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@danielsantiagourtado3430

Жыл бұрын

Noted man! Love your work and channel!😊😊

@funfact8660

Жыл бұрын

Little did Walt Disney know what would happen to his once beloved company

@ahmedisse1745

Жыл бұрын

Do former minister of foreign affairs of USSR

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11 ай бұрын

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11 ай бұрын

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As a historian, I am once again impressed with a solidly sourced and engaging narrative. I have always considered Khrushchev the most fascinating and contradictory Soviet leader alongside Lenin himself, and this does a great job showcasing Khrushchev’s strengths and weaknesses and how they combined to influence his policy decisions and worldview. Well done.

After overseeing the transfer of Crimea to Ukraine in 1954, Krushchev's legacy became entangled with the actions Putin took to return Crimea back to Russia.

Greatest docu channel on YT. Amazing narrator ❤ great work 👏

@alanmagee2193

Жыл бұрын

The narrator almost sounds human

I recently been to Estonia, those 5- to 9 storey appartment buildings that were build in the 50s and 60s, often look identical to appartments build in Western-Europe from the same timeperiod

Khrushchev had his fare share of blunders and some black marks but overall I think he was one of the better leaders because he had a genuine desire to improve the living standards of the common people.

@MarMar-nq9ii

5 ай бұрын

He had not only the desire, but also the opportunity to improve living standards. Stalin also had such a desire, but did not have the opportunity to do so. But Stalin created the basis and opportunities that Khrushchev realized. My aunt (22 years old), her husband (23 years old) and my half-year-old cousin got a two-room apartment in Moscow in 1955. An area with a lot of greenery, close to shops, a school, a cinema, a kindergarten, a polyclinic, etc.

@therealuncleowen2588

4 ай бұрын

​@@MarMar-nq9iiStalin killed so many for imagined crimes. I hardly think it reasonable to assume that Stalin ever had another human being's best interest at heart, that he wasn't related to. Krushchev ended the senseless executions that characterized Stalin's era and restored some measure of sanity to his nation. It is a measure of his humanity that he was allowed to retire rather than being led out back and shot.

@brandonlyon730

4 ай бұрын

He also helped stop a monster like Levrentiy Beria from becoming head of state after Stalin’s death.

@2dope96

3 ай бұрын

@@MarMar-nq9iiStalin modernized the Soviet Union at the expense of millions of innocent lives, he was a brutal monster

Kruschev was a hero in his era; Eventhough his friends were hit him fall-down in to the ground, the world thanked him in bringing touch to the west. Although the west was his enemy in cold war.

I met many Soviets from the next after Khrushchev generation, as they were studying French in Montpellier (France) . They were at high position in soviet hierarchy: university heads, industry and art managers. They all started their career as simple worker, like Khrushchev, and later went through series of studies and on the job positions. These people, with immense experience, had a great culture, were very simple in contact, and very discriminate in judgement. The marks of the great ones.

@stevewbolanz3539

9 ай бұрын

This present day hatred for Russia must stop. It is ruining America

@anairenemartinez165

9 ай бұрын

Members of the Communist Party. Without that they were NOTHING.

Love these Videos! Top on my recommended for a reason. ❤

Please do videos on more Soviet leaders, including Zhukov, Chuikov, Molotov and Rokossovsky. This was fantastic ❤️ x

@TheStuporman

10 ай бұрын

Yes, Zhukov, the ultimate nazi killer

@user-tm7lm8re9c

10 ай бұрын

pity lower animal wants to know the higher class,what a pity you demonstrated!

@Doodloper

9 ай бұрын

Did you know here in Holland we have the Dutch Society of Housewives, which also includes lesbian housewives - How about that?

@QueerChica

9 ай бұрын

@@user-tm7lm8re9c sad, little man. Shut your mouth.

@QueerChica

9 ай бұрын

@@Doodloper we should be welcome. Who I love shouldn't penalise me. Even so, that's amazing. Your country has long been held up as an example of tolerance, and is a credit to you x

I wanted to write a note that I love your videos and learn a lot from them. That being said, you have the best audio for documentaries on KZread. So many videos have additional sound, music, and just plain noise that they add to their videos. I fall asleep peacefully while listening to them. Thank you for what you do.

