Patrick Stewart as Lenin (All Scenes)

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Workers of the world, make it so! (All the Lenin scenes from the 1974 BBC series "Fall of Eagles".)
Back in 1974 a little-known actor named Patrick Stewart portrayed Vladimir Lenin. In this performance, he depicted the charisma, intelligence and wisdom that would later characterize his most famous roles. Stewart isn't the only familiar face to make an appearance, though: A young John Rhys-Davies (LotR's Gimli, Indiana Jones' Sallah) plays a charismatic Zinoviev. And Mary Wimbush deserves an honorable mention as the scene-stealing Menshevik, Zasulich.The BBC surely knew they had a winner when they saw Stewart audition, but they could not have possibly known what a mistake they had made by casting a future icon of liberal media, the face of exploration of outer space and the inner human spirit, as the great Bolshevik. Although BBC made some appeasing ahistorical revisions to the narrative, I found that his scenes could today serve a useful propaganda function by humanizing the Russian revolutionaries to an English audience. For it is impossible to watch Stewart's Lenin and not like the man. Hence I edited Lenin's scenes all together into one short film. So whether you're a fan of PatStew or Lenin, enjoy.
0:00 The Last Tsar
6:22 Absolute Beginners
55:04 The Secret War

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  • @tank5801
    @tank5801 Жыл бұрын

    Lenin said: “The economics of the future are somewhat different. You see, money doesn't exist in the 24th century.”

  • @TheRogueEmpire

    @TheRogueEmpire

    Жыл бұрын

    lenin also said: "resistance is futile. your life as it has been is over. from this time forward, you will service us." then some time later stalin fucked a hologram. without shame.

  • @DumbledoreMcCracken

    @DumbledoreMcCracken

    Жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @ariochiv

    @ariochiv

    Жыл бұрын

    Pay no attention to those credits and gold-pressed latinum behind the curtain!

  • @lav3crewman

    @lav3crewman

    Жыл бұрын

    He couldn't see that in 5 years he would be usurped by Stalin and millions of his countrymen murdered, yet understands economics in the 25th century. You commies are sub human

  • @TheEnderBand

    @TheEnderBand

    Жыл бұрын

    "I am the Walrus"

  • @stevenc123
    @stevenc123 Жыл бұрын

    Patrick Stewart wasn't even meant to be in this role, but he just walked onto set one day dressed as Lenin and he just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence, moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt, it was really quite hypnotic.

  • @LEARSIKCIGAM

    @LEARSIKCIGAM

    Жыл бұрын

    then he had a stroke and the actor playing Stalin used him to gain total control.

  • @Vertabraker101

    @Vertabraker101

    Жыл бұрын

    Well, I had a great time.

  • @starvingpeoplecantcomplain

    @starvingpeoplecantcomplain

    Жыл бұрын

    Then the casting director said that he doesn’t play Lenin, Patrick Stewart reacted to that by belittling him and the rest of the Film crew and tabled a motion to exclude him and his staff from the film set.

  • @davidgladstone6588

    @davidgladstone6588

    Жыл бұрын

    How did you hear of that? Fascinating! Rasputin from Fall of Eagles played Percy Alleline in Tinker Taylor.

  • @heddingite

    @heddingite

    Жыл бұрын

    Were they in a runabout discussing this?

  • @marxistsaw8849
    @marxistsaw8849 Жыл бұрын

    He says “Peace Bread and Freedom.” The actual slogan was “Peace Bread and Land.” The BBC might’ve left out the “land” part, because that slogan would only include the peasantry, which the BBC had Lenin earlier in the show saying “could never be revolutionary.” Lenin never said that. I recommend reading “To The Rural Poor” written by Lenin to be distributed by Iskra to the Russian Peasants in 1902.

  • @ThePsycoDolphin

    @ThePsycoDolphin

    Жыл бұрын

    I believe he did change his position fairly substantially between the aftermath of 1905 and when he wrote his April Theses. He took a much more orthodox Menshevik line of that issue if I remember. Its only when they split he finally got rid of all that baggage and started thinking more creatively.

  • @DmitriPolkovnik

    @DmitriPolkovnik

    11 ай бұрын

    Actually both were used. Peace, Bread and Freedom was used primarily in the cities and Peace, Bread, Land primarily in the rural areas where land ownership was THE issue for the majority of the population.

  • @Christopher-gp9iv

    @Christopher-gp9iv

    11 ай бұрын

    They portray the Second Party Congress in the same dishonest manner. They pretend that they had a vote to expel the Bund(I’m assuming to imply antisemitism on the part of the RSDWP), and the economists simply walked up and left? Ridiculous. The Bund demanded they be the sole representative of the Jewish Proletariat, and they lost the vote. They then motioned to reform the RSDWP into a federal organization with the Bund as a constituent party. After that proposal failed 41-5, they walked out. The economists also protested the RSDWP consolidating their foreign representative org under Iskra, so the Union of Russian Social Democrats, the two economist delegates, walked out in protest as well.

  • @Ashley-1917

    @Ashley-1917

    6 ай бұрын

    Well there is nuance. The peasantry can be a strong auxiliary to the worker's revolution, but can not play an independent, leading role. The whole of Russian Marxism came out of a debate with the Narodniks about the role of the peasantry and the proletariat. Plekhanov and the Russian Marxists emerged from the broader revolutionary tradition by insisting on the historical necessity of capitalist development, and the development of the proletariate as the revolutionary class.

  • @gg2fan

    @gg2fan

    4 ай бұрын

    @@Ashley-1917 This entire debate is just a matter of historical trivia at this point considering such a 'peasantry' is a thing of the past. Today's rural working poor are a completely different class no matter what country you're talking about. There are definitely things that still apply though, don't get me wrong, like the grey area of peasant landowners who have a pseudo-private stake in their family farmland or whatever, and are an impediment to revolution and one of the main reasons the peasant class has historically been seen as antagonistic to the urban proletariat and communist movements.

