Death of Stalin - The Cold War DOCUMENTARY
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- Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on the death of Stalin and the struggle in its aftermath, as his underlings fought a bloody battle for authority over the USSR
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We said Elizabeth ascended to the throne in 1953 and this is incorrect. She was coronated in 1953 but became Queen in 1952
For some reason in the last 3 vids i haven't gotten notified and i have the bell on this is just bananas
@@ablackghostmyguy3741 for me the same with all other youtubers
And she'll finally abdicate for a long retirement in 2053
Nice correction. I was just about to comment on this.
@@TheJackmeisterMongolHistory no she won't. She made a deal with satan.
Legend has it that Zhukov represented the whole Red Army at the buffet.
Truly a man of great tastes and appetite.
"Spit it out Georgy, staging a coup here".
And then Zhukov planted the Soviet flag on Hitler's bunker and knocked a bear out with one punch. The man's a hero.
@@michaellynes3540 it was Goebbels'
Why has the army been replaced by the NKVD all over Moscow? I'm smiling but I'm very fucking furious.
We all know Stalin and his crew spoke English with various British accents
I understood that reference 😅
no we don't?
With a couple of American accents into the mix.
...and one of them was Steve Buscemi.
Loved the movie!
You forgot to mention something, when Molotov accused Kruschev of working with a fascist (Tito), Nikita reminded him of how he was the one that signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
Nikita: SIKE M8, GETTING BURNT HERE YA.
khrushchev sucked
@@shawnv123 They all sucked.
@@shawnv123
1. They are politicians a certain level of suckage is to be expected.
2. He didn't suck as much as the Beria.
3. Considering that we mostly elect our politicians on their amount of suckage I'd argue that krushev winning was quite the western thing to happen considering the soviet unions track record.
@@petebondurant58 just khrushchev brezhnev and gorbachev the only good one was stalin
On the 3rd of March 1953 in the capital of Bulgaria - Sofia, a group of anarchists bombed a statue of Stalin. They were caught and sentenced to death. However Stalin died on the 5th of March, so their sentence was converted into life imprisonment. In the process of destalinisation all of them were released from the prison.
Lucky them 😂
if they had bombed a desalinization plant...would it have been a destalinized desalinized incident?
@@SantomPh well what ever it is Stalin is going to be pretty salty about that.
Nooooooo should have life imprisoned that
@@SantomPh you're HILARIOUS!!
I have dutifully oppressed the bell button, comrade.
I've read that Malenkov actually like getting demoted and sent to a manegerial position far from Moscow. It was said he no longer wanted to be part in the politics of the USSR and that being back to civilian life was a blessing.
Of course he liked it because the usual alternative was death. I would prefer a nice civilian life as well to getting a bullet in the head and getting branded as a traitor.
He became the director of a Power Plant in Kazakhstan.
Like getting out of the Mafia......
Back in Stalins era that would be irrelevant - Stalin would still be coming back for you at some point. But under Kruchev it was more lenient
"suffering a stroke after a night of drinking"
Comrade Beria's cover story survived!
Unlike Comrade Beria...
I was in the tourism business in the 1980s. A Russian customer of mine died from a stroke after a night of drinking and sex with two escort girls in a hotel in Bangkok. (For whose interested, the girls weren't Thai but East-German).
Josip Broz Tito is laughing
Well ill be d'amnésie
Beria died of a headache.
Nothing more.
@@BELCAN57 yes of course having a bullet lodged in one's head must cause a headache, however brief.
I like how the portraits behind him on the wall changed after Stalin's death
Mentei...I lived in a former Communist country till I left in'82, and all buildings had a portrait of the dictator. In a country that has elctions, you don't get to hang up portraits of the president.
In "One, Two Three," a 1960 movie comedy set in Cold War Berlin something heavy is thrown against a portrait of Khrushchev, which drops out of the frame to reveal a portrait of Stalin.
That's such a great detail though! Referencing the pure obsession soviets had with portraits.
@@marinazagrai1623 ... now that you mention it, I can't not notice it. lol
Fun fact: Johnny Ray Cash (The Man in Black) was one of the first Americans to find out Stalin had died. He enlisted in the USAF in 1950 after graduating, and he served until 54. When Stalin died, Cash intercepted radio messages informing of the event. However, as he recalls later, he wasn't allowed to talk about it until much later.
