Secret police: we killed 70,000 traitors. Stalin: but I only asked for 65,000. Secret police: yes but we rounded them up.

@baneofbanes

4 жыл бұрын

Finally a worthy opponent to the grammar Nazis.

@tableprinterdoor

2 жыл бұрын

@@baneofbanes The Math Soviets

@chairsilver2

2 жыл бұрын

lol

@itsblitz4437

2 жыл бұрын

Talk about overdoing quotas

@a.cunningham4974

2 жыл бұрын

Fuck you Have your upvote

French Revolution: Chop, chop, chop! Stalin: Shot, shot, shot!

@fraserdavies3697

4 жыл бұрын

0

@ionitaghiran

4 жыл бұрын

Funni

@marzuqahmed218

4 жыл бұрын

"I'd leave your neck in a noose, in a trench, and shot!"

@marcmarc8524

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. You’re right. The Revolutionaries call that: freedom.

@Khajiidaro

4 жыл бұрын

Oh my, would you look at the time, welp gotta do some purging.

“Which was much better” perfect delivery.

@BradyPostma

3 жыл бұрын

1:34

@billmacdonald1837

3 жыл бұрын

Always is with this guys

@ryshow9118

3 жыл бұрын

@@billmacdonald1837 Seriously, his absolute flat delivery no matter what he's recounting always makes me laugh

@r2zdena

3 жыл бұрын

@mark houghton offcourse, dying is scary, death not so much

@jackdanila9893

3 жыл бұрын

@mark houghton better dead than red

"When Stalin killed everyone" Me: Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

@SilverKnight16

3 жыл бұрын

Eyyy, Batman Beyond reference.

@aikslf

3 жыл бұрын

It narrows it down quite a lot actually. Not many remained after the purge. (this comment is a joke, I get the original post)

@rustite180

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah he kills

@sid2112

3 жыл бұрын

Stalin: No (has you shot)

@belland_dog8235

3 жыл бұрын

@Stellvia Hoenheim oh the irony

"I got an urge (puts on shades) to purge!" ~ Stalin, 1936

@SomewhereInSerbia

4 жыл бұрын

MJR Schneider oh no its too late... this entire city must be purged.

@oilersridersbluejays

4 жыл бұрын

To Gulag with you.

@thehoosher9322

4 жыл бұрын

*Explosion*

@aneggselentfellow5607

4 жыл бұрын

YEEAAAAAAHHHH!

@Akhimed

3 жыл бұрын

Death

3 out of 5 Marshals, 13 out of 15 army commanders, 8 out of 9 admirals, 50 out of 57 corps commanders, 154 out of 186 division commanders, All of the 16 army commissars, 25 out of 28 corps commissars. No wonder Red Army put such an "impressive" display of skill during the beginning of the war with Germany. This is a heavy cost. (Well, maybe except commissars. They suck.)

@livinglifeform7974

4 жыл бұрын

Because they weren't a mobilised army and they were expecting germany to attack in 1942? In the first 6 weeks, despite not being mobilised nor being considered the world's greatest army, did a hundred times more damage to the Nazis then france.

@antiglassesgang

4 жыл бұрын

@@livinglifeform7974 >communist emblemate on the profile Yup, it's defending communism time!

@livinglifeform7974

4 жыл бұрын

@@antiglassesgang >Anarchist ball as profile Yep, it's being a buffoon time.

@antiglassesgang

4 жыл бұрын

@@livinglifeform7974 > A literal meme ball on the profile instead of a symbol of more than 60 milion people killed Seriously, go fuck yourself shithead

@tmm9464

4 жыл бұрын

well, even without the purge, the soviets wouldn't have performed that well at the beggining of the war, the red army grew so quickly that they didnt have enough commanders, purge or not, it made the situation worse, but it's not the single factor that led to heavy soviet losses

A man in the USSR is sentenced to ten years in the gulag. Upon his arrival, he is asked by another prisoner, “How did you get ten years?” He responds, “I did nothing!” The prisoner says to him, “Don’t lie to me Comrade! Everyone knows that nothing gets you five years!”

@kemarisite

2 жыл бұрын

And 10 years is still a child's sentence anyway. Real political prisoners get a quarter (25 years) or longer.

@nomedocanal8496

Жыл бұрын

"child's sentence"

@mortified776

Жыл бұрын

He was convicted of two separate counts of nothing.

@deleted-something

Жыл бұрын

Lol

@ruturajshiralkar5566

Жыл бұрын

Man to KGB Officer, "Is the GULAG sentance really hard?" KGB Officer, "Only the First 10 Years. Its easy later on."