  • @zephyr8072
    @zephyr8072 Жыл бұрын

    Captain Picard's weirdest holodeck program that greatly concerned the crew. He only stopped when Riker started showing up as Stalin.

  • @cockatooinsunglasses7492

    @cockatooinsunglasses7492

    Жыл бұрын

    Riker as Stalin! Hilarious!

  • @samrizzardi2213

    @samrizzardi2213

    Жыл бұрын

    Huh, I thought that was more of a Worf thing to do

  • @marktaylor6491

    @marktaylor6491

    Жыл бұрын

    And Data as Trotsky.

  • @Chili.P

    @Chili.P

    Жыл бұрын

    @@marktaylor6491 Riker is about to kill data then...

  • @entertheabzu

    @entertheabzu

    Жыл бұрын

    Captain Picard: Computer, activate holodeck program Picard-Alpha-7. Computer: Holodeck program Picard-Alpha-7 activated. Please specify desired scenario. Captain Picard: I would like to experience the full life of Vladimir Lenin, from his birth to his death, with as much detail as possible. Computer: Understood. Please stand by while program loads. Captain Picard steps onto the holodeck and finds himself transported to a replica of Lenin's childhood home in the Russian town of Simbirsk. He looks around in wonder, taking in the sights and sounds of a bygone era. Picard: Computer, begin simulation. The simulation begins, and Picard finds himself living Lenin's life, experiencing everything as if he were actually there. He witnesses Lenin's early years, including his education, his radicalization, and his eventual rise to power in the Bolshevik Revolution. As time goes on, Picard becomes more and more immersed in the simulation, forgetting that he is in a holodeck and living Lenin's life as if it were his own. He experiences the turmoil of the Russian Civil War, the formation of the Soviet Union, and the struggles of Lenin's final years. Finally, after many long hours, the simulation comes to an end. Picard stands on the holodeck, feeling a sense of awe and wonder at the life he has just lived. Picard: Computer, end simulation. The simulation fades away, and Picard is left standing in an empty holodeck, his mind still reeling from the experience. He knows that he has just lived a life that few people have ever experienced, and he is grateful for the opportunity to have done so.

  • @truestefku
    @truestefku Жыл бұрын

    An amazing holodeck episode.

  • @Perririri

    @Perririri

    Жыл бұрын

    "Our Holodeck"

  • @zephyr8072

    @zephyr8072

    Жыл бұрын

    “And that is how we will seize the means of production for the workers!” “But replicators do all our production.” “You really need to get in character, Number One.”

  • @ilyatsukanov8707
    @ilyatsukanov8707 Жыл бұрын

    Finding out that such a complementary portrayal of Lenin exists in the English language is baffling to me. No wonder Patrick Stewart was so passionate in Star Trek when he described space communism. He knew the source material so well.

  • @23rdFoot
    @23rdFoot Жыл бұрын

    It took me a while to adjust to Lenin on a starship, as this series was my introduction to Stewart.

  • @MIMALECKIPL

    @MIMALECKIPL

    Жыл бұрын

    To some it was Sejanus on a starship... even tougher

  • @JoeyArmstrong2800
    @JoeyArmstrong2800 Жыл бұрын

    I love old BBC series.They're basically a stage productions filmed on camera.

  • @marxistsaw8849
    @marxistsaw8849 Жыл бұрын

    Lenin never ever once denied the revolutionary potential of the peasantry, ever. The political block between the proletariat and peasantry is what the Bolsheviks had stood for from day one.

  • @CasperLCat

    @CasperLCat

    Жыл бұрын

    Lenin never “stood” for anything. He’s one of history’s great power-seeking murderers, like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot. Lenin was an upper middle class young lawyer; what did he know or care for the worker or peasant ? Marxism was just his rationalization for killing those who had the power, and drawing it all to himself.

  • @coloradoing9172

    @coloradoing9172

    Жыл бұрын

    Imagine unironically being a Marxist.

  • @matheusvillela9150

    @matheusvillela9150

    Жыл бұрын

    @@coloradoing9172 Imagine unironically having a picture of the US flag in your profile

  • @lemons1559

    @lemons1559

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@matheusvillela9150Imagine not knowing what the US flag looks like.

  • @easiesteevee2532

    @easiesteevee2532

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lemons1559 Imagine all the people, livin' for today, imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do, nothing to kill or die for, and no religion, too, imagine all the people, livin' life in peace. Oooooowwwoohhhh.

  • @marianhreads
    @marianhreads Жыл бұрын

    "his death was useless.. these pancakes are very good"

  • @troyevitt2437

    @troyevitt2437

    Жыл бұрын

    Except, Comrade, that it is WEHOP, not IHOP.

  • @ThePsycoDolphin

    @ThePsycoDolphin

    Жыл бұрын

    Absolute perfect Lenin.

  • @xTheUnderscorex

    @xTheUnderscorex

    9 ай бұрын

    @@troyevitt2437 It's still IHOP, but now the I is for 'Internationale'

  • @clintsours3316
    @clintsours3316 Жыл бұрын

    "Revolution - make it so!"

  • @SeoulMan

    @SeoulMan

    Жыл бұрын

    "Tea, Earl Grey, hot."

  • @myowngenesis

    @myowngenesis

    Жыл бұрын

    My kinda hidden corner of the comments section.

  • @teebob21

    @teebob21

    Жыл бұрын

    1:00:42 "Make it so"

  • @misterbeach8826
    @misterbeach8826 Жыл бұрын

    When Lenin famously said: "Engage!"

