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since the opening of the Soviet Union we have learned a lot more than we ever knew maybe than we ever wanted to know about the terrible Joseph Stalin many Russians I believe that he was their savior we know now that his cruelty was beyond imagination for almost 30 years Stalin ruled the Soviet Union doing anything he needed to achieve his goal anyone who got in his way was destroyed he was that she was 14 million Soviet citizens died at the hand of Stalin he was absolute ruler for 25 years the Bolsheviks Dawn you crave power never can have enough power to stalinism what's continuous continuous continuous and strangers in military uniform in our apartment to let you know that right you want to work orders to execute at the end of the 19th century Russia was the largest country on Earth probably fertile fields of the Ukraine to the frozen tundra of Siberia is in land was big enough to hold the United States and Europe within its borders the ruler of this vast Empire was Czar Nicholas II the shy awkward inheritor of the 300 year old Roman Dynasty Dennis family live a privileged ungenteel life typical of the European royalty they actually were how ever lived in villages eating out a living from the land in 1879 two of these peasants gave birth to a son Joseph dzhugashvili later to be known as Joseph Joseph mother was a maid and washer woman and a devout Orthodox Christian his father of him no photos remain worked occasionally as a Shoemaker and was a violent alcoholic the family lived in this Shack in the Tiny Village of Glory in the Russian province of Georgia incredible in his car from his child he was an awkward looking boy young Joseph space was pockmarked by smallpox that a childhood accident left one arm shorter than the other and he stopped growing at 5 feet 4 in he was quite small like to have wedge shoes and yellow will tigers impressionism he was a good student good enough to enroll in a seminary school but the priesthood was the last thing on Joseph Julius V these mind V here's earlier Karl Marx had written of a world where the worker is not the aristocracy control the destiny of a Nation did Russia of these ideas were turned into a political Movement bolshevism by Vladimir Lenin Amanda where is police block dangerous enough to exiled to Siberia the shoemaker's son like a magnet and that 19 he left school to join the cause he was not much of a theorist but he was millet and committed even masterminding a bank robbery to fill a party coffers in 1907 it was a man of action which Lennon that mired when Lennon first met Stallard hero to someone I've met in magnificent and it's clear that he saw installing at that time the kind of person he hope to attract to a movement that was in primary movement of electrons that is a person with working-class peasant Origins not an intellectual but a person is Russian say was very delavoy to get things done he certainly saw himself as a fighter and in 1912 he began using the name Stalin which means Man of Steel but it was difficult to make any progress because Stalin and his comrades kept getting arrested by the czar's police they language that exile for years and houses like this one in distance Iberia devotion prism many times he was in jail and prison and he will make Kings Island exotic like native home for millions of his citizens The X-Files would soon get their chance on June 28th 1914 Archduke Ferdinand was shot by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo World War 1 broke out a month later I'm sorry Nicholas sent millions of Russian troops to fight Disney the mint marks off proudly but their enthusiasm to sing as fears German fighting decimated azara's forces 4 million Russians were killed wounded dorm how many year the surviving soldiers resented dying for someone else's caused the morale plummeted they refused to go to battle need to find they're all they deserve the Army and went home to the village and burn down the landlord's manor house and then later someone said the linen who voted for the revolution he said the soldier soldier voted voted with his feet he deserve in February 1917 a crowd of angry citizens and disaffected soldiers took over Saint Petersburg those are new his government couldn't stand and he abdicated of Days Later ending the 300 year old Romanov Dynasty a provisional government then briefly shared power with the revolutionaries but in April Lenin came back to Russia demanding a completely proletarian Victory the people need peace he said they give you wore under no food and the land remains with the land holders in October Swept Away the matter of government it was a momentous Victory but except for writing a few editorials Joseph Stalin was not a part of the action later he would have Soviet historians invent a Aurora troll for him he would make his Mark in the next and bloodiest phase of the Revolution the Civil War from 1918 1920 Comer revolutionaries known as the whites from the Bolshevik red the fighting spared no one and those that lived through it would never forget it I was right on the placenta look like them because all the time different routes came to government then Cambridge and told your bike you don't change your wife's feelings and feeling of anger Lenin's Bolsheviks