"I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy." -Joseph Stalin

@VeganWitch111

3 жыл бұрын

Yea, but let's face it, Russia is a dying country , in fact, if the country did not have nuclear weapons, it would be totally written off as worthless. The death of Russia started years before the Soviet collapse.

@gordonilaoa1275

3 жыл бұрын

@@VeganWitch111 Russia isn't going anywhere.

@JohnKobaRuddy

2 жыл бұрын

@@VeganWitch111 started with Khrushchev and prior to that by Trotskys and his followers spying and terrorist activities

@somethingelse9228

2 жыл бұрын

@@VeganWitch111 Russia also has Putin for now, which keeps the west atleast somewhat interested in Russia

@Pogogamer6969

2 жыл бұрын

@@VeganWitch111 russia ain't going anywhere

"Evil tyrant" Stalin built social-oriented powerful state. Free universal education, free medicine, elimination of illiteracy, construction of a thousand public theatres and libraries, accessible lodging - this is the small part of his work.

@ArcadeMarx

Жыл бұрын

Truly worse than Hitler!

Stalin, the best leader of the millennium, remains immortal.

@zigzag3720

4 жыл бұрын

BS he was a cruel dictator like a demon sprung out of hell

@boringname3657

3 жыл бұрын

@@zigzag3720 And other hillarious jokes you can tell yourself.

@zigzag3720

3 жыл бұрын

@@boringname3657 even Lenin did not wanted him to be the leader, he wanted Trotsky to be the leader but Stalin got Trotsky killed

@boringname3657

3 жыл бұрын

@@zigzag3720 Good. Stalin did better than both of them could combined.

@zigzag3720

3 жыл бұрын

@@boringname3657 stalin killed more than hitler and Churchill combined

Stalin only inherited a broken country that had been destroyed by World War I and the Civil War (where Western powers intervened on the side of monarchists). It had little industry to speak of (the reason it lost World War I). The economy was a basketcase, and millions were starving. In less than 20 years, Stalin industrialised the Soviet Union, to the extent the USSR largely defeated Nazi Germany on its own by its sheer overwhelming production. By 1949, the USSR was in possession of nuclear weapons, and when Stalin died in 1953, the USSR was only several years away from launching Sputnik. Stalin inherited a feudal basketcase and turned it into a nuclear-armed superpower. Why shouldn't Russians love him? Stalin made the USSR strong and respected. Ever since the end of the Cold War, Russia has been humiliated and treated as a vanquished foe by the US, who marches its army all the way up to Russia's borders, expanding NATO to the Baltic, and surround it with hostile military bases. Putin has been a good leader to Russia, but he is no Stalin. Notice in this video, Stalin's detractors are all English-speaking. Real Russians love Stalin!

During the last war- Stalin dominated the political scene from beginning to the end. Churchill and Roosvelt when realized that Stalin alone might defeat the Nazis by the power of his military might, they hastily joined forces and took part in the war by opening second front through Normandy in France. By then it was the first half of 1944 and Red Army liberated whole of Russia and pushed Nazi troops towards Poland and reached closer to German border. In Potsdam where Stalin negotiated new border of Europe with Churchill and Truman, these two appeared Lilliput in front of Stalin's personality. Since the war, west could never produce a titanic personality like Stalin. In order to fill that enormous personality gap between Stalin and the western leaders , they invested trillions of Dollars of negative propaganda against him for the last 70 years. Capitalizing on the number of people he eliminated. A simple question must be asked- how many people western "leaders" have slaughtered in staged war in Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Congo, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria and then CIA orchestrated Coup in Chile? All genocide under the banner of Democracy, freedom, and human rights.

@alana295

6 жыл бұрын

You have a good perception of REAL HISTORY!

Stalin is great leader..... I am from India - Tamil Nadu My name is Stalin My father is communist party . So he gave me a classy name..... I am proud of ....

@ThePayola123

3 жыл бұрын

You can always change your name... to ...Donald...!!! 😉😁😂🤣

@zurdddtk3025

3 жыл бұрын

Solidarity comrade,from Coorg Karnataka, Long live Comrade Stalin

@kumar-jatin-2000

3 жыл бұрын

Good for you.

Glory to Stalin! Viva Stalin! Слава Сталину!