@Dechieftian

9 ай бұрын

you are so right on the audio quality ..

Thank-you for another concise, thorough very informative presentation with an unassuming narration as usual.. all class 👍

These docs increase understanding and promote peace.

Excellent documentary. Well edited and narrated. Great job!

Interesting how Hrushev manages to acuse Stalin of all sorts of crimes when he was directly involved in assisting Stalin.

I don't know why. But I always felt bad that he wasn't able to visit Disney land. Poor guy just wanted his Mickey ears.

@lynnhauenstein4136

11 ай бұрын

I felt bad too. He should have been shown Disneyland with his Son. What, the California folks said no. What KRUSCHEVE. Get codes. Well same stupid folks house tent city, homeless, shit city. Now that's a good reason not to let Russian gov folks visit LA or SF.

@mesoanto1031

9 ай бұрын

😂

@Bob.W.

8 ай бұрын

He did get to eat a hot dog in Iowa....

@thermionic1234567

8 ай бұрын

The stronger the socialism, the safer the peace!

@lynnhauenstein4136

8 ай бұрын

@@thermionic1234567 curious thoughts.

As far as Soviet and post-soviet heads of government go, he seems to have been one of the best, if not the best. That's not exactly saying a lot, but he seems to have at least tried to have done the right thing most of the time, and that's a lot more than can be said of a lot of other leaders.

@arthas640

11 ай бұрын

He was the most highly polished of the turds to rule the Kremlin

@nadya671

11 ай бұрын

​@@arthas640тебе Берию подавай. Если бы он был таким ловким, то удержался бы у власти так, как поступают порядочные ублюдки

@Sabundy

11 ай бұрын

That applies to almost every country's leaders. Have the leaders of say America or the UK been any less hit and miss?

@PaintballVideosNet

11 ай бұрын

Khrushchev likes men

@benjaminreina8631

10 ай бұрын

Compared to Stalin anyone looks better. Khrushchev was uneducated with a chip on his shoulder because of it.

Excellent bio. Because my family was engulfed in his shadow, I can't see the man in a positive way. I read his rememberences and appreciate your thorough work. To answer your question, I suppose that the best that can be said of him that his circumstance was a tragedy that easily could have gone far worse.

Very well done! As for your question, it would be hard to say that both are true. There was brilliance in him, and it is easy, as an American, to see that he was attempting a new path in relationships with the west and seemed to understand a balance of peace and power. But maybe, in part because of that, he couldn't see himself negatively affecting his people. He was as human as the rest of us.

@marcwhite6267

10 ай бұрын

Did he not threaten to "bury" us? The brave "hero" was willing to fight us until the very last Cuban.

@robertmanfredthurrigl9424

9 ай бұрын

What is often overlooked and swept under the carpet is that it was Khrushchev and Kennedy who actually defused the cinder box that the Cuban missile crisis had become . The hard liners on both sides aka the military complex wanted escalation . Curtis Le May, the WWII General who fire bombed Tokyo killing a hundred thousand civilians in one night back in 1945 said : "I fry Cuba" and Fidel Castro was willing to be the sacrificial lamb and pawn for the soviets and have Cuba fried and nuked for the socialist revolution! That is a fact. Back in them days , as divided the world and these two opposing sides were during the cold war , there were still open channels for discussion , where as right now ALL CHANNELS are closed . Its worse now. The fact it was defused by Khrushchev and Kennedy cost them both later . Kennedy was shot and Nikita was ousted and voted out of office. I wish they would vote Putin out of office but there are no checks and balances in his Russia which is a Mafia state now just like it was under Stalin . @@marcwhite6267

@NotesNNotes

4 ай бұрын

@@marcwhite6267did you not see his personal letters to Kennedy? That’s not what he said at all

Excellent! Thank you for posting this video! It filled in many of the questions that were living in my mind all these years.

1:00:41 Please do one for him, I'm so curious about him (Leonid Brezhnev)

@kamilyaaaa

Жыл бұрын

me too!