now became military coup Trotsky the brilliant orator and theorist was made War commissar Starling was given the title, shore of nationalities and was sent into the field to enforce the party line it was a role that suit at the well war in particular Civil War brings the Warfare personalities to the for installing already during the Civil War begins to become leader in Moscow of these Warfare personalities please can do tough guys who don't really want to debate the dialectics of Marxism who don't really want to talk about the nuances of class struggle but for who class struggle with the fist in 1918 Crosby sent him an attachment of army specialist stylianou distrusted the trains military in prison some of the men on a boat which then sank under mysterious circumstances he had many of the others just shocked when someone said this might be a problem at headquarters the Man of Steel reportedly replied death solves all problems no man no problem for laying stallion horse to be executor for revolutionary enemies Butt Stallion able to hate really in the end this what's this would turn Lennon away from his Protege but for now the small band of men would start pulling Russia into their vision of the world and this world would soon be dominated by a single one of them Stalin like most young men Joseph Stalin fell in love and married during his early years his first wife get got that  by needs you died a few years after they were married there one child Yakov was left with her family Stalin wouldn't see the boy again until he was a grown man at the age of 39 Joseph Allen married again this time to nadezhda alliluyeva for 17 year old daughter of two friends from his Exile days they had two children swetlana and Vasily but Collins attention was focused on matters of State the Bolsheviks got rid of the last of the white forces in 1920 now they would remake Russia as the first communist state Mark said called religion the opiate of the masses so the Bolsheviks set out to eliminate it churches were desecrated priests openly month I believe edible sea in Bushwick senpai Russian religion they became crowd incredible crown food was scarce since the Bolsheviks had seized every scrap of grain during the war where were the food and peace Lenin in prom this discontent erupted in the naval base of kronstadt in the Gulf of Finland when a group of sailors who had fought alongside the Reds in the Civil War began demanding food political freedom in the Red Army and slaughtered the resistors it was now clear the popular revolution was over a few thousand Bolsheviks have absolute control of a nation of Millions 1922 comrade Stalin was given an important job in this new ruling class running the party Secretariat on the one hand it was just to keep the ball where were the party members who were they but it also was responsible for appointing people to administrative positions in the party and like any good word politician keep pointed people loyal to him I thought as he thought and he removed people you didn't like his following was growing but to get more power he knew he'd have to outmaneuver the party leadership after and in the most powerful man in the party was Trotsky who had emerged from the war a popular hero so in 1923 Stalin formed and antitrust the alliance with fellow politburo members, and senovia like all these alliances this one wouldn't last it's something really liked but they're still taking him by him and somehow they will find themselves Lenin understood the leader of the revolution had suffered a stroke in 1922 realizing the end was near he wrote a secret will love sorts and Val waiting his men he finally died in 1924 and this Testament was read out loud the trustee was that most outstanding that in the Central Committee but he was the ministrator starting results have a difficult man too bad he's too rude and crude what's coming up in Genovia stood by Reliance and Stalin stay General Secretary it would be their biggest mistake in 1926 Stalin aligned with the conservatives including old friend Nikolai bukharin to kick, defend synovia out of the pub Euro soon as conservative allies were ousted as well in 1927 he demoted Trotsky from the party and then send him into exile Brodsky would never see Russia again but car instead Stalin only Vengeance the stab-in-the-back the Grievous and ultimately fatal mistake of all of them successors Style was that a fart cells sometimes alignment self look solid when it suited them sometimes not and what all these men fought among themselves over matters of principle one of the great intriguers and political operators in the toy century step-by-step destroyed all of it by the end of the 1920s Stalin was the unquestioned leader of the Communist Party did no pull the Russians into his vision of the world whether they liked it or not the first step was to collectivize the farming Cornerstone of Marxism turn off Farmers known as the kulaks kicked off their land and sent to Siberia more than 15 million of them the rest of the presents with enforced on two enormous Collective Farms can go happily Furious Farmers slaughtered half their cattle in 1930 alone to keep the state from having them and despite these cheerful propaganda films deals Begin to Fall the revolution wasn't working in the sun consent