too🙂
the Soviets beat Nazi Germany NOT thanks to Stalin... but DESPITE of Stalin ! 🤔
Who's staline? Do you mean Stalin?
World War II started because both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union people tend to forget that both of them invaded Poland
@@TheRapeFanatic That's the French way of spelling his name. It's just has to do with the orthography; Stalin would be pronounced quite differently. To provide another example, Putin's surname is written Poutine just so the pronounciation matches.
@@lohtupottu thanks for clearing that up, I'm bit of a grammar nazi
@@lohtupottuSomehow I kinda prefer thinking of him as cheese curds and gravy over fried potatoes.😂🤣
10:20 I can't understand why Poland made the decision to join NATO as soon as it could!
Don’t forget the Baltic States who followed right after years later.
NATO isn't even that good. We went from Soviet occupation to low-key US occupation
Still a bad outcome. I wish we could be 100% independent :(
the backfire on this when operation barbarosa started they had luck of experienced commanders in the battle filed all generals mostly ended in the purge
This Is Why I Love Democracy..
It's far from perfect, yet, at the very least, the Democratic states don't erect walls preventing folks from escaping, as one person once said. What's more, some said states are compelled to build up walls so that some interesting people couldn't infiltrate, heh))
@@user-lu9vn3oj9w europe should Monarchy excluding Russia becouse socalism worked better for them
To future contrairians hiding in the replies of this comment : Do you consider yourself in a minority opinion opposed to the status quo where you live? Have you ever been put in prison if it involved criticizing those in power? Were you ever T word into giving false confessions to crimes you didn't commit because you expressed your minority opinion? Can you put videos on TH-cam showing these views without consequences? That's great, the equivalent of your minority opinion in the places you worship doesn't and isn't allowed to exist without these consequences, you're literally enjoying privileges and double-standards your equivalents against the status quo in those places don't have.
@@Game_Hero heathen i only worship god all mighty and your demoracy wants destroy christianity and i respect people like costantine the great , justnian and joan of arc queen isebella of spain charles martel and so on
@@Game_Hero bot
Got an ad for Adventure communist, the irony couldn’t be better
This truely is the best youtube channel there is. Professional sounding voice, good story telling, and great art and animation that bring life to the story that is told. You just cannot lack arts as it bring the greatest expression there is that doesn't make the video look and feel lazy like others
You got a new AH Tv subscriber, its channels like this that need to be rid of censorship so people can gather such important knowledge
I was actually debating subscribing to AHTV. Thank you for convincing me to get it!
And thus. The dictators wrath
That thumbnail goes so hard.
Clockwork orange and 1984 reference all in 2 frames? Nicely done.
My great grandfather was executed for unknown reasons.
He was German but lived in a german village in Russia
@Comrade_Blanc what was his name?
His name????
@@Bowtiethesilly2023 bro he just lair for likes
@@popeo1973 what
@@popeo1973 tf you talking about
The timing was perfect! I just visited a museum in estonia about the soviet occupation
You probably mean the Soviet liberation.
@@Maximilien1794 I think you meant the soviet starvation.
Stalin's great purge is something you hear referenced a lot but rarely discussed in detail. Overall it may have saved the soviet union from internal conflict...but at what cost???
If it did save the Soviet Union, it also saved the world from nazism.
Read a book about it then. And not pro or anti Stalin rubbish. Actual Historian's work's.
keep up the great work
12:53 This video ended rather abruptly. Should we thank TH-cam for that?
Beria: "Anyway im gonna spike his drink soon."
Skip to 2:23
Bro made a portrait of ishowspeed and thought we wouldn't notice
I'm already loving this new style of animation
Babe wake up. Armchair historian dropped a vid on Stalins purge
commenting for engagement if this video is monetized
Glad you’re doing a documentary I’ll watch! Also I think a lot of people would subscribe to your pay page but man times are tough out there financially. Nobody can afford fun.
Bravo! For making this
"Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin is to live forever." ✊🏻
Lenin think Stalin is too soft and got too many hesitation when he deal with rivals, he would make compromises till the politcal situation cannot be solve by any means but a huge purge which is why in public eyeLenin has more soft impression than Stalin but in truth Lenin is way more decisive when it comes to political rivalry, Lenin would end any opposition in a really early stage
It is sad that today many people still see Stalin as great leader, especially in Russia.
We need the long version 😢😢
Glad to see you do a piece on this. It should be brought up as often as the holocaust.
Interestingly, there wasn't collectivization in poland but famine was at the same time as in ussr
Interesting to people finding any reason to try and lesson stalins evil i guess.
@@falconmclenny7284 Or just not all stailins evils are stalins evils, only a Sith deals in absolutes
@@ivannazarov7242 that quote makes less sense here than it did in star wars mate.
this is one of your best videos and is very rare to hear about Stalin and the ussr crimes and can you do a video about the Nigerian civil war and I hope TH-cam doesn’t take down this video and Sorry my comment was deleted.
i adore the creativity in this,recently your videos have had a lot of random stuff thrown in for visuals rather than anything original or relevant
How could the Red Army, weakened by Stalin's Purge resist such a force?
Nice. You should cover the battle of Kursk from a soldier's POV soon.
Maybe because the purges actually strenghtened the Red Army. It's nonsensical to assume that the purges weakened the Red Army.
Love your vids man
And during the public viewing of Lenin's corpse a certain Nguyen Ai Quoc was so grief-stricken that he queued up so long out in the harsh icy environs of Moscow that he was nearly frostbitten and at risk of catching pneumonia.
He would also later order the ruthless liquidation of the Trotskyists in his country.
He was a quoc that bloke.
@@falconmclenny7284 That quoc was a celibate too.
Really interesting video and is helping me with my A Level History
Video actually starts at 2:33
Video actually starts at 0:00
@@ghost7344 if ya say so lady
Sounds like the Jan 6ers in the DC gulag, but on a massive scale.
Awsome documentary
Stalinator 2:Gulag Day
6:15 is that a 1984 reference
I was about to say that lol
@@u2boii878 too bad hehehe :p
I was looking for someone to say that.
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I go from great content creator to great content creator today. This is a great day for me.
the soviets traded a few decades of prosperity, for an (seemingly) eternity of decline
"woe unto those who trade a short period of perfection for an extremely long period of mediocrisy" someone, probably (i made it up add it to the "unknown" part of quotes)
The Volga Germans who had been in Russia since the late 1700s were also purged before the outbreak of WW2. Why were they not included with the other "foreign" ethnic groups?
Lie. They were deported after the Nazi invasion of the USSR.
here come the tankies
I just learned the meaning of that cute word. I am a tankie.
@@Maximilien1794 I'm sure the ukrainians that died from the famines caused by Soviet incompetence
Bro This man Has a Cold Face When Describing The Full Horrors Of War
*Time to repost this if it goes down*
Fun fact: stalin disliked the vietnamese version of communism in the 1940s-50s
It's funny how we often consider Hitler to be the most evil man in history, but Stalin was just as bad, if not worse.
Are you a nazi?
Funny thing is neither of them even come close to chairman mao in the body count.
Hitler can be claimed to be right wing. Stalin is clearly left wing. They don't want you to know anything about leftism so you fall for their scams.
@@jackadams3878 False.
Hitler believed he was Germany a service through his brutality. Stalin was just power hungry and paranoid
Here comes the tankies
Amazing production value, it’s crazy how much you’ve improved when compared to your older videos