@seanbaskett5506

11 ай бұрын

Brezhnev.......grew his eyebrows out and ruined the Soviet economy.....brilliant

@arthurvane3901

10 ай бұрын

I agree Brezhnev rules the ussr for 18 years second longer behind Stalin.

@tedmusson5179

10 ай бұрын

@rizkyza... and please title it THE TRAITOR.

@FATHOLLYWOODB123

9 ай бұрын

@@seanbaskett5506 Actually, the Soviet Union reached its peak with Brezhnev, historically speaking, quality of life was best for the citizens under Brezhnev than any other Soviet leader.

My God I've been waiting for. Krushchev was the soviets chance of redemption.

@freedomfries6618

Жыл бұрын

There is no redemption for communists.

@ntatemohlomi2884

Жыл бұрын

Nor for fascists perhaps?

@69ElChistoso

Жыл бұрын

How do you figure he was their chance for redemption? That commie POS said he was going to bury us!

@fmgmack

Жыл бұрын

@@freedomfries6618just chatting shit I guarantee you know nothing about the tenants of Marxism or communism

@crispycasp7876

11 ай бұрын

Pretty sure their actual second chance went to some chap named Stalin

Thank you for your great work! I from Russia and this documental film is very interested for me.

33:00 nooo, those are later, 70-80s buildings, khruschovkas were with smaller windows, generally smaller apartments, with barely existing kitchens and were just 3-5 stores. I would know, we still have some in my town... And mom remembers corns from her childhood in kolhoz, would make dolls of them, braiding corn "hair". Totally silly to try growing them in Lithuanian climate, by the way, one would think Khruschev learned something about farming and planning by then...

Can you guys PLEASE continue this series with Brezhnev and Gorbachev so that we get the entire history of the leadership of the USSR all the way from Lenin to its collapse?

@archie8129

11 ай бұрын

Oh and Joseph McCarthy and The Red Scare trials too

Thank you, I just finished the book “The White Pill” I was hoping for a bigger deep dive with him.

@corymcdowell7295

Жыл бұрын

Michael Malice's book?

How can we judge a man without having walked the earth during his time? To me, the makeup of the man must be a product of the environment he lived in. True in both psychological & physical life. How can we imagine the horror of living under Stalin's terror. No judicially protection, instant prosecution & death in a brutal society of terror as the Soviet Union was back then. The brutalization imposed on him by the war. These environment factors must have shaped him. For us to judge is a folly's errand. How the Russians saw him is a better measure of the man. He invited the Russian public to denounce Stalin, and by doing that, himself. But he was not killed or exiled. He was acknowledged as a statesman by the Russians. But as a man from Stalin's inner circle, he was ejected from power. He was a survivor. A man that did what it took to survive in a time hard for us to comprehend.

These videos are very well made and researched. Nice to see such quality on KZread.

Those 4-story slums built to help housing were often called Krustevy in jest. His skill was intrigue, not progress.

I think this guy is one that saved the world from nuclear war. If he only knew how much Kennedy Generals wanted war.....this guy and Kennedy saved the World. Now if only my leaders were as afraid of nuclear war as he was then I wouldn't be so worried about ww3

@anairenemartinez165

9 ай бұрын

I think he knew how Che Guevara wanted to nuke Miami and NY, and told JFK Loco Che is out of his mind.

@Pootycat8359

9 ай бұрын

Since the early 2000s, the West has been playing the "Most Dangerous Game." It's called, "Poke the Bear." I believe they actually WANT a nuclear war, to prune the Planet's population. But I think Putin's smart enough not fall for their tricks. But what if "WE" execute a "false flag," like nuking a Western city and blaming it on the Russians? The Azov Battalion has been perpetrating atrocities and blaming the Russians. I don't think it's beyond the Globalists to continue that strategy, and up the stakes.

@baneofbanes

8 ай бұрын

Maybe Putin should be more worried about WW3.

@baneofbanes

8 ай бұрын

@@Pootycat8359sure thing Ruski.