Stalin after having millions of innocent people killed or sent to the gulags: I did it. I saved the world.

@absentmindedshirokuma8539

4 жыл бұрын

@@ratscoot curchill start a war with hitler? you have to be joking right?

@jaydengray4015

4 жыл бұрын

Pingas 69 innocent? I don’t think so

@ratscoot

4 жыл бұрын

@@absentmindedshirokuma8539 The uk declared war on Germany when they and the USSR invaded Poland. They didn't declared war on the USSR, neither when Stalin invaded Finland in 1939 and 1940 or when he annexated the Baltic states. When Hess fles to the UK for peace tanks in 1941 he was imprisoned for life.

@filzhut6234

4 жыл бұрын

@@ratscoot Churchill wasn't even the head of the state in 1939 you dumbo and the contract with Poland clearly states, that they will ONLY attack Germany if they attack Poland and not the USSR, probably because they couldn't handle both.

@ratscoot

4 жыл бұрын

@Filzhut The Polish-British common defence pact stated oficially that Britain would aid" If Poland was "engaged in hostilities with a European Power". The Polish ambassador in London, Raczyński, contacted the British Foreign Office pointing out that clause of the agreement which concerned an "aggression by a European power" on Poland, should apply to the Soviet invasion. The Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax responded that the obligation of British Government towards Poland arising out of the Anglo-Polish Agreement, was restricted to Germany, according to the first clause of a secret protocol. Chrurchil wasn't prime minister in 1939 but the in House of Commons he sparred frequently with Charmberlain over his peace talks with Germany, demanding hard action since 1938.

"By a CERTAIN SOMEONE" I love that line so much

@AuroraBoost

2 жыл бұрын

Me too hahha fucking Stalin was the madman

@branflakes12341

2 жыл бұрын

@@AuroraBoost hahaha this comment also gave me the giggles

@branflakes12341

2 жыл бұрын

It's my favourite, I'm gonna use it at work

Genrich Yagoda: *gets purged* Nikolai Yezhov: *gets purged* Lavrentiy Beria: *nervous sweating*

@tomasziskierka9557

4 жыл бұрын

There is a theory that Beria "helped" Stalin to die because he knew that next great purge is coming and he will be next target .

@dlxmarks

4 жыл бұрын

@@tomasziskierka9557 And then he got purged.

@tomasziskierka9557

4 жыл бұрын

@@dlxmarks We call it horror in USSR they called it tuesday

@yigitalpalakoc

4 жыл бұрын

Still got purged, not by Stalin tho. No one expects the Zhukov Inquisition

@Zo-hc2fn

3 жыл бұрын

Beria was georgian just like Stalin

Someone: **Breaths** Stalin: *Not on my watch!*

@republicball3024

3 жыл бұрын

Go to Gulag!

@kecleonboi

3 жыл бұрын

Breathes

@Blei1986

3 жыл бұрын

@@kecleonboi sO yOu HaVe ChoSeN dEaTh

@nrkapa

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah not like he was right and there were in fact a lot of traitors in the USSR that if not purged would make them lose WW2.

Oh boy I sure love opposing Stalin in 1936!

@menitobussolini659

5 жыл бұрын

You are now dead

@merrittanimation7721

5 жыл бұрын

Anybody hear a gunshot just now?

@BroadwayRonMexico

5 жыл бұрын

Omae wa mo shindeiru

@TRDario

5 жыл бұрын

Rafael who? Shot? Never heard of him.

@ComradeHellas

5 жыл бұрын

You wouldn't dare to cross our leader

To give an idea of how pervasive, bizarre and horrifying the Great Purge was, two stories from documentaries about the composer Dmitri Shostokovitch: He was so worried about the possibility of being arrested in the middle of the night, that for much of this time he slept in the stairwell outside his apartment, so that his family wouldn't be disturbed if he were arrested. (Source: KZread video documentary _Keeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony no. 5_) In 1937, one day he was summoned to KGB headquarters [per the video from which I got this anecdote, the one telling the story called it the KGB, even though many posting here insist that it had to be the NKDV; I have posted elsewhere in these comments a link to the video from which the story comes; I refer readers to that video, and if you have a problem with his version of this story, please take it up with him, not with me] .He was questioned by an officer, who asked if Shostakovitch knew a particular person. When he answered yes, the officer asked "what do you know about his involvement in the plot to assassinate Comrade Stalin?" Shostakovitch was dumbstruck: of course, he knew nothing of such a plot, but he also knew that literally anything he said could be construed as his being complicit. The officer then said that Shostakovitch should go and think about it, then return in two days. When that day came, Shostakovitch said good-bye to his wife and children, believing it to be the last time he would ever see them. He arrived at the KGB [or NKVD, or WXYZ, or whatever...] office, only to find a soldier guarding the door, who asked "why are you here?" Shostakovitch said that he had an appointment, and gave the name of the officer. The soldier then went to check a roster, finally informing Shostakovitch "he is not here." Shostakovitch later found out that, in the intervening two days, the officer who had questioned him had himself been arrested! (Source: KZread video _Shostakovitch Versus Stalin: The War Symphonies_. Unfortunately, I can no longer find the version with English language subtitles on KZread, only in Spanish -- though the Russian host of the documentary still speaks English throughout. The anecdote I cited is told in Russian).