For people wondering what happened to the Anti-Party Group:
-Molotov was sent as ambassador to Mongolia
-Malenkov became director of a hydroelectric plant in Kazakhstan
-Kaganovich became director of small potash works in the Urals
Mmmm . . . potatoes . . . aglaglaglagl . . .
When Stalin's underlings have a better ending than Stalin...
You forgot about Dmitri Shepilov who joined in at the last minute.
His fate:
-Shepilov became head of the Economics Institute of the local Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyzstan
@@BHuang92 True!
Big oof
My grandma, then 20 years old, joined the crowd that wanted to see the vozhd for the last time. Thankfully, a friend pulled her out, saving from being squashed in the stampede.
Lol close one, you almost didn't get born
you mean your babushka
@@spicyLEGO At that time she was still devushka.
@@arty5876 Ихтамнет.
@@LukeVilent причем здесь Крым и Донбасс?
“Alright boys... meet your dates for tonight.”
"I'll take the tall blonde."
"Goodluck ladies."
@@sturmtruppler6909 damn't. You beat me to that line!
I have imagined this day for the last three decades
"Stalin would be loving this."
Beria and Malenkov were right, though. East Germany was a dead weight.
Fully dependent on USSR military support and right next to a capitalist country that spoke the same language, able to easily broadcast their radio (TV wasn't that much of a thing, yet) into almost all corners of the GDR. Unlike other countries in the Eastern Block, the GDR government couldn't use patriotism to rally the populace. So yeah, a dead weight.
Is that why the Korean War ended then? Was North Korea seen as a burden of sorts too? I know Mao was determined to at least preserve it as a buffer between him and the U.S.-backed Republic of Korea (He originally wanted to take ALL of the peninsula after intervening, but Peng's forces were smashed back mostly north of the 38th Parallel by General Matthew Ridgway, ending those hopes).
@@thunderbird1921 it was definitely a burden to Mao after the first year. The bulk of Communist forces in Korea were Chinese and they were dying by the thousands from battle and disease. Being tied down in Korea meant he couldn't finish off the Nationalists in Taiwan. Stalin dying and Ike becoming US president helped put the finishing touches on the ceasefire. Stalin liked the idea of UN forces being stalemated since he had almost no skin in the game. Allegedly, Ike threatened China with getting the Nationalists into the war and using nukes. Prior to that, it was a lot of diplomatic foot-dragging from the communists hoping for a better tactical situation.
The patriotism angle did somewhat work though, since the Americans focused so heavily on de-Prussianising west Germany
Right, there were 4 students from East Germany in my college group. Because I was fluent in German language and their Russian wasn’t perfect for the tough engineering courses, I offered them my help with them helping me to perfect my German. We spent next 5yrs in college helping each other. We went to concerts, movies and even traveled together. In my memory, East Germans never accepted Soviet style of life, they considered Russians, Ukrainians and the rest nationalities of the USSR sub-human ( unter manchen). They mostly sympathized with Führer, even seeing devastating wounds, still remaining- results of the invasion. Back in Germany some of my friends were arrested for the espionage against DDR, but freed a few months later for the lack of proof.
There were over 3500 East Germans in Leningrad in the 60s in colleges and Military academies. And they never socialized with locals. They had spies within their community -Stazi and KGB worked hand-in hand.
Khrushchev: winner winner - chicken dinner
Eastern Germany: what's a "winner"?
Poland: what's chicken?
Ukraine SSR: what's dinner...
Kazakh SSR: The famine of 1932-33 killed something like 2 million people in Kazakhstan with a population of about 7 million at that point, while it killed 3.5 million people in Ukraine which had about 33 million people at that point, and you make a joke about Ukrainians having no food. Are you for real?
Reagan would've loved your comment!
radunMARSHAL but this was made up to them after the war. They went on to be in the forefront of nuclear weapons design and testing. Talk about being privileged!