@michaelallen8498

Ай бұрын

That fear you speak of is how Putin controls the West. If we cow to Putin like you want we will have war regardless only n Putin's terms, just like Hitler.

I am not a historian, but I have studied history for several decades. Kruschev is a product of his time but was very different from his colleagues. He would have faced a bullet if he had resisted Stalin's purges. He certainly deserves his share of credit in resolving the Cuban missile crisis. Like all good communists, he was willing to change facts to suit the theory - particularly in agriculture, and that was his end.

Killer is always killer. Every documentary seams to dawn play that part. Millions died from his hands !!!

Another great documentary Thank you

Well done program, good writing and narration.

That was a brilliant body of work. I really enjoyed the way the orator caught the subtle nuances and delivered them eveny, pro ot con. Thanks most enjoyable. Self preservation is a third option.

Great! Next you should do a video on the last leader lf the soviet union Mikhail gorbachev!🎉🎉🎉🎉

Other than his tendency to look out for himself in regards to helping Stalin with his purges. I think he was a pretty decent fellow. He tried to improve the Russian's agricultural problems multiple times with some common sense ideas. He wanted a peaceful relation with the Western countries. As we saw, he could be erratic and a bit of a loose cannon. Of the leaders during the time of the Soviet Union. He was maybe 2nd best.

@PromorteD

Жыл бұрын

Other than killing thousands of Ukrainians, pretty decent fellow 🙃

@therealuncleowen2588

4 ай бұрын

​@@PromorteDMethinks anyone who tried to get in the way of Stalin's purges was in the ground long before Stalin. Khrushchev was probably as decent a person as could have emerged from Stalin's inner circle to succeed him. Still a bastard, but nowhere near the monster that Stalin was.

Wow, brings backs memories! Excellent video!😊

Great naration full of knowledge thank you very much

Thanks for your interesting video 🇺🇲🇺🇦

Great talk

Excellent documentary

Enjoyed this

Interesting biography of Nikita Khrushchev, but I expected to hear some details why he gave the Crimean Peninsula to the Ukraine.

very well presented

Your videos are outstanding 👌.

Excellent and informative video. I learned much. I am 70 years old and the last ten years have brought new understanding about Russia. The USSR in the 20th century was horrible for most of Russia's common people. Much of my opinion is based on Adam Hochschild's book, The Unquiet Ghost, written after glasnost in the 1990s. It was during this time that common Russian people were permitted to share memories about past atrocities without fear of arrest and imprisonment. The stories are horrifying and Khrushchev contributed to the horror. Another writer from whom I learned much is Vasily Grossman - his book, Life and Fate, is one of the best 20th century novels.

Seems like on one hand he had real ambitions to increase economic development, relax political repression, and improve life in the Soviet Union while on the other being victim of the environment Stalin had created where the only Politburo and Communist party members not in jail or executed were those that supported Stalin's cult of personality. He was more liberal compared to other members of the government but would still sometimes make judgements based on his own personal views. His reaction to the youth Stilyagi subculture was lenient compared to even the way American leaders reacted to the counterculture movements happening in the US. By purely economic measures, it seems his policies were fairly successful, if facing challenges along the way. Life expectancy in the USSR was rising consistently and by 1965 was within one year of that of the United States, and GDP per capita was also rising. The Khrushchevka housing blocks get a bad reputation in the west and certainly aren't without problems but were nonetheless successful in moving huge amounts of Soviet families out of communal housing into their own private flats with running water, gas, and electricity. The housing blocks could have been of higher quality, but the method of using mass produced prefab concrete panels was a very efficient one, especially considering so much of Soviet housing was destroyed in World War 2. They were still better in quality and outlasted American public housing projects being built in the US at the same time. To this day, home ownership in the former Eastern Bloc vastly exceeds that of the west, attributable to such housing policies that Khrushchev had a major part in developing.

My dad and brother used waxed milk cartons to start a fire in the hearth. My dad would say one was Kruschev’s dacha and my brother would call the other one Castro’s cabana. It was 1960 and I was five. I miss the Cold War days.