  • @SagesseNoir
    @SagesseNoir Жыл бұрын

    In Episodes 6 and 12 , Patrick really SHINED bright in his rendition of the Bolshevik leader Lenin. And those are my favorite two episodes of the series, FALL OF EAGES

  • @caramelldansen2204

    @caramelldansen2204

    Жыл бұрын

    FALL OF EAGES

  • @dwightschrute1914

    @dwightschrute1914

    Жыл бұрын

    FALL OF EAGES

  • @funkbungus137

    @funkbungus137

    Жыл бұрын

    I've been spelling Eages wrong my whole life

  • @ThePsycoDolphin
    @ThePsycoDolphin Жыл бұрын

    It's the single greatest portrayl of him I've ever seen in anything. Not only is he the spitting image of him, but every single thing you get from reading Lenin - his fastidiousness, his fussiness, brittleness, authoritarian tendencies, his precision, his utter contempt for fancy rhetoric and high faultin metaphysics, his scathinh anger, a man who seemed to spend every single second of every day of his entire adult life attuned to the question of revolution - all of it is conveyed here in the most masterful of performances, with the most intricate of subtleties. Its superb. In a drama with some absolutely magnificent performances (the actors behind Bismark, Wilhem II and Nicholas I, for example, are astonishing) the fact that almost steals the whole seriese is a testament to his skill.

  • @McRocket
    @McRocket Жыл бұрын

    Now what would REALLY impress me is a video of Lenin playing Patrick Stewart. ☮

  • @MrMyers758
    @MrMyers758 Жыл бұрын

    1:00:43 The first instance of Patrick Stewart saying "make it so" before it became his catchphrase

  • @battlezordfalcon4776

    @battlezordfalcon4776

    Жыл бұрын

    Picard agrees 11:09

  • @Hysteria98
    @Hysteria98 Жыл бұрын

    It's funny because all these years I knew P.Stew reminded me facially of someone else, but I never put it together until now, lmao. Almost uncanny.

  • @Hastur876

    @Hastur876

    Жыл бұрын

    He reminds me facially of Jean-Luc Picard

  • @Hysteria98

    @Hysteria98

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Hastur876 whoa...you're right

  • @yungyahweh
    @yungyahweh Жыл бұрын

    It’s cool seeing a great man playing another great man

  • @MIMALECKIPL

    @MIMALECKIPL

    Жыл бұрын

    Lenin wasn't great. He was a mass murderer and his successor was even worse.

  • @bmoore7817

    @bmoore7817

    Жыл бұрын

    What was great about him. Lenin I mean

  • @yungyahweh

    @yungyahweh

    Жыл бұрын

    He was a great thinker and revolutionary. His works are still read and praised to this day. His work on imperialism and capitalism was really interesting and added to what Marx and Engels wrote about.

  • @bmoore7817

    @bmoore7817

    Жыл бұрын

    @@yungyahweh he brought the world Stalin. Good job

  • @yungyahweh

    @yungyahweh

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bmoore7817 even with that, he’s still a great man. Stalin had some major faults and I have many criticisms of him but without him no way Nazi germany would’ve fell. Stalin was the reason the ussr industrialized so fast knowing what would come. How he did that might not have been the best way to do it though.

  • @dixonpinfold2582
    @dixonpinfold2582 Жыл бұрын

    Executive producer: "Patrick, we want you to play Lenin. We think it would be a landmark role for you." Stewart: "But the make-up... The likeness..." E-P: "We, uh...We can do it." Stewart [quietly, looking down]: "Yes. Yes of course."

  • @robertpolityka8464
    @robertpolityka8464 Жыл бұрын

    Patrick Stewart did an excellent job playing a Russian with an English accent.

  • @BNardolilli

    @BNardolilli

    Жыл бұрын

    ironically Lenin spoke English with an Irish accent

  • @billirvine9078

    @billirvine9078

    Жыл бұрын

    PS is a legend

  • @fds7476

    @fds7476

    Жыл бұрын

    Would you prefer Patrick Stewart to speak English with a _Russian_ accent?

  • @JohnJohnson-pq4qz

    @JohnJohnson-pq4qz

    Жыл бұрын

    He speaks with a 'class accent' since English is being substituted for Russian... it works pretty well. Now lets hear the TV Kaiser speak with a German Accent and the Czar's Children with Russian accents, despite them all being Native English speakers who apparently preferred English to their national tongues. Which is harder to understand TV fantasy or Historical reality....?

  • @willmfrank

    @willmfrank

    Жыл бұрын

    Unlike Jean-Luc Picard, whom he played as a Frenchman...with the same English accent.

  • @MrGrantNewlands
    @MrGrantNewlands Жыл бұрын

    31:20 This episode of 'Yes Comrade' is pretty intense. Love this as an acting connection that they met.

  • @davidgladstone6588
    @davidgladstone6588 Жыл бұрын

    He is Lenin! This is such a great series, one of my all time favorites. A number of these actors would star together in the BBC series Tinker Tailor and Smiley's People, including Stewart!

  • @blacbraun

    @blacbraun

    Жыл бұрын

    Also I, Claudius.

  • @viborgvee8399
    @viborgvee8399 Жыл бұрын

    METAPHYSICS JULIUS! 😵‍💫🥴

  • @marcantoinelab12321
    @marcantoinelab123212 жыл бұрын

    9:00 Lenin really said "It is Wednesday my dudes" Truly Inspiring

  • @colinst.claire2198

    @colinst.claire2198

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow he’s just like me 🥹

  • @party4keeps28
    @party4keeps28 Жыл бұрын

    I didn't even know this show existed... It looks great, I'll find a way to watch it now.

  • @KOTYAR1

    @KOTYAR1

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I'm Russian, and I'm glad I found it too. I'm downloading it using BT

  • @stuff2008

    @stuff2008

    Жыл бұрын

    Me either. Watched Tinker Tailor show but never knew this existed.

  • @peterhill8398
    @peterhill8398 Жыл бұрын

    I love how the phrase ‘effete University liberals!’ just rolls off his tongue.

  • @basedcomrade1595
    @basedcomrade15952 жыл бұрын

    Great man

  • @BibleAlivePresentations

    @BibleAlivePresentations

    Жыл бұрын

    Tell that to the lady who hung herself and her husband. And millions of others. Marx would disown this man -- as did the many true Communists who languish in Castro's dungeons. You can't fast-forward through Capitalism.