@canthi109

2 жыл бұрын

LOL

@itsblitz4437

2 жыл бұрын

What a tense situation 😬 and scary.

@OALM

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a bad monty python sketch lol

@FALL-LAFF-7477

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine the conversation between the composer and the other KGB officer in the next day: "sir, i have an appointment for interrogation..." "i'm sorry sir, the officer has been arrested. you can find another next time if you want to." "but he's the one who interrogated me!" "well, then you lucky he didn't sent you to gulag or shot in the head. last time he interrogated someone, he beaten me for being doofus and Trotskyte."

@nicolasderra3888

2 жыл бұрын

The KGB didn't exist when the great purge happened.

In Tukhachevsky's trial, his promotion of tank warfare using large independent mechanized formations was literally used as evidence against him. One of the judges was Budyonny, another Marshal of the Soviet Union. Budyonny was an old conservative cavalryman who ruled that Tukhachevsky's ideas on tanks were so absurd that his promotion of them could not be anything else than deliberate sabotage of the Red Army.

@charakiga

10 ай бұрын

Didn't age too well. Well, I mean, it's not like they spammed tanks in particular, they really just sent everything they had and expected number over quality and doctrines.

@ryansearle6157

4 ай бұрын

But they sure did learn firsthand how useful they were when the Nazis used them to invade them

It should be noted that one of the men imprisoned in the Gulags by Stalin was one Andrei Tupolev, head of the Tupolev Design Bureau. While in the Gulags, he would design a few bomber aircraft that would be used against the Germans in the Second World War. Later on, he would be released from the Gulags, awarded the Order of Lenin, and would go on to design the infamous (or famous depending on your perspective) Cold War bomber designated the Tu-95; it's better known by its NATO codename: "Bear".

@simonnachreiner8380

2 жыл бұрын

Yeash Stockholm syndrome much?

Sergei Korolev also developed the kidney disease that later contributed to his untimely demise in the gulags as a result of this purge, so Stalin is also indirectly responsible for the failure of the later Soviet space program, as well. Truly his myopia knew no bounds.

@veovis523

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think it's fair to say the Soviet space program failed. Maybe it didn't live up to its potential, but it certainly didn't fail. In fact, it was pretty successful.

@The_Call_Up

5 жыл бұрын

I take your point, and certainly not everything about the program was a failure; it accomplished the goal of developing a reliable ICBM, which was the main purpose of its funding. I do think that intrepid cosmonauts such as Gagarin, Tereshkova and Leonov deserve to be as well known by all of mankind as Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins are. On the other hand it must also be noted that despite the plans and the potential technology existing, the Soviet space program ultimately failed in its goal of a manned lunar expedition, and I believe the program was rudderless and without inspiration after the death of Korolev. The fact that they are still using the same technology 50 years later, and that the Chinese are likely to beat their successor Roscomos to the moon despite an over 50 year head start speaks volumes about the ultimate result of the exploration mission of the Soviet space program.

@xo-1320

5 жыл бұрын

@@Dylan-hy2zj Wasn't so much paranoid as power hungry. He positioned himself in a way to take over and purged people based more on loyalty and potential rivals. His paranoia was more a side effect do to the (honest) possibility of losing control.

@vladimir-ep4xk

5 жыл бұрын

The Call Up i don’t think it’s fair to say that Roskosmos had a 50-year head start: 1- in the 90’s space was not a priority 2- right now Roskosmos is just another corrupt structure of the corrupt russian government (i am russian)

@Draxis32

5 жыл бұрын

Myopia is fixable by glasses. That man had no fix whatsoever. He, after many years, made Hitler genocide machine look like a child tool.

Excellent work. I like the new change to the channel, as you aren't limited to only making 10 minute history videos. Maybe a video on the Night of the Long Knives?

