I am from Georgia and I will never be proud that he was Georgian, he did nothing good for Georgia.

He wasn't just a tyrant in Russia- he was a tyrant in the entire Soviet Union. And (as noted in the video) he was actually Georgian rather than Russian. He grew up in Georgia, his first language was Georgian, his name was Georgian, his parents and ethnic background were Georgian. He only began learning to speak Russian when he was 8 or 9 years old and always spoke it with a heavy accent that amused Russians.

Probobly the most feared dictator ever. Even his closest family and generals feared this person, because he could sacrifice anyone that he felt at the moment was a threat.

The last words are chilling in July of 2022: "Yes, there will be another Joseph Stalin". I can think of several world leaders, right now.

Although I have read over two hundred books on World War Two I still learn things watching you excellent channel. Thanks and keep up the good work.

absolutely insane how powerful one can become

Dictator's life ends up with same horror and suffering they gave to others. - history tells us

Stalin was an example of what happens if gangster is given a power of this level

Putin is never near Stalin. He would have been smacked in the face by Stalin

"Stalin is an expert at killing helpless people,but he knows nothing about how to run a real war."

I couldn't fathom, how a high-ranking official such as Leon Trotsky would not know the date of the funeral, considering he can also communicate with other leaders. It's impossible that he would only listen to 1 person (Stalin) when he knows several officials would be attending the said funeral. I think that's not the reason why Trotsky missed the funeral of Lenin.

This answered a question that I often wondered about concerning the Soviet Union. The lack of studying evil leaders like Stalin, and just relegating history to general facts about nations lead students in Western hemisphere completely oblivious to the crimes of dictators. Thanks so much for delving into the deceit of Stalin and events that further cemented the deceit.

“I know that upon my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped upon my grave. But sooner or later it will be swept away by the winds of history” - Josif Stalin

"As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth" - Boris Pasternak

Love the content I'm always excited to view your documentaries

Such a great documentary. From a great channel. What's better than learning something and feel entertained?

These psychopath dictators will never understand that fear is not respect . The only legacy they leave is being recorded as the evilest men who ever lived .

If Stalin was alive today and you asked him why he did these things his answer would be that this was the only way he knew to run a country. You could say he was evil im not denying that but i think he had a utter lack of imagination on how to run his country in a modern way. He was about a thousand years in the past in his methods.

OMG, Stalin had a tighter grip on his people than my wife has on me. It is a relief knowing I am not alone 😬

I will say that this documentary got a few things wrong about the death of Stalin's second wife Nadya. Nadya did not take her own life as some sort of protest against Stalin, she and Stalin had a complicated and often times toxic relationship, however they did care about each other deeply. Nadya struggled with numerous mental health issues and Stalin was actually quite supportive of her getting help for those issues, however they're relationship remained unstable, both of them would do things specifically to upset or hurt the other. At the party they both attended, Nadya had dressed up because she and Stalin had a fight earlier and she wanted to look her best to make up for it. Stalin was still angry with her about their earlier fight and so he ignored her, and possibly flirted with other women, throughout the night. Eventually they got into another fight which would ultimately lead to her taking her own life. Stalin was deeply hurt by her death, he sat silently and didn't say anything for hours after she died and those close to him said that after she died he became a colder and harder person. Nadya's death was not a protest against Stalin's political activities, and if it was some sort of protest than it was a protest of his treatment of her personally in their relationship.

Stalin made the Mighty USSR a superpower, not Russia. The USSR consisted of 15 republics, not one.

No clean happy story ever seems to come out from Russia. Nice content

Wow new found love in this channel, thank you

I am so glad this is still available in our crazy country. I cannot get over the Stalin Actor's mustache lol

He's been called the most successful dictator of all time, and you can't really argue with that. usually someone so tyrannical gets knocked off eventually but he stayed in power for over 30 years and lived to be and old man.

Excellent narration. Thanks to the writer and the voice over. Class 👍

T for sharing this

21:13 heh...I see what you did there. An assassin _picks_ off Trotsky...with an ice _pick_ ...

The man was a monster, tyrant, and mass murderer, yet without him, and his 5 year plans to industrialise, would the Soviet Union have had the industry to survive Barbarossa? Would the consequences of no Stalin be worse than what happened in reality?

Yet, I'm surprised that nobody rebelled against Stalin

Very interesting sharing, nice collection of Info.

Informative

The last dinner with his 2nd wife didn't go exactly like that, again they try to exaggerate things. But she did got offended because Stalin was a bit drunk and called out to her "hey" or something like and tossed a grape or something at her, and then she snapped stood up and said I am ain't no hey to you and left.

5:03 Stalin’s “cause” wasn’t communism. His _cause_ was accumulating POWER. Communism was just the method he used to acquire it.

One of the most brutal tyrants in history, yet turned the Soviet Union into a global superpower.

Man of steel

Shortly before his death, lenin actually wrote a letter warning the party not to let Stalin become leader.

And people still think communism is a good idea 🤯

This is a really basic information and good for someone that is new to history of Stalin. There are few good channels about Stalin with more details in Russian language.

Bukharin;I sheltered you from death at the same my life was under threat and sacrificed every thing for your sake and this is the gratitude I get? Stalin; gratitude is a disease suffered by mad dogs.

Yuri Bezmenov warned us 40 years ago

How about admit Stalin leadership in winning the war. And again basically saving Britain. Uncomfortable truth isn't it. Tell us how their beloved Churchill left eastern Europe to Stalin

Spectacular work comrade.