  • @basedcomrade1595

    @basedcomrade1595

    Жыл бұрын

    @@BibleAlivePresentations This is just untrue. Lenin was not a “fake Marxist”. He was genuinely Marxist when many fell to revisionism. Also, “millions dying” was not the fault of Lenin, for he himself was not responsible for them, and nor were other Bolsheviks.

  • @lausanne67

    @lausanne67

    Жыл бұрын

    @@basedcomrade1595 So who exactly was responsible comrade commissar?

  • @basedcomrade1595

    @basedcomrade1595

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lausanne67 Responsible for what exactly? The millions death toll given to Lenin is straight up false.

  • @caramelldansen2204

    @caramelldansen2204

    Жыл бұрын

    Natural disasters under capitalism, where only the rich are protected and the poor are left to die: "It couldn't be helped, it truly is a display of how powerful mother nature is." Natural disasters under socialism, where significant sacrifices are made to help those in need (eg: Stalin sending grain and tractors to Ukraine): "THIS IS LITERALLY WORSE THAN THE HOLOCAUST!!!!!!!! THIS IS HITLER TIMES BY 1 QUADRILLION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

  • @barron8006
    @barron8006 Жыл бұрын

    very well done. capturing his militant selfless dedication.

  • @bobmcrae5751
    @bobmcrae5751 Жыл бұрын

    I have seen Patrick Stewart in many roles, going as far back as his portrayal of Sejanus in I Claudius, but this is by far his best performance (sorry Trekkies). To say he is spot on as Lenin is a massive understatement. By the way, Fall of Eagles is an excellent and accurate historical drama. Not much action but the acting is superb.

  • @Mike-rm1lb

    @Mike-rm1lb

    Жыл бұрын

    How would you know he is spot on as Lenin? Are you related to old Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ?

  • @tubebubereboot6873

    @tubebubereboot6873

    Жыл бұрын

    His voice is a tad too deep, but he does look a lot like him.

  • @mcripchip

    @mcripchip

    Жыл бұрын

    Patrick stewart is a fine actor, but Lenin obviously wasnt British, he could speak English and apparently he did with an irish accent but as soon as you have a british dude playing a historical russian you lose me... would much rather read subtitles and hear the actors use the native language anything else is just inaccurate. and definitely not "spot on".

  • @richsan4923

    @richsan4923

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@Mike-rm1lb might mean the content of his dialogue. Read left wing communism an infantile disorder.

  • @WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS

    @WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mcripchip what a moronic assertion.

  • @Mimashrimp
    @Mimashrimp Жыл бұрын

    15:14 "Earl Grey, hot!"

  • @whittpond8803
    @whittpond8803 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing performance by Stewart and everyone else, utterly amazing. Also well written. Brings the time and events to life.

  • @Nabooshlove7
    @Nabooshlove72 жыл бұрын

    Lenin played by Patrick Stewart, nothing more perfect. 🥲

  • @wishbonedressing

    @wishbonedressing

    2 жыл бұрын

    I know! When I first saw this series years ago, I said to a friend I would totally follow Patrick Stewart in a revolution to overthrow Capitalism, hahaha!!!!

  • @susannevollmer2347

    @susannevollmer2347

    Жыл бұрын

    Have you seen the tv movie "Stalin"? there you can see Maximilian Schell as Lenin. Very, very good also!

  • @borninvincible

    @borninvincible

    Жыл бұрын

    Make it so !

  • @susannevollmer2347

    @susannevollmer2347

    Жыл бұрын

    @@borninvincible Yep and do you the great film "The Inner Circle" with Tom Hulce? 👍

  • @susannevollmer2347

    @susannevollmer2347

    Жыл бұрын

    And another: "The Inner Circle" with Tom Hulce, L. Davidovitch and a sensationel Stalin - actor, including his voice!!!!

  • @hotelmario510
    @hotelmario510 Жыл бұрын

    The way Stewart delivers the line "Hasn't the _clown_ read any books?!" is possibly one of my favourite line reads of all time. I'm not personally a Leninist, but he just makes the man so damn witty and likable.

  • @davidgladstone6588

    @davidgladstone6588

    Жыл бұрын

    Agreee, love that line!

  • @moisted
    @moisted Жыл бұрын

    Really enjoyed it. Thanks for editing and uploading.

  • @diebefreierin
    @diebefreierin2 жыл бұрын

    Radically beautiful

  • @sock4238

    @sock4238

    Жыл бұрын

    radically dead ideology. much like capitalism

  • @vi0letcr1me
    @vi0letcr1me Жыл бұрын

    I can imagine Patrick Stewart doing a great job in this

  • @noheroespublishing1907
    @noheroespublishing1907 Жыл бұрын

    Lenin's warning to Trotsky about avoiding personalities really makes sense, especially after looking into the audiobooks of Lenin arguing against Trotsky.

  • @sexybeast4593

    @sexybeast4593

    Жыл бұрын

    can you let me know the names of these books please, I would love to hear them

  • @noheroespublishing1907

    @noheroespublishing1907

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sexybeast4593 This one was more a history book, but it does have a fair amount on the conflict between personalities. kzread.info/dash/bejne/mmuTvMWIf7K4g9I.html

  • @matsand4719

    @matsand4719

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 Lenin died first. You mean Stalin; Stalin doesnt feature here