@alexweinstock943

5 жыл бұрын

Krazy Klimax same

@garyd.7372

5 жыл бұрын

Perhaps a video on the Night of the Long Knives might be a bit too short. One slide might cover it: Hitler with a sign "I don't like you" and a lot of people falling over (thud!) dead.

@tip0019

5 жыл бұрын

I am sorry but I don't like it. It feels more main stream now and the rapid narration even annoying in such a short vid.

@hueylongdong347

5 жыл бұрын

@@tip0019 I don't know the details about it

@Therworldtube

5 жыл бұрын

@@hueylongdong347 In a nutshell, it's a nazi version of the great purge

"You know I really don't like Vodka that much" *SILENCE TROTSKYITE*

@awddfg

3 жыл бұрын

*_Translation: Gulag_*

@sooryan_1018

2 жыл бұрын

Yea, you know what, they deserve Gulag anyways (people who hate vodka)

@kitkat47chrysalis95

2 жыл бұрын

@@sooryan_1018 muslims

@sooryan_1018

2 жыл бұрын

@@kitkat47chrysalis95 oh no-

@ordinaryperson-my7qr

2 жыл бұрын

@@kitkat47chrysalis95 a sacrifice i am willing to take

"He may have acted alone, but he also might have been put up to it by a CERTAIN SOMEONE". That actually made me laugh. Thanks!

Just to let you all know next week's videos will be: Wednesday - The Abdication Crisis of Edward VIII, Sunday - The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Hope you all enjoy.

@Jimmiejohn48

5 жыл бұрын

Aw that's hot

@overwhelminglydecayingasta3540

5 жыл бұрын

Great video! But could you please put the sources/recommended reading in the description as you usually do? It lends a lot more legitimacy to the information you present, especially given we're dealing with 20th century politics.

@bubblesbomb8949

5 жыл бұрын

Hmmmm yeos jeice clinse Jokes aside, can you do a video over Sun Yat Suns work to reform China?

@Lubbock_Kid1959

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the update ten minu I mean history matters

@bubblesbomb8949

5 жыл бұрын

@@travelmaniak3127 thank

Basically a civil war with only one side fighting.

@miry_1205

Жыл бұрын

Yes

Stalin is having a speech and someone sneezed. "Who sneezed?" asked Stalin. Everyone's quiet. "Everyone in first row to gulag! Who sneezed?" Silience. "Second row to be shot! Who sneezed?" Some guy is raising hand terrified "Comrade Stalin, it was me." "Bless you!" Smiled Stalin.

@USSFFRU

Жыл бұрын

A rather wholesome event from Stalin

@Henning_Rech

6 ай бұрын

This guy was in the third row.

@Bryan-zc1ub

4 ай бұрын

If Stalin was atheist, who is gonna bless that poor guy?

@user-mb9np6sh7u

4 ай бұрын

​@@Bryan-zc1ubin Russian it's not literally "bless you" it's "будь здоров", which can be translated as "I wish you to be healthy", so no contradictions in the original joke

@josipdurinac8351

4 ай бұрын

@@user-mb9np6sh7u nazdravlje?

After the Purges Stalin had to install bells or buzzers when he gave speeches so people would stop applauding for him. Everyone was too afraid to be the first person to stop, so they just stood clapping for a half hour until Stalin got tired of it, and had the alarm tell them to quit.

@avihauben906

2 жыл бұрын

Ala Saddam Hussein

@theimperialbattlemage3409

2 жыл бұрын

Absolute nonsense, do you have any kind of reliable source for this claim?

@charlesc2095

2 жыл бұрын

@@theimperialbattlemage3409 try reading The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn, its featured there just how afraid everyone was to be the first one clapping that they just went on for 10+ minutes. The first one who did stop unsurprisingly was accused of being a traitor I think.

@theimperialbattlemage3409

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlesc2095 The gulag archipelago is a work of fiction, not a work of historical fact. It's not an academic work and it doesn't have any backing for its claims other than hearsay and relying on its own authority. It has been subjected to a lot of criticism in more recent years, and Solzhenitsyn's wife herself admitted most of its contents were fictional

@fnutek3720

2 жыл бұрын

@@theimperialbattlemage3409 its facts that people would clap for minutes on end and that the first ones who stopped where jailed ur put in the gulag

he protecc he attacc and from the gulags no one comes bacc

@DiracComb.7585

5 жыл бұрын

👏

@manueltellez9460

5 жыл бұрын

@John Alejandro wait what's wrong with Marx? (I'm not into Communism but I never thought of him as evil)