Stalin turned the Soviet Union into one of the greatest and strongest empires ever. This is why they love him and will love him. I was born 30 years after he died and I am not Russian, I love history, that's all. You fight a monster with another monster. This is why he turned the unbeatable German War Machine into dust. Not a single country, no single leader could have done that. He did it in the worst possible way, but still he did it. Even in the US he was a hero before the Cold War.

best man for the worst times

@jeremykylesuperfanpatrioti6486

9 жыл бұрын

edgar ferreira yes. killing 40 million people from germany to estonia and from siberia to korea. great!

@edfer81

9 жыл бұрын

Like I say. Best for worst. And by the way where are the proof of 40million?West documents??

@andrewsimon1837

8 жыл бұрын

+edgar ferreira did you ever meet him personally? I do not think so. So how do you know that stalin`s better then your father for example?

@edfer81

8 жыл бұрын

+Andrew Simon I'm talking about the wartime.under him soviet union reach an unprecedente leve of development. from a backward country to a powerhouse

@andrewsimon1837

8 жыл бұрын

edgar ferreira unprecedented, really? You should remember about japan after the WW2. It was ruined, but how much it took japan became one of the world leading countries? And this all was done without slaves, without destroing of 10% of population.

glory to comrade Stalin

@alexanderrossovitch2585

8 жыл бұрын

+spartanRS Glory to Republika Srpska!

@spartanRS1

8 жыл бұрын

Аляксандр Точарін, FUCK republika srpska!!!!!!!!!

@alexanderrossovitch2585

8 жыл бұрын

spartanRS Why?

@djoleyt

8 жыл бұрын

+spartanRS Long live Yugoslavia!!!! Glory to the people!!!!

@spartanRS1

4 жыл бұрын

@@thebigfeller lol

Stalin was the man who saved the USSR in it's darkest hour. Most-likely the only man regarded as even more of a hero in the USSR was Vladmir Lenin. Stalin was the Ivan the Terrible for the USSR. He demanded power and authority, he achived great things.

Слава великому Сталину, Слава Советскому народу! Слава СССР!!

Thanks to Russian ppl for winning WW2!

@Globtroter4Life

8 жыл бұрын

They basically started the war with their allies (Germans) by signing Ribbentrop-Mołotow pact dummy.

@judorican973

8 жыл бұрын

+Bartosz Krotowski 8/23/1939 was the date & year Einstein! the sacrifice that they made over 20 million Russians died. That's my point!

@WM-gf8zm

3 жыл бұрын

you mean soviet people

All of the people here - most of them Westerners who have no idea what they're talking about - mindlessly regurgitating the capitalist media's claims about Stalin should really stop their idiotic yammering. When Stalin took office, the Soviet Union was among the most backwards, underdeveloped, agrarian states in the world. When he died just two decades later, the USSR was an industrial, economic, and military superpower, second only to the United States. This occurred when literally the entire world was hostile to the USSR's very existence, and despite the fact that the Soviet Union absorbed the overwhelming majority of the human and material costs of crushing the fascist war machine in WWII. In the entire history of humanity to that time, there had never been anything remotely like that pace of human and economic progress; since, a similar pace of development has only ever been observed once, in the People's Republic of China. Funny how the "free market" crackpots entirely ignore the fact that the two most illustrious real-world examples of economic development both occurred in Marxist-Leninist states, isn't it? Now, did Stalin break a few eggs to make that omelet? Of course. Even still, there's literally no charge that can levied against the Soviet Union under Stalin that didn't at least equally, if not more so, apply to the imperialist powers, most especially the British Empire and USA.

@djoleyt

8 жыл бұрын

+Tyler Brown The same goes for Yugoslavia. PS One day we will rebuild our homelands. Revolution is still alive among our people.

@Globtroter4Life

8 жыл бұрын

Backwardness doesn't justify killing your own man and citizens of other nations dummy.

@JohnnyAmerique

8 жыл бұрын

Bartosz Krotowski Stupid beyond words. During Stalin's tenure, the lifespan of Soviet citizens more than doubled, meaning that literally hundreds of millions of lives were saved - this despite the loss of nearly 1/4 of the country's population in fighting against Nazi fascism. Nearly one quarter were lost defeating Nazi fascism, and the life expectancy still doubled - think about that, you mindless piece of CIA-formed shit. Of course, if you had even a speck of honesty about you, you would come right out and admit it: That is the "crime" about which reactionaries and imperialists (e.g., you) are really complaining. You don't hate Stalin because he killed millions of Soviet citizens, *you hate Stalin because he saved millions of Soviet citizens.* You - or more precisely, the bankrupt Anglo-American financiers you've been brainwashed into unquestioningly backing - want the territory of the former USSR to loot. You want to do to the population of Russia and other former Soviet republics exactly what you fraudulently accuse Stalin of. That's the reality of the situation, which you won't even admit to yourself.