@@radunMARSHAL I didn't know about Kazakhstan famine,
🤣🤣🤣Good1
Lenin: None of my political inner circle has even a fraction of my talent to succeed me
Stalin: I know the feeling
Bukharin: I second that
@@user-df1ek5rc1h Frunze - "He killed me."
Lol
I think, this is much funnier in reverse order.
Darryn...although Lenin was despicable, he warned the others about not allowing Stalin being premier, dictator-in-chief, but never mind, the latter killed all his opposition...
"What does a war hero have to do to get some lubrication around here?" - Zhukov was practically a teetotaler though. Even had the americans make white Pepsi so he could say he's drinking vodka instead of a capitalist drink.
Source
@@woodonfire7406
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@@totallynotalpharius2283 Do you mean the story of Zhukov taking a liking to Pepsi or was it Coke, during or in the aftermath of WWII, cant remember the details but it isnt hard to find on the net.
@@totallynotalpharius2283
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Coke
@@jorenvanderark3567 zhukov is the definition of chad
One thing you have to factor about Lavrenty Beria is that he was J. Edgar Hoover of Soviet Union. He had the dirt on everybody so that taking him out was beneficial to everyone.
Himmler of USSR
J edgar was smart and dident threat anyone unless he was directly aginst national interests and the FBI, other then that he let the people in charge fuck around
Beria however was a mass rapist and a sycho who would kill anyone and anything for fun in the name of stalin
After stalin died, only the NKVD was there to protect him and even then many NKVD guys may wanted him gone since he did internal purges as well
Hoover was many things (including being closeted gay man) but he was not a mass child rapist and depraved murderer. Beria was more a Himmler kind a guy if not worse
Everyone was guilty of mass murder.khruschev alone killed more 51000 plus people,that does not even included died on the gulag and lack of care.
Beria was just like J Edgar Hoover, knew everyone’s secrets and was willing to use it, thus too dangerous to let live.
Except Hoover was a cross dresser and liked boys.
@@BELCAN57 Where as Beria liked little girls (including the daughters of influential members of the communist party...).
@@BELCAN57
Relevance ? Also, huh, surprising fact
@@BELCAN57 and beria was a known child rapist
@@nicholasleclerc1583 when the skeletons of several young women were found buried in his rose garden it is relevant. Particularly as some of the charges against Beria were murder, rape and child abuse.
History Buffs analyzed the movie "The Death of Stalin" and stated that the movie was historically accurate, despite some inaccuracies.
I will have to report this conversation.
Threatening to do harm or obstruct any member of the Presidium in the process of LOOK AT YOUR FOOKIN FACE HAHAHAHA
Black Powder User the only thing I hate about that movie is that irl Beria was arrested and had a proper trial, not directly shot. It is a shame this wasn't shown as he was imprisoned in a ww2 bunker guarded by... 4 Soviet tanks with their guns pointed at the door. (No Im not joking)
@@Loup-mx7yt Holy fucking shit, did they think he was going to go Super Saiyan or something?
Black Powder User that made me laugh my ass off that was my favorite part of the movie
I just watched the movie the death of Stalin a few days ago and now this video great!
The only thing bad about Stalins death is that he only had to suffer through it once....
If Stalin was right and there is no God, then he lived well and got away with a lot. On the other hand, if he was wrong...
There's a special place in hell reserved for him.
@@jec1ny The Old Testament God was a jealous, capricious, and murderous control freak, so he might see a kindred spirit in Joe
Well Satan pits him against hitler in hell on a one on one combat. Whoever wins will be spared 1 day of being barbecued. Then the cycle begins again.
bromiso valum is it called Stalingrad?
5:49 . . . "Beria was subsequently tried, convicted and executed in December, leaving the world a slightly better place.
It's my understanding that several Red Army generals drew their personal sidearms and shot Beria several times, as he was piteously begging for his life.
Nobody likes a snitch.
That’s a Hollywood story. The generals, that would care, were executed by Stalin on Berias fake reports of their treasonous actions before WWII started. My uncle was one of those officers. Beria was executed by a Firing squad under some Lieutenant’s command.
Been up since yesterday, it's 8AM. I'm about to go to bed.
"The Cold War just posted: The Death of Stalin"
Sorry sleep you gonna have to wait
Retired?