@kalyka98

5 жыл бұрын

@John Alejandro The problem is the reason for the killing, communist dictators killed with mismanagement or because of dissidents, which is very wrong, but killing millions just for their ethnicity is absolutly horrific. It's hard sometimes to make a "scale" of crimes but it must be done to judge fairly and racial killing is way worse than killing dissidents

@manueltellez9460

5 жыл бұрын

@John Alejandro yeah but it wasn't really his fault that all those people died, he just had an idea (not a very good one but still) and he wrote it down

@manueltellez9460

5 жыл бұрын

@John Alejandro pretty bad but that doesn't really make him one of the evilest people to ever live

Stalin: Purges all doctors Stalin: Gets stroke and has no doctors to help him and dies Stalin: *Insert surprised Pikachu face with droopy mouth*

@Cjnw

3 жыл бұрын

Normie

@vendomnu

3 жыл бұрын

@Tetra More like several million souls for one.

@ruturajshiralkar5566

3 жыл бұрын

Khruschev: Which Doctor have you consulted?? Beria: Thats Open for Discussion Malenkov: Well.. The Committee is deliberating. Lazar Kaganovich: All the Best Doctors are Dead

@Christopherus_Jordanus

2 жыл бұрын

@Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин Had to be someone with a communist banner on its account.

Stalin in 1941: „where are my generals?“ Assistent: You let them be executed . Stalin: off to the gulag you go

"I hereby sentence you to death" _sigh of relieve_ "In the Gulag" *"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"*

Me: *Says nothing* Stalin: go to Gulag

@merrittanimation7721

5 жыл бұрын

Me: *Exists* Stalin: Off to the Gulag with you.

@jaywilliams9294

5 жыл бұрын

@@merrittanimation7721 Me: *Doesn't exist* Stalin: ...... *Got to Gulag*

@francherogamer5187

5 жыл бұрын

Me: I cough and i stop clapping.... Papa Stalin:GO TO GULAG

@DiracComb.7585

5 жыл бұрын

Me: Crosses my legs Stalin: GULAG

@nandinhocunha440

5 жыл бұрын

Me: saying papa Stalin is great Papa Stalin: look at the time, its time for you to go to Gulag

Stalin using different hats is absolutely the best thing I have ever seen (yes even better than the horses)

@rosiefay7283

2 жыл бұрын

A deerstalker for taking charge of the investigation personally.

Stalin to Konstantin Rokossovsky: "You sir are now purged. Death sentence" Operation Barbossa: *Happens* Stalin:"For the love of Communism, save us Marshall Rokossovysky." Rokossovsky: "So does this mean my death sentence is revoked?" Stalin: "Nope" Rokossovsky: "Bruh."

@livinglifeform7974

4 жыл бұрын

Except it was?

@oilersridersbluejays

4 жыл бұрын

No one said "bruh" back then. Only retarded millennials and gen z-ers say that.

@noahborthwick3231

4 жыл бұрын

Nice job taking a joke literally

@pedroh.6497

4 жыл бұрын

@@oilersridersbluejays Oh my fucking god it's a goddamn boomer. PLEASE LEAVE THE INTERNET AND GO GRILL.

@petartoshkov2076

4 жыл бұрын

Except it was and even more-he was made "Marshal of the Soviet Union" and got a minister position in communist Poland after 1945 (because he's a native Pole)

It's amazing how comical mass incarceration/killing can be made with cartoons like this.

The Great Purge was a great purge

@DiracComb.7585

5 жыл бұрын

Kim Jong-un so great we won’t need another one The Great Purge The Great Purge 2(not necessary)

@pjmackey373

5 жыл бұрын

Best Purge

@stephenferry3017

5 жыл бұрын

Says the guy too poor to take a plane. The North Korean people aren't starving. Kim ate too many of them.

@aaronmarks9366

5 жыл бұрын

@@stephenferry3017 lmao

@joekim3307

5 жыл бұрын

Stephen Ferry good diss “says the guy too poor to take a plane “ please send your poop directly to Afghanistan from this point forward .

0:09 "By a certain someone..." *vodka sweat intensifies*

Some say Leon Trotsky changed his name to James Bisonnette and fled to the west.

Every time the word "shot" came up in this video, it reminded me of a scene in the movie "Wrongfully Accused" with Leslie Nielsen. The scene takes place on a prison bus and one of the things it parodies is an in-flight safety instruction demonstration. The phrase "You will be shot" is said a couple of times and is accompanied by finger guns.