new collectivization who produced get to food what are several not so he took all the drain scrap the truth Examiner 10 years labor was the price for stealing an ear of corn eventually some people turn to cannibalism those who lived through the family would never forget it laundry presence in the street from apartment to apartment door ask for bread 5 million starved to death in the Ukraine of Stalin completely denied the famine he made even mentioning it a punishable offense the focus instead on the Moore Public achievements like the great industrial projects of The First Five-Year Plan started in 1928 the Soviet Union would have to industrialize quickly people threw themselves into the work and some industry Brothers out of the Wilderness but no amount of enthusiasm could fulfill Stalin's unrealistic expectations hardly anyone for this but since failure meant prison or worst accountants merely lied about productivity is it possible to find a production Figures were because every director had to fake his figures because if you if you say you failed all right so you must be cool to you later this afternoon this Mass deception could only work if people were too terrified to tell the truth Stalin developed the gulag a group of labor camps where millions of people were literally worked to death one man was sentenced to 10 years in the gulag when is army tank got stuck in the mud it was enough to convince him of sabotage clearance world full of people who were 10 minutes late for World level 17 girl I remember she cancel cam she was 10 minutes late to work somebody stole some potatoes sack of potatoes imprisoned labor camps was continuous continuous continuous the camps became microcosms of the illogical were I'm outside I remember I was in one of the camps and the commander of this game he was a she was continuing was telling that because ketocon himself the mission to shoot at random every evening somebody keep selected v570 for 10 people and slave labor built some of Stalin's most ambitious projects like the Baltic white sea Canal the canal was an engineering disaster and will soon abandon but about Joseph Stalin visited the site for cleaning it a victory for socialism these kinds of successors were impressive especially to Western visitors like Charles Lindbergh Anthony Eden HG Wells visited in 1934 and when he met Stalin he said I have never met a man more candid fair and honest everybody trust him Franklin Roosevelt even reopened diplomatic relations closed since 1917 a better judge of character was Lady Astor who asked Stalin how long he was going to go on killing people he candidly replied as long as necessary he would find it necessary for the rest of his life in 1929 Joseph Stalin turned 50 years old he was portrayed as a secular God as the savior of these people the propaganda was relentless it was Stalin who bought you the revolution Stalin who gave you food Stalin who saved the Soviet Union from the Corruptions of the West it's very difficult to explain to the American people how much indoctrination and propaganda it's all the time so I'm telling you alternated in something that when you're at sea for five six seven years old you starting to believe that it's true school children were taught that Stalin was infallible his ideas on philosophy literature and even genetics became state policy the worship of Joseph Stalin was the new Soviet religion people so he sport free everywhere every newspaper everyday that you supposed to be hard it was Stalin if Stalin were to remain a god he'd have to make sure no one threatened is Rule in 1934 was murdered the man Stalin have hand-picked to head the Leningrad Communist Party giraffe have been very popular a little too popular for Stalin some say he ordered the killing himself he also began purging the educated classes thousands of writers artists and scientists than fact most of the inteligencia were tried and convicted as traitors the sentence was death or the gulag and the almost eliminated his old enemy the military Elite 57 out of 85 Corps commanders disappeared along with tens of thousands of lower ranking officers the office to sign the confession documents were highly suspect the documents would produce the other to a good confession the normal scale in there. No one was spared Stalin even tried the heroes of the Revolution men that a generation of Russians have grown up revering from 1936 to 38 the old Bolsheviks were convicted of ridiculous charges of Espionage and counterterrorism he even purged his old Allied nickel book Karen Stalhrim needed a bizarre form of Coronation as the great leader pipe making Linens closest friends and comrades confessed to have not real, it's not real Patriots not real bullshiting but Spa assassin Wreckers to force them to confess to these crimes was forestalling The Ultimate Party hoped it would be Psycho logical fulfillment of this need to be the one and only in Bottom of Everything glorious in modern Russian so it just really needed these problems stop and approve the death sentences of these men even though she knew the confessions had been forced by torture Exile in Mexico was the only one who could speak out develop nut from coming nut from socialism from stunning that is from the irresponsible despotism of the broker C over