Malenkov: He’s irreplaceable. (Sobbing) How can we possibly… All right, we must think of the people. As acting General Secretary, I must step up. I must… I must take his place while he’s… on the floor.
Beria: But you just said he’s irreplaceable.
Malenkov: Irreplaceable. Take his place as in assembling the Central Committee, of course.
Beria: Good. I was testing you. Get used to that sort of challenge.
I love the x's on Stalins eyes
Everyone did then; everyone does now.
x_x
One would think Malenkov would have learned the lesson of Stalin's rise to power that being Party Chairman was the key. He made the same mistake as Trotsky.
It was not so clear back then. Stalin had been General Secretary until 1934 only, since then he had been one of the secretaries formally. From 1940 his formal power clearly came from being head of government, not that of the party. History showed that the goverment had become the focus of power, and the whole Stalin team believed so, except Khruschev.
3:25
Music: C&C Red Alert 3 Theme - Soviet March
And Hearts of iron theme in last part of the clip.
@nikolai bahtin i think you mean that song when Capt. Malashenko gave his speech. It's Polyushka Polye
Sergei Prokoviev died on the same day, so the death of this master musician was under-recognized.
Queen Elizabeth II ascended the throne in 1952, she was coronated in 1953
At about the same time, Sir Edmund Hillary made it to the top.
I'm from Kazakhstan and I can say that Nikita Khrushchev was also bad for us
Reason?
The reason is modern nationalist propaganda. Each post-Soviet republic now promotes how bad it is to be part of the USSR and how good it is that they gained independence.
@King George V Not true at all. Alash Orda was capitalist democracy
@@nurithegolden5755 Mhm, and the Turkestan Autonomy (very short lived) was a Republic that could've unified all of Central Asia. Modern day communist revisionists forget that Turkic people have been around a lot longer than these Russians and we are more than capable of handling ourselves!
@@Nick-vn3kg True
“I’m going to have to report this conversation. Threatening to do harm, or obstruct any member of the Presidium in the process of - look at your fuckin’ face!”
-Georgy Zhukov
I love how they used RA3's Hell March and Katyusha as background music.
Yeah and also the Soviet songs from HOI4
Also Farewell of Slavyanka
Molotov calling people he doesn't like, fascist. Some things never change.
"Us vs Them" is a dangerous rhetoric, but an effective one if not also deadly.
Communist regimes have a lot in common with fascist regimes, so the accusation is not that strange.
migkillerphantom a fascist regime like Italy had nothing in common with the Soviet Union. they literally still kept their king as head of state.
@@migkillerphantom Indeed, they both revolve around authoritarianism and totalitarianism
@@rnrailproductions5049 and that matters how? Window dressing.
"I'm going on a tour of the balkans, byeeeeeeeeee"
"Big mistake comrade, one does not just go on a tour of the balkans and come back"
🤣
You deserve awards for this absolutely brilliant content. You have helped me so much with my undergrad Russian history content!
Whether you’re either an existing or aspiring despot, never leave your enemies home alone!
The Death of Stalin was a great movie, i fully recommend it.
Malenkov didn't have close relationship with Zhukov. On the contrary, when Stalin after WW2 try to put Zhukov in his place, he used Malenkov as his battering rod. In part because of this, Zhukov supported Khrushcev in the power struggle
3:07
"Is Malenkov on board? "
“Saddle up, cowboy.”
This was a great summary of events, congrats guys and thank you.
I like how he said to "be sure and *oppress* the bell button"
Malenkov's paternal ancestors came from Ohrid, now in North Macedonia. "Our guy" was about to take control over the USSR :-)
Congrats, "your guy" commited mass atrocities on his own population for a lunatic dictator.
You sound like those people in Georgia rioting for 4 days because "their Stalin" died......
Malenkov seemed to be the most interesting potential leader out of the 2 or 3. I wonder what could've happened if he had won the leadership struggle.
These contra things get frustrated constantly, don't they?
When you're done with the entire series you should make them into an hour or 2 hour long documentary because I cant get enough of these 15 min long videos
Thanks!!! Been working on the door of a shop and feeling ropey now. You guys are heroes 👍👍
Love your videos, I always learn something. Such a fascinating period.