@randomhuman2595

5 жыл бұрын

@Tyler Brown Although Stalin did rapidly industrialise Russia to an enormous extent, this was only achieved by his five-year plans and other cold heartless policies which undoubtedly killed millions. Dismissing this as _"breaking a few eggs"_ is disingenuous. Don't forget Stalin also had to set up a dictatorship, banning freedom of speech and other political parties, setting up forced labour camps in Siberia and carry out mass purges within his own party to maintain his power to complete the Soviet Union's this process. I suppose you could dismiss this as _"western propaganda"_ , or perhaps change the topic to talk about atrocities committed by European powers, but both are fallacies and do not justify Stalin's acts. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

@VeganWitch111

5 жыл бұрын

Russia is still backwards, nothing has changed.

whats the name of the song at the begining? i cant remember...

whats the music called at the beginning?

I remember watching this documentary when it emerged in 2007. It looks like Russia has changed a lot since then, eight years ago. At that time they seemed to be debating their post-Soviet national identity. Now they seem very much affirmed in who they are and their view of the past. It looks as though Russians have reconciled the Soviet legacy with the post-Soviet and pre-Soviet Russian national identity. In a post-Soviet Russia how is it possible to forget seventy four years of Marxism-Leninism in spite of being post-communist? A people can never forget their past just as an individual cannot forget his or her own past.

Glória e reconhecimento ao povo soviético e ao seu líder Estaline pelas conquistas sociais, políticas e científicas, assim como pela destruição da hidra nazista.

@LivebythecodeVJLEE

Жыл бұрын

never

How is music on the beginning called? Please.

What I'm using to measure the standards of living in this case is the average life expectancy, which was actually at its highest in the USSR under Stalin - 65. It kept declining after Khrushchev. I just can't see carrying out that kind of industrialisation without a Communist Party aggressively pushing them, at least not at that point. There's no doubt that handling it entirely without a Communist Party would be ideal, but what happened is still better than a mass Nazi genocide.

"Young Stalin" by Simon Sebag Montefiore - fantastic book. Definitely recommended. He's a much more complex character than most people would like to admit.

@currypablo

3 жыл бұрын

Even thugs and murderers have complexities. You put 💋on a 🐖 it's still a 🐷!

@JohnKobaRuddy

2 жыл бұрын

Simon sebag montefiore is not a very good historian and 90% of ALL THINGS claimed in his books is nonsense. As he was described by fellow anti communist “historians” his books were “high in titillating gossip and very low in hard facts”.

Thanks to him.. Now I speak French and not German...

He industrilized his medieval country in 20 years. He educated his illitirate people, raised them from serfdom to the citizen state, he cultivated culture, created a medical system for his country. Later he saved his people from total annihilation and enslavment from the nazis, he instilled national etc. etc. etc . Many died in the process which of course will stain him.

What is the name of this music? ^please, thanks

long live stalin he loves you sing these words and you'll know what he'll do

Yes, magic is Amazing...go figure.

What's the name of the intro music?

Please say how is the music on the beginning called? It's beatiful.

Damn, I'm american and even i believe that even though Stalin had his faults, he was a good leader. He was charismatic and a brilliant military visionary.

@Pogogamer6969

2 жыл бұрын

He knew how do stay in power

Thank God Stalin saved Russian people.Youll never hear a bad word about european nazi cancer that killed 27 millions Soviet people from western propaganda.Stalin defeated them,thats why they hate him

Comrade, is that book available in English?

what is the name of the song at 2:10?

Stalin in our hearts forever! Great man of the great time!

@tintinbrosoto9756

3 жыл бұрын

What's your religion?

@user-jx4il2wr2q

3 жыл бұрын

@@tintinbrosoto9756 Orthodoxy

@tintinbrosoto9756

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-jx4il2wr2q I'm catholic and u still believe in Jesus

СТАЛИН ПОБЕДИТЕЛЬ!!!!!!

What's the name of music at the start of video

man, you Georgias should be proud that such a small country, produced such a man of his enormity

Who got rid of the memory of Stalin? Millions love Comrade Stalin, in Russia and all over the world. You can rant all you like, but you cant change that fact.

Can I know the song of intro?

what is the name of thesong in the beginning???