“The Hangman of the Ukraine” Thanks for a good, thorough job on this documentary. He was a hypocrite, standing against the former crimes of the regime - crimes he committed & sanctioned. He didn’t stand against those crimes for reasons of self-preservation, & only after Stalin was dead.

Great channel, could you do one about howard hughes?

HE WAS AS GOOD A MAN AS POSSIBLE DURING THOSE DAYS

thanks

When I was a child in LA Nikita came to LA. He held a news conference. He took his shie off and banged the podium with it saying "We will bury America" made quite an impression on this little 8 yr old. Very frieghtening

@vladdumitrica849

9 ай бұрын

Now it is China's turn to make the same statement

can you made one video about Felix Dzerzhinsky?

In the line of all communist state leaders, he has been the one most sane and sensible, the least power hungry and brutal.

@kxkxkxkx

Жыл бұрын

LOL He was better than Stalin but that is a very low benchmark indeed

@tedmusson5179

10 ай бұрын

@harris... have you ever been diagnosed as delusional?

i remember him. He always sounded angry. Hitler sounded angry, too.

Great Nikita ❤

Haven't seen this yet, but I'm old enough to remember Cruschev saying that America will destroy itself from within and when I see what's happening in this country I think Nakita was right

Nikita Kruschev appears to have been good at organization and motivation. Looking back, he felt he needed to replace bombs and bullets with Bluster.

exvellent narration

Kalinivka is a town in Vinnyts'kyi region, Ukraine.

I’d like to see a doc on Beria.

@justindavis4609

10 ай бұрын

😂 Never mind. I just saw it. Thanks for all your work. These are great.

Disney would not allow him to visit Disneyland in Anaheim. I grew-up in Anaheim.

@funfact8660

Жыл бұрын

Walt Disney would have never dreamed what would become of all things Disney today, sadly.

@italianstallion9170

Жыл бұрын

Good on you Disney. I wouldn't want dirty,murdering commies in my fun fair as well. If he ever wakes up from his deep freeze someone shake his hand..wait until its defrosts first though, naturally.

@kwakester

Жыл бұрын

Ironic that after Disney's death the franchise has taken the side of socialism/communism in the West.

Your fantastic videos are great! How about for contrast to Lenin and Stalin, air about the last Tsar of Russia Nicolas the Second?

@SuperGreatSphinx

11 ай бұрын

God Save The Tsar

It's interesting that a man of humble origins was able to do so well. When was the last US president to have been born poor? Lincoln?

@bjr4567

5 ай бұрын

Harry Truman I would say. William McKinley before him wasn't born to a sliver spoon either. Hard to top Lincoln however.

Good vid

Excellent channel; the thing I live aviuy your channel is that is, non political; but even more importantly, no religious. Good speed, and safe travels to the, both of you.

Where are all your sources? Could you please give them?

@ 34: This report of Mao Zedong's swimming invitation to Krushchev and the resulting athletic performance of Mao in the swimming of laps about the pool as Krushchev struggled to to stay above water, this bit explains the relativity of the alleged photo of Mao swimming the Yangtze in 1966 as he joined 5,000 other swimmers in an annual competition. This point was not explained by the Western Press at the time and so its relevance just left most Americans baffled.

11:51 is that Beria on the right ( left if your facing their direction)

He was the last true believer.

Really enjoyed this. Its my view that the world is divided into three types of people. 1. People that are very competent 2. People that are very incompetent. 3. people who have eniugh comptence not to get fired for incompetence. Khuschevstrikes me as a 3.

Do Andrew Jackson please.

Thanks. I hope Malenkov is next.

1:04:25 who is the tall man in the group photo? He must be 7' or taller .

I use to love Nikita he was such a good political entertainer manly with J,Kennedy,lots of fun !!!!👍

Transferring Crimea to the Ukraine in 1954 was a mistake based on his own sympathies but not on common sense.

Molotov next documentary please

difficult choice because the first instinct is to survive because at that time to anger Stalin could mean his life

He was a good man - compared to the other soviet leaders ! After the dark stalin era, he acted as a balm for the soviet union. though his erratic and volatile nature undermined his good efforts !