Great documentary

Dark humor is like food.. not everyone gets it

После просмотра видео я понял одну вещь. Я как крымский татарин, народ который пострадал от действий Сталина, считаю что он поднял страну на такой уровень что многие лидеры сегодняшнего времени пользуются этими благами. В свое правление он получил отстающую во всех планах страну, а в итоге сделал главной ядерной сверхдержавой с чьим мнением стоит мириться. Но я ни в коем разе не поддерживаю Сталина на все 100. Его действия были радикальны и это факт. Но и не нужно забывать о другой стороне монеты.

Nice documentary

It seems that the narrator twists vilifingly the Stalin's expressed reason for declining the deal of swapping his son for German generals. History needs to be told accurately as much as the documents are accessible.

Watched this so many times. How does one evil person control so many. Horrible. Hope to never live under something like this

Did they make an episode for all the people in the intro they show? I can only find some on KZfaq - where is the rest ?

Excellent

The number of deaths he caused is way too low. Closer to 30 mil throughout the Soviet Union.

Im British and proud to be, but as the Winchester family will say that gunpowder and the gun are a scurge on our human race.

There's good movie about him " Stalin" with Robert Duval in leading role. About his phenomen i recommend excellent British comedy "Death Of Stalin" with Steve Buscemi, Oscar Isaacs and Michael Palin.

If anyone wants a really great movie about the aftermath, check out Death of Stalin with Steve Buscemi as Kruschiev, it's a hilarious dark comedy about the scramble for power after he croaks, actually really impressive how historically accurate it id

Stalins lack of value of life gained him power after Lenin but after that it really only hurt him and his country. The Soviet Union had such a vast territory with natural resources and all the man power in the world they were bound to become a superpower. Could’ve happened much faster without killing off people that could’ve helped him. I see how he used terror to come to power but once he had an iron grip he went incredibly over the top to keep complete control

they have montefiore in this? instant like (man knows what he is talking about)

Title bad, documentary good. Josef Stalin: How to Decimate the Motherland (for Dummies)

Lenin wasn't the one who taught Stalin in the art of terror,that attribute was of Stalin himself and Lenin would even begin loathing Stalin especially towards the end of his life. They would have numerous arguments over the senseless use of violence Stalin employed and in his dying days insisted on Stalin to be removed from the board of commissars. One vital issue historians fail to note is that Stalin killed Lenin in the same manner Beria also killed Stalin.

I don't know why, but i feel like Jon Bernthal would play a great Stalin

Interesting.

He was not even Russian 😂

This goes good with any beer.thanks

Brilliant viewing .. Love stuff like this ,that sounds like the voice of Alasdair Simpson .. He and Samuel West are among the finest narrators out there .

0:42 always uneasing when ppl say this... what progress did he inhibit? is it not true that developments such as these would have happened with any leader in charge?

Does anyone know the name of the song that's playing from the beginning of the video when he says for 30 years all the way to the part where it ends and it goes to say evolution of evil

How do you guys get these footages 👌

An Invader Georgian Stalin had slaved indigenous Russians and their culture and destroyed them.

24:56...what is the name of that music in the background?

Nice

im really liking this evolution of evil series cant wait for george bush and tony blair episode!

Any chance this series does a focus on Winston Churchill?

Interesting

Stalin sounds way better than Kim Jong Un

This should be a movie

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, but lose his soul? Mark 8:36

Tq

Makes you wonder the kinds of things the cleaning lady had seen that she was so unbothered by Stalin's dead body 🤔

Part of the Purge was "aided" by the Abwehr (German Military Intelligence) once the Purges got started, planting false information and having someone tell the NKVD about the various Soviet Military Officers who either are at the upper levels of command or showed promise!!!

A huge agrarian country with many nationalities, destroyed by wars, most of the population is illiterate, and at this time the capitalists want to strangle communism in the bud. I would see how you could preserve the country and develop it economically and technically in a democratic way...

Interesting..... Very interesting...

is this a re upload? its sad but i watch so much of this stuff i dont know if,, i know this stuff or have seen this vid

Extremely well written documentary

In the end even his body betrayed him.

7,000,000 is a gross under estimate. Add to this the millions of lives lost via his incompetence during war. Women having millions of abortions as they did not have the means to raise children.

"The death of a single person is tragic, but the death of millions of people is only a statistic" ~ Joseph Stalin

It's so sad that we only learn and hear about the holocaust and nazism in the public schools but almost nothing about Stalin and communism. Says alot.

Что,ребята,у вас поджилки трясутся от одного его имени? правильно вы и должны его даже мертвого бояться

That professor from the university of Leicester is so animated.😂😂😂

كم اعشق الوثائقيات ❤❤❤

Being a priest wasn't the direction he was looking at.

The Brits and Americans teaching us about Russia. Well that's one side of the story. I'd need to learn Russian so I can hear the opposite end.

7 million doesn't touch it.

Wooow this was crazy.

He defended his country internally and externally to death!

When i was in high school, I thought joseph stalin was a mexican.

A new epiphany of fully acculturated Evil: 15:00m "Violence is not the means to an end. It is the End itself. You only win by smashing the Enemy."

there is a film called (ashes in the snow)the purge of lithuania, not bad story to it....

Stalin in his utter paranoia reminds me of Herod. Truly, Herod reborn.

I bet you pretty soon they’ll make one of these documentaries about Vladimir Putin