@salahabdalla368

2 жыл бұрын

It reminds me of *You are accused of anti Soviet behaviour, the court finds you guilty and sentences you to be shot*

Take a shot everytime he says shot.. Oh look at that, I've drank too much

@acrispywaffleiron4014

3 жыл бұрын

My man about to have the same blood/alcohol content as an average Russian

@blackhatfreak

3 жыл бұрын

At least with the purge in the US was not as deadly.

2:20 I NEVER noticed that gun on the far right! I love these little details this channel hides!

Still feeling the consequences of the Purge. I live in Moscow, near two former shooting ranges where collectively over 30,000 people were shot during the Great Purge

@ritikshaw5868

2 жыл бұрын

Consequences?

@rogerbertrand9406

2 жыл бұрын

Bonjour, i am sorry for your experience. The conséquences you are feeling are called the epigenetics of trauma. These conséquences will affect up to your next 5 générations. I truly am sorry for you.

@kemarisite

2 жыл бұрын

I thought they were shot behind the ear in the basement of the Lubyanka?

@thesuddendemise7735

Жыл бұрын

@@kemarisite Thats only on Sundays and holidays otherwise we gotta industrialize this massacre.

@samfire3067

Жыл бұрын

​@@thesuddendemise7735 You need to pump those numbers.

I'm frankly impressed you managed to capture Zinoviev's hair so effectively.

"Some were taken to the gulag, which was much better".

1:19 love that the judge is just Stalin wearing a powered wig!

Imagine living during that time and all of a sudden the words "new objective: survive" just appeared

0:55 I like how the "judge" is just Stalin with a wig on lol

I absolutely love this youtube channel. The animations, information and humor is wonderful. Quick and gets the point across, all around awesome.

I love how when he talks about people being tried he has Stalin wearing a wig

@miloelite

3 жыл бұрын

Whoa, didn’t catch that.

I love the Purge clock and "It was time for a purge. A Great Purge, if you will".

Thank you so much for including the sources to your videos! Many other history and other educational KZread channels tend to not include any notes or bibliographies in their description boxes.

I really like the content, as it really does a great job making history interesting for those who aren't as passionate about it. Also, do you think you could cover the Russo-Finnish war or the Six Day War?

@nirvanachile24

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, I'm sure he's in a big hurry to do the Six-Day War.

Socialist or not, you can't deny Stalin was absolutely horrible.

@kayvan671

3 жыл бұрын

@So'mn Yeah they refuse to acknowledge that Stalin was just as bad as Hitler. Communists say that only Hitler was bad. And thats the sad thing here... They don't learn from history.

@USSFFRU

Жыл бұрын

I once did believe Stalin's acts were understandable and were for the Good of the USSR. I obviously don't since Stalin was absolutely deplorable in his acts. The only good thing he did was Industrialize the everloving shit out of Russia.

@abdirahmanidris290

11 ай бұрын

Communism allowed Stalin to do that. Thats the problem here

@zunfix1194

11 ай бұрын

@@abdirahmanidris290Capitalist governments such as the USA also allowed military coups and installed dictators such as pol pot who murdered millions of people that’s the problem here

@FallingDrop234

11 ай бұрын

That mustache though. *chef’s kiss*

Detective Stalin holding the “I got this” literally made me lol

* Someone coughs * Stalin: Well, well, well... Looks like we got ourselves a troublemaker here...

Imagine the people that risked their lives to overthrow the Czar, only to find that the Communists were infinitely more brutal and repressive. Some things never change.

@attiepollard7847

2 жыл бұрын

USSR: at least we're doing it for a great calls which is to serve the people and to get rid of the bourgeoisie. Lol

@kie9683

2 жыл бұрын

@Attie Pollard they became the bourgeoisie

@attiepollard7847

2 жыл бұрын

@@kie9683 lol true

@FranFerioli

2 жыл бұрын

"Some things never change" a famous Vladimir comes to mind. Russia seems stuck in a perpetual circle revolutionaries becoming oppressors. The character of Pasha Antipov in Dr Zhivago is the perfect metaphor. He is the husband of Lara and a teacher. He is extremely idealistic about the revolution and establishing a new order. After fighting in WWI he becomes involved with the Bolsheviks. In his revolutionary activities, he is single-minded and ruthless and becomes known Strelnikov (the shooter).

@ultru3525

2 жыл бұрын

You might want to look a bit deeper into the history of tsarist Russia before making claims like that.

The delivery of this video in particular is on point.

“1934, and a man named Sergei Kirov was having a great day.” Wait for it... I was wondering if the Kirov Ballet was named after him. Yep.