  • @Onio_

    @Onio_

    Жыл бұрын

    Prior to the October Revolution, Lenin had some disagreements with Trotsky's ideas but wholly adopted them in his April Theses. He drastically altered the official party line of the Old Bolsheviks and came over to the course of Trotsky's theories. You can see this yourself. Lenin also complimented Trotsky on multiple occasions but people love to point to the trade union discussion (Trotsky later announced he was incorrect in that debate) as it is one of the only fundamental disagreements Lenin had with Trotsky and even then Trotsky later corrected his opinion of it in hindsight. Below are some excerpts from Lenin's will and a personal letter from him to Trotsky to see what he really thought of him by the end of his life. "Then, I intend to propose that the Congress should on certain conditions invest the decisions of the State Planning Commission with legislative force, meeting, in this respect, the wishes of Comrade Trotsky - to a certain extent and on certain conditions." Lenin is in agreement with Trotsky. "Comrade Trotsky, on the other hand, as his struggle against the C.C. on the question of the People's Commissariat of Communications has already proved, is distinguished not only by outstanding ability. He is personally perhaps the most capable man in the present C.C., but he has displayed excessive self-assurance and shown excessive preoccupation with the purely administrative side of the work." Lenin remarks on Trotsky's self-assurance and states that he is very focused on administrative affairs. Despite this, Lenin still notes that Trotsky is perhaps the most capable man in the Central Committee. "I shall not give any further appraisals of the personal qualities of other members of the C.C. I shall just recall that the October episode with Zinoviev and Kamenev was, of course, no accident, but neither can the blame for it be laid upon them personally, any more than non-Bolshevism can upon Trotsky." The above excerpt sees Lenin detailing that Trotsky's previous unrelation to the Bolshevik party prior to 1917 should not be used against him. He also recalls that Zinoviev and Kamenev were against the October Revolution while Trotsky was for it. Trotsky says it best, "The question how seriously and permanently I came over to Bolshevism is not to be decided either by a bare chronological record or by the guesses of literary psychology. A theoretical and political analysis is necessary. This, of course, is too big a theme and lies wholly outside the frame of the present article. For our purpose it suffices that Lenin, in describing the conduct of Zinoviev and Kamenev in 1917 as “not accidental,” was not making a philosophical reference to the laws of determinism, but a political warning for the future." If you want such a theoretical and political analysis of Trotsky joining the Bolshevik party, you won't be hard-pressed to find it among Trotsky's writings. If you really want a firm basis you should get familiar with these works of his. "Esteemed Comrade Trotsky, I earnestly ask you to undertake the defense of the Georgian affair at the Central Committee of the party. That affair is now under “prosecution” at the hands of Stalin and Dzerzhinsky and I cannot rely on their impartiality. Indeed, quite the contrary! If you would agree to undertake its defense, I could be at rest. If for some reason you do not agree, send me back all the papers. I will consider that a sign of your disagreement. With the very best comradely greetings, Lenin March 5, 1923" This letter outlines that Lenin had confidence in Trotsky on this issue and had 'the very best comradely greetings' to him.

  • @george5590

    @george5590

    Жыл бұрын

    what is a Trotskyvite>

  • @KOTYAR1
    @KOTYAR1 Жыл бұрын

    And all of this beauty, just bc one man decided to upload it to KZread, and it could be removed at any at all moment. What a future 21st century is

  • @georgehenry76
    @georgehenry76 Жыл бұрын

    Lenin and Patrick Stewart both look like Jean-Luc Picard.

  • @SagesseNoir
    @SagesseNoir Жыл бұрын

    Patrick Stewart is superb as Lenin. Probably even the real Lenin couldn't do much better

  • @SagesseNoir

    @SagesseNoir

    Жыл бұрын

    @@laurentdevaux5617 Patrick Stewart does not depict Lenin as a saint, but neither does he depict Lenin as a devil.

  • @offdabean

    @offdabean

    Жыл бұрын

    @@laurentdevaux5617 jesus christ if you think lenin is the devil incarnate then i'm afraid to hear who you believe are history's greatest individuals

  • @JohnJohnson-pq4qz

    @JohnJohnson-pq4qz

    Жыл бұрын

    @@laurentdevaux5617 LMFAO.....thanks Mr. Pipes

  • @jafamaacmaac

    @jafamaacmaac

    Жыл бұрын

    @@laurentdevaux5617 jajajajajaja you a "loco"

  • @furrykef

    @furrykef

    Жыл бұрын

    @@laurentdevaux5617 The first criminal against humanity? Tyrants have been committing crimes against humanity since before recorded history.

  • @DrewidDesktop
    @DrewidDesktop Жыл бұрын

    That was great, watched the lot in two sittings. Captain Picard meets Jim Hacker - Good acting! and there must have been a few Dr. Who actors in the mix too. Thanks for posting.

  • @johnbarnett6924
    @johnbarnett69247 ай бұрын

    Thanks for this recent discovery of a great actor,just outstanding ❤John Barnett revisited January 2 2024❤😊

  • @noname-bu1ux
    @noname-bu1ux Жыл бұрын

    Interestingly enough, when Lenin spoke English, he spoke it with an Irish accent.

  • @dahl3463

    @dahl3463

    Жыл бұрын

    Interestingly enough, when Lenin spoke English, he spoke it with an Irish accent.

  • @Stefanthenautilus

    @Stefanthenautilus

    Жыл бұрын

    Interestingly enough, when Lenin spoke English, he spoke it with an Irish accent.

  • @jesselopes5196

    @jesselopes5196

    Жыл бұрын

    Interestingly enough, when Lenin spoke English, he spoke German

  • @noname-bu1ux

    @noname-bu1ux

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jesselopes5196 lmfao

  • @noname-bu1ux

    @noname-bu1ux

    Жыл бұрын

    Interestingly enough, when the Irish spoke English, they spoke it in Lenin.

  • @azt69boyz72
    @azt69boyz72 Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic series. It should have run past the first world war. Stewart was magnificent as Lenin. A truly seminal perfomance.

  • @Daybed4448
    @Daybed44482 жыл бұрын

    Have been waiting for someone to do this and putting it off myself. This could probably be edited into quite a compelling short film!

  • @injeraenjoyer4570
    @injeraenjoyer457010 ай бұрын

    It was so cool to see this series switch from Lenin and the Tsar. I actually did come to care a little for Nicholas as I watched from since he was just a young man all the way to the end. However, despite Lenin's intensity, I wanted nothing more than for his regime to take over.

  • @will4688
    @will4688 Жыл бұрын

    “These pancakes are very good”. Fantastic video.