WHATS THE SONG IN THE START .. PLZ CAN SOMEONE TELL ME ... ??

@Flakvierling3 Of which five Communistic countries did you use to live in?

Nicely said.

lili putin, that's good.. there's interesting musical choice- shostakovich of course but.. is it the music from Nosferatu of Herzog in the end?

@jumpnjza2 GULag had 1.75 mm of prisoners at its peak? Where do you get this info? The official Soviet reports? More people were sent to GULag from Leningrad alone, or from Ukraine alone during "golodomor" years.

3:50 in which place are they

Total number of condemned in 1921-1955 are near 9,5 mln, from this by politic and state reasons (nazists and bandits are included) - near 3 mln, executed 642,980 ppl. The largest number of imprisoned in the same time are near 2,760,000 in 1950.

I give my salutes to stalin. he may be insane, but he got rid of the nazis for all of us.

Man what is the books name in English?

@jumpnjza2 no offense, but are you a bit on a slow side? if you type in 'Stalin's Repression' it will take you to a page called 'great purge' as there is no page in Wiki that is called 'stalin's repressions'. scroll down to Number of People Executed and read the first paragraph.

you are so correct my friend!!!!

@philchelt you are right. "Unintelligent" was most likely intended as an insult. Frustration overwhelms me when people make a conscious decision to ignore the atrocities of that man.

I enjoyed this book so much that I read Montefiore's Young Stalin. Grim reading but fascinating. But written by a British journalist, its hard to say how accurate it is.

@clloud42 then why is Europe and Canada not failing?

Thanks for the heads up. It's good to hear the point of view from a native Russian.

You can't destroy history because you're offended that's not how history works...

You've got to see the music video "From Stalin With Love"...search on youtube, it is exceptional!

@Revaldi ты в те времена платил чтоли?

I would love to hear more about that cartoonist!

So beautiful :D

Let me just clarify one thing, before we go on: I have no interest in defending the post-Stalin Soviet Union as anything other than "state capitalist" or perhaps "social fascist". What you experienced was not a society I would advocate re-establishing. The Soviet Union stopped progressing after Stalin. In fact it went backwards (this is not so say that the Stalin era represented the final stage of socialism, but it was the best way forward, until Mao did even better).

@somethingelse9228

2 жыл бұрын

Agree

@253REV Is that a troll? Were you even alive during Stalin's reign of terror?

helped my home work soooooooooooooooooooo much thanx thanx thanx

Wow, the discussion (or dogma) on this page is unbelievable. Is this all for real?

It's called Maticni street wall. What happened is that people were complaining about loud and messy Roma neighbours and the town decided to build wall between them because it was the only financially affordable solution. They had to think of a different one when it turned into almost worldwide scandal..

Although unbelievably evil, Stalin is one of the most impressive men to ever walk the face of this earth. Coming up from poverty, he almost conquered the world for himself. While not justifying his atrocities, one cannot deny his achievements.

There was many mistakes in Stalin work but after 1938 many authors of mass repressions were punished. For example, NKVD chief (Home Secretary) N. Ezhov was executed in 1940 for making faked accusations. My own grandfather was discharge in 1938 from so called correction-working institution (prison) by the order of district attorney because local NKVD department make false accusation. But by the complaint to the chief attorney of USSR grandfather was totally discharge.

@TORTILAno I supposed the germans went to soviet union to go on vacation?

Brilliant film and analysis. I was very pleased to see that Mr Effemov is still alive (or was when the film was made). Mr Glaser still has a strong South African accept despite the 70+ years since leaving!

Funny Gleb, I'm a former military and I fought competitively, I don't eat fast food, have graduate level education, and speak fluently in three languages. I spoke with dozens who have the "first hand" knowledge of the stalin era. Many were not Russian (that system was installed in several other countries) and none shared your enthusiasm. Russia ranks 133 in the world corrutpion index, behind Uganda and Sierra Leone. Corruption is a state of mind and corrupted mind is often delusional.

@physikerin76 Yet again i must remind you that it was not about leasing, but moving borders. And like i said earlier, The are USSR offered was nothing more than woods and wilderness, In exchange, USSR demanded Finland to give area were was our second largest city, and our main defence line. We wanted to stay neutral, So ofc we declined, If we would demand St. Petersburgh from Russia (And military base next Moscow) and offered piece of wood back would you take that offer?