Educated: Beria went abroad to East Germany and in his absence the others plotted against him.
Reminds me of Margaret Thatcher, she went abroad on a EC meeting and the others plotted against her and her downfall.
Except Lavrenty "show me the man and I'll find the crime" Beria was USSR's Himmler 🤡
Why is Mao's body in Stalin's video?
I am starting to really really get into this series!!
This is great.
Thank you for producing this. Very interesting.
I was hoping you would comment on the historical accuracy of the film.
Benjamin Crookston to make it simple, it is a somewhat very simplified representation of what happened, still is accurate tho in general.
there's a video by history buffs on it
"Hello and welcome History Buffs. My name is Nick Hodges and today we will be having a laugh at 'The Death of Stalin.'"
I love the Soviet March music in the background and this video, keep up the good work.
Its not a Soviet march🤦🏻♂️
This piece was written in 1912 and dedicated to volunteers to Balkan war.
@@geodude205 Semantics;more people know it because of its usage by the Soviets
Why am I just finding this channel now??? Most impressive TH-cam history/political video by far...I thought I was a knowledgeable expert. It's been years since I've met someone able to talk COLD WAR w me on my level...my self confidence, in reference to cold war knowledge specifically, just got rattled. And I couldn't be happier...I guess I needed it. SUBSCRIBED. VERY GRATEFUL I stumbled on channel . No thanks to TH-cam...I've done hundreds of COLD WAR-related searches, first time I've seen video/channel...or at least first time I'm aware I did. Thank you for video....very impressive content
because the youtube algorithm doesn't want you to know actual history with its nuances and how often it is repeated, it wants you to watch pointless distractions while you're drip fed the narratives of today
I experienced the Stalin era by being born in December of 1952.
You aint seen nothing, comrade. You were too late!😅
Bruh those pierogis tho. Every single time I watch this series, I get hungry XD. Good work as always guys!
I love how you crossed out Stalin's eyes in the portrait behind you.
And how it changes in the video.
Awesome work. Keep it going.
I see what you did there! Nice touch with the eyes on Stalin's portrait in the background (1:04) !
ah the red alert 3 music in the background. So many memories
He forgot (?) to mention Gagarin... who made his famous space flight during Nikita.
Thank you for your hard work.
As a decently hammered tankie hearing "Tankie in cheif" when referring to Stalin made my day, thank you
8:37 Molotov had a good point, the Soviet Union shouldn't cooperate with facists, heck what would you even call such a pact?
WHAT is the difference between communism and fascism??
NOTHING.
@@benmmbk765
The rise to power
Molotov-Ribbentrop pact?
@@benmmbk765 just the method by which they control EVERYTHING. So the only difference was in who was allowed to become rich
Khruschev on the thumbnail: "I've had enough of this dude"
great research
I've had nightmares that made more sense than this.
Welcome to the joys of the Soviet Union... leave your sanity at the door
Beria's execution was announced in December, but he seems to have been executed very shortly after his arrest in June.
Go back to Georgia, dead boy!
Beria was shot on December 23, 1953.
13:40 do they carry the entire Central committee under those coats?!😳
Central Committee had only 30-60 members during that time. Breznev made it three time larger, Gorbachev - two times larger.
Excellent, thanks
The framed pictures in the background that changes whoever is in power is a great detail
I want to see Steve Buscemi!! Oh, sorry, my bad. Stalin was probably watching "Fargo" when he died. =))
Great vid. Big thumbs up!!
Although I would have been only 8 years old at the time, I do remember my parents "celebrating' the death of Stalin. My clearest memory being of the across the page headline of St Louis Post-Dispatch -- HE'S DEAD! My first actual memory of a Soviet leader would be Khrushchev.
I was 7, when my 1st grade teacher announced Stalin’s death. School was dismissed.; walking home all I could hear were sirens of factories and cars, and see people crying, hugging each other. Like in one horrendous surreal movie. For the whole week people were glued to radios and loud-speakers, nobody worked. And then the prosecution of doctors, who treated Stalin, began. Public lynching, condemnations, agitations were everywhere.