the people what is no my principal task. Trae the Truth criminal hide in the big block of the property with an ice pick he died the next day it wasn't just the famous who were liquidated anyone could turn you in on a trumped-up charge a neighbor a boss even your children Sarah became an everyday emotion as Millions just disappeared from sight every evening nobody knew what's going to happen to him because it's individual means not the individual is like a piece of sand in the big big desert you can run it over with a tractor can you can step on it it just you can crash it it just means nothing yep comrade Stalin seemed to remain Above The Fray he blamed the terror on overzealous police force and wood Purge the head of the secret police and they weren't just killed they were erased from all official memory looking you mean it was now today was the victim of stalinist repressions she was able to survive did not complain about the power about the local leaders to local buses going to blame Soviet Union at the same time that he was evil and find he was secretive enough about it that I'm not sure that people until much later Associated what was actually happening with the person of Joseph Stalin did his wife IG had learned about the famine from students returning from the Ukraine she installing began arguing frequently one night at a banquet at the Kremlin Stalin started looking cigarettes at her across the table she stormed out of the room and was found dead of a gunshot wound to the Head the next day but we don't know is whether she retreated to their apartment in front of him and shot herself to death or whether there was a fight we don't know people who hate stalling greatly in Russia believe he killed people who still find some reason to say positive things about Stalin believe she committed suicide and they say his heart Turn to Stone that just is death severed his last link to reality he had seen enemies everywhere for so long that you can no longer recognize a real one in Germany Adolf Hitler was creating a society as soon as felons Soviet Union and each other in reality admiration existed between their leaders of millions of Germans she was doing something seven human trying to use his experience went for example in searching for Hitler eliminated reminder over-the-air satchels and swim and go to know about that he knows how to deal with political opponents in 1938 Hitler took Austria by March of 1939 all of Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Nazis Ally with someone you earlier opposed to the west but Germany like a better bat they could offer him territory the baltics and half of Poland and peace at least temporarily show in August 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression Hitler would soon betray his new Ally and bring the Soviet Union to the brink of disaster in the summer of 1940 the German takeover of Europe seemed Unstoppable as the Nazis marched up the shows that he's a Hitler Russia might fall just as easily as France it soon seems clear that Germany would attack but Stalin couldn't believe that you are would go back on his word on June 22nd 1941 Nazi troops crossed the end of the Soviet Union the foreign minister in Molotov confirm the news to Stalin trophies and don't get them started just now crispy chicken would not even speak to just sit down and was silent for some time because here she understood how Hitler practical it did it came out here miss Johnston about Hitler the Miss judgment was Monumental in a month German troops were 100 miles from Lennon Drive smolenski fell on July 16th at a meeting of the politburo Stalin mode all that Lenin created we have lost most of the military command was gone since Stalin have killed them during the purchase so first he made decisions himself with often disastrous results TF was overrun in September and his advisers begged him to evacuate the Doom City but he refused and over half a million where are killed or taken prisoner the largest single loss of the war ever searching for a scapegoat Stalin blamed the prisoners themselves taken prisoner and when I got back when you sent the labor camp medicine when his son by his first marriage knock off was taken prisoner the Nazis approached all on the trading them for some of their own Stalin said he had no son by that name Yakov was shot and killed when he ran for the barbed wire fence at the camp David sun is the sacrifices he could not have acted otherwise if you were time to son on the front and a tongue is it done son what about outside even theoretically perilously close to Moscow preparations remove the government toy of a 500 miles away these tanks drove right past the commander-in-chief the front lie just 45 miles outside of the city the Soviet troops fought valiantly and the Russian winter began to Cripple the German forces freezing fuel line cutting off supplies in the end the Nazis couldn't solidify their games someone also wisely teamed up with the Allies starting in 1941 Franklin Roosevelt again sending airplanes send guns to the beleaguered Soviet troops if Hitler was going to be stopped the war in Russia had to be one in June in 42 the Nazis began on defensive in southern Russia fighting settled in Stalingrad very quickly degenerated in the fierce house-to-house combat