Y'know i always wonder how much better the Soviets could've done if the purge didn't happen.

@alanpennie8013

4 жыл бұрын

Crowding the Red Army on the frontier in June 1941 really wasn't a great move. A less - purged officer corps might have avoided it.

@joevenespineli6389

4 жыл бұрын

@@arnold3768 there were plans for an invasion but none were put into motion as of yet

@bozo5632

4 жыл бұрын

@@arnold3768 There were no plans for an "invasion of Europe", and there no physical possibility of such an invasion, at least (optimistically) until 1943, more probably 1950. The Soviet army was an absolute shambles, and honestly couldn't even have invaded Finland. And, not only did Germany know it, Germany counted on it! The story you are telling is the nazi version where, as usual, the nazis were only invading all of Europe in self defense. (Fighting terrorism in the Danzig corridor! GWOT is old as Moses.) Also, IIRC Hitler didn't beat Stalin.

@NeoConNET7

4 жыл бұрын

If the Mensheviks had won this wouldn't have happened. Too bad Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky won.

@rusoviettovarich9221

3 жыл бұрын

@@bozo5632 Are you kidding? Read 'The Chief Culprit' Viktor Suvorov - former GRU Naval Institute Press 2008. He details meticiously the reds were moving tanks, finalizing advance air strips and large troop transport right up to the night of 21st June - Stalin planned to hit Hitler mid-July which is why he kept downplaying a German attack. What other reason is their for the mass encirclements west of Minsk in the first 3 weeks of the war. Stalin was hoping Hitler would give an ultimatum - a real warning. His details are truly encyclopedic

I'm proud of what this channel has become, keep it up. It really helps me at history ( of course ) and I only get 9,10 and sometimes 8 because of this amazing channel. You helped me a lot man, for that I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart :D

@pgsells

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's surprising how effective these little segments can be as primers. Obviously one can say only so much in 3 minutes, but they're very efficient.

I absolutely love your channel, information is clear and interesting. Also your sense of humor and graphic design is awesome! 2:19 - I can see that gun coming from behind >_> :D

Great job! Fast and informative.

Soviet citizens: EXIST Stalin: HOW ABOUT NO

1:38 Here is a little joke which was told to me by a polish man: When Stalin was walking through a crowd that was cheering him a little boy approached him and asked for an autograph. Stalin lifted the boy, turned him around and gave him a hard kick on his butt so he fell face down on the ground. When the boy looked at him shocked Stalin says: Be happy, I could've shot you.

@lukemarshall1701

2 жыл бұрын

An alternative punchline might be "Are you an orphan? I love them so much I've made millions of them."

@Kreze202

2 жыл бұрын

It would've been a much better joke if the boy was the one who said "at least he didn't shoot me".

I need a moment to process how such a serious topic could be delivered in such an entertaining and funny way.

I love your channel. Wonderful history. I love the animation and signs you use

Wow it reminds me of Animal Farm when Napoleon puts a bunch if piggies to trial, accusing them of working with Snowball even though Snowball was already exiled.

@blackhatfreak

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed, but what's funny is America did the exact same thing in the second red scare. Communism and Capitalism are fucked.

@gimmethegepgun

2 жыл бұрын

It SHOULD remind you of Animal Farm, since Animal Farm is a satire of the Soviet Union, focused largely on Stalin's rule (having been published in 1945)

Ah yes the famous "Everyone dies in five years" plan.

For once I don't think I really learned anything new, but a very fine quick overview of the purges. Great work as always.

Tankie response: BUT YOU CAN'T BELIEVE ANY SOURCE THAT WASN'T APPROVED BY THE PARTY

@blackhatfreak

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed, but alt-right fucks are just as bad in my eye since they love making up and glorified bullshit.

@charlesiofaustria7361

2 жыл бұрын

Uses "alt-right" unironically in 2021.

@jayzandstra1830

2 жыл бұрын

@@blackhatfreak who is the "alt right" and where do they hurt you at night ami?

JUST LOOK AT THE TIME! Also, Stalin in a Sherlock Holmes hat is just classic, amazing humor.

I died when Stalin was the judge but didn't really even try to hide that he was still, well, Stalin. He only had the wig on! XD

0:11 - "he also may have been put up to it by a CERTAIN SOMEONE" 🤣 It gets me every time! Also love the hilarious sign captions the characters hold; reminds me of Wile E. Coyote! I use these videos for my history class, and the students get a kick out of them! Thanks!