Mass hysteria subsided only after Beria’s arrest. Then went Molotov and Koganovich. The jailed doctors were forgotten. Mission was accomplished- Khrushchev won. The doctors were quietly released.
@@stonefireice6058 I grew up in St Louis MO. Obviously you were much closer. David
I remember Khrushchev banging on the podium of the UN stating to the west, "We are going to bury you."
@@j.dragon651 Hey, not only remember that, remember where I was at time. Dude, one of us is getting old! David
Great documentary.
Best content, best channel. 👍
No Death of Stalin movie references?
I know it's sad
Technically this Whole video is a reference so... meh? Check out that hallway in 8:28. I remember that from the movie too!
nikita was more critical of stalin in those 4 hours than every other tankie in history, collectively
Took me sec to see the ‘X’s on the Stalin picture over your right shoulder as you talked about his death. :D
Good stuff!
Personally I'm glad Stalin died when he did. He wouldn't let the Korean War end. He was probably trying to use it to start WWIII. Glad the US refused to take the bait. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
Actually Stalin did not want a WWIII. He clearly believed it isn't good either for him nor the USSR nor for world Communism. For a while he thought WWIII was inevitable but in 1953 he was over that.
Just think of it: if he really wanted a war with the West, why would he need a proxy war in Korea?
@Nug U the Communists did destroy what they could, their part of the world suffered the same. See lake Aral or check Norilsk etc.
Joseph Stalin and Mao tsetung were the greatest evil mankind has ever yet known!
I said this to a Chinese student once (re the millions killed). She said about Mao: 'Oh no, that was Madam Mao!" They still believe the propaganda, even in the 21st Century.
Along with hitler
@@himerpaint and Timur the lame
😂
It's incredibly funny that you have Red Alert music playing in the background
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The irony is kruschev was involved in the purges just much as beria molotov or anyonelse. And his fear that zhukov would uncover that made him remove him
Anyone with power after the purges were either directly involved or indirectly involved but directly benefited from them.
"I fooked Germany, I think I can handle a lump of meat in a waistcoat!"
Георгий Константинович Жуков
I love your videos, but the music in this one was so good it was distracting. Thanks for the bonus of throwing in the C&C Red Alert Soviet march song and Katyusha!
I enjoy how the leadership portraits change.
I'd love this channel to be sponsered by Pepsi one day, in a video about the role of Pepsi in the Cold War and the circumstances and broader implications of this trade deal.
the background music in 12 minutes in is the same as the one used in Hearts of Iron 4, which means it's a classic song. What's the name of the music/song?
I love the Cold War, this channel is so cool
Thanks
I wonder, If the KGB operated the same way in Afghanistan as they DID in Finland, the invasion would have never happened??
Well the KGB wasn't a thing during the Finnish-Soviet war, it was the NKVD, and it depends on there leadership mainly.
@@aroundhere1200 I mean, according to this channel the KGB AND the Stasi (East Germany) operated heavily in Finland. If that level of espionage and activity could be equal in Afghanistan, Operation Storm-333 would have been avoided??
@@scoutgamer9448 point is that Finland was window and gateway to Western Europe. It was to KGB what Denmark was to Reich duiring the war. Also there were substantial economical intrests in Finland for Soviets. Afganistan was a void.
Scout gamer The soviets never wanted to intervene in Afghanistan. Due to the lack of intelligence and the lack of information and understanding in the Asian region among soviet personnel, the intervention was a disaster.
@@mehdihasani2543 The Soviets needed Afghanistan to run a pipeline for USSR crude oil to reach a seaport (Pakistan was already a friendly country).
Stalin was so evil,that even after dying,he took 100 people with him...
Well, it also indirectly did lead to the death of Beria, a good thing as he was a monster.
I like the RA3 music at 3:30, nice touch.
eisenhower and zhukov remained close after the war and had great respect for each other...if only zhukov had come to power things could have been different.
@dobromeister agreed...
Could you guys make a video about the DP camps in Germany maintained by the Allies in the post WW2 era?
Thanks guys
The X X over Stalin's eyes at 1:04, priceless
notice that the picture of Stalin right of the background that eyes are covered