this time Stalin let his Commander do their jobs but by the time of Stalingrad he was not intervening directly was a bit and says that she true began retreating from Stalingrad on Christmas Day 1942 the war would drag on for another two and a half years but Soviet victory was now Insight when Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin met him turn around in 90 43 Joseph Stalin was reintroduced to the West as kindly Uncle Joe Churchill even presented stalling with a sword of honour to commemorate the victory at Stalingrad by 1945 the Soviet Union had won the war but the cost was enormous over 25 million Soviets had died six times as many casualties as Germany solemn vow to never let Russia beat vulnerable again so Soviet forces liberated their neighbors from the Nazis but the shadow of Moscow never left Eastern Europe football teams in Eastern Germany were soon all within the sphere the Yalta Conference in 1945 the Allies met to discuss the postwar world thought I made it clear this territory was under his control Russian spices Germany was just another Western power come to Russia West those days armies had to come through Eastern Europe through Poland and therefore after this war with his lost or stolen Regine was not going to settle for anything less than a guaranteed security Zone in Eastern Europe the Allies met one last time at Potsdam men follow they may have posed politely for the newsreel cameras new US president the alliance against the Nazis was over Cold War was on and I am guessing has descended across the continent behind that line dates of Central and Eastern Europe back home Stalin was even more popular than before grateful Rush hope that the Magnificent Victory would sweep clean the miseries of the pack but the one that only distracted not changed there's a felon thousands of returning soldiers were sent to labor camps because Stalin was afraid they would revolt against life at home now that they have seen the splendors of your even his loyal translator was not above suspicion my boss was taking away on February 8th ratings about the other stuff next day book two weeks post-op nursing home at night and you take the magazine invited to work Ninja Turtle to this magazine I understood that it was multiple protected assistance before the North Shore. I don't know why some hope she just you know goodness there and probably also got some kind of Lesson by stalling so not to touch me you got off so easily the crowds may have a door yet but Stalin was still sure ever one was out to get him his newest Public Enemy was the Jews many leading Jewish electricals were tried as enemies of the state and killed the even arrested the most prominent doctors in Moscow many of whom were Jewish because he bought they were plotting to poison him and his advisors I'd love to talk to some rest I'm spelling the ship his birthday in 1949 pictures of the great leader were projected into the sky Moscow is all-knowing All-Seeing I was everywhere but his omniscience couldn't keep time from catching up to him after a long Feast on February 28th 1953 Joseph Stalin had a paralyzing stroke over the next few days he slowly suffocated to death he died on the morning of March 5th the funeral was an  of grief Soviets couldn't imagine life without their God and Father I was in Moscow only about four blocks from the place where Stalin's body was laying after his death lots of people crying and crying because when you live in paternalistic society to believe that he has without International Stalin's eventual successor Nikita Khrushchev would bring the wave of honesty to Soviet politics but Stalin's memory would not go quietly you 1956 Nikita Khrushchev gave an extraordinary speech at a closed session of the 20th party Congress he said that Paul Stalin have been a great leader had committed terrible crimes against the Soviet people his listeners were stunned and somewhere angry for a lot of people was the beginning of the end of belief in the system because of the man who Russia for almost 30 years could be so wrong and so maniacal and so horrible and so bloodthirsty what does that say about all of them who had lived under his Rule and had been a part of building this Leonid Brezhnev and his successors went back to the Silence of the past but in 1985 when the cow Gorbachev became General Secretary he vowed to break the Stranglehold that stalinism Ed left behind forms pulled the Soviet Union away from the secrecy and Terror of the past they also broke the country apart getting me a bogus. Shoot world in the more years I saw that could be improved but that was an illusion Monopoly of the suppression of political and it is very difficult to go beyond to move away from system in fact someone back to it today there is a Resurgence of nostalgia for the strong hands of Joseph Stalin's reign I'm proud because during the stalin-era country became one of the most developed stop complaining in what way is a respected June 17th country was revived it became industrialized we believe in the future in Georgia Joseph Stalin's birthplace has again nobody does the museum in a chaotic world stalinism is fondly remembered by some as a time of clarity and strength it's a legacy that won't easily fade

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