  • @Ligma-Balls-69

    @Ligma-Balls-69

    Жыл бұрын

    This cream pie is exceedingly warm.

  • @adamokolicsanyi4774
    @adamokolicsanyi47744 ай бұрын

    So good wow thank you, i never knew about this!

  • @jame2182
    @jame2182 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Sir

  • @RichRacc
    @RichRacc8 ай бұрын

    Trotskys introduction was so out of the blue. Bro just appeared at the door.

  • @musicalinanity7870
    @musicalinanity7870 Жыл бұрын

    This couldn't be more entertaining. Jean-Luc Picard as Lenin. Thank you, youtube.

  • @Poeme340
    @Poeme340 Жыл бұрын

    Stewart is riveting-best historical series ever?👍👍

  • @TheMuggis
    @TheMuggis Жыл бұрын

    The dude in the scene at 8.22 reminds me of Michael Palin in the Holy Grail 🤣

  • @DankeyKang
    @DankeyKang Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely iconic performance!

  • @kiwichippie5465

    @kiwichippie5465

    6 ай бұрын

    Fancy seeing you here

  • @Massivefckindork

    @Massivefckindork

    5 ай бұрын

    Look who's here

  • @bukerman
    @bukerman Жыл бұрын

    He even said one time "Make it so"!

  • @lucasrackley250
    @lucasrackley2502 жыл бұрын

    I give credit for them depicting Lenin as a man who was willing to burn bridges and destroy good friendships to get what he wanted.

  • @MrAtlfan21

    @MrAtlfan21

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lenin is possibly the most ruthless and self sacrificing person in recorded history. When I say self sacrificing I do not mean that he was good, but that he was willing to give all of himself to a cause

  • @rubenlarochelle1881

    @rubenlarochelle1881

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MrAtlfan21 Yes, being ruthless towards emperors is good, actually.

  • @MrAtlfan21

    @MrAtlfan21

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rubenlarochelle1881 yeah overthrowing the tsar was great, and the provisional government justifiable, but I'm not convinced that Lenin would've been any better than Stalin in the long run.

  • @robertmcdonald8342

    @robertmcdonald8342

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rubenlarochelle1881 True ??But what about transition from revolution to republic? How do you do the necessary paradigm shift?

  • @vaibhavsajith4267

    @vaibhavsajith4267

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MrAtlfan21 false both lenin and stalin was based

  • @fliegeroh
    @fliegeroh Жыл бұрын

    This was a great series.

  • @jamiemcintosh3030
    @jamiemcintosh30302 жыл бұрын

    The Man Who Shook the World!!

  • @DrCruel

    @DrCruel

    Жыл бұрын

    The Man Who Took A Giant Shit In The World's Mouth

  • @seanohare5488

    @seanohare5488

    Жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately for the worst

  • @DrCruel

    @DrCruel

    Жыл бұрын

    @@seanohare5488 Not for everyone. Little Koba liked how everything turned out.

  • @davidjackson9680

    @davidjackson9680

    Жыл бұрын

    @@seanohare5488eh depends on who you ask that’s just how history is aside from what the Japanese and Germans did the tsarist regime had to end. Lie after lie execution after execution was more widespread then even the days of the Soviet Union in the century it took the us to industrialize the USSR did it in 10-20 mistakes were made nothing is perfect but it was far better for the lower and middle class then any other period in Russia’s history

  • @Uthedudeful

    @Uthedudeful

    Жыл бұрын

    @@seanohare5488 The Bolsheviks saved Russia from the clutches of an evil, authoritarian Empire. The USSR had a lot of flaws and people like Stalin were certainly evil, but they saved countless lives from poverty and destitution and raised the living standards of the people to an extraordinary degree. We should never forget that.

  • @michiganmajin7284
    @michiganmajin7284 Жыл бұрын

    "Computer, freeze program"

  • @sarahnichols4439
    @sarahnichols4439 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful portrayal of Lenin! I saw the scene where he was ill and confined to bed and I know he had a lot of stress. What was he in ill with in this episode?

  • @dixonpinfold2582

    @dixonpinfold2582

    Жыл бұрын

    Some historians think it was syphilis; others dispute this.

  • @neighborhoodmusicsnob5517

    @neighborhoodmusicsnob5517

    3 ай бұрын

    I don't think the syphilis claim is taken seriously at all.

  • @peterhagan8454
    @peterhagan8454 Жыл бұрын

    fantastic acting aww the joy of real actors

  • @Katka1979
    @Katka19797 ай бұрын

    Wow wow wow 👍👍👍

  • @fabiumtaurinorum5573
    @fabiumtaurinorum5573 Жыл бұрын

    Hour 00:45, the KZread algorithm suggests me Patrick Stewart as Lenin. Wonderful.

  • @samrizzardi2213
    @samrizzardi2213 Жыл бұрын

    I don't suppose you could do a similar video of Freddie Jones playing Count Witte? He was phenomenal in that role.

  • @KOTYAR1

    @KOTYAR1

    Жыл бұрын

    There's minister Witte in this show? Damn, now I, as a Russian, MUST watch it

  • @bertilliozephyrsgate6196
    @bertilliozephyrsgate6196 Жыл бұрын

    Patrick Stewart was GREAT as Lenin. Energetic, confident in himself and laser-focused. What a contrast to the hand-wringing (Franz Josef, Czar Nicholas) or impulsive (Wilhelm II) royals. And Nadezhda Krupskaya becomes his devoted helpmate. It's also interesting to see the contrast with Tsarina Alexandra, who often bullies Nicholas. Krupskaya is totally subordinate to her forceful husband.

  • @sock4238

    @sock4238

    Жыл бұрын

    it's almost like it's propaganda.... hmm

  • @bertilliozephyrsgate6196

    @bertilliozephyrsgate6196

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sock4238 I'm no communist, if that's what you're implying. You might note that the show is called "The Fall of Eagles." The intelligent viewer wants to know why they fell.