Not only Stalin but all this people ruled over the USSR together. We, Russians, loves Stalin because he was only fair ruler of our country from 1917 year. He loved USSR and made all that he could for power and prosperity of our nation. May be he didn't understand value of the democracy but he understand value of law which was single for all. But with contemporary leaders we have no law, no democracy, no prosperity. As my grandfather said that we lived not so good but now we live very-very bad

not sure where you're coming from...please clarify.

2:15 seems an Italian flag from PCI :D

@chokoboy5578 I think most people would have been opposed to the Tsar and the new regime had a certain level of popularity - if not it would not have won the civil war. Nonetheless it lost that popularity and Stalin became far more brutal than the Tsars had ever been.

@TheSilverSultan4 Have you ever been in russia?

Amen to that friend, take care.

@MustaSurma666 There is plenty of literature available in the Russian language about Stalin's crimes. It is openly discussed in Russia. I think your information is sixty years out of date.

@TheLostIdea I've no family member who was killed by Stalin. All of my neighbours have not too. I've heard the stories my grandmo told me about the Stalin's time. He was insane but he was a real leader. He didn't care of his family, his son was a soldier and even was captured by germans in world war two. He left for his family no palace, no privilege, but just a pair of jackboots. No corruption, no embezzler of state property.

It is a great video.

i cant agree even more!

I liked this documentary, especially the Boris Yefemov interview. He still can draw well even though he's 104. He certainly is a survivor -- in more ways than one.

BRAVO !

absolutely right !!

Stalin understood that one-party system would destroy USSR in the future and tried to separate Communist party of USSR from the State government and dismiss himself from the post of the head of Communist party. But he couldn't finish this because he died in 1953. All remaining communst leaders - Kaganovich, Molotov, Hruschev etc didn't want to refuse from their power and stoped this reform.

My grandfather was a senior scientific worker. In Soviet times, he had all the things you could only dream of, but now has a miserable wages $ 300, being one of the top scientists in their field. But anyway, he hates the Soviet Union and all connected with it, and glad that we have today. Показать латиницей I always want to ask current supporters of communism - you have none of the family were not shot or puted in jail in the Soviet period?

Which was your response to someone else's claim of deaths. You diverted the conversation to prisoners dismissing any claim of death. That figure accounts for those on record that were officially executed.

What does strong leader mean to you?

104 years old?! Wow.

Number 2,760,000 imprisoned in 1950 means that total number of peoples in prisons of all kinds was 2,760,000. Total USSR population was 208,827,000 ppl.

That's why I think that "psychopath" or not, he saved a lot of asses. In my opinion he was a HERO !!!

Err, he isn't admired. He is hated by non-old people.. However, many people, including me, are nostalgic to USSR!

I hear Stalin is not a Russian but a Georgian. My sister married a Georgian, and lives in Atlanta. Not a few people think that Georgians are judgemental and exclusive but it is wrong. They're affable and friendly. It is said that southerner tend to be racists who hate black and Jewish people. However, my sister's husband and his family are never racists. Incidentally, my sister is Japanese.

@seonidh also with everything comes a price especially when it comes to the progression of a particular people and rarely comes with out a form of suffering which often manifest itself in the loss of life the question is are the people willing to pay that price and if they are then why not pay it if it means a better tommorow

@physikerin76 Of course the country was divided, Allies in the west knew that stalin would not leave from Germany and they didn't want to give all of it to him, So they occupied the west, Cold war began etc.. What do you mean with "western block"? I know there are some american bases there as the country has made a deal with United States. Similar kind of bases are made in other countries aswell, Like in Japan.

At 5:14 ZC actually said: Yesterday I drank... and they translated as "I always drink" -- It works nowhere.

1918-independent of Poland. The borders between Poland and Russia wasn't clearly defined in the Threaty of Versalis. - Bolsheviks government wasn't recognize in the international arena at that time. Piłsudski wanted to create federation:poland,ukraine.lithuania,belarus against imperialistic Russia.-"międzymorze conception"

Right now I am doing a lot of research into Russia as I may be working in Moscow this year. If I go, I want to be informed, and see the place for what it is and has been. Interesting comments here.

Example of political system of that time: One university professor voted against Stalin on the elections of the deputies. One, two, three times. On the third time NKVD officer visited this professor and asked why he didn't love comrad Stalin. "Does local administration hurt you or may be evil spy agitate you?" - asked officer. After this professor always voted for Stalin. It is real story.

"Why they don't talk of the positive side what Stalin has done??" They just poorly informed. Apparently, they think they know OUR history and OUR country better then we do. big + to you

Agreed!