You people should know one simple fact. The so called great purge, was so famous even inside the USSR, especially, after Chrushchev speech about "the cult of personality", solely because it was targeting the highest echelons of the soviet state. In other words, those, who could scream the loudest (others, for instance, the whole of russian peasantry didn't have such a voice and perished quietly). The communist party members, bureaucrats, high-ranking officers and so on. It is in no way, the most horrible, or the most massive, or the most influential act of terror against Russia and russians (as well as all the other nationalities) by the communist regime. Even long before Stalin came to power, the blade of their terror was swinging across my long-suffering motherland. First they came for their political opponents i.e. monarchists, liberals, soft socialists, as well as all of the so-called oppressors of the old regime (aristocracy, clergy, burgers, business owners). Then they came for intelligentsia. Then they destroyed russian peasantry first by outright killing (including using chemical weapons during the rebellions in central russia), and then via collectivization and starvation of the peasantry (contrary to the famous "holodomor" myth, those starving weren't only ukrainians, but a whole lot of russians from kuban, volga as well as a lot of other regions). Then they started to prosecute those who weren't leftist enough, or weren't poor enough, or were just competent in their professions and were a target of envy and smear and slander (check the famous court cases against engineers or medics). Only after all of these (and I haven't counted even a half of it) did the great purge happened. Only after millions and millions of people killed, starved, tortured to death did the dragon started to bite its own tail. The communist regime was the worst thing happened to my poor country. Not even Hitler's invasion brought so much suffering and calamity. Do not go red, kids. Better dead, than red. They are monsters.

If the purge didn't happen, the invasion of USSR by Nazi Germany was easy to counter and the loss of civilian lives could have been saved. Nikita Khrushchev.

0:38 when is the Purge Clock gonna be available

Don't you mean *our* purge

@chronikhiles

5 жыл бұрын

Our comment!

@MegaHalofan11

5 жыл бұрын

@@chronikhiles He is supposed to share those likes!

@colton.421

4 жыл бұрын

Smh 😂

@InfamousQuiche

4 жыл бұрын

oh well to late *shot

I always love it when "Thumb Screw Time!" comes up in your videos!

"Certain Someone". LOVE IT!

Stalin after the purge: “hyuck, I’ll do it again”

@sooryan_1018

2 жыл бұрын

Wait did he?

Hollywood: Releases the Purge Movies. Stalin: I am not impressed.

That had to be the best introduction ever for an history video

"Stalin has fallen unconscious, call doctor!" "Yes, if only we hadn't gotten rid of all those really excellent doctors." -Paraphrasing _The Death of Stalin_

@matthewchristiansen9978

2 жыл бұрын

"All the best doctors are in the gulag. Or dead."

That damned certain someone

The more I hear about stalin, Lenin and trotsky, the more I hate them.

@attiepollard7847

5 жыл бұрын

Good let history show that power in a government of the few or one man is bad for the people

@xo-1320

5 жыл бұрын

Authoritarians should be hated.

@steelbear2063

4 жыл бұрын

@@THX-bz8bi Trotsky would devastate USSR and other countries with his pursuit of the worldwide revolution

@alaskaball188

4 жыл бұрын

@@THX-bz8bi and Lenin kinda started the while Gulag thing

@hugo2181

4 жыл бұрын

Stalin was a hero

We love your videos!

The population of the USSR at the time was around 200 million. That works out to around 0.5%. For comparison, that would be proportionate to executing everyone in Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, and still needing to get started on North Dakota.

@tulip5210

2 жыл бұрын

👀

"BY A CERTAIN SOMEONE"🤣🤣🤣

Imagine if there were no purges and the USSR still had many of its talented commanders at the beginning of the Second World War

"He also may have been put up to it by a C E R T A I N S O M E O N E."

Stalin: It's always time for a Purge.

the great terror you say? robespierre: did someone call me?

2:06 fucking killed me lmao

thank you for this!

Great content! Thanks!

I love the angry self portrait of stalin the court😂

You should do a video specifically about Trostsky's assassination

@jimkenealy6448

3 жыл бұрын

This seems like a mistake in this video - he wasn't shot in prison.

The delivery of "a certain someone" plus the only time the camera waa active was really funny

That 'certain someone' line combined with the zoom is magically delivered

1:38 I genuinely can't tell whether you are being sarcastic or not 😂

Kirov was known as the darling of the party as he was genuinely popular, Stalin would have seen him as a danger

That beginning gets me every time!

I love that you actually used a Mosin Nagant in the graphics.

My great grandfather was one of the Ukrainians thrown in the "gulag", but he escaped through England and here I am today.