  • @sock4238

    @sock4238

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bertilliozephyrsgate6196 The BBC has an interest in distorting the reasons for "The Fall of Eagles" to the benefit of their wealthy backers. And nah I'm not accusing u of anything mate dont worry.

  • @vivalaleta

    @vivalaleta

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@sock4238 Everything about Russian politics is always propaganda according to US propaganda.

  • @gareginnzhdehhimself

    @gareginnzhdehhimself

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sock4238 I highly doubt a TV production in 1970s Britain was communist propaganda. Sir Pat Stew is also no communist himself

  • @dunkeydonuts988
    @dunkeydonuts988 Жыл бұрын

    M A R T O V ! ! !

  • @peterhagan8454
    @peterhagan8454 Жыл бұрын

    so powerful a perforance humbling

  • @HerrAndreasSkog
    @HerrAndreasSkog Жыл бұрын

    This is so good it makes the hairs on ones back stand up. I have read some arguments for how Stalin was just a continuation of Lenin but I think they make a pretty weak case. The more I read on the Russian revolution, the more I suspect the World would have been quite different If that man had just lived for another five years or so.

  • @HerrAndreasSkog

    @HerrAndreasSkog

    Жыл бұрын

    @John Doe Lenin was doing what he could to get rid of Stalin already in 1923 but he dies before he could get the guy out of the way. If he had gotten another five years I think Stalin would have ended up in Siberia in good time. The difference between Stalin and the early bolsjeviks are that the bolsjeviks could change stuff. They were capable of understanding that you could rule by giving people what they want and need and they could compromise with their own ideas and with each other. Stalin just didnt do those things. He wanted to rule by terror, period. That is a crucial difference. In five more years Lenin could have time to establish a functioning party apparatus that might perhaps have stopped another dictator from ascending. The most important question is of course the land issue. The model of collectivization they chose was based on depriving peasants on the only thing they really wanted, land, which led the peasants to fight back in every way they could. Stalin reacted to this in by reinstating serfdom and thus the state was doomed to be at war with its own people until it broke apart. Had Lenin and his followers held on to this model they would have gotten the same result. Had they, how ever, had more common sense than Stalin they might have tested collectivisation in one district or so, realized it would lead to civil war more or less (it did) and then chosen another type of collective modernization, based on the type of collective work the peasants already practiced. This could have put the Soviet union and communism on a very different path of developement. Being at war with the countryside, treating it as a colony just like the tsar did, was the original catastrophic rift that Stalin built into the Soviet system, without that, a lot of new possibilities might have opened up. The issues with the NEP system were miniscule compared to Stalinism.

  • @HerrAndreasSkog

    @HerrAndreasSkog

    Жыл бұрын

    @John Doe Lenin supported Stalin for a short while and then realised the man was a bad Apple and tried to outmanouver him but it was too late. I have no doubt that there were plenty of models of collective farming that could have worked, and without Stalin it is possible that different models could have been allowed within the vast USSR. It is also possible that peasant culture in Ukraine and Russia proper was quite different and voluntary collectivization could work on one side of the border and not on the other. The problem with tsarist russia was that it forced all that saw the very obvious need for change into exile. This meant the socialists of that time had no experience of their own country and and its countryside in particular. A few more years of experimententing could have been very valuable. I have no doubt Makhnov had many qualities however he was very bad at holding on to power and that was fatal in itself. The interesting thing is not what dogma supposedly worked or not, the interesting thing is how dogmatic vs how flexible the bolsjeviks could have been without Stalin.

  • @destubae3271

    @destubae3271

    Жыл бұрын

    Both tyrants with broken ideologies, the only difference was Stalin was more personalist.

  • @destubae3271

    @destubae3271

    Жыл бұрын

    @John Doe Sure it does, it is in the dictionary.

  • @fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

    @fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

    Жыл бұрын

    @@HerrAndreasSkog You're right but there is no way they would have let Lenin live another 5 years. The Communist leaders were already becoming extremely corrupt and they had good reason to get Lenin out of the way after he turned against Stalin's clique. There is some circumstantial evidence he was poisoned - Stalin claimed "Lenin asked for poison" (no one else heard this), there was no toxicology report during the autopsy, and there was a rush to mummify him which prevented any subsequent exhumation or analysis of the body.

  • @sidarthur8706
    @sidarthur87063 ай бұрын

    when the bbc was worth paying for

  • @abdiqasim90
    @abdiqasim90 Жыл бұрын

    wow

  • @ogfunk187
    @ogfunk187 Жыл бұрын

    'Imagine' was Lenin's best song.

  • @theflorgeormix
    @theflorgeormix Жыл бұрын

    Pamphlets oh thanks that will be great

  • @philipjones2840
    @philipjones2840 Жыл бұрын

    Patrick Stewart the perfect reddition of Lenin

  • @caramelldansen2204

    @caramelldansen2204

    Жыл бұрын

    REDDIT? (lmao *rendition)

  • @Perririri

    @Perririri

    Жыл бұрын

    r/unexpectedreddit

  • @what-hn1od
    @what-hn1od Жыл бұрын

    Wake up babe! The syphilis emoji dropped!

  • @sebastianpeady5850
    @sebastianpeady585011 ай бұрын

    It's funny that Patrick Stewart played both Lenin as well as Napoleon in the 1999 Animal Farm.

  • @snaggs107
    @snaggs107 Жыл бұрын

    This dude was born old

  • @KawaiiStars

    @KawaiiStars

    11 ай бұрын

    like morgan freeman

  • @GeorgeyTheApe
    @GeorgeyTheApe Жыл бұрын

    I watched up to 1 hour and 15 minutes of this. But by that point I'd seen everything.

  • @melaniesheldon8013
    @melaniesheldon8013 Жыл бұрын

    Patrick Stewart is soooo 🔥hot! ❤️

  • @pottedrodenttube
    @pottedrodenttube Жыл бұрын

    "Don't trust the liberals, they will betray you" - Patty Stew Lenin was full of wisdom.