Can you please make one video about the biography of Indonesia's 2nd president - Soeharto . Please 🥺🥺🥺

Interesting to know some Russian history. He was powerful, but his erratic behavior showed that his intelligence was not very high, or emotionally unstable

@danielpasterp5837

5 ай бұрын

I read that he was considered highly intelligent but uneducated.

I like that they tried to rehabilitate those who already been executed……

@eddieobrien9043

Жыл бұрын

Being rehabilitated after death would help any living family, being known as the son/ daughter/wife of a traitor would seriously affect your opportunities in life.

@petersweeney5777

Жыл бұрын

@@eddieobrien9043 now it makes sense ty

@eddieobrien9043

Жыл бұрын

@@petersweeney5777 It's not like in the UK or US where we have pardoned witches, who were killed 300 years ago, for a bit of social credit.

Khrushchef wasn't an angel. But he definitely was great statesman. Even being a notorious anti-communist, I have to recognize this fact.

To step on another shoes to fulfill your ambition will also be the one to pull you down better still on the lowest ladder than up

18:50- Usaid near the front. He was a lot more then just near the front. He was the one who rally the 1st Guards Tank Army after it had fled the field before the Germans and joined it with the 5th Tank Army to stop the Germans. So kid get it right he was a real "hero" of the USSR by anyone standards. The man weas not afraid to get shot at.

June 14th 2023 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Little Nikita was a Marxist fanatic, but he had one good bit of philosophy: "Life is short. Live it up".

@Peasant7559

Жыл бұрын

castro or kruschev

@Peasant7559

Жыл бұрын

@@mericesin83 castro is better than kruschev bro

@mericesin83

Жыл бұрын

@@Peasant7559 I agree. Castro was better than Kruschev. Kruschev was a betrayer and enemy of socialism. He was in that respect a continuation of us-president Truman.

@Peasant7559

Жыл бұрын

@@mericesin83 and che is better than castro are you agree too?

@mericesin83

Жыл бұрын

@@Peasant7559 Yes. I do agree.

Lenin kruschev and Gorbachev i think were thr 3 most influential soviet leaders. Kruschev said he liked JFK n was saddened by the assassination. I think he was telling the truth

Nikita Khrushchev was the Great Cornholio!

Nikita was the General Secretary of the politbyro, not the Premier.

By the seat of his pants kinda guy.

Much better than Stalin or Beria at least.

Get the book Krushchev remembers , the last testament , if you want the other side of the story to balance the equation . There is two sides to every story !

he was a reformist politician of great skill

A bit free and easy with his nuclear threats... I bet the Soviet military was glad to see him go.

@zingwilder9989

10 ай бұрын

Yes. He was erratic and exhibited little intelligence; and he was certainly no diplomat.

You got to feel sorry for this guy. I mean, sure, he blundered quite a lot. But, he was clearly acting in good faith.

@Peasant7559

Жыл бұрын

che or kruschev who' s great?

@PromorteD

Жыл бұрын

Ordering the deaths of innocent thousands is not a blunder, nor in good faith

@vitamc1213

Жыл бұрын

@@PromorteD Correct. But, the reason I say what I said is because any of us that were in his situation, would have done the same thing.

@thorthewolf8801

Жыл бұрын

​@@vitamc1213 Im glad you think so little of humanity.

@vitamc1213

Жыл бұрын

@@thorthewolf8801 Well, it's either do the atrocities or be relegated to nothingness, whether that be irrelevent career or death.

Love the look on his face when he first tastes Coca cola 😵in the USA 😂

He was simply a survivor under the Stalin regime and did what he believed he had to do to stay alive. Nonetheless, he was a player in that time of filthy and desperate Stalinist politics. He was neither intelligent, nor an International diplomat. He was brash, aggressive and made a multitude of mistakes along the way. He was a dictator. However, he did end mass executions and shut down the Gulags. For that, one must give him credit.

@bjr4567

5 ай бұрын

He had to an advanced degree what one could call a "peasant's cunning." To survive as well as he did under Stalin, and then prosper as well as he did beyond that - and against all odds - was evidence of this.