  • @kova1577

    @kova1577

    Жыл бұрын

    I know right

  • @thebeermaster34

    @thebeermaster34

    Жыл бұрын

    Neoliberalism = Fascism

  • @kyubeycoobie3568

    @kyubeycoobie3568

    Жыл бұрын

    The true left hastes liberals way more than the right Just see what malcom x said about them

  • @CLASSICALFAN100

    @CLASSICALFAN100

    Жыл бұрын

    Not **NEARLY AS FAST** as the conservatives will betray you! Look as our Do-Nothing Congress regarding Climate Change, for starters. We've fallen very far, very fast...

  • @Steve_Jarrett-Jordan

    @Steve_Jarrett-Jordan

    Жыл бұрын

    The liberals were capitalists...

  • @vladvaaa2499
    @vladvaaa2499 Жыл бұрын

    A very interesting film about Lenin and his party in London

  • @jared4walsh
    @jared4walshАй бұрын

    100 years later

  • @subraxas
    @subraxas Жыл бұрын

    Damn!!! He was just 33 or 34 when this was shot. 😲

  • @aleksandarvil5718
    @aleksandarvil57185 ай бұрын

    Charles Xavier as Vladimir Lenin Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto as Tsar Nicholas II Romanov

  • @iHusk
    @iHusk Жыл бұрын

    This is my favorite "boring" show of all time. The youth can have their explosions and flashy war scenes. I'll take this tragic calm.

  • @mortalclown3812

    @mortalclown3812

    Жыл бұрын

    💯 In the US, Ken Burns' documentaries are - intellectually speaking - high-brow. And I'm not knocking him. We're crumbling. TikTok. TikTok...

  • @Wveth

    @Wveth

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mortalclown3812 If you are genuinely sad about people not being very intelligent on average, you should probably stop contributing to it by blaming social media. Because that's wrong, the education crisis is a lot more complicated than that. It's easier for you to just blame modern things and modern people for using them, but guess what? That's an intellectually lazy point of view. If you want people to be more intelligent, inspire them by thinking harder about what you say before you say it, and try not to spread an incomplete, watered-down version of the truth. Thanks.

  • @gordonf5553

    @gordonf5553

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Wveth to be fair, it isn't just the education system that's at fault here, not anymore at least. Social media and digital media in general are a major issue and they are making people stupid. Shorter attention spans, ability to read, write and do maths are delayed/take longer to learn (for children), more anxiety and higher stress levels overall. "Intelligence", whatever that may be exactly, is irrelevant here, it's a lot more concrete and fundamental than any kind of supposed "general intelligence". I personally don't blame modern people for using modern technology, I do it myself, but there clearly is a problem that needs to be addressed.

  • @William.J.Carter
    @William.J.Carter Жыл бұрын

    Mahler 5 at the opening, great!

  • @TAURON85
    @TAURON85 Жыл бұрын

    Mon Capitan! ❤️😊

  • @kellymcbright5456
    @kellymcbright5456 Жыл бұрын

    I wondered before whether the two are brothers. Now i know.

  • @yearzeroism
    @yearzeroism Жыл бұрын

    Weird ship crew.. Is this season 2?

  • @domjat

    @domjat

    Жыл бұрын

    you can tell it's s2 because they still have the s1 uniforms but the lighting is really dark and riker grew a beard

  • @robwebnoid5763
    @robwebnoid5763 Жыл бұрын

    Someone explain about the scene where the German soldier on the train is eyeing them. What does it mean? Is there some kind of suspicion, or is that soldier supposed to be guarding them in secret, or whatever.

  • @domjat

    @domjat

    Жыл бұрын

    german empire and russian communists were very strange bedfellows in this arrangement. these groups were otherwise completely incompatible. germany repatriating lenin et al to revolutionary russia is some realpolitik, intended to help destabilize russia, germany's enemy in ww1. so when you see the german soldier eyeing the revolutionaries, imagine it was, say, a dutch royalist soldier escorting robespierre and other french revolutionaries back to france to weaken Louis XIV's position. "we're helping these freaks?"

  • @tyfalagan

    @tyfalagan

    Жыл бұрын

    I think it had more to do with the amount of food the commies were eating and received on the train, compared to the harsh realities of the German soldiers and it’s people of the time. Example: the presumed German family butchering that horse in the open, to eat it

  • @selbalamir
    @selbalamir Жыл бұрын

    Yes. It’s so obvious!

  • @danieljohnson6561
    @danieljohnson6561 Жыл бұрын

    “Com-Raid”

  • @alfieburns9019

    @alfieburns9019

    Жыл бұрын

    Com-rad 👉😎👉

  • @manco828
    @manco828 Жыл бұрын

    Make It So

  • @embossed64
    @embossed648 ай бұрын

    I'm waiting for Q to show up.

  • @maxhovid
    @maxhovid Жыл бұрын

    We're Lenin of КПСС, resistance is futile, you will be expropriated!

  • @cat_city2009
    @cat_city2009 Жыл бұрын

    1:12:50 This made me feel feelings

  • @dewfall56
    @dewfall56 Жыл бұрын

    These pancakes are very good, number one.

  • @Jestersage
    @Jestersage Жыл бұрын

    I wonder if Patrick Stewart's Macbeth took inspiration from this?

  • @Confuzed89
    @Confuzed89 Жыл бұрын

    1:00:42 You are welcome

  • @JDoe-gf5oz
    @JDoe-gf5oz Жыл бұрын

    Seems about right.

  • @canaryhnk3207
    @canaryhnk3207 Жыл бұрын

    Lenins sleeptalking😂😂😂

  • @nader50752

    @nader50752

    Жыл бұрын

    He apparently slept talked a lot, it was quite funny to read about what he used to shout about in his sleep

  • @neighborhoodmusicsnob5517

    @neighborhoodmusicsnob5517

    3 ай бұрын

    He probably didn't say "I am the party" or silly stuff like that. But arguing with other party members...absolutely!

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